Show #8387 2021-04-27 (taped 2021-02-24) Regular

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

Contestants

John Prokop — a legal assistant from Uncasville, Connecticut

Dana Schumacher-Schmidt — an English professor from Tecumseh, Michigan

Kelly Donohue — a bank examiner from Winthrop, Massachusetts (whose 3-day cash winnings total $79,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kelly $1,400 $5,400 $2,800 $5,595
3rd place: $1,000
$7,800
15 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
Dana $2,000 $3,200 $20,100 $20,600
New champion: $20,600
$18,800
23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
John $1,800 $4,600 $9,400 $18,400
2nd place: $2,000
$9,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

SINGLE-NAMED SINGERS' LAST NAMES LET'S VISIT THE CITY CHILDREN OF ZEUS NOTHIN' BUT A SILENT G THING, BABY TIGER KING
$200 [26]
"Rumour Has It" it's Adkins
Adele
John
$200 [21]
Palaces & museums line Unter den Linden, an avenue in this capital city
Berlin
Dana
$200 [13]
The Cyprian Centaurs actually had the horns of this creature that Zeus was known to transform into
a bull
John
$200 [9]
From outside one's own nation
foreign (a foreigner)
John
$200 [6]
Late Secretary of State George Shultz was said to have a tiger tattoo on his rear, a legacy of his days at this Ivy League university
Princeton
Kelly
$200 [1]
"In the land of" these people, "the one-eyed man is king"
the blind
Kelly
$400 [27]
Singer, rapper & classically trained flautist Jefferson
Lizzo
Dana
$400 [22]
The big attraction in this city's Piazza dei Miracoli (Square of Miracles) is a bell tower that's 4 degrees from perpendicular
Pisa
John
$400 [17]
In the "Iliad" the Horae were children of Zeus who guarded the gates to this home of the gods
Mount Olympus
Kelly
$400 [10]
This word for a biting fly can also refer to a mosquito
a gnat
Kelly
$400 [7]
The mighty tiger swallowtail is this type of insect
a butterfly
John
$400 [2]
Prior to the Civil War, the South's economic staple was frequently referred to as "king" this
cotton
Dana
$600 [28]
A Nobel Prize nominee: Hewson
Bono
John
$600 [23]
Ramble through La Rambla & then maybe Joan Miro Park as you brush up on your Catalan in this city
Barcelona
Dana
$600 [18]
With Mnemosyne, Zeus had 9 daughters, these patrons of devotions like astronomy & poetry
the Muses
John
$600 [11]
This regular auto maintenance procedure for your wheels makes for smoother driving & less tire wear
alignment
Dana
$600 [8]
Alliterative byname of the LTTE, an insurgent group in Sri Lanka
the Tamil Tigers
Dana
$600 [3]
Oft repeated, this 6-word line from Leonardo DiCaprio was repeated by his director after an Oscar win
"I'm the king of the world!"
Dana
$800 [29]
L.A.-born $inger-$ongwriter Sebert
Kesha
Kelly
$800 [24]
Check out Cottlesloe Beach& have a g'day in this capital of Western Australia
Perth
John
$800 [19]
Legends say Perseus, mortal son of Zeus, saved Andromeda from a sea monster, killing it this way, with the help of a severed head
turning it to stone with Medusa's head
Kelly John
$800 [12]
A political candidate's organized attempt to be elected
campaign
Dana
$800 [15]
A group of volunteer American pilots recruited by Claire Chennault during World War II had this nickname
Flying Tigers
Kelly
$800 [4]
This kids' game involves climbing a mound of some sort & laying waste to all who try to dethrone you
king of the hill
Kelly
$1,000 [30]
From M.I.A.M.I.:Perez
Pitbull
$1,000 [25]
Begun in 778, the Buddhist temple Kiyomizu-Dera is in this city & former capital of Japan
Kyoto
John
$1,000 [20]
Pindar wrote that a son of Zeus shared with mortals these 2 foods of the gods; that'll get you banished to the underworld
nectar & ambrosia
Kelly
DD $1,000 [14]
This adjective meaning arousing emotions comes from a French word for "pointed"
poignant
John
$1,000 [16]
Green Destiny is the name of a renowned sword in this film that starred Chow Yun-fat & Michelle Yeoh
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Kelly
$1,000 [5]
A 1546 English proverb says one of these "may look on a king", basically meaning everyone has rights
a cat
Kelly Dana

Double Jeopardy! Round

EXPLORERS RECENT BOOKS SCIENCY STUFF PANTONE COLORS OF THE YEAR LET'S PLAY COWBOYS WORDS THAT START WITH 2 VOWELS
$400 [6]
This Brit's flagship was the Pelican, which he later renamed the Golden Hind
Francis Drake
Dana
$400 [1]
One letter off from "Hamlet", the title of this bestselling novel by Maggie O'Farrell honors Shakespeare's son
Hamnet
Dana
$400 [11]
This genus of bacteria causes not only the sore throat named for it but the skin condition impetigo
strep
Kelly Dana
$400 [16]
This flower followed "Fuchsia" & preceded "Quartz" in the names of colors for 2001 & 2016
rose
Kelly Dana
$400 [21]
Cowboy Jake Gyllenhaal wished he knew how to quit cowboy Heath Ledger in this 2005 film
Brokeback Mountain
Kelly
$400 [26]
It's a conjunction used to introduce a choice between 2 alternatives
either
Dana
$800 [7]
This continental namesake held the post of master navigator in Seville from 1508 to 1512
Amerigo Vespucci
Kelly
$800 [2]
A head writer of "Saturday Night Live", he titled his memoir "A Very Punchable Face"
Colin Jost
Kelly
$800 [12]
Unique to each isotope, it's the time it takes for 50% of a radioactive substance to disintegrate
a half-life
John
$800 [17]
Want to get this color for 2009? Try mixing orange juice & champagne
Mimosa
Dana
$800 [22]
Jeff Bridges is a bibulous but tough marshal & Hailee Steinfeld, his no-nonsense employer in this Coen Brothers film
True Grit
Kelly
$800 [27]
An oily preparation rubbed on the skin for medical or soothing purposes
ointment
Dana
$1,200 [8]
Basque navigator Juan Sebastian del Cano completed this Portuguese explorer's circumnavigation of the Earth
Magellan
John
$1,200 [3]
2020's "Malorie" is a sequel to this novel that was the basis for a Netflix movie starring a blindfolded Sandra Bullock
Bird Box
$1,200 [13]
Alcohol dehydrogenase, one of these complex proteins, breaks down ethanol during digestion
an enzyme
Kelly Dana
$1,600 [19]
The red-brown color for 2015 is the name of this fortified Sicilian wine often used in cooking
marsala
Dana
$1,200 [23]
He's seenherearound the time he played Joe Buck in "Midnight Cowboy"
Jon Voight
John
$1,200 [28]
A region of the Earth's outer atmosphere containing a high concentration of free electrons
the ionosphere
Dana
$1,600 [9]
This British explorer became the president of Jamestown colony in September 1608
John Smith
Kelly
$1,600 [4]
About his "Memoirs and Misinformation", this comic actor said, "None of this is real and all of it is true"--alrighty then!
Jim Carrey
Dana
$1,600 [14]
In radio broadcasting, A.M. stands for this modulation
amplitude
John
$2,000 [20]
This greenish-blue December birthstone was the color for 2010
turquoise
John
$1,600 [24]
Clint Eastwood won the shootout, but this actor won the acting Oscar as the tough-guy sheriff in "Unforgiven"
Gene Hackman
Dana
$1,600 [29]
Do you question this? One's power to make decisions & tell people what to do?
authority
Kelly
DD $5,000 [10]
In 1792 this Brit reached the west coast of North America & began surveying it
George Vancouver
Kelly
$2,000 [5]
"The Lying Life of Adults" was a 2020 novel by this pseudonymous Italian writer
Elena Ferrante
Dana
$2,000 [15]
This "directional" math term is used to describe a person who carries a disease & transmits it to others
a vector
Dana
DD $2,500 [18]
The color of the year for 2000 was Cerulean Blue, the subject of a famous rant by Meryl Streep in this 2006 film
The Devil Wears Prada
Dana
$2,000 [25]
The John Ford classic "My Darling Clementine" is a fictionalized account of this bloody 1881 encounter
the shootout at the O.K. Corral
John
$2,000 [30]
The science & practice of traveling through the air in a plane or other vehicle
aeronautics
Dana

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. NATIONAL PARKS

This subtropical region is a biosphere reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, &, as of 1947, a National Park

the Everglades

Kelly "What is the Everglades?" — wagered $2,795
John "What is the Everglades?" — wagered $9,000
Dana "What is The Everglades?" — wagered $500

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