Show #8760 2022-12-09 (taped 2022-10-12) Regular

Contestants

Matthew Ott — an accountant originally from Boston, Massachusetts

Ellen LaBerge — a lawyer from Syracuse, New York

Sriram Krishnan — a consultant from Falls Church, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sriram $1,600 $1,000 $14,200 $4,200
3rd place: $1,000
$16,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Ellen $2,000 $4,600 $7,800 $14,800
2nd place: $2,000
$7,800
15 R, 3 W
Matthew $3,600 $5,000 $11,600 $23,197
New champion: $23,197
$9,800
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

PLACES NAMED FOR PEOPLE PUT IN A GOOD WORD TABLE TALK SONG TITLE TITLES SHE BLINDED ME SCIENCE!
$200 [28]
This North Carolina capital was named in honor of a noted explorer in 1792
Raleigh
Sriram
$200 [29]
This word suitably introduces us to the fictional Mrs. Maisel & the very real boxing legend Marvin Hagler
marvelous
Ellen
$200 [30]
Figuratively or literally, negotiations to reach an agreement (& often thwart a strike) are held here
a bargaining table
Sriram
$200 [5]
Tom Petty:"It's Good To Be ____"
King
Sriram
$200 [25]
Playing Malorie in "Bird Box", this actress puts blindfolds on 2 kids, warning them not to take them off
Sandra Bullock
Ellen
$200 [23]
A measurement of distance, not time, it's equal to about 6 trillion miles, you know, give or take
a light year
Sriram
$400 [27]
Named for Mahatma, Gandhinagar is home to 300,000 & the capital of Gujarat State in this country
India
Ellen
$400 [15]
A spreadsheet program that launched in 1985, or a verb meaning "to surpass"
Excel
Ellen
$400 [26]
In a spin-off of "Red Table Talk", this singer, daughter Emily & niece Lilitackle tough issues within the Latino community
(Gloria) Estefan
Sriram
$400 [1]
A 1996 Jay-Z single:"Dead ____"
Presidents
$400 [24]
One myth says the seer Tiresias was blinded by this Greek goddess of wisdom after seeing her nude
Athena
Ellen
$400 [22]
The troposphere is sandwiched between the earth & this next layer of the atmosphere
the stratosphere
Matthew
$600 [6]
It didn't work out for this king with the American Revolution, but they named a town & nearby peak for him in South Africa
George III
Matthew
$600 [9]
The Latin for "price" gives us this word that is perfectly fine in front of "gems" & "metals"
precious
Matthew
$600 [10]
One legend says this piece of furniture was a wedding gift to King Arthur when he married Guinevere
the Round Table
Ellen
$600 [2]
Stevie Wonder:"Sir ____"
Duke
Sriram
$600 [11]
Michonne dealt with The Governor in a stabby way on this show; he'd later sport an eyepatch
The Walking Dead
Matthew
$600 [16]
Let's change the subject & talk about this class of rocks including gneiss & soapstone that gets changed atom by atom over time
metamorphic
Ellen
$800 [7]
In 1954 a New Jersey township voted to reject "Nixon" & renamed itself after this inventor
Edison
Sriram
$1,000 [14]
Whether describing silver or the British pound, this 8-letter word really is great
sterling
Sriram
$800 [17]
Those with high I.Q.s may know this 5-letter name of the organization whose name is the Latin for "table"
Mensa
Ellen
$800 [3]
Spin Doctors:"Two ____"
Princes
Matthew
$800 [12]
One of this conniving group, Delilah alerts them that Samson is finally at their mercy; next comes some gouging
a Philistine
$800 [21]
The size of a fist, this organ behind your left ribs fights invading germs in your blood by producing lymphocytes
spleen
$1,000 [8]
Shahr means "city" & after 1979's Iranian revolution, a place was redubbed this last name "Shahr" to honor the new leader
Khomeini
Sriram Ellen
DD $2,600 [19]
It's a good name for a 350-mile-long lake or the head of a convent
Superior
Sriram
$1,000 [18]
Livermorium is one of the more recent additions to it
a periodic table
Sriram
$1,000 [4]
The Who:"The Acid ____"
Queen
Matthew
$1,000 [13]
In "King Lear" a bloodthirsty Regan demands that this man be hanged while Goneril screams, "Pluck out his eyes"
the Earl of Gloucester
$1,000 [20]
This Greek gave his name to the law that says a body in fluid is acted on by force proportional to how much fluid it displaces
Archimedes
Matthew

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY RUSSIAN WRITERS "P"OTPOURRI COMPANY NAME ORIGINS TV FINAL EPISODES STATE POSTAL ABBREVIATION WORDS
$400 [20]
Henry VIII's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, was the daughter of this royal couple
Ferdinand & Isabella
Matthew
$400 [26]
Vladimir Nabokov's books never earned more than a few hundred dollars until this 1955 novel about a young girl became a hit
Lolita
Sriram
$400 [25]
There is actually a vegetarian species of this razor-toothed fish also called the Caribe
a piranha
Ellen
$400 [15]
This company that offers tax preparation services is named for its founders, brothers Henry & Richard
H&R Block
Ellen
$400 [10]
Coach Taylor moves from the East Dillon Lions to Philadelphia's Pemberton Pioneers in the finale of this series
Friday Night Lights
Sriram
$400 [5]
A wizard's magic rod
Washington & North Dakota
Sriram
$800 [21]
The unanimous election of Martin V in 1417 led to the end of the reign of these alternate religious rulers
the antipopes
Sriram Matthew
$800 [27]
Anton Chekhov refashioned his bomb of a play "The Wood Demon" & its character Uncle George into this huge success
Uncle Vanya
Ellen
$800 [19]
In 2022 the founder of this outdoor brand transferred ownership to a trust & a nonprofit that will combat climate change
Patagonia
Ellen Matthew
$800 [14]
Its name goes back to its founding in 1920 as the Queensland & Northern Territory Aerial Services
Qantas
Matthew
$800 [9]
"It really seemed like Pied Piper was going to work", said Bill Gates in a cameo as this series wrapped
Silicon Valley
Sriram
$800 [3]
Firstborn of Genesis 4:1
California & Indiana
Sriram
$1,200 [22]
After Robert E. Lee told him to reorganize his men after an attack at Gettysburg, he replied, "General, I have no division"
(George) Pickett
$1,200 [28]
In Turgenev's "Fathers & Sons", Bazarov has this world view whose name comes from Latin for "nothing"
nihilism
Ellen
$1,200 [11]
Here'sa depiction of this French-named commedia dell'arte character
Pierrot
Matthew
$1,600 [13]
The name of this tech company is a shortening of the metropolis where it was founded by 2 Stanford computer scientists in 1984
Cisco Systems
$1,200 [6]
The last episode of "This is Us" included the funeral of Rebecca, played by her
Mandy Moore
Matthew
$1,200 [1]
A mark left on the skin after a wound has healed
South Carolina & Arkansas
Ellen
$1,600 [23]
To decide important matters of faith, in 325 A.D. this emperor called the Council of Nicaea
Constantine the Great
$1,600 [29]
Thisauthor saw conflict & harmony firsthand serving in the Russian army at the Siege of Sevastopol in the 1850s
Tolstoy
Ellen
$1,600 [16]
This word means wild craziness, like the capital city of hell in "Paradise Lost"
pandemonium
Sriram
DD $2,000 [12]
Truth be told, the first part of this telecommunications company's name comes from the Latin word for truth or certainty
Verizon
Sriram
$1,600 [7]
Drug cocktails & the other kind of cocktails were both featured in the finale of this show starring Billy Porter
Pose
Matthew
$1,600 [2]
Molten rock that reaches the surface
Louisiana & Virginia
Sriram
$2,000 [24]
Thisactivist with a parental nickname led a 1903 march to protest the evils of child labor
Mother Jones
Sriram
$2,000 [30]
His 1995 autobiography "Invisible Allies" described his last years in the Soviet Union before he got deported
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Ellen
$2,000 [17]
He's the British playwright seen here
(Harold) Pinter
Sriram
$2,000 [18]
GEICO's name goes back to its original customer base, military personnel & these people, the G-E
government employees
Sriram
DD $3,800 [8]
When this show ended on April 10, 2022, one of the 2 female leads was dead. Which? Well, the show didn't live up to its title
Killing Eve
Matthew
$2,000 [4]
A sheet of glass set into a window or door
Pennsylvania & Nebraska
Ellen

Final Jeopardy!

1970s MOVIES

A 1975 premiere of this comedy advertised free coconuts for the first thousand in the audience

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Ellen "What is "Monty Python & the Holy Grail"?" — wagered $7,000
Matthew "What is Monty Python and the Holy Grail?" — wagered $11,597
Sriram "What is Bananas?" — wagered $10,000

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