Show #8500 2021-10-29 (taped 2021-09-23) Regular

Tyler Rhode game 3.

Contestants

Wren Romero — a Ph.D. candidate from Evanston, Illinois

Emily Robinson — a political strategist from Brooklyn, New York

Tyler Rhode — a healthcare data specialist from New York, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $35,301)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tyler $6,600 $9,600 $18,000 $23,000
3-day champion: $58,301
$18,000
25 R, 1 W
Emily $1,000 $4,000 $10,400 $2
2nd place: $2,000
$8,800
12 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Wren $1,400 $800 $11,400 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$14,400
17 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

SCARY EVERYDAY HALLOWEEN STORIES SKYSCRAPER CITY FOUL PLAY PRESIDENTS WHO WEREN'T BORN IN THE UNITED STATES 5,5 LANDSCAPING
$200 [6]
I dropped the summons, terrified. I was over 18. I had no undue hardship. Military duty? None! Doomed, I, for this 2-word civic task!
jury duty
Tyler
$200 [21]
191 Peachtree Tower
Atlanta
Tyler
$200 [11]
In boxing this rhyming 2-word bit of downtown illegality is frowned upon for good reason
a low blow
Tyler
$200 [26]
I cannot tell a lie: Virginia was still a British colony when he was born there in 1732
George Washington
Wren
$200 [5]
Kick off your flip-flops & relax by the ocean in this, seen here
a beach chair
Wren
$200 [16]
Planting tall trees on the east & west sides of your house can cut your costs for this summer need by 25%
air conditioning
Tyler
$400 [7]
I adjusted vertical & horizontal router antennas! Hit reset for 30 secs.! Called my ISP! Why?! Why was this rhyming necessity... dead?!
wi-fi
Wren
$400 [22]
One Liberty Place on Market Street
Philadelphia
Tyler
$400 [12]
If you get 2 of these warnings as a player in a soccer game, you are no longer a player in a soccer game
a yellow card
Tyler
$400 [27]
Braintree was still Britville when he was born there in 1767
John Quincy Adams
Tyler Emily Wren
$400 [3]
Steinway says it makes the gold standard of this type of musical instrument
a grand piano
Tyler
$400 [17]
Arow of treesthat have been pleached is sometimes called this type of green boundary on stilts
a hedge
Emily
$600 [8]
The witch hissed, "May all that's e'er left in your fridge be the 2 bread loaf ends, be they called butt, nub or this 4-letter foot part!"
heel
Tyler
$600 [23]
Cadillac Tower
Detroit
Emily
$600 [13]
In hoops, when an offensive player runs into a foe who has established position, this foul is called
charging
Tyler
$600 [28]
He was born a British subject in Virginia in 1751; how dare they burn his pretty White House!
James Madison
Emily
$600 [1]
It might have been Rezin, brother of Texas revolution hero Jim, who invented this type of blade
Bowie knife
Tyler
$600 [18]
A low-maintenance option is roses that just keep flowering without needing to be cut back, called this feature, just like some ovens
self-cleaning
Wren
$800 [9]
...& the mechanic said, "The planetary gearset in this car part is shot. It's gonna be $1,700... before labor!"
transmission
Tyler
$1,000 [25]
Formerly the headquarters of Enron, 1400 Smith Street
Houston
Tyler Wren
$800 [14]
Lumberjacks wailed in 2016 when the NFL made this thigh-or-lower block illegal on run plays as well as pass
a chop block
Tyler
$800 [29]
He wasn't "Old" in 1767, when he fell from the tree in the backwoods of the Carolina colonies
Andrew Jackson
Tyler
$800 [2]
Wrongdoers sometimes leave this series of documents that gets them tracked & caught
a paper trail
Wren
$800 [19]
A guideline with a pond for these ornamental carp of the genus Cyprinus is 33 gallons of water per 1 inch of fish
koi
Tyler
$1,000 [10]
My little sis racked up $900 in these "tiny" charges playing Candy Crush, said to have made $1.5 billion on them in 2018
microtransactions
Tyler
DD $2,000 [24]
709 feet tall with nearly 1,400 rooms:the Ocean Casino Resort
Atlantic City
Emily
$1,000 [15]
Don't step over the 3/8-to-1-inch-wide foul line that's 60 feet away from the nearest target in this sport
bowling
Tyler
$1,000 [30]
He was born in the colony of Virginia February 9, 1773, 68 years before his very brief presidency
William Harrison
Emily
$1,000 [4]
For the Day of the Dead, the soul of the departed is represented by this--calavera de azúcar in Spanish
a sugar skull
Emily
$1,000 [20]
Thismaterial, meaning "rocks that came straight from where they were found" makes a rustic-looking wall
fieldstone

Double Jeopardy! Round

LANDSCAPE-ING THE VILLAIN OF THE PIECE WORDS FROM QUECHUA NON-MEDICAL FEVERS SATELLITES MUSICAL TOURING COMPANIES
$400 [6]
"The Oxbow"is by Thomas Cole, a leader of this school of American painters bearing the name of a New York River
the Hudson River movement
Wren
$400 [1]
Tom is the first name of this talented Mr., the villain of a 1955 Patricia Highsmith novel
Mr. Ripley
Wren
$400 [18]
This word for a onetime people of the region is Quechua for "king"
Inca
Tyler
$400 [8]
In the 1840s hen fever raged on both sides of the Atlantic after this monarch began raising fancy Asian chickens
Queen Victoria
Wren
$400 [13]
Launched in 1975, Aryabhata, this country's first satellite, was named for a 5th century astronomer & mathematician
India
Emily
$400 [28]
Gazelle, Cheetah, Rafiki
The Lion King
Emily
$800 [7]
Eugene Boudin's"Beach at Trouville"from 1893 depicts a landscape of this region that became a household word 51 years later
Normandy
Tyler
$800 [2]
Anton Chigurh is the implacable, coin-tossing hitman in this Cormac McCarthy novel
No Country for Old Men
Tyler
$800 [22]
Makes sense that this big Andean vulture has a name from Quechua
a (Andean) condor
Wren
$800 [9]
The Indiana Fever is a 21-year-old professional sports franchise in this league
the WNBA
Tyler Wren
$800 [14]
A bigballoonmade to reflect radio waves, the first communications satellite was aptly named this, this, this
Echo
Tyler
$800 [24]
Christine, Raoul, Music Box
The Phantom of the Opera
Emily
$1,200 [19]
"Hieronymous" in Latin, this saint & translator sought refuge in the wilderness, so he's often depicted inlandscapes
St. Jerome
Wren
$1,200 [3]
Nobody cries when this big bad Bill comes to a bad end in "Oliver Twist"
Sikes
Tyler
$1,600 [29]
This natural product was long the only effective treatment for malaria
quinine
Emily
$1,200 [10]
During World War I, British women entranced by all the men in yellowish brown uniforms caused this fabric fever
khaki
Wren
$1,200 [15]
Launched in 1998, it circles the Earth about every 90 minutes & can often be seen with the naked eye
the International Space Station
Emily
$1,200 [25]
Emerald City, Munchkinland
Wicked
Wren
$1,600 [20]
In 2014, alandscapesold for $47 million, a record for this British artist who's actually best known for seascapes
Turner
Wren
$1,600 [4]
This "Treasure Island" bad guy was a former sidekick of Captain Flint, "the bloodthirstiest buccaneer that sailed"
Long John Silver
Wren
$2,000 [30]
This high-protein seed plant has been cultivated for millennia
quinoa
Emily
$1,600 [11]
Stevie Wonder wrote the soundtrack & title song to this 1991 Spike Lee movie
Jungle Fever
Tyler
DD $2,000 [16]
The name of this satellite that scared the West is Russian for "traveling companion"
Sputnik
Emily
$1,600 [27]
Latter Day, Jumamosi
The Book of Mormon
Wren
$2,000 [21]
"Landscape at Chaponval" is by this 19th century French painter whose name sounds like a conquistador's
Camille Pissarro
Wren
$2,000 [5]
In a Thomas Hardy novel, Alec d' this brings young Tess to ruin
Urbervilles
Emily
DD $3,000 [23]
Often heard in the plural, these grassy flatlands can also be singular
pampas
Wren
$2,000 [12]
After the War of 1812, broke New Englanders headed west with this state "Fever" & didn't stop in Pennsylvania
Ohio
Tyler
$2,000 [17]
Explorer 1 made the first scientific discovery by satellite when it detected this radiation belt in 1958
the Van Allen belt
$2,000 [26]
Max, Leo
The Producers
Wren

Final Jeopardy!

SONGS & U.S. HISTORY

Victory in 1805's Battle of Derna on the coast of North Africa inspired a lyric in this song made official in 1929

the "Marines' Hymn"

Emily "What is the star spangled banner" — wagered $10,398
Wren "What is The Battle Hymn of the R" — wagered $11,400
Tyler "What is the Marines hymn?" — wagered $5,000

« Back to Games