Show #7 2022-11-06 (taped 2022-10-02) Celebrity

2022-2023 PrimetimeCelebrity Jeopardy!quarterfinal game 6.

Contestants

Melissa Rauch — an actor from Marlboro Township, New Jersey

Joel Kim Booster — a comedian from Chicago, Illinois

Ray Romano — an actor from Queens, New York

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ray $700 $1,600 $4,900 $42
2nd place: $30,000 to Harvest Home
$8,800
21 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs)
Joel $2,300 $4,500 $10,300 $19,000
Winner: semifinalist
$17,500
33 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Melissa $600 $1,500 $2,200 $0
3rd place: $30,000 to Oscar’s Kids
$4,500
12 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

FIRE ISLAND BIG ____ READY FOR MY NUDE SCENE BERNIE & BERNADETTE ALL ABOUT ALLITERATIVE BOOK CHARACTERS EVERYBODY LOVES RAIN, MAN
$100 [6]
This Hawaiian island had a Honolulu of a hot year in 2019; attention, shoppers at Waimalu Plaza, it hit 107 one day
Oahu
$100 [7]
Early in the 20th century, New York City was being recognized by this nickname; later, tourists were told to take a bite of it
the Big Apple
Ray Joel
$100 [12]
On this sitcom, Phoebe spied Ugly Naked Guy having dinner with Ugly Naked Gal
Friends
Ray
$100 [17]
The mittens this Vermont senator wore to President Biden's inauguration became an internet sensation
Bernie Sanders
Melissa
$100 [22]
Severus Snape is the "Defense Against the Dark Arts" teacher at this school that Harry Potter attends
Hogwarts
Ray
$100 [1]
This largest tropical rain forest can average well over 100 inches of rain each year
the Amazon
Ray
DD $200 [27]
On the map, Italy looks like it's giving the boot to this Mediterranean island, which was kicking around at 120 degrees in 2021
Sicily
Joel
$200 [8]
Filling in for someone who is known for doing a really good job? Well, idiomatically, you've got these "to fill"
big shoes
Ray
$200 [13]
Seen here, he dropped trou in "Nightmare Alley"; not so much of a nightmare for some
Bradley Cooper
Melissa
$200 [18]
In 1987 she originated one of her iconic roles as the witch in the Broadway production of "Into the Woods"
Bernadette Peters
Ray
$200 [23]
Peter Pevensie is one of the children who come to reign over this land created by C.S. Lewis
Narnia
Joel
$200 [2]
Drivers can thank Mary Anderson for creating an early form of this, moved by a handle from inside a streetcar to clear rain
a windshield wiper
Ray
$300 [28]
Playing all the hits of 2020, it's hot 102.7 in Veguitas in this Caribbean country about 90 miles south of Florida
Cuba
Ray
$300 [9]
Step right up, ladies & gents; from acrobats to clown cars, we've got it all inside this structure
the big top
Joel
$300 [14]
This actor said that he had no nude double for "The Wolf of Wall Street": "All the flopping around... was all me"
Leonardo DiCaprio
Ray Joel
$300 [19]
Terry Kiser played the titular corpse in this 1989 comedy that also starred Andrew McCarthy & Jonathan Silverman
Weekend at Bernie's
Ray
$300 [24]
Tiny Tim is a sickly boy in this Dickens classic with an alliterative title
A Christmas Carol
Joel
$300 [3]
The title number in "Singin' in the Rain" was shot in summer in Culver City when water was in high demand & this star was ill
Gene Kelly
Ray
$400 [29]
In September 2020 it was a toasty 110 in this one of California's Channel Islands with Avalon as its only city
Catalina
$400 [10]
Christian Bale & Steve Carell were in this 2015 Adam McKay movie that detailed the craziness of the 2008 financial crisis
The Big Short
Joel
$400 [15]
In "The Hangover", the guys think their missing buddy Doug is in the trunk, but it's a naked Mr. Chow, played by this comedian
Dr. Ken (Jeong)
Melissa
$400 [20]
He died in 2021 while serving 150 years for running the largest Ponzi scheme in history, with paper losses of $64.8 billion
Bernie Madoff
Melissa
$400 [25]
He's the evil dictator who's "watching you" in "1984"
Big Brother
Melissa
$400 [4]
On Titan, this ringed planet's largest moon, it rains me than e
Saturn
Joel
$500 [30]
92 at Kilkenny Castle in 1887 was long considered the hottest temperature in this island nation
Ireland
Joel
$500 [11]
In a 1901 speech regarding U.S. foreign policy, Teddy Roosevelt advised, "Speak softly and carry" this
a big stick
Joel
$500 [16]
Seen here, this actress & Mike Myers were both au naturel in the first "Austin Powers", but fruits provided strategic cover for her
Elizabeth Hurley
Joel
$500 [21]
In 1858 the future St. Bernadette went to a grotto & had visions that turned this French town into a pilgrimage center
Lourdes
$500 [26]
Billy Bibbit & Charles Cheswick are fellow inmates with Randle McMurphy in this Ken Kesey novel set in a mental hospital
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Joel
$500 [5]
In the King James Bible, "the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah" these 2 things
fire & brimstone
Joel

Double Jeopardy! Round

LOST IN EXPLORATION BOOKS & AUTHORS HUMAN ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY SITCOMS FUN WITH FLAGS STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS
$200 [16]
In 1492 Columbus was actually trying to reach this continent--thus the name "West Indies" for the places where he landed
Asia
$200 [6]
P.L. Travers is best remembered for her books about this magical nanny
Mary Poppins
Ray
$200 [19]
The pericardium is the sac that contains this organ
the heart
$200 [1]
Larry David remembered a tuba piece called "Frolic" he'd heard in a bank ad & that became a signature theme of this show
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Melissa
$200 [26]
The item in the center of this nation'sflagis a wheel of law called the Ashoka Chakra
India
Joel
$200 [7]
Coming about 40 days after Lent begins, it's one of the few days when it's relatively safe to put all your eggs in one basket
Easter
Joel
$400 [17]
Percy Fawcett, who disappeared searching for a lost jungle city in the 1920s, is often called "the real life" this movie character
Indiana Jones
Joel
$400 [8]
James Baldwin's semi-autobiographical first novel was called "Go Tell It on" this
the Mountain
Ray
$400 [21]
Hey--your epidermis is showing! Relax, it's just the outer layer of this
your skin
Ray
$400 [2]
This actress, as Selina Meyer on "Veep": "I'm used to dealing with angry, aggressive, dysfunctional men. i.e., men"
Julia Louis-Dreyfuss
Melissa
$400 [27]
The flag of this U.S. commonwealth looks like Cuba's flag, but with the red & blue reversed
Puerto Rico
Ray
$400 [9]
This tool is used by artists to support their work; here's a painting by Rembrandt that shows one in the foreground
an easel
Joel
$600 [18]
Ponce de Leon was looking for an island said to be the site of this rejuvenating spring but found Florida--how's that irony?
the fountain of youth
Ray
$600 [10]
In the novel of the same name, Alice Walker wrote, "I think it pisses God off if you walk by" this "in a field... and don't notice it"
the color purple
$600 [22]
Because it resembles an upside-down tree, the whole system inside this pair of organs is sometimes called the "bronchial tree"
the lungs
Joel
DD $500 [4]
Daniel Stern began narrating this '60s-set show in 1988; Don Cheadle handled the task in the 2021 reboot
The Wonder Years
Melissa
$600 [28]
Seen here on Alaska's flag is this star grouping, part of Ursa Major
the Big Dipper
Joel
$600 [13]
It's the type of exercise Jane Fonda & Richard Simmons popularized in the 1980s; feel the burn!
aerobics
Melissa
$800 [24]
"I presume" you know the name of this Doctor who went missing exploring in Africa; a search party found him in 1871
Dr. Livingstone
Ray
$800 [11]
Esther Greenwood, who has a mental breakdown in "The Bell Jar", was largely based on this author herself
Sylvia Plath
Joel
$1,000 [23]
This other name for the voice box also ends with the letter "X"
the larynx
Ray
$600 [3]
At Comic Con with the cast of this show, Matt Berry was asked, "Have people started yelling 'Bat!' at you?"; yes. Yes they have
What We Do in the Shadows
Joel
$800 [29]
The cross & sword represent St. George & St. Paul on theflagof the City of this, the historic center of the same-named capital
London
Joel
$800 [14]
Fly high in style aboard a big, beefyA380from this European company
Airbus
$1,000 [25]
This Italian was looking for a sea route to the Pacific when he found some New York "narrows"; ah well, he got a bridge named for him
Verrazzano
Ray
$1,000 [12]
This Swedish author of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" & its sequels died before any of them were published
Stieg Larsson
Joel
DD $1,500 [20]
No butts about it--it's the 2-word name for the most massive muscle in the human body
gluteus maximus
Ray
$1,000 [5]
On "Brooklyn Nine-Nine", this actor seenheredecided, "we'll go to my house. Or as Zeke calls it, Tiny Terry's Hobbit Hole"
Terry Crews
Joel
$1,000 [30]
After the Soviet Union broke apart, so did its flag with a gold star & these 2 symbols representing workers & peasants
a hammer & sickle
Joel
$1,000 [15]
Astronomers use this 3-letter word to refer to a period of time equaling one billion years; to others, it means a really long time
an eon
Joel

Final Jeopardy!

BRANDS

With wood becoming more difficult to source, this company turned to plastic for its automatic binding bricks, introduced in 1949

Lego

Ray "What is we Should beableable To Pause!" — wagered $3,258
Melissa "What" — wagered $3,300
Joel "What are Legos?" — wagered $400

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