Show #8768 2022-12-21 (taped 2022-10-25) Regular

Ray Lalonde game 5.

Contestants

Michael Vaz — a tutor from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Mary Dishigrikyan — a school psychologist from North Hollywood, California

Ray Lalonde — a scenic artist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 4-day cash winnings total $95,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ray $3,000 $5,000 $19,200 $36,900
5-day champion: $132,200
$17,800
28 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Mary $-400 $-200 $3,000 $1,000
3rd place: $1,000
$3,000
3 R, 1 W
Michael $5,800 $7,600 $18,400 $19,201
2nd place: $2,000
$15,200
21 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPHY THAT MADE HISTORY QUOTABLE SHAKESPEARE PLAYS MACHINES SOUNDS LIKE A BUG NBA TEAMS SUPERLATIVES
$200 [10]
On May 29, 1953 2 adventurers finished boldly going where no man had gone before & stood here
the top of Mount Everest
Michael
$200 [5]
"A pound of that same merchant's flesh is thine"
The Merchant of Venice
Ray
$200 [25]
Sick of having plates chipped by her servants, in the 1880s Josephine Cochran invented this machine
a dishwasher
Ray
$200 [23]
In a 2006 film title youngster Akeelah competes in one of these
a spelling bee
Ray
$200 [22]
It's the only team with an out-of-the-U.S. address
the Toronto Raptors
Ray
$200 [21]
A traditional yearbook senior superlative is this alliterative "couple"
cutest
Mary
$400 [9]
On Dec. 16, 1773 this body of water sipped on 342 chests of tea formerly belonging to the British East India Company
Boston Harbor
Michael
$400 [4]
"She hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear"
Romeo and Juliet
Ray Mary
$400 [26]
In 1888 Thomas Adams installed vending machines dispensing this (Tutti Frutti flavor) on NYC train platforms
(chewing) gum
Ray
$400 [24]
It's the nickname for celery filled with peanut butter & topped with raisins
ants on a log
Ray
$400 [27]
It's the southernmost team in the NBA
the Miami Heat
Michael
$400 [20]
"I'm losin' you, I'm losin' you", sang U2, "ain't love the" this "thing"
sweetest
Ray
$600 [6]
We keep it 100s (A.D.) as we talk about this landmark that ran 70+ miles from the River Tyne to the Solway Firth
Hadrian's Wall
Michael
$600 [1]
"If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me"
Macbeth
Ray
$600 [14]
Not as famous as its chess-playing descendant, in 1962 an IBM 7094 beat a champion named Robert Nealey at this game
checkers
Ray Michael
$600 [12]
There are some moving parts on this type of knife seen here
a butterfly knife
Michael
$600 [28]
Once a head coach at Louisiana Tech, Teresa Weatherspoon became an assistant coach for this New Orleans team in 2020
the Pelicans
Michael
$600 [11]
Nobody wants to be called this 5-letter superlative; change its only vowel to a "U" & it becomes a sausage
the worst
Ray
$1,000 [8]
You can visit the Central High School National Historic Site at 2120 West Daisy L. Gatson Bates Drive in this city
Little Rock
Ray
$800 [2]
"As he was valiant, I honor him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him"
Julius Caesar
Ray
$800 [15]
A combine on a farm is short for combine this, a machine that cuts & threshes grain
a combine harvester
Michael
$800 [13]
The name of this radio storytelling project evokes summer nights spinning yarns under a porch light
The Moth
$800 [29]
In the 1990s they were the NBA champs 6 times, twice winning back-to-back-to-back
the Chicago Bulls
Michael
$800 [18]
A book of records came about after a Guinness executive wondered if among game birds, the one he had just missed shooting was this
the fastest
DD $1,600 [7]
N.E. of Bilbao, this town was the site of tragedy on April 26, 1937, when 1/3 of its people were killed or wounded in a German attack
Guernica
Michael
$1,000 [3]
"How dost thou, Benedick, the married man?"
Much Ado About Nothing
Michael
$1,000 [16]
A company called Dominion filed suit claiming it was defamed by news reports about these machines
voting machines
Ray
$1,000 [17]
A computer program that searches & catalogs links on the Internet
a spider
Ray Michael
$1,000 [30]
This alliterative team is last alphabetically
the Washington Wizards
Michael
$1,000 [19]
In TV ads the Maytag repairman was the this "guy in town"
loneliest
Ray

Double Jeopardy! Round

PACIFIC ISLANDS PUTTING ON HEIRS FOOD & DRINK THE CLASSIC SONG IN QUESTION I'S IN THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD
$400 [30]
Vanuatu's Pentecost Island is widely believed to be the birthplace of this "land diving" sport in which a cord is tied to your feet
bungee jumping
Michael
$400 [23]
Born in Buckingham Palace in 1948, he was the heir, apparently, for quite some time, until a sad day in 2022
King Charles III (Prince Charles)
Michael
$400 [1]
This yellow-flowered weed with notched leaves is eaten in salads & used to make tea & wine
dandelion
Ray
$400 [6]
This group asked, "Does anybody really know what time it is?"; they later said it was "25 Or 6 To 4"
Chicago
Ray
$400 [27]
Cloves, cinnamon & dried berries can make a scent-sational one of these mixtures
potpourri
Michael
$400 [29]
Allergies, dry conditions & frequent sneezing are top causes of this sanguine event
a bloody nose
Ray Michael
$800 [24]
There are about 900 stone figures on this island 2,300 miles off the coast of South America
Easter Island
Ray
$800 [22]
Last name of actor Balthazar, one of the heirs to the fortune his great-grandfather built up in oil
Getty
Ray
$800 [21]
This 5-letter type of Japanese breadcrumbs makes a crunchy crust for your fried foods
panko
Ray
$800 [5]
Feel free to do the "SNL" headbopping as you say--but do not sing!--this Haddaway hit..."Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more"
"What Is Love"
Ray
$800 [28]
Both Hemingway & Teddy Roosevelt wrote about this type of hunting expedition
safari
Michael
$800 [11]
This type of chin that many find attractive is caused by an unfused jaw bone
a cleft chin
Ray
$1,200 [17]
Calling them the Friendly Islands for the welcome he received, this British explorer arrived in Tonga in 1773
Cook
Michael
$1,200 [13]
Chuck Collins decided an heir to this meat fortune is not what he'd truly like to be, gave away his legacy & fights inequality
Oscar Mayer
Ray
$1,200 [18]
Add vodka to grenadine & ginger ale to make the "dirty" version of this movie star mocktail
a Shirley Temple
Ray
$1,200 [2]
His album "Armed Forces" has Nick Lowe's song "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding"
Elvis Costello
Ray
$1,200 [7]
The name of these mushrooms comes from the Latin for "pig"
porcini
Ray Michael
$1,200 [10]
To help make facial expressions, the frontalis muscle raises these while the corrugator supercilii muscles help lower them
eyebrows
Mary
$2,000 [26]
The Marquesas & Gambier islands are 2 of the 5 groups that make up this French overseas territory
French Polynesia
$2,000 [16]
This man who served closely with J. Edgar Hoover at the FBI was a beneficiary of & the executor of Hoover's will
Clyde Tolson
$1,600 [19]
Named for a statesman & not a French country house, this thick tenderloin steak served with a sauce is big enough for 2
chateaubriand
Michael
$1,600 [3]
"Do You Feel Like We Do"? at least for the next 14 minutes or so? asked this virtuoso guitarist, coming alive in 1976
Peter Frampton
Ray
$1,600 [8]
It's the portmanteau name for the beach outfit seen here
a tankini
Ray
$1,600 [12]
This membrane in the ear receives sound vibrations & sends them to the auditory ossicles
the tympanic membrane (the eardrum)
Michael
DD $3,000 [25]
A June 1942 naval battle is named for this Pacific island whose name indicates its position between America & Asia
Midway
Ray
DD $4,000 [15]
The 1889 death of Archduke Rudolf, the heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne, put this man next in line after Rudy's uncle; oops
Franz Ferdinand
Michael
$2,000 [20]
Many Latin American dishes start with a base of tomatoes, onions & spices called this, from a Spanish word meaning "to fry gently"
sofrito
$2,000 [4]
On "How Soon Is Now?", Johnny Marr ran his rhythm guitar track through 4 amps to create a stunning tremolo effect for this band
The Smiths
Ray Mary
$2,000 [9]
You can call the dish seenherebroccoli rabe or this
rapini
$2,000 [14]
These are the soft parts of a baby's skull
the fontanelles
Michael

Final Jeopardy!

CHILDREN'S LIT

The title object of this book "never looked more beautiful... each strand held dozens of bright drops of early morning dew"

Charlotte's Web

Mary "What is Sleeping Beauty?" — wagered $2,000
Michael "What is Charlotte's Web?" — wagered $801
Ray "What is Charlotte's Web?" — wagered $17,700

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