Show #8715 2022-10-07 (taped 2022-08-09) Regular

Cris Pannullo game 6.

Contestants

Dan Feyer — a musician and crossword editor from San Francisco, California

Kate Matthews — a research project manager from Durham, North Carolina

Cris Pannullo — a customer success operations manager from Ocean City, New Jersey (whose 5-day cash winnings total $136,459)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Cris $4,800 $8,400 $25,400 $25,621
6-day champion: $162,080
$24,000
28 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Kate $600 $2,000 $3,600 $3,600
3rd place: $1,000
$3,600
4 R, 0 W
Dan $5,400 $7,000 $10,400 $13,000
2nd place: $2,000
$15,400
21 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

PLAZA, SWEET! ANAGRAMMED BIBLE PEOPLE BLACK BUSINESS 2022 SPORTS NEWS LIONS, TIGERS & BEARS "O" MY
$200 [16]
"Remember!" 300 (this) Plaza is in San Antonio!
Alamo
Cris
$200 [15]
He got stoned:HAG TOIL
Goliath
Dan
$200 [30]
Once, the USA's largest Black-owned business was North Carolina Mutual Life on Durham's Parrish Street, also called "Black" this street
Wall Street
Cris
$200 [24]
On the heels of the Winter Olympics, the 2022 Paralympics were held in this city
Beijing
Cris
$200 [29]
The website for this spokes-animal includes "Campfire Rules" & "Preventing Wildfires"
Smokey Bear (Smokey the Bear)
Dan
$200 [22]
As a verb, it means to leak out slowly; as a noun, it's the mudlike sediment on the floor of oceans & lakes
ooze
Cris
$400 [26]
The iconic Plaza Hotel, opened in 1907, overlooks Grand Army Plaza in this city
New York
Cris
$400 [27]
Old-timer:HEALTH MUSE
Methuselah
Dan
$400 [28]
His move into mogulship began when he launched Roc-A-Fella Records to release his album "Reasonable Doubt"
Jay-Z
Cris
$400 [23]
Because they refused to do this, Novak Djokovic missed the Australian Open & Kyrie Irving missed Nets home games
get vaccinated
Dan
$400 [25]
This Ivy League university began using a tiger as its mascot in part because its school colors are orange & black
Princeton
Cris
$400 [20]
Something with a lot of oomph can be described as "high" this, a word associated with gasoline
octane
Kate
$600 [2]
Designed by Jean-Francois-Therese Chalgrin, this landmark sits in a circular plaza, from which 12 avenues form a star pattern
Arc de Triomphe
Dan
$600 [3]
Big cats did no harm:NAILED
Daniel
Kate
$600 [19]
NBA Sixth Man Junior Bridgemanbecame the second man among franchisees of this chain with 160 restaurants
Wendy's
Cris
$600 [13]
At the WNBA All-Star Game both teams wore the uniform of this star, then on trial in Russia
(Brittney) Griner
Cris
$600 [21]
This country's phenomenal economic growth in the 1990s gave it the nickname "Celtic Tiger"
Ireland
Dan
$600 [12]
It can mean not transparent to light or obscure in meaning
opaque
Cris Dan
$800 [1]
Praça Quinze de Novembro is a lovely spot in this city that also has a month in its name
Rio de Janeiro
Cris
$800 [4]
Baptist parent:BAIL THESE
Elisabeth
$800 [9]
These were often Black owned, avoiding style butchery by whites; Joe Louis' wife Rose Morgan built an empire from one
hair (beauty) salons
$800 [6]
This Midwestern hoops powerhouse showed its mettle, besting North Carolina in a March Madness title thriller
Kansas
Cris
$1,000 [17]
An early version of this Mississippi author's story "The Bear" was published under the title "Lion"
Faulkner
Cris
$800 [8]
This simple acoustic interval is made up of 8 diatonic degrees
an octave
Cris
$1,000 [18]
Chicago's AMA Plaza was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, last director of this German design school
Bauhaus
Kate
$1,000 [5]
A Roman governor:TAILPIPE SNOUT
Pontius Pilate
Dan
$1,000 [14]
Asking, "Why should white guys have all the fun?", Reginald Lewis bought Beatrice Foods in a billion-dollar LBO, this type of buyout
leveraged
Dan
$1,000 [7]
Washington, D.C.'s NFL team "took charge" of their future, choosing this as their new team name
Commanders
Dan
DD $2,400 [10]
The Leone d'oro, or the Golden Lion, is the top prize awarded at this Italian city's film festival, the world's oldest
Venice
Cris
$1,000 [11]
Bones develop through a process called osteogenesis or this word with the same first 2 letters
ossification
Dan

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE ANCIENT WORLD 2-LETTER SPELLING BEE RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY ECOLOGY EUROPEAN EATS GIBSON GIRLS & GUYS
$400 [22]
In the 200s B.C., the first Qin emperor ordered existing defensive structures to be linked, helping to create this
Great Wall of China
Cris
$400 [23]
Negative reply
N-O
Cris
$400 [24]
A biography of this medieval poet by Alessandro Barbero was a recent bestseller in Italy
Dante
Cris
DD $200 [21]
savetheelephants.org says elephants are important as this type of "species" named for a crucial bit of architecture
keystone
Cris
$400 [27]
Thank you to this country for its tastystroopwafel, created by a baker in Gouda
the Netherlands
Cris Dan
$400 [25]
Cowboy star Edmund Gibson got this nickname as a boy either because he hunted owls or delivered for the Owl Drug Company
Hoot
Dan
$800 [10]
After a bloody war in this country, Emperor Ashoka renounced force & adopted "conquest by dharma", or righteous conduct
India
Dan
$800 [11]
Chopping tool
A-X
Cris
$1,200 [15]
In 800 pages Paul Auster's "Burning Boy" tells the story of this "Red Badge of Courage" author who died aged 28
(Stephen) Crane
Dan
$400 [28]
Term for a plant-eating animal like a horse or deer; they help prevent overgrowth of vegetation
herbivore
Dan
$800 [30]
In France les cuisses de grenouille are these, & we hear they taste like chicken
frog legs
$800 [26]
Tyrese Gibson has appeared as Roman Pearce, known for his banter & his driving, in this action film franchise
The Fast and the Furious
Dan
$1,200 [1]
Megalopolis was a member of the Achaean League, a defensive alliance of city-states on this peninsula
Peloponnesian
Cris
$1,200 [7]
Domesticated bovine
O-X
Dan
$1,600 [6]
The unexpurgated transcript of the 1895 libel trial involving this author appeared in 2003 & a 2021 bio makes good use of it
(Oscar) Wilde
Dan
$800 [29]
It's good to be at the top of this 2-word term for the pecking order for grub in an ecological system
the food chain
Cris
$1,200 [18]
In Spain a classic tapas dish is this cold tomato soup sometimes served in a glass
gazpacho
Dan
$1,200 [13]
"I need your love like a flame needs a fire", sang this '80s teen queen who also gave us "Only In My Dreams"
Debbie Gibson
Cris
$1,600 [2]
It was actually Marcus Agrippa, this future emperor's deputy, who commanded the fleet that defeated Mark Antony
Augustus
Kate
$1,600 [4]
Jewish "So? Come on!"
N-U
Dan
$2,000 [14]
"Making Darkness Light" is about this poet who wrote his great work around 1660 in near or total blindness
Milton
Cris
$1,200 [12]
Sometimes used synonymously with "non-native", this type of species is one that has colonized a new biogeographical area
invasive
Dan
$1,600 [5]
This Greek dish is sort of a lasagna made of ground beef or lamb & eggplant, often topped with bechamel sauce
moussaka
$1,600 [16]
He pitched for the Cardinals for 17 seasons & even briefly played with the Harlem Globetrotters
Bob Gibson
Dan
$2,000 [3]
In the 3rd century this became the state religion of Persia's Sassanian Empire
Zoroastrianism
Cris
$2,000 [8]
Mystic mantra
O-M
Cris
DD $5,000 [19]
2022 brings the 150th b'day of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar & a bio calling him this creature that "sings" in his famous line
the caged bird
Dan
$1,600 [9]
Decomposers, like the kind seen here, whose name means "first animal", helped make vital nutrients for other organisms
protozoa
Cris
$2,000 [20]
Named for their resemblance to small oranges, these stuffed & fried balls of rice are a traditional Italian appetizer
arancini
Cris
$2,000 [17]
In 1985 his "Neuromancer" won a Nebula & a Hugo
William Gibson
Cris

Final Jeopardy!

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD

It has the most water area of any country, nearly 350,000 square miles, about 9% of its total area

Canada

Kate "What are the Phillippinnes?" — wagered $0
Dan "What is Canada?" — wagered $2,600
Cris "What is Canada" — wagered $221

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