Show #8390 2021-04-30 (taped 2021-02-24) Regular

Emily Sands game 2.Last game with Anderson Cooper as guest host.Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to Justice Defenders.

Contestants

Andy Goldstein — a customer support manager originally from Teaneck, New Jersey

Sheila O'Donnell — an attorney from Euclid, Ohio

Emily Sands — a vice president of operations from Chanhassen, Minnesota (whose 1-day cash winnings total $36,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Emily $4,600 $7,800 $15,400 $16,801
2-day champion: $53,401
$19,600
26 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Sheila $1,000 $2,800 $8,400 $6,900
2nd place: $2,000
$8,400
11 R, 2 W
Andy $200 $-600 $3,400 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$3,400
12 R, 8 W

Jeopardy! Round

ALPHABETICALLY FIRST 2020 VISION 7-LETTER ANIMALS AFRICAN AMERICAN MEMOIRS TIME TRAVELIN' MOVIES AROUND LOS ANGELES
$200 [2]
Of the 12 signs of the zodiac
Aquarius
Emily Sheila
$200 [12]
The first nest found in the U.S. of the 2-inch insects with this scary name was discovered in October
murder hornets
Sheila
$200 [15]
The name of this small rodent of the tundra also means a person who joins a mass movement without thinking
a lemming
Sheila
$200 [7]
In "Up from Slavery" Booker T. Washington goes to this Alabama town expecting to find helpful things like a building to teach in, but no
Tuskegee
Emily
$200 [1]
"The only power source capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts of electricity is a bolt of lightning", claimed this '85 pic
Back to the Future
Sheila
$200 [23]
This beach city has a famousferris wheel, & a 112-year-oldpier with a marker for the end of historic Route 66
Santa Monica
Emily
$400 [13]
Of the 54 internationally recognized countries of Africa
Algeria
Emily
$400 [18]
Taking a leap on Leap Day to support low-income people, this grand duchy became the first nation with free public transport
Luxembourg
Emily
$400 [16]
You can find this wild cat, also called a puma, from Canada to Argentina
panther
Emily Andy
$600 [9]
Thisstar of HBO's "Insecure" wrote of "The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl"
Issa Rae
Emily
$400 [3]
Quick advice: If a killer cyborg asks whether your name is Sarah Connor, like in this 1984 film... say nope! Sarah who? Not me
The Terminator
Emily
$400 [24]
When Quincy Jones came to L.A., he didn't know Sunset but knew of Central Ave., hub of this music style & now of a festival for it
jazz
Sheila
$600 [14]
Of the 9 fielding positions on a baseball team
catcher
Emily Sheila
$600 [19]
This Foo Fighters frontman got in a drum battle with a 10-year-old, lost, then wrote a song about her
David Grohl
Sheila
$600 [17]
In 2020, a Florida zoo saw the birth of an endangererd slender-horned this; we hope the little guy is as graceful as his mom, Clover
a gazelle
Andy
$800 [10]
"Vernon Can Read!", the title of a memoir by this civil rights activist & advisor to Bill Clinton, was a quote from an old boss
Vernon Jordan
Andy
$600 [4]
Kevin Costner goes back to 1972 to talk a little baseball with Burt Lancaster in this film
Field of Dreams
Andy
$600 [25]
Great views of L.A. can be had at lofty Griffith Park Observatory & great movie locations too, like in this 1955 James Dean film
Rebel Without a Cause
Emily
$800 [22]
Of Starbucks coffee sizes
grande
Andy
$800 [20]
Ex-Space Shuttle commander Mark Kelly defeated Martha McSally to become a senator for this state
Arizona
Sheila
$800 [27]
In Europe it's a weasel-like mammal; in North America, it's another name for a skunk
a polecat
$1,000 [11]
Framed as a letter to his son, "Between" these 2 things won Ta-Nehisi Coates a National Book Award
the World and Me
Emily
$800 [5]
"Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" had this navigator finding a nuclear wessel called the Enterprise
(Pavel) Chekov
Andy
$800 [26]
Today a major symbol of L.A., this was set up in 1923 as an advertisement for new homes for sale in the area
the Hollywood Sign
Sheila
$1,000 [28]
Of the 27 books of the New Testament in the King James version
Acts
Emily
$1,000 [21]
In August an estimated 100,000 demonstrators took to the streets to protest against Pres. Lukashenko of this nation
Belarus
Andy
$1,000 [29]
Thiskangaroo cousin only grows to about 2 1/2 feet high
a wallaby
Emily
DD $1,800 [8]
He writes about the depression he faced during his 1991 confirmation hearings in "My Grandfather's Son"
Clarence Thomas
Emily
$1,000 [6]
It was far from bogus when these 2 title guys--& their old pal, Death!--returned to "Face the Music" in 2020
Bill & Ted
Emily

Double Jeopardy! Round

GLADIATORS LIGHTHOUSES SACRED BOOKS RANKS & TITLES ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS SEE 3 "P", "O"
$400 [17]
"Gladiator" comes from gladius, a type of short this that many gladiators carried
a sword
Andy
$400 [21]
West Quoddy Head Lighthouse, with its red & white candy stripes, shines from this state & is the furthest east in the continental USA
Maine
Emily
$400 [13]
The Hindu Vedas praise Agni, god of this fundamental force; "agni" is related to our word "ignite"
fire
Emily
$400 [24]
Usually referring to a spouse, this 2-word term eventually replaced "presidentress" in American politics
first lady
Andy
$400 [1]
Linkin Park's "Sharp Edges" begins with a warning: "Mama always told me don't you" do this "with scissors, son"
run
Andy
$400 [3]
This spicy sausage is a popular pie topper
pepperoni
Andy
$800 [18]
There's debate as to if this gesture, pollice verso, urged a victor to kill his defeated opponent or to drop his weapon & spare him
thumbs down
Andy
$1,200 [29]
Honoring the coast watchers who helped the Allies during WWII, Kalibobo Lighthouse is in this island country, PNG for short
Papua New Guinea
Emily
$1,200 [15]
The Granth scripture of Sikhism is considered a living one of these, a Hindi name for a spiritual teacher
a guru
Emily Andy
$800 [25]
During the Cold War, a commissar was an official responsible for education & organization in this political party
the Communist Party
Emily
$800 [2]
In 2008 M.I.A. flew up the charts alliteratively with "Paper" these
planes
Sheila
$800 [5]
Congratulations! You've been this for a credit card you haven't even applied for
preapproved
Emily Andy
$1,200 [19]
Like the modern gladiators of the NFL, Roman ones entered the arena via this, several hundred yards long
a tunnel
Sheila
$2,000 [23]
The lighthouse at this North Carolina national seashore protects the waters where the gulf stream meets with the Virginia drift
(Cape) Hatteras
Emily Sheila
$1,600 [16]
Compiled from oral Japanese, the Kojiki, or "records of ancient matters", is an important source book of this religion
Shinto(ism)
Andy
$1,200 [9]
It's the term for the principal or chief administrator of a private school such as the Devon School in "A Separate Peace"
headmaster
Emily
$1,200 [4]
In 1995 Mick said that 1967's "Yesterday's Papers" was the first song he wrote completely on his own for this group
The Rolling Stones
Emily
$1,200 [6]
One matchup of this contest that aired on the NFL's biggest Sunday saw Team Fluff take on Team Ruff
the Puppy Bowl
Emily
$1,600 [28]
The lightly armed retiarius carried a net to tangle his opponents & one of these multi-pronged weapons to dispatch them
a trident
Emily
DD $4,000 [22]
Today this Egyptian city is home to Al-Muntazah lighthouse
Alexandria
Emily
$2,000 [20]
It says, "I, Nephi, proceed to give an account upon these plates of my proceedings, and my reign and ministry"
the Book of Mormon
Andy
$1,600 [10]
Title for a member of the British peerage ranking below a duke & above an earl; perhaps of Queensberry?
marquess
Sheila Andy
$1,600 [11]
"Sick leaf & sorrow & pincers net-scissors" is from a 1969 song by this "subterranean" Lou Reed band
The Velvet Underground
Andy
$1,600 [7]
Adjective meaning not suitable for a particular situation or place
inappropriate
Emily
$2,000 [27]
Emperor from 177 to 192, this madman did fight as a gladiator, though his bouts were likely fixed
Commodus
Emily
DD $8,000 [14]
Isa ibn Maryam, a prophet in the Koran, is better known as him
Jesus, son of Mary
Emily
$2,000 [26]
With great power, Peter Parker held the Royal navy title admiral of this from 1799 to 1811
fleet
Andy
$2,000 [12]
Joe Jackson: "If you want to know about the bishop & the actress... you can read it in" these weekly editions
the Sunday papers
Andy
$2,000 [8]
It's the type of engraved metal image seen here
copperplate

Final Jeopardy!

BOOKS & AUTHORS

In books by him, the Kingdom of Noland, ruled by an orphan named Bud, borders a country called Ix, where Queen Zixi reigns

(Lyman Frank) Baum

Andy "Who is And" — wagered $3,400
Sheila "Who is Roald Dahl?" — wagered $1,500
Emily "Who is Baum?" — wagered $1,401

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