Show #8295 2020-12-04 (taped 2020-09-15) Regular

Contestants

Katherine Ryan — a nonprofit executive originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Josh Atkins — an elementary music teacher from Phoenix, Arizona

Fred Nelson — a university professor originally from Manhattan, Kansas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Fred $2,600 $4,800 $11,400 $2,399
3rd place: $1,000
$12,400
18 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Josh $2,800 $3,800 $10,600 $5,600
2nd place: $2,000
$11,600
16 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Katherine $1,600 $2,600 $15,000 $22,801
New champion: $22,801
$14,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

ACTRESSES MISCELLANY THE GREAT LAKES MINING IT CAME TO THEM IN A DREAM SMART ANSWERS
$200 [1]
Chrissy Metz' Kate Pearson on this NBC show has inspired many to shrug off body image issues & live their lives
This is Us
Josh
$200 [3]
The ZIP code 43210 will blast off your mail to this university; go, Buckeyes!
Ohio State
Fred
$200 [15]
Animals of the Great Lakes region include moose, beaver, lynx &this semiaquatic mammal
the otter
Josh
$200 [22]
In operation from 1910 to 1983, a mine under Detroit for this ice-melting stuff was reopened in 1998
salt
Fred
$200 [17]
This Beatle woke up with the tune for "Yesterday" in his head, but "I couldn't have written it because I just dreamed it"
Paul McCartney
Katherine
$200 [19]
Adjective for a blade that has just been honed
sharp
Josh
$400 [2]
This woman who grew up in Oxfordshire was bewitching as Meg in "Little Women" in 2019
Emma Watson
Fred
$400 [5]
Itwas supposedly captured on film in 1934
the Loch Ness Monster
Katherine
$400 [16]
The Great Lakes connect directly to the Atlantic Ocean by this river
the St. Lawrence
Katherine
$400 [23]
Also a sewing term, it's a bed or stratum of coal; Wyoming has some that are 250 feet wide
a seam
Fred
$400 [6]
This director created "The Terminator" after a nightmare about a metallic figure emerging from a fire
James Cameron
Fred
$400 [20]
Homo sapiens means "man the" this 4-letter word
wise
Fred
$600 [4]
In 2005, shewon an Emmy playing desperate housewife Lynette Scavo
Felicity Huffman
Josh
$600 [14]
Citizenship Day is celebrated on September 17, the anniversary of the signing of this
the Constitution
$600 [21]
8 states border a Great Lake, but only this one borders Lake Ontario
New York
Fred
$600 [24]
Mining this precious metal discovered there in 1865 made Belmont, Nevada a boomtown until the 1880s
silver
Fred
$600 [7]
This "Golden Bear" turned around his golf game by using a new grip the way he did in a dream
Jack Nicklaus
Fred
$600 [9]
Preceded by "un", it means mysterious; we want the 5-letter version meaning clever
canny
$800 [12]
Shohreh Aghdashloo had her breakout role opposite Ben Kingsley in 2003's "House of" these 2 things
Sand and Fog
Fred
$800 [10]
To the surprise of MSNBC viewers, he announced on-air that the March 2, 2020 "Hardball" was his last
Chris Matthews
Josh
DD $1,000 [26]
This French explorer with his own lake on the U.S.-Quebec border reached the Great Lakes around 1615
Samuel de Champlain
Josh
$800 [25]
A 1778 treatise on mining says a gad is a wedge between rocks to loosen the ground for this long-handled pointy-ended tool
a pickaxe
Josh
$800 [8]
After a feverish nightmare about cannibals, Elias Howe is said to have had a breakthrough in his invention of this device
a sewing machine
Katherine
$800 [27]
A particular skill or aptitude, or a person with an I.Q. higher than 150
a genius
Katherine
$1,000 [13]
Thisactress is the great-granddaughter of early 20th century British Prime Minister H.H Asquith
Helena Bonham Carter
Josh
$1,000 [11]
In 1942 the American Birth Control League became this organization
Planned Parenthood
Fred
$1,000 [29]
These straits connect Lake Michigan & Lake Huron, technically making those 2 one large continuous lake
the Straits of Mackinac
$1,000 [30]
Barney Barnato, one of the 19th century's "Randlords", made his fortune in the 1870s mining these
diamonds
Fred
$1,000 [18]
This woman dreamed a "pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together" & a novel was born
Mary Shelley
Josh
$1,000 [28]
Cervelle au beurre noisette is this French dish, served in butter
brains
Fred

Double Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY LITERATURE NICKNAMES DUET PARTNERS FRENCH ARTS & CULTURE DOUBLE THE SAME VOWEL "H"ISTORY
$400 [26]
'Twas 2 days before Christmas in 1823 that the poem "A Visit from" him was published anonymously in a New York newspaper
St. Nicholas
Fred
$400 [19]
A bomb nicknamed Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima; the bomb dropped on Nagasaki had this nickname
Fat Man
Katherine
$400 [2]
This lady duetted with Ariana Grande on the 2020 hit "Rain On Me"
Lady Gaga
Katherine
$400 [16]
The ballet "Giselle" is based on a legend about the wilis, ghostly young maidens who have died before this special event
their wedding
Josh Katherine
$400 [15]
A cylinder upon which wire or thread gets wound & wound
a spool
Fred
$400 [8]
The name of this dynasty that ruled in Europe from the 1200s to the 1900s came from the family's ancestral "Hawk's Castle"
Hapsburg
Fred
$800 [25]
This Stevenson classic is divided into 6 parts including "The Old Buccaneer" & "Captain Silver"
Treasure Island
Katherine
$800 [23]
Those born under this fourth sign are nicknamed "moon children"
Cancer
$800 [4]
At the end of the movie "Grease", they duet on "You're The One That I Want"
John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
Fred
$800 [12]
Giada De Laurentiis attended this French cooking school that today offers le grand diplome
Le Cordon Bleu
Katherine
$800 [17]
Blocks of snow make up this dwelling also called an aputiak
an igloo
Josh
$800 [1]
King of Judea, he built the palace-fortress of Masada & rebuilt the temple of Jerusalem
Herod
Josh
$1,200 [3]
In 1863 he published a novel about "The Cossacks", who also get plenty of mention in his next, more epic, work
(Leo) Tolstoy
Fred Josh
$1,200 [13]
This NFL field is called "The Frozen Tundra"; the 1967 Green Bay-Dallas title game was played there at -13 degrees
Lambeau Field
Josh
$1,200 [5]
Colbie Caillat & Jason Mraz sang "I'm" this "I'm in love"
lucky
Fred
$1,200 [14]
Directors François Truffaut & Jean-Luc Godard are associated with this film style, nouvelle vague in French
the new wave
Katherine
$1,200 [18]
A candidate selected in an election, from the Latin for "name"
a nominee
Josh
DD $1,000 [9]
The Battle of Castillon & the capture of Bordeaux in 1453 effectively ended this war
the Hundred Years' War
Fred
DD $2,000 [20]
His adventure novel "Une Ville Flottante", "A Floating City", takes place on a steamship, not under the sea
Jules Verne
Katherine
$1,600 [21]
This bird is mentioned in one of Louisiana's state nicknames
the pelican
Josh
$1,600 [6]
"Somebody That I Used To Know" is by Kimbra & this one-named guy
Gotye
Josh
$1,600 [28]
The first mention of this embroidered work, a portion of which is seen here, was in an inventory of cathedral treasures in 1476
the Bayeux Tapestry
Fred
$1,600 [24]
A word for the young of any bird begins the name of this bird
a chickadee
Katherine
$1,600 [10]
Following WWII this Japanese emperor declared he was not a living god & renounced his divinity
Hirohito
Katherine
$2,000 [27]
His first book of poems, "The Black Riders" was published in 1895, the same year as his "Red Badge of Courage"
(Stephen) Crane
Katherine
$2,000 [22]
In "The Final Problem", Holmes tells Watson that Professor Moriarty is this, for his ability to organize evil
the "Napoléon of crime"
$2,000 [7]
She & Charlie Puth sang about how "We Don't Talk Anymore"
Selena Gomez
Josh
$2,000 [29]
"Danse macabre" is one of this composer's symphonic poems
Saint-Saëns
Fred
$2,000 [30]
Land promised to Abraham in Genesis
Canaan
Fred
$2,000 [11]
This emperor of Ethiopia was deposed in 1974 & died under mysterious circumstances a year later
Haile Selassie
Katherine

Final Jeopardy!

ISLAND NATIONS

What's now this nation resisted naval sieges by the Berbers in 1429, the Ottomans in 1565 & Axis WWII air assaults

Malta

Josh "What isSicilyCyprus?" — wagered $5,000
Fred "What is Cyprus?" — wagered $9,001
Katherine "What isCyprusMalta" — wagered $7,801

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