Show #8696 2022-09-12 (taped 2022-08-02) Regular

Luigi de Guzman game 2.First game of Season 39.Ken Jennings hosts.Return to a full studio audience.

Contestants

Katherine May — a financial institution risk manager from Riverside, Illinois

Tim Faulkner — a paperboy from Kalamazoo, Michigan

Luigi de Guzman — an attorney from Arlington, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Luigi $3,400 $14,000 $38,400 $42,400
2-day champion: $65,801
$27,200
34 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W
Tim $1,800 $2,000 $5,200 $5,400
2nd place: $2,000
$5,200
9 R, 2 W
Katherine $1,400 $2,200 $1,400 $1,400
3rd place: $1,000
$1,400
8 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

HERE COMES 39 WORLD CAPITAL RHYME TIME ALL KINDS OF DOORS WRITERS & THEIR WORKS CHUMP CHANGE RALPH MACCHIO TALKS COBRA KAI
$200 [1]
39 of the 55 assembled delegates signed this document in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787
the Constitution
Tim Katherine
$200 [6]
A Hungarian exam
a Budapest test
Luigi
$200 [17]
It can mean a high rate of personnel turnover, or an entryway like the elegant ones at New York City's Plaza Hotel
a revolving door
Luigi
$200 [26]
One-name title of Alexandra Ripley's sequel to "Gone with the Wind"; Ashley finally proposes, but she says no
Scarlett
Katherine
$200 [10]
Change a letter to get this big winner
a champ
Tim
$200 [15]
(Ralph Macchio presents the clue.) But what does "Cobra Kai" even mean? Well, "kai" is a gathering, so "Cobra Kai" is "an assembly of cobras"--fiercefighterswho meet in this type of room & school to train
a dojo
Luigi
$400 [2]
A popular tourist spot, Pier 39 in this California city features many attractions, including the Aquarium of the Bay
San Francisco
Luigi Tim
$400 [7]
A Korean parchment curled up for storage
a Seoul scroll
Luigi
$400 [18]
The entryway at this London address features a Georgian era glossed-black door with lion's head knocker & a 10
10 Downing Street
Tim Katherine
$400 [27]
This novel by Andy Weir about a stranded astronaut was originally self-published
The Martian
Luigi
$400 [11]
Drop a letter to get this dromedary dome
a hump
Tim
$400 [22]
(Ralph Macchio presents the clue.) Just as Daniel once used this bird kick against Johnny to great effect, Johnny's student Miguel got similar results withit
the crane
Katherine
$600 [3]
In 1972 this team retired catcher Roy Campanella's No. 39 on the same day as it retired his teammate's famous 42
the Dodgers
Luigi
$600 [8]
A Lebanese matching jacket & trousers
a Beirut suit
Luigi
$600 [19]
The 80-mile-long Door Peninsulaseparates Wisconsin's Green Bay from the rest of this Great Lake
Lake Michigan
Katherine
$600 [28]
"The Sicilian" by this author is another novel set in his universe of the criminal Corleone clan
Mario Puzo
Luigi
$600 [12]
Change 2 letters to get this bell sound
a chime
Tim
$600 [23]
(Ralph Macchio presents the clue.) Running a car dealership has its perks, especially when you wanna teachthis4-word karate defense; it's great practice for the kids, & your fleet will look fantastic
wax on, wax off
Luigi
$800 [4]
This Opus No. 39 by Edward Elgar has a theme often heard at school graduations
Pomp and Circumstance
Tim
$800 [9]
Philippine flavoring from a tropical orchid
Manila vanilla
Katherine
$800 [20]
This type of spider makes a hinged opening through which the unlucky descend to their doom
a trapdoor spider
Luigi
$1,000 [30]
This poet wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" on the back of an envelope when he was just 17
Langston Hughes
Luigi
$800 [13]
Drop 2 letters to get this sports authority
an ump
Katherine
$800 [24]
(Ralph Macchio presents the clue.) Johnny & I may not agree on a lot of things, but we did have a nice moment when we heard & sang "Take It On The Run" as wetest-drovea car--as I said, "What kind of man doesn't like" this '80s band?
REO Speedwagon
Tim
$1,000 [5]
In the King James Bible, the Old Testament has 39 books, with Kings, Chronicles & this prophet each having a 1 & 2 book
Samuel
Luigi Katherine
$1,000 [16]
Sudanese darkness or sadness
Khartoum gloom
Luigi Tim
$1,000 [21]
Initiated in 1899, the Open Door Policy was based on the U.S. & other nations all having equal access to this Asian country
China
Luigi
DD $4,000 [29]
Like the narrator of "The Little Prince", the book's author, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, chose this as his profession
pilot
Luigi
$1,000 [14]
Change 2 letters to get this metal fastener
a clamp
Katherine
$1,000 [25]
(Ralph Macchio presents the clue.) We all wish Pat Morita was still with us to do the show; I've often said Pat brought a soulful magic to this"Karate Kid" role for which he earned an Oscar nomination
Mr. Miyagi
Luigi

Double Jeopardy! Round

ON THE ROAD AGAIN 11-LETTER WORDS DISCOVERIES CANADIAN HISTORY FINANCE & INVESTING THAT'S SO SIR/REEL!
$400 [6]
Between 49th & 60th Streets in NYC, you'll find glamorous shops like Cartier on this avenue
Fifth Avenue
Katherine
$400 [7]
A less serious offense, such as shoplifting, often punished with less than one year in prison
misdemeanor
Luigi
$400 [12]
Around 1860 Dr. W.F. Daniell took cola nuts for intestinal issues, couldn't sleep & discovered that they contain this chemical
caffeine
Luigi
$400 [21]
Normally a dozy institution, this 105-member upper house of Parliament was news in 2012 with a housing expenses scandal
the Senate
Luigi
$400 [26]
The 3 headline indexes are the Dow Industrials, the S&P 500 & this stock exchange's Composite
NASDAQ
Luigi
$400 [1]
Rushing around in "From Russia with Love" & "The Russia House"
Sir Sean Connery
Luigi
$800 [8]
In a song by Phantom Planet, this 3-digit highway that takes you from L.A. to S.F. sort of rhymes with "California Here We Come"
the 101
Luigi
$800 [17]
In 1949 Joseph Sobek created this soon-popular game played within 4 walls
racquetball
Luigi
$1,200 [14]
Seen here is the first known illustration of a dinosaur bone; the lower part of this thigh bone, it baffled scientists on discovery in 1676
the femur
Luigi
$800 [22]
In 1880 the Arctic Islands became part of these territories between the Yukon & Nunavut
the Northwest Territories
Luigi
$800 [27]
In 2017 Oregon became the first state with automatic these savings accounts: employees are enrolled unless they opt out
IRAs
Katherine
$800 [2]
Gus in "Cats" & also giving a magnetic performance in "X-Men"
Sir Ian McKellen
Luigi
$1,200 [9]
An uphill bike race is held annually in Burlington, Iowa, on this alley seen here, named for a type of critter
Snake Alley
$1,200 [18]
Type of criminal seen here& often portrayed in heist movies
a safecracker
Tim
$1,600 [15]
Work at Rice University led to the discovery of buckyballs, named for resembling this Buckminster Fuller creation
a geodesic dome
Luigi
$1,600 [24]
Asked to yield this city to the English in 1690, Count Frontenac said, "My only reply will be from the mouths of my cannons"
Quebec City
Luigi
$1,200 [3]
The maitre d' at L'Idiot in "L.A. Story" & also giving a thoughtful performance in "X-Men"
Sir Patrick Stewart
Luigi
$1,600 [10]
This 2,460-mile interstate stretches coast to coast, passing the Superdome & Tucson's Pima Air & Space Museum
I-10 (Interstate 10)
$1,600 [19]
A homeless person may still have a place indoors to sleep; this is the term for someone sleeping on the streets
unsheltered
$2,000 [16]
Discovered around 1980, these nasty proteins (hence the "pr" in the word) are a cause of fatal brain diseases
prions
Luigi
$2,000 [25]
A World Heritage Site, these Newfoundland meadows contain the first evidence of Europeans in the New World
L'Anse aux Meadows
Katherine
$1,600 [4]
Ruling in "The Cider House Rules" & (What's it all about?) "Alfie"
Sir Michael Caine
Luigi
$2,000 [11]
You can see why the club-filled stretch of this Memphis street is called Neon Row
Beale Street
Tim
$2,000 [20]
The original line of this separating 2 territories was the one dividing the New World between Spain & Portugal
demarcation
Luigi
DD $4,000 [13]
4 of these were discovered by 1807; astronomers sulked that they weren't full planets but got over it when Astraea was found in 1845
asteroids
Luigi
DD $6,000 [23]
Founded by a royal charter, the company named for this body of water employed "voyageurs" who explored Canada by canoe
Hudson Bay
Luigi
$2,000 [5]
"Murder by Death" & "Star Wars", one year apart
Sir Alec Guinness
Luigi

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY NOVELS

"This bell was named Marie... alone in the southern tower, with her sister Jacqueline, a bell of lesser size", says this novel

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Katherine "What is Don Quixote?" — wagered $0
Tim "What is The Hunchback of Notre Dame" — wagered $200
Luigi "What is The Hunchback of Notre Dame?" — wagered $4,000

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