Show #8653 2022-06-01 (taped 2022-04-01) Regular

Ryan Long game 14.

Contestants

Meagan Morrow — a real estate manager from Portland, Oregon

Vanessa Williams — an assistant dean from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Ryan Long — a rideshare driver from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (whose 13-day cash winnings total $252,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ryan $2,400 $3,800 $15,400 $7,400
14-day champion: $260,100
$14,600
22 R (including 2 DDs), 6 W
Vanessa $2,000 $3,800 $2,200 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$2,200
9 R, 2 W
Meagan $1,200 $5,000 $16,800 $6,800
2nd place: $2,000
$14,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

PICTURE THE NOVEL U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY IT'S A "SYN" COFFEE BREAK BALLPARK FUN DR. MITTENS, CAT OBSTETRICIAN
$200 [15]
Fantasy via furniture
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Vanessa
$200 [25]
In 1989 he became the first African-American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Colin Powell
Ryan
$200 [5]
It's an abstract or summary of a film or novel
synopsis
Vanessa
$200 [17]
There are more than 600 coffee farms on the Kona coast of this U.S. island
Hawaii
Ryan
$200 [30]
After "Yankees win! The-e-e-e-e Yankees win!" At home, count on hearing this Sinatra classic on the stadium speakers
"New York, New York"
Ryan
$200 [16]
Ultrasound won't tell us litter size; for that we use this diagnostic technology that's several decades older
X-ray
$400 [11]
A classic tale that makes points about censorship
Fahrenheit 451
Ryan
$400 [8]
This 29-year-old was made acting director of the Bureau of Investigation in May 1924; "acting" was gone by December
(J. Edgar) Hoover
Ryan
$400 [6]
It created the music heard here
a synthesizer
Ryan
$400 [18]
Order café com leite in Brazil & you'll get coffee with this liquid, hot--or sometimes this liquid with a little coffee
milk
Ryan
$400 [19]
In an unexpected crossover, the green Phanatic supporting this team since 1978 has a kids' book with a "Galapagos Gang" of animals
the (Philadelphia) Phillies
Vanessa
$400 [1]
Stage I of labor includes creating a cozy space, known as this avian-sounding activity; be sure to use your human's most costly clothes
nesting
Ryan
$600 [12]
The author's sole novel, published in 1963
The Bell Jar
Meagan
$600 [24]
1930's Smoot-Hawley Act raised these import duties... anyone? Anyone? By about... anyone? 20%, rattling Wall Street badly
tariffs
Ryan
$600 [7]
It can be an agency that sells the same columns to many newspapers, or an illegal cartel
a syndicate
Meagan
$600 [20]
It was a fine coffee named for a Yemeni port before it was a chocolatey coffee flavor
mocha
Vanessa
$800 [23]
When a Texas Ranger hits a homer at home, the theme from this Robert Redford film plays, & it's not "The Way We Were"
The Natural
Meagan
$600 [2]
When the offspring start trying to eat mom's solid food instead of suckling, it's time for this shift to independence
weaning
Vanessa
$800 [13]
Lowry goes low, south of the border
Under the Volcano
$800 [27]
Big from 1834 to 1854, this political party took its name from a British one opposed to royal prerogatives
the Whigs
Ryan Vanessa
$800 [9]
What a coincidence, all these things coming together now, it's this 13-letter word
synchronicity
Ryan
$800 [21]
A Seattle coffee co. is named for this 1765 British act that raised tea prices; coffee was soon the patriotic choice for colonists
the Stamp Act
Ryan
DD $1,000 [22]
Traditionally, home fans of this A.L. East team give particular emphasis to yelling "O!" during the national anthem
the Baltimore Orioles
Ryan
$800 [3]
In the third stage of labor, this will emerge; Dr. M. prefers this plain English compound word to the fancy Latin "placenta"
afterbirth
$1,000 [14]
Dances with Woolf
To the Lighthouse
Vanessa
$1,000 [29]
On March 1, 2003 FEMA & 21 other organizations got a new boss with the creation of this department
the Department of Homeland Security
Meagan
$1,000 [10]
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" is one way of explaining it
synergy
Vanessa
$1,000 [28]
Temperate at an altitude of about 5,000 feet, Medellín is a center of this nation's coffee industry
Colombia
Meagan
$1,000 [26]
In the 1980s & '90s this rhymingly named Cubs announcer led the Wrigley faithful in singing "Take Me Out To The Ballgame"
Harry Caray
Meagan
$1,000 [4]
Dr. Mittens' patients are happy to hear that this royal noun becomes a verb when it refers to a cat giving birth
queening
Vanessa

Double Jeopardy! Round

BODIES OF WATER POP & ROCK LIFE STORIES NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS 9-, 10-, & 11-LETTER WORDS WHAT A TOOL LIFE IN THE FAUST LANE
$400 [13]
The Churn & the Leach are among its headstreams in the Cotswolds
the Thames
Ryan Meagan
$400 [18]
The confessions of this funkmeister is subtitled: "Memoirs of a Super Freak"
Rick James
Meagan
$400 [25]
1989:Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th holder of this religious title
Dalai Lama
Meagan
$400 [22]
The mathematical operation of deducting a number
subtraction
Ryan Vanessa
$400 [23]
Often joined with "ball", it means the end of a hammer opposite the face
peen
Meagan
$400 [5]
A Faustian bargain hit the pop charts in 1979 when "The Devil Went Down To" this place, "he was lookin' for a soul to steal"
Georgia
Ryan
$1,200 [9]
At its widest, it's about 180 miles as you sail east-west from Ontario to Michigan
Lake Huron
Ryan
$800 [17]
Don't get me wrong, "Reckless: My Life as a Pretender" was her tale to tell
Chrissie Hynde
Meagan
$800 [19]
1999:This medical organization founded in France
Doctors Without Borders
Meagan
$800 [6]
If back in the day IBM made a jumbo machine that was your company's only computer, it was known as this 9-letter type
a mainframe
$800 [30]
It's a pronged tool used for gathering, & no one would use a hoe for that
a rake
Ryan
$800 [1]
Part II of Goethe's "Faust" gets into his salvation & the courtship of this Greek woman of Trojan War myth
Helen of Troy
Ryan
$1,600 [11]
The Conchos River, the longest in the state of Chihuahua, is a tributary of this one
the Rio Grande
$1,200 [14]
"Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness" is by this late, great Ronette
Ronnie Spector
Meagan
$1,200 [20]
1997:Jody Williams & the group she helped found, the International Campaign to Ban these weapons
landmines
Ryan
$1,200 [7]
From Latin for "war", as a noun it can mean a nation involved in a war
belligerent
$1,200 [24]
Locksmith Bill Deforrest invented innovative these, like a hybrid of the diamond & hook types
lockpicks
$1,200 [2]
Traditionally, in Gounod's opera, Faust is a tenor while Méphistophélès is this, like Nicolai Ghiaurov in a classic recording
a bass
Ryan
$2,000 [12]
Tanzania & Mozambique are on the eastern shore of this lake
Lake Malawi
Ryan Vanessa Meagan
$1,600 [16]
This Englishman looked at fame in "They Made a Monkee Out of Me"
Davy Jones
Ryan
$1,600 [26]
2015:The National Dialogue Quartet, of this North African Arab Spring nation
Tunisia
Meagan
$1,600 [8]
A Fellini film gave us this word for a type of photographer
a paparazzi
Meagan
$1,600 [28]
The "cold" type of this chipping instrument is so called because it's tough enough to cut cold metal
a chisel
Ryan
DD $2,000 [3]
Roll up, roll up for the history tour... "The Tragical History of doctor Faustus" is a play by this Shakespeare-era man
(Christopher) Marlowe
Ryan
DD $3,000 [10]
When not hampered by monsoons, the dhow was the traditional trading vessel of this ocean
the Indian Ocean
Meagan
$2,000 [15]
"So Let It Be Written", a bio of this lead singer, gets its title from a lyric in Metallica's "Creeping Death"
James Hetfield
Ryan
$2,000 [27]
1961:This Swedish Secretary-General of the U.N., posthumously
Dag Hammarskjöld
$2,000 [21]
From German & Yiddish, it's the act of offering unsolicited advice to someone who's playing a game
kibbitzing
$2,000 [29]
Used for shaping wood, it can end in "z" or "ze"
an adze
Ryan
$2,000 [4]
This composer conducted the first performance of his "Faust" overture at a Dresden concert in 1844
Wagner
Ryan

Final Jeopardy!

THE EARLY 19th CENTURY

Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve signaled "engage the enemy" around noon & surrendered at 1:45 PM during this battle

the Battle of Trafalgar

Vanessa "What is Waterloo?" — wagered $2,200
Ryan "What is Waterloo?" — wagered $8,000
Meagan "What What is Waterloo?" — wagered $10,000

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