Show #8608 2022-03-30 (taped 2022-01-26) Regular

Jackie Kelly game 4.

Contestants

Joey Lavarias — a bassoonist and graduate student from Greensboro, North Carolina

Candace Orsetti — a writer and editor from Annapolis, Maryland

Jackie Kelly — a pension calculation developer from Cary, North Carolina (whose 3-day cash winnings total $91,101)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jackie $6,400 $14,600 $23,000 $23,999
4-day champion: $115,100
$16,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Candace $2,000 $2,800 $4,000 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$7,200
15 R, 7 W (including 1 DD)
Joey $1,000 $2,200 $11,000 $8,500
2nd place: $2,000
$10,200
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

MULTI-SPORT ATHLETES THE NAME IN THE MIDDLE JOIN THE CROWD GIMME SOME SPACE LET'S PUT ON A SHOW GOOD LINE, FAMOUS NAME!
$200 [3]
He led the NBA in scoring 7 straight times, won 5 MVPs (& hit .202 for a minor league team in 1994, but let's not dwell on that)
Michael Jordan
Candace
$200 [19]
Hopping____doe
John
Joey
$200 [26]
When this team finally won the World Series again in 2016, 5 million people attended the parade & rally
the (Chicago) Cubs
Jackie
$200 [25]
Hawking radiation is a theoretical positive energy escaping one of these near its event horizon
a black hole
Joey
$400 [28]
Antique lovers enjoyed having "Show" added to this word in the title of a PBS show
Road
Candace
$400 [16]
Will Rogers said the only way to stop bootlegging "is to make them pay" this annual levy. It "has stopped every other industry"
income tax
Candace
$400 [4]
Later "The Rifleman" on TV, Chuck Connors was a Brooklyn Dodger & as a Celtic in 1946, became the first NBA player to shatter this
the backboard
Candace
$400 [18]
Uncontested____wonders never cease
will
Candace
$400 [27]
This city saw its population rise temporarily by around 3 million in 2012, a record peak during its annual hajj
Mecca
Jackie
$400 [24]
In 1976, NASA released a photo of the "face" seen here, taken by the Viking I probe circling this planet
Mars
Candace
$600 [22]
"Show" preceding this word gets you the nickname of an iconic Lakers squad
Time
$600 [12]
In 1971 this female Asian prime minister observed, "You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist"
Indira Gandhi
Jackie
$600 [5]
She was an All-American hoopster, Olympic champ & in 1946, won 13 straight golf titles
Babe Didrikson
Candace
$600 [17]
Cup of____blow
joe
Candace
$800 [14]
Love was in the air among the 600,000 on this isle in 1970 to see Hendrix & The Who in what's been called the British Woodstock
the Isle of Wight
Candace
$600 [21]
Ice volcanoes on this largest moon of Saturn may be releasing hydrocarbons like me than e rather than molten rock
Titan
Jackie Candace
$800 [15]
"Show" before this word gets you an ostentatious braggart, or a marine conveyance
boat
Candace
$800 [11]
George Bernard Shaw defined this negative thinker as "a man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it"
a pessimist
Candace
$800 [6]
A few career highlights: he won the Heisman at Auburn, ran for 221 yards in one game for the Raiders, & was an A.L. all-star
Bo Jackson
$800 [13]
Stand____on the back
pat
Jackie
$1,000 [9]
The funeral of this charismatic leader in 1970 drew 5 million people to the streets of Cairo
(Gamal Abdel) Nasser
Jackie
$800 [20]
An H II region made mostly of ionized hydrogen, the Orion this is an emission type of gaseous cloud
a nebula
Joey
$1,000 [10]
"Show" before this 7-letter word brings about a lot of applause & perhaps a brief pause in musical theater
stopper
Jackie
$1,000 [2]
Karl Marx stated that history appears twice, "the 1st time as tragedy, the 2nd time as" this ludicrous form of comedy
farce
Joey
$1,000 [7]
"Prime Time", prime time--in 1992, this manherehit .304, with 14 triples for the Braves & picked off three passes for the Falcons
(Deion) Sanders
Jackie
$1,000 [1]
Off the____my words
mark
Jackie
DD $7,000 [23]
In 1951 7.5 million people came to a Manhattan ticker-tape parade for this general who had recently been fired
MacArthur
Jackie
$1,000 [8]
There's still time to get ready, but in 4 billion years, this galaxy is destined for a head-on collision with ours
Andromeda
Jackie

Double Jeopardy! Round

A DISH OF SCHUBERT INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR FA"SH"ION HISTORICAL NONFICTION CONTRACTIONS
$400 [8]
A son of this capital, Franz was baptized in what's now known as the Schubert Church & at 17 wrote & conducted a mass there
Vienna
Joey
$400 [29]
Running from the Valdai Hills to the Caspian Sea, this Russian river is popular with boatmen
the Volga
Jackie
$400 [20]
In a supernatural series, John Alden returns from war to this title Massachusetts town & finds witchery afoot
Salem
Joey
$400 [1]
Round & waxed is a good look for these with your dress oxfords
shoelaces
Jackie Candace
$400 [30]
"Milk of Paradise: A History of" this drug examines its use & abuse from ancient times up to our own
opium
Candace
$400 [12]
This time-telling contraction lost its "F" centuries ago
o'clock
$800 [7]
A year before his own death, in 1827 Schubert was a torchbearer at the funeral of this legendary composer
Beethoven
Joey
$800 [27]
Hornli Ridge is the most common route taken by climbers scaling this iconic peak in the Swiss Alps
the Matterhorn
Jackie
$800 [21]
In "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald", Jude Law turns up as a younger version of this wizard
Dumbledore
Joey
$800 [9]
A selendang is a traditional Indonesian one of these shoulder coverings
a shawl
Joey
$800 [28]
Annalee Newitz' "Four Lost Cities" that flourished & then perished include this one around a big wat or temple
Angkor
Jackie
$800 [13]
This informal contraction means something easy, like a very short putt
a gimme
Candace
$1,200 [6]
This Italian composer also associated with Mozart discovered Schubert when he was 7 & became one of his teachers
Antonio Salieri
$1,200 [26]
The Khyber Passis a strategic geographic link between these two Asian nations
Pakistan & Afghanistan
Jackie
$1,600 [23]
Seen here, this actor plays Geralt, the title figure of the show "The Witcher"
(Henry) Cavill
Jackie
$1,200 [10]
Shearling comes from sheep; a faux shearling coat is also called this type, after a people of Nepal
Sherpa
Jackie
$1,600 [3]
An escape from the horrors in this African nation in 1994 is laid out in "The Girl Who Smiled Beads"
Rwanda
Candace Joey
$1,200 [14]
In the 19th century "it's" gradually replaced this equivalent contraction
'tis
Candace
$1,600 [4]
Schubert wrote several songs about fish as well as a famous piano quintet in A major named for this one
trout
Joey
$1,600 [2]
Brazil's largest port is this one about 30 miles from Sao Paulo that's also known for its soccer team
Santos
Candace
DD $2,000 [22]
In 1992's "Aladdin", this villain weaves a spell so he can wed Jasmine & seize power
Jafar
Joey
$1,600 [18]
Harley of Scotland makes cozy sweaters from this island type of wool
Shetland
Candace
$2,000 [17]
2021's "The Dawn of Everything" challenges the accepted picture of these 2-activity foragers of early humanity
hunter-gatherers
Joey
$1,600 [11]
It's the 6-letter beginning to the classic bartender's question
What'll
Joey
$2,000 [5]
Schubert's"Der Tod und das Mädchen", translated as this pair, was based on a poem by Matthias Claudius
"Death and the Maiden"
Joey
$2,000 [25]
Situated 4,200 feet above sea level on a limestone plateau, this city is the capital of Zambia
Lusaka
Jackie
$2,000 [24]
On film, Keanu Reeves was this arcane artist that Matt Ryan played on "DC's Legends of Tomorrow"
John Constantine
Joey
$2,000 [19]
Fine silk fabric named for the Chinese province where it was originally made
shantung
Candace
DD $3,200 [16]
"The Girls of Atomic City" highlights the experiences of women during WWII helping build the atomic bomb in this Tennessee city
Oak Ridge
Candace
$2,000 [15]
A word meaning "agreement" is part of this French contraction meaning "okey-dokey"
d'accord
Candace

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICANS IN PARIS

In 2021 she became the sixth woman & the first Black woman to be inducted into the Pantheon in Paris

Josephine Baker

Candace "Who is Fitzgerald?" — wagered $4,000
Joey "Who is Zora Neale Hurston?" — wagered $2,500
Jackie "Who is Josephine Baker?" — wagered $999

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