Show #8495 2021-10-22 (taped 2021-09-10) Regular

Jonathan Fisher game 10.

Contestants

Rudy Fernández-Dieppa — an investment manager from Tampa, Florida

Lea Zaric — a graduate student from Vista, California

Jonathan Fisher — an actor originally from Coral Gables, Florida (whose 9-day cash winnings total $215,900)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Jonathan	$3,600	$4,800	$19,600	$14,200 10-day champion: $230,100	$19,600 20 R, 2 W
Lea	$3,200	$6,000	$4,800	$4,800 3rd place: $1,000	$9,600 18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Rudy	$2,000	$4,200	$3,800	$7,600 2nd place: $2,000	$3,800 13 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

WHAT'S IN A GEOGRAPHIC NAME	POPPING OUT POP CULTURE	THEOEDSPEAKS CANADIAN	PEARLS OF WISDOM	CELLO	IS IT ME YOU'RE LOOKING FOR?
$200 [29] Belgium & 2 neighbors make up this 7-letter region, also a customs union begun in 1948 Benelux Rudy	$200 [2] This "8 Mile" rapper, challenged to rhyme "orange": "I put my orange, 4-inch door hinge in storage & ate porridge" Eminem Lea	$200 [30] Schlockey, a schoolyard game, is also called "box" this sport hockey Lea	$200 [19] Macau is on the other side of the Pearl River estuary from this Chinese special administrative region Hong Kong Lea	$200 [20] This cellist founded a music collective called the Silkroad Ensemble, with whom he plays cello Yo-Yo Ma Rudy	$200 [26] I'm wearing a red & white striped shirt & I'm stuck in a kids' picture book... are you looking for me? Waldo Lea
$400 [28] A star can become one of these, also the name of a 4-letter region that includes places like Arlington & Alexandria nova Lea	$400 [3] Chevy Chase said his home in this holiday film was Danny Glover's in "Lethal Weapon 2"; a blown-up toilet was still on the lawn National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Rudy	$400 [15] A two-four is a 24-unit case of this beer Jonathan	$400 [18] Fittingly, the Pearlmaster watch is part of this Rolex collection Oyster Rudy	$400 [27] When you think of a cello solo, you're probably thinking of this Baroque composer's cello prelude from around 1720 Bach Rudy	$400 [25] For heaven's sake, Tommy Tutone; my number's 867-5309; I'm this girl with the "number on the wall", so just call already Jenny Jonathan
$600 [4] Tribeca in the Big Apple stands for the "triangle below" this street Canal Street Jonathan	$600 [1] 2021 marks 10 years of Christina Perri's "Twilight" anthem that says, "I have loved you for" this long a thousand years Lea	$600 [7] An Ontario resort region gives its name to the Muskoka this, typically made of slatted wood & resembling the Adirondack type a chair Jonathan	$600 [8] He's the lead singer of Pearl Jam Eddie Vedder Rudy	$600 [9] The uncrowned king of the cello, David Popper has a work titled this, what you'd sing under the window of your beloved a "Serenade"	$600 [10] Abducted & sealed away "In a sepulchre by the sea", I'm this lost love, sought for in a Poe poem Annabel Lee Jonathan Lea
$800 [21] Named for a trapper who once lived there, this "Hole" is a fertile valley mostly in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park Jackson Hole Rudy	$800 [5] Alan Tudyk crash lands on Earth & his character assumes the form of local doctor Harry Vanderspeigle on this SYFY show Resident Alien Jonathan	$800 [13] An idiot string connects a pair of these woolen warmers to keep them from getting lost mittens Jonathan	$800 [16] Nacre is another name for this iridescent substance mother-of-pearl Lea	$800 [24] An excellent piece for the cello is "The Swan", from this work by Camille Saint-Saens The Carnival of the Animals Jonathan	$800 [11] I'm Roger Thornhill, an innocent guy being chased by shadowy forces in this 1959 Hitchcock film; now a plane's after me...! North by Northwest Lea
DD $1,000 [22] The "P" in Pakistan comes from this region, the name of a Pakistani province & a state of India Punjab Rudy	$1,000 [6] "As much as I would love to watch you & your childhood karate rival duke it out", Amanda LaRusso of this Netflix show will pass, thanks Cobra Kai Jonathan	$1,000 [14] The 10 of these are divided into the economically prosperous "have" type & the less affluent "have-not" type the provinces Lea	$1,000 [17] "The Pearl", a story by this man, tells of a pearl diver named Kino Steinbeck Lea	$1,000 [23] Portrayed on film in "Hilary & Jackie", the life of this British cellist was cut short by MS at age 42 Jacqueline du Pré	$1,000 [12] There are only twoof me in a standard deck of cards; call us by our hyphenated name & we just might make your house full a one-eyed jack Rudy

Double Jeopardy! Round

YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION	PUZZLES & GAMES	THE AUTHOR'S CHARACTERS	PLANETARY SCIENCE	ACTORS & ACCENTS	META"FOR"S
$400 [30] Myanmar's 2007 Saffron Revolution was named for the color of the robes of monks of this religion who participated Buddhists Rudy	$400 [29] A fine-bladed marquetry tool is thought to have been used to create the first of these around 1760 a jigsaw puzzle Rudy	$400 [14] The doomed Frances Earnshaw, mom of the less doomed Hareton Earnshaw Emily Brontë Lea	$400 [15] Mercury is one dense planet, with this interior section making up 55% of its volume vs. 16% for Earth the core Lea	$400 [5] Emma Stone says her accent in the 2021 movie named for this Disney villain is more 1940s movie actor than pure British Cruella (de Vil) Rudy	$400 [26] 3-word phrase meaning something that nourishes careful cogitation food for thought Jonathan
$800 [9] The Bulldozer Revolution is named for heavy machinery at the front of protests in this Serbian capital in 2000 Belgrade Jonathan	$800 [28] A worldwide craze for these puzzles began after a New Zealand man invented a computer program to generate the number grids Sudoku Jonathan	$800 [13] The snobby lady Catherine de Bourgh & the treacherous John Dashwood Jane Austen Lea	$800 [16] Ancient astronomers finally realized Phosphorus, seen in the morning, & Hesperus, in the evening--both this planet Venus	$1,200 [1] She mastered the tricky vowels of Delaware County, Pennsylvania as the title cop on "Mare of Easttown" Kate Winslet Jonathan	$800 [25] Someone who's been cheated has been this, a metaphorical phrase involving a journey taken for a ride Jonathan
$1,200 [6] The Russian Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 is also named for this month October Lea Rudy	$1,200 [27] The puzzle alliteratively known as this man's "Revenge" adds extra rows & has no fixed center pieces Erno Rubik (Rubik's Revenge)	$1,200 [12] José Arcadio, so magically real, & Fermina Daza (Gabriel García) Márquez Lea	$1,200 [17] 15 years before its official discovery, it was photographed in 1915 by Lowell Observatory, which didn't know what it was Pluto Jonathan Rudy	$1,600 [3] She got the feel of her Brooklyn accent in "The Wolf of Wall Street" by waving her nails around as if they were still wet from a manicure Margot Robbie Lea	$1,200 [24] If you "can't see" this, you're too involved in the details of a subject to understand the big picture the forest for the trees Jonathan
DD $1,800 [7] Nearly 30 years after the 1989 one in Czechoslovakia, Armenia had its own revolution named for this soft fabric velvet Lea	$1,600 [21] An '80s game similar to hangman designed to teach French vocabulary & spelling is named for this deadly implement the guillotine Jonathan	$1,600 [11] Charles Lindbergh & Sophie Portnoy, a good smother... I mean a good mother! Philip Roth Jonathan	$1,600 [18] In 1675 he discovered a division within Saturn's rings, which he declared to be made up of little moonlets Giovanni Domenico Cassini Lea Rudy	$2,000 [2] Before lending his voice to many Pixar projects, this New Englander did one of the few actual Boston accents on "Cheers" (John) Ratzenberger Jonathan Rudy	$1,600 [23] This 1950s TV show had 4 women, each with a tale of woe, competing for the temporary royal title Queen for a Day Jonathan
$2,000 [8] Early in the Arab Spring, this country's Jasmine Revolution was named for the country's national flower Tunisia	$2,000 [20] White offers to let black capture a queenside pawn in this royal-sounding chess opening shown here Queen's Gambit Rudy	$2,000 [10] Tralfamadorians & (God bless you,) Eliot Rosewater Kurt Vonnegut Jonathan	$2,000 [19] HD 209458b was the first planet discovered via this eclipse-like event where planets cross in front of stars a transit	DD $5,000 [4] Jonathan Groff from Lancaster, Pennsylvania worked up a posh English accent for this Broadway role in "Hamilton" King George III Lea	$2,000 [22] Erasmus referred to Thomas More as "omnium horarum homo", this play title A Man for All Seasons Jonathan Lea

Final Jeopardy!

1970s TOP 40 HITS

Seeing a poster for a production of "Cyrano de Bergerac" in a seedy Paris hotel & ladies of the evening nearby inspired this hit

"Roxanne"

Rudy "What is Roxanne?" — wagered $3,800

Lea "What is Roxanne?" — wagered $0

Jonathan "What is "Honky Tonk Women"?)" — wagered $5,400

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