Show #8569 2022-02-03 (taped 2021-11-29) Regular

Contestants

Zach Gozlan — a data analyst from Washington, D.C.

Heather Brice — a retired flight attendant from Brooksville, Florida

Emma Saltzberg — a consultant from Brooklyn, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Emma $2,000 $6,000 $20,200 $14,799
2-day champion: $36,999
$17,800
22 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Heather $-1,000 $-400 $4,300 $300
3rd place: $1,000
$6,800
9 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Zach $2,800 $5,200 $12,800 $5,399
2nd place: $2,000
$12,800
23 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE 20th CENTURY IT'S A NATIONAL THING DATING THE REALITY SHOW IT WAS ALL PURPLE FOR NAUGHT MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES
$200 [1]
Her death following a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel produced worldwide mourning
Princess Diana
Emma
$200 [7]
Deriving from a game called halma--Greek for "jump"--this board game is played on a 6-pointed star
Chinese checkers
Zach
$200 [3]
Trista Rehn, Andi Dorfman & Katie Thurston have each held this title role... & dare we say, responsibility!
the Bachelorette
Emma
$200 [16]
Katharine Lee Bates wrote of "purple mountain majesties" in what became this song
"America The Beautiful"
Zach
$200 [21]
Decades after this word for "nothing" appeared, "squat" was added to the end
diddly
Heather
$200 [26]
"Horton Hears a Ham"
Horton Hears a Who! & Green Eggs and Ham
Zach
$400 [2]
At the Olympic games in Stockholm, Jim Thorpe won gold medals in both of these track & field multi-events
the decathlon & the pentathlon
Zach
$600 [13]
Roland-Garros has hosted this event since 1928
the French Open
Zach
$400 [8]
Head to Casa Amor to see if singles in bathing suits become soulmates after a solid few days on this show "USA"
Love Island
Emma
$400 [17]
First instituted in 1782, it has "For Military Merit" on its reverse side
the Purple Heart
Zach
$400 [22]
This brand name of lighters that uses a flame logo can mean "zero" in slang
Zippo
Heather
$400 [27]
"The Runaway Brief"
The Runaway Jury & The Pelican Brief
Zach
$600 [4]
Seen here are three random Americans of the 4.3 million born in this year at the tail end of the baby boom
1961
Emma
$800 [14]
Don't you love playing with toys? Toy dogs, that is, like this breed here whose name comes from an island
a Maltese
$600 [9]
Somehow, TLC built a hit show called this that's centered on a time length established by the USA's K-1 visa program
90 Day Fiancé
Zach
$600 [18]
Apollonia Kotero & Morris Day both got to use their first names for their characters in this 1984 flick
Purple Rain
Emma
$600 [23]
When someone responds to a question with "Nunya", it's a shortening of this phrase
none of your business
Zach
$600 [28]
"Pride and Sensibility"
Pride and Prejudice & Sense and Sensibility
Emma
$800 [5]
The invasion of Kuwait prompted this Allied operation to free it from Iraqi occupation
Operation Desert Storm
Emma
DD $1,000 [12]
The Feb. 1588 death of its admiral, the Marquis de Santa Cruz, would loom large in the coming disaster that befell this big group
the Spanish Armada
Emma
$800 [10]
"Will You Marry Me?" was episode 2 of this Lachey-hosted show where couples got engaged before meeting face-to-face
Love is Blind
Emma
$800 [19]
In the 1890s purple became an official color for this entire Illinois university, not just the sports teams
Northwestern
Zach
$800 [24]
Remove these 2 letters from the Latin word for "nothing" to get "nil"
I & H
Emma
$800 [29]
"Love in the Time of Solitude"
Love in the Time of Cholera & The Hundred Years of Solitude
Zach
$1,000 [6]
In 1948 John Costello became Irish prime minister, the first from this party whose name means "Gaelic family"
Fine Gael
Emma Heather
$1,000 [15]
Taken from the lean, tender eye of the loin, this smoked breakfast meat comes in cylindrical chunks
Canadian bacon
Zach
$1,000 [11]
Punning on a vodka drink, MTV's "Ex" here has reality stars trying to find new love while dealing with past lovers
Ex on the Beach
Emma
$1,000 [20]
In the 1990s, this author who wrote about a house on Mango Street painted ahousein an historic area of San Antonio purple
(Sandra) Cisneros
Emma
$1,000 [25]
Yiddish for "goat droppings" morphed into this word for "b"arely anything
bupkes
Emma
$1,000 [30]
"God Bless You, Mr. Cradle"
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater & Cat's Cradle
Zach

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE EXILE FILES IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS LAUGHTER IN THE BIBLE ROCKS & MINERALS THE MUSIC "MAN" TRIBUTARIES
$400 [6]
These Louisiana natives are believed to be descended from the French exiles of Acadia
the Cajun
Zach
$400 [1]
I'm going to get a taste of your profits--not a lot, just to do this, as in the photo here
wet my beak
Zach
$400 [26]
Jesus is laughed at when he says, "The maid is not" this, "but sleepeth"; then "the maid arose"
dead
Emma
$400 [12]
Weathering, abrasion & corrosion are all forms of this natural process by which rock is broken down
erosion
Zach
$400 [8]
Singer Gregg & guitarslinger Duane were the siblings who gave this "Ramblin' Man" band its name
The Allman Brothers
Zach
$400 [21]
The Missouri flows into it
the Mississippi
Heather
$800 [13]
Renouncing his American citizenship years earlier, this chess master died in exile in Iceland in 2008
Bobby Fischer
Heather
$800 [2]
Meaning "stick to your own area", it can apply to highway driving but was also influenced by football kickoff coverage
stay in your lane
Emma
$800 [27]
Ecclesiastes 10 informs us "A feast is made for laughter &" this beverage "maketh merry"
wine
Heather
$800 [17]
Thismineral was called krystallos by the ancient Greeks & is primarily silicon dioxide
quartz
Zach
$800 [11]
This Wu-Tang Clan man is also half of a duo with Redman
Method Man
Heather
$800 [22]
The Madeira & the Xingu are among its 1,100 tributaries
the Amazon
Emma
$1,200 [14]
José Martí, national hero of this country, probably should have stayed longer in the U.S.; he returned in 1895 & died in battle
Cuba
Emma Zach
$1,600 [4]
Nowadays, people say "(whatever they're really good at) is my" this word; for Johnny Storm, it's actually pyrokinesis
a superpower
Emma
$1,200 [28]
When God told this man that he would become a father to a son at age 100, he rolled on the floor laughing
Abraham
Heather
$1,200 [18]
Cementation is the last stage in the formation of this type of rock made from accumulated deposits
sedimentary
Zach
$1,200 [10]
This Grammy-winning indie pop band was formed in Alaska, not the Iberian country in its name
Portugal. The Man
Zach
$1,200 [23]
The Klondike River is a tributary of this one
the Yukon
Emma
$1,600 [15]
Exiled to Switzerland in 1919, Charles I, also known as Charles IV, was the last ruler of this dual monarchy
Austria-Hungary
Zach
$2,000 [5]
Veterans "benefits" include this, to be given by the V.A. if the evidence for & against the claim is about equal
the benefit of the doubt
Emma
$1,600 [29]
Be patient like this man, who was told "at destruction & famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts"
Job
Emma
$1,600 [19]
4.4 billion-year-old deposits have been found of this end-of-the-alphabet mineral, a December birthstone
zircon
Heather Zach
$1,600 [7]
He topped the charts 3 times in the '70s; "Copacabana" only went to No. 8
Barry Manilow
Heather
$1,600 [24]
The Tha, the Ou & the Ngum are part of its flow
the Mekong
Zach
$2,000 [16]
During his exile in England in the 1720s, this French writer & philosopher met, among others, Alexander Pope & Jonathan Swift
Voltaire
DD $3,000 [3]
Tangled wires led to the 19th c. phrase this type of "telegraph"; eventually, this became the way you hear a rumor
the grapevine
Emma
$2,000 [30]
"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in" this, later an Edith Wharton title
the house of mirth
Emma
DD $2,500 [20]
Meaning "stone ball" this rocky 60-mile outer layer of the Earth consists of the crust & the upper part of the mantle
the lithosphere
Heather
$2,000 [9]
Twice a "man", he had a hit with "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" before hitting the charts again with his Earth Band
Manfred Mann
Zach
$2,000 [25]
The Allier & the Nièvre are joined with this river, famous for its valley
the Loire
Emma Zach

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS AMERICANS

He was buried in 1969 in one of the World War II uniform jackets named for him

Dwight Eisenhower

Heather "Who is Flak?" — wagered $4,000
Zach "Who is Lindbergh" — wagered $7,401
Emma "Who is Flak?" — wagered $5,401

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