Show #8416 2021-06-07 (taped 2021-03-16) Regular

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

Contestants

Verlinda Johnson Henning — a human resources consultant from Memphis, Tennessee

Derek Allen — an accountant from Cassopolis, Mighigan

Julia Markham Cameron — an attorney from Brooklyn, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $26,250)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Julia $1,800 $6,600 $17,400 $4,799
2nd place: $2,000
$17,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Derek $1,600 $5,000 $11,000 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$10,200
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Verlinda $4,000 $4,200 $15,000 $17,500
New champion: $17,500
$15,000
18 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

LANDMARKS TOP BRITISH BABY NAMES SOME GOOD NEWS ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES HEIR GUITAR BRING IT "ON"
$200 [11]
This suspension bridge links San Francisco & Marin County
the Golden Gate Bridge
Derek
$200 [18]
Here's a twist--in 2019, the top name for boys was this, like Dickens' young Mr. Twist
Oliver
Verlinda
$200 [23]
In 2020 this Canadian province purchased a hotel in the capital of Victoria to house its homeless population
British Columbia
Derek
$200 [14]
Sept. 22, 1776: The British take the life of this American spy at what is now the corner of 66th & 3rd in Manhattan
Nathan Hale
Julia
$200 [1]
The Hard Rock Hotel in Tulsa featured guitars signed by Miley Cyrus & this man, her father
Billy Ray Cyrus
Julia
$200 [6]
In the mid-1990s CALCampus became one of the first schools to offer real-time college courses this way
online
Verlinda
$400 [12]
Recent research suggests segments of this British landmark were moved 150 miles from Wales--quite a job
Stonehenge
Verlinda
$400 [19]
Popular floral names include Rose, Lily & this one, like the flower seen here
Daisy
Julia
$400 [24]
Looking for a Jigglypuff on this app craze led a pair of players to "go" save a wounded puppy--awwww...
Pokémon Go
Julia
$400 [15]
Oct. 20, 1632: This future architect is born in England & within a few years, probably begins to design buildings on the floor
Christopher Wren
Derek
$400 [2]
Playing with this Beatle's son Dhani, Paul McCartney repeated the line, "It looks likehestayed young and we all got old"
(George) Harrison
Julia
$400 [7]
It means the beginning of, often in regards to an illness
onset
Verlinda
$600 [13]
In its own country, it's known as Wan-li Chang cheng
the Great Wall of China
Verlinda
$600 [20]
While Freya is on the rise, this name shared by Blunt & Mortimer dropped a few notches
Emily
Julia
$600 [25]
In 2020, a pygmy one of these--an endangered species--was born at the San Diego Zoo for the first time in over 30 years
a hippo (a pygmy hippopotamus)
Julia
$600 [28]
July 30, 1898: This ex-Prussian prime minister sinks into destiny
Otto von Bismarck
$600 [3]
Daughter Rosanne played guitar & duetted with this country legend on "September When It Comes"
Johnny Cash
Verlinda
$600 [8]
In the title of a hymn, it precedes "Christian Soldiers"
Onward
Julia
$1,000 [17]
A surveyor named this monolith for a south Australian prime minister; its Aboriginal name has no direct English translation
Uluru (Ayers Rock)
Julia
$800 [21]
"How sweet the sound" of this name meaning a divine favor or blessing
Grace
Julia
$800 [26]
A therapy dog named Moose got an honorary doctorate in veterinary medicine from this school based in Blacksburg
Virginia Tech
Derek
$800 [29]
Nov. 2, 1865: It's a bouncing baby future president in Corsica, Ohio & like so many newborns, he gets the middle name Gamaliel
Warren Harding
Derek
$800 [4]
This Jamaican singer taught his son Ziggy how to play guitar & drums & by age 10, Ziggy was sitting in on recording sessions
Bob Marley
Verlinda
$800 [9]
It's a synonym for observer or spectator
onlooker
Julia
DD $1,600 [16]
Commissioned to celebrate France's military victories, it stands smack in the middle of Place Charles de Gaulle
the Arc de Triomphe
Derek
$1,000 [22]
This boy's name popular in Wales belonged to Welsh national hero Glendower
Owen
$1,000 [27]
A city in Costa Rica has given citizenship to bees due to this role they play in the ecosystem
pollinators
Julia
$1,000 [30]
August 8, 1866: He is born to sharecropper parents in Maryland; the North Pole awaits
Matthew Henson
$1,000 [5]
This famous Jr. of country music sang "Waylon's Guitar", but that instrument was bought by Keith Urban
Hank Williams Jr.
Verlinda
$1,000 [10]
This 10-letter word is used for the process of orienting & integrating a new employee into a company
onboarding
Derek

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY BEFORE 1738 -ISMs U.K. TV SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CONSCIOUSNESS OF STREAM WRITING IT'S HYPHENATED
$400 [22]
From 1229 to 1241 Ogodei expanded the Mongol Empire as the son & successor of this man
Genghis Khan
Julia
$400 [13]
This economic -ism is also known as free enterprise
capitalism
Verlinda
$400 [17]
Jodie Whittaker first took on the title role of this series in a special 2017 episode
Doctor Who
Verlinda
$400 [8]
The Caribbean has lost more than 50% of these structures due to problems like overfishing, pollution & thermal stress
(coral) reefs
Derek Verlinda
$400 [4]
Mark Twain's memoir "Life on" it tells tales of one of America's great rivers
the Mississippi
Verlinda
$400 [1]
It describes a person who's anywhere from 45 to 65
middle-aged
Julia
$800 [23]
Meaning "lily flower", this emblem was adopted by French kings more than 900 years ago
a fleur-de-lis
Derek
$800 [14]
An erroneous reference in time, like showing a German shepherd in the film "Gladiator" (the breed didn't exist yet)
an anachronism
Julia Derek
$800 [18]
"Match of the Day" presents interviews & highlights from this British soccer league
the Premier League
Derek
$800 [12]
Topped by a year-round ski slope, Copen Hillis a waste-to-energyplantin this European nation
Denmark
Verlinda
$800 [7]
Jonathan Schneer's history of this river includes an account of the 1215 negotiation of the Magna Carta on its banks
the Thames
Derek
$800 [2]
Adjective for carpeting that covers the entire floor
wall-to-wall
Julia
$1,200 [24]
La Malinchewas a native woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast, who translated for & advised this conquistador
Hernán Cortés
Julia
$1,200 [15]
Saying "blushing crow" instead of "crushing blow" is one of these, named for an Anglican clergyman
a spoonerism
Julia
$1,200 [19]
Shehosted a British version of "The Weakest Link" before doing one in the States--goodbye!
Anne Robinson
$1,600 [29]
In 1893 this genius made a copper egg stand on end by using his rotating magnetic field device to rapidly spin it
Nikola Tesla
$1,200 [9]
Whistle a happy tune & name this Pierre Boulle World War II P.O.W. novel that was made into an Oscar-winning film
Bridge on the River Kwai
Verlinda
$1,200 [3]
It lines certain shells, like the abalone, seen here
mother-of-pearl
Derek
$1,600 [25]
This restored king of Great Britain reigned during the great plague & Great Fire that struck London in the 1660s
Charles II
$2,000 [21]
CAT scans can help diagnose pulmonary these -isms, obstructions of arteries
an embolism
Derek
$1,600 [20]
In season one of this series, Olivia Colman investigated a boy's murder in a seaside town
Broadchurch
Verlinda
DD $2,000 [27]
A common measure of walking was coined when a Japanese company called its pedometer the Manpo-kei, or this many steps "meter"
10,000 steps
Julia
$1,600 [10]
Alan Moorehead published histories of these 2 main branches of the world's longest river
the Blue Nile & the White Nile
Derek
$1,600 [5]
It's the familial relationship of Peter Sarsgaard to Jake Gyllenhaal
brother-in-law
Verlinda
$2,000 [26]
Beginning in 1168 Calixtus III ruled as one of these in opposition to Alexander III
an antipope
Julia
DD $4,000 [16]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from outside the Great Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary.) The Jewish Museum in Budapest, which is part of the Great Synagogue Complex, is built on the site of the house where Theodore Herzl, father of this movement, was born in 1860
Zionism
Julia
$2,000 [28]
Jack Davenport & Sarah Alexander were 2 of the 6 stars of this Britcom, a sort of U.K. version of "Friends"
Coupling
$2,000 [30]
In 2018 scientists discovered Przewalski's this animal is not truly wild but was once domesticated over 5,000 years ago
a horse
Julia
$2,000 [11]
4 men on a canoe trip in this James Dickey novel fight to survive the wild Cahulawassee River & scary locals
Deliverance
Verlinda
$2,000 [6]
This French name of the deadly pit viper seenhererefers to the shape of itshead
a fer-de-lance
Verlinda

Final Jeopardy!

GOLDEN AGE ACTRESSES

In 2013 the Victoria & Albert Museum acquired her archives, including letters from Laurence Olivier & Tennessee Williams

Vivien Leigh

Derek "Who is Olivia de Haviland" — wagered $11,000
Verlinda "WHOWho is Vivien Leigh?" — wagered $2,500
Julia "Who is Jessica Tandy?" — wagered $12,601

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