Show #8644 2022-05-19 (taped 2022-03-01) Regular

Ryan Long game 5.

Contestants

Julie Ann Crommett — a diversity and inclusion strategist from Atlanta, Georgia

Bradford Pearson — a journalist and author from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Ryan Long — a rideshare driver from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (whose 4-day cash winnings total $86,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ryan $8,600 $10,600 $16,200 $19,201
5-day champion: $105,801
$15,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Bradford $-600 $2,600 $9,600 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$10,600
18 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Julie Ann $-1,000 $200 $400 $400
2nd place: $2,000
$1,800
9 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

LIT BITS ASIAN MUSEUMS CONTAINERS THE DRUGS OF HUMANITY IT'S A WORD! IT'S A NAME! BLOOPERMAN
$200 [28]
Not to be confused department--left, Oscar winner William Goldman; right, this Nobel-winning William
(William) Golding
Julie Ann
$200 [30]
Flagstaff House, an old Colonial building in Hong Kong, is now a museum devoted to this beverage & its accessories
tea
Bradford Julie Ann
$200 [29]
In the late 1600s Rosalba Carriera became famous for painting miniatures on these boxes that held powdered tobacco
snuff boxes
Ryan
$200 [24]
Lipitor lowers fat in the blood called triglycerides & knows if this lipid has been bad or good & helps make it good for goodness' sake
cholesterol
Julie Ann
$200 [27]
Baedeker became a generic word for this kind of book; publisher Karl was one of the first to use stars in his
a (travel) guide
Ryan Bradford
$200 [8]
"Smokey and the Bandit 2" credits saw Burt Reynolds trying to wrangle this animal to a Republican convention
an elephant
Bradford
$400 [1]
In a classic book by Margery Williams, this title stuffed bunny is a Christmas gift
The Velveteen Rabbit
Bradford
$400 [18]
The Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Japan celebrates the work of Hayao Miyazaki, a visionary in this medium of film
animation
Julie Ann
$400 [26]
The word etui is an old favorite in crossword puzzles, where its standard clue is a case for these sewing necessities
needles
Ryan
$400 [22]
The bald facts--Minoxidil & tricho-prime technology help this product make the best of a hairy situation
Rogaine
Bradford
$400 [25]
British printer John Baskerville gave his last name to a popular one of these that uses serifs
fonts
Bradford
$400 [7]
Mila Kunis can't keep a straight face in a 2012 movie blooper when this actor tells the police that a guy took his teddy bear
Mark Wahlberg
Ryan
$600 [2]
This book introduced us to the Eloi & Morlocks
The Time Machine
Ryan Bradford Julie Ann
$600 [10]
Described as a discovery museum, Museum Siam is one of the newest in this world capital
Bangkok
Ryan
$600 [20]
Ewan is a McGregor; this similar word is a wide-mouthed jug
a ewer
Ryan
$600 [12]
What an adrenaline rush! This 11-letter hormone discovered in the late 1800s treats anaphylactic shock as it stimulates the heart
epinephrine
Bradford Julie Ann
$600 [16]
This "Thousand and One Nights" character gave his name to a type of paraffin lamp
Aladdin
Julie Ann
$600 [4]
In a blooper this late actor has trouble (even more than the character does) saying, "I am inspector Clouseau of the Sûreté"
Peter Sellers
Ryan
$800 [3]
Sylvia Plath penned a famous poem with this 5-letter title about a dead parent
Daddy
$800 [9]
Victoria Memorial Hall in this Indian city is named for a queen who would have spelled the city with a "C", not a "K"
Kolkata
Ryan
$1,000 [19]
The name of this urn is from Russian for "self-boil"
a samovar
$800 [11]
The drug that spent the most in U.S. TV advertising in 2019 is Humira--$460 mil. wasted if you don't know it treats this joint condition
arthritis
Ryan
$800 [15]
If a character in a British novel says, "I've dropped my Biro", she means one of these, after its inventor
a ballpoint pen
$800 [5]
Peter Cushing playing this "Grand" villain can't get his line right while confronting Princess Leia in "Star Wars"
Grand Moff Tarkin
Ryan
$1,000 [13]
The surname of this Persian astronomer & poet means "tentmaker"
(Omar) Khayyam
Ryan Julie Ann
$1,000 [23]
Nepal's Namche Bazaar is home to a culture museum for these locals who help people get a peak experience
the Sherpa
Ryan
DD $2,000 [14]
2 containers are in the name of this furniture store founded by Gordon & Carole Segal in 1962
Crate & Barrel
Ryan
$1,000 [21]
In 1964 2 physicians developed a program to help with heroin, opium & morphine addiction with the aid of this drug
methadone
Bradford
$1,000 [17]
A 17th century British hangman lent his name first to a gallows & then to this oil well structure used to hoist pipes
Derrick
Bradford
$1,000 [6]
While doing a take in "Rush Hour 2", this comic gets a real-life call from someone who asks to speak to Jackie Chan
Chris Tucker
Ryan

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE VICE PRESIDENT WHO SAID... LET'S TAKE A WORLD TOUR PHYSICS WELCOME TO BRITAIN TV PERSONALITIES STARTS WITH "A" OR ENDS WITH "Z"
$400 [28]
"I hope that by being a 'first', I inspire young people to pursue their dreams"
(Kamala) Harris
Bradford
$400 [27]
Heaviest of the parrots, the flightlesskākāpō, of this Down Under island nation, can weigh up to nine pounds
New Zealand
Bradford
$400 [24]
This force that gets planes off the ground is created by the difference in velocity between a solid object & the fluid it moves in
lift
Julie Ann
$400 [29]
This Seattle company's first site in London was at King's Road, Chelsea in 1998; don't worry, chaps, they also serve tea
Starbucks
Bradford
$400 [5]
She followed up judging "America's Next Top Model" by hosting "Dancing with the Stars"
Tyra Banks
Julie Ann
$400 [10]
It's paired with "glamour" in an alliterative phrase
glitz
Ryan
$800 [20]
After being sworn in as veep: "I am a" this last name, "not a Lincoln"
Gerald Ford
$800 [16]
The name of this Scottish city is from Gaelic & means "green hollow"
Glasgow
Bradford
$800 [23]
This property is measured in becquerels; one Bq equals one disintegration of an unstable nucleus per second
radioactivity
Bradford
$800 [21]
British cavalry units helped popularize this game in Britain; by 1875 matches drew 10,000 watchers
polo
Ryan
$800 [4]
Knives up for Padma Lakshmi, who's hosted this Bravo cooking competition since 2006
Top Chef
Julie Ann
$800 [8]
Getthis Jewish crepe in my belly!
a blintz
Ryan
DD $1,400 [14]
"You win some, you lose some. And then there's that little-known third category... take it from me. Every vote counts"
Al Gore
Julie Ann
$1,200 [17]
Uganda, Tanzania & Kenya all border this chief reservoir of the Nile River
Lake Victoria
Bradford
$1,200 [12]
Obeying the second law of thermodynamics, heat that isn't used to do work goes to this, which sounds like it should have a faucet
(a heat) sink
Julie Ann
DD $1,000 [30]
The Normans brought England this title of nobility, later the general term for the lords who fought King John & got Magna Carta done
a baron
Bradford
$1,200 [2]
A judge on "The Great British Baking Show", this man who sounds right at home in L.A. provides recipes for the BBC
Paul Hollywood
Bradford Julie Ann
$1,200 [7]
A general pardon for political offenses
amnesty
Ryan
$1,600 [15]
Fellow Hoosier "Bobby Knight told me this. He says there is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense"
Dan Quayle
Bradford
$1,600 [18]
This notorious island prison off the coast of French Guiana also once housed a leper colony
Devil's Island
$1,600 [11]
Also called a light quantum, this particle now has -ics after it as the field of fancy light tech such as lasers
a photon
Ryan
$1,200 [25]
The first regular season NFL game played in Europe was in 2007 in this stadium that also hosted Live Aid
Wembley (Stadium)
Ryan
$1,600 [1]
Seen here, this former Saints quarterback was with Mike Tirico in the booth for the start of the 2022 NFL playoffs
Drew Brees
Bradford
$1,600 [6]
This 9-letter word describes anything with no definite form, such as a blob
amorphous
Bradford
$2,000 [22]
In a letter: "I am very apprehensive that a desperate anti-Federal Party, will provoke all Europe by their insolence"
John Adams
$2,000 [19]
The tower seenhereis 1,381 feet high, but reflecting the name of the Asian capital it's in, has just this 2-letter name
the KL Tower
$2,000 [13]
The amplitude of a wave in physics is the distance from the center line to either of these two points also found on an ocean wave
crest & trough
Bradford
$1,600 [26]
These kangaroo relatives have become a British pest since escaping from Bedfordshire's Whipsnade Zoo
wallabies
Bradford
$2,000 [3]
After "Bar Rescue", he tried his hand at "Marriage Rescue"
Jon Taffer
$2,000 [9]
This unit of frequency named for a German is equal to one cycle per second
hertz
Ryan

Final Jeopardy!

THE ANCIENT WORLD

New research suggests a device now called the Archimedes screw helped maintain this one of the 7 Wonders of the World

the Hanging Gardens (of Babylon)

Julie Ann "What is the leaning tower of Pisa?" — wagered $0
Bradford "What is the Colossus Rhodes?" — wagered $9,600
Ryan "Whatare thHanging Gardens" — wagered $3,001

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