Show #8415 2021-06-04 (taped 2021-03-15) Regular

Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to National Alliance on Mental Illness.

Contestants

Whitney Sorensen — a content strategist from Draper, Utah

Susie O'Gorman — a homemaker from Mobile, Alabama

Julia Markham Cameron — an attorney from Brooklyn, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,450)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Julia $2,600 $6,000 $12,800 $9,800
2-day champion: $26,250
$12,800
18 R, 3 W
Susie $4,200 $4,400 $7,600 $4,600
2nd place: $2,000
$11,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Whitney $1,200 $4,200 $7,100 $3,767
3rd place: $1,000
$5,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

MAGNA CARTOGRAPHY DEATH OF A LITERARY CHARACTER FAILED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS PIECES OF GAMES BEHIND THE SONG ALL THE SMALL "LING"s
$200 [26]
A map of Great Britain delineates these 3 constituent parts of the island
Wales, Scotland & England
Whitney
$200 [21]
"Upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him... lying on the floor was a dead man... withered"
Dorian Gray
Susie
$200 [11]
The "Every Vote Counts" amendment tried to abolish this "College" but went no where
the Electoral College
Julia
$200 [16]
In a standard Monopoly game, there are 32 green houses & 12 of these that are red
hotels
Whitney
$200 [1]
Paul Schrader asked this singer to act in a film titled "Born in the U.S.A."--he turned Paul down but liked the title
Bruce Springsteen
Whitney
$200 [6]
Another one of your parents' offspring
a sibling
Julia
$400 [27]
A topographic map of this "Great" range would show Clingmans Dome peaking above Knoxville & Asheville
the Great Smoky Mountains
Julia Susie
$400 [22]
"The harpoon was darted... (he) stooped to clear it... but the flying turn caught him round the neck"
Captain Ahab
Susie
$400 [12]
After a Kentucky congressman shot & killed a rep. from Maine in 1838, an amendment against this practice was proposed
dueling
Julia Whitney
$400 [17]
A case file envelope is put in the middle of this game's board, which has 9 rooms
Clue
Whitney
$400 [2]
The ambiguously gendered name of "A Christmas Story" writer Jean Shepherd inspired Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named" this
Sue
Whitney
$400 [7]
An abandoned child, perhaps on a doorstep
a foundling
Whitney
$600 [28]
North America has a group named this, the maphereshows Africa's Lake Kivu & Tanganyika
the Great Lakes
Julia
$600 [23]
Nobody at the fair "knew that a grey spider had played the most important part of all. No one was with her when she died"
Charlotte
Julia
$600 [13]
The Crittenden Compromise of 1860 suggested 6 amendments to protect this institution
slavery
Whitney
$600 [18]
This Hasbro game has infantry, cavalry & artillery pieces in different colors
Risk
Whitney
$600 [3]
The title of Julian Lennon's drawing of classmate Lucy became this song
"Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"
Susie
$600 [8]
A Robert McCloskey children's book wanted you to "Make Way" for these small mallards
ducklings
Susie
$800 [29]
Found in this country's Western Cape Province, the plateau basin known as Great Karoo may be listed as Groot Karoo on a local map
South Africa
Julia
$800 [24]
"On the bosom where she had drawn her first breath, she quietly drew her last... when morning came... Jo's place was empty"
Beth (March)
Whitney
$800 [14]
In 2017, 35 years after its congressional deadline had passed, Nevada ratified this failed amendment
the ERA (the Equal Rights Amendment)
Susie
$800 [19]
Harry, Henry, Homer & Happy were the original names of these triply alliterative marble munchers
the Hungry Hungry Hippos
Whitney
$800 [4]
With his lustrous locks, Motley Crue's Vince Neil is said to have inspired the "Dude" in the title of this Aerosmith song
"Dude (Looks Like A Lady)"
Susie
$800 [9]
A young tree bigger than a seedling but not yet timber size
a sapling
Julia
$1,000 [30]
A map of the waters off the coast of Queensland will show you the Great Barrier Reef in this aptly named sea
the Coral Sea
Susie
$1,000 [25]
"'For the rabbits', (he) shouted... George raised the gun and steadied it... the crash of the shot rolled up the hills"
Lennie
Julia Susie
$1,000 [15]
An amendment replacing the 23rd Amendment with a grant of statehood to this area expired in 1985
District of Columbia
$1,000 [20]
2, 4, 8, 16, 32 & 64 are marked on the die called a doubling cube in this game
backgammon (shesh besh)
DD $1,400 [5]
In 1940 Woody Guthrie wrote this song because he was sick of hearing "God Bless America"
"This Land Is Your Land"
Susie
$1,000 [10]
Let's roast up some of these potatoes & serve them with a juicy steak
a fingerling
Julia

Double Jeopardy! Round

AFRICAN AMERICANS EARS TO YOU WORKING WITH CLAY CINEMATIC CITIES & TOWNS A QUICK STUDY ANCIENT HISTORY
$400 [12]
Robert L. Johnson, the first African-American billionaire, launched this cable network back in 1980
BET (Black Entertainment Television)
Whitney
$400 [17]
The incus bone in the middle ear is also known as this, a blacksmith's implement
the anvil
Susie
$400 [24]
Absorbent clay used to soak up grease spills in factories became this cat product when repackaged by Edward Lowe
kitty litter
Susie
$400 [1]
"Batman v Superman" placed this city right next to Metropolis
Gotham (City)
Susie
$400 [6]
Gerontology
the elderly or old people (aging)
Susie
$800 [29]
The ancient Assyrian capital of Nineveh was located at the intersection of trade routes on this river
the Tigris
Julia Susie
$800 [13]
An argument with her mother over money matters inspired this jazz great's lyrics to "God Bless The Child"
Billie Holiday
Julia
$800 [18]
The inner ear is also called this, after the maze that contained the Minotaur
the labyrinth
Susie
$800 [25]
Patrick Swayze & Demi Moore turned pottery making into something romantic in this 1990 film
Ghost
Whitney
$800 [2]
Much of this 2006 animated film takes place in Radiator Springs
Cars
Whitney
$800 [7]
Glossology
language(s)
Julia
$1,200 [9]
This formation of soldiers overlapping their shields was vulnerable from its flanks, as the Macedonians found in the Battle of Pydna
the phalanx
Julia
$1,200 [14]
Sadly, this rapper, activist & entrepreneur known for giving back to his South LA community lost his life there in 2019
Nipsey Hussle
Julia
$1,600 [20]
Ring in & tell us it's the medical term for ringing in the ears
tinnitus
Julia
$1,200 [26]
A 1999 exhibition at the Met featured the ceramics of this 20th century Spanish artist, work he began at age 66
Picasso
Julia
$1,600 [4]
The climax of "The Empire Strikes Back" takes place here, high above Bespin
Cloud City
$1,200 [8]
Xylology
wood
Julia Susie
$1,600 [10]
Beginning around 1200 B.C. in what is today Mexico, this people built the 1st major pre-Columbian civilization in Mesoamerica
the Olmecs
Julia Whitney
$1,600 [15]
This author who inspired generations to trace their genealogy is buried at his ancestral home in Henning, Tennessee
(Alex) Haley
Susie
$2,000 [21]
The Organ of Corti, where sound waves are translated into nerve impulses, is found in this spiral cavity of the inner ear
the cochlea
Susie
$1,600 [27]
In Jewish folklore, a rabbi marks emet, Hebrew for "truth", on the forehead of this creature made of clay
the Golem
Julia
$2,000 [5]
At one point in this 1946 film, Bedford Falls is renamed Pottersville
It's a Wonderful Life
Whitney
$1,600 [22]
Selenology
the Moon
Susie
$2,000 [11]
Seen here is a depiction of this great guy, the ruler of the Persian Empire who defeated the Babylonians in 539 B.C.
Cyrus (II the Great)
Julia
$2,000 [16]
One of the great stunt pilots of the 1920s, shewas the first African-American woman to earn her pilot's license
Bessie Coleman
DD $4,000 [19]
The ear's semicircular canals help maintain this, partly from the Latin for "balance"
equilibrium
Susie
$2,000 [28]
Formed by a consolidation of clay, this 5-letter rock makes up around 70% of the sedimentary rock on the Earth's crust
shale
Whitney
DD $2,500 [3]
When Nicole Kidman & Matthew Broderick move to this town in a 2004 remake, the neighborhood wives seem a tad robotic
Stepford
Whitney
$2,000 [23]
Brontology
thunder

Final Jeopardy!

17th CENTURY WRITING

This 17th century work quotes the Book of Job, "Behold the giants groan under water, and they that dwell with them"

Leviathan

Whitney "What is The Tempest?" — wagered $3,333
Susie "What is Gulliver's Travels?" — wagered $3,000
Julia "What is The Decameron?" — wagered $3,000

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