Show #8706 2022-09-26 (taped 2022-08-08) Regular

David Sibley game 1.

Contestants

David Sibley — an Episcopal priest from Walla Walla, Washington

Sue Adams — a software developer from North Weymouth, Massachusetts

Michael Menkhus — a data analyst from Kansas City, Missouri (whose 2-day cash winnings total $48,402)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Michael $3,600 $6,000 $8,400 $8,399
2nd place: $2,000
$10,400
25 R, 7 W (including 1 DD)
Sue $0 $200 $1,400 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$1,400
6 R, 2 W
David $5,200 $9,400 $21,800 $21,800
New champion: $21,800
$18,800
20 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE "GIST" OF THE JOB SMALL MAMMALS HYPHENATED WORDS FRIENDS ROMANS COUNTRY MEN & WOMEN
$200 [28]
Melissa Constanzer is an on-air one of these experts for Accu Weather
a meteorologist
David
$200 [26]
It is defined as a rodent mammal, Cavia porcellus, & as a person or thing used in an experiment
a guinea pig
Michael David
$200 [27]
An amusement park ride in which horsies & tigers revolve about a fixed point in the center
a merry-go-round
Michael
$200 [30]
Matthew Perry has said he got this character's "Could it be?" catchphrase from 2 brothers he knew as a kid
Chandler
Sue
$200 [13]
The Pantheonshows the durability of opus caementicium, the Roman version of this building material, that contains cement
concrete
Michael
$200 [8]
Astrid Lindgren &Alfred Nobel
Sweden
David
$400 [24]
This medical specialist administers skin prick or scratch tests
an allergist
David
$400 [25]
The fruit of the cholla type of this is a favorite food of Harris' antelope squirrel of the Sonoran Desert
cactus
Michael
$400 [15]
You go through this process at an airport counter or a hotel front desk
check-in
David
$400 [29]
Some scenes with this character & her twin sister Ursula were shot using Lisa Kudrow's sister Helene as a double
Phoebe
Michael
$400 [14]
Remus' brother, in legend he became the god Quirinus after his long reign as the first king of Rome
Romulus
Michael
$400 [9]
Marie Kondo &Yu Darvish
Japan
Michael
$600 [1]
Sun-Tzu was a military one of these for the Chinese state of Wu
strategist
Michael
$600 [6]
April 2 is the national day to celebrate this animal some keep as a pet; it resembles a slightly bigger weasel
a ferret
Michael
$600 [18]
In New York City, it's illegal for passenger vehicles to do this; delivery trucks may, but without blocking a bicycle lane
double-park
David
$600 [23]
On the 2021 reunion show the six stars were joined by actors like Christina Picklesandhim, who played Ross & Monica's parents
Elliott Gould
$600 [7]
From Latin for "of a noble father", it was the exclusive ruling class until the third century B.C.
the patricians
$600 [10]
Shawn Mendes &Alice Munro
Canada
Michael
$800 [2]
Issuing its first diploma in 1948, the program called graduate this specialist teaches how to grade diamonds
a gemologist
David
$1,000 [4]
A species of rat that has infested the world & a type of lemming known for mass drowning are both named for this country
Norway
$800 [19]
It describes a fever from roughly 99 to 100.5 degrees Fahrenheit
low-grade
Michael
$800 [22]
It's the coffee shop where the friends hang out
Central Perk
Michael
$800 [16]
3rd century emperor Caracalla is mainly remembered today for these public & luxurious facilities bearing his name
the baths
David
$800 [11]
Elon Musk &Miriam Makeba
South Africa
Michael
$1,000 [3]
Making NCAA tournament picks for basketball fans, Howie Schwab is considered this 14-letter expert
a bracketologist
David
DD $1,800 [5]
This spiny creature is native to England, where people love tight rows of bushes in their gardens
a hedgehog
David
$1,000 [20]
Legal when done by the government, illegal when done by competitors, it's the artificial setting of an amount charged for goods
price-fixing
Michael David
$1,000 [21]
This duo created their masterpiece with the theme song "I'll Be There For You"
The Rembrandts
David
$1,000 [17]
With seating for 250,000 to watch the chariot races, this "biggest ring" was the largest Roman arena
Circus Maximus
Michael
$1,000 [12]
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa & Sir Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand
David

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC NICKNAMES WRITING IMPLEMENTS MOUNTAIN WORLD POP MUSIC SHAKESPEARE'S KINGS & QUEENS "S" WORDS
$400 [22]
She was "Gloriana" or "The Virgin Queen"
Queen Elizabeth I
Michael
$400 [28]
Kedudes & Weimy are makers of the dustless type of this, used in classrooms
chalk
Sue
$400 [29]
At 9,888 feet, this country's highest peak is Pico da Neblina, or "foggy peak" in Portuguese
Brazil
Michael
$400 [10]
"Wonderwall" was a big hit from their 1995 album "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?"
Oasis
Michael
$400 [2]
In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Titania works her magic as queen of these creatures
fairies
Michael
$400 [1]
The musical score that accompanies a film
the soundtrack
David
$800 [23]
"The Great Compromiser" was this 19th century U.S. senator
(Henry) Clay
Michael
$800 [24]
Smart pens really are; usingone makes it easy to upload your scribbles as a PDF, a Google Doc, or a Word document from this company
Microsoft
Michael
$800 [30]
In 2015 the U.S. Geological Survey lopped 10 feet off this highest peak in North America; it's still 20,000 feet plus
Denali
Michael
$800 [11]
Thanks to "Stranger Things", her 1985 song "Running Up That Hill" re-entered the charts in 2022
Kate Bush
Sue
$800 [27]
This Scottish king laments the whole ocean won't wash the blood from his hands but it will turn "the green one red"
Macbeth
Sue
$800 [19]
Another word for a frying pan
skillet
Michael
$1,200 [21]
Mary Mallon got her infamous nickname from this, to which she was immune
typhoid
Sue
$1,200 [3]
Back in the day feathers from geese were used to make these writing implements, but ones from swans were more expensive
quills
Michael
$1,200 [25]
3,500-foot Table Mountain overlooks this South African city of more than 4 million people
Cape Town
Michael David
$1,200 [12]
This"Icy Girl" rapper got her stage name from her grandmother's nickname for her
Saweetie
$1,200 [26]
The night before a fateful battle, the ghosts of the murdered Edward V & Henry VI appear to this king & curse him
Richard III
David
$1,200 [20]
To extract metal from ore with heat
smelt
Michael
$1,600 [7]
This 5th century leader was Flagellum Dei, Latin for "Scourge of God"
Attila the Hun
Michael
DD $2,000 [4]
A line of fountain pens from this French brand was inspired by the glacier on its namesake mountain
Montblanc
Michael
$1,600 [8]
This "colorful" mountain range in eastern Jamaica famous for growing coffee receives an annual average of 200 inches of rain
the Blue Mountains
Michael
$1,600 [13]
This rap group that "Ain't Nuthin' But A She Thing" hit the charts with "Push It" & "Shoop"
Salt-N-Pepa
David
$1,600 [16]
"O, my dear Hamlet!" cries this queen, who dies after drinking from a poisoned cup intended for her son
Gertrude
Michael Sue
$1,600 [18]
The name of this wrinkly dog is Chinese for "sand fur"
Shar Pei
Sue
DD $4,000 [6]
"The Big Four" were Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd George, Vittorio Orlando & this American
Woodrow Wilson
David
$2,000 [5]
In 1913 the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company changed the name of its pencils to this for the city where its graphite was mined
Dixon Ticonderoga
David
$2,000 [9]
The Dângrêk Mountains separate Cambodia from this other kingdom to its northwest
Thailand
Michael
$2,000 [14]
There are 2 colors in the name of this K-pop girl group
Blackpink
Michael
$2,000 [15]
This title king's victory at Agincourt is followed by his awkward bilingual wooing of princess Katherine
Henry V
David
$2,000 [17]
A one-masted sailboat
a sloop
Sue

Final Jeopardy!

MAGAZINES

A now-annual issue of this magazine was inspired by the high society parties of Caroline Astor, whose ballroom fit about 400 people

Forbes

Sue "What is Harper's Bazaar?" — wagered $1,399
Michael "What is Salon?" — wagered $1
David "What is Vanity Fair?" — wagered $0

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