Show #8297 2020-12-08 (taped 2020-09-29) Regular

Contestants

Cody Lawrence — an assistant editor from Sherman Oaks, California

Kristen Thomas-McGill — a graduate student originally from Louisville, Kentucky

John Vigna — a communications manager from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,199)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
John	$3,600	$4,600	$7,000	$13,000 2nd place: $2,000	$9,400 14 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Kristen	$1,400	$4,200	$15,800	$22,801 New champion: $22,801	$13,000 17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Cody	$1,800	$2,200	$11,400	$8,799 3rd place: $1,000	$16,000 19 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE FOUNDING FATHERS SPEAK	THE HELPFUL WEB	ENTERTAINMENT	GEOGRAPHIC FOURS	COLLABS	YOU'VE GOT ANIMAL MALE
$200 [1] "I cannot live without" these, Thomas Jefferson wrote months after selling more than 6,000 of them to the Library of Congress books Cody	$200 [29] ecosia.org is one of these that finds things online; bonus: it plants a tree for every query you make a search engine John	$200 [12] This superstar's album "Lover" was the bestselling album in the U.S. in 2019 Taylor Swift John	$200 [6] Jewish, Muslim, Christian & Armenian are the 4 quarters of the "Old" part of this city Jerusalem John	$200 [30] In 1887 readers were introduced to this pair, a moody resident of Baker Street & his army surgeon friend Watson & Holmes John	$200 [7] Party on with this name for an adult male deer a stag Cody
$400 [2] Money maven Alexander Hamilton: "Every proposal for a specific" one of these levies "is sure to meet with opposition" tax Kristen	$400 [28] rxlist.com is a website that helps you identify these, be they oval, square or 8-sided pills Kristen	$400 [13] What became this giant screen film innovation emerged at Expo 67 in Montreal with the film "Polar Life" IMAX Kristen	$400 [14] About the size of Minnesota, this is the largest of Japan's 4 main islands Honshu Cody	$400 [23] This company named for its 2 founders introduced its cordless electric drill in 1961 Black+Decker Cody	$400 [8] A male guinea pig is called this, like a male pig a boar John Kristen
$600 [3] Speaking to the First Continental Congress, Patrick Henry said, "I am not a Virginian" but one of these an American John	$600 [27] The website for this organization for seniors offers a chapter locator & a Medicare Q&A tool the AARP John	$600 [16] "Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone", is the subtitle of a restoration of this 1990 film, now with a new beginning & ending The Godfather Part III Kristen	$600 [15] 4 countries border Guatemala: Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras & this one Belize John Cody	$600 [22] This pair did okay together, writing musicals like "My Fair Lady" & "Camelot" Lerner & Loewe	$600 [9] Male house cats & male turkeys both have this name a tom John
$800 [4] George Washington held to "the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty" is this the best policy Cody	$800 [25] The Great Global Cleanup & Taking Climate Action are things you can learn about on the website named for this day created in 1970 Earth Day Cody	$800 [19] Christian Bale & Matt Damon hit the track in this high-octane film about an effort to build a new kind of race car Ford v Ferrari Kristen	$800 [17] These 4 states meet at the USA's Four Corners Monument Utah, Arizona, New Mexico & Colorado Cody	$1,000 [24] "Thespis" was the first collaboration by this pair; it wasn't as successful as their other works, like "The Pirates of Penzance" Gilbert & Sullivan Cody	$800 [10] A sea stallion is the male of this unique fish a seahorse Cody
$1,000 [5] On taking up his duties as president of the Senate in April 1789, he told it, "The eyes of the world are upon you" (John) Adams Kristen	$1,000 [26] The website for this homebuilding organization has a page telling how Jimmy Carter has toiled alongside its workers Habitat for Humanity Kristen	$1,000 [18] Dating back to 1939, thisDC Comics superhero has an origin story involving an ancient Egyptiancurse Hawkman Cody	$1,000 [20] Of Australia's 4 most populous cities, 3 are in the east & this one is in the far southwest Perth Cody	DD $4,600 [21] The so-called Glorious or Bloodless Revolution of 1688 put this pair on the throne of England William & Mary Cody	$1,000 [11] The drake of this common North American duck is also called a greenhead a mallard John

Double Jeopardy! Round

LANGUAGES	LIVE ALBUMS	A NAPOLEON COMPLEX	ENERGY	AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS	WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME
$400 [2] Most of the people of Liechtenstein speak Alemannic, a dialect of this official language German Kristen	$400 [1] Disc 1 of their 2004 album "live licks" features such megahits as "Start Me Up" & "Paint It, Black" The Rolling Stones Kristen	$400 [7] Napoleon had intended the Madeleineto be a temple to his Grande Armée, but the monarchy made it into one of these in 1816 a Catholic church Kristen	$400 [30] The biggest hydroelectric power producer in the U.S. is Washington State's Grand Coulee Dam on this river the Columbia Cody	$400 [19] Studying French & classics, she graduated from England's University of Exeter, not Hogwarts, in 1987 J.K. Rowling John	$400 [8] Adjective meaning solitary &past tense verb meaning vanished alone & gone Kristen
$800 [6] Compiled in the Middle Ages, the Eddas were written down in the language called "Old" this Old Norse Kristen	$800 [28] Their "Live at Leeds" featuring a medley with "My Generation" & "Magic Bus" is considered one of the best live albums ever made The Who Kristen	$800 [13] At one time this Paris museum was named Le Musée Napoléon the Louvre Cody	$800 [29] A tokamak plasma nuclear reactor superheats isotopic nuclei of this element so that they fuse, releasing energy hydrogen John	$800 [27] Before becoming an author, Sue Monk Kidd worked as a nurse, getting her degree from this school, TCU for short Texas Christian University Cody	$800 [9] Raven relative &4-letter synonym for forehead crow & brow Cody
$1,200 [5] Pinyin is a system for writing this language using the Roman alphabet Mandarin (Chinese) Kristen	$1,200 [20] A 1975 album captured this reggae legend & the Wailers on their Natty Dread Tour Bob Marley John	$1,200 [18] It should have been a bad omen for Napoleon when this wife of his bought Malmaison, the house of misfortune the Empress Josephine	$1,200 [24] In Hinduism, one of these spiritual energy centers situated on the throat is known as the vishuddha a chakra Kristen	$1,600 [22] It's no science fiction that in 1948 this prolific Russian-born author received a Ph.D in chemistry from Columbia University Isaac Asimov John	$1,200 [10] Burial place &brush's partner tomb & comb Kristen Cody
$1,600 [3] "U" might know that this official language of Pakistan is closely related to Hindi Urdu Cody	$1,600 [21] They dedicated "One More Light Live" to late frontman Chester Bennington Linkin Park Cody	$1,600 [14] Napoleon started 2 of these structures, the big one at the end of the Champs-Élysées & another "du Carrousel" an arc (Arc de Triomphe) John	$2,000 [16] In a car engine, the large disc seen on theleft, called this wheel, stores energy & regulates rotation of the crankshaft the flywheel	$2,000 [25] He was a theatre major at Wesleyan University in Connecticut before giving birth to the Jason Bourne novels Robert Ludlum	$1,600 [11] The portal one, for example, &a chain of amino acids vein & protein
$2,000 [4] Filipino is based on this language that shares its name with the people who originally spoke it Tagalog Cody	$2,000 [23] This British rocker showed us the way & came alive with a double live album that was No. 1 for 10 weeks in 1976 Peter Frampton	$2,000 [17] Napoleon did not build Les Invalides, but it ended up as his tomb after his body was moved from this island in 1840 St. Helena Kristen	DD $2,400 [15] The theory that the total amount of energy in the universe is constant is the first law of this branch of physics thermodynamics John	DD $4,000 [26] One of his professors at Cornell was William Strunk Jr. whose "Elements of Style" he would later revise (E.B.) White Kristen	$2,000 [12] A boggy fuel &a menacing statement peat & threat Kristen

Final Jeopardy!

THE ANCIENT WORLD

He got to propose his own sentence & joked that since he was actually a benefactor of the state, he should get free meals!

Socrates

John "Who is Socrates?" — wagered $6,000

Cody "Who is Brutus?" — wagered $2,601

Kristen "Who is Socrates?" — wagered $7,001

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