Show #8590 2022-03-04 (taped 2022-01-11) Regular

Margaret Shelton game 4.

Contestants

Adrian Alcalá — a software developer from Great Barrington, Massachusetts

Caitlin McHale — a university marketing manager from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Margaret Shelton — a homemaker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (whose 3-day cash winnings total $58,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Margaret $3,400 $7,200 $24,000 $21,500
4-day champion: $79,700
$16,800
22 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Caitlin $1,400 $3,600 $5,600 $1,999
2nd place: $2,000
$5,600
11 R, 2 W
Adrian $-600 $2,200 $4,600 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$14,600
17 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

SAMS CLUB HISTORY NOW WE ARE SIX TRANSPORTATION THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE ALL THE WAY FROM D TO E
$200 [26]
In ads for Capital One, he has asked, "What's in your wallet?"
(Samuel L.) Jackson
Caitlin
$200 [1]
Vessels lost by this flotilla in 1588 included La Trinidad, El Gran Grifón & Castillo Negro
the Spanish Armada
Margaret
$200 [12]
SIX is the stock symbol for this theme park company
Six Flags
Caitlin
$200 [17]
The 1886 photo seenhereshows that SUP, short for this way of moving around, has been done for a long time
stand up paddle
Adrian
$200 [6]
The short story collection "Dead Neon" envisions strange, post-apocalyptic possibilities in this desert mecca
Las Vegas
Margaret Adrian
$200 [9]
Me: It's an exchange of conversation between 2 people; you:
dialogue
Caitlin
$400 [27]
He's the Sam who founded the Sam's Club retail chain
Sam Walton
Margaret
$400 [2]
In 1867 young Erasmus Jacobs found the "Eureka" this "upon which the future success of South Africa will be built"
diamond
Adrian
$400 [13]
In this sport, a ball hit in the air beyond the playing area boundary scores 6 runs
cricket
Margaret
$400 [18]
Rachel Maddow & Rob Zombie have worked as urban messengers on these
bicycles
Caitlin
$400 [7]
In a work by L. Frank Baum, the Scarecrow & this character are captured by a female giant & turned into a bear & an owl
the Tin Man
Adrian
$400 [10]
To linger idly & waste time... come now, don't...
dawdle
Caitlin
$600 [28]
This funny lady left "The Daily Show" to host her own TV show
Bee
Caitlin
$800 [4]
Crete's Bronze Age civilization is sometimes named for this king who ruled from Knossos
King Minos
Margaret
$600 [14]
Found in South America, the tatu peludo is a 6-banded species of this plated omnivore
an armadillo
Margaret
$600 [19]
Like the same-named type of coach out West, this type of sleigh took long trips with several of the stops it's named for
a stage sleigh
Adrian
$600 [8]
Daniel Wallace's "Supergirl" is subtitled "Daughter of" this planet
Krypton
Caitlin
$600 [11]
To descend, or to refuse an offer
decline
Adrian
$800 [29]
In 2015, hetook home four Grammys, including one for the song "Stay With Me"
Sam Smith
Margaret
DD $1,000 [3]
Built by a Ming Dynasty emperor, this place is so named because most people in the empire were denied access
the Forbidden City
Margaret
$800 [15]
Each divinatory figure in this Chinese work is made up of six parallellines, some whole, some divided
the I Ching
Margaret Adrian
$800 [20]
California's dream of this high-speed train from L.A. to San Francisco is now a hope to finish the Merced-Bakersfield route by 2030
a bullet train
$800 [24]
D'Artagnan & the 3 Musketeers are up for adventure again in this 1850 work about a mysterious prisoner
The Man in the Iron Mask
Margaret
$800 [22]
To take away someone's right to vote
disenfranchise
Margaret
$1,000 [30]
3 years before his death in a car crash, he made the cover of Rolling Stone as "Comedy's Wild Thing"
Sam Kinison
Adrian
$1,000 [5]
The USA's worst depression before the Civil War began with what's usually called this event "of 1837"
the Panic
Margaret Adrian
$1,000 [16]
The Dardanus & the Scaean were 2 of the 6 gates of this ancient legendary city of Anatolia
Troy
$1,000 [21]
The family that started this car company has a D in its name; but in katakana, that name has 10strokes& with a T, lucky 8
Toyota
Adrian
$1,000 [25]
"The Silver Chair" is the fourth book in the series about this fantasy land
Narnia
Caitlin
$1,000 [23]
To stop the heart with an electric shock to help restore normal rhythm
defibrillate
Margaret

Double Jeopardy! Round

BORDERING RUSSIA POP CULTURE PAIRS GENUS & SPECIES SIGNS & SYMBOLS UNUSUAL WORDS ARTHURIAN LEGEND & HISTORY
$400 [12]
"Gobi", as in its Gobi Desert, means "waterless place" in the language of this landlocked nation
Mongolia
Margaret
$400 [23]
The Battle of the Boroughs: games between these 2 NBA squads
the Knicks & the Nets
Margaret Caitlin
$400 [18]
Eudyptula, a genus of these Southern Hemisphere birds, means "good little diver"; the fairy type is Eudyptula minor
penguin
Adrian
$400 [14]
Like a wedding band, this simple symbol has no beginning & no end & represents unity, wholeness & eternity
a circle
Adrian
$400 [6]
Tolkien coined the term eucatastrophe, referring to one of these 2-word results, which he said made a complete fairy-story
a happy ending
Margaret
$400 [1]
This colorful challenger to Sir Gawain turns out to be Sir Bertilak in disguise
the Green Knight
Margaret
$800 [13]
The Kerch Strait--along with serious border issues--separates Russia from this country on the Black Sea
Ukraine
Adrian
$800 [24]
Speeding fine $15 & You inherit $100 are examples of these paired board game elements
Chance & Community Chest
Adrian
$800 [19]
Canis aureus, or "golden dog", is a species of this canine with a foul odor & a reputation for skulking cowardice
a jackal
Margaret Caitlin
$800 [17]
On a gravestone, a hand with the index finger pointing upward symbolizes the hope of this place
heaven
Caitlin
$800 [7]
As the name implies, xylotherapy uses certain kinds of these for medical purposes
woods
Margaret
$1,200 [3]
Named parts of Arthur's fighting gear included "Excalibur" , his sword, "Ron", his lance, & "Pridwen", this
his shield
Adrian
$1,200 [28]
I've got this nation on the Black Sea on my mind, along with Mount Kazbek, an extinct volcano that's one of its highest points
Georgia
Adrian
$1,200 [25]
Ash is bros for life with this Pokemon
Pikachu
Caitlin
$1,200 [20]
In 1816 this animal was classified in the genus Pan; some scientists want to put it in Homo
chimpanzee
Adrian
$1,200 [16]
It's the unit of electrical resistance whose symbol is seen here
ohm
Adrian
$1,200 [8]
Anguilliform means resembling these slippery creatures
eels
Caitlin
$1,600 [4]
The son of Lancelot, this noblest of Arthur's knights was among the few virtuous enough to find the Holy Grail
Sir Galahad
Margaret
$1,600 [26]
In a 1980 comedy this title pair explains: "We're on a mission from God"
the Blues Brothers
Adrian
$2,000 [22]
Musca is Latin for "fly", an insect that should fear Muscicapa, a genus of this bird
a flycatcher
$1,600 [15]
In theportrait, the framing garland is leaves of this long-lived tree, a symbol of endurance
oak
Adrian
$1,600 [10]
Be careful around a bergschrund, one of these you may encounter on a mountainous glacier
a crevasse
$2,000 [5]
Arthur's mother was Igraine, duchess of this peninsular region
Cornwall
Adrian
$2,000 [27]
Here'slooking at this Silver Screen royal couple
Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart
Margaret
DD $10,000 [21]
Waran is Arabic for the monitor lizard; this largest member of the genus Varanus can weigh 350 pounds & kill with its bite
the Komodo dragon
Adrian
$2,000 [9]
Associated with Hermes, this symbol seenhereis an emblem of the medical profession & also a sign of peace
a caduceus
Margaret
$2,000 [11]
Where you at, Yeti? This 13-letter field deals with the study of legendary creatures
cryptozoology
Margaret
DD $7,600 [2]
The figure best known by this name appears in some versions as Ambrosius, a prophet & adviser to King Vortigern
Merlin
Margaret

Final Jeopardy!

LITERARY CHARACTERS

Dostoyevsky wrote that this title man in an earlier European novel is "beautiful only because he is ridiculous"

Don Quixote

Adrian "Who is prince mishkin" — wagered $4,600
Caitlin "Who is Dorian Gray?" — wagered $3,601
Margaret "Who isCandide? Candide?" — wagered $2,500

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