Show #8293 2020-12-02 (taped 2020-09-15) Regular

Contestants

Michael Liu — a college student from San Marino, California

Leslie Minot — a grant writer from Las Vegas, Nevada

T.J. Tallie — an assistant professor of African history from San Diego, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
T.J.! $2,800 $2,800 $14,000 $2,000
3rd place: $1,000
$19,600
25 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Leslie $-200 $1,500 $4,700 $2,700
New champion: $2,700
$5,200
9 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Michael $1,800 $4,200 $12,600 $2,600
2nd place: $2,000
$12,600
14 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY CITY WORDS OVAL & OVAL AGAIN SCIENCE BOOKS THE HIP-HOP ERA NONPROFITS
$200 [6]
On Dec. 16, 1773 during a wild night of partying, 342 chests of this were dumped into Boston Harbor
tea
T.J.!
$200 [5]
A capital Cuban cigar
a Havana
T.J.!
$200 [11]
Random House defines it as "an inflated oval with a bladder contained in a casing usually made of leather"
a football
T.J.!
$200 [18]
In 2001 Ernst Mayr published an explanation of Darwinian theory called "What" this process "is"
Evolution
Michael
$200 [26]
T-Pain & Kanye West brought this pitch correction technology to mainstream hip-hop
Auto-Tune
Michael
$200 [20]
This group founded by Ingrid Newkirk & Alex Pacheco helped get the auto industry to stop using animals in crash tests
PETA
Leslie
$400 [4]
The first book printed in what's now the United States was a 1640 translation from the Hebrew of the book of these songs
Psalms
Leslie
$400 [10]
A version of hold 'em poker where the player is dealt 4 cards
Omaha
Leslie
$400 [15]
Since its creation in 1880, the Resolute Desk has spent a lot of time in this work room
the Oval Office
Michael
$400 [19]
"The 8th day of" this biblical event covers the development of molecular biology
creation
Leslie
$400 [27]
This 2015 hip-hop biopic was for a time the highest-grossing film with an African-American director, F. Gary Gray
Straight Outta Compton
T.J.!
$400 [21]
The name of this food bank sounds like a miraculous food from Exodus 16, but it's actually an acronym
MANNA
T.J.!
$600 [1]
2 English astronomers completed this line in 1767
the Mason-Dixon Line
T.J.!
$600 [8]
Jovan Musk is a popular brand--you smell good, man
Cologne
Michael
$600 [12]
In 1939 T.A. Peterman founded this company known for premium heavy-duty trucks & its red oval logo
Peterbilt
$600 [13]
"When Life Nearly Died" travels back 251 million years to "The Greatest Mass" this "of All Time", which wiped out 90% of life on earth
Extinction
Leslie
$600 [28]
She staked her claim as the queen of hip-hop on the 2010 track "Monster"
Nicki Minaj
T.J.!
DD $500 [24]
"Service above self" is a motto of this service group so named for how its meetings originally moved around to different offices
Rotary International
Leslie
$800 [2]
Leonard Calvert & friends landed in what's now this state in 1634 & held the first mass in the colonies
Maryland
T.J.!
$800 [7]
Any gathering place that attracts devotees of a specific topic
Mecca
Leslie
$800 [16]
The oval window forms part of the boundary between the middle & the inner parts of this organ
the ear
T.J.!
$800 [14]
"The Fabric of Reality" explores the idea that there is a multiplicity of "parallel" these (the one we know is the "tangible" one)
universes
Michael
$800 [29]
With artists like Jay-Z & LL Cool J, "the Motown of hip-hop" is this record label co-founded by Rick Rubin
Def Jam
$600 [23]
In 1970 a group of law students & attorneys founded this environmental group, the NRDC
the Natural Resources Defense Council
T.J.! Leslie
$1,000 [3]
Congress adopted these November 15, 1777, though they weren't ratified for another 4 years
the Articles of Confederation
T.J.!
$1,000 [9]
The protective care of God
Providence
T.J.!
$1,000 [17]
The main venues for the 2010 Olympics in this Canadian city, including the Richmond speed skating oval, remain in use
Vancouver
Michael
$1,000 [22]
Who better to write "Thermodynamics" than this Italian-American physicist who helped create the first nuclear chain reaction
(Enrico) Fermi
Michael
$1,000 [30]
This Naughty by Nature classic with "Hip Hop" in its title got new fans when Rita Wilson rapped along in a 2020 clip
"Hip Hop Hooray"
$1,000 [25]
Here'sthe logo of this nonprofit newsroom that uses the moral force of investigative journalism
ProPublica
Leslie

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZES CROSSWORD CLUES "G" COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD TAKING YOUR MEASURE ALLITERATIVE TV SHOWS NON-PROPHETS
$400 [30]
Reuters photographers won for pictures of this Chinese region's months-long protests
Hong Kong
Michael
$400 [1]
French device that took a little off the top(10)
guillotine
Leslie
$400 [6]
Snezka in Bohemia is this country's highest point
the Czech Republic
T.J.!
$400 [21]
To the Romans, it was a distance of 1,000 paces
a mile
T.J.!
$400 [20]
The fried chicken franchise "Los Pollos Hermanos" was a front for nefarious fowl-ness on this show
Breaking Bad
T.J.!
$400 [11]
Matthew 7:15 says beware of false prophets who "come to you" in this animal's clothing; "inwardly they are ravening wolves"
sheep
T.J.!
$800 [26]
The Washington Post won for a report on climate change named this number of degrees Celsius--the critical increase for global warming
two
T.J.! Michael
$800 [2]
Severe congestion on the road(8)
gridlock
Michael
$800 [8]
Basilicata & Campania are administrative regions of this country
Italy
Leslie Michael
$800 [22]
Cheers! An imperial one is .568 liters
a pint
T.J.!
$1,200 [17]
With her mystical lariat, Lynda Carter roped troublemakers into shape on this series from the late 1970s
Wonder Woman
T.J.!
$800 [13]
In Acts of the Apostles, the false prophet Elymas, aka Bar-Jesus, has a bad day when this man calls him a "child of the devil"
Paul
T.J.!
$1,200 [27]
The inaugural award for Audio Reporting went to an episode of this Ira Glass-hosted show
This American Life
T.J.!
$1,200 [3]
Sociable or extroverted(10)
gregarious
T.J.!
$1,200 [9]
The islands called the Azores lie about 800 miles from this country to which they belong
Portugal
Michael
$1,600 [25]
In 2018, it was decided to retire physical objects, like the one seen here, as the standard of this metric unit of measure
a kilogram
T.J.!
$1,600 [18]
A crime that wasn't solved is considered this, also the name of a CBS drama series that ran for 7 seasons
a cold case
T.J.!
$1,200 [12]
In the Old Testament this true prophet, Eliyahu in Hebrew, humiliates & then kills the 450 false prophets of Baal
Elijah
T.J.!
$1,600 [28]
Nikole Hannah-Jones won for the N.Y. Times multimedia project named for this year when 20 slaves were brought to Virginia
1619
T.J.!
$1,600 [4]
A small ape, like a siamang(6)
gibbon
$1,600 [10]
In Africa to the northwest of Guinea is Guinea-this
Guinea-Bissau
T.J.!
$2,000 [24]
The poise is a measure of this, a fluid's resistance to flow
viscosity
Michael
$2,000 [19]
Tom Hanks & Peter Scolari starred in this 1980s show whose title punningly refers to close friends
Bosom Buddies
T.J.!
$1,600 [14]
In Revelation the beast & the false prophet are tossed into a "lake of fire burning with" this substance
brimstone
Michael
$2,000 [29]
The Music Pulitzer went to Anthony Davis for his opera about these wrongly convicted "Five" from Harlem
the Central Park Five
Michael
$2,000 [5]
Pertinent to the topic(7)
germane
Michael
$2,000 [7]
The name of this kingdom just south of Tibet may be derived from Sanskrit for the "end of Tibet"
Bhutan
Leslie
DD $7,300 [23]
The unit abbreviated MJis used to describe the heft of extrasolar planets & other astronomical bodies--M is for mass, J is for this
Jupiter
T.J.!
DD $2,500 [16]
The Hatfields & the McCoys were appropriately armed for an appearance on this game show
Family Feud
T.J.!
$2,000 [15]
The first letter of John decries as false prophets this early movement, whose name is from the Greek for "knowledge"
gnosticism
T.J.!

Final Jeopardy!

NOVEL CHARACTERS

This character from an 1851 novel "was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge"

Captain Ahab

Leslie "Who is Mr. l l" — wagered $2,000
Michael "Who is Frankenstein" — wagered $10,000
T.J.! "Who is the Count of Monte Cristo" — wagered $12,000

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