Show #8765 2022-12-16 (taped 2022-10-24) Regular

Ray Lalonde game 2.

Contestants

Elizabeth Pontefract — a strategy consultant from Seattle, Washington

Neal Gettling — a financial analyst from Chicago, Illinois

Ray Lalonde — a scenic artist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $32,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ray $1,000 $4,800 $23,600 $28,000
2-day champion: $60,600
$21,600
27 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Neal $200 $0 $400 $193
2nd place: $2,000
$4,800
10 R, 6 W (including 2 DDs)
Elizabeth $4,200 $6,000 $8,800 $100
3rd place: $1,000
$8,800
16 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

TIME FOR READING ALASKAN GEOGRAPHY MUSIC ICONS MUMMIES "TIP" THE SCALES
$200 [1]
" ____ In the Garden of Good & Evil"
Midnight
Ray
$200 [4]
Not far from Yakutat, the Malaspina one of these covers 1,300 square miles (well, today)
a glacier
Neal
$200 [6]
Valerie Bertinelli said of this rock icon that she loved him "more than I know how to explain. I loved his soul"
Eddie Van Halen
Elizabeth
$200 [21]
Believed to be the seat of feeling & intelligence, this organ was left in the body while the brain & other organs were taken out
the heart
Ray Neal
$200 [16]
You can stand this way, or do it to walk quietly past a bad situation
to walk on tiptoe
Elizabeth
$200 [11]
Talc is a 1 on the Mohs hardness scale; this mineral is a 10, the hardest
diamond
Ray
$400 [2]
"____ ____ Warning: How Concussions, Crime, & Controversy Could Kill the NFL"
Two Minute
Ray
$400 [5]
In 2015 "The Daily Show" reported on the fight to rename this huge mountain "after a popular sport utility vehicle"
Mount McKinley (Denali)
Elizabeth
$400 [7]
Fans the world over celebrate this reggae legend on February 6, his birthday
Bob Marley
Elizabeth
$400 [24]
Louisa May Alcott wrote one of the first tales about a mummy's curse in her story "Lost in" one of these structures
a Pyramid
Elizabeth
$400 [17]
Early use of this phrase about unseen trouble is said to refer to awareness of how the Titanic sank
tip of the iceberg
Elizabeth
$400 [12]
An EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale means one of these with winds over 200 mph; get to safety now!
a tornado
Ray Neal Elizabeth
$600 [3]
"High ____"by Nora Roberts
Noon
Neal
$800 [27]
Attu & Kiska are islands in this chain extending 1,200 miles west of the Alaskan peninsula
the Aleutian Islands
Neal
$600 [8]
At the 2022 Newport Folk Festival, she delighted fans with her "Both Sides Now" & "Big Yellow Taxi", among others
Joni Mitchell
Ray
$600 [25]
A goddess named Meretseger was said to have the body of one of these snakes; she protected tombs & their mummies by blinding thieves
a cobra
Ray
$600 [18]
In Brit slang, to be honkers is to be swizzled, sloshed or this
tipsy
Ray
$600 [13]
On the Fitzpatrick skin-tone scale, light-skinned type 1s are at high risk of this skin cancer that kills 10,000 Americans a year
melanoma
Neal
$800 [19]
A Jack Ryan Jr. novel:"____ Hour"
Zero
Ray
$1,000 [29]
Named for an early 20th century vice president, this city boasts 24 hours of sunlight for 70 days across May to July
Fairbanks
$800 [9]
On a historic day in 1976, Joe Strummer met Mick Jonesin London, calling their legendaryband this came later
The Clash
Ray
$800 [26]
Natron, a mineral from dry lake beds that's a carbonate of this element, was used during mummification to dry the body out
sodium
Neal
$800 [22]
A critical time before a big change, like in Gladwell's "The" this: "How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference"
Tipping Point
Elizabeth
$800 [14]
The Moon is nearly invisible at "L=0", the lowest level on the Danjon scale, measuring its brightness during this event
an eclipse
Ray Neal Elizabeth
$1,000 [20]
About the Doolittle raid: ____ ____Over Tokyo"
Thirty Seconds
DD $2,000 [28]
Named for a son of King George III, this sound with Valdez as a main port, was the site of the Exxon-Valdez oil spill
Prince William Sound
Neal
$1,000 [10]
Her recording career lasted less than 4 years; her final studio album was 1971's "Pearl", featuring "Me And Bobby McGee"
Janis Joplin
Elizabeth
$1,000 [30]
Seti II was one of many pharaohs whose mummies were entombed in this valley
the Valley of the Kings
Ray
$1,000 [23]
In song, "It's a long way to" here, "It's a long way to go"
Tipperary
Ray
$1,000 [15]
An expert on these natural dangers with a Japanese name, Fumihiko Imamura has a scale of their intensity partly named for him
a tsunami
Elizabeth

Double Jeopardy! Round

CHRISTMAS & HANUKKAH ORNAMENTS OF YORE THAT'S A BIG ANIMAL 10-LETTER VERBS INVASIONS TV & MOVIE PLACES
$400 [6]
Christmas commemorates Jesus' birth in a stable in this town, to which his parents came from Nazareth
Bethlehem
Ray
$400 [26]
Both tam o' shanters & Balmoral caps are adorned with these double-speak fluffy balls
pom poms
Neal
$400 [20]
Forest, one of these at Queensland's Australia Zoo, stands almost 19 feet tall, barefoot
a giraffe
Elizabeth
$400 [23]
To change a letter to uppercase, or to take advantage of
capitalize
Ray
$400 [14]
Having occupied Albania, in 1940 this leader launched a disastrous invasion of Greece without even telling his pal Hitler
Mussolini
Ray
$400 [1]
"Amadeus" & "The Sound of Music" are mainly set in this country
Austria
Ray
$800 [5]
While we talk about the 12 days of Christmas, Hanukkah is celebrated over 8 nights, with lighted candles in this candelabra
a menorah
Ray
$800 [27]
With some help from porcupines, Native Americans produced highly ornamental quill work, like this type of shoe
a moccasin
Ray
$800 [19]
Before the arrival of big cats over a new isthmus, flightless 10-footterror birds were the apex predators of this continent
South America
Ray Elizabeth
$800 [24]
Containing a body part, this compound word happens when people get together to come up with ideas
to brainstorm
Elizabeth
$800 [15]
Germany's August 1914 invasion of this country, beginning with an assault on Liège, brought Britain into World War I
Belgium
Ray Elizabeth
$800 [7]
On TV & in film, Clark Kent worked at the Daily Planet in this city
Metropolis
Ray
$1,200 [2]
This fourth gospel mentions Jerusalem, Jesus & the Feast of the Dedication indicating that Jesus likely celebrated Hanukkah
John
Ray
$1,200 [28]
A representation of a sea nymph served as this bit of ornamentation on the front of HMS Arethusa in the Crimean War
a figurehead
Ray
$1,200 [11]
Found in colossal squid, the largest these, 10-plus inches in diameter, are thought to be for detecting predators, not prey
eyes (eyeballs)
Neal Elizabeth
$1,200 [17]
There's a "Q" in this word meaning to give something up, like a throne
relinquish
Ray
$1,200 [16]
On May 1, 2003, 6 weeks after the invasion of Iraq, George W. Bush stood under a banner bearing these 2 words
Mission accomplished
Neal
$1,200 [8]
TV's Buffy Summers attends high school in this town
Sunnydale
Neal Elizabeth
$1,600 [3]
Bah! Humbug! Starting under this lord protector, Christmas was canceled in England until the Restoration
Oliver Cromwell
Ray
$1,600 [29]
Seen here is this distinguishing feature of many Gothic churches, so named because it radiates out like a certain flower
a rose window
Elizabeth
$1,600 [12]
In 2014 Satao, one of Kenya's biggest elephants, was killed by poachers seeking this material
ivory
Ray
$2,000 [25]
This "milky" verb means to make disparate elements similar
homogenize
Ray
$1,600 [21]
Mahmud of Ghazna in Afghanistan, the 1st ruler with this title of a Muslim monarch, liked to invade India yearly, 17 times in all
sultan
Ray
$1,600 [9]
"Stranger Things" & "A Christmas Story" take place in this U.S. state
Indiana
Neal
$2,000 [4]
Traditionally, Hanukkah celebrates a victory by this family led by Judah & the miracle of a small amount of oil lasting for 8 days
the Maccabees
Ray
$2,000 [30]
Working from National Geographic photos, Don Featherstone designed the first of these lawn ornaments in 1957
a pink flamingo
Ray
DD $4,000 [13]
40 feet long & weighing 11 tons or more, this largest living fish has 2 animals in its name
a whale shark
Ray
DD $2,400 [18]
Latin for "easy" gives us this verb meaning to assist in the progress of something
to facilitate
Neal
$2,000 [22]
This king of England who was killed at the start of the Norman Conquest had just finished repelling a Norwegian invasion
Harold (II)
Ray
$2,000 [10]
The Forest Moon of this planet is the home of the Ewoks
Endor
Neal

Final Jeopardy!

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD

It's home to 58 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, more than any other country; the sites include a volcano & a lagoon

Italy

Neal "What is Indonesia" — wagered $207
Elizabeth "What is Turkey?" — wagered $8,700
Ray "What is Italy?" — wagered $4,400

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