Show #8395 2021-05-07 (taped 2021-03-02) Regular

Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to Media Fellowship House.

Contestants

Sara Biegler — a stay-at-home parent from Syracuse, New York

Juliet Mayer — a graduate student originally from The Plains, Virginia

Jamie Logan — a writer and consultant from Augusta, Maine (whose 2-day cash winnings total $50,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jamie $3,400 $7,800 $19,400 $7,199
2nd place: $2,000
$19,200
24 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Juliet $2,200 $5,000 $15,800 $23,800
New champion: $23,800
$15,800
20 R, 0 W
Sara $1,400 $2,800 $9,800 $5,300
3rd place: $1,000
$12,000
11 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

A CINEMATIC WEDDING ABROAD FINISH THE POETRY LINE AMERICANA CLICHÉS SHEEP JUST GOT REAL
$200 [2]
ABBA, dabba do! A wedding in Greece with "Take A Chance On Me" playing is the climax of this 2008 musical
Mamma Mia!
Jamie
$200 [12]
"Half a" this,"Half a" this,"Half a" this "onward", about an 1854 battle
a league
Juliet
$200 [1]
The state motto of Oklahoma is Labor omnia vincit, "Labor" does this
conquers all
Juliet
$200 [8]
Do something stealthily & you're like this kind of criminal "in the night"
a thief
Juliet
$200 [14]
In a children's rhyme, these 4 words precede "Have you any wool?"
Baa, baa, black sheep (Black sheep, black sheep)
Jamie Juliet
$200 [26]
In 1945 a Raytheon engineer made history when he used microwaves to fittingly prepare this cinematic snack
popcorn
Jamie
$400 [4]
In this 1965 film the captain calls off his marriage to the baroness & instead weds Maria in an abbey church with Alpine views
The Sound of Music
Jamie
$400 [13]
An 1850 poem asks, "How do I love thee? Let me" do this
count the ways
Jamie
$400 [3]
Aftershebeat professional marksman Frank Butler in a shooting match, shemarried him
Annie Oakley
Juliet
$400 [20]
Bare-faced, bald-faced or bold-faced, you're one of these & I'm (another cliché) taking your words with a grain of salt
a liar
Jamie
$400 [15]
In St. Louis, this NFL team had a unit called "The Greatest Show on Turf"
the Rams
Jamie
$400 [27]
On November 2, 2000 the first crew arrived here, getting to their new home with a little help from Soyuz
the International Space Station
Jamie
$600 [9]
The bride (& bridesmaids, too) had wet feet getting to the altar in this Singapore-set movie from 2018
Crazy Rich Asians
Sara
$600 [19]
Langston Hughes asked, "What happens to a dream" this adjective
deferred
Jamie
$600 [5]
2021 marks the 90th birthday of this building which was already the world's tallest in 1950 when it added a 220-footTV tower
the Empire State Building
Jamie
$600 [21]
Until the 1700s a depressed person could be "down in" just 1 of these, but now it's always plural
the dump
Jamie
$600 [16]
This past tense verb with 3 E's can mean took wool from a sheep or stole money
fleeced
Jamie
$600 [28]
This government program got off the ground when a group of volunteer teachers landed in Ghana Aug. 30, 1961
the Peace Corps
Sara
$800 [10]
Amid swashbuckling, Barbossa officiates Will & Elizabeth's wedding, not just offshore but "At World's End", in this movie
Pirates of the Caribbean
Sara
$800 [24]
An apocalyptic vision by W.B. Yeats says, "Things fall apart; the centre cannot" this
hold
Juliet
$800 [6]
This single optimistic word is the official state motto of Rhode Island
Hope
$800 [22]
A soft bed & a warm fire are "creature" these, appealing to our animal nature as opposed to more spiritual needs
comforts
Sara
$800 [17]
This composer's "Messiah" says, "All we like sheep have gone astray"
Handel
Jamie
$800 [29]
When the Book of Common Prayer was first issued in 1549, this faith's parting from Roman Catholic tradition was realized
Anglican
Jamie
$1,000 [11]
ABBA, dabba do! This Toni Collette movie tells us that Sydney, Australia is known as "The City of Brides"
Muriel's Wedding
Juliet
$1,000 [25]
From Milton's sonnet on his blindness, "They also serve who only stand and" this
wait
DD $1,200 [7]
Boothill Graveyard is still a popular draw in this town about 30 miles from the Arizona-Mexico border
Tombstone
Jamie
$1,000 [23]
A feeling of relief or rebirth is a "new" this phrase that mentions a rental agreement
a lease on life
Juliet
$1,000 [18]
Philip K. Dick wondered, "Do Androids Dream of" this type of "Sheep"
electric sheep
Juliet
$1,000 [30]
Pres. Buchanan & Queen Victoria sent greetings after this, including the name of an ocean, had been laid successfully in 1858
transatlantic cable

Double Jeopardy! Round

LAYING DOWN THE SCIENTIFIC LAW ADJECTIVAL EVIDENCE MONKS WINDOWS & DOORS PLAY THAT FOLKY MUSIC A WHOPP"INGTON" OF A CITY
$400 [26]
He got some laws moving--well, on moving--in 1687's "Principia Mathematica"
Newton
Juliet
$400 [21]
The Pleistocene mammal may be extinct, but this same-named adjective meaning "of very great size" is still here
mammoth
Sara
$400 [1]
20th c. monk John Main popularized meditation among Christians, including saying this, a personal sacred word
mantra
Sara
$400 [11]
You might say this type of window known for letting in lots of light "is worth a thousand words"
a picture window
Juliet
$400 [4]
After a 2-year hiatus to battle breast cancer, Patty Griffin returned with a 2019 release that won this award for Best Folk Album
the Grammy
Jamie
$400 [12]
In 1790 Congress set aside land for this city
Washington, D.C.
Juliet
$800 [27]
Ohm's law, about the relationship between current, resistance & this, can be expressed as V=IR, with V standing for this
voltage
Juliet
$800 [22]
As an adjective, it means hardened or feeling no sympathy; as a noun, without the "O", it is a hardening on your skin
callous
$800 [2]
Cheers to this 17th century monk & cellar master at the Abbey of Hautvillers; he was a pioneer of fine champagne
Dom Perignon
Jamie
$800 [17]
The name of this window seenherederives from architecture not geography
a bay window
Jamie
$800 [6]
The cry of "Judas!" met this folk superstar when he & his band went electric on a 1966 tour
Bob Dylan
Juliet
$800 [13]
This Texas city where the Rangers play is named for a place in Virginia
Arlington
Juliet
$1,200 [28]
This Italian's 17th century law of falling bodies relates the distance fallen by a body to the elapsed time
Galileo
Juliet
$1,200 [23]
"B" aggressive! Be, "B" aggressive! This bellicose 11-letter word means inclined to fight or wage war
belligerent
Jamie
$1,200 [3]
The monk Theophanes is among holy men to get this title, meaning he spoke out about his faith, not that he listened to others' sins
a confessor
Juliet
$1,200 [18]
These skyscraper entrances invented by Theophilus Van Kannel act as air locks, preventing cold air from mixing with hot
revolving doors
Jamie
$1,200 [7]
1940s folk supergroup the Almanac Singers included Pete Seeger & this other legend & writer of "This Land Is Your Land"
Woody Guthrie
Juliet
$1,200 [14]
This city boasts the University of Vermont
Burlington
Sara
$1,600 [29]
This Frenchman who came up with a law on paramagnetic bodies & temperature may not have been the best scientist in his family
Pierre Curie
$1,600 [24]
Despite how the first part of it sounds, it describes an unpleasant noise articulated in the throat, not the belly
guttural
Sara
$1,600 [5]
"Celebrity Monk" seems oxymoronic, but Thich Nhat Hanh has been praised by Oprah & is known as Thay, "teacher" in this, his language
Vietnamese
Juliet
$1,600 [19]
Here we go round this bush, traditionally used in Japan to make paper for the sliding doors known asshoji
the mulberry bush
Jamie
$1,600 [8]
This genre of Caribbean folk song is the title of a blockbuster 1956 Harry Belafonte album
calypso
Jamie
$2,000 [16]
Brandywine Creek empties into the Delaware River in this city
Wilmington
Jamie
$2,000 [30]
Let's take a long, "constant" look at this man's law that states the greater the distance to a galaxy, the faster it recedes
(Edwin) Hubble
Juliet
$2,000 [25]
Whimsical & sly, or resembling a hockey essential
puckish
Sara
DD $3,500 [10]
A biography called "The Monk in the Garden" is subtitled "The Lost and Found Genius of" him, "The father of Genetics"
Gregor Mendel
Sara
$2,000 [20]
Cathedrals at Reims & Amiens are known for these "floral" windows, replete with stained glass
rosettes (rose)
Jamie
$2,000 [9]
2018's "The Tree of Forgiveness" was the final album from this beloved folk icon who passed away in 2020
(John) Prine
Sara
DD $2,900 [15]
The Thoroughbred Owners & Breeders Association is headquartered here
Lexington
Sara

Final Jeopardy!

SHAKESPEARE & HISTORY

Macbeth has a vision of a line of 8 Scottish kings, the 8th holding a mirror to reflect this 9th in line who may have been in the audience

James I of England (James VI of Scotland)

Sara "Who is" — wagered $4,500
Juliet "Who is James I?" — wagered $8,000
Jamie "Who is Macduff?" — wagered $12,201

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