Show #8686 2022-07-18 (taped 2022-05-16) Regular

Ken Jennings hosts.Fifth regular-play game to end in a Tiebreaker Round.

Contestants

Erica Weiner-Amachi — a 4th grade teacher from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

William Chou — a research fellow from Austin, Texas

Emily Fiasco — a middle school band director from St. Louis, Missouri (whose 3-day cash winnings total $87,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Emily $2,400 $2,600 $7,800 $15,600
3rd place: $1,000
$7,000
11 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
William $-200 $400 $8,800 $15,601
New champion: $15,601
$8,000
12 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Erica $1,000 $3,200 $11,600 $15,601
2nd place: $2,000
$11,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

GIVING YOU THE BOOT GOOD HISTORY ACTING UP ON TV THE WOUK MOB COLOR ME BAD "THE" END
$200 [16]
Buzzfeed featured these double-talk, thigh-high boots "that will look totally far out in your closet"
go-go boots
Erica
$200 [6]
Around 400,000 B.C., hominids began to control this; one later use may have been to destroy habitat so as to aid hunting & foraging
fire
Emily
$200 [1]
"Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty" stars Quincy Isaiah as this Laker rookie from Lansing
Magic Johnson
Erica
$200 [25]
In a novel by Herman Wouk, unstable Captain Queeg of the USS Caine faces this title event
The Caine Mutiny
William
$200 [11]
If you've been afflicted by the green-eyed monster, you're guilty of this
jealousy
Erica
$200 [20]
To feel intense dislike
loathe
Erica
$400 [17]
We'll wear these rubberized boots & walk through all kinds of puddles to go home & enjoy the same-named beef dish
Wellingtons
William
$400 [7]
This group of 10 guarantees (out of the 12 sent to the states) was ratified in December 1791
a Bill of Rights
Erica
$400 [2]
"And Just Like That...", she was back on TV as Miranda Hobbes in 2021
Cynthia Nixon
Emily
$400 [26]
In Wouk's "Aurora Dawn" from 1947, a young man works in this broadcast medium; Wouk lived to write a book partly in e-mails
radio
$400 [12]
This rhyming fictional "illness" involves police officers disrupting operations by calling in sick
the blue flu
Erica
$400 [21]
To alleviate or provide solace
soothe
Erica
$600 [18]
Woo-woo! All aboard these boots, known for their stovepipe calf
engineer boots
DD $600 [8]
At first the church didn't oppose this Polish man's ideas; the center of the universe was filthy, so better not to be there
Copernicus
Erica
$600 [3]
An Oscar winner as the outspoken Erin Brockovich, in 2022 she was "Gaslit" on TV as "Mouth of the South" Martha Mitchell
Julia Roberts
Erica
$600 [27]
"The Winds of War" begins with "Pug" Henry made U.S. military attaché in this European city, sensing the winds of war indeed
Berlin
$600 [13]
If you're cowardly, you can be lily-livered or this other hyphenated term mentioning a nearby body part
yellow-bellied
Erica
$600 [22]
To fancy up an argument with big words, or to array with garments
to clothe
$800 [19]
As well as pants for horse riding, they can be ankle-high boots with a strap buckled at the side
the jodhpur
Emily
$800 [9]
In the 1960s, Stanley Lebarof Westinghouse designed a special camera that allowed 650 million to see live video from here
the Moon
Emily
$800 [4]
It's the last name of John Hillerman's Jonathan & Perdita Weeks' Juliet, friends of "Magnum P.I." across the decades
Higgins
$800 [28]
In a '50s bestseller Wouk's heroine Marjorie Morgenstern anglicizes her last name to this & seeks fame as an actress
Morningstar
$800 [14]
This annoying condition is also known as conjunctivitis
pink eye
William
$800 [23]
To be filled with violent emotion, perhaps rage
seethe
Erica
$1,000 [29]
This type of boot seenhereshares its name with areas in London & New York City
Chelsea
Emily
$1,000 [10]
In 2020, these accords named for a biblical man raised to 6 the Arab nations with diplomatic ties to Israel
the Abraham Accords
William
$1,000 [5]
Beltalowda! Keon Alexander showed wide range as Marco Inaros, leader of the Free Navy on this Amazon sci-fi show
The Expanse
$1,000 [30]
Physicist Guy Carpenter is out of a job in "A Hole in Texas", based on the real cancellation of the Superconducting this machine
Super Collider
$1,000 [15]
Seen here, this seawater discoloration caused by dinoflagellates can be lethal to marine life
red tide
Emily
$1,000 [24]
Happy & lighthearted, like a title spirit in a classic Noël Coward play
a blithe
Erica

Double Jeopardy! Round

GIVING YOU THE BOOT 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS TROPHY HUSBAND AMERICANA ACTIVE BIBLE VERSES FEELIN' INDEPENDENT
$400 [20]
In 1985 Apple's board gave this guy the heave-ho but 12 years later he got ho-heaved & was back in charge
(Steve) Jobs
Erica
$400 [21]
This branch of the U.S. government makes the laws
legislative
Erica
$400 [3]
This husband of Nicole Kidman was the 2018 Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year
Keith Urban
William
$400 [6]
He's the only president honored on Mount Rushmore who lived into the 20th century
Roosevelt
Erica
$400 [29]
David stood upon this "Philistine, and took his sword... and cut off his head therewith"
Goliath
Emily
$400 [11]
This Asian country, not yet divided into North & South:From France, 1945
Vietnam
Emily Erica
$800 [16]
A rough New Year's Day in 1959 for Fulgencio Batista, who woke up as president of this country & went to sleep as an exile
Cuba
William
$800 [22]
Keep your eye on the birdie, also known by this longer name
the shuttlecock
Emily
$800 [2]
When he won Best Director at Cannes for "After Hours", he was married to Barbara de Fina, who produced his "The Color of Money"
Martin Scorsese
$800 [7]
Georgia is a leading producer of the 3 Ps: peaches, peanuts & these praline nuts
pecans
Emily
$800 [30]
In Exodus, "Behold", this "burned with fire, and (it) was not consumed"
the (burning) bush
Emily
$800 [12]
Angola:1975, from this country
Portugal
Erica
$1,200 [17]
Getting the supreme boot in Genesis, he was told, "a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be"
Cain
William Erica
$1,200 [23]
Another word for the draft, it's mandatory enrollment in the military
conscription
William
$1,200 [1]
Yvonne Molinaro married 2 winners of this gridiron trophy, 1954 honoree Alan Ameche & 1946's Glenn Davis
the Heisman
Erica
$1,600 [9]
It's the year chiseled into Plymouth Rock
1620
Erica
$1,200 [26]
"And when he had opened the fourth seal... I looked, and behold a pale" this: "and his name that sat on him was Death"
horse
Emily Erica
$1,200 [13]
This country:1971, from Pakistan
Bangladesh
William
$2,000 [19]
Elected to Congress from Tennessee in 1833 as an Anti-Jacksonian, he got the boot in the 1834 election & headed off to Texas
Davy Crockett
Erica
$1,600 [24]
This word meaning "nonsense" begins with the name of a son of Odin
balderdash
$1,600 [4]
John McEnroe won his last few ATP singles titles while he was married to this former child star
Tatum O'Neal
Erica
DD $2,000 [8]
Belonging to a cousin, the historic home seenherein Salem, Massachusetts, inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne to write this novel
The House of the Seven Gables ( The House of Seven Gables accepted)
Emily
$1,600 [27]
As Jesus "walked by" this body of water, "he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers"
the Sea of Galilee
William
$1,600 [14]
Belgium:1830, from this country
the Netherlands
William
DD $2,400 [18]
This Bolshevik got exiled to Siberia twice, expelled from the Politburo in 1926 & the Soviet Union itself 3 years later
Trotsky
William
$2,000 [25]
This term for a tightrope walker comes from Latin for "rope" & "walk"
a funambulist
$2,000 [5]
L.A. Musicians Institute was the meeting place of Jae Lin & this husband, a 2022 Grammy winner with Silk Sonic partner Bruno Mars
Anderson Paak
$2,000 [10]
One of New York City's oldest streets, the Bowery once led to the farm of this last Dutch colonial governor
(Peter) Stuyvesant
Emily William
$2,000 [28]
Since no one had done this for 40 years, God told Joshua to get a knife & do it to the male Israelites
circumcise
William Erica
$2,000 [15]
Montenegro:2006, ending a union with this other Yugoslav republic
Serbia
William

Final Jeopardy!

ART & THEATRE

Asked to design a new set for a restaging of this 1952 play, Alberto Giacometti came up with one scraggly plaster tree

Waiting for Godot

Emily "What is Waiting for Godot?" — wagered $7,800
William "What is Waiting for Godot" — wagered $6,801
Erica "What is Waiting for Godot" — wagered $4,001

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