Show #8708 2022-09-28 (taped 2022-08-08) Regular

David Sibley game 3.

Contestants

Emily Hackbarth — a middle school counselor from Ames, Iowa

Sam Wang — a statistics professor from Ithaca, New York

David Sibley — an Episcopal priest from Walla Walla, Washington (whose 2-day cash winnings total $44,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
David $200 $2,200 $14,600 $11,599
3-day champion: $55,799
$13,400
18 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Sam $1,000 $2,600 $7,800 $100
3rd place: $1,000
$7,800
13 R, 3 W
Emily $6,000 $7,600 $8,800 $2,800
2nd place: $2,000
$6,600
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

OFF TO NEW ENGLAND HATCHET MAN HISTORY ONE-NAMED ROCK STARS MATERIAL I LONG FOR LONG "U"
$200 [28]
The oldest active Major League Baseball park, it hosted its first game in 1912, with the Red Sox winning 7-6
Fenway
Sam
$200 [26]
Legend says he dragged his axe behind him & created the Grand Canyon in the process
(Paul) Bunyan
Sam
$200 [13]
In 1914 19-year-old Serb Gavrilo Princip triggered World War I by assassinating this man
Franz Ferdinand
David
$200 [6]
About the Joshua Tree Tour, he declared, "It's only taken me 30 years to learn how to sing these songs"
Bono
Sam
$200 [21]
The organization 4ocean says 16 billion pounds of this material enters the seas each year; they recover & recycle some
plastic
Emily
$200 [22]
Military horns, or crunchy snacks made from corn
bugles
David
$400 [27]
Originally incorporated as Harrington, this city got its name in 1797 & 30 years later, became Maine's capital
Augusta
David
$400 [29]
This Marvel Comics character was deemed unworthy by the hammer Mjolnir, so he took up the axe Jarnbjorn & bided his time
Thor
Sam Emily
$400 [12]
Also known as the Temple of Kukulcán, El Castillowas built circa 1000 AD in a city founded by these people, in the Yucatán Peninsula
the Maya
Emily
$400 [4]
His surprise was evident when hewon Grammy's Album of the Year in 2015
Beck
David
$400 [17]
The very hard material silicon carbide was discovered in 1891 in an attempt to make artificial these gems
diamonds
Sam
$400 [23]
This speedy winter sport also has a street version
luge
Emily
$600 [18]
Its Witch Museum is on Washington Square North & the House of the Seven Gables, that's over on Derby Street in this city
Salem
David
$600 [7]
This "Game of Thrones" character portrayed by Peter Dinklage is adept with a battle axe
Tyrion Lannister
David
$600 [11]
Japan annexed this peninsula in 1910 & suppressed the March First Independence Movement in 1919
Korea
David
$600 [2]
This singer-songwriter whose real name is Ashley Frangipane uses an anagram of Ashley
Halsey
Emily
$600 [16]
Until 2017, laws of the U.K. Parliament were written & stored on this animal skin material that will long outlast paper
parchment
Emily
$600 [24]
A hexahedron
a cube
$800 [19]
These New Hampshire mountains that include the Presidential Range are taller & snowier than the Green Mountains
the White Mountains
David Sam
$800 [8]
This nickname of Abraham Lincoln highlighted hisaxemanship
"The Railsplitter"
$800 [1]
Babylonian king for 40 years, he is best remembered for his legal wisdom, known from an inscribed stone slab discovered in 1901
Hammurabi
Sam
$800 [3]
This Guns N' Roses guitarist said he has flat-lined at least 3 times & has an internal defibrillator in his heart
Slash
David
$1,000 [14]
Dogs like to chew this untanned material, also the title of an old Clint Eastwood TV Western
rawhide
Emily
$800 [25]
Horizontal whale tail part
a fluke
$1,000 [20]
Launched in 1841, the last wooden whaleship in the world floats at this Connecticut seaport; maybe get some pizza nearby
Mystic
Sam
$1,000 [9]
Before Jack chopped down the beanstalk, he stole the golden goose & a talking one of these musical instruments
a talking harp
$1,000 [10]
On Friday the 13th of October 1307, King Philip IV of France ordered the arrest of this military group
the Knights Templar
$1,000 [5]
It may be "crazy", but this London-born singer switched species as the leopard on "The Masked Singer"
Seal
Emily
DD $3,000 [15]
Portugal is the world's leading producer of this material that makes a whopper of a stopper
cork
Emily
$1,000 [30]
In a restaurant, what a free appetizer will do to your bouche
amuse
Sam

Double Jeopardy! Round

CLIFF NOTES A LETTER, THEN A WORD THE RIGHT BROTHERS THE ACTOR'S STUDIO AND THE STATE GOES TO... NATURALISTS
$400 [29]
Looking out atop some cliffs, this Shakespeare ruler refers to himself as "Goneril with a white beard"
King Lear
Sam
$400 [11]
Steep angles characterize this style of house whose design is good in snow & wind
A-frame
Sam
$400 [27]
The men's clothing retailer named for these brothers began on Cherry Street in New York City in 1818
Brooks Brothers
David
$400 [7]
The decade's biggest child star, she is credited with saving 20th Century-Fox from bankruptcy in the 1930s
Shirley Temple
Emily
$400 [6]
Oregon, 2020
Joe Biden
Emily
$800 [23]
His interest in the variation of animals between islands was first aroused not by finches but by the Galapagos mockingbird
Darwin
Sam
$1,200 [21]
"Dizzy sunless cliffs above the great abyss" paints a picture in H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of" this
Madness
$800 [24]
Written as a fraction, it's a measurement of the aperture of a camera lens
an f-stop
David
$800 [26]
"Crazy For You", a 1992 Tony winner for Best Musical, was based on 1930s songs by these 2 brothers
the Gershwins
Emily
$800 [8]
Shehit the big time with Paramount Pictures in the 1930s
Mae West
David
$800 [5]
Utah, 2008
McCain
David Sam
$1,200 [25]
The part khaki coloration of an Australian snail led to its being named for this late khaki-clad Aussie TV personality
Steve Irwin
David
$1,600 [20]
In an Alistair MacLean novel, Keith Mallory must scale the cliffs of this island & quell the title "Guns" there
Navarone
$1,200 [22]
Fortnite & League of Legends are popular games in this; there are tournaments & spectators too
esports
Sam
$1,200 [14]
In the year 2000 these 2 states had Bush brothers as governors
Texas & Florida
David
$1,200 [4]
James Cagney starred in gangster films like "Public Enemy" for this studio founded by Albert, Jack, Harry & Sam
Warner Brothers
David
$1,200 [3]
Minnesota, 1984
Mondale
Sam
$1,600 [18]
Jack Miner, a pioneer of doing this, to track birds, began a tradition of adding Bible versesto create flying missionaries
tagging (banding)
David
DD $2,000 [28]
Alice Duer Miller's "The White Cliffs", a prose poem about WWI & WWII, mentions this town in its third line
Dover
David
$1,600 [12]
An alternative to a convertible car was one with this type of rigid roof that could adapt to let in some sun
a T-top
Emily
$1,600 [15]
After the death of 5 brothers of this last name in WWII, the U.S. instituted the sole survivor policy to prevent a repeat
Sullivan
David
$1,600 [9]
Seen here, Louis B. Mayer signs Clark Gable's "Gone with the Wind" contract with this studio, Gable's home from 1931 to 1954
MGM
David
$1,600 [2]
Mississippi & South Carolina, 1952
Adlai Stevenson
$2,000 [17]
Maria Sibylla Merian advancedentomologyin 1705's book this process "of the Insects of Surinam", which sheillustrated
metamorphosis
Emily
$2,000 [19]
Ascenefrom "The Final Problem" finds Sherlock Holmes tussling with Moriarty on cliffs above these falls
Reichenbach Falls
$2,000 [13]
It's the area where a company's top executives all have their offices
the C-suite
Sam
$2,000 [16]
Thesebrothers made their first public hot air balloon demonstration in southern France in 1783
the Montgolfier brothers
DD $2,000 [10]
Charlie Chaplin banded together with 3 other moviemakers to found this studio in 1919
United Artists
David
$2,000 [1]
Alabama, 1968:This American Independent Party candidate
(George) Wallace
David

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD RIVERS

These 2 rivers share the names of countries, end with the same 4 letters & both join up with the Paraná River

Paraguay & Uruguay

Sam "What are Congo & Zimbabwe" — wagered $7,700
Emily "What are the Panama + ?" — wagered $6,000
David "What is Peru + Ecuador" — wagered $3,001

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