Show #8386 2021-04-26 (taped 2021-02-24) Regular

Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to Justice Defenders.

Contestants

Nick Arciero — a writer's assistant originally from Mounds View, Minnesota

Lyrka Lawler — a digital media specialist from Big Rock, Illinois

Kelly Donohue — a bank examiner from Winthrop, Massachusetts (whose 2-day cash winnings total $48,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kelly $4,600 $7,600 $19,800 $31,601
3-day champion: $79,601
$18,000
24 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Lyrka $1,000 $2,600 $15,800 $22,800
2nd place: $2,000
$15,800
17 R, 1 W
Nick $2,600 $600 $2,400 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$5,800
10 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

OFFICIAL STATE SONGS AT THE MOVIES BUSINESS ACRONYMS & ABBREV. 18th CENTURY STUFF FANTASTIC BEASTS STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS
$200 [11]
"These Green Mountains"
Vermont
Kelly
$200 [10]
"Heeere's Johnny!" Well, not Johnny, but this actor who played Jack Torrance in "The Shining" in 1980
Jack Nicholson
Kelly
$200 [17]
The boss wants that report by EOD, this
end of day
Nick
$200 [16]
When the king of Great Britain wanted a barge party, Handel composed the orchestral suite called this
"Water Music"
Kelly Lyrka
$200 [1]
The hodag, a horned, ferocious beast with a spiked back, is said to live in forest areas of this "Badger State"
Wisconsin
Kelly
$200 [26]
For example, the 7 & 10 pins left standing after your first roll
split
Kelly
$400 [12]
"Where The Columbines Grow"
Colorado
Kelly
$400 [7]
In "Guardians of the Galaxy", Vin Diesel employed numerous ways to express these 3 words of introduction
"I am Groot"
Lyrka
$400 [20]
The pharmaceutical industry spends about $200 billion a year on R&D, short for this
research & development
Nick
$400 [18]
She became a wealthy widow when hubby Daniel Custis died in 1757; she'd bring 2 kids into her next marriage with a Virginia commander
Martha Washington
Kelly
$400 [2]
Now meaning any large beast, the behemoth of the Bible is sometimes identified as this amphibious African mammal
hippopotamus
Kelly
$400 [27]
"What the Night Knows" is part of a "3-Book" this genre "Collection" from Dean Koontz
the Thriller
Lyrka
$600 [13]
"Rocky Top"
Tennessee
Kelly
$600 [5]
This 1978 college comedy asked the immortal question, "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!"
Animal House
Kelly
$600 [23]
Let's get down to the bottom line & discuss AGI, "adjusted" this
gross income
Kelly
$600 [19]
Born on the Big Island, this king known as "the Great" set out to unify the Hawaiian Islands
Kamehameha
Lyrka
$600 [3]
The qilin is the Chinese equivalent of this mythic equine
a unicorn
Lyrka
$600 [28]
Thisconifer is widely grown for timber, pulp & holiday decoration
spruce
$800 [14]
"Yankee Doodle" (in New England)
Connecticut
$800 [8]
Her, as the bride: "So, O-Ren... any more subordinates for me to kill?"
Uma Thurman
Nick
$800 [24]
NASDAQ is the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated these bids & offers
quotations
Kelly Lyrka
$1,000 [22]
Georges Danton was the first president of the Committee of Public Safety, which oversaw this awful period of the French Revolution
the Terror
Kelly
$800 [4]
The puk is a small, household one of these fire-breathers that protects the home & brings treasure to its master
a dragon
Nick
$800 [29]
Biblical writing; Shakespeare wrote that "The devil can cite" it "for his purpose"
scripture
Kelly
$1,000 [15]
"Old Folks At Home", also known as "Swanee River"
Florida
Kelly
$1,000 [9]
Cinematographer Roger Deakins didn't say exactly how many shots were in this 2019 WWI film, but the longest was about 7 minutes
1917
Kelly
$1,000 [25]
Business analysts use SWOT to stand for "strengths, weaknesses, opportunities &" these possible dangers
threats
Kelly
DD $1,600 [21]
When his sound effect method was copied in a staging of "Macbeth", John Dennis accused perpetrators of this, now an idiom
stealing his thunder
Nick
$1,000 [6]
In Hindu mythology Hanuman is a devoted helper of the god Rama & the king of these creatures
a monkey
Nick
$1,000 [30]
The "G" is silent in its root word, but not in this adjective meaning stolid & slow-moving
phlegmatic
Nick

Double Jeopardy! Round

FEMALE AUTHORS & SOME MALE ONES, TOO Q, NO U STRINGED INSTRUMENTS THE CABINET HARD SCIENCE RADIO ON THE TV
$400 [3]
In this novel George Orwell wrote, "We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it"
1984
Lyrka
$400 [6]
In 1965 this airline made the first nonstop commercial flight from the U.S. to Australia
Qantas
Nick
$400 [26]
A violin & this both have 4 strings, but a violin is just a tad smaller, with E as the high string, as opposed to A
a viola
Kelly
$400 [9]
Established after 9/11, it's the newest cabinet department
Homeland Security
Lyrka
$400 [19]
The Vickers test measures the hardness of a metal by indenting it with one of these super-hard gems
a diamond
Nick
$400 [14]
This title character hosted a psychology advice radio show on KACL in Seattle
Frasier (Crane)
Lyrka
$800 [2]
Elizabeth Wurtzel detailed her clinical depression in her memoir called this "Nation"
Prozac
Lyrka
$800 [22]
This sheikdom was a British protectorate from 1916 to 1971
Qatar
Lyrka
$800 [27]
The Hungarian cimbalom is traditionally associated with them usicof this itinerant people
Gypsies (the Roma)
Kelly
$800 [10]
Once joined with Health & Welfare, it became its own department under President Carter
Education
Nick
$800 [7]
Nanofiltration is used to reduce hardness of this, caused by dissolved minerals like calcium & magnesium
water
Kelly
$800 [13]
Regis Philbin & Stephen King went up against this pal of Howard Stern's on "Celebrity Jeopardy!" in 1998; she won
Robin Quivers
Kelly
$1,200 [1]
Joseph Wambaugh is best known for writing about this profession in which he served in L.A. for 14 years
a police officer
Lyrka
$1,200 [23]
3-letter abbreviation for the Latin phrase meaning "that which was meant to be shown"
Q.E.D.
Kelly
$1,200 [28]
4 feet long with a gourd body, this instrument is huge in the Hindustani music scene
a sitar
Lyrka
$1,600 [20]
The first Asian-American woman in the cabinet, Elaine Chao was previously Labor Secretary, & in 2017, took on this post
Transportation
Kelly
$1,600 [17]
The Knoop test uses low indentation pressure to measure the hardness of glass & these materials, from Greek for "pottery"
ceramics
Lyrka
$1,200 [12]
Venus Flytrap was the nom de DJ of Gordon Sims on this Ohio-set sitcom
WKRP in Cincinnati
Lyrka
$1,600 [4]
A documentary called this woman "and Still I Rise" detailed her life as a memoirist, actress & poet
Maya Angelou
$1,600 [24]
Chinese word for circulating life energy
Qi
Lyrka
$1,600 [29]
Let me hear the 3 strings of this triangular Russian instrument ringing out--come & keep your comrade warm
a balalaika
Lyrka
DD $1,800 [11]
Henry Knox in 1789 & Kenneth Royall in 1947 were the first & last secretaries of this department
War (then became the Department of Defense)
Nick
$2,000 [18]
Gypsum is 2 & quartz is 7 on this scale
Mohs
Nick
$1,600 [15]
Herrole as Lisa on the '90s sitcom "News Radio" was pivotal in her career
(Maura) Tierney
Kelly
$2,000 [5]
The husband of this French author also wrote under one name, Willy
Colette
$2,000 [25]
This city in North Central Iran is a pilgrimage site & a center of learning
Qom
$2,000 [30]
A renaissance man known as "Il Divino" was a master of this round-bodied 4-letter instrument that often has 2 G strings
a lute
Lyrka Nick
$2,000 [21]
A Nobel Prize winner, this soldier served as Secretary of State from 1947 to 1949
(George C.) Marshall
Kelly
DD $3,000 [8]
The number used to designate a pencil's hardness, relates to the ratio of clay to this material, a form of carbon
graphite
Kelly
$2,000 [16]
This man of 1,000 voices played "Brockmire", who in Season 3 made it back to a Major League broadcast booth
Hank Azaria
Nick

Final Jeopardy!

CITY ORIGIN STORIES

The mythical founder Byzas consulted the Oracle of Delphi before establishing what's now known as this city

Istanbul

Nick "What is Byzantium" — wagered $2,400
Lyrka "What is Istanbul?" — wagered $7,000
Kelly "What is Istanbul?" — wagered $11,801

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