Show #8290 2020-11-27 (taped 2020-09-14) Regular

Ryan Hemmel game 3.

Contestants

Chandy McCarty — a civil engineer from Phoenix, Arizona

Gabriel Ostler — a swim instructor from Orinda, California

Ryan Hemmel — a legal technology professional from Los Angeles, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $48,802)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ryan $2,000 $4,800 $19,400 $29,401
3-day champion: $78,203
$11,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Gabriel $6,600 $3,200 $14,700 $2
3rd place: $1,000
$17,400
26 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Chandy $-600 $-200 $12,600 $8,200
2nd place: $2,000
$12,600
10 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

PAPERBACK WRITER PALINDROMES PRO TEAMS' MASCOTS REAL-DEAL RHYME TIME LET'S START A SMALL BUSINESS ADVENTURE CAPITAL
$200 [30]
In 1979 this horror master said, "Most of the market for my stuff is in paperbacks", but he's done okay in hardcover, too
(Stephen) King
Gabriel
$200 [27]
The name of this system that's used to detect & locate objects is a palindrome & an acronym
radar
Gabriel
$200 [5]
Stuff the Magic Dragon:This NBA city
Orlando
Gabriel
$200 [28]
It's a portable radio transmitter & receiver for 2-way communication
a walkie-talkie
Ryan
$200 [29]
99.9% of all U.S. businesses, small businesses are defined as having fewer than this many employees, D to the Romans
500
Gabriel
$200 [24]
You get really high up hang-gliding over Bogota, this country's capital--already pretty high up at nearly 9,000 feet
Colombia
Ryan
$400 [21]
Crush your enemies & name this Robert E. Howard barbarian whose "Collected Adventures" are collected in paperback
Conan
Gabriel
$400 [10]
In 2019 Kelley Blue Book named this Honda coupe Best Buy of the Year among compact cars
a Civic
Gabriel
$400 [4]
Iceburgh:An NHL bird
the Pittsburgh Penguins
Ryan
$400 [26]
Nickname for the 1992 U.S. men's Olympic basketball squad
the Dream Team
Ryan
$400 [25]
A small business owner must take in more than $400 annually to be subject to self-employment these
taxes
Ryan Gabriel
$400 [23]
Seal Island just off this South African capital is a good place to swim with sharks--if you have a sturdy enough cage
Cape Town
Gabriel Chandy
$800 [12]
When it comes to "L is for Lawless" & "C is for Corpse", "G" is for this bestselling mystery author
(Sue) Grafton
Ryan
$600 [8]
A classic palindrome is this 3-word introduction
Madam, I'm Adam
Gabriel Chandy
$600 [3]
The horse-like Miles:In the NFL's AFC West
the Broncos
Gabriel
$600 [9]
Slang for a cocktail party that takes place during a trip around the harbor
a booze cruise
Gabriel
$600 [17]
Small businesses create over 10 times more of these exclusive invention registrations per employee than large companies
patents
Ryan
$600 [18]
Class II-IV this type of rafting is available right in the heart of Oklahoma City on the Oklahoma River
whitewater
Gabriel
$1,000 [11]
This man who's given us "Goosebumps" has sold more than 400 million books
(R.L.) Stine
Gabriel
$800 [7]
It's the type of device seen here
a level
Ryan
$800 [2]
Sourdough Sam:An NFL miner
the 49ers
Gabriel
$800 [15]
Varieties of this hot cocoa mix include unicorn marshmallows & marshmallow lovers
Swiss Miss
Gabriel
$800 [16]
With wings or not, this type of investor provides seed money from his own pocket in exchange for equity in the business
an angel investor
Gabriel
$800 [13]
On the Flight of the Gibbon tour near Bangkok, you can soar above the Thai rain forest on these inclined cables
zip lines
Gabriel
DD $5,000 [20]
In 2020 this late, great writer was back on the paperback bestseller list with "The Bluest Eye", her debut novel
Toni Morrison
Gabriel
$1,000 [6]
Tumbling on soft mats is naturally part of the fun at this place where kids can take classes & have birthday parties
My Gym
$1,000 [1]
Barrelman:A Midwestern MLB mascot
the (Milwaukee) Brewers
Gabriel
$1,000 [14]
Hyphenated term for someone old-fashioned & out of touch
a fuddy-duddy
Gabriel
$1,000 [22]
Per the National Small Business Association, more than 30% of U.S. small businesses operate as these, LLCs
limited liability corporations (companies)
Ryan
$1,000 [19]
These 2 major airports make it tough to skydive over Paris--but there is a drop zone north of the capital
Orly & Charles de Gaulle

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY TIMELINE ACTOR FACTS THE ATMOSPHERE RANKS & TITLES BIBLICAL WOMEN C AS IN "CAT"
$400 [11]
U.S. schoolkids began reciting this as part of Columbus Day observances in 1892
The Pledge of Allegiance
Chandy
$400 [21]
Less than a year before this young actor's 1955 death, Dennis Stock took the photo of him known as "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
James Dean
Gabriel
$400 [30]
Corridors of water vapor such as the Pineapple Express are called atmospheric these & carry more moisture than the Amazon
rivers
Ryan Gabriel
$400 [29]
From the Egyptian for "great house" came this term for any of the great & ancient rulers of Egypt
pharaoh
Gabriel
$400 [13]
In Genesis 21 she bore Abraham a son at age 90
Sarah
Ryan
$400 [1]
A robber who gains entry by climbing
a cat burglar
Gabriel
$800 [8]
Term for the limited allocation of goods on the WWII home front; for gasoline & coffee, it began in fall 1942
rationing
Gabriel
$800 [20]
Reprised in 2020, it's Keanu Reeves' most excellent role
Ted
Ryan Gabriel Chandy
$800 [24]
Lenticularclouds, which usually form near mountains, are also called these clouds, because they can be mistaken for the weird phenomena
UFO clouds
$1,200 [10]
Eagle insignia led to the military slang term "full bird" this rank
colonel
Chandy
$800 [16]
Before 2 letters were transposed, Ms. Winfrey was originally named for this sister-in-law of Ruth
Orpah
Ryan
$800 [3]
Avalon is the only incorporated city on this resort island off the coast of Southern California
Catalina
Gabriel
$1,200 [5]
In the 1859 "Pig War", the U.S. & this country nearly came to blows over ownership of the San Juan Islands
Great Britain
$1,200 [17]
This Australian actress' dad Peter Watts was a sound engineer for Pink Floyd
Naomi Watts
Gabriel
$1,600 [22]
On atmospheric entry, Mach 25 speeds create super-high temps., hence this 2-word item on the Apollo & Mercury spacecraft
a heat shield
$1,600 [9]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Memento Park in Budapest, Hungary.) Budapest's Memento Park may make you exclaim, "Cool"; Hungarians exclaim, "Király" which also means this, like Béla IV or Ladislaus I
king
Gabriel
$1,200 [15]
In the Gospel of John, she went to the disciples & told them that she had seen the risen Lord at his tomb
Mary Magdalene
Chandy
$1,200 [4]
A subterranean burial chamber
a catacomb
Ryan
$1,600 [6]
In 1892 John Muir co-founded this organization dedicated to protecting the great outdoors
the Sierra Club
Gabriel
$1,600 [25]
This"Westworld" star can put OBE after her name having received the honor for her services to film & charity
(Thandie) Newton
Ryan
$2,000 [27]
On a commercial flight, you'll spend most of your time in the lower stratosphere before descending through this layer to Earth
the troposphere
Gabriel
$2,000 [18]
Deposed in 1797, Ludovico Manin was the last of these Venetian rulers
the doges
Ryan
$1,600 [14]
The wife of King Ahab, this mean queen introduced him to the worship of Baal
Jezebel
Chandy
$1,600 [2]
Lepidopteran larva
caterpillar
Chandy
$2,000 [7]
Known as the "Pathfinder", this soldier-explorer mapped most of the Oregon Trail in the 1840s with Kit Carson
John C. Frémont
$2,000 [28]
"Bonanza" & "All My Children" actor David Canary was the great-great-nephew of Martha Jane Cannary, aka this Wild West woman
Calamity Jane
Chandy
DD $3,500 [23]
Air pollution is made worse by the reactive type of this gas that makes up more than 3/4 of the atmosphere
nitrogen
Gabriel
DD $9,000 [26]
The person with this title is the leader of the Yellow Hat sect of Tibetan Buddhists
the Dalai Lama
Ryan
$2,000 [19]
Miriam was the sister of these 2 important figures of Exodus
Aaron & Moses
Chandy
$2,000 [12]
It's a question & answer method of religious instruction
catechism
Chandy

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD GEOGRAPHY

Of the 6 mainland African countries through which the equator passes, this landlocked nation is last alphabetically

Uganda

Chandy "What is Zimbabwe?" — wagered $4,400
Gabriel "What is Zimbabwe?" — wagered $14,698
Ryan "What is Uganda?" — wagered $10,001

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