Show #8636 2022-05-09 (taped 2022-02-28) Regular

Mayim Bialik hosts.

Contestants

Emily Levant — an associate creative director from Los Angeles, California

Karim Oliver — a student at Vanderbilt University from St. Petersburg, Florida

Danielle Maurer — a digital marketing manager from Peachtree Corners, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Danielle $2,600 $5,400 $14,600 $12,399
2-day champion: $27,999
$13,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Karim $1,200 $1,400 $1,400 $400
3rd place: $1,000
$4,400
8 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs)
Emily $1,600 $3,600 $8,400 $1,400
2nd place: $2,000
$8,400
16 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

ALL ABOUT AMPHIBIANS COLORFUL ALBUMS PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE MENACE TO SOBRIETY INTERNATIONAL RHYME TIME 2 "R"s NOT TO REASON WHY
$200 [21]
This largest North American frog makes its characteristic booming call to mark territory & attract mates
a bullfrog
Danielle
$200 [12]
The bestselling Beatles album in the U.S. is "The Beatles", better known by this colorful name
the White Album
Danielle
$200 [28]
A boy comes of age during this 19th century conflict in Irene Hunt's young adult classic "Across Five Aprils"
the Civil War
Karim
$200 [17]
This "King of Beers" markets a Chelada with Clamato
Budweiser
Emily
$200 [3]
A skinny person from Helsinki
a thin Finn
Danielle
$200 [30]
A brother in Bordeaux
frère
Emily
$400 [22]
Seen here, a small frog of South America, is named for this man who discovered the species on an 1830s voyage
(Charles) Darwin
Danielle
$400 [11]
"99 Problems" is on this 2003 album that Jay-Z said would be his last (it wasn't)
The Black Album
Karim
$400 [27]
In a prophetic adventure tale, Jules Verne took us on a journey "From the Earth to" this locale
the Moon
Danielle
$400 [18]
You're not exactly living like a monk when you fork over $84,000 for a bottle of rosé 1959 from this brand of champagne
Dom Perignon
Emily
$400 [23]
Surrounded by a river, Gezira in Cairo
a Nile isle
$400 [29]
From Old French for "speak", it's a room used for entertaining guests
a parlor
Emily
$600 [7]
Newly hatched Surinam toads emerge as miniature adults, not as this larval stage
tadpoles
Karim
$800 [9]
This Elton John double album is full of great songs, including the original "Candle In The Wind"
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Karim
$600 [2]
This Jon Krakauer nonfiction work told the story of Chris McCandless & his efforts to escape the modern world & survive in nature
Into the Wild
Emily
$600 [13]
This potent potable is the star attraction in a Bacchanalian, a Corpse Reviver No. 1 & of course, an Alexander
brandy
$600 [1]
Confections from the world's longest mountain chain
Andes candies
$600 [4]
An attendant who carries bags at a train station
a porter
Danielle
$800 [24]
It's a 4-letter name for a partially terrestrial salamander with poisonous skin
a newt
Danielle
DD $1,000 [10]
Kelly Clarkson's holiday album "Wrapped in Red" includes this colorful Elvis song about a sad noel
"Blue Christmas"
Karim
$800 [6]
African-American detective Virgil Tibbs must solve a murder in the Deep South in this John Ball novel from 1965
In the Heat of the Night
$800 [19]
A Lynchburg lemonade isn't meant for kids on a hot summer's day, as pouring this brand over ice into a highball glass is for adults only
Jack Daniel's
Emily
$800 [14]
Scary Japanese theatre
spooky kabuki
Danielle
$800 [5]
Also an adjective for straightness, it's the old-time firearm accessory in use here
a ramrod
Danielle
$1,000 [25]
From the mistaken notion that they could bark, some North American salamanders are called water dogs or these
a mud puppy
Emily
$1,000 [8]
The 2018 Grammy for Album of the Year went to Kacey Musgraves for this "Hour"
Golden Hour
Karim
$1,000 [16]
"On the Banks of Plum Creek" is the fourth book in this series about a pioneering family
The Little House ( on the Prairie series) books
Emily
$1,000 [20]
This green liquor flavored with anise & wormwood boasts quite the kick
absinthe
Emily
$1,000 [15]
A Spanish house in Kenya's second-largest city
casa Mombasa
Karim
$1,000 [26]
From the Greek for "high priest", it's the type of arrangement by rank seen here
hierarchy
Danielle

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S. GEOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MOVIES MAKE IT SINGULAR THE NUREMBERG TRIALS LET'S GET NAUTICAL YOU SAID IT!
$400 [4]
It's the only U.S. state that touches the Beaufort Sea
Alaska
Danielle
$400 [8]
Spike Lee changed one letter in "Brooklyn" for this family tale
Crooklyn
Emily
$400 [10]
Dice
die
Danielle
$400 [16]
(Sarah presents the clue.) From November 1945 to October 1946, Courtroom 600 was the site of an International Military Tribunal that arraigned 24 Nazis on charges of conspiracy, war crimes, crimes against peace & offenses such as persecution, enslavement & murder--classed as crimes against this
humanity
Emily
$1,200 [20]
Renovated and indry dock, this flagship of Lord Nelson remains in active commission
the HMS Victory
$800 [28]
This 19th century showman: "The public appears disposed to be amused even when they are conscious of being deceived"
(P.T.) Barnum
Emily
$1,200 [3]
Missouri, Kansas, Texas & Oklahoma are home to the flat region known as the Osage these
the Plains
Emily
$800 [9]
Young Eleanor Bergstein would win Catskills mambo contests, inspiring her script for this 1980s film
Dirty Dancing
Karim Emily
$800 [25]
Apices
apex
Emily
$800 [17]
(Jimmy presents the clue.) The International Military Tribunal that presided over the trials, consisted of one representative and one alternate from the United States & each of these other three Allied powers
Great Britain, France & Soviet Union
Danielle
$1,600 [22]
In 2005 the Navy commissioned a Seawolf class nuclear-powered submarine named for this president & former naval officer
Jimmy Carter
$1,200 [13]
This Big Mac entrepreneur: "Work is the meat in the hamburger of life"
(Ray) Kroc
Karim Emily
$1,600 [5]
Coeur d'Alene & Bonners Ferry are in the northern panhandle of this state
Idaho
Karim
$1,200 [7]
Kenneth Branagh directed this 2021 film about "The Troubles"
Belfast
Emily
$1,200 [11]
Criteria
criterion
Danielle
$1,200 [18]
(Jimmy presents the clue.) The U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials was former Attorney General Robert H. Jacksonwho took an 11-month leave from this body to which he'd been appointed by FDR in 1941
the Supreme Court
Danielle
DD $2,000 [23]
This 4-word phrase has come to mean preparing for any trouble, but on a ship, it's getting ready for an imminent storm
batten down the hatches
Danielle
$1,600 [26]
This recently sainted woman: "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty"
Mother Teresa
Danielle
DD $2,000 [14]
Besides Boston & D.C., they're the 3 largest cities by population in the megalopolis known as the Bos Wash Corridor
New York City, Philadelphia & Baltimore
Karim
$1,600 [2]
The scene at Burge's Drive-In in Modesto, California was one of George Lucas' inspirations for this 1973 film
American Graffiti
Danielle Emily
$1,600 [12]
Errata
erratum
$1,600 [19]
(Sarah presents the clue.) "The record discloses no excuses for this man" was the court's verdict on this notorious Nazi & Luftwaffe chieftain who cheated the hangman by taking cyanide in his cell
Hermann Göring
$2,000 [24]
Displayed at Fort Gaines in Alabama is theanchor from this "Damn the torpedoes" admiral's ship used during the Battle of Mobile Bay
David Farragut
$2,000 [27]
To the Inquisition: "I have been judged vehemently suspected of heresy... of having held... the Sun is the center of the universe"
Galileo
Karim
$2,000 [6]
Seen here, the desert known as the Great this occupies large parts of Nevada & Utah
the Great Basin Desert
Karim
$2,000 [1]
This press-shy director turned to his own past in "The Tree of Life"
Terrence Malick
$2,000 [21]
Corpora
corpus
$2,000 [15]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) As well as individuals, the tribunal's opening indictments named seven criminal organizations, including the SS & the notorious German secret police infamously known as this
the Gestapo
Emily

Final Jeopardy!

NOVEL TITLES

A 1590 poem written for the retirement of Queen Elizabeth's champion knight shares its title with this 1929 novel by an American

A Farewell to Arms

Karim "What is this has been so cool." — wagered $1,000
Emily "What is The Grapes of Wrath?" — wagered $7,000
Danielle "What The Great Gatsby?" — wagered $2,201

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