Show #8641 2022-05-16 (taped 2022-03-01) Regular

Ryan Long game 2.

Contestants

Divya Badri — a software developer from Coal Valley, Illinois

Nick Dee — a photographer from Los Angeles, California

Ryan Long — a rideshare driver from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ryan $4,600 $8,600 $16,200 $24,200
2-day champion: $43,000
$17,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Nick $2,000 $4,000 $14,600 $21,199
2nd place: $2,000
$17,600
19 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Divya $2,400 $400 $4,000 $3,300
3rd place: $1,000
$4,000
9 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

FACE THE MUSIC A HORSE WITH A NAME HOW INVENTIVE! THAT'S OUR ISLAND IT'S GETTING WINDY TFW...
$200 [1]
Thisfunnyman & former fiancé was one of those who inspired Ariana Grande's song "Thank U, Next"
Pete Davidson
Nick
$200 [30]
In mythology, this winged horse became the bearer of Zeus' lightning & thunderbolts
Pegasus
Nick
$200 [16]
Don't fear the mechanical this, patented by National Inventors Hall of Famer Cyrus McCormick in 1834
reaper
Divya
$200 [6]
Corfu
Greece
Nick
$200 [25]
Some of the strongest of these events were 1969's Camille, with 175-mph winds & 1980's Allen, which hit 190
a hurricane
Divya
$200 [11]
You're this synonym of stoic & tolerant, like one in a hospital
patient
$400 [3]
When Dolly Parton left singing partner Porter Wagonerfor a solo career, she wrote this iconic love song for him
"I Will Always Love You"
Ryan
$400 [29]
After winning an Olympic medal, shegot congratulations from her rock-star dad who didn't even mention Don Juan van de Donkhoeve
Jessica Springsteen
$400 [17]
This inventor's name is spelled out here
Samuel Morse
Ryan Nick
$400 [7]
Robben Island, Duiker Island
South Africa
$400 [22]
In 2020 Rugby star Liam Squire said, "I sort of feel refreshed again, like I've got my" this ordinal 2-word phrase
second wind
Ryan Nick Divya
$400 [12]
You get good results purely by chance, 'cause you were "born under" this kind of "Star"
lucky
Ryan
$600 [4]
Erin Everly'ssmile reminded Axl Rose of childhood memories in this Guns N' Roses hit
"Sweet Child O' Mine"
Ryan
$600 [28]
The only survivor the U.S. Cavalry retrieved from this 1876 battle was a wounded horse named Comanche
(the Battle of) Little Bighorn
Ryan
$600 [14]
This guitarist invented multi-track recording techniques & was the 2nd half of "Chester & Lester" (Chester was Chet Atkins)
Les Paul
Nick
$600 [8]
Ibiza, Tenerife
Spain
Ryan
$600 [21]
"The Cyclone", Chapter One of a beloved book, begins, this girl "lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies"
Dorothy (Gale)
Ryan
$600 [9]
Unlike Wayne & Garth on film, you repeatedly feel this, having value or importance
worthy
Ryan
$800 [2]
Thislate comic is the Andy of R.E.M.'s hit "Man On The Moon"
Andy Kaufman
Divya
$800 [27]
In 1938, in one of the great races of the century, this grandson of Man o' War beat War Admiral in a one-on-one match
Seabiscuit
Ryan
$800 [15]
Dean Kamen left college without a degree but invented the Segway & a portable machine for this kidney-assisting process
dialysis
Divya
$800 [19]
Rapa Nui
Chile
$800 [23]
A windmill generates mechanical energy but not electricity; a wind this, which suits us to a "T", does, as it converts kinetic energy
a turbine
Ryan
$800 [10]
You're these 2 mellow words that precede "collected" in a proverbial phrase
calm & cool
Divya
$1,000 [5]
Helô Pinheirowas a young Brazilian bathing beauty when she inspired Antônio Carlos Jobim to write this bossa nova classic
"The Girl From Ipanema"
Nick
$1,000 [26]
In "War Horse", the novel & film, he's the brave equine forced to fight on the Western Front during World War I
Joey
Divya
$1,000 [18]
Lewis Latimer extended light bulb lifetimes by inventing a process to make this finely drawn wire long-lasting
a filament
Nick
$1,000 [20]
Sint Eustatius
the Netherlands
Ryan Divya
$1,000 [24]
On April 5, 1936 an F5 tornado hit this Mississippi city; one survivor was very young Elvis Presley, born there the year before
Tupelo
Ryan
DD $2,000 [13]
You're realistic or emotionally stable, like a circuit safely connected to the Earth
grounded
Ryan

Double Jeopardy! Round

SWEDISH HISTORY THAT BOOK PLAGUES ME SKELETON CREW CLOSE TO THE VEST LET'S GAMBLE I'VE GOT A BIG BANK ROLE
$400 [6]
Founded in 1252, this Swedish city is today the most populous in the Nordic countries with more than 1.5 million residents
Stockholm
Nick Divya
$400 [1]
An epidemic strikes Algeria in "The Plague" by this author
Albert Camus
$400 [8]
The malleus is a tiny bone in the middle part of this sense organ
the ear
Ryan
$400 [28]
They're the "V" in the organization known as the VFW
the veterans
Nick
$400 [22]
Follow the Queen & Chicago are variants of this game
poker
Ryan
$400 [12]
In this movie, Ryan Reynolds is a bank teller; fortunately, it's a video game, as his day usually doesn't go well
Free Guy
Nick
$800 [7]
Around 1000 King Olaf underwent this rite, aiding the conversion of Sweden to Christianity
baptism
Nick
$800 [2]
Boccaccio's finest poetry is in this collection of tales told by 10 people fleeing plague-stricken Florence
The Decameron
Ryan
$800 [13]
These bones can be cervical, thoracic or lumbar
vertebrae
Divya
$800 [30]
Something used as a container for fluids, or any boat or plane
a vessel
Nick
$800 [23]
One step beyond an exacta is this type of wager in which you have to pick the top 3 horses in the exact order they finish
a trifecta
Ryan
$800 [14]
Seen here, this actor used all of his Time Lord wits to rob the Bank of Karabraxos in a Doctor Who thriller
Peter Capaldi
Divya
$1,600 [10]
Queen Christina of Sweden was mentored by this French "cogito, ergo sum" man when he lived there in 1649 & 1650
Descartes
Ryan
$1,200 [3]
A mysterious microorganism from space wipes out most of an Arizona town in this thriller by Michael Crichton
The Andromeda Strain
Ryan
$1,200 [19]
These 2 bones articulate with the humerus to form the elbow
the ulna & the radius
Nick
$1,200 [18]
Clothes worn by the clergy during the Eucharist
vestments
Nick
$1,200 [29]
These 2 green numbers in roulette give the house an edge
0 & 00
$1,200 [15]
In the "Harry Potter" films, Warwick Davis played Griphook, one of the goblins working at this wizarding bank
Gringotts
Ryan
DD $2,000 [9]
The Warrior King Charles XIIdid this in 1708 with 44,000 troops; as military wisdom would suggest, it didn't work
invade Russia
Ryan
$1,600 [4]
A virulent disease targets only women in "The White Plague" by this author of "Dune"
Herbert
Nick
$2,000 [21]
It's also called a zygomatic or malar bone
the cheekbone
Nick
$1,600 [24]
French for "widow", a famous one with the last name Clicquot made her mark in the champagne world
veuve
Nick
$1,600 [27]
This "royal" gaming company began in 2012 when 3 co-workers thought, why can't fantasy sports have daily payouts?
DraftKings
Divya
$1,600 [16]
In "Too Big to Fail", he played Fed chair Ben Bernanke; on "Billions", he's a U.S. attorney going after Wall Street corruption
Paul Giamatti
$2,000 [11]
"Talent & Taste" is the motto of the Swedish this institution, founded in 1786, which hands out the Nobel Prize for Literature
the Academy
$2,000 [5]
A flu pandemic leads to the collapse of civilization in this novel by Emily St. John Mandel, later an HBO Max miniseries
Station Eleven
Nick
DD $3,000 [20]
This bone fits into the acetabulum, the cup-shaped cavity of the hip
the femur
Nick
$2,000 [25]
It's a lobby or hall just inside a building's main door
a vestibule
Nick
$2,000 [26]
Multiple bets are tied together in this sports bet whose name sounds like a discussion about battlefield surrender terms
a parlay
Ryan
$2,000 [17]
Steve Carell & Brad Pitt starred in this Adam McKay comedy that skewered the banking industry & its gambling ways
The Big Short
Ryan

Final Jeopardy!

THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

The USA's smallest national park is a 91-acre site on the Mississippi River, home to this 630-foot landmark

the St. Louis Arch (the Gateway Arch)

Divya "What is?" — wagered $700
Nick "What is the St. Louis Arch?" — wagered $6,599
Ryan "What is the St. Louis Arch?" — wagered $8,000

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