Show #8693 2022-07-27 (taped 2022-05-17) Regular

Contestants

Brianne Barker — a biology professor from Madison, New Jersey

Colleen Birney — a court monitor from Milford, Connecticut

Ed Coulson — an economics and real estate professor from Dana Point, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $40,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ed $3,200 $3,600 $17,600 $5,800
3rd place: $1,000
$14,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Colleen $600 $2,000 $8,200 $6,000
2nd place: $2,000
$11,200
16 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Brianne $4,500 $8,700 $14,700 $11,700
New champion: $11,700
$13,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE SOUTHERN U.S. FICTION A PRISONER OF YOUR OWN DEVICE ALLITERATION TENNIS ACES ACCEPTABLE 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS
$200 [11]
Natchez was an early capital of this state
Mississippi
Ed
$200 [2]
The story "January 1999: Rocket Summer" leads off this Ray Bradbury book of "Chronicles"
The Martian Chronicles
Ed
$200 [26]
I've lost hours on this site, the "leading destination for short-term mobile video"; fittingly, Kesha is a creator
TikTok
Colleen
$200 [16]
The NCAA trademarked this calendar phrase for springtime buzzer-beating, bracket-busting basketball
March Madness
Brianne
$200 [1]
"Rafa" is the nickname of this winner of more than 20 Grand Slam titles
Rafael Nadal
Brianne
$200 [21]
Big bovine
ox
Brianne
$400 [12]
If you're searching for El Dorado, the city is located about 80 miles from Hope in this state
Arkansas
Brianne
$400 [7]
This 1931 Pearl Buck novel became a Broadway play the next year with Claude Rains as Wang Lung
The Good Earth
Brianne
$400 [27]
Sweet! I just downloaded the "Saga" version of this app with a confectionary name; not sweet: there are over 11,000 levels
Candy Crush
Ed
$400 [17]
Chicago is practically synonymous with this special type of culinary delight
deep dish (pizza)
Brianne
$400 [3]
This Czech-born woman had a pretty good 1983, winning 86 of 87 matches & 3 Grand Slam titles
Martina Navratilova
Brianne
$400 [22]
An aboveground railway
el
Ed
$800 [14]
North Carolina has 2 national seashores: Cape Lookout & this other cape
Hatteras
Ed
$600 [8]
Protesting the Jim Crow system, Richard Wright's first book was titled this Stowe character's "Children"
Uncle Tom
Colleen
$600 [28]
secretrickroll.com allows my annoying friend to create sneaky links to Rick Astley singing this song; I always fall for it
"Never Gonna Give You Up"
Brianne
$600 [18]
First & last name of the woman in a tongue twister who "bought some butter, 'but', she said, 'the butter's bitter"'
Betty Botter
Colleen
$600 [4]
Mark "Eddo" Edmondson in 1976 is the last men's singles winner of this major who's from the country where it's played
the Australian Open
Ed Brianne
$600 [23]
George Takei's 2-word catchphrase
oh my
Ed
$1,000 [15]
To see the Crimson Tide play football at Bryant-Denny Stadium, head to this city
Tuscaloosa
Brianne
$800 [9]
Even this Tolstoy heroine thinks it's weird that her husband & lover are both named Alexei
Anna Karenina
Ed
$800 [29]
With a name that is Latin for "eye", this company offers prescription lenses for its Quest VR headsets; I may never take it off
Oculus
Brianne
$800 [19]
In 2020, it was back to Midgar in this game's "VII Remake"
Final Fantasy
Colleen
$800 [5]
In women's tennis, 1930s star Alice Marble pioneered this 3-word aggressive style named for a way to begin a point
serve and volley
Ed
$800 [24]
"Special" is one type of this short form
ed
DD $1,500 [13]
It's estimated that there are as many as 70 streets in Atlanta with this fruity 9-letter name
Peachtree
Brianne
$1,000 [10]
This Anthony Doerr novel is tied together by the idea of a paradise for birds, also found in an Aristophanes play
Cloud Cuckoo Land
$1,000 [30]
Companies convey offers via these "notifications", pop-ups on your device that perchance annoy
push notifications (pushes)
Ed Colleen
$1,000 [20]
This group got a 2017 Lasker Award for providing "essential health services & reproductive care"
Planned Parenthood
Brianne
$1,000 [6]
Nicknamed "Little Mo", this Grand Slam tennis champ of the 1950s was honored on astampin 2019
Maureen Connolly
Ed
$1,000 [25]
COVID variant names skipped nu & this 14th Greek letter
xi
Brianne

Double Jeopardy! Round

NOTABLE WOMEN OSCAR WINNERS' TV ROLES THE ANIMAL KINGDOM TRANSPORTATION "B.C." A.D.
$400 [11]
Living in Mytilene on Lesbos, this ancient poet wrote of a community called a thiasos
Sappho
Brianne
$400 [6]
Mork from Ork
Robin Williams
Colleen
$400 [1]
Most species of this color-changing lizard are native to Africa, like Botswana's flap-necked variety
chameleons
Ed
$400 [26]
A "chopper" is one of these with a long fork & a front wheel placed forward of the handlebars
a motorcycle
Colleen
$400 [14]
It's slang for basic training of new military recruits
boot camp
Colleen
$400 [19]
After he murdered his brother Bleda in the middle of the fifth century A.D., he was the undisputed leader of the Huns
Attila
Colleen
$800 [12]
Betty Williams & Mairead Corrigan won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for trying to end the violence here
Northern Ireland
Colleen
$800 [7]
Godmotheron "Fleabag"
Olivia Colman
Colleen
$1,200 [3]
Despite being apex predators, great white sharks are hunted by these cetaceans, which remove & eat their livers
killer whales (orcas)
Ed Colleen
$800 [27]
These alliterative & inflatable recreational vessels are long, narrow & often yellow
banana boats
Colleen
$800 [15]
In 1921 at age 16 Clara Bow won one of these, winning a part in a Hollywood movie
a beauty contest
Ed Colleen
$800 [20]
15th century Tibetan abbot Gedun Drupa was posthumously named the first of this title
the Dalai Lama
Brianne
$1,200 [13]
Steph Curry & Chelsea Clinton are 2 typical people who got early education at a school bearing her name
Montessori
Colleen
$1,200 [8]
Elliot Alderson on "Mr. Robot"
Rami Malek
Colleen
$1,600 [4]
Adult insects have 6 legs, all attached to this body section
the thorax
Brianne
$1,200 [28]
Greek for "circle" gives us the name of this helicopter relative
a gyrocopter
$1,200 [16]
It'sone of the few animals commonly called by its genus and species names
a Boa constrictor
Colleen
$1,200 [21]
In 1549 the first Governor-General of this Portuguese colony selected Bahia as its capital
Brazil
$1,600 [22]
Formerly known by this numerical name, the Opportunity in Education Act now bears Hawaii Representative Patsy Mink's name
Title IX
Ed
$1,600 [9]
Real-life crime boss Bumpy Johnsonon "Godfather of Harlem"
Forest Whitaker
Brianne
$2,000 [5]
Sea parrot is another name for this Atlantic seabird with black-&-white plumage & a triangular bill
a puffin
Ed
$2,000 [30]
Thistype of sailing vessel with a 4-letter name is still common in the Red Sea
a dhow
$1,600 [17]
It's the Chinese veggie seen here
bok choy
Colleen
$1,600 [24]
1616 saw the death of William Shakespeare at New place, in this place where he was born
Stratford-upon-Avon
Brianne
$2,000 [23]
Famous for her dying swan solo, this Russian ballerina was the most celebrated dancer of her time
Pavlova
Colleen
$2,000 [10]
In full prosthetic makeup, convicted killer Pam Hupp in 2022's "The Thing About Pam"
Renée Zellweger
DD $4,000 [2]
This North American marsupial has a gestation period of as little as 12 days
an opossum
Ed
DD $3,000 [29]
This type of sturdy horse-drawn wagon of early America, got its name from the Pennsylvania region where it was developed
a Conestoga wagon
Colleen
$2,000 [18]
Jenny Lind was a master of this operatic singing technique
bel canto
Ed
$2,000 [25]
The statue seenhereof this emperor of Rome's golden age was created around the time of his Germanic campaigns
(Marcus) Aurelius
Ed

Final Jeopardy!

REAL PEOPLE IN POETRY

Milton wrote of this contemporary: "When by night the glass of" him "observes imagined lands and regions in the Moon"

Galileo

Colleen "Who is ?" — wagered $2,200
Brianne "Who is John Donne?" — wagered $3,000
Ed "Who is Spenser?" — wagered $11,800

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