Show #8425 2021-06-18 (taped 2021-03-23) Regular

Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to The Bowery Mission.

Contestants

Elaine Filadelfo — a data researcher from Washington, D.C.

Trenton Woodley — a law student and freelance politico from Memphis, Tennessee

Emily White — a public relations specialist from Wilmington, Delaware (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Emily $5,200 $7,400 $10,800 $21,500
2-day champion: $50,100
$14,000
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Trenton $800 $3,400 $6,800 $3,599
3rd place: $1,000
$6,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 7 W
Elaine $1,400 $3,800 $16,200 $10,799
2nd place: $2,000
$16,200
17 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR NOVEL STOCK: MARKETS CINEMAPOURRI SCAVENGERS ASSEMBLE! AGE BEFORE BEAUTY
$200 [11]
Catherine &Isabella Linton
Wuthering Heights
Emily
$200 [19]
COST is the stock symbol for this company--don't overthink it
Costco
Trenton
$200 [2]
The 2 turtles Sylvester Stallone had in "Creed 2" are the same turtles he had in this 1976 movie
Rocky
Trenton
$200 [28]
Though they may have fluff, many vultures lack these on their heads & faces, perhaps to prevent bacterial infections from carrion
feathers
Emily
$200 [16]
With a pass to Antonio Brown in 2021, this quarterback became the oldest to throw a postseason touchdown
Tom Brady
Elaine
$200 [1]
An open-mouthed scientific vessel, or a squeaky Muppet
beaker
Elaine
$400 [12]
Percy Jackson, in his first novel
The Lightning Thief
Trenton
$400 [20]
KR is the stock symbol for this major supermarket chain
Kroger
Trenton
$400 [3]
C.B. DeMille made 21 huge Sphinxes for a 1923 version of this Bible epic & now they'rebeing dug from the dunes where they were left
The Ten Commandments
Emily
$400 [27]
A 2013 study said these fish are more likely to scavenge than hunt when they are longer than 14 feet
great white sharks
$400 [17]
One of the oldest living organisms, the pando of Utah is a grove of quaking these trees
aspens
Emily
$400 [7]
Stew on this! It's a hyphenated term for an accountant
a bean-counter
$600 [23]
Miss Lucy Westenra, the first victim in Great Britain
Dracula
Emily
$600 [13]
This mega-retailer that joined the Dow Industrials in 1997 is near the bottom of the list alphabetically
Walmart
Trenton
$600 [4]
Paige O'Hara & Robby Benson voiced the title pair of this Disney film
Beauty and the Beast
$600 [26]
Animals that eat from the sea floor, like lobsters, are known as this hyphenated term, also an amoral opportunist
a bottom-feeder
Elaine
$600 [14]
This infamous Boston gangster was once the oldest fugitive to make the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list at age 69
Whitey Bulger
Emily
$600 [8]
Here'san artist impression of one of these, an unconventional '50s cool cat
a beatnik
Emily
$800 [24]
Raskolnikov
Crime and Punishment
Elaine
$800 [22]
WFM was once the stock symbol for this company, but Amazon bought it
Whole Foods
Elaine
$800 [5]
In this film Bogie's character says that Katharine Hepburn's had "ten absurd ideas for my one"
The African Queen
Trenton Elaine
$800 [29]
Thriving in urban areas, these carnivores also called ringtails are really scavengers & willingly share food
raccoons
Emily
$1,000 [18]
Some of the oldest paleolithic hand axes were found in this gorge near Serengeti National Park
Olduvai Gorge
$800 [9]
In French, this 8-letter word means "a lot"
beaucoup
Emily
$1,000 [25]
Bigger Thomas, a Black youth in Chicago
Native Son
Trenton
$1,000 [21]
Tesco Stores is listed on this city's stock market
London
Emily
$1,000 [6]
Here's this woman who won no fewer than eight Academy Awards forcostume design
Edith Head
Elaine
$1,000 [30]
These dog-sized marsupials named for an Australian island can clean their plates--bones, fur & all
Tasmanian devils
Trenton
DD $2,600 [15]
Thanks to a 1386 treaty signed by Richard II & João I England's oldest ally is this country
Portugal
Emily
$1,000 [10]
This name comes before "wind force scale" in a meteorological ranking system
Beaufort
Elaine

Double Jeopardy! Round

A SPENDY LITTLE WAR A TALE OF 2 GEORGIAS BIBLICAL ART CLOTH & FABRIC DRAMA SERIES WRITING EMMYS GIVING CONSONANT ATTENTION
$400 [1]
A short 1840s war with this country cost the U.S. an estimated $71 million, or around $3 billion today
Mexico
Elaine
$400 [18]
Our Georgia is on the Atlantic; the country of Georgia is sandwiched between Turkey & Russia along this sea
the Black Sea
Emily Trenton
$400 [28]
For the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo painted "The Fall of Man" & "The Expulsion from" this place
the Garden of Eden
Emily
$400 [12]
Tweed is a fabric that can be made with this basic weave that also starts with "tw"
twill
Emily Trenton
$400 [2]
Dr. Lance Gentile started as a medical adviser on this Michael Crichton-created show & by 1995 was writing & winning Emmys for it
ER
Trenton
$400 [7]
DCDS:shedding seasonally
deciduous
Elaine
$800 [14]
A 2010 congressional report estimated that this war cost the U.S. 1.1% of its 1899 GDP
the Spanish-American War
Emily
$800 [19]
Most of Georgia's Kolkhida lowland used to be a stagnant one of these; our Georgia has the Okefenokee one
a swamp
Trenton
$800 [27]
Seen here on a 14th century German panel is Jesus, raising him from the dead
Lazarus
Trenton
$800 [13]
This light, crinkled fabric shares a name with a light, crinkly paper
crepe
Trenton
$800 [3]
In 2019 Jesse Armstrong won for this HBO show about the dysfunctional Roy family, running a media empire
Succession
Elaine
$800 [8]
GLC:relating to Celtic highlanders
Gaelic
Elaine
$1,200 [15]
In 1975 The New York Times reported that China & the U.S.S.R. had given $7.5 billion in aid to this country, 40% for its military
North Vietnam
Emily Trenton
$1,200 [22]
In the U.S., Georgia borders Alabama; on its south, Georgia borders this country that also begins & ends with "A"
Armenia
Elaine
$1,200 [25]
Tintoretto painted "The Conversion of Saint Paul" on his way to this city
Damascus
Emily Trenton
$1,200 [23]
Madefrom hemp or jute, it's the 6-letter type of canvas seen here
burlap
Emily
$1,200 [4]
This man was nominated for "Twin Peaks" in 1990 but lost out to David E. Kelley for an episode of "L.A. Law"
(David) Lynch
Elaine
$1,200 [9]
VR:French term describing the overall lifework of a writer
oeuvre
$1,600 [16]
$350 billion is one estimate for what these 2 Mideast countries spent fighting each other from 1980 to 1988
Iran & Iraq
Emily
DD $1,800 [20]
Georgia's capital Atlanta is a sister city to this national capital of Georgia
Tbilisi
Trenton
$2,000 [30]
Van Dyck depicted Jesus crowned with thorns in this painting whose name means "behold the man"
Ecce Homo
Emily
$1,600 [24]
The fleece of this llama & vicuna relative is prized & comes in almost 2 dozen natural colors
alpaca
Trenton
$1,600 [5]
"Life on the Street" was the subtitle of this Baltimore-set cop show that won in 1993 for Tom Fontana
Homicide
Elaine
$1,600 [10]
Z:a Greek liqueur
ouzo
Emily
$2,000 [17]
Britain's victory in this 1754-1763 war nearly doubled the national debt
the French and Indian War
Trenton
$2,000 [21]
In the U.S., the Blue Ridge Mountains reach into northern Georgia; in Europe this "Great" range is to the north
the Caucasus
Trenton
DD $5,000 [29]
Stolen in Israel in 1996, this Russian-born artist's "Jacob's Ladder" was recovered in 2015 & sold at auction in 2020
Marc Chagall
Emily
$2,000 [26]
Threads of metal are woven intothis4-letter fabric with a French name
lamé
Elaine
$2,000 [6]
In 1994, all 5 nominees were for episodes of this police series set in the fictional 15th Precinct in Manhattan
NYPD Blue
Trenton Elaine
$2,000 [11]
BSQS:it's from the Latin for "compliant", perhaps to excess
obsequious
Elaine

Final Jeopardy!

FICTION

In a 1915 story by this European, a woman finds a corpse & says, "It's gone & croaked--just lying there, dead as a doornail!"

(Franz) Kafka

Trenton "Who is?" — wagered $3,201
Emily "Who is Kafka?" — wagered $10,700
Elaine "Who is Agatha Christie?" — wagered $5,401

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