Show #8717 2022-10-11 (taped 2022-08-10) Regular

Cris Pannullo game 8.

Contestants

Mike Elliott — a meat cutter originally from Derry, New Hampshire

Marsha Free — an executive assistant to the principal from Duluth, Georgia

Cris Pannullo — a customer success operations manager from Ocean City, New Jersey (whose 7-day cash winnings total $221,901)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Cris $3,400 $12,000 $37,400 $53,601
8-day champion: $275,502
$23,800
29 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Marsha $-200 $-400 $1,600 $1,600
3rd place: $1,000
$1,600
6 R, 3 W
Mike $3,800 $4,800 $26,800 $8,600
2nd place: $2,000
$17,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

CLASSIC SITCOMS BY EPISODE TITLE POLISH HISTORY THE WAIT OF THE WORLD SUBTITLED NONFICTION WHERE IN THE HOUSE? IT'S JUST A GEOMETRIC FIGURE OF SPEECH
$200 [27]
"Witch or Wife?"
Bewitched
Mike
$200 [29]
In June 1979 his second trip abroad in his new job was to his homeland & encouraged many Poles to defy the Communist regime
Pope John Paul II
Cris
$200 [30]
You may never forget this large creature has the longest pregnancy period of any living mammal--nearly 2 years!
an elephant
Marsha
$200 [26]
A winner of a Pulitzer Prize, "The Emperor of all Maladies" is "A Biography of" this disease
cancer
Cris
$200 [28]
Giving its name to a type of band, it's where young rockers from at least Buddy Holly on have practiced
a garage
Cris
$200 [25]
It's what the guys & gals are doing here
square dancing
Cris
$400 [21]
"Archie & the Bowling Team"
All in the Family
Cris
$400 [19]
This city was still the capital when Jagiellonian University, Poland's oldest, was founded there in 1364
Kraków
Cris Marsha
$400 [20]
Folks have awaited the next book by him after 2011's "A Dance with Dragons" but it takes as long as it takes
George R.R. Martin
Mike
$400 [23]
Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" was subtitled "From" this alliterative event "to Black Holes"
the Big Bang
Cris
$400 [22]
According to the National Association of Home Builders, they're the 2 most popular rooms to remodel
the kitchen & the bathroom
Mike
$400 [24]
A literary example of this 3-sided romantic problem: Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet, George Wickham
a love triangle
Cris
$600 [10]
"Elroy's TV Show"
The Jetsons
Cris
$600 [7]
Weakened by Civil War, in 1772 Poland was partitioned by Austria, Russia & this German kingdom
Prussia
Mike
$600 [13]
The website Thrill Data tracks theme park wait times, like 110 minutes for Radiator Springs Racers at this Disneyland park
California Adventure
Mike
$600 [3]
"Turn The Beat Around" explores "The Secret History of" this often derided music genre of the 1970s
disco
Mike
$800 [15]
The 1890sphoto"Sabbath Eve in a Coal" this space shows an effort to maintain dignity in low surroundings
a coal cellar
Cris Mike
$600 [17]
On "Get Smart" the agents of CONTROL used this anti-bugging device
the Cone of Silence
Cris
$800 [9]
"Fearless Fonzarelli: Part 1"
Happy Days
Marsha
$800 [6]
In 1943 an uprising against the Nazis took place in this largest Jewish enclave in Poland
Warsaw Ghetto
Cris
$800 [11]
You'll wait a bit for xenon-124 to decay; this stat bangs in around 18 sextillion years, or 18, then 7 sets of 3 zeroes
half-life
Mike
$800 [1]
Volume one of Peter Wallner's biography of this president is subtitled "New Hampshire's Favorite Son"
(Franklin) Pierce
Cris
$1,000 [14]
It's the room where Peter Pan visits the Darling children
the nursery
Mike
$800 [16]
In 1992 the U.S. Department of Agriculture gave us this shapely guideline; My Plate was introduced in 2011
the food pyramid
Cris
$1,000 [8]
"Patient 4077"
M*A*S*H
Mike
$1,000 [5]
This shipyard worker & labor union activist became president of Poland in 1990
Wałęsa
Cris
$1,000 [12]
Peter Sagal started as a panelist before hosting this weekly NPR news quiz
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
Cris
$1,000 [2]
Yuval Noah Harari gives "A Brief History of Humankind" in this book with a one-word title
Sapiens
DD $4,800 [18]
In 2020 the socially conscious Houston Assoc. of Realtors dropped this 2-word term for where the head of the house sleeps
master bedroom
Cris
$1,000 [4]
Agrarian term for the office setup seen here
a cube farm
Marsha

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE GRAB BAG BABY NAMES: TOP 25 OF 1922 OLD WORDS IT'S A "BIG" PLACE THE TEMPLES IN JERUSALEM BROADWAY ROCKS
$400 [30]
The seaweed called giant kelp can reach 200 feet in length, but it's still just a type of this simple organism
algae
Cris
$400 [26]
On the girls' side, this flower
Rose
Cris Mike
$400 [7]
This adjective meaning loathsome dates to the 1300s, though it wasn't applied to snowmen until the 20th century
abominable
Cris Mike
$400 [1]
Its great bell clocks in at just over 15 tons
Big Ben
Mike
$400 [22]
This remaining section of the Second Temple complex stands as a place of prayer & remembrance today
the Wailing Wall
Cris
$400 [6]
The 2005 show "All Shook Up" featured the title song & other hits made famous by this man
Elvis Presley
Marsha
$800 [29]
Igneous rocks are formed after this 5-letter type of molten rock cools
magma
Mike
$800 [25]
This name given to their son by the Schulz family of Minneapolis that November
Charles
Mike
$800 [28]
This word for a time of extreme hunger & starvation dates at least as far back as the 1360s poem "Piers Plowman"
famine
Mike
$800 [20]
Though this nickname for a large American city dates to the 1920s, it really took hold after a '70s tourism campaign
Big Apple
Cris
$800 [21]
The outer courtyard was known as the "Court of" these non-Jews & they were forbidden from entering further into the Temple
Gentiles
Mike
$800 [5]
The one-man show titled this rocker "on Broadway" included stories & classics like "Thunder Road"
Bruce Springsteen
Marsha
$1,200 [23]
Stannous chloride contains 2 atoms of chlorine & one atom of this
tin
Cris
$1,200 [24]
Both Harry & this brother, soon to combine in a gift basket company
David
Marsha
$1,200 [27]
This word for a broad, heavy knife made its way from Latin America into English in the late 1500s
machete
Cris
$1,200 [13]
Located across from Mexico on the Rio Grande, this national park can hit 115 degrees & beep beep! has some roadrunners
Big Bend
Cris
$1,200 [10]
The First Temple was built around 950 B.C. & was destroyed by an invading army of this empire in 586 B.C.
the Babylonians
$1,200 [4]
Featuring the songs of this band, "Head Over Heels" opened on Broadway in 2018
the Go-Go's
Marsha
$2,000 [18]
Longitudinal wave motion like that of a single pitch soundgraphs outto the shape of this trigonometric function
a sine (wave)
Cris
$1,600 [14]
This name of the then-king of England
George
Cris Marsha
$1,600 [15]
Chaucer's "Miller's Tale" used this word for part of a roof centuries before a Hawthorne novel title did
gable
Mike
$1,600 [12]
Carmel is the northern gateway to this California region that was home to Henry Miller
Big Sur
Cris
$1,600 [9]
The innermost room of Solomon's Temple was known as the Holy of Holies & was where this container symbolizing God's presence resided
the Ark of the Covenant
Mike
$1,600 [3]
It is not "Ironic" that in 2021, this show based on a Grammy-winning album won a Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album
Jagged Little Pill
Mike
DD $11,000 [8]
Ceres & Pallas are found between the orbits of these 2 planets
Mars & Jupiter
Cris
$2,000 [19]
This name of the then-first lady, Mrs. Harding
Florence
Cris
DD $11,600 [17]
Meaning to consecrate or make holy, it was around for nearly a millennium before it appeared in the Gettysburg Address
hallow
Mike
$2,000 [16]
Actually a complex of hills, this Utah formation was named after a song about a hobo living the sweet life
Big Rock Candy Mountain
$2,000 [11]
The Temple was built on the alliterative "Mount" this, also the name of the place where Abraham was ready to sacrifice his son
(Mount) Moriah
Cris
$2,000 [2]
Based on the music of Johnny Cash, "Ring of Fire" opened with this Nine Inch Nails song memorably covered by Johnny
"Hurt"
Mike

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS SHIPS

Its wreck was discovered in 1989, 48 years after it had been sunk & 91 years after the man it was named for had died

the Bismarck

Marsha "What is theAnAndrea Doria?" — wagered $0
Mike "What is the Andrea Doria?" — wagered $18,200
Cris "What is Bismarck" — wagered $16,201

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