Show #8355 2021-03-12 (taped 2021-01-19) Regular

Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to Pancreatic Cancer Dream Team from Stand Up to Cancer.

Contestants

Keith Bednarczuk — a letter carrier from Columbus, Ohio

Michalle Gould — a librarian originally from Austin, Texas

Dave Pai — a field application scientist originally from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dave $1,200 $2,000 $4,400 $4,400
2-day champion: $32,700
$4,400
12 R, 2 W
Michalle $1,200 $3,600 $16,800 $100
2nd place: $2,000
$18,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Keith $3,882 $6,482 $16,082 $2
3rd place: $1,000
$15,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

6-LETTER COUNTRIES OF POP CULTURE MICE & MEN BUSINESS ABBREV. THAT'S MY SECRET CAPTAIN I'M ALWAYS ANGRY
$200 [13]
It occupies about half the land mass of the South American continent
Brazil
Michalle
$200 [14]
In 1934 this icon made his debut as a giant balloon in what was then called Macy's Santa Claus Parade
Mickey Mouse
Keith
$200 [24]
On paper, Larry Page was worth almost $4 billion with Google's 2004 IPO, this offering
an initial public offering
Dave
$200 [17]
The executive chef of this chain made its secret-for-decades "special sauce" on YouTube in 2012; mayo was involved
McDonald's
Dave
$200 [8]
To his horror & shame, on May 7, 1915 the captain of this liner was saved & did not go down with the ship after a U-boat sank it
the Lusitania
Keith
$200 [2]
If you're this "as a hatter", you're said to be insane
mad
Dave
$400 [3]
Martinique is one of its overseas departments
France
Dave
$400 [18]
This "Simpsons" duo starred in "Candle in the Wound" & "It's a Wonderful Knife"
Itchy & Scratchy
Keith
$400 [1]
Obligations to vendors or creditors are these, A.P.
accounts payable
Keith
$400 [7]
In 1942 Gen. Leslie Groves was put in charge of this super-secret "Project" that would forever change the world 3 years later
the Manhattan Project
Keith
$600 [10]
It's not Tom Hanks, it's this Maersk, Alabama captain seen with the lifeboat he was ultimately rescued from
Captain Phillips
Keith
$400 [22]
We're coming at you "fast &" this, which can mean angry or at unrestrained speed
furious
Dave
$600 [4]
The Isthmus of Corinth connects the Peloponnese with the mainland of this country
Greece
Dave
$600 [25]
Geena Davis & Hugh Laurie were the adoptive parents of a mouse-like kid in this 1999 film
Stuart Little
Michalle
$600 [15]
The C.T.O. is this officer who might deal with data & cloud storage
the chief technical officer (chief technology officer)
Keith
$600 [19]
The motto of the British circle of these performers is "Indocilis Privata Loqui" ("not apt to disclose secrets")
magicians
DD $682 [9]
Captain Joseph Hazelwood was in charge on March 24, 1989 when this oil tanker hit Bligh Reef, off Alaska's coast
the Exxon Valdez
Keith
$600 [23]
It can describe an acrid taste or an acrimonious feeling
bitter
Keith
$800 [5]
King Abdullah II is the head of state of this country that borders Israel
Jordan
Michalle
$800 [26]
Singing "Here I come to save the day!" means this superhero cartoon rodent "is on the way"
Mighty Mouse
Keith
$800 [16]
Running a website? You'll want to count U.V., these individuals
unique visitors
Keith
$800 [20]
In 2013 Barack Obama became the first president to mention this secretive place in Nevada by name
Area 51
Keith
$800 [11]
It's yo ho ho & a bottle of rum for this Welsh buccaneer who ransacked Portobelo on the Isthmus of Panama in 1668
Captain Morgan
Michalle
$800 [28]
In song Monty Python said "God gets quite" this angry word, rhyming it with "great"
irate
Michalle
$1,000 [6]
As seenhereit borders another 6-letter country, Zambia
Angola
Dave
$1,000 [27]
Corporate citizenship is also known as corporate this, CSR for short
corporate social responsibility
$1,000 [21]
This secret society at Yale was formed in 1832, possibly after a dispute with Phi Beta Kappa
Skull and Bones
Michalle
$1,000 [12]
In 1518 Rui Faleiro & this Portuguese explorer were joint captains looking for an all-Spanish route to the Moluccas
Magellan
Dave Michalle
$1,000 [29]
This 6-letter word for "to irritate" is properly intransitive: "The insults ____", not "The insults ____ me"
rankle

Double Jeopardy! Round

ALLITERATIVE LIT LABORATORIES GRANT WOOD'S AMERICANA OVERCOMING OBSTACLES IN MY RECORD COLLECTION BEFORE & AFTER
$400 [3]
It's the alliterative volume in "The Lord of the Rings"
The Two Towers
Dave
$400 [14]
Carl Sagan was director of the laboratory for planetary studies at this Ithaca, New York university
Cornell
Keith
$400 [12]
In Wood's depiction of Longfellow's "Midnight Ride of" this man, he is a tiny figure on horseback
Paul Revere
Dave
$400 [15]
Joe Biden used to read poetry for hours in front of a mirror to help overcome this speech disorder
a stutter
Michalle
$400 [19]
This group's "The Dark Side of the Moon"
Pink Floyd
Michalle
$400 [7]
Simple wooden furniture for lunch in a park that outlines what's contained in a book
a picnic table of contents
Dave
$800 [4]
First name of C.S. Forester's creation Captain Hornblower of the Royal Navy
Horatio
Keith
$800 [13]
Located near Chicago, a national physics lab bears the name of this Italian who helped develop the atom bomb
Fermi
Keith
$800 [8]
Grant Wood won a $300 prize for this painting that mixes northern renaissance style with Iowa pitchforks
American Gothic
Keith
$800 [22]
This Swedish teen activist says of her Asperger's, "I'm sometimes a bit different... and... being different is a superpower"
(Greta) Thunberg
Michalle
$800 [20]
This Beatles album, on whose cover John is wearing white & Paul is barefoot
Abbey Road
Michalle
$800 [1]
The "IT" in finance's REIT tips over backward, believing that it'll be caught
investment trust fall
$1,200 [5]
He was known as a writer of political pamphlets before he hit it big with the 1719 tale of a castaway
Daniel Defoe
Michalle
$1,200 [28]
Since 1997 multiple Mars rovers have been operated from this Caltech lab
JPL (the Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Dave
$1,200 [16]
A painting commissioned for the John Ford film "The Long Voyage Home" depicts its actors, including him, aka "Duke"
John Wayne
Michalle
$1,600 [26]
Legally deaf, this Oscar-winning actress was instrumental in getting closed captioning on TV & streaming
(Marlee) Matlin
Michalle
$1,200 [21]
"The Best of" this singer-songwriter, including his classic "American Pie"
Don McLean
Keith
$1,200 [2]
We'll see "The Friendly Confines" & lots of ivy on this group school outing in Chicago
Wrigley Field trip
Michalle
$1,600 [6]
In "The Raven", "while I nodded, nearly ____, suddenly there came a tapping"
napping
Keith
$1,600 [29]
This European research facility operates the largest particle accelerator in the world
CERN
Dave
DD $2,000 [17]
Wood painted West Branch, Iowa in a work titled "The Birthplace of" this president
Herbert Hoover
Michalle
DD $2,000 [25]
Diagnosed with ALS in the '60s & given a few years to live, he lived another 50+ to become one of the greatest scientific minds of all time
Hawking
Michalle
$1,600 [23]
This jazz trumpeter's "Birth of the Cool"
Miles Davis
Dave Michalle
$1,600 [9]
It's "your old" home turf where you really put your foot down about having that hamburger meat
stomping ground beef
$2,000 [11]
Dickens debuted with this serial about a club & its eccentric members
The Pickwick Papers
Michalle
$2,000 [30]
It's the stinky name for Lockheed Martin's advanced aeronautics lab that developed aircraft like the SR-71 Blackbird
the Skunk Works
Keith
$2,000 [18]
Woodillustratesthe story of Washington cutting down the cherry tree; pulling back the curtain is this parsonwho wrote the tale
Mason Weems
$2,000 [27]
Born without a right hand, he pitched with his left, playing 10 seasons for 4 different MLB teams
Jim Abbott
$2,000 [24]
Her French song "La Vie En Rose", on an old 78
Edith Piaf
Michalle
$2,000 [10]
Free 2-day shipping for $12.99 a month from Aristotle's entity that causes all motion
Amazon Prime Mover
Keith

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC PLACES

8 presidents have visited this battle site with an Algonquian name about 50 miles from Washington; for McKinley, it was a return visit

Antietam

Dave "What isAppo" — wagered $0
Keith "What is Monmouth" — wagered $16,080
Michalle "What is Gettysburg" — wagered $16,700

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