Show #8639 2022-05-12 (taped 2022-02-28) Regular

Contestants

Charly Kuecks — a writer and test prep expert from Salt Lake City, Utah

Matt Petroff — a management consultant from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Daniel Nguyen — a high school math teacher from San Jose, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,199)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Daniel $4,000 $6,000 $18,000 $18,000
2-day champion: $25,199
$20,200
23 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Matt $3,000 $2,600 $200 $400
3rd place: $1,000
$200
7 R, 4 W
Charly $400 $800 $7,600 $2,801
2nd place: $2,000
$7,600
12 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

IN THE NATIONAL PARK THEBILLBOARDMUSIC AWARDS NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN BEVERAGES SUBTITLED NONFICTION OCCUPATIONAL HOMONYMS
$200 [1]
Great Fountain Geyser
Yellowstone
Matt Charly
$200 [22]
Performing in 2020 just after their family suffered a miscarriage, this piano maestro dedicated "Never Break" to his wife"We will never break /We will never break /Built on a foundation /Strong enough to stay..."
John Legend
Matt
$200 [24]
Susan La Flesche, the first Native person to get this kind of degree, had a solo practice covering the vast Omaha reservation
an MD (a medical degree)
Charly
$200 [19]
7UP is among the soda brands that have replaced this word on their labels in favor of "zero sugar"
diet
Daniel
$200 [14]
"An Oral History of" this cable TV channel's "Golden Age" in the 1980s & '90s is shared in "Slimed!"
Nickelodeon
Charly
$200 [13]
A job like a chauffeur, or a part of your PC that needs to be updated occasionally
a driver
Matt
$600 [6]
Alligator Creek Campsite
Everglades
Matt
$400 [21]
"Straight Up" now name this woman who closed the 2019 show with a greatest hits medley"Straight up now tell me /Do you really want to love me forever (oh, oh, oh) /Or am I caught in a hit-and-run?"
(Paula) Abdul
Daniel
$400 [25]
In 1613 the English kidnapped this daughter of Powhatan to use her as a hostage in negotiations
Pocahontas
Daniel
$400 [20]
It's the beverage most associated with Dad's & Hires
root beer
Charly
$400 [15]
"Over the Edge of the World" charts this 16th century explorer's "Terrifying Circumnavigation of the World"
Magellan
Charly
$400 [12]
It can mean highest in rank or value, as well as someone of high rank at your school
principal
Daniel
$800 [7]
In California, Twenty Mule Team Canyon
Death Valley
$600 [23]
We won't dance around it--this band! at the 2019 show made their ma proud & lived up to the chorus of a hit tune"Hey look ma, I made it /Hey look ma, I made it..."
Panic! at the Disco
Daniel Charly
$600 [26]
Sarah Winnemucca was the first Native woman to secure this protection, with 1883's "Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims"
a copyright
Matt
$600 [4]
"The original plant-powered drink"; the first half of its ingredients are tomato puree, carrots, celery & beets
V8
Daniel
$600 [16]
"Parents, Children and the Search for Identity" is the subtitle; the title completes the proverb "the apple doesn't fall far..."
From the Tree
Daniel
$600 [11]
Not just an occupation, it's also a type of fruity pie
a cobbler
$1,000 [8]
In Arkansas, Bathhouse Row seen here
Hot Springs National Park
$800 [29]
Thisgenre-defying band that broke in 2014 with "Gooey" performed at the BBMAs in 2021"Sometimes, all I think about is you /Late nights in the middle of June /Heat waves been fakin' me out /Heat waves been fakin' me out..."
Glass Animals
$800 [27]
Making-Out-Road divorced this frontiersman & state capital name source Cheyenne style, leaving his stuff outside her lodge
Kit Carson
$800 [3]
In 2020 McDonald's celebrated the 50th anniversary of this minty St. Patrick's Day treat
a Shamrock Shake
Daniel
$800 [17]
"Eats, Shoots & Leaves" is subtitled "The Zero Tolerance Approach to" this part of writing
Punctuation
Charly
$800 [10]
A certain member of our military forces, or an adjective that refers broadly to the sea
Marine
Daniel
DD $1,400 [5]
The McKinley Station Trail
Denali (National Park)
Daniel
$1,000 [30]
At the 2021 show, this letter-perfect indie pop trio gave a smokin' performance of "Bang!""So put your best face on everybody /Pretend you know this song /Everybody come hang /Let's go out with a bang /Bang! Bang! Bang!"
AJR
$1,000 [28]
A mural in Oklahoma's capitol honors 5 Native American ballerinas, including these 2 sisters, Maria & Marjorie
the Tallchief sisters
$1,000 [2]
The name of this popular Chinese tea is less popularly spelled with a W-U at the beginning
oolong
Matt
$1,000 [18]
"Tears of Mermaids" reveals "The Secret Story of" these gems
pearls
Daniel
$1,000 [9]
Someone who oversees construction work, or a muscle that becomes shorter
contractor
Matt

Double Jeopardy! Round

ALL APOLOGIES MUSICALS BY LYRICS 4-SYLLABLE WORDS THE 1960s AUNTIE ESTABLISHMENT
DD $200 [30]
This English statesman published an "Apology" defending Catholicism in 1533; 2 years later, he was headless
Sir Thomas More
Daniel
$400 [1]
"One short day in the Emerald City... full of so much to do"
Wicked
Daniel Matt
$400 [6]
Tories is a nickname for this U.K. political party
Conservative
Daniel
$400 [13]
Protests in May 1968 that rocked Paris were kicked off by student occupation & police action at this Latin Quarter school
the Sorbonne
Daniel
$400 [21]
In this novel, Jo is ill-suited as a companion to her Aunt March
Little Women
Charly
$400 [11]
The Judiciary Act of 1789 created this position in the cabinet, first held by Edmund Randolph
attorney general
Daniel
$400 [23]
Robert Barclay's 1678 "Apology for the True Christian Divinity" stated the beliefs of this sect also called the Society of Friends
the Quakers
Charly
$800 [2]
"Can you feel the love tonight? The peace the evening brings..."
The Lion King
Charly
$800 [7]
It's the range of authority that law enforcement holds over a specific area
jurisdiction
Daniel
$800 [17]
Broadening his message from civil rights, on March 2, 1965 Martin Luther King made his first public statement against this
the Vietnam War
$800 [22]
Jan Handzlik played the young Patrick Dennis, who is taken in by this exuberant auntie, played memorably by Rosalind Russell
Auntie Mame
$800 [12]
In 1887 this man systematically created the first U.S. library school, at Columbia
(Melvil) Dewey
Charly
$800 [24]
The 1531 Apology of the Augsburg Confession was a defense of the doctrines of this branch of Protestantism
Lutheranism
Matt
$1,200 [3]
"Hey sanna, hosanna, hey, JC, JC, you're alright by me"
Jesus Christ Superstar
Charly
$1,200 [8]
This period in English history refers to the return of Charles II to the throne
Restoration
Daniel
$1,200 [18]
In the Six-Day War, Israeli forces took East Jerusalem from this country, restoring Jewish access to the Western Wall
Jordan
Daniel Matt
$1,200 [26]
The haughty Lady Catherine de Bourgh does not approve of a match between this nephew of hers & Elizabeth Bennet
Fitzwilliam Darcy
Charly
$1,200 [14]
In 1999 Nunavut Territory was established out of the eastern portion of this other Canadian territory
the Northwest Territories
Daniel
$1,600 [29]
In 2010 John Henry Newman, author of the "Apologia Pro Vita Sua", underwent this process that precedes canonization
beatification
Daniel
$1,600 [4]
"Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes, how do you measure, measure a year?"
Rent
Daniel
$1,600 [9]
The name of this genus of bacteria honors a veterinarian with a fishy last name
Salmonella
$2,000 [20]
In 1964 he was called back to Moscow from a Black Sea holiday & told he was no longer in charge in the USSR
Khrushchev
Daniel
$1,600 [27]
Seen here, she plays Aunt Lydia on "The Handmaid's Tale"
Ann Dowd
$1,600 [15]
The Ayyubid Dynasty, created by this famed hero, ruled Egypt in the 12th & 13th centuries
Saladin
Matt
$2,000 [25]
This Bishop of Hippo in North Africa published an apology in 388 titled "On the Holiness of the Catholic Church"
Augustine
Charly
$2,000 [5]
"In short there's simply not a more congenial spot for happily-ever-aftering than here"
Camelot
$2,000 [10]
This science studies the universe as a whole, bringing together astronomy & physics
cosmology
Daniel
DD $3,000 [19]
On the medal podium in this city, John Carlos & Tommie Smith raised fists & also wore no shoes to highlight poverty in America
Mexico City
Daniel
$2,000 [28]
Her "astonishment was almost unspeakable" upon finding a fence whitewashed (ostensibly) by Tom Sawyer
Aunt Polly
$2,000 [16]
Initially worried about Axis control of this passage, Britain created a base on Deception Island off Antarctica
Drake's Passage
Daniel

Final Jeopardy!

CONSTITUTIONS OF THE WORLD

Amendments to its 1901 constitution require approval of at least 4 states before receiving royal assent

Australia

Matt "What is Australia?" — wagered $200
Charly "What is Spain?" — wagered $4,799
Daniel "What is Austrailia?" — wagered $0

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