Show #8691 2022-07-25 (taped 2022-05-17) Regular

Contestants

Angela Xu — a corporate lawyer from San Mateo, California

Ed Coulson — an economics and real estate professor from Dana Point, California

Karla Fossett — a content administrator from Saco, Maine (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Karla $200 $3,400 $7,000 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$11,000
14 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Ed $4,000 $5,000 $18,700 $17,399
New champion: $17,399
$17,400
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Angela $3,000 $3,600 $10,000 $2,601
2nd place: $2,000
$9,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

EASTERN EUROPEAN HISTORY BREAKFAST TIME 8-LETTER WORDS CHEMISTRY SLOW YOUR ROLE
$200 [2]
Roman emperor Trajan made Dacia a Roman province, hence this country's very Roman name
Romania
Karla
$200 [1]
Enjoy that muesli--I'll be having this Quaker Oats cereal that debuted in 1963 along with its sailing man mascot
Cap'n Crunch
Ed
$200 [23]
Paper container for more paper
an envelope
$200 [8]
Organometallic compounds are defined by the presence of a bond between a metal & this element
carbon
Angela
$200 [16]
We're not sure which is the slowest but this thick sticky syrup can be made from carob or dates as well as from sugar cane
molasses
Karla
$200 [15]
Tonya Harding's movie mom & Anna Faris' TV "Mom"
Allison Janney
Ed
$400 [3]
Winston Churchill gave the speech that mentioned this ideological barrier that separated Eastern Europe
the Iron Curtain
Ed Angela
$400 [27]
Nothing better than one of these classic donuts that shares its name with a venerable whiskey cocktail
an old-fashioned
Angela
$400 [24]
A formal hearing with a big shot, or a group of spectators
audience
Ed
$400 [11]
The lipids, which include fats & oils, are organic compounds that don't appreciably interact with this
water
Angela
$400 [17]
In Exodus he says, "I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue"
Moses
Ed
$400 [19]
Brüno & Borat
Sacha Baron Cohen
Ed Angela
$800 [5]
The Alma River entered history when Russia lost an 1854 battle there during this war
the Crimean War
Ed
$600 [28]
A traditional Japanese breakfast might include this soup made with the same-named soybean paste as well as tofu & scallions
miso
Angela
$600 [10]
This adjective can mean related to debate or related to legal issues, like how somebody died
forensic
Ed
$600 [26]
The human body produces this vitamin when a sterol in the skin absorbs radiation
vitamin D
Ed
$600 [18]
Of the 4 swim strokes used in the Olympics, this one with a body part in its name is the slowest
the breaststroke
Karla
$600 [20]
Danny Tanner on 2 TV series
Bob Saget
Karla
DD $1,000 [4]
Now written in the Latin alphabet, Moldova's language used to be written in this alphabet named for a 9th century priest
Cyrillic
Angela
$800 [29]
How about a spot of this? Espresso with a thin foam of steamed milk, from Italian for "spotted"
a macchiato
$800 [7]
Located near a coast, like some oil rigs
offshore
Ed
$800 [12]
Relative atomic mass is another name for this
atomic weight
$800 [9]
We all know it, exercise can boost a slow this, the rate at which the body expends energy & burns calories
metabolism
Ed
$800 [21]
The title roles in "Blue Jasmine" & "Where'd You Go, Bernadette"
Cate Blanchett
Karla Ed
$1,000 [6]
Bulgaria is one of many countries on this peninsula that won freedom by breaking the cruel Ottoman yoke
the Balkan Peninsula
Angela
$1,000 [30]
This Hawaiian dish with a rhyming name is white rice topped with hamburger, a fried egg & gravy
loco moco
Karla
$1,000 [25]
Not bad, not great, just sufficient, from Latin for "equal"
adequate
Karla
$1,000 [13]
Acids & bases are among these current conductors; using a solid instead of a liquid one reduces the risk of fire in batteries
electrolytes
$1,000 [14]
The planet farthest from the Sun, it takes this ice giant 165 years to orbit it
Neptune
Ed
$1,000 [22]
Marty Kaan on "House of Lies" & Rhodey, also known as War Machine in the Avengers movies
Don Cheadle
Karla

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S. GEOGRAPHY LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES IT'S A BUST! SPECIAL "K" CELEBRITY CATCHPHRASES HOMONAMES
$400 [9]
The 8 Florida parishes in this state were once part of Spanish West Florida
Louisiana
Angela
$400 [29]
Some of the earliest known examples of these 14-line poems are by Giacomo da Lentini, who wrote in the 1200s
a sonnet
Ed
$400 [28]
Here'sa bust of this Founding Father who sat for the great French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon
Jefferson
Ed
$400 [27]
Sir David Brewster invented this optical device & patented it in 1817
a kaleidoscope
Ed
$400 [30]
This heiress trademarked "That's hot"
Paris Hilton
Angela
$400 [26]
To summon someone over a loudspeaker in a public place
to page
Karla
$800 [8]
Bowling Green, Kentucky & Bismarck, North Dakota are both in this time zone
the Central Time Zone
Karla
$800 [7]
In a 2021 movie version of a medieval tale, Dev Patel plays Sir Gawain, journeying to meet this title character
the Green Knight
Karla
$800 [16]
In 2007 a bust of this physicist was unveiled at the newly opened Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at Cambridge
Stephen Hawking
Ed
$800 [17]
This, usually spicy pickled cabbage, is the national dish of Korea
kimchi
Karla
$1,200 [18]
Heidi Klum made this German phrase her signature goodbye to losing contestants on "Project Runway"
auf Wiedersehen
Karla
$800 [25]
Made a hole in the earth
dug
Angela
$1,200 [1]
Seen here, Shoshone Falls, on this river in Idaho has been called "The Niagara of the West"
the Snake River
Ed
$1,200 [4]
The allegory "Everyman" from the late 1400s is one of the best known of these "plays" that stressed salvation & personal virtues
morality plays
Angela
$1,600 [14]
You'll find a bust of this composer near his piano at a small museum on Mallorca, where he wintered with George Sand
Chopin
Ed
$1,200 [12]
Running for 6 months on Broadway, the musical "Timbuktu!" was based on this other show whose name means "fate"
Kismet
Ed
$1,600 [20]
"Bam!" says this man who opened his first self-named restaurant in 1990 in New Orleans
Emeril (Lagasse)
Karla
$1,200 [24]
A draw in sports
a tie
Ed
$1,600 [2]
The Monongahela joins this river in Pittsburgh to form the Ohio
the Allegheny
$1,600 [5]
The "Chanson de" or "Song of" this hero tells of his death & the vengeance taken on the traitor Ganelon
Roland
Angela
$2,000 [15]
Here'sa bust of this French premier by fellow countryman Rodin
Georges Clemenceau
$1,600 [10]
The name of this cloth, a colorful fabric of Ghanaian origin, comes from a word meaning "basket"
kente cloth
Angela
$2,000 [21]
"Another One" is a catchphrase of this deejay & record producer
DJ Khaled
Angela
$1,600 [23]
To get smaller, or especially to get less bright, like the Moon
wane
Angela
$2,000 [3]
Major cities in New Hampshire include Dover & this port that also shares its name with a historic port of southern England
Portsmouth
Karla
$2,000 [6]
This"venerable" guy completed his "Ecclesiastical History of the English People" around 731
Bede
Ed
DD $2,500 [13]
In the painting seen here, Rembrandt depicted Aristotle contemplating a bust of this poet
Homer
Ed
$2,000 [11]
In Zen Buddhism, it's a paradoxical statement or question; a well-known one involves the sound of one hand clapping
a koan
Ed
DD $4,000 [19]
In 2012 Merriam-Webster added this phrase about inspiration popularized by Oprah
aha moment
Karla
$2,000 [22]
4-letter word for thepiecethat slides into notches on a ratchet to pause the mechanism
a pawl

Final Jeopardy!

THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME

Honored in 1998 as part of a rock group & in 2019 as a solo artist, this singer was the first woman to be inducted into the Hall twice

Stevie Nicks

Karla "Who is Beyonce?" — wagered $7,000
Angela "Who is Gwen Stefani?" — wagered $7,399
Ed "Who is Tina Turner" — wagered $1,301

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