Show #8430 2021-06-25 (taped 2021-03-24) Regular

Last game with Savannah Guthrie as guest host.Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to The Bowery Mission.

Contestants

Nikkee Porcaro — an educational consultant and tutor originally from Lebanon, New Jersey

Austin Weiss — a pediatrician from San Diego, California

Arman Ramnath — a law student from Columbus, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,205)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Arman $3,400 $3,600 $3,200 $200
3rd place: $1,000
$3,000
12 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Austin $3,400 $6,400 $13,600 $12,900
New champion: $12,900
$13,600
19 R, 0 W
Nikkee $1,200 $3,400 $19,500 $11,700
2nd place: $2,000
$17,000
18 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

OUT WEST IN THE U.S. AROUND THE GARDEN? THEY ARE QUITE THE CHARACTERS! SINGING WHAT ELSE SHOULD "IB"? ANTHROPOLOGY
$200 [1]
Colleges in this sports conference include the University of Washington & Arizona State
the Pac-12
Austin
$200 [6]
A reward is paired with a punishment in the phrase this veggie "& stick"
carrot
Nikkee
$200 [16]
Madeline Martha MacKenzie on the small screen, June Carter Cash on the big
(Reese) Witherspoon
Austin
$200 [30]
The lowest range of male voice, it's also a musical instrument
bass
Nikkee
$200 [11]
You ain't got no this, an innocence-proving story from the Latin for "elsewhere"
alibi
Austin
$200 [22]
Begun in 2005, the Genographic Project to track historic migration aimed to use 100,000 samples of this from indigenous peoples
DNA
Austin
$400 [2]
This 1,450-mile river is a major source of water for 40 million people in the Southwest
the Colorado River
Austin Nikkee
$400 [20]
It's the mysterious dying utterance of the title character of "Citizen Kane"
Rosebud
Austin
$400 [12]
Presidential daughter Zoey Bartlet, ad woman Peggy Olson
Elisabeth Moss
Arman
$400 [28]
If you hit a random piano key & your 5-year-old tells you it's a D-sharp, she has this quality & a singing career may be in store
perfect pitch
Nikkee
$400 [10]
To drone on & on in the Senate to delay the body from acting on something, not just in their usual way, but for a specific purpose
filibuster
Arman
$400 [21]
Mexico City's Museum of Anthropology has a representation of the history of the world via a 25-tonsun stone from this 16th century empire
the Aztecs
Arman
$600 [3]
This California city known for its wineries was founded in 1847 & sits on a river of the same name
Napa
Arman
$600 [19]
This 2-word phrase refers to something unimportant, probably referring to a tuber that wasn't worth peeling
small potatoes
Austin
$600 [13]
Him in "Mother!"; a coin toss: he also played Anton Chigurh
Bardem
Austin
$600 [26]
In one anecdote Mack Sennett said, I hear that you sing & Bing Crosby replied, "Yes, they call me" this kind of singer
a crooner
Arman
$600 [7]
Thesquareis inscribed in the circle; the circle does this to the square
circumscribe
Nikkee
$600 [23]
The Tarahumara, who have an incredible ability to win 50-mile races, are the topic of this bestseller with a Springsteen title
Born to Run
Austin
DD $1,000 [4]
In 1806 this explorer who gets 2nd billing carved his name on Pompey’s Pillar, a rock formation on the Yellowstone River
(William) Clark
Arman
$800 [18]
In a Simon & Garfunkel song, this quartet is in the line after "Are you going to Scarborough Fair?"
parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme
Arman
$800 [14]
The fast-to-fury Hobbs, the not-quite-himself Dr. Smolder Bravestone
Dwayne Johnson (The Rock)
$800 [27]
Barry Gibb is famous for this "untrue" type of high singing voice
falsetto
Nikkee
$800 [8]
Abstinence from physical intimacy
celibacy
Nikkee
$800 [24]
A theory named for this vast grassland of Europe & Asia says the Indo-European languages originated there
the Steppe
Nikkee
$1,000 [5]
This seat of Multnomah County is home to the World Forestry Center & an annual Rose Festival
Portland
Austin
$1,000 [17]
On a military uniform, this "cluster" denotes further awards of a decoration already received
the oak leaf cluster
$1,000 [15]
Tami Taylor of little Dillon, Texas; Rayna Jaymes of big Nashville, Tennessee
Connie Britton
Arman
$1,000 [29]
Giovanni Rubini was a master of this vocal effect, the natural wavering of pitch while singing a note
vibrato
Austin
$1,000 [9]
Thissub type of vehicle used for exploring the deep is less wide-ranging & autonomous than a submarine
a submersible
Austin
$1,000 [25]
Elsie Clews Parsons covered the Zuni & Hopi in her landmark book on the religion of these peoples of Arizona & New Mexico
the Pueblo

Double Jeopardy! Round

JOLIE OLD FRANCE WEATHER SONGS JOURNALISTS AMERICAN FACTORY WORLD LITERATURE 7-LETTER WORDS
$400 [30]
In the 50s B.C. this man led Roman military campaigns into France, which was then part of Transalpine Gaul
Caesar
Austin
$400 [29]
There's clearly inclement weather in Rihanna's song about this title object, which she offers shelter under
an umbrella
Arman
$400 [26]
In 1833 this "shining" New York newspaper established the penny press & George Wisner was its first reporter
the (New York) Sun
Arman Austin
$400 [28]
He introduced the assembly line in his Highland Park factory in Detroit
(Henry) Ford
Arman
$400 [10]
Antoine de Saint-Exupery is best remembered for the 1943 children's tale "The Little" this
Prince
Nikkee
$400 [5]
It can start a campaign or a football game
a kickoff
Arman Nikkee
$800 [22]
In an effort to strangle it economically, Napoleon imposed his "Continental System" blockade on this nation, France's foe
England
Austin
$800 [11]
The Beatles rejoiced, "Good Day" this & then rested "beneath a shady tree"
Sunshine
Nikkee
$800 [8]
Matt Bai, Judith Crist & Steve Kroft have been honored as distinguished alumni of this university's School of Journalism
Columbia
$800 [27]
These "planetary" rockets that took us to the Moon were made in the NASA vehicle assembly building in Florida
the Saturn V rockets
$1,200 [7]
Russian characters can be confusing & Gogol didn't help with a story about a quarrel by 2 men who both had this common first name
Ivan
Arman
$800 [4]
Aristotle said about this infliction of pain: "People under its compulsion tell lies" as often as the truth
torture
Austin
$1,200 [18]
Hereis painter Jean-Pierre Houël's depiction of the fall of this fortress to revolutionary forces in 1789
the Bastille
Nikkee
$1,200 [12]
The Bangles noted, "Look around, leaves are brown and the sky is" this "shade of winter"
hazy
Arman
$1,200 [16]
Mary Marvin Breckenridgewas the only woman among the World War II era correspondents known as this reporter's "Boys"
Edward R. Murrow
Arman
$1,600 [17]
This company's Harvester Works are in Illinois; its Tractor Cab assembly is in Iowa
(John) Deere
Arman Nikkee
DD $1,500 [6]
Written by the 11th century poet, Ferdowsi, "Shahnameh" is considered the national epic of this country
Iran
Nikkee
$1,200 [1]
This adjective for a mass of ice often describes a slow pace, like of cars in a traffic jam
glacial
Austin
$1,600 [19]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau advocated for human liberty in works like this 1762 "Social" one
contract
Nikkee
$1,600 [13]
Guns N' Roses sang that "It's hard to hold a candle" in this type of cold autumn deluge
November Rain
Austin
$1,600 [9]
He turned his experiences as a teenage rock journalist into the movie "Almost Famous"
(Cameron) Crowe
Nikkee
$2,000 [25]
In the 19th century, these 2 men started a Rochester, New York factory to make eyeglass lenses; contact lenses came later
Bausch and Lomb
Nikkee
$1,600 [20]
Novels in the horror genre by Bram Stoker include "The Lair of" this colorful snakelike creature
the White Worm
$1,600 [2]
The National Federation of the Blind uses this word, not "unblind"
sighted
$2,000 [23]
In 751 Charles Martel's son, this guy "the Short", deposed the last Merovingian ruler & became king of the Franks
Pepin
Nikkee
$2,000 [14]
In a Jimi Hendrix song, first the wind whispers, then cries, then screams her name
Mary
Arman
$2,000 [15]
Beforehercareer at PBS, NPR & CNN, she just went by her last name Hunter when shedesegregated the University of Georgia in 1961
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
DD $3,000 [21]
In 2016 this company opened a 1.3-million square foot composite wing center
Boeing
Nikkee
$2,000 [24]
The author of works like "Cevdet Bey & His Sons", Orhan Pamuk was the first Nobel literature prize winner from this country
Turkey
Austin
$2,000 [3]
An airplane's maximum altitude in sustained flight
a ceiling
Arman

Final Jeopardy!

NEW YORK CITY

Bright new lighting installed in 1880 on a street that crosses Manhattan diagonally led to this 3-word nickname

the Great White Way

Arman "What is Times Square Crossing?" — wagered $3,000
Austin "What is Broadway?" — wagered $700
Nikkee "What The Miracle Mile" — wagered $7,800

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