Show #8659 2022-06-09 (taped 2022-04-19) Regular

Eric Ahasic game 4.

Contestants

Sean McGrath — a middle school teacher from Washington, D.C.

Allison MacDonald — a lawyer from Randolph, New Jersey

Eric Ahasic — a meteorologist from Minneapolis, Minnesota (whose 3-day cash winnings total $75,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Eric $5,200 $8,400 $32,600 $30,200
4-day champion: $105,801
$20,400
25 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W
Allison $1,400 $3,200 $10,400 $12,400
2nd place: $2,000
$10,400
12 R, 0 W
Sean $2,600 $3,800 $5,800 $11,599
3rd place: $1,000
$5,800
13 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT HISTORY ABBREVIATED TV ONE-LETTER FIRST NAME CHANGE BOOK IT! PUMP-POURRI SILENT W WORDS
$200 [17]
Sparking a revolt, the Roman slave & gladiator Spartacus & many others escaped in 73 B.C. & first took refuge on this volcano
(Mount) Vesuvius
Eric Sean
$200 [9]
This investigative series has come in flavors like "NY", "Miami" & "Cyber"
CSI
Allison
$200 [26]
A princess of Wales & a portrayer of Annie Hall
Diana & Diane
Sean
$200 [14]
2 very different novels are "The Murmur of" these & "The Secret Life of" these
Bees
Sean
$200 [4]
It's the size of a fist & pumps 5-6 quarts of blood per minute, or about 2,000 gallons a day
the heart
Sean
$200 [15]
The fairy type of this bird seenherecan be found in Eastern Australia
a wren
Eric
$400 [16]
Consulting the oracle at this site was opened wide with the destruction of the nearby town of Krisa, which taxed visitors
Delphi
Eric
$400 [10]
Clark Gregg & Chloe Bennet fought evil as "Agents of" this
S.H.I.E.L.D.
Allison
$400 [27]
A 1980s New York governor & a 2000s first lady of California
Mario & Maria
$400 [18]
In 2022, heput out a nonfiction book called "Life Force"
(Tony) Robbins
Eric
$400 [5]
This rhymingly named device removes water from a pit that's the lowest point of a drainage system
a sump pump
Eric
$400 [22]
Idiomatically, a sensual dance of Argentina requires this many
two
Eric
$600 [1]
This festival commemorates a Jewish victory over Seleucid forces around 165 B.C. & the rededication of the temple
Hanukkah
Eric
$600 [11]
This drama premiered in 2003 with a troubled kid from Chino being taken in by a wealthy family in Newport Beach
The O.C.
Sean
$600 [28]
A scat-singing jazz legend of the 1940s & an Aussie supermodel who had "The Body" of the 1980s
Ella & Elle
$600 [19]
This book comes between "Twilight" & "Eclipse"
New Moon
Sean
$600 [6]
Technotronic told us to "Pump up" this, "Pump it up, while your feet are stompin'... get your booty on the floor tonight"
the jam
Sean
$600 [23]
A determination of this type of death based on negligence can lead to a lawsuit
wrongful
Sean
$800 [2]
A noted military use of these animals was by Pyrrhus at the Battle of Heraclea in 280 B.C.; they freaked out the Roman horses
elephants
Eric
$800 [12]
Eriq La Salleplayed surgical resident Peter Benton on this long-running series
ER
Allison
$800 [29]
Patterson's fictional homicide investigator & the real-life voice of "The Boss Baby"
Alex & Alec
$800 [20]
Heset "Harlem Shuffle" in the 1960s
(Colson) Whitehead
Allison
$800 [7]
A bicycle pump is often used to separate the crispy skin on this Chinese national dish
Peking duck
Eric
$800 [24]
Where the lower part of the radius ends
the wrist
Eric
DD $1,400 [3]
In the 2nd millennium B.C., these seafarers had cities or colonies from the Eastern Mediterranean to North Africa
the Phoenicians
Eric
$1,000 [13]
The forces of T.H.R.U.S.H. were enemies of "The Man from" this 1960s title spy organization
U.N.C.L.E.
Eric
$1,000 [30]
"Old Hickory" & Soviet nuclear physicist & peace activist Sakharov
Andrew & Andrei
$1,000 [21]
Her bestsellers include "Big Little Lies" & "Apples Never Fall"
Moriarty
Allison
$1,000 [8]
In 1854 one water pump on London's Broad Street caused an outbreak of this infectious disease of the small intestine
cholera
Sean
$1,000 [25]
10-letter job of Mamet or Pinter
playwright
Eric

Double Jeopardy! Round

PRESENTING JEOPCOIN! CLASSICAL MUSIC COUNTRY OF THE WATERFALL THAT'S NOT A PRESIDENT DRINK UP POP CULTURE WORDS OF COMFORT
$400 [15]
To store your Jeopcoins, we offer a cold one of these, like the one for cash in your back pocket, just $299.99
a wallet
Sean
$400 [23]
As well as an imposing title, "Die Gezeichneten" has one of opera's longest of these musical preludes at about 20 minutes
an overture
Allison
$400 [14]
Horseshoe Falls & Helmcken Falls
Canada
Eric Sean
$400 [25]
"Kennedy" used to mean one of these fireplace implements, & to Kennedy someone was to hit them with it
a poker
Allison
$400 [1]
This host of "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" has drunk some Joe with Margaret Cho & Jay Leno
Seinfeld
Eric
$400 [24]
Brits spell this 4-letter word meaning warm & snug with an "S", Yanks with a "Z"
cozy
Eric
$800 [16]
We're clean crypto!--power for this, the computing by computers of new Jeopcoins, is from recycled glitter & doll hands
mining
Sean
$1,200 [10]
In 1830 German composer Felix Mendelssohn traveled south & found inspiration for this"national" symphony
the Italian Symphony
Eric
$800 [20]
Dettifoss in Vatnajökull National Park
Iceland
Eric
$800 [29]
It means to consume something voraciously, like a particular appliance brand
hoover
Sean
$800 [8]
John Lee Hooker & George Thorogood sang of the trio "One bourbon, one scotch" & one this
one beer
Eric
$800 [26]
It usually means unattractive, but can also mean comfortable, like one's place of residence
homely
Allison
$1,200 [17]
Super Bowl ads? Crass. We plan a rollout at the 2023 championships of this ski-&-shoot sport in the Thuringian Forest
biathlon
Eric
$1,600 [11]
He dedicated "The Firebird" to his teacher Rimsky-Korsakov
Stravinsky
Eric
$1,600 [21]
Wairere Falls, towering over the Waikato Plains
New Zealand
$1,200 [3]
The Roosevelt is a variety of this second-biggest North American deer also known as the wapiti
an elk
Eric
$1,200 [5]
"Wishful Drinking" was a one-woman show & a memoir by this daughter of Debbie Reynolds
Carrie Fisher
Allison
$1,200 [27]
According to a 1697 play, it's what music can do to a savage breast
soothe
Allison
$1,600 [18]
You'll want to invest when we launch our cryptocurrency through our ICO, short for this (it's like an IPO)
an initial coin offering
Allison
$2,000 [12]
It's the term for an extended instrumental solo in a concerto, like theonein Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
a cadenza
$2,000 [22]
Reichenbach Falls
Switzerland
$1,600 [4]
A Tyler is a doorkeeper at the secret meetings of this fraternal organization founded by stoneworkers
the Freemasons
Sean
$1,600 [6]
A tagline from this 1994 Tom Cruise flick: "Drink from me & live forever"
Interview with the Vampire
Allison
$1,600 [28]
Meaning both holy & venerated & bringing pleasure & contentment, it begins many a beatitude
blessed
Eric
$2,000 [19]
We're very close to amassing the assets to make our crypto this kind of "coin", meaning it's tied to a traditional base like dollars or gold
a stablecoin
Eric
DD $5,000 [13]
"Saturn, The Bringer of Old Age" was Gustav Holst's favorite part of this work of his
The Planets
Eric
DD $8,800 [2]
Corra Linn, part of the Falls of Clyde
Scotland
Eric
$2,000 [9]
A Wilson is a type of this scientific "chamber" in which charged particles are passed through water vapor
a cloud chamber
Eric
$2,000 [7]
In "Another Round", this actor plays one of a quartet of teachers in Copenhagen who tests a theory about drinking
Mads Mikkelsen
Sean
$2,000 [30]
Theories on the origin of this word meaning A-OK include African-American slang & Italian cappo sotto
copacetic

Final Jeopardy!

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

First published in French in 1943, this book has been called the most translated non-religious work, rendered into more than 300 languages

The Little Prince

Sean "What is The Little Prince? :)" — wagered $5,799
Allison "What is The Little Prince?" — wagered $2,000
Eric "What is Goodnight Moon?" — wagered $2,400

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