Show #8488 2021-10-13 (taped 2021-09-09) Regular

Jonathan Fisher game 3.

Contestants

Mary Garvey — a pastor from Huntingdon, Pennsylvania

Bilal Ali — a product manager from Seattle, Washington

Jonathan Fisher — an actor originally from Coral Gables, Florida (whose 2-day cash winnings total $51,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jonathan $1,800 $1,200 $15,800 $18,300
3-day champion: $70,000
$13,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Bilal $800 $2,200 $5,400 $10,795
3rd place: $1,000
$5,400
13 R, 7 W
Mary $3,000 $2,800 $12,600 $15,900
2nd place: $2,000
$12,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE SABBATH NAMES IN FASHION HODGEPODGE PRO WRESTLING TERMINOLOGY "NOD" LINCOLN, BLINKEN
$200 [16]
For decades, states have been dropping these colorful edicts; the Sunday shopping ban ended by North Dakota was among the last
blue laws
Mary
$200 [20]
The tennis shirt is now called a polo shirt thanks to this American designer
Ralph Lauren
Jonathan
$200 [11]
Alfred Vail, this guy's assistant & partner, improved on his code for telegraphy
Morse
Jonathan Bilal
$200 [1]
In this alliterative type of match, you need to touch your partner before you can be replaced in the ring
tag team
Bilal
$200 [10]
It's where Cain lived, a place for kids to go at bedtime or an oddly named Yorkshire village
the Land of Nod
Jonathan
$400 [25]
Soon after becoming Secy. of State in 2021, Antony Blinken had tough words at a meeting with diplomat Yang Jiechi of this country
China
Jonathan
$400 [17]
Exodus 35:3 bans doing this on the Sabbath, hence the Jewish dishcholent which can go on the stove Friday & cook until Saturday lunch
lighting a fire
Jonathan Mary
$400 [21]
Yves Saint Laurent's first boutique was called "Rive Gauche", French for this part of the Seine
the Left Bank
Bilal
$400 [13]
Magyar is another name for these people, many of whom reside in a country known as the "Land of Magyars"
Hungarians
Mary
$400 [3]
Maintaining kayfabe means not letting on that the match is this, the word that "kayfabe" possibly came from with the help of Pig Latin
fake
Bilal
$400 [6]
A worrisome mass of tissue in humans, or a nitrogen-fixing structure in soybeans
a nodule
Jonathan Mary
$600 [22]
In his second inaugural address, Lincoln called for peace "with malice toward none, with" this "for all"
charity
$800 [19]
NFLer Davion Taylor held onto his football dreams though this Christian faith kept him from playing high school football
Seventh-day Adventist
Jonathan
$800 [27]
Despite marrying into a newspaper family with a prize named for it, this designer's "Lilly" shift dress took only her first name
Pulitzer
Jonathan
$600 [12]
You may get allergy symptoms when you eat bananas or zucchini if you are allergic to this "weed" that causes hay fever
ragweed
Mary
$600 [2]
This beastly term can describe a powerful embrace or a move where a wrestler grabs you
a bear hug
Jonathan
$600 [5]
2-word phrase for a slight familiarity, enough to lower your chin in passing
a nodding acquaintance
Mary
$800 [23]
Antony Blinken worked with Joe Biden from 2002 to 2008 as Democratic staff director for this world-watching Senate committee
Foreign Relations
$1,000 [28]
Early Christians observed the Sabbath on Saturday but Sunday was the day for this commemoration of the Last Supper
the Lord's Supper (Eucharist or Communion)
Mary
$1,000 [26]
The Row & Elizabeth and James are fashion brands from these twin sisters
the Olsens
Mary
$800 [14]
This flat Scottish cap usually has a pompom in the center
a tam (tam o'shanter)
Mary
$800 [4]
Perhaps a play on "jobber", this Italian-sounding word is a wrestler hired to lose often; the Rock uses it as a synonym for loser
jabroni
Bilal
$800 [8]
A flying creature of the cretaceous, seen here
a pteranodon
Jonathan Bilal
$1,000 [24]
One of Lincoln's "gifts" for his last Christmas was this Georgia city, from General Sherman
Savannah
Bilal
DD $2,000 [18]
At a church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints sacrament meeting, a young man may talk about 2 years away as one of these
a missionary
Mary
$1,000 [15]
This city is home to the University of Oklahoma & the National Severe Storms Laboratory
Norman
Bilal
$1,000 [7]
The name of this masked Mexican wrestling is Spanish for "free fighting"
lucha libre
Bilal
$1,000 [9]
A meeting to resolve questions for a church
a synod
Mary

Double Jeopardy! Round

SHAKESPEARE'S INSULTS FOOD FORWARD '80s TV DOUBLE-LETTER GEOGRAPHY STARS & STONES TRIPLE RHYME TIME
$400 [5]
This nephew-killing title monarch is off to a slow start courting Lady Anne, who calls him "thou lump of foul deformity"
Richard III
Mary
$400 [9]
Gail Becker, mom of 2 boys who couldn't have gluten, started the Caulipower line by making this out of cauliflower
pizza crust
Jonathan Bilal Mary
$400 [6]
In 1980 fans of this series had to wait 8 long months before they would learn "Who shot J.R."
Dallas
Mary
$400 [18]
It's the northernmost of the 4 main islands of Japan
Hokkaido
Jonathan
$400 [22]
Invisible to the naked eye, the closest star to our sun is the dim Proxima Centauri, a "red" one of these
a red dwarf
Bilal Mary
$400 [21]
An extra trap for a rabbit relative
a spare hare snare
Jonathan
$1,200 [3]
In "Henry IV, Part 1" Falstaff disses a hostess: "There's no more faith in thee, than in a stewed" one of these fruits
a prune
Jonathan
$800 [10]
Thisdoctor & health food pioneer developed Corn Flakes for his patients
Kellogg
Jonathan
$800 [7]
In 1981, some 30 million viewers tuned in to see Luke & Lauratie the knot on this daytime soap
General Hospital
Bilal Mary
$1,200 [15]
Catalan is the primary language of Catalonia & this small Pyrenees nation
Andorra
Bilal
$800 [24]
Fittingly, New Hampshire is a source of this stone; the Swenson Quarry produces tons of it for street curbing
granite
Bilal
$800 [23]
The highest limit on a pants tariff
the max slacks tax
Jonathan
$1,600 [2]
King Lear tells this treacherous eldest daughter, "Thou art a boil, a plague-sore"
Goneril
Jonathan
$1,200 [11]
Burger King uses this brand for its meatless Whopper
Impossible
Jonathan
$1,200 [8]
"You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have" this sitcom
The Facts of Life
Jonathan
$1,600 [14]
Randburg & Midrand are suburbs of this chief commercial city of South Africa
Johannesburg
Bilal Mary
$1,200 [30]
Aldebaran is the brightest star in this "bovine" constellation associated with a transformation made by Zeus
Taurus
Jonathan
$1,200 [25]
A frightening sprite from the flatlands of Kansas or Nebraska
a scary prairie fairy
Bilal
$2,000 [1]
A line in this play: "If Troy be not taken till" Ajax & Achilles "undermine it, the walls will stand till they fall of themselves"
Troilus and Cressida
Jonathan
$1,600 [12]
A thick potato & leek soup was created by chef Louis Diat, who named it for this city in central France
Vichy
Bilal
$1,600 [20]
Sharon Gless & Tyne Daly hit the streets as this title pair of detectives
Cagney & Lacey
Mary
$2,000 [16]
The capital of a small Mediterranean island, it's where the Italian naval fleet surrendered to the Allies in 1943
Valletta
Mary
$1,600 [28]
You might surmise from its name that sandstone is this one of the 3 classifications of rock
sedimentary
Bilal
$1,600 [26]
The cost to ship a really big wooden box, determined by how heavy it is
the crate freight rate
Jonathan
DD $3,000 [4]
In "The Comedy of Errors", Dromio describes Nell: "Hip to hip: she is spherical, like" this name of Shakespeare's venue
globe
Jonathan
$2,000 [13]
Around 1900 the same guy created Shredded Wheat & this Nabisco cracker of a rather similar texture
Triscuit
Bilal
$2,000 [19]
All through the '80s kids "counted" on this PBS science series that featured the Bloodhound Gang
3-2-1 Contact
DD $3,000 [17]
Moraine Lake is in this national park established in 1885 as Canada's very first
Banff
Mary
$2,000 [29]
Deneb, the "tail" of the swan in this constellation, forms the "Summer Triangle" with Vega & Altair
Cygnus
Jonathan
$2,000 [27]
The removed facial hair, now hallowed
the sheared beard revered
Bilal

Final Jeopardy!

SPORTS LEGENDS

When Johnny Bench broke his record, this man wrote, "I always thought the record would stand until it was broken"

Yogi Berra

Bilal "Who is Berra?" — wagered $5,395
Mary "Who is Yogi Berra?" — wagered $3,300
Jonathan "Who is Yogi Berra?" — wagered $2,500

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