Show #8291 2020-11-30 (taped 2020-09-15) Regular

Ryan Hemmel game 4.

Contestants

Ben Ring — an accountant originally from Allentown, Pennsylvania

Tracy Arwari — a college administrator originally from Newport News, Virginia

Ryan Hemmel — a legal technology professional from Los Angeles, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $78,203)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ryan $5,400 $6,600 $25,800 $26,323
4-day champion: $104,526
$20,600
22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Tracy $-400 $300 $4,100 $1,599
2nd place: $2,000
$4,400
10 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Ben! $1,600 $2,600 $6,600 $442
3rd place: $1,000
$6,600
14 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

ANNUAL EVENTS AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES THE BIRDS & THE BEES MULTICOLORED SPORTS JOES YIDDISH
$200 [13]
In fall grab your beer stein & head to Munich for this 2-week-long celebration
Oktoberfest
Ben!
$200 [15]
"Thin Man" author Samuel Hammett
Dashiell
Tracy
$200 [26]
Big bird, indeed! One of these can grow to over 8 feet tall
an ostrich
Tracy
$200 [16]
The Ottoman Empire wanted the Red Cross to be named this in the Islamic world, & eventually, it happened
the Red Crescent
Tracy
$200 [5]
He was MVP of Super Bowl III
(Joe) Namath
Ryan
$200 [25]
There's no guilt in knowing that "gelt" is this; you'll receive some with a correct response
money
Tracy
$400 [11]
An annual competition for solvers of these began in 1978; points were given for correct letters in the grids
crossword puzzles
Ryan
$400 [7]
Novelist Edna Proulx
Annie
DD $500 [27]
Mason & carpenter bees are classified as this type that practices social distancing full time
solitary bees
Tracy
$400 [17]
Someone cowardly has one of these "down his back", often "a mile wide"
a yellow streak
Ryan
$400 [4]
He was MVP of Super Bowl XXIV
Joe Montana
Ben!
$400 [24]
Sometimes in the middle of the night I'll head to the kitchen & do some of this, from the Yiddish for "snacking"
noshing
$600 [8]
Lyon'sFête des Lumièresis held around December the 8th, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception which celebrates her
the Virgin Mary
Ryan
$600 [6]
Western scribe Pearl Grey
Zane
Tracy
$600 [28]
Seen here is the roseate species of this bird, named for the shape of itsbeak
the spoonbill
Tracy
$600 [18]
This colorful group won over 8% of the vote in Germany in 1987
the Greens
Ben!
$600 [3]
He was world heavyweight champ from 1937 to 1949
(Joe) Louis
Ryan
$600 [23]
This verb means to haul or move with effort
to schlep
Ben!
$800 [9]
The Empire Polo Club in Indio, California hosts this annual music festival as well as the Stagecoach Festival
Coachella
Ryan
$800 [10]
Pulitzer winner Arch Whitehead
Colson
$800 [29]
The peregrine species of this bird is known to dive at 200 miles per hour
a falcon
Ryan
$800 [19]
The Marcels sang of this celestial body, "you saw me standing alone, without a dream in my heart"
a blue moon
Ben!
$800 [2]
The Yankees retired his No. 5 in 1952
DiMaggio
Ryan
$800 [22]
The opening to "Laverne & Shirley" used these 2 Yiddish words, one meaning an oaf, the other, an unlucky person
schlemiel & schlimazel
$1,000 [12]
From mid-March to mid-May, Keukenhof Gardens in the Netherlands hosts an annual festival of these flowers
tulips
Ryan
$1,000 [14]
The dramatic Johan Strindberg
August
Ryan
$1,000 [30]
About 4 times larger than a honeybee, the rare Wallace's giantis native to this country's North Moluccas Islands
Indonesia
$1,000 [20]
Someone who is incredibly shy can be a wallflower or one of these purple plants
a shrinking violet
$1,000 [1]
In 2011 he battled a vocal cord virus while doing play-by-play for FOX
Joe Buck
Ben!
$1,000 [21]
This word for cheap & shoddily made goods now usually refers to cheap or shoddily made entertainment
schlock
Ben!

Double Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPHY IT CAME FROM CROWDFUNDING! 3 C's WORDS IN THE SONG HAVING AN ARGUMENT A ROYAL PAIN
$400 [1]
New Hampshire shares a 58-mile border with this Canadian province
Quebec
Ben!
$400 [23]
Before it was an Emmy-winning TV show, this was a one-woman show Phoebe Waller-Bridge partially funded on Kickstarter
Fleabag
Ryan Ben!
$400 [6]
Adjective meaning so small it can't be seen with the naked eye
microscopic
Ben!
$400 [8]
"I just met you & this is crazy, but here's my number"
"Call Me Maybe"
Ryan
$400 [30]
"My car has started every day. So my car will start today" is an example of this type of argument, the counterpart of deductive
inductive
Ben!
$400 [16]
His mummy revealed that this "boy king" of Ancient Egypt had a cleft palate, foot deformities, malaria & a busted leg
King Tut
Ryan
DD $1,000 [5]
One of the 2 landlocked South American nations; both have Spanish & Guarani as official languages
(1 of) Paraguay (or Bolivia)
Tracy
$800 [22]
A Kickstarter success was the card game called "Exploding" these cute little animals; laser pointers can defuse them
kittens
Tracy
$800 [7]
3-"c" word for the thin red feature on top of a rooster's head
cockscomb
Tracy
$800 [9]
"But I didn't shoot the deputy"
"I Shot The Sheriff"
Ben!
$1,200 [28]
To do this to "the question" is a logical error in argument, but now it's often used to mean simply "bring up the question"
to beg
Ryan
$800 [25]
The madness of this king, perhaps caused by porphyria, a buildup of natural chemicals, ended on Jan. 29, 1820
King George III
Ben!
$1,200 [4]
Port cities on this sea include Makhachkala, Russia & Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan
the Caspian Sea
Tracy
$1,200 [21]
This Kristen Bell detective show was on UPN & The CW before it was a Kickstarter-funded movie; season 4 was on Hulu
Veronica Mars
Tracy
$1,200 [13]
It's a pastoral letter written by the pope on matters of doctrine
encyclical
$1,200 [10]
"I wanna feel the heat with somebody"
"I Wanna Dance With Somebody"
Ryan Tracy
$1,600 [27]
An argument a fortiori, from Latin for this comparative word, is like "If turtles are slow, turtles in molasses must also be slow"
stronger
$1,200 [17]
This Siberian peasant helped ease the suffering of the czar's hemophiliac son
Rasputin
Ryan
$1,600 [3]
Home of the Dalai Lama until he fled the Chinese occupation in 1959, Potala Palace towers over this city
Lhasa
Ben!
$1,600 [20]
This meal-replacement drink isn't made from people but sounds like a "green" sci-fi food that was
Soylent
Ryan
$1,600 [14]
In Italian cuisine, this preparation of thinly sliced beef makes for appetizing appetizers
carpaccio
Ryan Ben!
$1,600 [11]
"Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane"
"I Wanna Be Sedated"
Ben!
$2,000 [26]
This Latin phrase once meant arguing by appealing to someone's personal feelings; now it means an irrelevant personal attack
ad hominem
Ryan
$1,600 [18]
In 336 B.C. Pausanias, a young Macedonian, killed this king; no trial--the assassin got killed on the spot
Philip (II)
Ryan
$2,000 [2]
This nation's 81 provinces include Batman, Van & Hatay
Turkey
Ben!
$2,000 [24]
Long after he was "Rockin' In The Free World", this singer raised more than $6 million for Pono, his music player
Neil Young
Ben!
$2,000 [15]
Adjective for a letdown, like the end of "The Epic of Gilgamesh"--the hero's quest for a magic plant... ends without it
anticlimactic
Ryan
$2,000 [12]
"It's a black fly in your Chardonnay"
"Ironic"
Ryan
DD $6,000 [29]
Senator, 2 minutes for this segment of a debate, to attack elements of the prior argument such as its assumptions or its relevance
a rebuttal
Ryan
$2,000 [19]
In 2012 some Spaniards were not sympathetic to this 74-year-old king who injured his hip on an elephant-hunting expedition
Juan Carlos

Final Jeopardy!

COMEDY MOVIES

In the original script for this 1975 film, the title object was finally found in London's Harrods department store

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Tracy "What is?" — wagered $2,501
Ben! "What is? thanks to all who helped me get here" — wagered $6,158
Ryan "What is Monty Python + the Holy Grail?" — wagered $523

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