Show #8725 2022-10-21 (taped 2022-09-14) Second Chance

2022 Second Chance competition week 1, final game 2.

Contestants

Molly Karol — a CPA from Austin, Texas (subtotal of $15,600)

Jessica Stephens — a statistical research specialist from Nashville, Tennessee (subtotal of $28,600)

James Fraser — a naval aviator from Newport Beach, California (subtotal of $30,929)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
James $1,200 $3,600 $2,000 $0 $8,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 7 W (including 1 DD)
Jessica $4,800 $4,600 $15,300 $5,300 $13,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Molly $2,600 $2,600 $10,600 $0 $10,600
16 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY TEAM NAMES VIA OTHER NAMES IN THE BIBLE BOOK FROM C TO D SHAVE & A HAIRCUT 2 BITS
$200 [17]
Peregrine White was born on this ship, anchored in Provincetown Harbor in November 1620
the Mayflower
Molly
$200 [26]
NFL:Simba, Aslan, the Cowardly
Lions
James
$200 [15]
"Let there be light"; Jared begat Enoch... "begat" appears a lot, actually
Genesis
Jessica
$200 [28]
In music it's 3 or more notes sounded together
a chord
Molly
$200 [29]
This very short haircut evokes the sound of the electric clippers
a buzz
Molly
$200 [30]
Naturally, these mountains are on Colorado's quarter
the Rockies
James
$400 [16]
The destruction of the battleship Maine in 1898 was a precursor to this war
the Spanish-American War
James
$400 [24]
MLB:Romano, Kroc, Liotta
the Rays
Jessica
$400 [10]
3:16: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son"
John
James
$400 [25]
This word for how you want your abs to look contains a sculptor's tool
chiseled
James
$400 [27]
Andreas Anastasis spends about 20 minutes a day with Anna Wintour maintaining this 3-letter haircut of hers
a bob
Jessica
$400 [23]
Mississippi's quarter features this state flower mentioned in the state's nickname
a magnolia
Molly
$600 [2]
Naturally, IBM helped create the technology of this type of missile, one letter longer, first deployed by the U.S. in 1959
an ICBM
James
$600 [11]
NBA:The magical Harry Dresden, Merlin, Gandalf
Wizards
Molly
$600 [7]
The title queen replaces Vashti; Haman replaces Mordecai on the gallows
Esther
James
$600 [12]
It's French for le duck
le canard
James
$600 [18]
You can use a razor to shave or shape your 2 these, of which muttonchops are one type
sideburns
James
$600 [22]
This state has the dome of its statehouse & the nickname "The Old Line State"
Maryland
James
$1,000 [4]
Shantytowns that sprang up during the Great Depression were given this presidential nickname
Hoovervilles
Jessica
$800 [3]
NHL:Hugo in 1989, Andrew in 1992, Katrina in 2005
the Hurricanes
James
$800 [6]
"I am... the beginning and the ending"; there is serious omega
Revelation
James Jessica
$800 [13]
This large artery that supplies blood to the head & neck also aids in regulating blood pressure
carotid
Jessica
$800 [19]
The name of a Flemish painter graces this beard that can include clean-shaven cheeks
Van Dyke
James
$800 [21]
The back of Rhode Island's quarter shows a vintage sailboat gliding through this bay, with the Pell Bridge in the background
the Narragansett Bay
James
DD $1,200 [8]
In 1840 a U.S. judge ruled the unwilling passengers on this ship were kidnap victims, not merchandise
the Amistad
James
$1,000 [1]
NFL:Ragnar Lothbrok, Erik the Red &--just 'cause we love the name--Ivar the Boneless
the Vikings
Molly
$1,000 [5]
Chapters 21 & 22 are about the priesthood, the group also alluded to in the book's name
Leviticus
Molly
$1,000 [14]
A man's overcoat & a sofa with rolled arms, as seen here, are named for the Earl of this
Chesterfield
James Jessica
$1,000 [9]
This bushy mustache named for a pinniped doesn't require much trimming; Ron Swanson of "Parks & Rec" fame sported one
walrus
Jessica
$1,000 [20]
On Connecticut's state quarter, the tree known as this oak displays its majestic reach
the Charter Oak
Jessica Molly

Double Jeopardy! Round

SO YOU BLEW IT THE FIRST TIME MOVIE & TV DIRECTORS IT'S ALL ABOUT HER MARSUPIALS WHY ARE MY PANTS WET? BEFORE & AFTER
$400 [23]
In 1974 he lost his race for an Arkansas House seat but 2 years later was elected the state's Attorney General & soon was governor
Clinton
Molly
$400 [24]
Dan Fogler plays Francis Ford Coppola in "The Offer", a streaming show about the making of this film
The Godfather
Molly
$400 [17]
Published in 2021: "The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of..."
(Angela) Merkel
Molly
$400 [26]
Unlike other marsupials, wombats have continuously growing these, with no roots
teeth
James
$400 [25]
This body of stored water, from French for "storehouse" , was starting to flood as I jogged past it
a reservoir
$400 [30]
A parent who supervises a Cub Scout group & is also a Nobel Prize-winning nun
a den Mother Teresa
Molly
$800 [5]
A rejection letter to this writer said, "You just don't know how to use the English language", but "The Jungle Book" lay ahead
Kipling
Molly
$800 [22]
"Austin Powers" director Jay Roach plays himself when this hit man-turned-actor lands a big audition
Barry
Jessica
$800 [14]
"The Matriarch", this late mother of six
Barbara Bush
Jessica
$800 [21]
Marsupials get their name from marsupium, Latin for this distinctive feature most of them have
a pouch
Molly
$800 [11]
I knelt next to one of these teeming-with-life small basins of water left by the receding ocean
a tide pool
James
$800 [29]
Lewis Carroll feline once used to flog sailors onboard a ship
a Cheshire Cat of nine tails
Jessica
$1,600 [2]
Legend has it that in Dec. 1916, Prince Felix Yusupov & friends poisoned this guy... shot this guy... & finally had to drown this guy
Rasputin
Jessica
$1,200 [6]
Gary Merrill, who played a stage director in "All About Eve", married this star before the film came out
Bette Davis
Molly
$1,200 [12]
"Out of the Corner" (because nobody puts Baby there)
Jennifer Grey
James
$1,200 [13]
Ranging into southern Canada, the Virginia this is the only marsupial found north of Mexico
possum
$1,200 [10]
From walking with my friend Ti-Maurice along 106-mile Lafourche, one of these slow-moving bodies of water
a bayou
$1,200 [1]
To prepare to do something unpleasant by chomping down on a 200-mph rail transport
bite the bullet train
James
$2,000 [3]
After getting KO'd by Max Schmeling in 1936, this African-American heavyweight took just 2 minutes & 4 seconds to win the rematch
Joe Louis
James
$1,600 [7]
He won acclaim as washed-up low-budget movie director Sam Sylvia on "GLOW"
(Marc) Maron
Jessica
$2,000 [16]
"I Put a Spell on You": this "High Priestess of Soul" & civil rights activist
Nina Simone
Jessica
$1,600 [19]
The Tasmanian devil went extinct on Australia's mainland thousands of years ago, perhaps due to this canine also called the warrigal
a dingo
Molly
$1,600 [9]
From playing with my dog near this fatal-sounding type of northeast creek or river, from a Dutch word meaning "channel"
a kill
$1,600 [28]
The seafood seasoning from the abortive 1961 invasion of Cuba
Old Bay of Pigs
Jessica
DD $6,800 [4]
Last name of Milton, who moved to Philadelphia in 1876 to start a candy company; that one ended in bankruptcy but another did not
Hershey
James
$2,000 [18]
Ralph Fiennes struggles to direct an actor to say, "Would that it were so simple" in this Coen Brothers movie about making an epic
Hail, Caesar!
Molly
DD $3,500 [15]
Subtitled "Coming of Age in America": this anthropologist
(Margaret) Mead
Jessica
$2,000 [20]
Thenail-tailed wallabyrotates its forelimbs while hopping, leading to the nickname this musical instrument grinder
organ
James Jessica
$2,000 [8]
I waded in one of these down-under ponds, also the name of a brand of beach & surf apparel
billabong
James
$2,000 [27]
Police booking photo that becomes a historic moment as in Ralph Waldo Emerson's line
a mug shot heard around the world
James

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS

This character from an 1859 novel symbolizes the Fates, who in mythology spin the web of life, measure it & cut it off

Madame Defarge

James "Who is Uriah Heep" — wagered $2,000
Molly "Who is ???" — wagered $10,600
Jessica "Who is Penelope?" — wagered $10,000

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