Show #8431 2021-06-28 (taped 2021-03-30) Regular

Courtney Shah game 1.First game with Dr. Sanjay Gupta as guest host.Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to Odyssey Atlanta.

Contestants

Spencer Pace — a store operations associate originally from Boston, Massachusetts

Courtney Shah — a community college instructor from Portland, Oregon

Austin Weiss — a pediatrician from San Diego, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Austin $400 $2,600 $20,400 $10,700
2nd place: $2,000
$16,200
16 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Courtney $2,000 $3,000 $11,400 $15,400
New champion: $15,400
$12,800
16 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Spencer $4,600 $6,600 $15,000 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$15,000
18 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

ROCK BANDS TALKING HEADS JOURNEY AMERICA THE CARS SOUND GARDEN
$200 [1]
Steven Tyler of this group said the Grateful Dead "were worried about us, so that gives you some idea of how (messed) up & crazy we were"
Aerosmith
Austin
$200 [15]
In an April 19, 1951 speech, he gave new life to the well-worn phrase "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away"
MacArthur
Courtney
$200 [18]
Gene Roddenberry was familiar with this word meaning "a journey" from the Afrikaans
trek
Courtney
$200 [10]
Residents of this South Dakota capital pronounce it to rhyme with "ear"
Pierre
Austin
$200 [22]
In 1997 Toyota introduced this model, the world's first mass-produced hybrid-powered vehicle
the Prius
Austin
$200 [26]
The garden object known as theshishi-odoshitranslates as scarer of these skittish ruminants who are thought to flee at the noise
deer
$400 [2]
In 2019 Pete Townshend & Roger Daltrey released this band's first album in 13 years
The Who
Spencer
$400 [11]
The first deaf & blind person to earn a bachelor of arts, this woman noted, "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement"
Helen Keller
Spencer
$400 [16]
"Hero" this type of searching journey in folklore is the name of a Milton Bradley fantasy game
quest ( HeroQuest )
$400 [7]
Makes sense that this is by far the most populous county in Wisconsin
Milwaukee County
Spencer
$400 [21]
This interior panel evolved from a piece of wood attached to a carriage that prevented mud from splattering the driver
the dashboard
Courtney
$400 [27]
I heard you coming up the garden walkway due to the crunchy stones called "pea" this I used to line the path
gravel
Courtney
$600 [3]
The classic "Free Bird" by this southern rock group was a tribute to Duane Allman
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Spencer
$600 [12]
This Secretary of Defense during the Iraq War offered, "There are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know"
Rumsfeld
Spencer
$600 [17]
Norway has revived a 400-mile one of these religious journeys that was not taken much since the Protestant Reformation
a pilgrimage
Spencer
$600 [6]
When this Connecticut city was really "new" in 1683, it was called Quinnipiac
New Haven
Spencer
$600 [23]
For the 2016 James Bond movie "Spectre", this British automaker built a new model, the DB10, especially for the film
Aston Martin
Spencer
$600 [28]
Less noisy than today's models, here'san antique pair of these implements that help keep my garden in top shape
a lawn mower
Courtney
$800 [4]
At the 2019 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, this group played "Boys Don't Cry"
The Cure
Spencer
$800 [13]
This American Red Cross founder said she'd sometimes teach for free but if paid, "Never do a man's work for less than a man's pay"
Clara Barton
Spencer
$1,000 [20]
Many strikingphotos were brought back by the 1901-1904 British National Antarcticthis Venture
Expedition
Austin
$800 [8]
The Guadalupe, Trinity & Sabine Rivers all flow through this state
Texas
Courtney
$800 [24]
The adventures of this Ford model named for Ford's estate lasted from 1955 through 1970 when the name was dropped in the U.S.
the Fairlane
Courtney
$800 [29]
I use wind chimes in my garden as part of this 2-word Chinese art that aspires to harmonious balance
feng shui
Spencer
$1,000 [5]
Fans of this current band are known as Firebreathers
Imagine Dragons
$1,000 [14]
Attributed to this leader of the Soviet Union in the 1970s: "The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win"
Brezhnev
Austin Courtney
DD $1,400 [19]
An epic poem that begins by talking about a hero's travels gave us this word for a journey
odyssey
Courtney
$1,000 [9]
Bald Mountain is a popular skiing area in this Idaho valley
Sun Valley
Austin
$1,000 [25]
A status symbol of the time, some say this company's Bearcat put the "roar" in the Roaring Twenties
Stutz
$1,000 [30]
The flower seenhereis the angel's this, & while it doesn't make a sound like a brass instrument, it rustles nicely in the breeze
trumpet
Austin

Double Jeopardy! Round

NOVELLAS ISLAMIC HISTORY "A" BEFORE "E" JAMES BEARD CHEF OF THE YEAR SCIENCE CHANNEL ISLANDS
$400 [30]
3 astronauts are marooned in the future in the Nebula Award-winning 1976 novella this city, this city, "Do You Read?"
Houston
Courtney
$400 [7]
At a 657 battle during the First Fitna, or Civil War, fighting stopped after soldiers put pages of this on their lances
the Quran
Spencer
$400 [21]
Fog & mist are considered types of this, though they don't come out of a can
an aerosol
$400 [5]
In 2013 David Chang won for his noodle restaurant Momofuku, named for the inventor of this instant noodle dish
Ramen noodles (ramen)
$400 [24]
In photosynthesis, green plants use sunlight & carbon dioxide to produce this simple sugar as an energy source
glucose
Austin
$400 [29]
Just imagine the crossover episode of "Elementary" & "Friends", as both took place primarily on this island
Manhattan
Courtney
$800 [14]
This Englishwoman's novella "The Lifted Veil" had a prophetic title, as it was soon revealed that George was a pseudonym
George Eliot
Spencer
$800 [13]
A dispute over the rightful successor to Muhammad splintered Islam into these 2 main rival branches
Sunni & Shia
Courtney
$800 [20]
Tree slothsare tinged green not with envy but with a type of this that grows in their fur
algae
Courtney
$800 [4]
In addition to winning in 1997 for the French Laundry, Thomas Keller created the look of the title dish of this 2007 Pixar film
Ratatouille
Austin
$800 [19]
This "ancient life" geologic era ended about 250 million years ago as most species on Earth died out
Paleozoic
$800 [27]
The Arrow, Swan & Pearl stations were all created by the Dharma Initiative for the island on this show
Lost
$1,200 [15]
Thomas Mann wrote a 1903 novella about an unheroic guy ironically titled this name of Isolde's lover
Tristan
Spencer
$1,200 [11]
A caliphate established in Baghdad in the 8th century endured until the 1258 sack of the city by these Asian invaders
the Mongols
Austin
$1,200 [10]
Before some of them fuse together, your spine consists of 33 of these bones
vertebrae
Spencer
$1,200 [1]
Born in Spain, he was the 2011 James Beard Chef of the Year & the 2018 James Beard Humanitarian of the Year
(José) Andrés
Austin
$1,200 [18]
Discovered in 1956, this subatomic particle with no charge & very little mass is part of a family of particles called leptons
neutrinos
Austin Spencer
$1,200 [6]
This show was rebooted in 1998 with Malcolm McDowell as Mr. Roarke; Michael Pena played the role in the 2020 film
Fantasy Island
Courtney
$1,600 [16]
Melville House Press offers classic novellas in book form, & of course included the tale of this title sailor by Melville himself
Billy Budd
Spencer
$1,600 [9]
After winning the 1187 Battle of Hattin, this sultan personally beheaded a crusader who had broken a Muslim-Christian truce
Saladin
Austin
$1,600 [12]
Originating in Valencia, Spain, it's the tasty dish seen here
paella
Courtney
$2,000 [3]
2010 was good for this man, he won a James Beard award for Craft, his restaurant, & an Emmy, for "Top Chef" on Bravo
(Tom) Colicchio
Austin
$1,600 [23]
Used to make nuclear fuel, impure uranium oxide is known by this "colorful" name
yellowcake
Courtney
$1,600 [26]
A 1981 made-for-TV movie saw this basketball team pitted against robots, with the fate of "Gilligan's Island" on the line
the Harlem Globetrotters
Courtney
$2,000 [17]
In English, "Cronica de Una Muerte Anunciada" by Gabriel García Márquez is titled "Chronicle of" this
a Death Foretold
$2,000 [8]
The Arabic word for this Mystic form of Islam is Tasawwuf, "to dress in wool", as early adherents are thought to have done
Sufism
Spencer
$2,000 [22]
They're those tiny little bumps on the surface of your tongue
papillae
Austin
DD $3,800 [2]
Alice Waters, the first woman to win the award, won for Chez Panisse in this California college town
Berkeley
Austin
DD $4,000 [25]
This physicist's effect is the change in a wave's frequency based on this relative motion between observer & source
the Doppler effect
Austin
$2,000 [28]
Sissy Spacek & Sam Shepard ran an inn in the Florida Keys on this "sanguine" Netflix show
Bloodline
Austin

Final Jeopardy!

MONARCHIES

The future Charles I suddenly became next in line to the throne of Austria in this year

1914

Courtney "What is 1914?" — wagered $4,000
Spencer "What is 1500?" — wagered $14,999
Austin "What is 1945?" — wagered $9,700

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