Show #8310 2021-01-08 (taped 2020-10-27) Regular

Last game with Alex Trebek as host.Originally slated to air 2020-12-25.Episode aired with a short clip-montage tribute to Alex Trebek at the end.

Contestants

Jim Gilligan — an assistant professor of English education originally from New York, New York

Cliff Chang — a software engineering manager originally from Wilmette, Illinois

Yoshie Hill — an executive assistant from Colma, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $31,600)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Yoshie	$5,600	$6,800	$12,200	$12,200 2nd place: $2,000	$9,800 13 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Cliff	$1,600	$3,200	$-400	$-400 3rd place: $1,000	$8,400 18 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Jim	$-1,000	$2,400	$12,800	$24,401 New champion: $24,401	$12,800 18 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

ARTISTS IN EUROPE	IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS	CHRISTMAS MOVIES	WEARABLE TECH	BROOKLYN '99	"BING" POT
$200 [6] Here's this artist with a tropical vibe going on athishome in Figueres, Spain Dalí Cliff	$200 [28] Founded in Pennsylvania in 1939, this sports program revised its rules in the 1970s so girls could play too Little League Cliff	$200 [17] In 2018 Benedict Cumberbatch voiced this Seussian title guy who wasn't as into Christmas as the Whos were the Grinch Jim	$200 [30] Friendship bracelets inspired Kim Shui's designs for this rhyming brand of high-tech trackers Fitbit Cliff	$200 [18] In 1899 this gangster-to-be was born in Brooklyn's Navy Yard section; no reports of any scars on his face Capone Jim	$200 [23] It would cause Pinocchio's nose to increase in size fibbing Yoshie
$400 [4] In the 1860s, after this American artist settled in England, his mother moved in with him & sat for his most famous painting Whistler Cliff	$400 [5] Originating in Asia, it's the art of growing miniature trees, like the one seen here bonsai Yoshie	$400 [16] Alastair Sim is among those who have played this Dickensian man but unlike Michael Caine, did so without Muppets Scrooge Jim	$400 [29] Shhh...in 2014 this lingerie retailer sold a $75 sports bra with electrodes that hooked up to a heart rate monitor Victoria's Secret Jim	$400 [19] As it was shedding concrete, this alliterative structure was "Falling Down" in the subject of a 1999 article Brooklyn Bridge Cliff	$400 [24] Like what a stenographer does, making a copy of something in writing transcribing Jim
$600 [3] Here's this artist & his wife Alice enjoying some time away from Giverny in Venice's St. Mark's Square (Claude) Monet Yoshie	$600 [7] These smallest blood vessels connect arteries with veins capillaries Yoshie	$600 [12] Basically, this heartwarming Frank Capra classic is about a disgraced financier having an incredibly rough Christmas Eve It's a Wonderful Life Cliff	$600 [13] It's just a blue T to me, but the men's UA Tech 2.0 vibe print short sleeve by this sports brand somehow has "anti-odor technology" Under Armour Cliff	$600 [20] This sitting president visited Brooklyn in 1899 & cabled Admiral Dewey on the anniversary of his triumph in the Philippines McKinley Jim	$600 [25] The act of offering someone hush money bribing Jim
DD $1,000 [2] Well-established in 1639, he paid the hefty price of 13,000 guilders for a house in Amsterdam that today houses his museum Rembrandt Yoshie	$800 [8] Proverbially, they "fell great oaks" little strokes Jim	$800 [10] In this film Santa tells Buddy there are 30 Ray's Pizzas in NYC; "They all claim to be the original, but the real one's on 11th" Elf Jim	$800 [14] A 2014 BBC review called this alliterative eyewear from a search engine company "promising, sometimes brilliant... but a failure" Google Glass Cliff	$800 [21] In 1899 the Brooklyn Superbas won the National League Pennant; 100 years later, they'd have moved far away & become this team the Los Angeles Dodgers Jim	$800 [26] At the beach this word refers to a tide that is going out ebbing Cliff
$1,000 [1] While visiting van Gogh at Arles, this painter did his owntakeon "The Night Café" and Madame Ginoux all in one Gauguin Yoshie	$1,000 [9] A satoshi is the smallest unit in this currency system bitcoin Cliff	$1,000 [11] 2 memorable bits from this 1983 classic: the leg lamp & "You'll shoot your eye out!" A Christmas Story Yoshie	$1,000 [15] An experimental tattoo ink developed in Germany for diabetics changes color in response to the levels of this sugar glucose Yoshie Jim	$1,000 [22] This 1999 novel about a detective with Tourette's by Brooklyn native Jonathan Lethem was the basis of a 2019 Edward Norton film Motherless Brooklyn Jim	$1,000 [27] Raising a number to the third power cubing Yoshie

Double Jeopardy! Round

HIT SONGS OF THE 1960s	A TRIP AROUND THE LIBRARY	6-SYLLABLE WORDS	CROSS WORLD CLUES	HISTORY OF FLIGHT	DOG IS MY COPILOT
$400 [15] This girl group's "Someday We'll Be Together" was recorded without Mary Wilson or Cindy Birdsong, but Diana Ross was there The Supremes Jim	$400 [26] Over in the kids' section, we'll read this 1930 book where the title transport says, "I'm not very big" but tries to help anyway The Little Engine That Could Yoshie	$400 [4] It's the GI in GI tract gastrointestinal Cliff	$400 [13] Its arms include the Aegean & the Ionian(13, 3) the Mediterranean Sea Jim	$800 [22] In 1986 an aircraft called Voyager became the first in history to fly non-stop around the world without having to do this refuel Cliff	$800 [19] Time to see if this breed can live up to its name &drivestandard a poodle Jim
$800 [14] A South African song became "Wimoweh" before it was turned into this hit song by The Tokens in 1961 "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" Jim	$800 [20] In periodicals, we'll enjoy this literary magazine Harold Ross founded in 1925 & try our best to understand half its cartoons The New Yorker Cliff	$800 [5] This fear of open or crowded spaces comes from the Greek for a place where crowds gathered agoraphobia Cliff	$1,200 [9] It's on the western cote d'Afrique(4, 1'6) Côte d'Ivoire Cliff	$1,600 [24] While flying over Rogers Dry Lake in California in 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first human to break this the speed of sound Cliff	$1,200 [21] We know Vizslasare used to hunt water fowl & are in this American Kennel Club group, but the doggohereis really upping his fetch game Sporting Jim
$1,200 [3] I heard it through the grapevine that he had a No. 1 hit with "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" (Marvin) Gaye Cliff	$1,200 [18] An almanac in the reference section will tell us he served as British P.M. from 1937 to 1940; we'll tell you that did not go well Chamberlain Cliff	$1,200 [6] This quality is the "A" in GAO, an agency making sure Congress doesn't waste taxpayer dollars accountability Cliff	$1,600 [10] Hawaiian island associated with the sainted Father Damien(7) Molokai Yoshie	$2,000 [25] As the wind in Ohio was unsuitable for their experiments, the Wright Bros. chose the banks near this village in N.C. to make history Kitty Hawk Jim	$1,600 [28] Known as the"Gray Ghost", & known for its obedience, this breed is ready to set sail a Weimaraner Yoshie
$1,600 [2] 3 months after his death, he had the first posthumous No. 1 single in history with "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay" Otis Redding Jim	$1,600 [17] Let's hit a dictionary for a word of the day: this adjective derived from a Muse's name means relating to dancing terpsichorean Jim	$1,600 [7] Come up with this synonym of legerdemain & we'll be impressed prestidigitation	$2,000 [11] It's Spain's longest river(4) Ebro Yoshie	DD $8,800 [23] Also a type of flying marsupial, this nonpowered craft was pioneered by Otto Lilienthal & Octave Chanute a glider Cliff	$2,000 [27] Obviously it's off to the ballet for this breed here, a favorite of Russian nobility for hundreds of years Borzoi Cliff Jim
$2,000 [1] This 1969 song that mentions "joo joo eyeball" & "toe jam football" started out as a campaign song for Timothy Leary "Come Together" Cliff	$2,000 [16] In nonfiction: "The Gulag Archipelago", a harrowing account of Soviet history by this man who lived it Solzhenitsyn Jim	$2,000 [8] A break or gap, like the boundary between the earth's crust & mantle called the Mohorovicic this discontinuity	DD $3,000 [12] It is sandwiched between Queensland & Victoria(3,5,5) New South Wales Yoshie	—	—

Final Jeopardy!

WOMEN & SCIENCE

Dr. Margaret Todd gave science this word for different forms of one basic substance; it's from the Greek for "equal" & "place"

isotope

Yoshie "What is isotope?" — wagered $0

Jim "What is isotope?" — wagered $11,601

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