Show #8763 2022-12-14 (taped 2022-10-24) Regular

Sean McShane game 3.

Contestants

Mollie Cowger — an assistant puzzles & games editor from San Francisco, California

Dan Rosen — an accounting clerk from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sean McShane — a nonprofit membership associate originally from West Islip, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $53,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sean $6,200 $5,800 $23,000 $27,201
3-day champion: $80,401
$27,000
31 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Dan $1,800 $3,800 $13,600 $6,600
2nd place: $2,000
$11,800
14 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Mollie $1,400 $2,200 $5,100 $4,200
3rd place: $1,000
$6,600
10 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC NAMES ANIMALS IN FRENCH WHO LOU? LIGHTS, CAMERA, AUCTION! THE PROOF IN THE PUDDING
$200 [1]
She once took First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt on a flight over Washington, D.C., both attired in evening gowns
Amelia Earhart
Sean
$200 [4]
Sly or otherwise:renard
a fox
Dan
$200 [30]
In an iconic speech at Yankee Stadium, he said, "Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth"
Lou Gehrig
Sean
$200 [16]
A rare packaging of a 1985 Nintendo video game featuring "Super" these "Bros." bounced to $114,000 in 2020
Mario Bros.
Mollie
$200 [29]
A deviation from an established norm is often said to be "the exception" that does this
proves the rule
Dan
$200 [28]
Man cannot live by this alone, but maybe by the pudding made of it saturated with milk, eggs, sugar, vanilla & spices
bread pudding
Mollie
$400 [2]
The middle initial "T." in the name of this Tuskegee Institute founder stood for Taliaferro
Booker T. Washington
Sean
$400 [5]
In your garden:papillon
a butterfly
Dan
$400 [20]
Before making his exit in 2021, he hosted the most watched show on the Fox Business Network
Lou Dobbs
Sean Mollie
$400 [14]
In 2020,"Stan", one of these creatures, was king, his skeleton fetching $31.8 million
a T-rex
Mollie
$400 [23]
The proof of a bottle of booze is double its percentage of ABV, this measurement
alcohol by volume
Sean
$400 [27]
What's this in the fridge? Unopened containers from the last time you ordered Chinese takeout? Perfect to make this pudding
rice pudding
Sean
$600 [3]
Before Little Bighorn, this Sioux leader had a vision that all his enemies would be delivered into his hands
Sitting Bull
Dan
$600 [6]
Down on the farm:mouton
a sheep
Sean
$600 [15]
Lou Diamond Phillips portrayed rock & roller Ritchie Valens in this 1987 movie
La Bamba
Dan
$600 [11]
Coo... coo... cool; the Belgian racing type of this bird is a bit more valuable than one in a city park, going for $1.9 million in 2020
a (homing) pigeon
Sean
$600 [17]
In civil law, a plaintiff usually shoulders this 3-word responsibility to establish disputed facts
the burden of proof
Sean
$600 [26]
Godiva makes a mix for this kind of pudding; so does Jell-O
chocolate pudding
Sean
$800 [7]
Wrongly convicted of treason, sent to Devil's Island & later pardoned, this French Jew went on to fight for France in World War I
Dreyfus
Sean
$800 [9]
Look out! Serpent à sonnettes
a rattlesnake
Sean
$800 [21]
Restaurateur Lou Malnati gave many people their first taste of this Windy City specialty
deep dish pizza
Mollie
$800 [12]
I'd pay $1.5 million to know the time, said someone after taking home a Daytona John Player Special 6264 watch by this luxury brand
Rolex
Sean
$800 [18]
This "little neutral" particle got its name in the 1930s, but its existence wasn't proved until the 1950s
a neutrino
Dan
$1,000 [24]
Lawry's the prime rib restaurant is famous for this British pudding that's a side, not a dessert
Yorkshire pudding
Sean
$1,000 [8]
In 1271 this teen set out with his father & uncle on a journey from Europe to the Far East & into history
Marco Polo
Sean
$1,000 [10]
In a seafood restaurant:homard
lobster
Mollie
$1,000 [22]
Though not a pro athlete or built like one, this Lou is in the Baseball Hall of Fame--well, his "Who's On First" record is
(Lou) Costello
Dan
$1,000 [13]
A pair of glasses thought to belong to this "Great Soul" of India netted $340,000 in 2020
Gandhi
Sean
$1,000 [19]
To prove to Boswell that the material world was real, this English writer & lexicographer kicked a big rock
Dr. Johnson
DD $4,000 [25]
This type of "pudding" is actually sausage, but sanguinaccio dolce, made with the same stuff, is pudding pudding
blood pudding
Sean

Double Jeopardy! Round

CAPITAL CITY RIVERS 8-LETTER CROSSWORD CLUES INSTRUMENTAL PAST THE NONFICTION SECTION THE "J.C"s 1982: A YEAR IN FILM
$400 [7]
Cross the River Liffey using O'Connell Bridge & grab a stout or 2 at one of the welcoming pubs in this city
Dublin
Mollie
$400 [30]
Place where petroleum is purified
a refinery
Dan
$400 [6]
The Army says this 4-letter song was first played at a funeral by a bugler in 1862
"Taps"
Sean
$400 [18]
Lawrence Wright's "The Looming Tower" examines the events & failures that led up to this history-changing date
9/11
Mollie
$400 [24]
In 2019, at age 94 years & 172 days, he became the longest-living president in U.S. history
Jimmy Carter
Sean
$400 [29]
This legendary actor & his legendary blue eyes--which, by the way, were color blind--awaited "The Verdict" as Frank Galvin
Paul Newman
Sean
$800 [11]
This capital lies astride the Molonglo River, whose name is from Aboriginal words meaning "the sound of thunder"
Canberra
Sean
$800 [14]
Wicked city near Sodom
Gomorrah
Dan
$800 [5]
In 1861 Harper's Weekly reported Major Anderson left Fort Sumter with "Yankee Doodle" being played by drum & this
fife
Dan
$800 [15]
Biologist Robert Sapolsky studies the effects of stress & anxiety in "Why" these African equines "Don't Get Ulcers"
Zebras
Mollie
$800 [23]
In 2022, Hollywood mourned the death of this legendary actor whose career touched 7 decades
James Caan
Sean
$800 [28]
The zen of Sean Penn's Jeff Spicoli in this film: "All I need are some tasty waves, cool buzz & I'm fine"
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Sean
$1,200 [9]
The Cynics once taught along the banks of the Ilisos River in this capital; today, the Ilisos is underground
Athens
Sean
$1,200 [1]
Gomez' life partner
Morticia
Dan
$1,600 [3]
The recovered violinherewas bandleader Wallace Hartley's; his troupe performed this fitting 1841 hymn as the "Titanic" sank
"Nearer, My God, To Thee"
Sean
$1,200 [16]
Get insights into your own mind in Daniel Kahneman's 2011 bestseller "Thinking" at these 2 opposite speeds
fast & slow
Mollie
$1,200 [20]
Premiering in 2022, an HBO Max drama looks at the life & career of this "French chef"
Julia Child
Sean
$1,200 [27]
What's best in life, this Arnold guy? "Crush your enemies, see them driven before you & hear the lamentation of their women"
Conan the Barbarian
Sean
$1,600 [8]
Known in the region as the "River of Nine Dragons", the Mekong flows through this Laotian capital
Vientiane
Mollie
$1,600 [12]
Like a friendship without benefits
platonic
Sean
$2,000 [4]
This Babylonian king in the book of Daniel wanted people to drop to the ground & worship a statue if they heard a dulcimer or harp
Nebuchadnezzar
Sean
DD $1,500 [19]
In "Disappointment River", Brian Castner retraces Sir Alexander Mackenzie's 1789 search for this waterway
the Northwest Passage
Mollie
$1,600 [21]
He founded a society that strives to "uncover the secrets held within our water planet" & "work to keep it alive and healthy"
Jacques Cousteau
Sean
$1,600 [26]
The "Tears in Rain" speech to Harrison Ford in this film was a page long; Rutger Hauer cut it down, in part, to get out of the rain
Blade Runner
Sean
$2,000 [10]
Petroleum products have been sent downstream from Bamako, the capital of Mali, on this river with the name of a neighbornation
the Niger River
Sean
$2,000 [13]
Pooch-y peninsula
Labrador
Sean
DD $3,000 [2]
James Reid, who played these during the Jacobite Rebellion, was hanged--the English viewed them as instruments of war
bagpipes
Dan
$1,600 [17]
Cathy O'Neil's "Weapons of" this punning kind of "Destruction" looks at how algorithms & big data control us
Math
Dan
$2,000 [22]
"The Enormous Radio" is among the 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning "Stories of" this writer
John Cheever
$2,000 [25]
In "Poltergeist", after watching TV in a room that gets shaky, Heather O'Rourke makes this 2-word declaration to her parents
"they're here"
Dan

Final Jeopardy!

PRESIDENTIAL FACTS

Only 3 presidents have married while in office--John Tyler was the first & he was the last

(Woodrow) Wilson

Mollie "Who is William Henry Harrison?" — wagered $900
Dan "Who is Taylor?" — wagered $7,000
Sean "Who is Wilson?" — wagered $4,201

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