Show #8762 2022-12-13 (taped 2022-10-24) Regular

Sean McShane game 2.

Contestants

Ellen McRae — a Realtor from Falls Church, Virginia

Brett Myer — a writer from Los Angeles, California

Sean McShane — a nonprofit membership associate originally from West Islip, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sean $6,000 $7,400 $28,600 $32,600
2-day champion: $53,200
$25,400
28 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Brett $1,000 $4,000 $11,200 $11,400
2nd place: $2,000
$11,200
12 R, 1 W
Ellen $-200 $1,400 $4,600 $8,600
3rd place: $1,000
$6,000
11 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

4 FUNERALS & ANOTHER FUNERAL SOUNDS PLACE"O" 2-SYLLABLE WORDS PLAYING SANTA FOOD AS YOU MIGHT SAY IT
$200 [23]
There was crying for her as hundreds of thousands of Argentines visited her casket in 1952; about a dozen died in the crush
Eva Perón
Ellen
$200 [21]
It's a fun activity for kids at the shore, especially once they learn the ideal 20-degree angle
skipping stones
Brett
$200 [2]
You gotta pay your bills in this port city about 20 miles southeast of Niagara Falls
Buffalo
Ellen
$200 [11]
What wedidto the words in the video & the most exciting part of a trip or event
highlight
Brett Ellen
$200 [20]
People magazine called Edmund Gwenn "the gold standard for cinematic Santa Clauses" after he worked up a "Miracle on" this
34th Street
Ellen
$200 [1]
It's got buns, hon:the untidy Jose
a sloppy joe
Ellen
$400 [24]
Here's a photo from the 1888 funeral of this kaiser, the first of his name, who passed just short of his 91st birthday
Wilhelm
Brett
$400 [22]
Theybecame electric, as opposed to earlier mechanical ones, on the 1947 Humpty Dumpty pinball machine
flippers
Sean Ellen
$400 [3]
The seat of Lucas County in Ohio, this city lies along the southwestern tip of Lake Erie
Toledo
Sean
$400 [15]
During violent winter storms, penguins gather for protection in a tightly packed group called this, just like in football
a huddle
Sean
$400 [19]
After committing what some might deem accidental homicide in a 1994 film, this actor re-suited up in 2022 in "The Santa Clauses" on TV
Tim Allen
Sean
$400 [4]
In the ice cream aisle:lithic lane
rocky road
Sean
$600 [25]
47 years after the OK Corral, his pallbearers in L.A. included silent movie Western star Tom Mix & a former mayor of Tombstone
(Wyatt) Earp
Brett
$600 [28]
As in an old kitchen-based catchphrase meaning things are going well, "Now we're" doing this
cooking with gas
Sean Brett
$800 [9]
In 1876 it was a frontier town of 600 people; today this North Dakota city has around 125,000
Fargo
Brett
$600 [14]
In biology, it's a thin outer layer of a cell; osmosis is the passage of a fluid through a semipermeable one
a membrane
Sean
$600 [18]
Saaannta! I know him! & it was the late, great Ed Asner who played the role in this 2003 film
Elf
Brett
$600 [5]
Southern fried fun:silence, curs!
hush puppies
Sean
$800 [26]
In 1852 the procession of this victorious Waterloo general's bespoke hearse had a million onlookers on its way to St. Paul's
(the Duke of) Wellington
Sean Ellen
$800 [29]
It's the title of a novel by E.B. White & the sound heard here
The Trumpet of the Swan
$1,000 [10]
This country highlightedhereformerly declared its independence in 2008 but some EU members did not recognize it
Kosovo
Sean
$800 [13]
This wedge-shaped piece is at the summit of an arch & holds the rest of the pieces in place
a keystone
Sean
$800 [17]
A poster for "Bad Santa 2" had this thespian face down on a bar above the tagline "Giving the holidays another shot"
Billy Bob Thornton
Sean
$800 [6]
A hero in the South:destitute lad
a po' boy
Sean
$1,000 [27]
On March 29, 1827 20,000 attended the funeral of this German composer; Franz Schubert was a torchbearer
Beethoven
Sean
$1,000 [30]
This artillery piece, a type of smallcannon, was the nickname of baseball player Howie Moss
a howitzer
Brett
DD $1,400 [8]
Only Greenland & New Guinea are larger islands in size than this one in the Pacific
Borneo
Ellen
$1,000 [12]
An electromagnetic emanation around living things; a red one means you are energetic
an aura
Sean
$1,000 [16]
Vince Vaughn was older brother Fred Claus to this actor as Nicholas
Paul Giamatti
Sean
$1,000 [7]
Tiramisu turf:dame digits
ladyfingers
Ellen

Double Jeopardy! Round

SPANISH ART & ARTISTS CITY SPEAK OIL THINGS CONSIDERED YOU GET LETTERS CHEMISTRY THAT'S SOME OF WHAT SHE WROTE
$400 [28]
Aged almost 90, Picasso painted himself as one of these before a huge crowd, holding a sword as if it were a paintbrush
a bullfighter
Ellen
$400 [2]
It precedes broil, seen here, or fog
London
Sean
$400 [22]
After Jed Clampett discovered oil on his Appalachian property, he loaded up his family & moved to this more affluent locale
Beverly Hills
Brett
$400 [20]
You get an adjacent letter if you don't know it's the 7th letter of the English alphabet
G
$400 [29]
When this gloomy outlook follows "electro", it refers to the ability of an atom to attract electron pairs
electronegativity
$400 [1]
Her resumé includes 2 novels published 55 years apart & a 1983 essay about the history of Alabama
Harper Lee
Sean
$800 [27]
Francisco de Zurbarán liked to paint Francis, his namesake; the patched robe shows Franciscan monks' vow of this
poverty
Sean
$800 [3]
It precedes man, seen here, or opera
Peking (Beijing)
$800 [21]
The 2016 EP "Coconut Oil" was the first major label release for this Big Grrrl rap & pop artist
Lizzo
$800 [19]
In French, W has this name, which makes more sense
double-V
Brett
$800 [30]
A cup of instant coffee is a solution & adding water is this process, the opposite of concentration
dilution
Sean
$800 [15]
Written in 1991, "The Kitchen God's Wife" drew on her experiences as the Americanized daughter of a Chinese mother
Amy Tan
Sean
$1,600 [11]
It's an old Spanish word for a pretty young woman; Goya painted several, including some "on a Balcony"
a maja
$1,200 [4]
Fern or cream pie
Boston
Sean
$1,200 [14]
Upton Sinclair's novel "Oil!" was the basis for this movie that won Daniel Day-Lewis an Oscar
There Will Be Blood
Ellen
$1,200 [18]
Our letter K comes from this Greek one
kappa
Sean
$1,200 [26]
In chemistry it describes a substance that evaporates readily; it's the V in mVOC, smelly compounds produced by molds
volatile
Sean
$1,200 [9]
In addition to her numerous books for younger readers like "Superfudge", she wrote a few for adults, including "Wifey" in 1978
Judy Blume
Sean
$2,000 [10]
The title of this 1656 group portrait by Velazquez means "the ladies in waiting"
Las Meninas
$1,600 [5]
Syndrome (coined in the 1970s)
Stockholm
Ellen
$1,600 [13]
Forever seeking to kidnap his sweetheart, Oil Can Harry was a villainous cat adversary of this rodent superhero
Mighty Mouse
Sean
$1,600 [17]
Many Brits put an "intrusive" one between words that end with a vowel sound & words that start with one
an "R"
Sean Ellen
$2,000 [23]
Named for their 2 constituent elements, these compounds such as propane & octane are often used for fuel
hydrocarbons
Sean
$1,600 [8]
"To Be Young, Gifted and Black" by this playwright was performed Off-Broadway after cancer took her far too young at 34
(Lorraine) Hansberry
Ellen
DD $3,000 [25]
In the 1570s this immigrant from Crete painted "The Disrobing of Christ" for the cathedral of Toledo, Spain
El Greco
Sean
$2,000 [6]
Biennale(founded 1895)
Venice
Brett
$2,000 [12]
"Beds Are Burning" was the biggest U.S. hit for this political-minded Australian band
Midnight Oil
Brett
$2,000 [16]
Now often confused with F, the "long" form of this lowercase letter disappeared from English in the 1800s
an "S"
Sean
DD $3,000 [24]
Orpiment, formula As2S3was a longtime aid to painters as a yellow pigment, but not now, due to this, the As
arsenic
Sean
$2,000 [7]
From a Bengali family, she won a 2000 Pulitzer for exploring the immigrant life in "Interpreter of Maladies"
Lahiri
Brett

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY AMERICANS

Demonstrating the dignity & humanity of Black Americans, he sat for 160 known photographs, the most of any American in the 19th century

Frederick Douglass

Ellen "Who is Frederick Douglass?" — wagered $4,000
Brett "Who is Douglass?" — wagered $200
Sean "Who Frederick Douglas" — wagered $4,000

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