Show #8326 2021-02-01 (taped 2020-12-09) Regular

Zach Newkirk game 7.

Contestants

Steve Crupi — a retired police department information supervisor from Las Vegas, Nevada

Allie Sibole — a biomedical engineer from Fort Collins, Colorado

Zach Newkirk — an attorney from Alexandria, Virginia (whose 6-day cash winnings total $124,871)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Zach $1,600 $6,400 $9,700 $7,399
2nd place: $2,000
$13,200
18 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Allie $2,800 $4,800 $3,400 $3,400
3rd place: $1,000
$8,400
17 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Steve $2,000 $3,600 $6,000 $10,000
New champion: $10,000
$6,200
12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

A CATEGORY OF 2 CITIES VIDEO GAMES THE 20th CENTURY NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL CARPET "D_M"
$200 [1]
They're sister cities, but you can't see Magadan in this country from your house in Anchorage
Russia
Zach
$200 [6]
The Chargers' Keenan Allen did not like his attributes in this coach's "NFL 20": "My strength is 69 like I'm a little boy"
Madden
Allie
$200 [7]
In the U.S., prohibition led to bootlegging & this type of illegal bar with a name that evokes quiet conversation
a speakeasy
Allie
$200 [16]
There's quite ascenein New York Harbor as a reproduction of this Pilgrim ship arrives after a voyage across the Atlantic
the Mayflower
Allie
$200 [23]
Carpet is a version of this card game whose name implies that it is played by one person
Solitaire
Steve
$200 [12]
It followed "Pets" in a company that went public in 2000; unfortunately, it also preceded "crash"
dot com
Zach
$400 [2]
East of Topeka, I-70runs across a state line through two contiguouscities with this name
Kansas City
Steve
$400 [22]
Hey, trainers! Take on gym leaders of the Galar region for your next big battle in this series that offers "Sword" & "Shield"
Pokémon
$400 [8]
Argentina cried for her when she passed away in 1952 at age 33
Eva Perón
Allie
$400 [18]
The American Fallsare the second largest of the three that make up this natural wonder located in America's oldest state park
Niagara Falls
Steve
$400 [24]
Princess Leia callously refers to him as a "big walking carpet"
Chewbacca
Zach
$400 [13]
The sound of hiccups is caused by spasms of this dome-shaped muscle
the diaphragm
Allie
DD $400 [3]
It's about 800 miles from South Africa's executive capital of Pretoriato this legislative capital on the southwest coast
Cape Town
Steve
$600 [28]
Battle Royale & Plunder are game modes in this series' "Warzone"
Call of Duty
Zach
$600 [9]
On May 31, 1921 a white mob began attacking what was called "Black Wall Street" in this Oklahoma city
Tulsa
Allie
$600 [19]
Workers had to climb 700 stairs to the top & then be lowered by cables to work on this massive monument
Mount Rushmore
Zach
$600 [25]
This traveling item gave its name to Yankees heading south during Reconstruction
carpetbaggers
Zach
$600 [14]
To the Aussies, a game that's been played honestly is "fair" this 6-letter slang word
dinkum
Steve
$800 [4]
These 2 national capitals lie little more than 100 miles apart across the 38th parallel
Pyongyang & Seoul
Zach
$800 [29]
Slaughtering demons in outer space was the goal when this "fateful" 1st-person shooter came out in 1993; by 2020, it was "Eternal"
Doom
Zach
$800 [10]
In 1949 Belgium was a founding member of this military organization that is headquartered in Brussels today
NATO
Zach
$800 [20]
An estimated 11,000elkshare their winter habitat with a group of bison at the National Elk Refuge near Jackson in this state
Wyoming
Allie
$800 [26]
Duran Duran sang of a "Massacre" on this kind of carpet, noting the "deathstalk paparazzi"
the red carpet
Zach
$800 [15]
It's a synonym for propriety
decorum
Steve
$1,000 [5]
In 1872 these 2 cities on opposite sides of the Danube joined hands & names
Buda & Pest
Steve
$1,000 [30]
In 2020 it was time to find some "New Horizons" & build your own island paradise with this Nintendo Switch game
Animal Crossing
$1,000 [11]
This major Vietnam offensive began January 31, 1968 during the Vietnamese lunar new year
the Tet Offensive
Allie
$1,000 [21]
Fittingly, Cueva Ventanain Puerto Rico, with a spectacular view of the valley below, literally means "cave" this
window
Zach
$1,000 [27]
Historian Hugh Thomas used this term in describing devastating German aerial attacks on enemy trenches in the 1930s
carpet bombing
Steve
$1,000 [17]
It's a little crown worn as a sign of authority
a diadem
Allie

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 1971 EMMY AWARDS FAMOUS AMERICANS ARCHAEOLOGY THAT TITLE HAS A TITLE MIXED BAG IT'S FROM THE GREEK FOR...
$400 [1]
For Outstanding Children's Programming, this PBS show won; it's still on the air today
Sesame Street
Steve
$400 [5]
This former slave & orator wrote, "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man"
Frederick Douglass
Zach
$400 [20]
Akrotiri, on the island of Santorini, is known as the Greek Pompeii, because it was also destroyed by this type of event
a volcano
Allie
$400 [3]
In this novel an inmate named Abbe Faria helps Edmond Dantes plot his escape from prison
The Count of Monte Cristo
Allie
$400 [18]
Perhaps to ward off vampires or other evil spirits, bulbs of this have been found in the tombs of ancient Egyptians
garlic
Steve
$400 [13]
"Written with one's own hand"
autograph
Zach Steve
$800 [2]
This sitcom won big, for Best New Show, for Best Comedy Series & for Jean Stapleton as Edith Bunker
All in the Family
Allie
$800 [6]
As a kid, thisG-man was nicknamed Speed; as an adult, The Director
Hoover
Steve
$800 [21]
The Bruker Tracer 5 helps archaeologists with soil analysis: iron means the former presence of this, as at an altar or slaughterhouse
blood
Allie
$800 [4]
In this drama by Sophocles, the Oracle of Delphi has bad news for the person who murdered Jocasta's first husband
Oedipus Rex
Zach
$800 [19]
With some living more than 150 years, these slow-movers have the longest lifespan among reptiles
giant tortoises
Zach
$800 [14]
"Of one color"
monochromatic
Allie
$1,200 [28]
This host of the "Tonight Show" emceed the awards at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles
Johnny Carson
Zach
$1,200 [7]
Marian Wright Edelman, the first Black woman admitted to the Mississippi bar, also founded the CDF, short for this
the Children's Defense Fund
Zach
$1,200 [22]
Found in 1982, a ship that sank off Turkey c. 1300 B.C. carried 1 ton of tin & 10 tons of copper, the perfect mixture to make this alloy
bronze
Zach
$1,200 [10]
Siddhartha Mukherjee wrote a biography of cancer called this "of All Maladies"
The Emperor
Allie
$1,200 [25]
First hitting the streets in 2010, this company completed its 10 billionth ride in 2018
Uber
Zach
$1,200 [15]
"Having the same name"
homonym
Allie Steve
$1,600 [29]
Jack Klugman won for Lead Actor in a Comedy series for his role as this half of "The Odd Couple"
Oscar Madison
Steve
$2,000 [9]
Her friendship with Robert Baden-Powell inspired her to establish the Girl Scouts
Juliette Low
Allie
$1,600 [23]
Aninstrument, named for this larger bone of the lower leg, has been reconstructed & as in the ancientartwork, it still bulges your cheeks
the tibia
Zach
$1,600 [11]
This story by Hans Christian Andersen served as an inspiration for the movie "Frozen"
The Snow Queen
Allie
$1,600 [26]
A newstampin 2020 celebrated the 100th anniversary of the ratification of this number amendment
the 19th Amendment
Allie
$1,600 [16]
"Mother city"
a metropolis
Allie
$2,000 [30]
For playing Rhoda Morgenstern, Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series went to her
Valerie Harper
DD $3,500 [8]
His work on game theory earned him the 1994 Nobel Prize, which he shared with John C. Harsanyi & Reinhard Selten
John Nash
Zach
$2,000 [24]
Stone tools from Gabon have been dated to 850,000 years ago, the earliest evidence of humans in this African river basin
the Congo River
Zach
DD $5,000 [12]
James Clavell set "Tai-Pan" in China; this 1975 novel of his is set in Japan in 1600
Shogun
Allie
$2,000 [27]
Queen Maud Land in Antarctica is a dependency of this country where Maud was queen consort
Norway
$2,000 [17]
In mythology, "round-eyed"
a Cyclops

Final Jeopardy!

SCIENCE WORDS

This word used to denote an irreversible dispersion of energy was coined in the 1860s to sound a bit like "energy"

entropy

Allie "What is entropy?" — wagered $0
Steve "What is entropy?" — wagered $4,000
Zach "What is synergy?" — wagered $2,301

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