Show #8671 2022-06-27 (taped 2022-04-29) Regular

Contestants

Emma Henke — a writer from Madison, Wisconsin

Armand Sanchez — a high school teacher from San Jose, California

Joe Feldmann — a technology professional from Bethesda, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joe $2,000 $6,600 $11,800 $22,100
2-day champion: $45,000
$11,800
18 R, 3 W
Armand $4,400 $6,000 $6,800 $1,800
3rd place: $1,000
$5,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Emma $2,600 $4,600 $11,000 $7,000
2nd place: $2,000
$12,200
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

F1 GRAND PRIX SITES I SPEAK FOR THE TREES BUSINESS NAMES SUMMER'S HERE MORE THAN ONE MEANING FEELING SCIENCE-"E"
$200 [26]
The Monaco Grand Prix is said to be among the "Triple Crown" of autosport with the 24 Hours of Le Mans & this U.S. race in May
the Indy 500
Joe
$200 [1]
The line "I speak for the trees" comes from this favorite by Dr. Seuss
The Lorax
Armand
$200 [16]
Last name of brothers Ernest & Julio, who founded a California winery in 1933
Gallo
Joe
$200 [19]
It's a festive Fourth of July in South Carolina, where consumer-grade these are legal to use if you're over 16
fireworks
Joe
$200 [15]
Concern, or a sum charged for the use of money
interest
Joe Armand
$200 [8]
Around week 7 of pregnancy, it's called this; after, it's a fetus
an embryo
Emma
$400 [27]
After driver complaints, turn 10 at Marina Bay was made less "brutal & bumpy", as it had been called this Asian city "Sling"
Singapore
Emma
$400 [5]
This New England resident often spoke for the trees, with poems like "Birches", "After Apple-Picking" & "The Sound of Trees"
Robert Frost
Emma
$400 [17]
As CEO of this company, Mary Barra helps drive up sales of its Buicks & Cadillacs
General Motors
Joe
$400 [14]
A Maine festival celebrating this creature has lasted 75 summers after a money-losing start with an "all you can eat for $1" deal
lobster
Emma
$400 [22]
A ship's rigging, or to subdue a foe at the 40-yard line
tackle
Armand
$400 [10]
It's the lightest stable subatomic particle (that we know about)
electron
Armand
$600 [28]
The track for the Russian Grand Prix in this city was formed using roads built for the 2014 Olympics
Sochi
Armand
$600 [6]
It should please you that Amiens' rendition of "Under the Greenwood Tree" is in this Shakespeare comedy
As You Like It
Emma
$600 [18]
This cosmetics & perfume giant is named for the woman whose name once was Josephine Esther Mentzer
Estée Lauder
Armand
$600 [2]
Summer analyst is this type of learning position at companies like Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley & can pay $40 an hour
intern
Armand
$600 [23]
Very strict & hard-nosed, or a boat's rear end
stern
Emma
$600 [12]
Langerhans cells are found in this layer of the skin
epidermis
Armand
$800 [29]
A mile-&-a-third straight into turn 1 & incredible views of the Caspian Sea highlight the Baku course in this country
Azerbaijan
Joe
$800 [7]
"An 11-year-old girl sitting on this fire escape could imagine that she was living in a tree", says this classic by Betty Smith
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Joe
$800 [20]
After having trouble with his Ferrari, this guy, first name Ferruccio, began making his own luxury sports cars
Lamborghini
Joe
$800 [3]
2021 put the summer in Summer Olympics as this sport made its games debut from Tsurigasaki Beach
surfing
Armand
$800 [24]
A narrow sea between 2 pieces of land, or to interpret for a spirit as a medium
channel
$1,000 [13]
It's hibernation, but in summer
estivation
$1,000 [30]
Silverstone is the home track for this British 7-time world champ; part of the circuit was named for him, a first for an individual
Hamilton
Joe
$1,000 [9]
Longfellow's poem named for this Acadian woman mentions "the murmuring pines and the hemlocks, bearded with moss"
Evangeline
Emma
$1,000 [21]
The company co-founded bythis19th century German chemical maker has relieved millions of headaches
Bayer
Emma
$1,000 [4]
FAF is this "Fund", what the Rev. Willard Parsons wanted to let NYC kids breathe when he took them to rural Pennsylvania in 1877
Fresh Air
Joe
$1,000 [25]
To authorize, or a coercive penalty enforced by multiple nations
sanction
Joe
DD $2,000 [11]
These hormones relieve pain but probably don't give the runner's high as once thought
endorphins
Armand

Double Jeopardy! Round

ART LOVERS SOUTHERN CAPITALS THE NATIONAL LEAGUE FEMALE FOUNDERS BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES ENDS IN "S-T-Y"
$400 [6]
In aworkby Corot this heroleads Eurydice from the Underworld
Orpheus
Emma
$400 [23]
For info on this state capital, check out The Redstick Blog
Baton Rouge
$400 [11]
The Catholic Holy League opposed the Huguenots during this country's 16th century wars of religion
France
Emma
$400 [12]
Once guardian to niece Gloria, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitneyfounded one of these in New York, now located on Gansevoort Street
an art museum
Armand
$400 [1]
The first line of Winston Groom's novel about this guy mentions a box of chocolates; the Tom Hanks film mentioned them too
Forrest Gump
Emma
$400 [20]
In a proverb, it's "the best policy"
honesty
Emma
$800 [7]
"Undergrowth with Two Figures"from 1890 is one of the last works by this artist
van Gogh
Joe Emma
$800 [24]
This capital was named for the man called "Old Hickory"
Jackson
Joe
$800 [13]
The League of Nations said our covenant doesn't affect the validity of this doctrine--the U.S. rejected the league anyway
the Monroe Doctrine
Emma
$800 [17]
Following her husband's assassination in 1968, she founded a center for nonviolent social change in Atlanta
(Coretta Scott) King
Armand
$800 [2]
The title of this Michael Ondaatje novel & film actually refers to a Hungarian count, badly burned after a plane crash
The English Patient
Joe
$800 [21]
The Tang one governed China from 618 to 907
dynasty
Joe
$1,600 [9]
Edmund Blair Leighton'spaintingevokes this doomed Celtic pair who were reunited by a love potion meant for another
Tristan & Isolde
Emma
$1,200 [25]
Just 15 years after becoming a state capital, it became the first capital of the Confederacy
Montgomery
Armand Emma
$1,200 [14]
Philip of Macedon organized Greece's League of Corinth, which quickly decided on war against this empire to the east
Persia (the Persian Empire)
Joe
$1,200 [28]
In 1973, the year she beat Bobby Riggs, she founded the Women's Tennis Association
Billie Jean King
Armand
$1,200 [3]
When Hitler saw this 1940 movie based on a Steinbeck novel, he saw Americans as pushovers; Stalin relished the misery of the proletariat
The Grapes of Wrath
Joe
$1,200 [18]
This compound word can mean eager for violence or describe a vampire at feeding time
bloodthirsty
Joe Armand
$2,000 [10]
"Love Among the Ruins"by Edward Coley Burne-Jones is an example of the works of this 19th century artistic brotherhood
the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
$1,600 [26]
A former camp of de Soto, it was the only Confederate capital east of the Mississippi not captured by Union forces
Tallahassee
$1,600 [15]
Rosa Luxemburg was a member of the Spartacus League, which in 1919 became the German branch of this political party
Communist Party
Joe
$1,600 [29]
In 1921 she founded the American Birth Control League, the precursor to Planned Parenthood
Margaret Sanger
Emma
$1,600 [4]
This Ridley Scott film based on Eric Jager's true story of medieval France saw Matt Damon tilting against Adam Driver
The Last Duel
Armand Emma
$1,600 [19]
It's the 11-letter medical term for a nose job
rhinoplasty
Emma
DD $3,000 [8]
Jean-Antoine Watteau's"The Perfect Accord"has also been translated as "Perfect" this musical term
Harmony
Emma
$2,000 [27]
The headquarters for the Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests are in this capital
Columbia
Joe
$2,000 [16]
The Lombard League was a medieval alliance of cities in the north of this present-day country
Italy
Joe Emma
$2,000 [30]
In 1920, the year the 19th Amendment was ratified, Carrie Chapman Catt founded this, the LWV for short
the League of Women Voters
Armand
DD $3,000 [5]
The title of this 2007 film adapted from a novel comes from a Yeats poem that says, "An aged man is but a paltry thing"
No Country for Old Men
Emma
$2,000 [22]
Also called a vestry, it's a room in a church where clergy change into their robes & where holy objects are kept
sacristy
Armand

Final Jeopardy!

THE WORLD OF TODAY

Partly because it was a monosyllable, this word was chosen as "a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission"

meme

Armand "What um?" — wagered $5,000
Emma "What is thought" — wagered $4,000
Joe "What is a meme?" — wagered $10,300

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