Show #8296 2020-12-07 (taped 2020-09-29) Regular

Contestants

John Vigna — a communications manager from Los Angeles, California

Amy Kimmel — a career counselor originally from Bend, Oregon

Katherine Ryan — a nonprofit executive originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,801)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Katherine	$1,600	$1,800	$16,400	$0 3rd place: $1,000	$10,600 15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Amy	$1,600	$3,800	$9,800	$100 2nd place: $2,000	$9,800 12 R, 2 W
John	$3,600	$6,600	$22,000	$11,199 New champion: $11,199	$20,600 26 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY: A LOOK BACK	TRADING PLACES	EMPTY WORDS	BRIDGES	LITERARY VIDEO GAMES	THAT'S TWISTED
$200 [5] Frederick Muhlenberg was first to hold this congressional job & join the line of presidential succession (spoiler, Fred was never prez) Speaker of the House Amy	$200 [6] Its location at 18 Broad Street near Wall Street was designated a national historic landmark in 1978 the New York Stock Exchange John	$200 [25] Before "island", this 6-letter word means uninhabited, not arid & sandy desert Katherine John	$200 [28] The world's longest suspension bridge got a couple of feet longer during construction as this 1995 event in Japan shifted its towers an earthquake Katherine	$200 [27] "Alamut", a 1938 novel by Vladimir Bartol about fanatical killers, inspired the hit video game this "Creed" Assassin's Creed Amy	$200 [11] Add -ed to this item from the toolbox to describe your twisted back wrench John
$400 [1] Extreme nationalism & authoritarian government are features of this ideology, employed by Italy from 1922 to 1943 fascism John	$400 [7] In 1923 the London Stock Exchange adopted the motto "dictum meum pactum", "my word is my" this 4-letter promise a bond John	$400 [26] Tabula rasa is often translated as this 5-letter "slate" blank John	$400 [30] The Chaban-Delmas vertical-lift bridge in the port of Bordeaux signals in blue when this is high the tide John	$400 [24] Based on "Hamlet", "Elsinore" has you play as this character; perhaps you might not drown Ophelia Amy	$400 [12] Twisted strands of fiber such as jute can be made into a ball of this string twine Katherine
$600 [2] In 1453 Sultan Mehmet II ended the Byzantine Empire by leading the Ottomans to the capture of this capital city, today's Istanbul Constantinople John	$600 [8] The Minneapolis Grain Exchange is the place to go if you're looking to trade some HRSW, hard red spring this wheat Amy	$600 [15] An available job or hotel room a vacancy Katherine	$600 [18] The NYC Dept. of Transportation tries not to do major work at the same time on the Brooklyn & this next bridge up the East River the Manhattan Bridge Katherine John	$600 [13] In the mobile game based on this 1873 novel, you can end up with a different itinerary than the one Jules Verne created Around the World in 80 Days Katherine	$600 [22] This baked good is used to describe very confusing, twisted logic a pretzel Amy
$800 [3] As a teen he had senator Seneca & Burrus of the military lead Rome, but over time, wanted to fiddle around more himself Nero John	$800 [9] Germany's biggest stock exchange is in this financial capital on the Main Frankfurt Amy	$800 [16] CBS News called the emptying of East Coast states before Hurricane Floyd "the biggest peacetime" this "in U.S. history" evacuation John	DD $800 [19] Not everything in this city is 500 years old--the Constitution Bridge over the Grand Canal opened in 2008 Venice John	$800 [14] With flowing white hair, Geralt of Rivia is a monster slayer in this video game series based on the stories of Andrzej Sapkowski The Witcher	$800 [23] Let's get biblical with these trees of the Southwest noted for their twistedbranches Joshua trees Katherine
$1,000 [4] In the 1820s he introduced a Cherokee syllabary of 85 characters Sequoyah	$1,000 [10] TAIFEX is the Taiwan exchange for these, advance contracts for the buying & selling of commodities futures John	$1,000 [17] In Genesis 1:2 "the earth was without form, and" this void	$1,000 [29] The Juscelino Kubitschek Bridgein this South American capital is named for the 20th century leader behind the building of the city Brasília	$1,000 [20] Andrew Ryan, the industrialist villain in "Bioshock", was inspired by this female author with the same initials Ayn Rand John	$1,000 [21] You can make one of these, named for a German mathematician, by giving a half twist to a strip of paper & attaching the ends a Möbius strip Amy

Double Jeopardy! Round

OXFORD'S VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS	AMERICAN ACCESSIONS	PLANETARY EXTREMES	MUSEUMS	MOVIE GOOFS	"U" BEFORE "E"
$400 [27] "The Abrahamic Religions" tells about the relationship of these 3 major religions Judaism, Islam & Christianity John	$400 [25] The Encyclopedia Britannica calls it "the greatest land bargain in U.S. history" the Louisiana Purchase Katherine	$400 [2] Lead-meltingly hot, it's the planet with the most volcanoes Venus John	$400 [12] Found in the Bloomsbury District, this museum has a giant head from Easter Island & a Sutton Hoo burial helmet the British Museum Katherine Amy	$400 [7] The croissant this "Pretty Woman" is eating somehow becomes a pancake seconds later Julia Roberts Amy	$400 [15] Alexander Pushkin was mortally wounded in one of these a duel John
$800 [1] The book on this scientific concept calls it "the weakest of nature's four fundamental forces" gravity John	$800 [30] Secretary of State William Seward negotiated the purchase of this 600,000-square-mile region Alaska Katherine	$800 [3] It has the solar system's largest moon Jupiter Katherine	$800 [13] Cape Town's Zeitz MOCAAwas once this type of storage building; theatriumwas shaped like a grain of corn in the architect's eye a silo Katherine	$800 [8] Pretty sure ancient Romans didn't have gas canisters under their chariots, but there was one visible in this Russell Crowe film Gladiator Katherine	$800 [16] It's French for what the dancer seenhereis doing a pirouette John
$1,200 [28] "Film Music" reports that Paul Simon wrote new music for this 1967 film but that Mike Nichols mostly used Paul's old songs The Graduate Katherine	$1,200 [20] The Newlands Resolution of 1898 brought these islands under formal U.S. control the Hawaiian Islands Katherine Amy John	$1,200 [4] It's home to the solar system's highest mountain, Olympus Mons Mars John	$1,200 [14] Vent Haven Museum in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky is dedicated to the art of using these puppets, like Charlie McCarthy ventriloquism John	$1,200 [9] In "Tombstone", rain pours down on this Kurt Russell character but just ahead up the street, we see it's completely dry Wyatt Earp Katherine	$1,200 [17] To do this to a jury means to hold it away from outside news, media & the public to sequester John
$1,600 [26] "Bestsellers" says the paperback revolution of the '60s began with cheap copies of this 1928 D.H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterley's Lover Amy	$1,600 [21] An 1846 treaty with Britain brought the U.S. this territory encompassing 3 present Pacific Northwest states the Oregon Territory John	$2,000 [6] It's the farthest planet from the Sun that was known before the use of telescopes in the 1600s Saturn John	$1,600 [24] Grant Wood's "American Gothic" resides at the Art Institute of this city, built for the Columbian Exposition of 1893 Chicago Amy	$1,600 [10] In 1955 Marty plays a Gibson ES-345 guitar, but that hadn't been made yet--maybe there was an extra trip in this 1985 pic Back to the Future Katherine	$1,600 [18] It's where 2 or more rivers flow together to become one a confluence John
DD $7,800 [29] "A Very Short Introduction to" him says that like Marx & Freud, this 18th c. economist's work "is more invoked than it is read" (Adam) Smith Katherine	$2,000 [22] This 1853 purchase added nearly 30,000 square miles to the Southwest United States the Gadsden Purchase John	DD $3,000 [5] It's the windiest planet, with storms like the Great Dark Spot observed by Voyager 2 Neptune John	$2,000 [23] Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" is on display at this gallery in Florence Uffizi Amy	$2,000 [11] Continuity errors like changing weather in Rutger Hauer's death scene were fixed in Ridley Scott's "Final Cut" of this film Blade Runner Amy	$2,000 [19] Similar to decrescendo, in music it means to gradually play more softly diminuendo

Final Jeopardy!

FANTASTIC BEASTS

Symbols of strength in the Bible include behemoth & this horned creature, perhaps an extinct wild ox, which the King James Version mentions 9 times

a unicorn

Amy "What is a manticore?" — wagered $9,700

Katherine "What is a Gorgon?" — wagered $16,400

John "What is theJusbeast" — wagered $10,801

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