Show #8305 2020-12-18 (taped 2020-09-30) Regular

Brayden Smith game 4.

Contestants

Devon Cromwell — a voice-over actor and Realtor from Tarzana, California

Amanda Barkley-Levenson — a behavioral genetics researcher originally from Portland, Oregon

Brayden Smith — a policy intern from Las Vegas, Nevada (whose 3-day cash winnings total $93,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Brayden $4,600 $7,600 $16,200 $3,999
4-day champion: $97,799
$21,000
26 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Amanda $200 $1,600 $14,200 $3,200
2nd place: $2,000
$12,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Devon $800 $2,400 $1,200 $1,200
3rd place: $1,000
$1,200
9 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

STATES BY COUNTY RUTH BADER GINSBURG DONATING THEIR WINNINGS MOVING YACHT ROCK FINAL "RE"
$200 [10]
Kern, Imperial, Lassen
California
Brayden Devon
$200 [23]
Always in style, Justice Ginsburg was famous for wearing "dissent" these; a famous one came from Banana Republic
dissent collar
Amanda
$200 [30]
After winning a 2020 tennis tourney in Auckland, Serena Williams donated her winnings to those affected by this nearby disaster
the Australian fires
Brayden
$200 [28]
$2.00 a day was the price when this trailer rental company was founded at the tail end of World War II
U-Haul
Brayden
$200 [4]
Mike Campbell wrote the music for "Boys Of Summer" working on a Tom Petty album but gave it to this Eagle who penned the lyrics, flying solo
Don Henley
Devon
$200 [29]
This time means when the plane leaves the gate, not when it takes off
departure
Devon
$400 [25]
Winnebago, Champaign, Fayette
Illinois
Brayden
$400 [21]
Ginsburg rather enjoyed this hip-hop nickname she got from a Tumblr blog
the Notorious RBG
Amanda
$400 [26]
Texas border patrol officers won a chili cook-off in 2020 & gave the winnings to this group that realizes the dreams of sick kids
the Make-a-Wish Foundation
Amanda
$400 [27]
Online advice from United Van Lines & Bekins says to pack these in small boxes--they'll get heavy real fast
books
Amanda
$400 [5]
Adding music to a personal ad, Rupert Holmes began, "If you like" these cocktails "and getting caught in the rain..."
piña coladas
Brayden
$400 [22]
4-letter monster that eats humans
an ogre
Brayden
$600 [3]
Autauga, Coosa, Talladega
Alabama
Devon
$600 [6]
As director of the Women's Rights Project for this "Union", Ruth argued cases on gender equality before the Supreme Court
the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)
Brayden
$600 [9]
A newspaper in this city won a Pulitzer for covering the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting & gave the prize money for rebuilding
Pittsburgh
Amanda
$600 [24]
Some companies charge per stair, so you'll pay dearly to move into a NYC fifth-floor this, meaning there's no elevator
a walk-up
Devon
$600 [20]
Let's "Ride Like The Wind" to this alliterative artist who gave us the perfect-for-the-category "Sailing", a No. 1 hit in 1980
Christopher Cross
$600 [15]
The way you hold your body; as a verb, it can mean to adopt a blustering attitude
posture
Amanda
$800 [14]
Skagit, Pacific, Snohomish
Washington
Devon
DD $1,000 [2]
Ruth began law school at Harvard but transferred to this NYC school where she became the first female tenured professor
Columbia
Brayden
$800 [8]
After winning the 2014 World Cup, German soccer star Mesut Ozil paid for the surgeries of 23 children in this host country
Brazil
Brayden
$800 [18]
A humpstrap is a key piece of equipment in moving this, though Laurel & Hardy didn't use one when they moved theirs
a piano
Devon
$800 [12]
After "Takin' It To The Streets", these musical "siblings" set sail with "What A Fool Believes"
The Doobie Brothers
$800 [16]
Before you leave our website, would you mind taking a brief one of these to help us improve our customer experience?
a questionnaire
Brayden
$1,000 [13]
Mesa, Cheyenne, Pueblo
Colorado
Amanda Devon
$1,000 [1]
Ginsburg said of this fellow New Yorker & justice on the opposite side of the judicial spectrum, "We were best buddies"
Scalia
Brayden
$1,000 [7]
After winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952, this German missionary built new huts for leprosy patients in Africa
(Albert) Schweitzer
Brayden
$1,000 [19]
B.O.L. is short for this, basically a customer's itemized contract with a moving company
bill of lading
$1,000 [11]
Jennifer Holliday sang backup on "I Want To Know What Love Is" by this band
Foreigner
$1,000 [17]
Calmness & coolness; under pressure, some keep it & some lose it
composure
Brayden

Double Jeopardy! Round

CHINESE HISTORY 4-LETTER FILMS LITERATURE BIOLOGY MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO 'ROUND IN EXCELSIS DEO
$400 [29]
World Book says this "protected China from minor attacks but provided little defense against a major invasion"
the Great Wall
Brayden
$400 [26]
In this family favorite, "A little pig goes a long way"
Babe
Amanda
$400 [27]
The lead character of this 2008 novel owes her last name to the heroine Bathsheba Everdene in "Far From the Madding Crowd"
The Hunger Games
Amanda
$400 [17]
By definition an aerobe is an organism that lives only in the presence of this element
oxygen
Brayden
$400 [28]
The Seychelles, Mauritius & India all have a unit of currency named this
the rupee
Brayden
$400 [30]
It's the mother! A rich supply of ore
a lode
Brayden
$800 [25]
More than just big on vases, this ruling dynasty really elevated the architecture of the Imperial Palace in the Forbidden City
the Ming Dynasty
Brayden
$800 [23]
Young Miguel meets up with some of his ancestors in the Land of the Dead in this Disney Pixar film
Coco
Brayden
$800 [21]
In a Jane Austen novel, Northanger is this title type of structure that Catherine wants to be exciting, but turns out to be dull
an abbey
Amanda
$1,200 [1]
Considering it's about 7 feet up from its heart to its brain, this mammal's normal blood pressure is about 280/180
the giraffe
Devon
$800 [2]
This country that borders Sierra Leone & the Ivory Coast uses its own dollar as its currency
Liberia
Brayden
$800 [24]
This type of engine uses compression ignition
a diesel
$1,200 [15]
In the late 19th century, China was dominated by Tzu-hsi, known as this empress, the widow of an emperor
the Dowager Empress
$1,200 [5]
Angelina Jolie is a CIA agent on the run after she's accused of being a Russian spy in this film
Salt
Amanda
$1,200 [8]
Thisauthor's last finished work wasn't an adventure story, but the "Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine" published after his 1870 death
Alexandre Dumas
Brayden
$1,600 [10]
From Greek for "to join", it's the cell formed by the joining of a male & a female gamete
a zygote
Amanda
$1,600 [16]
From the Latin for "every ten", it's the currency of several countries including Jordan & Algeria
the dinar
Amanda
$1,200 [22]
Type of shrub also preceding "-eyed" or "gin"
sloe
Devon
$1,600 [14]
Only a few thousand of the roughly 100,000 Communists survived the trek begun in 1934 & called this
the Long March
Brayden Devon
$1,600 [3]
Directed by Scorsese, this book-based film tells of an orphan who lives in a Paris train station & maintains its clocks
Hugo
Brayden
$1,600 [6]
Henry Fielding said Colley Cibber, who held this official literary post, was guilty of "high crimes... against the English language"
Poet Laureate
Brayden
$2,000 [12]
During this 13-letter process, plants lose water in the form of vapor escaping through their leaves
transpiration
Brayden
$2,000 [9]
The only remaining currency in Europe still named the franc, the Swiss franc is used by Switzerland & this country
Liechtenstein
Brayden Amanda Devon
$1,600 [20]
The IRS says this type of tax is on specific goods or activities like gambling
an excise tax
Amanda
$2,000 [13]
A 1900 rebellion was settled by this same-named protocol in which China paid $330 million & executed some officials
the Boxer Protocol
$2,000 [4]
This 2013 film opens with Ashton Kutcher in the title role, introducing the iPod
Jobs
Brayden
$2,000 [7]
This playwright's "The Children's Hour" was inspired by a real case suggested by Dashiell Hammett
(Lillian) Hellman
Brayden
DD $3,000 [11]
As exhibited by many turtles, TSD is the determination of sex by this environmental factor that affects the eggs
temperature
Amanda
DD $5,000 [18]
A monetary unit called the Balboa is used in this country nicknamed the "Crossroads of the World"
Panama
Brayden
$2,000 [19]
Term for a very old manuscript volume of the scriptures
a codex
Brayden

Final Jeopardy!

INNOVATIONS

This company takes credit for inventing modern gift wrap, dating to its sale of fancy decorated envelope linings at Christmas in 1917

Hallmark

Devon "What is Hallmark?" — wagered $0
Amanda "What is 3M?" — wagered $11,000
Brayden "What is Western Union?" — wagered $12,201

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