Show #8315 2021-01-15 (taped 2020-11-30) Regular

Last game with CBS Television Distribution banner.

Contestants

Gautham Nagesh — a journalist originally from Jackson, Michigan

Jennifer Linde — an associate professor from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Lucy Ricketts — an illustrator originally from Atlanta, Georgia (whose 3-day cash winnings total $79,499)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lucy $800 $6,600 $18,200 $11,598
2nd place: $2,000
$20,800
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Jennifer $3,200 $5,200 $12,400 $24,800
New champion: $24,800
$12,400
16 R, 0 W
Gautham $1,600 $2,400 $1,201 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$4,400
14 R, 7 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

IT'S A LONG STORY TAKE NOTE 3-LETTER "D" WORDS THE NAME IS THE TV TITLE FORTIFY YOURSELF ALL KINDS OF WINE
$200 [11]
In this trilogy Frodo Baggins forms a fellowship with 3 other hobbits, an elf, a dwarf, a wizard & 2 men
Lord of the Rings
Gautham
$200 [20]
From this actress to Andy Warhol: "I'm so proud I finally have your 'Liz' and thank you for signing it so sweetly to me"
Liz Taylor
Gautham
$200 [6]
A bear abode
a den
Gautham
$200 [1]
An insecure psychiatrist moves back to Seattle & lives with his dad
Frasier
Jennifer
$200 [25]
Taking no chances, Pharaoh Nectanebo I fortified all 7 mouths of this river, around 380 B.C.
the Nile
Jennifer
$200 [26]
Though made in a manner closer to brewing, this Japanese drink is known as rice wine
sake
Lucy
$400 [12]
You will definitely lose some time delving into his 7-volume "A la recherche du temps perdu"
Proust
Jennifer
$400 [19]
"Thank You Notes" is a segment on his late night talk show & also the title of 2 books he's written
Jimmy Fallon
Lucy
$400 [7]
Turn down the lights
dim
Gautham
$400 [2]
Billionaire playboy Oliver Queen leads a double life as a hooded vigilante
Arrow
Jennifer
$400 [24]
Fort Bourtange in the Netherlands is this celestial type; an attacker who gets close to one wall is exposed to fire from another
a star fort
Gautham
$400 [27]
Perhaps Don Ho meant Hula o Maui, a sparkling wine made of this fruit, when singing of "tiny bubbles in the wine"
pineapple
Jennifer
$600 [13]
You get more than 200 chapters of Gothic horror with the alliteratively titled "Varney" this creature
a vampire
Gautham
$600 [18]
In a 1780sletterto his friend George Whatley, he described his invention of bifocals & even included adiagram
Benjamin Franklin
Lucy
$600 [8]
A failure, like a movie at the box office or a shell that doesn't explode
a dud
Jennifer
$600 [3]
A redheaded country superstar plays a single mom of 3
Reba
Jennifer
$800 [22]
Built with siege amenities like a 500-foot-deep well, the Königstein Fortress is aka the Saxon this, after a Paris prison
Bastille
Lucy
$600 [28]
Blackberry wine from this "#1 Kosher Wine Brand in America" is kosher for Passover
Manischewitz
Jennifer
$800 [14]
Dmitry is arrested & convicted for his dad's murder in this Dostoyevsky novel, but Smerdyakov actually committed the crime
The Brothers Karamazov
Lucy Gautham
$800 [17]
This artist to her husband: "Diego, my love, remember that once you finish the fresco we will be together forever"
Frida Kahlo
Lucy
$800 [9]
A turned-up noise
din
Gautham
$800 [4]
It's not set in fairy tale Germany but in Portland & the lead character is Burkhardt
Grimm
Gautham
$1,000 [21]
In the 1070s this monarch who'd been in power only a short while ordered the building of the Tower of London
William the Conqueror
Gautham
$800 [29]
This title elixir is poured in Ray Bradbury's semi-autobiographical tale of a small-town summer in 1928
Dandelion Wine
Jennifer
$1,000 [15]
His aptly named "Infinite Jest" has drawn comparisons to the works of Thomas Pynchon & Don DeLillo
David Foster Wallace
Gautham
$1,000 [16]
Hours before her death in 1587, this queen wrote, "I am to be executed like a criminal at eight in the morning"
Mary, Queen of Scots
Lucy
$1,000 [10]
A cutting or insulting remark
a dig
Jennifer
$1,000 [5]
American football coach Jason Sudeikis manages a London soccer team
Ted Lasso
DD $2,000 [23]
In 1835 Mexican General Martin Perfecto de Cos fortified this mission in San Antonio, but soon had to surrender it
the Alamo
Lucy
$1,000 [30]
In "Arsenic and Old Lace", the old ladies put poison in wine made from these berries
elderberries

Double Jeopardy! Round

BYGONE ABBREV. U.S. CITIES ALONG FOR THE RIDE VOCABULARY HODGEPODGE ENTERTAINING BROTHERS
$400 [6]
In 1991 the world said do svidaniya to this union of 15 republics
the USSR
Lucy
$400 [5]
Near Lake Tahoe, this city named for a Civil War general became a gambling mecca after legalization widened in 1931
Reno
Gautham
$400 [11]
Time spent with Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle, helped this onboard naturalist evolve his views
Darwin
Jennifer
$400 [30]
This word with "moral" in the middle can mean to corrupt as well as to discourage & is the only word Noah Webster coined
demoralize
Lucy
$400 [21]
He was the governor of California from 2003 to 2011
Schwarzenegger
Gautham
$400 [20]
These brothers starred in the classic film "A Night at the Opera"
the Marx Brothers
Lucy
$800 [7]
With the late-'80s addition of "hyperactivity" to a disorder name, this 3-letter abbreviation fell out of favor
ADD
Jennifer
$800 [4]
During Vaudeville the question was often asked of new acts, "Will it play in" this Illinois city?
Peoria
Lucy Gautham
$800 [12]
In 1986, Ralph Hollis & Dudley Foster joined Robert Ballard aboard the submersible Alvin to explore this wreck
the Titanic
Lucy
$800 [29]
Of the highest importance, or a movie studio founded in 1912
Paramount
Jennifer
$800 [25]
In Europe moose are known as these, our word for a different big North American deer
elk
Lucy Gautham
$800 [16]
This band's jam-oriented southern rock sound produced tunes like "Ramblin' Man" & "Whipping Post"
The Allman Brothers
Lucy
$1,200 [8]
The New York Nets, the Virginia Squires & some guy named Dr. J played in this league that merged with its rival in 1976
the ABA
Lucy
$1,200 [3]
With thousands collected every year, each March Sweetwater, Texas hosts a roundup of these reptiles
rattlesnakes
$1,200 [13]
Michael Collins was in the command module Columbia while Armstrong & Aldrin made it to the moon on this "avian" craft
the Eagle
Lucy
$1,200 [28]
Norwegian gave us this word for a ski race with plenty of zigs & zags
slalom
Gautham
$1,200 [24]
From 2007 to 2019 Kunal Nayyar played Raj Koothrappali on this sitcom
The Big Bang Theory
Lucy Gautham
$1,200 [17]
Last name ofactors Gustaf, Bill & Alexander, sons of another well-known actor
Skarsgård
Gautham
$1,600 [9]
This New Deal program changed its middle letter from "Progress" to "Projects" in 1939 but was still out of business by 1943
the WPA
Jennifer
$1,600 [2]
This former mining town founded in 1859 is home to the Colorado Railroad Museum & a famous brewery
Golden
Lucy
$2,000 [15]
A "rear column" of depraved upper-class twits tagged along with Henry Stanley to explore this river's basin in 1887
the Congo
Lucy
$2,000 [26]
An 18th c. group of lovers of everything from archaeology to opera introduced this word for one who flits from one interest to another
a dilettante
Gautham
$1,600 [23]
Aphrodite gave this goddess a magic girdle that made her husband Zeus forget his worries about the Trojan War
Hera
Lucy
$1,600 [19]
Singers Bill Medley & Bobby Hatfield called their duo this after the reaction they got from African-American audiences
The Righteous Brothers
Jennifer
$2,000 [10]
"Wild Bill" Donovan headed this 1940s U.S. intelligence service
the OSS
Lucy
$2,000 [1]
About midway between L.A. & San Francisco, Fresno was founded by this railroad co.; Leland Stanford was said to have picked the site
the Central Pacific
Gautham
DD $4,000 [14]
This cartographer set out to explore the Mississippi in birchbark canoes with Jacques Marquette in 1673
Louis Jolliet
Lucy
DD $3,199 [27]
The Cambridge Dictionary insists, "We imply something by what we say. We" do this "from what somebody else says"
infer
Gautham
$2,000 [22]
Until 1957 this metal, symbol Be, was known as glucinium
beryllium
Jennifer
$2,000 [18]
Around 1895 these brothers devised an early motion picture camera & projector they called the Cinematographe
the Lumière brothers
Lucy

Final Jeopardy!

QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Of the last 12 sitting U.S. presidents, the only one Elizabeth never met; she had her youngest child 3 months into his presidency

Lyndon Johnson

Gautham "Who is JFK?" — wagered $1,200
Jennifer "Who is Lyndon Johnson" — wagered $12,400
Lucy "Who is John F. KENNEDY" — wagered $6,602

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