Show #1 2022-09-25 (taped 2022-09-11) Celebrity

2022-2023 PrimetimeCelebrity Jeopardy!quarterfinal game 1.Mayim Bialik hosts.

Contestants

Andy Richter — a comedian from Yorkville, Illinois

Ego Nwodim — a comedian from Baltimore, Maryland

Simu Liu — an actor from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Simu $0 $1,200 $5,600 $23,200
Winner: semifinalist
$11,900
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Ego $600 $700 $5,500 $0
3rd place: $30,000 to God’s Love We Deliver
$13,000
18 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Andy $2,700 $5,500 $13,300 $18,900
2nd place: $30,000 to the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
$19,900
45 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

JEOPARDY! & THE 10 RINGS TELLING A BEDTIME STORY THE RICHTER SCALE SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER THE WILD WEST DIONNE WARWICK
$100 [1]
In a book by this man, the hobbit Frodo gets a ring granting invisibility from his cousin Bilbo
Tolkien
Simu
$100 [13]
A huntsman cuts into a wolf's stomach to let this girl & her grandma escape, but the wolf lives!OK, until the girl kills it using stones
Little Red Riding Hood
Andy
$100 [16]
Charles Richter developed the first widely used earthquake scale at this Pasadena school of science & engineering
Caltech
Andy
$100 [26]
Prancer & Cupid were famous ones
reindeer
Ego
$100 [7]
The autobiography of former slave Nat Love tells of his days of "riding, roping, and shooting" as a famous one of these
cowboy
Andy
$100 [8]
Talent runs in the family; here's Dionne with this 1st cousin whom Dionne said had "a voice like none other"
Whitney Houston
Ego
$200 [2]
"Five golden rings" is a line from this holiday song
"The Twelve Days of Christmas"
Andy
$200 [14]
Let's thumb through this tale... Title girl swims well, gets human legs... Wait, she kinda dies at the end?!
"The Little Mermaid"
Simu
$200 [17]
The deadliest earthquake ever recorded struck this country's Shaanxi province in 1556
China
Andy
$200 [27]
In 2017 the maximum length of this went from 140 to 280 characters
a tweet
Simu
$200 [3]
The Oregon, Mormon & Old Spanish were famous these via which settlers from points east reached the West
trails
Andy
$200 [9]
In 1982 Dionne joined forces with Barry Gibb of this trio who produced her "Heartbreaker" album & backed her on the title track
the Bee Gees
Andy
$300 [20]
In the late 1990s Galileo images revealed that this largest planet has a ring made of dust particles
Jupiter
Simu
DD $300 [15]
A Seussian home invasion, now that's what he'll do! / He'll mistreat a fish! Turn 2 kids' home into a zoo!
the Cat in the Hat
Simu
$300 [18]
A flatboat pilot said an 1812 quake in Missouri was so powerful it made the waves on this big river run backwards
the Mississippi
Andy
$300 [28]
A short bit of praise from a critic or a fellow author on the cover of a book
a blurb
Simu
$300 [4]
Seen here, this vehicle that gave way to the railroad was the subject of many a Western movie
a stagecoach
Andy
$300 [10]
In 1985 "That's What Friends Are For", recorded by Dionne & friends, raised money for amfAR, for research to battle this disease
AIDS
Andy
$400 [21]
As Ernestine the telephone operator on "Laugh-In", she would say, "One ringy-dingy, two ringy-dingies"
Lily Tomlin
Andy
$400 [23]
...& after the step-mom of these 2 kids abandoned them, they ate a local witch's house, then burned her to death; how Grimm! G'night!
Hansel & Gretel
Andy
$400 [19]
A huge earthquake struck this capital of Portugal on All Saints' Day, 1755, killing many at mass in churches built of stone
Lisbon
Simu
$400 [29]
Larry Bird, or currently, Jayson Tatum
a Celtic
Andy
$400 [5]
Deadwood is in South Dakota; this other fatal-sounding town notorious for Old West gunfights is in Arizona
Tombstone
Andy
$400 [11]
Dionne had a hit with this classic song that begins, "The moment I wake up, before I put on my makeup"
"I Say A Little Prayer"
Andy
$500 [22]
When it was first published in 1922, The Ring called itself "The world's foremost" magazine about this sport
boxing
Andy
$500 [24]
Her cupboard, bare; she found her dog dead, left to buy a coffin, then found the pup laughing... sounds more like Stephen King
Old Mother Hubbard
Andy
$500 [25]
In 1906 a quake caused by a rupture along this fault devastated San Francisco & other California cities
the San Andreas
Andy
$500 [30]
A fancy design of your initials that you use on stationery or clothing
a monogram
Andy
$500 [6]
Based on this nickname, frontierswoman Martha Jane Cannerymust have brought trouble along with her
Calamity Jane
Andy
$500 [12]
Dionne had a longtime working relationship with this composer who co-wrote many of her hits with Hal David
Burt Bacharach
Ego

Double Jeopardy! Round

QUEEN ELIZABETH II DIRECT ME TO THE DIRECTOR CATS & DOGS TASTY PHRASES ALPHABETICALLY LAST "R"ELIGION
$200 [17]
On Sept. 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne, the Queen passed away at Balmoral Castle in this U.K. country
Scotland
Simu Ego Andy
$200 [7]
In the 1960shescared moviegoers with films like "Psycho" & "The Birds"
Hitchcock
Simu
$200 [14]
The American Kennel Club says these"colorful" dogs retain their puppyish behavior into adulthood
a golden retriever
Simu
$200 [10]
You don't want your wine made with these, also a phrase about trash-talking something you can't have
sour grapes
Andy
$200 [30]
...of the suits in a standard deck of cards; can you dig it?
spades
Andy
$200 [20]
The pope also holds the title "Bishop of" this city
Rome
Simu Ego
$400 [26]
The Queen was rarely seen without these, made by the firm Launer London; what was inside? Probably lozenges & reading glasses
a purse
Andy
$400 [5]
Patty Jenkins' first feature was 2003's "Monster"; her second was this 2017 superhero film starring Gal Gadot
Wonder Woman
Andy
$400 [15]
From Britain's Isle of Man, the Manx cat is distinctive for its lack of this
a tail
Andy
$400 [22]
A fitting finish for a sundae, this idiom means to make something good even better
to put a cherry on top
Simu
$400 [29]
...of the Beatles; he was also last to join the band
Ringo Starr
Andy
$400 [1]
Meaning "my master" , this term refers to the chief religious official of a synagogue
a rabbi
Andy
$600 [25]
The Queen loved animals from big (racehorses) to small (these short-legged dogs including Willow & Holly)
Corgis
Simu
$600 [6]
He takes liberties with history in the endings of "Inglourious Basterds" & "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood"
Tarantino
Ego
$600 [3]
The tallest of the working breeds, this dog was actually developed in Germany
the Great Dane
Andy
$600 [21]
It refers to disclosing secret information, like when you accidentally dropped that pot of chili
spilling the beans
Ego
$600 [28]
...of James Dean's 3 major films; he would die a month before its release
Rebel Without a Cause
Andy
$600 [12]
In eastern religion, it's the belief that the soul comes back in a new body & identity, perhaps that of a lawyer or a squirrel
reincarnation
Ego
$800 [23]
Elizabeth was smitten with this man when she was just 13; they were married for more than 70 years
(Prince) Philip
Simu
$800 [8]
This film about an alien trying to get home turned 40 in 2022; Steven Spielberg calls it "my first love story"
E.T.
Andy
$800 [2]
Developed in what is now Thailand, this popular breed of cat comes in blue point, chocolate point & seal point varieties
a Siamese
Andy
$800 [16]
If you're the best of the best, you're this, mentioning a dairy product & a farming word
cream of the crop
Simu
$1,000 [27]
...of countries of the world; it was formerly known as Rhodesia
Zimbabwe
Andy
$800 [13]
The cult ofthis2-letter sun god of ancient Egypt reached its peak during the Old Kingdom around 2500 B.C.
Ra
Simu
$1,000 [24]
This ceremony took place when Elizabeth had been queen for over a year; she wore the dress on 6 more occasions
the coronation
Andy
$1,000 [9]
Yes, "Nope" is this performer & director's latest exploration of the horror genre
Jordan Peele
Ego
$1,000 [4]
Thisbig long-haired breed is the official cat of the state in its name
the Maine Coon
Simu
$1,000 [18]
You & your best friend may be described this way, involving a legume & its container
(two) peas in a pod
Ego
DD $2,000 [11]
...of the New England states; it's also the least populous
Vermont
Andy
DD $1,000 [19]
A time of fasting, this ninth month of the Islamic year is remembered as when the Koran was revealed to Muhammad
Ramadan
Ego

Final Jeopardy!

LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES

It's the world's smallest landlocked country in both area & population

Vatican City

Ego "What is Togo ?!????!!" — wagered $10,000
Simu "What is Vatican City?" — wagered $11,600
Andy "What is Lichtenstein?" — wagered $2,200

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