Show #8487 2021-10-12 (taped 2021-09-09) Regular

Jonathan Fisher game 2.

Contestants

Robinson-Gissette Cruz — an art assistant from the Bronx, New York

Brittany Iburg — a stay-at-home mom from Roswell, Georgia

Jonathan Fisher — an actor originally from Coral Gables, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $29,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jonathan $6,200 $9,000 $30,000 $22,500
2-day champion: $51,700
$31,000
32 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Brittany $1,400 $4,400 $5,200 $7,201
2nd place: $2,000
$4,200
11 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Robinson-Gissette $-1,000 $400 $3,600 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$3,600
10 R (including 1 DD), 6 W

Jeopardy! Round

YOU'VE BEEN A GREAT AUDIENCE LET'S INTRODUCE THE "BAND" OUR LEAD SINGER ON BASE AT THE ORGAN & PLAYING TRIANGLE
$200 [1]
David Copperfield had a standard magic trick where he made this happen to 13 audience members
he made them disappear
Brittany
$200 [6]
10-letter term for illegally smuggled stuff
contraband
Jonathan
$200 [11]
Hosting "SNL", Carey Mulligan said she liked to call this band "My Husband & Sons", hubby Marcus being its lead singer
Mumford & Sons
Jonathan
$200 [26]
In 1958 this kid from Memphis traded in his blue suede shoes & got some Army issue ones at Arkansas' Fort Chaffee
Elvis Presley
Brittany
$200 [21]
It precedes "bean" in something you may enjoy & precedes "stone" in something you very much would not
kidney
Brittany
$200 [16]
"The sum of any 2 sides of a triangle is equal to or greater than the 3rd side" means this is the short route between 2 points
a straight line
$400 [2]
Broadway theaters have at least 500 seats; off-Broadway ones tend to have 100 to 499 & these with a similar name, under 100
off-off Broadway
Brittany
$400 [7]
Printed cotton handkerchief used as headwear
a bandana
Jonathan Robinson-Gissette
$400 [12]
Before Maroon 5, his high school band called Kara's Flowers appeared in an episode of "Beverly Hills 90210"
Adam Levine
Jonathan
$400 [27]
Seen here, a soldier is taking in the view of Mount Rainier at Joint Base Lewis McChord in this state
Washington
Jonathan
$400 [22]
It's the organ that's often contrasted with brawn
brain
Brittany
$600 [18]
Just like a boat, windmills like the ones seenhereuse a type of triangular sail with this 3-letter name
a jib
Jonathan
$600 [3]
Partly to keep the audience awake, he kept the Ed Sullivan Theater at 55 degrees when taping his late-night show that ended in 2015
David Letterman
Jonathan Robinson-Gissette
$600 [8]
It can be a movement propelled by sheer momentum or something that literally conveys musicians
a bandwagon
Jonathan Robinson-Gissette
$600 [13]
Lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong says Serena Williams, a superfan of this band, always requests they play "Disappearing Boy"
Green Day
Robinson-Gissette
$600 [28]
John McCain was born on a U.S. military base near a strategic waterway in this country
Panama
Robinson-Gissette
$600 [23]
This protein- & iron-rich chicken part in "chopped" form is also in a common rhetorical question
liver
Brittany
$800 [19]
This 6th century B.C. man's theorem about the lengths of the sides of a right triangle is actually far older than even he is
Pythagoras
Robinson-Gissette
$800 [4]
A Haydn symphony is nicknamed "Miracle" after the tale that one of these fell & smashed in a miraculously empty audience area
a chandelier
$800 [9]
This nickname for a slot machine that dates back to the 1930s sounds like someone who is about to rob you
a one-armed bandit
Jonathan
$800 [15]
Hereis this singer, who died far too young, far from home in Paris
Jim Morrison
Brittany
$800 [29]
In 1968 an air reserve base in Indiana was named for this Hoosier astronaut killed in a fire the year before
Gus Grissom
Robinson-Gissette
$800 [24]
Speak with one of these, also found in some snakes' mouths, & your intent is to deceive
a forked tongue
Jonathan Brittany Robinson-Gissette
$1,000 [20]
In Pascal's triangle, any two numbers add up to the number below & between them; adding diagonally yields this man'ssequence
Fibonacci
Brittany
$1,000 [5]
Putting down hecklers 1765-style, this Virginia orator responded to cries of "treason" with "If this be treason, make the most of it"
Patrick Henry
Jonathan
$1,000 [10]
Lewis Carroll's "frumious" creature
a bandersnatch
Jonathan
$1,000 [14]
In 1984 Chris Cornell co-founded this band named after an art installation in Seattle
Soundgarden
Jonathan
$1,000 [30]
This Marine "Camp" outside of San Diego was used in TV shows like "Gomer Pyle" & "Baa Baa Black Sheep"
Pendleton
Jonathan
$1,000 [25]
Synonyms for this word, also an organ, include vesicle, sac & pouch
bladder
DD $1,400 [17]
The ancient Greeks compared the constellation Triangulum to this capital letter of theirs
delta
Brittany

Double Jeopardy! Round

WHO DIRECTED IT? JESUS GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION FIRSTS EUROPEAN HISTORY MAKING A SHORT STORY LONG IN- IS OUT
$400 [6]
"Riding in Cars with Boys","Awakenings"
(Penny) Marshall
Jonathan
$400 [16]
In Luke Chapter 2 verse 4, Joseph goes to this city where the baby Jesus makes his appearance a bit later
Bethlehem
Robinson-Gissette
$400 [18]
Friedrich Froebel started the first of these schools in Germany in 1837 & started the day with merry songs
kindergarten
Brittany
$400 [15]
In medieval politics the Ghibellines supported the emperor; the Guelphs were loyal to the man with this title
the Pope
Robinson-Gissette
$400 [7]
This dog "Come-Home" first appeared as a 1938 Saturday Evening Post story; a novel followed, then radio, movies & TV
Lassie
Jonathan
$400 [25]
Remove "in-" from a word meaning keen perception to get this school cost
tuition
Jonathan
$800 [5]
"When They See Us","A Wrinkle in Time", "Selma"
Ava DuVernay
Jonathan
$800 [21]
In Matthew 3 John the Baptist is reluctant to baptize Jesus in this river
the Jordan
Jonathan
$800 [19]
In 1783 Poland was the first country to ban this in schools; it's also banned in the country's constitution
corporal punishment
Brittany Robinson-Gissette
$800 [14]
In the mid-1800s Russia began building these routes with a 5-foot gauge, wider than the European standard
railways
Jonathan
$800 [8]
This sci-fi great teamed with Robert Silverberg to expand his classic 1941 short story "Nightfall" into a 1990 novel
Isaac Asimov
Robinson-Gissette
$800 [26]
An affirmative interjection loses "in-" & turns into this legal document
a deed
Jonathan
$1,200 [4]
1991's"Point Break","Zero Dark Thirty"
Kathryn Bigelow
Jonathan
$1,200 [17]
When Jesus was 12 he went to the festival of Passover in this city, as was the tradition of his parents
Jerusalem
Brittany Robinson-Gissette
DD $1,000 [29]
In 1761 Claude Bourgelat, who wrote "Sur la médecine des chevaux", set up the first school for this profession
a veterinarian
Jonathan
$1,200 [10]
King Gustav III of this country was shot at the opera house in 1792 & died 2 weeks later
Sweden
Jonathan
$1,200 [11]
Jonathan Safran Foer expanded his short story "The Very Rigid Search" into the novel "Everything is" this
Illuminated
Jonathan
$1,600 [28]
A thank you-less person loses "in-" to become this frame of metal bars
a grate
$1,600 [3]
"Wonder Woman", episodes of "Entourage" & "Arrested Development"
Patty Jenkins
Jonathan
$1,600 [22]
From Hebrew for "oil press", this garden across the Kidron Valley is depictedhereby Raphael
Gethsemane
Jonathan
$1,200 [20]
Golfer Terry Williams was the USA's first woman to receive one of these, from the University of Miami in 1973
a sports scholarship
Jonathan
$1,600 [1]
In 1240, Henry III had the central keep of the fortress seenherepainted, giving rise tothis2-word name
the White Tower
Jonathan Robinson-Gissette
$1,600 [12]
"Big Creek Missile Agency", Homer Hickam's article about his childhood, became this book that became the movie "October Sky"
Rocket Boys
$2,000 [27]
A breathing verb loses "in-" & turns into this hearty word
hale
Jonathan
$2,000 [2]
"Red Hot Chili Peppers: Dark Necessities", "Booksmart"
Olivia Wilde
Jonathan
$2,000 [23]
The Hebrew name Nahum gave us the name of this city where several of the disciples were chosen
Capernaum
$1,600 [24]
The USA's first public teacher training school evolved into Framingham State University in this state
Massachusetts
Robinson-Gissette
DD $2,000 [9]
Though Pippin III founded this Frankish dynasty in 751, its name comes from the many Charleses who ruled it
the Carolingians
Robinson-Gissette
$2,000 [13]
First a short story, this Jeffrey Eugenides novel about 5 sisters who die young became a Sofia Coppola film
The Virgin Suicides
Jonathan

Final Jeopardy!

PUBLISHING

Last name of brothers James, John, Joseph & Fletcher, whose company published magazines with their name as well as books

Harper

Robinson-Gissette "What is Pilil" — wagered $3,600
Brittany "What is Harper?" — wagered $2,001
Jonathan "What is Penguin?" — wagered $7,500

« Back to Games