Show #8702 2022-09-20 (taped 2022-08-03) Regular

Emmett Stanton game 3.

Contestants

Juliana Marmon — a pediatrician from Concord, Massachusetts

Kelly Shannon-Henderson — a classics professor from Cincinnati, Ohio

Emmett Stanton — a freelance writer from Baltimore, Maryland (whose 2-day cash winnings total $41,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Emmett $1,000 $4,600 $15,400 $30,800
3-day champion: $72,600
$14,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Kelly $2,000 $2,000 $19,800 $8,799
2nd place: $2,000
$16,400
21 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Juliana $1,600 $1,000 $3,400 $3,400
3rd place: $1,000
$3,000
7 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD WAR II SCIENCE & NATURE HETERONYMS THERE'S THE RUB LETTUCE ENTERTAIN "YOU"
$200 [1]
In September 1939 this country was invaded from 2 fronts & the war was on
Poland
Juliana
$200 [3]
New Zealand not only has a lot of these animals, but it also haswild plantsthat look like them
sheep
Kelly
$200 [8]
A physical thing&to express disapproval
object [ob-JECT] or object [OB-ject]
Emmett
$200 [15]
Often made of felt, these classroom mainstays were clapped outside after a vigorous rub inside
erasers
Kelly
$200 [20]
Crisphead is an apt description & alternate name for this lettuce that, despite its name, likely wasn't served on the Titanic
iceberg
Kelly
$200 [25]
Disappointingly, the sequel to this 2013 film about a team of bank-robbing illusionists was not called "Now You Don't"
Now You See Me
Emmett Kelly
$400 [2]
The 1943 Battle of Kursk was history's biggest battle of these machines, like the Soviet T-34 & the German Tiger
tanks
Juliana
$400 [4]
Certain woodpeckers are known for hoarding this fruit of the oak, hiding as many as 50,000 in one tree
acorns
Juliana
$400 [9]
To feel bitter&transmitted again
resent [RE-sent] or resent [re-SENT]
Juliana
$400 [16]
These 4 syllables begin the nursery rhyme about the trio seen here
Rub a dub dub
Emmett
$400 [21]
Actually a combination of lettuces, mesclun is often sold as this season "mix"
spring
Emmett
$400 [26]
In 1964 2 Beatles songs debuted in the U.S. Top 40 a week apart, "Please Please Me" & this song, yeah yeah yeah
"She Loves You"
Emmett Kelly
$600 [13]
Also called the 900-day siege, the siege of this city on the Gulf of Finland saw 650,000 die in 1942 alone
St. Petersburg (Leningrad)
Emmett
$800 [6]
Due to warmer temperatures, the Conger one of these, about the size of New York City, recently collapsed off Antarctica
an ice shelf
Emmett Kelly Juliana
$600 [10]
Closely packed together&a small makeup case
compact [com-PACT] or a compact [COM-pact]
$600 [17]
Crickets make their trademark chirp by rubbing these together--stridulation is the scientific term
their wings
Kelly Juliana
$600 [22]
Water can come before this 5-letter salad green or it can be by itself
cress
Emmett
$600 [27]
In "Groundhog Day" Bill Murray wakes up precisely at 6:00 every morning to this Sonny & Cher song
"I Got You Babe"
Emmett
$800 [14]
On June 6, 1942 Admiral Yamamoto's retreat ended this pivotal battle
Midway
Kelly
DD $1,000 [5]
370 miles in diameter, Olympus Monson this planet, is the largest volcano in our solar system
Mars
Juliana
$800 [11]
Something that pulls a vehicle behind it&a tall, narrow building
a tower [TOE-ur] & a tower [TAU-ur]
$800 [18]
This phrase means to make something worse; I prefer iodized for my enemies
to rub salt into wounds
Kelly
$800 [24]
Mâche also has the sweet alliterative name this baby animal's lettuce
lamb's lettuce
Kelly
$800 [30]
Paul Reiser & Helen Hunt played newlywed spouses when this sitcom began
Mad About You
Emmett
$1,000 [23]
The Allied invasion of Italy began on July 10, 1943 with Operation Husky, a coordinated attack on this island
Sicily
Emmett
$1,000 [7]
Seen here, this lizard with a name from classical mythology, is known for its ability to run across water
a basilisk
$1,000 [12]
A burrowing insectivore&a Mexican cooking sauce
a mole [mōl] & mole [MOH-lay]
Emmett
$1,000 [19]
In surrealist terms, fumage was making images with smoke; this similar French-derived term was making them by rubbing
frottage
$1,000 [29]
Eaten as a lettuce (though technically a leafy veggie), this form of chicory gets its name from the Italian for chicory
radicchio
Kelly
$1,000 [28]
Harry Styles befriends a lonely fish in the video for this solo 2019 hit that says, "I'd walk through fire for you"
"Adore You"

Double Jeopardy! Round

CAPITAL CITY ETYMOLOGIES I'LL HAVE SECONDS LESSER-KNOWN NAMES GENRES OF POETRY CURRENT SLANG BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE
$400 [1]
This Down Under capital bears the name of an English dukedom
Wellington
Kelly Juliana
$400 [12]
The second of Henry VIII's wives, she was the mother of Elizabeth I
Anne Boleyn
Kelly
$400 [6]
Queen Nzinga of Ndongo, not offered this when meeting with a Portuguese official, ordered a servant onto all fours & used him
a throne (a chair)
Kelly
$400 [7]
"There was a young lady of Norway"
limerick
Kelly
$400 [17]
This 7-letter adjective means both dehydrated & too eager for approval
thirsty
Kelly
$400 [26]
"Hunger Games" actress who helped in a Middle Eastern revolt against the Ottoman Empire
Jennifer Lawrence of Arabia
Emmett
$800 [2]
From nearby steaming hot springs, "smoky bay" is the etymology of this Icelandic capital
Reykjavik
Emmett
$800 [13]
There's a proverbial saying: "The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second best time is..."
now
Kelly
$800 [22]
In the 1850s a horse named Ethan Allen raced intandem with a partner, giving us this term for a vice presidential candidate
a running mate
Emmett
$800 [8]
[under the evening moon] by Kobayashi Issa
haiku
Kelly
$800 [18]
The name of this Italian fashion house means stylish or all is well
Gucci
Emmett
$800 [27]
Iconic 1950s movie "Rebel" who was a member of the Rat Pack
James Dean Martin
Juliana
$1,600 [4]
Tashkent, the capital of this "Stan", comes from words meaning "stone village"
Uzbekistan
Emmett
$1,200 [14]
The second Monday in October is Columbus Day as well as this day that honors America's first inhabitants & tribal nations
Indigenous Peoples' Day
Kelly
$1,200 [23]
Doing a Taft, Australia's first prime minister Sir Edmund Barton resigned in 1903 to join Oz' equivalent of this U.S. body
the Supreme Court
Kelly
$1,200 [9]
"To beauty" by Emerson
an ode
Emmett
$1,200 [19]
A drama queen might be described with this 3-letter word, also a music genre
emo
$1,200 [28]
"Karma Chameleon" singer who turned down an Oscar for his performance in "Patton"
Boy George C. Scott
Emmett
DD $2,000 [3]
"Wisdom" in Greek is the derivation of this Balkan capital city
Sofia
Emmett
$2,000 [16]
The second president to die in office; it was later confirmed he died of natural causes & not by poisoning
(Zachary) Taylor
Juliana
$1,600 [24]
Grandson of Genghis' grandson Kublai Khan, Temür ruled China during this dynasty's power
Mongol (Yuan)
$1,600 [10]
6-letter genre of "Stopping By Fridge on a Hungry Evening"
a parody
$1,600 [20]
It sounds like it means "stolen", but this 8-letter compliment means your style is fierce
snatched
Kelly
$1,600 [29]
Los Angeles Clippers all-star forward who composed the music for "West Side Story"
Kawhi Leonard Bernstein
$2,000 [5]
Formerly Léopoldville, this African capital now bears the name of a village that once stood near the site
Kinshasa
Emmett
DD $5,000 [15]
An Ivy League school was named for British statesman William Legge, the Second Earl of this
Dartmouth
Kelly
$2,000 [25]
1900 years before Prince Henry had this nickname, Carthage's Hannogot it forsailingto Morocco & maybe down to Cameroon
the Navigator
Kelly
$2,000 [11]
"The Shepheardes Calendar": this rural genre
pastoral
Kelly
$2,000 [21]
"Y" is for this 4-letter word, which can mean "to throw" or be an interjection of joy
yeet
Kelly
$2,000 [30]
"Good Vibrations" songwriter who also had a No. 1 R&B hit with "In The Midnight Hour"
Brian Wilson Pickett

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

Delivered on January 8, 1790, the first of these was also the shortest, at 1,089 words

the State of Union Address

Juliana "What are the Federalist papers" — wagered $0
Emmett "What... is the State of the Union Address?" — wagered $15,400
Kelly "What is an inaugural address?" — wagered $11,001

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