Show #8359 2021-03-18 (taped 2021-01-20) Regular

Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to Pancreatic Cancer Dream Team from Stand Up to Cancer.Sting plays his own rendition of "Think!" (with "here I am onJeopardy!" lyrics) to close the show.

Contestants

Garron Telep — a stay-at-home dad from San Diego, California

Matt Walks — a digital journalist originally from Billings, Montana

Morgan Briles — a librarian from Nacogdoches, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Morgan $4,600 $5,000 $15,400 $16,400
2-day champion: $37,200
$14,800
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Matt $400 $2,600 $16,200 $1,599
2nd place: $2,000
$13,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Garron $2,200 $1,400 $10,800 $50
3rd place: $1,000
$9,800
10 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

PEOPLE IN HISTORY COMPLETE THE AD SLOGAN UNITS OF MEASURE MEDICAL IDIOMS CIA WORLD FACTBOOKNO. 1s STING
$200 [1]
Hernando Cortes took this Aztec emperor prisoner around 1519
Montezuma II
Morgan
$200 [21]
Loreal:Because you're____ it
worth
Morgan
$200 [28]
All things being about equal, if you've run a 5k, you've gone about 16,400 of these (& they might be hurting, too!)
feet
Morgan
$200 [8]
Whether Gala or Honeycrisp, one of these "a day keeps the doctor away"
an apple
Matt
$200 [18]
In 2019 consumer prices in Burkina Faso fell by 3.2%, giving it the lowest rate of this
inflation
Garron
$200 [9]
(Sting presents the clue.) In 2019, the music rights organization BMI honored this song I wrote for the most radio plays in its 14 million song catalog; remember, "I'll be watching you"
"Every Breath You Take"
Matt
$600 [3]
He founded Tuskegee University in 1881 & in 1940 was the first African American on a U.S. postage stamp
Booker T. Washington
Morgan
$400 [6]
Ajax:Stronger than____
dirt
$400 [20]
Used to measure horses, this unit of 4 inches was established by a statute of Henry VIII
hands
Morgan
$400 [11]
If you've got a lot of bruising, you're said to be these 2 colors, also a way to cook your steak
black & blue
Morgan
$400 [5]
Niger leads the world with 47.5 of these happy events per 1,000 people
births
Morgan
$400 [10]
(Sting presents the clue.) My friend & colleague Shaggy & Ishared the 2019 Best Reggae Album Grammy for "44/876"; the title came from our home country's dialing codes, 44 for mine, England, & 876 for this homeland of his
Jamaica
Morgan
$800 [4]
She spent 2 years in exile in London before returning to Pakistan & winning a historic election
Bhutto
Garron
$600 [22]
Sony:Make. ____
Believe
$600 [19]
The CDC says shouting in your ear registers at 110 of these & may cause hearing loss in less than 2 minutes
decibels
Morgan
$600 [12]
If you're "fit as" one of these instruments, you're doing great
a fiddle
Morgan
$600 [15]
Indonesia's nearly 10,000 ships is tops for the commercial sector alliteratively called this
the merchant marine
Garron
$600 [24]
(Sting presents the clue.) My new album "Duets" features collaborations with Eric Clapton, Herbie Hancock &this woman whose "What's the 411?" pioneered the fusion of soul music & hip-hop
Mary J. Blige
Matt
DD $1,000 [2]
The town of Falaise in Normandy is home to a statue of this manwho was born there around 1028
William the Conqueror
Morgan
$800 [23]
Volkswagen, in the '60s:Think ____
small
Matt
$800 [13]
Known to happen with fires & crafty inmates, you don't want to have it happen with your hives
breakout
Garron
$800 [16]
Oman spends nearly 9% of its GDP on its military, the SAF, or this man's Armed Forces
the Sultan
$800 [25]
(Sting presents the clue.) In the musical "The Last Ship", Iplayed the foreman of a northern English shipyard that shuts down in 1986, as a consequence of the anti-labor policies of this British prime minister
Thatcher
Matt
$1,000 [7]
A chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota, he fled with his people to Canada in 1877 rather than surrender to the U.S. government
Sitting Bull
Morgan
$1,000 [27]
Smith Barney:They make moneythe ____-____ way
old-fashioned
$1,000 [14]
Your illness has returned? It's one of these that you also might see coming from a sinking ship
flare-up
$1,000 [17]
China is the top consumer of electricity, in 2016 using more than 5 trillion of these units
kilowatt hours
Morgan Matt Garron
$1,000 [26]
(Sting presents the clue.) Swiss psychologist Carl Jung coined this word to describe apparently unconnected events that coincide in time; in 1983, it gave The Police the title for our final studio album
synchronicity
Matt

Double Jeopardy! Round

AUTHORS WHO SERVED IN THE MILITARY ACTS OF CONGRESS "AD" TO YOUR LATIN GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS
$400 [1]
This creator of Don Quixote fought at the 1571 Battle of Lepanto, receiving a wound that maimed his left hand for life
Cervantes
Morgan
$400 [10]
An 1849 act authorized the minting of double eagles, $20 coins made of this
gold
Morgan Matt
$400 [17]
Meaning to improvise, it comes from Latin meaning "at one's pleasure"
ad-lib
Matt
$400 [11]
In 1836 Charles Green set a record by traveling 480 miles via this conveyance from London to Germany in under 18 hours
a hot air balloon
Matt
$400 [26]
The highest peak in the Rocky Mountains is 14,400-foot Mount Elbert in this state
Colorado
Matt
$400 [12]
This world-conquering musical act's name is short for Korean words that mean "bulletproof Boy Scouts"
BTS
Matt
$800 [2]
C.S. Lewis fought in this war, arriving at the front lines in the Somme Valley on his 19th birthday
World War I
Matt
$800 [6]
Under the 1907 Expatriation Act, American women who married foreigners were stripped of this; the 1922 Cable Act gave it back
citizenship
Matt Garron
$800 [18]
It describes a committee quickly put together for a specific purpose
ad hoc
Morgan
$800 [22]
"Let's Stay Together" & enjoy the romantic & religious songs of this great vocalist
Al Green
Morgan
$800 [27]
According to legend, the ancient philosopher Empedocles leapt into this Sicilian volcano to prove he was a god
Etna
Morgan Matt
$800 [13]
This actress won an Oscar for her performance as Brandon Teena in the 1999 film "Boys Don't Cry"
Swank
Morgan
$1,200 [3]
This reclusive author of "Franny and Zooey" hit Utah Beach with the U.S. Army
Salinger
Morgan
$1,600 [8]
An 1856 act allowed Americans to take possession of unoccupied islands with deposits of this, bird droppings valued as fertilizer
guano
Garron
$1,200 [19]
The title of this 2019 Brad Pitt space movie translates as "to the stars"
Ad Astra
Matt
$1,200 [23]
In 1864 at Caledonia, New York, Seth Green built the USA's first of these places for fish to be born
hatcheries
Matt
$1,200 [28]
This "sweet" mountain in Maine's Carrabassett Valley is one of New England's premier ski resorts
Sugarloaf
Matt
$1,200 [14]
Frank & Joe are these fictional brothers who've solved mysteries like "The Secret of the Old Mill"
The Hardy Boys
Garron
$1,600 [4]
This 18th century historian served as a captain in the Hampshire militia & wrote "The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire"
Gibbon
Morgan
$2,000 [9]
The Alien & this acts were passed in 1798 by a Congress worried about war with France
Sedition
Morgan
$2,000 [21]
This tax term means "in proportion to value"
ad valorem
$1,600 [24]
With his partner Betty Comden, Adolph Green wrote the screenplay for this Gene Kelly musical about the silent film era
Singin' in the Rain
Morgan
$1,600 [29]
This 1,500-mile-long mountain range stretches along Africa's Maghrib, the western arm of the Arab world
the Atlas
Garron
$1,600 [15]
The son of actors Dennis & Meg, hebattles abusive superheroes on TV's "The Boys"
Jack Quaid
Morgan
$2,000 [5]
Ian Fleming served in British naval intelligence after an undistinguished stint in this U.K. military academy
Sandhurst
Garron
DD $2,200 [7]
An 1872 act established a park in the territories of Montana & Wyoming "near the headwaters of" this river
the Yellowstone
Garron
DD $4,000 [20]
This type of attack goes after the speaker rather than the idea
ad hominem
Matt
$2,000 [25]
Cecil Howard Green helped transform a Dallas geophysics company into the electronics giant now known by this name
Texas Instruments
Matt
$2,000 [30]
The area around this peak, the highest summit outside of Asia, was the site of Incan ritual sacrifices 500 years ago
Mount Aconcagua
$2,000 [16]
The Soggy Bottom Boys was a fictional band formed by the chain gang escapees in this film
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Matt

Final Jeopardy!

BROADWAY ROLES

Of the more than 15 actors to play the lead in this musical, Howard McGillin holds the record with over 2,500 performances

The Phantom of the Opera

Garron "What is Oklahoma." — wagered $10,750
Morgan "What is Phantom of the Opera?" — wagered $1,000
Matt "What is The Music Man?" — wagered $14,601

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