Show #8648 2022-05-25 (taped 2022-03-31) Regular

Ryan Long game 9.

Contestants

Noura Dabbouseh — a physician from Clarendon Hills, Illinois

Kris Olson — a high school music teacher from Lexington, Kentucky

Ryan Long — a rideshare driver from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (whose 8-day cash winnings total $160,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ryan $4,200 $10,000 $12,800 $12,900
9-day champion: $173,301
$12,800
28 R, 5 W
Kris $200 $600 $6,300 $12,600
2nd place: $2,000
$8,800
10 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Noura $1,400 $1,400 $4,200 $200
3rd place: $1,000
$4,200
8 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

LET'S GET HISTORICAL MOVIE SUPERVILLAINS FUN WITH U.S. CITY FLAGS '80s & '90s NONFICTION 5-LETTER "W"s BOND APPETIT!
$200 [21]
The U.S. officially adopted this standard in 1900 & officially abandoned it in 1976
the gold standard
Ryan
$200 [26]
It's no spoiler to say Killmonger lives up to his name in this 2018 film
Black Panther
Ryan
$200 [30]
On San Antonio's flag, this structure is found in the middle of a white lone star
the Alamo
Ryan
$200 [15]
Reaching the half century mark, this singer-songwriter published a memoir, "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Jimmy Buffett
Kris
$200 [2]
The name of this dance is from German for "revolve"
the waltz
Ryan
$200 [10]
In "From Russia with Love", 007 enjoys toast with honey, strawberry jam & this spread made from oranges
marmalade
Ryan
$400 [20]
In ancient Rome, the retiarius, or "net man", & the dimachaerus, or "2-knife man", were types of these
gladiators
Noura
$400 [24]
Really, this Alfred Molina character only had 4 tentacles, but having "Quadro-" as part of his name wouldn't work
Doctor Octopus
Ryan Noura
$400 [18]
The wavy blue lines on Cincinnati's flag represent this river that the city lies on
the Ohio
Kris
$400 [11]
Begun nearly 20 years earlier, Nelson Mandela's autobiography was finally published in 1994 under the title "Long Walk to" this
Freedom
Ryan
$400 [1]
To twist a wet towel to extract all the moisture
wring
Noura
$400 [6]
In "Casino Royale" Bond says to Vesper, "The trouble" with this pricey dish is "how to get enough toast with it"
caviar
Ryan
$600 [19]
The Sepoy Rebellion swept through the north of this country in the late 1850s
India
$600 [23]
"Kneel before" this general! In a 1980 film, he finally gets his wish that Superman does so, but things go south real fast
(General) Zod
Ryan
$600 [27]
After a less-than-stellar review of its previous flag, Rapid City, South Dakota put this landmark front & center
Mount Rushmore
Ryan
$600 [12]
Randy Shilts' critically acclaimed bestseller "And the Band Played On" exposed how this was allowed to spread during the 1980s
AIDS
Ryan
$600 [3]
An edible grass in the genus Triticum
wheat
Ryan
$600 [7]
Also the surname of a Bond film-producing family, this green is on the menu in "Live and Let Die"
broccoli
Ryan
DD $1,000 [16]
This 1,700-pound chunk of rock called granodiorite was found in Egypt in 1799
the Rosetta Stone
Kris
$800 [22]
Gruagach the bipedal boar is an antagonist of this hero in the 2019 movie with David Harbour taking over for Ron Perlman
Hellboy
Ryan
$800 [28]
This North Carolina city is one of the few to have a double-sided flag; the reverse has the motto of the English sir it's named for
Raleigh
Ryan
$800 [13]
Sadly, this funny lady passed away in 1989 shortly before her memoir "It's Always Something" came out
Gilda Radner
Ryan Noura
$800 [4]
I can see it in your eyes when you do this, to flinch in pain
wince
Noura
$800 [8]
A breakfast of eggs & sausage in "Diamonds Are Forever" is washed down with this Miller beer, also what James lives
the High Life
$1,000 [17]
At Homestead, Penn. in 1892, striking steelworkers fought a gun battle with hired guards of this detective agency
the Pinkertons (the Pinkerton National Detective Agency)
Ryan
$1,000 [25]
Tony Stark creates this title A.I. as part of a peacekeeping program; this title A.I. does not keep the peace
Ultron
Ryan
$1,000 [29]
The unofficial flag of this very south Florida city bears the words "Conch Republic", a nation/state of mind set up in the area in 1982
Key West
Kris
$1,000 [14]
In 1992 John Gray published this out-of-this-world guide to understanding the opposite sex
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
Noura
$1,000 [5]
Roger, I heard your radio message & I'll use this combination of 2 words to indicate I'll do what you asked
wilco
Ryan
$1,000 [9]
In "Goldfinger" Bond engages in a debate on the merits of Alaskan & stone these, but the stone variety wins out
crab
Ryan

Double Jeopardy! Round

ROUGH NATIONAL ANTHEM LYRICS THE ONE BEFORE THE FAMOUS ONE MY NAME IS STEPHEN LENDING TV SUPPORT IT'S THE JURASSIC PERIOD HERE COMES A BRONTE THESAURUS
$400 [1]
The ball game version of this song doesn't include "Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution"
"The Star-Spangled Banner"
Noura
$400 [2]
Composed in 1806, it doesn't have a famousopeninglike the next one does, but it's fun anyway
Beethoven's Fourth Symphony
Kris
$400 [15]
A university in Nacogdoches as well as a state capital bear the name of this Texan
(Stephen F.) Austin
Kris
$400 [14]
John Slattery sold his performance as Roger Sterling in the room
Mad Men
Ryan
$400 [25]
Jurassic volcanic activity may have spiked temperatures, causing this colorful "effect" that would lead to extinctions
a greenhouse effect
Ryan
$800 [26]
Instead of "cuss words", Charlotte Bronte describes some rude watermen as using these, also heard in courtrooms
oaths
Ryan
$800 [7]
Belt it out from its states of Sonora to Campeche! "War, war! Let the national banners be soaked in waves of blood"
Mexico
Ryan
$800 [3]
This Psalm that comes before the "Lord is my shepherd" one begins, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
Psalm 22
Kris
$800 [9]
This physicist guest starred as himself in the form of a hologram on "Star Trek: The Next Generation"
Hawking
Ryan
$800 [13]
Timothy Simons as Jonah Ryan, also called "The Pointless Giant", "The 60-Foot Virgin" & so many other things we can't say
Veep
$800 [21]
From Jurassic times, the Smackover Formation takes its name from an Arkansas town that had a 1920s boom due to this resource
oil
Noura
$1,200 [27]
Heathcliff is called "flaysome", a dialect word meaning scary or this word that also ends in "some"
fearsome
Noura
DD $1,000 [16]
"Scipio's helmet" sounds cool but is only sung once in the anthem of this country; "We are ready to die" makes it in 4 times
Italy
Kris
$1,600 [5]
No one's written a musical about this Manhattan street, but the century-old Nederlander Theatre is on it
41st Street
Kris Noura
$1,200 [10]
This Washington Nationals pitcher was the MVP of the 2019 World Series
Strasburg
$1,200 [18]
Román Zaragoza, as the not-so-late Sasappis on CBS
Ghosts
Ryan
$1,200 [22]
Jurassic National Monument, southeast of Provo in this state, is the site of a noted dinosaur quarry, home to over 12,000fossils
Utah
Ryan
$1,600 [28]
Charlotte's "Shirley" uses this word not to mean "shook with cold" but "broken in pieces"
shivered
Ryan
$1,200 [8]
The French paint a picture! "They come right into our arms to cut the throats of our sons, our comrades" in this tune
"The Marseillaise"
Ryan
DD $1,700 [4]
This king got married just once, to Elizabeth of York in 1486
Henry VII
Kris
$1,600 [11]
This Toronto-born economist served from 2006 to 2015 as prime minister of Canada
Harper
Kris
$1,600 [19]
Fiona Shaw murders it as Carolyn Martens, who has headed the MI6 Russia desk
Killing Eve
$1,600 [23]
Plates lined with blood vessels likely helped cool this Jurassic herbivore; beware the spiky tail, too
Stegosaurus
Kris
$2,000 [17]
This nation sings of a nearby rival: "King Christian... his sword was hammering so hard... the Swedes' helmets & brains cracked"
Denmark
Ryan
$2,000 [6]
Upper or Lower, you don't hear that much about this ward of New Orleans, home to Our Lady Star of the Sea Church
the 8th Ward
Ryan
$2,000 [12]
Born a pagan, Stephen I, the first king of this Central European country, brought Christianity to the masses & was canonized in 1083
Hungary
Ryan Noura
$2,000 [20]
Hisham Tawfiq knows if you've been naughty or nice--probably naughty--as Dembe Zuma
The Blacklist
$2,000 [24]
Gee, this supercontinent broke apart in the Jurassic, & began to drift
Gondwana
Ryan Kris

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS SPEECHES

In a draft of FDR's speech of December 8, 1941, the words "world history" were changed to this one word

infamy

Noura "What is Democracy" — wagered $4,000
Kris "What is infamy?" — wagered $6,300
Ryan "What is Infamy?" — wagered $100

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