Show #8755 2022-12-02 (taped 2022-10-11) Regular

Cris Pannullo game 20.

Contestants

Ilana Freedman — an occupational therapy assistant from New Orleans, Louisiana

Josh Gregor — a teacher from Grand Rapids, Michigan

Cris Pannullo — a customer success operations manager from Ocean City, New Jersey (whose 19-day cash winnings total $666,744)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Cris $10,600 $12,400 $35,900 $44,121
20-day champion: $710,865
$27,800
34 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W
Josh $2,800 $2,000 $1,200 $1,328
3rd place: $1,000
$1,200
10 R, 5 W
Ilana $1,800 $3,800 $11,000 $11,000
2nd place: $2,000
$11,000
11 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC QUOTATIONS BODY LANGUAGE FIZZ-ICS AFRICAN LAKES & RIVERS HIT THE SPOT NFL TEAMS BY HOME STADIUM
$200 [30]
Herbert Hoover, drawing a laugh in 1936: "Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national" this
debt
Cris
$200 [28]
As a noun, it can be the edge of a road; as a verb, take the burden or the blame
shoulder
Josh
$200 [24]
The competition was green with envy in 1908 when this brand of water won the Grand Prix des eaux minérales vente de l'année
Perrier
Cris
$200 [17]
In 1805 Henry Nicholls set out to find a route to the Niger River from this ocean, unaware he was starting from its mouth
the Atlantic
Cris
$200 [29]
The black spots on the backs of these small red beetles warn predators that they won't taste good
ladybugs
Cris
$200 [26]
Acrisure Stadium (formerly Heinz Field)
the Steelers
Josh
$400 [20]
Former Rep. Jeannette Rankin, to Congress in 1935: "You can no more win" one of these "than you can win an earthquake"
a war
Cris Josh
$400 [27]
To apply this body part to "the line" or "the mark" is to observe the rules
toe
Josh
$400 [23]
Are you my pal? You are if you know the name of this sparkling flavored soda is Spanish for "fresh air"! How about one?
Fresca
Ilana
$400 [16]
Gustave, a huge one of these said to have killed hundreds of people, lived along the shores of Lake Tanganyika
a crocodile
Cris Josh Ilana
$400 [22]
In the NFL the penalty called defensive this gets the offense a first down & the ball moved to the spot of the foul
pass interference
Cris
$400 [25]
The frozen tundra of Lambeau Field
the Green Bay Packers
Ilana
$600 [15]
"What, to the American slave, is" this U.S. holiday? asked Frederick Douglass in an 1852 speech
Independence Day (the 4th of July)
Cris
$600 [14]
This "music" can mean a pitch thrown high, near the batter's head
chin music
Josh
$600 [21]
In 1982 this 3-letter soda began losing a lot of weight in sales after the debut of a fellow Coca-Cola item, Diet Coke
Tab
Cris
$800 [5]
We presume you know he reached the delta of the Okavango River around 1850
Livingstone
Cris
$600 [13]
The spot type of this uses heat generated by electricity to join metal sheets together
welding
Josh
$600 [4]
Opened in 2020, So Fi Stadium:2 teams, please
the Rams & the Chargers
Josh
$800 [19]
In 1793 he wrote, "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me, the most insignificant office"
(Vice President) John Adams
Cris Josh Ilana
$800 [11]
If you mouth off to someone, you give them lip, or what the Brits call this other facial part
cheek
Cris
$800 [18]
FYI, the French pronunciation ends with "wah"; this sparkling water brand founded in Wisconsin, "oy"
LaCroix
Cris
$1,000 [6]
This "colorful" river forms the southwestern boundary of South Africa's Free State province
the Orange
Cris
$800 [12]
The spotted type of this animal eat every part of the carcass, even parts it can't digest like hair & horns
a hyena
Ilana
$800 [2]
Empower Field at Mile High
the Broncos
Cris
$1,000 [10]
Martin Luther King said, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward" this outcome
justice
Ilana
$1,000 [8]
The fruit of the rose
the hip
Cris
$1,000 [9]
The name of this carbonated beverage once meant a type of Appalachian moonshine
Mountain Dew
Cris
DD $3,600 [7]
Between Khartoum & Aswan, the Nile runs through a series of 6 rapids called these, also a term for waterfalls
cataracts
Cris
$1,000 [3]
Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter showed that wind speeds inside this increased by 8% from 2009 to 2020
the Great Red Spot
Josh
$1,000 [1]
Soldier Field
the Bears
Cris

Double Jeopardy! Round

IT'S EPIC THEIR '80s NO. 1 ALBUM WORD HISTORY HONORARY U.S. CITIZENS OLD TECHNOLOGY MICRO FISH
$400 [20]
The action of this epic work begins in the 10th year of the Greek siege of Troy
the Iliad
Cris
$400 [26]
Her"Control"
Janet Jackson
Cris
$400 [28]
Makes sense--it once meant the piece of wood behind others in a fireplace; now it's a bunch of unfilled orders
a backlog
Cris
DD $100 [12]
A city & a bay in this state derive their names from the most recent honoree, Revolutionary War hero Bernardo de Gálvez
Texas
Cris
$400 [27]
It's the 2-word former computer necessity here, & players, if you're not at least of a certain age, you may be toast
a floppy disk
Josh
$400 [30]
About an inch in length, the pygmy sunfish, seen here, & named for this coast, is found is Western Florida
the Gulf Coast
Cris
$800 [19]
This monster finds his strength is no match for Beowulf's grip & his arm is mortally ripped off as he tries to get away
Grendel
Josh
$800 [24]
Their"Synchronicity"
The Police
Cris
$800 [22]
Its obsolete meanings include meek & obedient; its solete meaning is bosomy
buxom
$400 [29]
Winston Churchill, the first honorary citizen, had the honor conferred on him April 9, 1963 by this man
Kennedy
Cris
$800 [18]
In 2022 Apple said they'd no longer make this MP3 player, which is now unbelievably in an old tech category
an iPod
Cris
$800 [25]
The 1.5" gobyhereis named for this insect, unrelated to the tuna brand of the same name
bumblebee
Cris
$1,200 [5]
Compiled from old folklore, songs & oral poems, the Kalevala is the national epic of this country
Finland
$1,200 [21]
His "Don't Be Cruel"(& it's not Elvis)
Bobby Brown
Ilana
$1,200 [1]
Originally liquid poured out as a sacrifice to a deity, now it's just a fancy word for an alcoholic drink
libation
Ilana
$1,200 [8]
This Quaker who founded a U.S. colony & his wife were given ex post facto citizenship for their farsighted reforms
(William) Penn
Cris
$1,600 [10]
Ford began offering this "numeric" tape deck in 1966 models; not so much now
an 8-track
Cris
$1,200 [23]
Pretty fish filed under "G" include Garibaldi, once called marine goldfish, &this one, also called rainbow fish--fancy
a guppy
$1,600 [4]
Spenser only got around to writing 6 of the planned 12 books of this epic poem that he dedicated to Elizabeth I
The Faerie Queene
Ilana
$1,600 [14]
Oh what a feeling, his "Dancing on the Ceiling"
(Lionel) Richie
Cris
$1,600 [2]
It sounds odd now that in "Dracula" the count says, "You will need, after your journey, to refresh yourself by making your" this
toilet
$1,600 [7]
The law making him a citizen said he "secured the help of France to aid the United States' colonists against Great Britain"
Lafayette
Ilana
$2,000 [15]
Fed with a long sheet of paper, this type of printer you'rehearingnow has lingered with businesses like airport car rental
dot matrix
Cris Josh
$1,600 [17]
The plumage of its caudal fin got the fish seen here, from Papua New Guinea, named after this male bird
a peacock
Cris
$2,000 [6]
Dante's one true love, she guides him through paradise in "The Divine Comedy"
Beatrice
Josh
$2,000 [13]
Her "True Blue"
Madonna
Ilana
$2,000 [3]
From Greek for "people" & "leader", historically it meant any popular leader as well as one who misleads the people
demagogue
Cris
$2,000 [9]
Named "Righteous Among the Nations" by Israel in 1963, this Swede was named an honorary citizen in 1981
Wallenberg
Cris
DD $7,000 [11]
On Nov. 18, 1963 AT&T cut in half the time to make a local call, introducing push button phones, officially this alliterative system
touch-tone (dialing)
Cris
$2,000 [16]
About a third of an inch, among the tiniest fish are of genus Paedocypris, in the swamps of this large Indonesian island northwest of Java
Sumatra
Josh Ilana

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD CAPITALS

Among its nicknames are the "City of Classical Music" &, possibly in honor of a famous resident from 1860 to 1938, the "City of Dreams"

Vienna

Josh "What is Vienna?" — wagered $128
Ilana "What is Vienna?" — wagered $0
Cris "What is Vienna" — wagered $8,221

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