Show #8567 2022-02-01 (taped 2021-11-29) Regular

Contestants

Scott Plummer — a software developer from Golden, Colorado

Zoha Khalili — a movement lawyer from Anaheim, California

Jay Foster — an engineer from Rancho Palos Verdes, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $25,599)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jay $4,000 $7,600 $12,800 $25,600
2nd place: $2,000
$12,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Zoha $600 $1,200 $15,600 $1,999
3rd place: $1,000
$12,000
12 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Scott $1,200 $3,800 $14,600 $28,800
New champion: $28,800
$11,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

ONE WOMAN "TOO" WORDS 3 STARS OF THE FILM 4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY 5 RANDOM THINGS 6 FLAGS
$200 [27]
Among the items our woman famously saved was a blue & gold Lowestoft set of porcelain ware, more commonly called this
china
Scott
$200 [26]
A small porch, or to bend down
stoop
Jay
$200 [17]
2004:The super voices of Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter & Jason Lee
The Incredibles
Scott
$200 [5]
This city is Pennsylvania's only port on the St. Lawrence Seaway
Erie
Jay
$200 [19]
A 2014 headline:"Florida family butt-dials" this no. "while planning their next meth cook"; a dispatcher listened for 30 min.
911
Zoha
$200 [6]
Introduced in 1920, it consists of 5 interlocked rings of blue, black, red, green & yellow
the Olympic flag
Jay
$400 [28]
Our subject raised funds to equip this duo's expedition with needed supplies; she was sure they were never coming back
Lewis & Clark
Zoha
$400 [25]
In French, it's un mal de dent
a toothache
Scott
$400 [16]
2018:Mahershala Ali, Viggo Mortensen & Linda Cardellini drive the film
the Green Book
Scott
$400 [4]
A natural history museum, the Koenig is in this city, once the capital of West Germany
Bonn
Jay
$400 [20]
Holy biloba!Here'sa beautiful example of this tree at a Buddhist temple said to be planted by a Chinese emperor of the Tang Dynasty
a ginkgo
Scott
$400 [7]
Also called salsa bandera, or "flag", this 3-word condiment is red, white & green, like Mexico's flag
pico de gallo
Scott
$600 [21]
Our one woman's one surviving child, Payne Todd, was a gambler who in 1830 went to this type of prison that Congress abolished in 1833
a debtors' prison
Scott
$600 [22]
You can get one removed via dermabrasion
a tattoo
Jay
$600 [14]
1989:Olympia Dukakis, Sally Field & Julia Roberts & a 4th star--the weeping audience
Steel Magnolias
$600 [3]
The capital of this landlocked African nation is N'Djamena
Chad
Zoha
$600 [11]
Astronauts Scott, Worden & Irwin established a U. of Michigan alumni club on the Moon during this, the 4th mission to land
Apollo 15
Scott
$600 [8]
You can use two flags to communicate in the method seen here
semaphore
Jay
$800 [29]
At age 80, our lady was there when the 25,000-pound white marble cornerstone of this was laid July 4, 1848
the Washington Monument
Scott
$800 [24]
Seaplanes float on them
pontoons
Jay
$800 [15]
2021:Simu Liu, Tony Leung & Awkwafina
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Scott
DD $1,000 [1]
This world capital began hosting Holmenkollen ski jump competition in 1892
Oslo
Jay
$800 [12]
This book after Exodus: "All that have not fins and scales in the seas... be an abomination unto you", so eating lobster? A no-go
Leviticus
Jay
$800 [9]
Sportswriter Rob Neyer posed the query, "What makes" the race for one of these baseball flags "great?"
a pennant
Jay
$1,000 [30]
In 1844 the woman had the honor to send the first personal message on this device--love to her friend Mary in Baltimore
the telegraph
Jay
$1,000 [23]
Seen here are these flower chains curving as intended
festoons
$1,000 [18]
1988:Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon & Robert Wuhl, who makes a memorable visit to the mound
Bull Durham
Jay
$1,000 [2]
Emily Blunt & John Krasinski tied the knot at George Clooney's villa on this lake
Como
Zoha
$1,000 [13]
Viewable from the U.N. in the East River, one of New York City's smallestislandsis named for this secretary-general from Myanmar
U Thant
Scott
$1,000 [10]
"Flag above White with Collage" is one of this contemporary artist's paintings
Jasper Johns
Zoha

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITTLE THINGS IN A BIG WORLD CONDUCTORS READ IT OR EAT IT? INTERNATIONAL GET-TOGETHERS MORE THAN ONE MEANING KILLER TV SHOWS
$400 [10]
Krill differ from true shrimp in that these respiratory organs are externally visible
gills
Jay
$400 [11]
His mentor Serge Koussevitzky suggested he change his name to Leonard S. Burns; he said no
(Leonard) Bernstein
Jay
$400 [1]
Okies head west
The Grapes of Wrath
Scott
$400 [15]
In spring, head out from this largest Dutch city to the regional trade event focusing on tulips
Amsterdam
Scott
$400 [21]
A group of newborn animals, or to scatter trash about
litter
Jay
$400 [26]
Murders abound on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie, which doesn't seem much like Eden in "Death in" this
Paradise
Zoha
$800 [9]
The buzz is true--the smallest hummingbird is this one named for an insect
the bee hummingbird
Scott
$800 [12]
Once a manuscript copyist for Wagner, Hans Richter conducted the first performance of this full cycle of operas
The Ring Cycle
Scott
$800 [2]
A grandfather tells a story about a town called Chewandswallow where food falls from the sky
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
$800 [16]
Toronto's Collision Conference has a program for these tech companies named for their fledgling nature
start-ups
Zoha
$800 [22]
A hot dog condiment, or to enjoy
relish
Scott
$800 [27]
Poisoned by snake venom on his uniform in 2003, Commander Ray Trapp was the first of many, many naval personnel killed on this show
NCIS
Zoha
$1,200 [6]
Also called a light quantum, this bit of radiation travels at the speed of light
a photon
Jay
$1,600 [14]
Sir Thomas Beecham conducted many U.K. premieres at the Royal Opera House in this London "Garden" spot
Covent Garden
Jay
$1,200 [3]
Violent gangs of Droogs run wild in the streets of an English city
A Clockwork Orange
Jay
$1,200 [17]
This Austin-based meet-up was focused on music when it launched in 1987, but now includes other media
South by Southwest
Zoha
$1,200 [20]
A multitude, or the bread that's consecrated in the Eucharist
host
Jay
$1,200 [28]
Good cops CCH Pounder & Forest Whitaker hounded killer cop Michael Chiklis & the strike team on this FX series
The Shield
Jay
$1,600 [7]
Aspergillus niger, also known as black mold, is one of these organisms & may be found widely in a home
a fungus
Scott
$2,000 [23]
2 female music directors: Marin Alsop at the BSO (Baltimore Symphony) & Joann Falletta at the BPO (this N.Y. city's philharmonic)
Buffalo
Zoha
$1,600 [4]
Play in which a working class African-American family moves into an all-white Chicago neighborhood
A Raisin in the Sun
Scott
$1,600 [18]
In 2018 the India Mobile Congress event focused on telecom issues, especially this new alphanumeric mobile network
5G
Scott
$2,000 [25]
Your equal, or to look at closely
peer
Zoha
$1,600 [29]
The "Murders" in this British detective show take place in the fictional title county, not the dog days of August
the Midsomer Murders
Scott
$2,000 [8]
Latin for "whips", these appendages in some protozoa help them get around
flagella
Scott
DD $4,000 [13]
On an 1887 cruise New York Symphony Society conductor Walter Damrosch met this tycoon & talked him into building a hall
(Andrew) Carnegie
Scott
$2,000 [5]
Just after World War II, a woman learns of a group of book lovers on one of the Channel Islands
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
$2,000 [19]
Billed as the "most influential tech event in the world", this event featuring gizmos & gadgets has been held in Las Vegas since 1978
the Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
DD $5,200 [24]
A wind-blown pile of snow, or the meaning of what you're saying
drift
Zoha
$2,000 [30]
"Better pay attention or this world we love so much might just kill you", Randy Newman sang in this show's opening theme
Monk
Zoha

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY

This city on the Rhone River that is partly a World Heritage Site was papal property until the French Revolution

Avignon

Jay "What is Avignon?" — wagered $12,800
Scott "What is Avignon?" — wagered $14,200
Zoha "What is Orleans?" — wagered $13,601

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