Show #8767 2022-12-20 (taped 2022-10-25) Regular

Ray Lalonde game 4.

Contestants

Jason Radalin — a professor from Johnstown, New York

Kim Aagaard — a project manager from Washington, D.C.

Ray Lalonde — a scenic artist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 3-day cash winnings total $84,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ray $4,200 $6,000 $20,100 $10,500
4-day champion: $95,300
$16,600
22 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Kim $1,200 $4,400 $14,800 $9,800
2nd place: $2,000
$14,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Jason $1,000 $800 $10,800 $800
3rd place: $1,000
$10,800
15 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

FROM THE PRESIDENT'S MEMOIRS THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT WHAT A STEAL! SPORTS FRANCHISES' PREVIOUS HOMES CONTRACTIONS DR. SEUSS BAKING CHALLENGE
$200 [21]
"During the 4 1/2 years of my presidency I had never been able to establish a close relationship with Bobby Kennedy"
LBJ (Lyndon Johnson)
$200 [25]
Butterfly ballots became part of a month-long recount of the 2000 presidential vote in this state
Florida
Kim
$200 [11]
In 2016 20,000 pounds of cheese worth nearly $50,000 was stolen in Oak Creek in where else but this state
Wisconsin
Ray
$200 [5]
The Los Angeles Dodgers
Brooklyn
Jason
$200 [23]
Merriam-Webster notes this "chiefly southern U.S." pronoun is "usually used in addressing two or more persons"
y'all
Ray
$200 [8]
(Tamera Mowry presents the clue.) Creations that hopefully taste better than they sound were natural for this book with an edible title & a hyphenated maincharacter
Green Eggs and Ham
Kim
$400 [22]
"On the first intelligence of Forrest's raid I telegraphed Sherman to send all his cavalry against him"
Ulysses S. Grant
Ray
$400 [26]
Of a butterfly's 4 life cycle stages, the caterpillar is this stage
the larva
Ray
$400 [12]
After his 1955 death this physicist could not have sung "If I Only Had A Brain", as some of it went to a pathologist's home in Wichita
Albert Einstein
Ray
$400 [6]
The Indianapolis Colts
Baltimore
Ray
$400 [24]
Britannica notes that this word "can be used to mean am not, are not, is not, have not & has not"
ain't
Ray
$400 [7]
(Tamera Mowry presents the clue.) To bring to life this 1957 book, we've gotdishesdistinctive enough to keep Sally & her brother amused on a rainy day
The Cat in the Hat
Ray
$600 [28]
"I have used some of the tape transcripts that are already public"
Nixon
Ray
$600 [27]
In the movie version of this World War I novel, Paul Bäumer is shot reaching for a butterfly on the battlefield
All Quiet on the Western Front
Ray
$600 [13]
& for his next trick... this Laker made basketballs disappear, leading the NBA in steals with 3.4 per game in the 1980-81 season
Magic Johnson
Jason
$600 [14]
The Los Angeles Rams
St. Louis
Jason
$600 [10]
It precedes "brillig" & "the night before"
'Twas
Ray
$600 [1]
(Tamera Mowry presents the clue.) It's the holiday season, so we had to include this book, whose grumpy maincharacterwas Dr. Seuss's long-time license plate
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Ray Jason
DD $1,000 [29]
"I ordered our men to open fire on the Spaniards in the trenches"
Teddy Roosevelt
Ray
$800 [19]
This first lady of the Philippines was known as the "Steel Butterfly"
(Imelda) Marcos
Jason
$800 [16]
On Aug. 29, 1900 this Butch & Sundance gang hit a Union Pacific train in Wyoming & yes, used too much dynamite on a safe
the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang (the Wild Bunch)
Ray
$800 [15]
The Colorado Avalanche, oui, oui!
Quebec City
Ray
$800 [9]
The apostrophe in this contracted rank takes the place of "tai"
cap'n
$800 [2]
(Tamera Mowry presents the clue.) Travel is the theme in what our teams came up with for this book that says, "You can steer yourself any direction you choose"
Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Ray Jason
$1,000 [30]
"The Constitution does not confer upon Congress the power to interfere with slavery in the states"
Buchanan
Kim
$1,000 [18]
Luigi Illica & Giuseppe Giacosa wrote the libretto for this work that premiered in Milan in 1904
Madame Butterfly
Kim
$1,000 [17]
Small for this Dutch artist's works at about 12x10 inches, his 1632 portrait of Jacob de Gheyn was stolen in 1966, '73, '81 & '83
Rembrandt
Ray Kim
$1,000 [20]
The Atlanta Braves
Milwaukee
Jason
$1,000 [4]
It begins a 5-word Shakespeare title
All's
Jason
$1,000 [3]
(Tamera Mowry presents the clue.) This book was written the year of the first Earth Day & ourcreationspay tribute to the natural world
The Lorax
Kim

Double Jeopardy! Round

MYTHOLOGY SOUTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL PLANET FEATURES RECAST FOR TV WORDS WITH GREEK LETTERS "OO", SORRY
$400 [9]
After Medusa was beheaded, this winged horse sprang from her blood--weird & gross
Pegasus
Jason
$400 [29]
You can sleep in one of thepodsoverlooking Peru's Sacred Valley of this historic people, not far from Cusco
the Inca
Kim
$400 [18]
This speedy planet completes one revolution around the sun in 88 Earth days
Mercury
Jason
$400 [10]
Kristy Swansonto Sarah Michelle Gellar
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Kim
$400 [12]
It's an artistic representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over Jesus' body & is made up of 2 Greek letters
pieta (pi & eta)
Jason
$400 [30]
The Chacma species of this monkey lives in southern Africa
baboon
Jason
$800 [6]
Euterpe, muse of music, was very fond of playing what's called the double this
the double flute (an aulos)
Jason
$800 [28]
Paradoxically, this cataract in Venezuela drops 3,200 feet from a plateau called Devils Mountain
Angel Falls
Ray
$800 [19]
On Venus, the caldera Sacajawea Paterais thought to have formed when a chamber of this molten rock drained & collapsed
magma
Ray Kim
$800 [3]
Donald Sutherlandto Alan Alda
Hawkeye Pierce
Ray
$800 [13]
3M, B-52 & 401(k) all have this quality, which begins with 2 Greek letters
alphanumeric (alpha & nu)
Kim
$800 [21]
The first electric implement to apply these designs was patented in the U.S. in 1891
tattoos
$1,200 [5]
Call him Bacchus or call him by this other Greek name, the guy knew how to party
Dionysus
Jason
$1,200 [23]
Light & water conditions cause amazing effects on Colombia's Caño Cristales River, called the "liquid" this 7-letter word
rainbow
Ray
$1,600 [25]
Likely seasonal, great white spots are a stormy feature of this planet
Saturn
Ray
$1,200 [2]
Jack Lemmonto Tony Randallto Thomas Lennon
Felix Unger
Jason
$1,200 [14]
To mock or insult someone, especially after beating them in a game
taunt (tau)
$1,200 [16]
It's the basketball play seen here
an alley-oop
Kim
$1,600 [7]
Holy moly! An herb called moly protected Odysseus from being turned into a swine by this witchy woman
Circe
Kim
$1,600 [22]
A volcano rising nearly 20,000 feet & with a nearly symmetrical cone, Cotopaxi is just outside this capital of Ecuador
Quito
Kim
$2,000 [26]
Uranus appears pale blue because the atmosphere is about 2% this flammable gas that absorbs red light
methane
Ray
$1,600 [1]
Louise Fletcherto Sarah Paulson
Nurse Ratched
Jason
$1,600 [17]
In addition to alcohol consumption, this liver disease can be caused by obesity & viral infection
cirrhosis (rho)
Jason
$1,600 [15]
It's a romantic trip taken by parents-to-be shortly before an infant's birth
a babymoon
Kim
DD $2,000 [8]
Typhon, a monster with 100 heads, was the father of these 2 monsters:a 9-headed water snake & 3-headed hellhound
the Hydra & Cerberus
Kim
$2,000 [24]
Check out the gorgeous Bernardo O'Higgins National Park, the largest park in this nation & home to nearly 50 glaciers
Chile
Ray
DD $4,500 [27]
Like the Sun, Jupiter is composed primarily of these 2 elements
hydrogen & helium
Ray
$2,000 [4]
Anne Parillaudto Peta Wilson, then to Maggie Q
Nikita
Ray
$2,000 [20]
This "ism" is the philosophical belief that the self is the only thing that really exists
solipsism (psi)
$2,000 [11]
A part of the mouth begins this word that means tasty
toothsome
Jason

Final Jeopardy!

CLASSIC SONGS

The shouts of excited children at a 1946 holiday parade are said to have inspired this perennial favorite

"Here Comes Santa Claus"

Jason "What is jingle bells?" — wagered $10,000
Kim "What is Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow?" — wagered $5,000
Ray "What is Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" — wagered $9,600

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