Show #8391 2021-05-03 (taped 2021-03-02) Regular

Emily Sands game 3.First game with Bill Whitaker as guest host.Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to Media Fellowship House.

Contestants

César del Peral — an attorney originally from Mayaguez, Puerto Rico

Eliza Eaton-Stern — a middle school history teacher from Aurora, Colorado

Emily Sands — a vice president of operations from Chanhassen, Minnesota (whose 2-day cash winnings total $53,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Emily $800 $5,400 $17,200 $19,599
3-day champion: $73,000
$10,800
18 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W
Eliza $1,600 $3,800 $7,400 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$7,400
16 R, 4 W
César $1,200 $1,600 $4,000 $599
2nd place: $2,000
$6,000
12 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY COMEDY CENTRAL THE FOOD NETWORK "E"! VICE CHANNELS
$200 [28]
Around 1530 B.C. Queen Ahhotep rallied this kingdom's troops to victory against a Hyksos invasion
Egypt
Emily
$200 [30]
This animated dad of 3 proclaimed, "I am so smart! S-M-R-T!"
Homer Simpson
Emily
$200 [1]
Hey, Lorraine! I made this kind of pastry pie filled with custard, bacon bits & Gruyère
a quiche
César
$200 [27]
It's from the French for one "who owns & manages a business", taking the financial risk
an entrepreneur
Eliza
$200 [2]
If you don't care if it's Godiva or a Clark Bar, you've got to have it, you're this, a word dating back at least to the 1960s
a chocoholic
César
$200 [3]
The Yucatán Channel leads into this gulf
the Gulf of Mexico
César
$400 [6]
To see a transit of Venus by telescope in 1761, Harvard professor John Winthrop had to go behind enemy lines during this war
the French and Indian War
Eliza
$400 [29]
Harvard Law will be no problem for this movie's Elle Woods, who "once had to judge a tighty-whitey contest for Lambda Kappa Pi"
Legally Blonde
César
$400 [4]
Manischewitz makes a s'mores kit for this unleavened bread
matzah
Emily
$400 [19]
The Paleocene was this 5-letter division of geologic time
an epoch
Eliza
$400 [10]
Ulysses S. Grant smoked these, including Cheroots, to the tune of 20 a day
cigars
Eliza
$400 [26]
Terminating south of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, the Ambrose Channel is located between these 2 states
New York & New Jersey
Emily
$600 [17]
The 1571 Battle of Lepanto between Ottoman & European naval forces was a climax of warfare using these oar-powered ships
galleys
Emily
$600 [8]
He & Elaine May became a great improv duo after Elaine was told he was the only person at the U. of Chicago as hostile as she
Mike Nichols
$600 [5]
Grey Poupon is this type of French mustard
Dijon
Eliza
$600 [24]
This word from the French is the practice of spying
espionage
Emily
$600 [11]
In this movie Paul Giamatti plays Miles, whose vice is wine, especially his prized 1961 Chateau Cheval Blanc
Sideways
César
$600 [25]
Seen here is Normandy's Le Havre lighthouse, which looks out on La Manche, also known as this
the English Channel
Eliza
$800 [7]
In 1837, Queen Victoria succeeded this man seen here, the fourth of his name
William
Emily Eliza
$800 [20]
New to England, this confused Apple TV+ soccer coach asked, "How many countries are in this country?" The answer: "4"
Ted Lasso
Emily
$800 [9]
Escoffier is said to have invented this dish of a certain fruit, sugar & brandy flambéed & spooned over vanilla ice cream
cherries jubilee
Eliza
$800 [22]
It's a sovereign decree, like that "of Nantes"
edict
$800 [12]
A 1998 study showed release of dopamine, a pleasure-bringing neurotransmitter, in subjects during a tank-driving one of these
a video game
Emily
$800 [15]
This channel in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago is named for Darwin's boat, which explored the area in 1833
the Beagle
Eliza
$1,000 [16]
His rivalry with Diego de Almagro led to Almagro's murder in Cuzco in 1538 & his own death in Lima 3 years later
Pizarro
Eliza
$1,000 [21]
Trying to figure out how he traveled back to 1986, Craig Robinson realizes, "It must be some kind of" this, the film's title
a hot tub time machine
Emily
$1,000 [18]
This Latin American appetizer is raw fish marinated in lime juice
ceviche
Eliza
DD $2,000 [23]
One in this job studies the origin & history of words
an etymologist
Emily
$1,000 [13]
The book "Aristocratic Vice" examines the vices of the 18th century English nobility, including these "affairs of honor"
a duel
Emily
$1,000 [14]
The Robeson Channel separates Canada's Ellesmere Island from this island that doesn't belong to Canada
Greenland
Emily

Double Jeopardy! Round

ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS YE OLDE SCIENCE THE ARTS AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN A WORD FROM THE GREEK FOR... PROM MUSIC
$400 [30]
"The Last Olympian" is the last of the 5 books in his original Percy Jackson series
Rick Riordan
Eliza
$400 [6]
Transmutation was a key goal of this science, whether from old age to youth or base metal to gold
alchemy
César
$400 [28]
In Act 1 of this ballet, the drably attired title girl helps a beggarwoman, who turns out to be a fairy godmother
Cinderella
Emily
$400 [1]
In 2019 former MVP Maya Moore stepped away from playing in this league to work on criminal justice reform
the WNBA
Eliza
$400 [25]
For "small" & "sound": a singer uses one on stage
a microphone
César
$400 [22]
Giving kids that take-charge vibe, Gwen Stefani sings about being a real cheerleader, "I ain't no" this
hollaback girl
Eliza
$800 [29]
Tom Wolfe wrote of the adventures of this author & the Merry Pranksters in "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"
Ken Kesey
$1,200 [8]
The ancient Greeks believed all matter was composed of these 4 classical elements
earth, air, fire & water
César
$800 [27]
The black, white & gray imagery in this 1937 Picasso mural includes a braying horse that has stumbled over a fallen warrior
Guernica
Eliza
$800 [26]
"Torchy Brown" creator Jackie Ormes was the first African-American woman to have one of these published in a major newspaper
a comic strip
Emily
$800 [24]
For "spider" & "fear": a common anxiety
arachnophobia
César
$800 [21]
This song by fun. & Janelle Monae is all about seizing the moment of youth
"We Are Young"
Emily
$1,200 [13]
He wrote the book "The Third Man" as "raw material" for the screenplay; it was published after the film came out
Graham Greene
$1,600 [9]
Aristotle thought the orbits of the Sun, Moon & planets formed a concentric series of these 3-dimensional shapes
spheres
Eliza
$1,600 [15]
In 1919 Walter Gropius became the head of this school of architecture based in Weimar
Bauhaus
Emily
$1,200 [4]
Hazel Scott briefly hosted her own TV show before this group, HUAC, set its sights on her
the House Un-American Activities Committee
Emily
$1,200 [11]
For "over" & "carry": a common figure of speech
a metaphor
Emily Eliza César
$1,200 [18]
Vitamin C's "Graduation" rhymes, "As our lives change / Come whatever / We will still be" this alliterative phrase
friends forever
Eliza
$1,600 [12]
She was in Antarctica when she received word that she had won the 1994 Newbery Medal for "The Giver"
Lois Lowry
Emily
DD $2,000 [7]
Phrenology was based on the idea that a person's character could be determined by feeling the shape of this body part
skull
César
$2,000 [16]
His music for the ballet "The Firebird" made him an overnight success
Stravinsky
Eliza
$1,600 [2]
Fannie Lou Hamer's speech trying to integrate the Miss. delegation at this 1964 gathering made LBJ scramble to get her off the air
Democratic National Convention
César
$1,600 [23]
For "hidden" & "writing": the art & study of secure communication
cryptology (or cryptography)
César
$1,600 [17]
Teachers, kids, everybody! As Sia sings, "I don't need dollar bills to have fun tonight", you reply, "I love" these
cheap thrills
César
$2,000 [14]
James Jones is best remembered for this novel set in Hawaii just before the attack on Pearl Harbor
From Here to Eternity
$2,000 [10]
18th century scientists believed all combustible materials contained a substance they called this, from Greek for "burned"
phlogiston
Emily
DD $6,600 [5]
This American is legendary for the black & whitelandscapeshe captured with his cameras
Ansel Adams
Emily
$2,000 [3]
Before she made history in Congress, Barbara Jordan was the first Black woman elected to this state's Senate
Texas
Eliza César
$2,000 [19]
For "first" & "form": the living part of a cell including the nucleus
the protoplasm
Emily
$2,000 [20]
If your school's prom is then, put on "Month Of May" from this band's album "The Suburbs"
Arcade Fire

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY AMERICANS

His book "An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859" shows he heeded his own famous advice

Horace Greeley

César "Who was Frost" — wagered $3,401
Eliza "Who was Mark Twain?" — wagered $7,400
Emily "Who is Greely?" — wagered $2,399

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