Show #8384 2021-04-22 (taped 2021-02-23) Regular

Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to Hospital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti.

Contestants

Kelly Donohue — a bank examiner from Winthrop, Massachusetts

Monica St. Dennis — a librarian from Alexandria, Virginia

Mike Nelson — an actor originally from Chesterton, Indiana (whose 3-day cash winnings total $55,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mike $1,600 $4,800 $9,900 $13,401
3rd place: $1,000
$13,400
19 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs)
Monica $1,600 $3,800 $13,400 $26,400
2nd place: $2,000
$13,400
14 R, 0 W
Kelly $2,600 $3,800 $18,000 $26,801
New champion: $26,801
$13,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

ISLANDS IN THE GROUP TRIBUTE BANDS FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES WHAT'S FOR LUNCH? 5 FIRST DATES SECRETS OF THE WHALES
$200 [9]
Jersey & Guernsey are in this group named for its location between England & France
the Channel Islands
Monica
$200 [19]
Nudist Priest: Truly naked to the world
Judas Priest
Kelly
$200 [8]
The keffiyeh is worn by Arabs on this body part; it's believed the red-&-white check ones began as a Marxist symbol
the head
Mike
$200 [4]
Bisque de homard, creamy French bisque made with these crustaceans of the spiny variety
a lobster
Kelly
$200 [21]
John Krasinski took this actress to a shooting range
Emily Blunt
Kelly
$200 [26]
After a long trip from warmer climes, mom shows baby how to score some krill, expertly employing bubble nets off this continent's coast
Antarctica
Monica
$400 [10]
Rabbit Island & Sea Lion Island are in this disputed South American group
the Falklands
Kelly
$400 [15]
Joy Revision
Joy Division
Monica
$400 [16]
A song of farewell to Italy's capital is titled this word, "Roma"
Arrivederci
Mike Monica
$400 [5]
Steak tartare, meaning served this way, presented with an egg yolk on top
raw
Kelly
$400 [22]
A prince & an actress, they met on a 2016 blind date, set up by Violet von Westenholz, daughter of a baron
Prince Harry & Meghan Markle
Kelly
$400 [27]
Australia's humpback highway has whales splashing their position to attract mates; breaching is perhaps part of this procreative ritual
courting
Kelly
$600 [11]
You can horse or pony around on scenic Fetlarin this Scottish group
the Shetlands
Mike
$600 [14]
The Fillers: You know you gotta help me out
The Killers
Mike
$600 [17]
This Turkish word is a synonym for destiny or fate
kismet
Monica
$600 [6]
This Spanish-named dish named for its two main ingredients
arroz con pollo
Mike
$600 [23]
The movie "Southside with You" chronicles the 1989 first date of this later to be famous couple
Barack & Michelle Obama
Mike
$600 [28]
Belugas get a spa day at a secret site off Canada's coast; traveling far to use rocks there & do this, shed the surface of old skin
molt
Mike
$800 [12]
Grand this, Little this & this Brac make up a Caribbean island group
Cayman
Mike
$800 [2]
Still Collins: Doing tunes by the man as a solo act & also his band, & we need both, please
Phil Collins & Genesis
Kelly
$800 [18]
Ballet & French give us this phrase that means "step of two"
pas de deux
Mike
$800 [7]
For a lighter lunch, try the Thai salad som tam, which makes good use of this oval, melon-like tropical fruit
papaya
Kelly
$800 [24]
This kung fu legend flipped future wife Linda over his shoulder onto the ground, then asked, "Want to go to the Space Needle?"
Bruce Lee
Mike
$800 [29]
These whales in New Zealand know a trick for hunting rays, flipping them upside down, puts them to sleep, then its family meal time
the orcas
Mike
DD $1,000 [13]
Display your wisdom & name this South Pacific chain that includes Santa Isabel & Vella Lavella
the Solomon Islands
Mike
$1,000 [1]
Unforgettable Fire, featuring its own Edge & Larry
U2
Mike
$1,000 [20]
Add an A to a similar English word to get this Greek word for the type of small restaurant advertised here
taverna
$1,000 [3]
For dessert enjoy some amaretti cookies, made with these nuts
almonds
Monica
$1,000 [25]
Possible first date chat, 1928--Anne: Nice car. Him: Oh, thanks, it's an Airman. The company named the model in my honor
(Charles) Lindbergh
Kelly
$1,000 [30]
Apart from its pod, a young sperm whale plays hide-and-seek with a photographer in these weeds that give an Atlantic sea its name
sargasso
Monica Kelly

Double Jeopardy! Round

PREMIERE EPISODES MYTHOLOGICAL IDIOMS KNOWN BY THEIR INITIALS FICTIONAL PICKERS RATHER ODD NUMBERS "A" PLACE IN HISTORY
$400 [26]
This show premiered on Oct. 5, 2000 with Rory getting into Chilton Prep
the Gilmore Girls
Kelly
$400 [1]
Your most vulnerable area, it resulted in myth from a mother incompletely dipping her son in the Styx
your Achilles heel
Mike
$400 [2]
NFL defensive end Justin James
J.J. Watt
Mike
$400 [13]
This heroine's seduction by Alec d'Urberville begins a tailspin that leads to a job picking rutabagas
Tess
Monica
$400 [12]
It was at the insistence of Louis Wadsworth, an 1850s first baseman, that baseball games got this length
nine innings
Mike
$400 [7]
During the Peloponnesian War, a plague killed 1/5 of this city; Thucydides survived it to write the war's history
Athens
Monica
$1,200 [28]
In 2014 Wes Gibbins began taking a law course on this ABC drama; also during the episode, the students were disposing of a body
How to Get Away with Murder
$800 [18]
To open this container is to unleash untold problems, as happened with a gift Zeus gave
Pandora's box
Mike
$800 [3]
Architect Ieoh Ming
I.M. Pei
Mike Kelly
$800 [14]
"A Painted House", his first novel that wasn't a legal thriller, is set in 1952 among people who pick cotton
(John) Grisham
Mike
$800 [22]
Fast to dial & not an area code--those are the basic rationales for this 3-digit number introduced in 1968
911
Mike Kelly
$800 [8]
Named for British Major James Abbott, this Pakistani city was in the news in 2011 as the last residence of Osama bin Laden
Abbottabad
Kelly
$1,600 [29]
An aspiring journalist named Augie kicks off our tour of this actress' "Love Life" in a 2020 HBO Max show
Anna Kendrick
$1,600 [20]
Being "under the Aegis" of someone comes from being protected by the breastplate of this goddess
Athena
Kelly
$1,200 [4]
Financier John Pierpont, whose company merged with Chase Manhattan
J.P. Morgan
Mike
$1,200 [15]
The ballet "Giselle" features a"Marche des vignerons", or these pickers' march
grape pickers
Monica
$1,200 [23]
A standard dose of this medication was once 325 mg,, so a common preventive dose is 1/4 of that or 81 mg
aspirin
Kelly
$1,200 [9]
Cleopatra & Mark Antony fought a doomed naval battle against Octavian at this Greek promontory
Actium
$2,000 [30]
This series begins with a man getting himself put in the Fox River Penitentiary so he can get his brother out
Prison Break
Mike
$2,000 [21]
You could face serious trouble at any moment if, like acourtierof ancient Syracuse, you have this hanging over you
the sword of Damocles
Monica
$1,600 [5]
Author Howard Phillips
H.P. Lovecraft
Monica
$1,600 [16]
Picking these is depicted in Jane Hamilton's "The Excellent Lombards", in which the trendy Honeycrisp is taking over
apples
Kelly
$1,600 [24]
At one point someone counted this many palm trees, hence the name of the city where Joshua Tree National Park is headquartered
29
Mike
$1,600 [10]
Legend says Charlemagne caught a fatal fever aafter bathing in the hot springs aat this city in 814
Aachen
Kelly
DD $5,000 [27]
In Chicago, a 19th century kaleidoscope was one of the title artifacts on this PBS show's first episode in 1997
Antiques Roadshow
Kelly
DD $2,500 [19]
Meaning a very beautiful woman, this idiom refers to the fleet that went to war after Helen's abduction
a face that launched a thousand ships
Mike
$2,000 [6]
British soldier Thomas Edward
T.E. Lawrence
Kelly
$2,000 [17]
A story by Brian Friel begins as boys on their way to gather these are "the only living things in that part of County Tyrone"
potatoes
Monica
$2,000 [25]
This long black robe worn by priests traditionally has 33 buttons for Christ's age & 5 on each sleeve for his wounds
a cassock
Monica
$2,000 [11]
Au jus is a way to serve meat; this is a similar-sounding region won by France from England in the early 1200s
Anjou

Final Jeopardy!

CONTINENTAL GEOGRAPHY

Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea & Somalia make up this region named for its resemblance to a part of a native animal

the Horn of Africa

Mike "What is the Horn of Africa?" — wagered $3,501
Monica "What is the Horn of Africa?" — wagered $13,000
Kelly "What is the Horn of Africa?" — wagered $8,801

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