Show #8769 2022-12-22 (taped 2022-10-25) Regular

Ray Lalonde game 6.

Contestants

Kathy Boelter — an administrator from Sunnyvale, California

Mitch Cutter — a salmon conservation associate from Boise, Idaho

Ray Lalonde — a scenic artist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 5-day cash winnings total $132,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ray $3,200 $11,000 $24,200 $34,000
6-day champion: $166,200
$21,800
25 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Mitch $1,800 $2,400 $16,800 $18,799
2nd place: $2,000
$14,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Kathy $2,600 $4,200 $5,200 $200
3rd place: $1,000
$8,200
10 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

TECHNOLOGY HISTORY CHANGE THE VOWEL A BIT OF EVERYTHING WE COME TO THIS PLACE FOR... MAGIC NICOLE KIDMAN SAYS
$200 [15]
A 2012 pilot program by police in Rialto, California used BWCs, body-worn these
cameras
Mitch
$200 [25]
He's the misunderstood alpha creature of Skull Island
King Kong
Kathy
$200 [30]
Genesis 9:28 says he "lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years"
Noah
Ray
$200 [29]
...books, with more than 25 million of them cataloged at this site founded in 1800
the Library of Congress
Ray
$200 [27]
In a 1964 movie Mary Poppins flew into town with one of these, which had a magical talking parrot head handle
an umbrella
Mitch
$200 [10]
In Monterey on HBO:"My life isn't perfect, Madeline, bad things have happened to me. I do understand the concept"
Big Little Lies
$400 [13]
The genius & importance of Eli Whitney's cotton gin was that it easily removed these from raw cotton
seeds
Ray
$400 [24]
Adjective meaning indecisive or weakly ineffective
wishy-washy
Ray
$400 [26]
Pheasant Island--Ile des Faisans in French or Faisai Uhartea in Basque--swaps nationalities biannually between France & this nation
Spain
Ray
$400 [1]
...serenity: the Kumano Nachi Taisha shrine of this religion, with Japan's tallest waterfall behind it
Shinto
Ray
$400 [28]
Sometimes heard in magical chants, this rhyming term now refers to deception or trickery of any kind
hocus-pocus
Kathy
$400 [9]
& Nicole Kidman sings! To Ewan McGregor:"The only way of loving me baby, is to pay a lovely fee"
Moulin Rouge!
Mitch
$600 [4]
Early on Dec. 7, 1941, a new SCR-270 radar device detected but didn't recognize Japanese aircraft over this island
Oahu
Mitch
$600 [23]
The name of the club in "Cabaret", or a candy bar
Kit Kat
Ray
$600 [18]
In 2022 Sting & Shaggy honored a third musician, this singing legend, with "Com Fly Wid Mi", doing his songs but in a reggae style
Sinatra
Mitch
$600 [2]
...otherworldly objects: this NASA space center in Houston has a large cache of Moon rocks from the Apollo missions
the Johnson Space Center
Mitch
$800 [5]
It's the term for a witch's aide; it might take the form of a cat or a toad & was said to feed from a witch's mole or wart
a familiar
Mitch
$600 [7]
In a remake:"All of the women are always busy & perfect & smiling, & all of the men are always happy"
The Stepford Wives
Ray
$800 [12]
In 1998, Campbell Airdgot what was called the first this arm, electronically controlled like on TV's "Six Million Dollar Man"
a bionic arm
Mitch Kathy
$800 [11]
"A rub dub, just relaxing in the tub" is a line from this Bobby Darin hit song
"Splish Splash"
Ray
$800 [16]
Ursus maritimus, this animal is amazing both on land & at sea, able to run up to 25 mph & prey on beluga whales
polar bears
Mitch
$800 [3]
...laughs, at this L.A. "Store" opened in 1972 on Sunset Blvd., with notable alumni like Billy Crystal & Eddie Murphy
The Comedy Store
Kathy
$1,000 [20]
Seen here, this late illusionist was a master of card tricks, enabled by his 52 assistants
Ricky Jay
Ray
$800 [6]
Getting nose-y:"Leonard, always the years between us. Always the years. Always, the love. Always..." (& we have a movie title!)
the hours
$1,000 [14]
Paul II, pope from 1464 to 1471, set up Rome's first of these new machines
a printing press
Kathy
$1,000 [22]
Informal conversation about unimportant matters
chit-chat
Ray
$1,000 [17]
The first televised British royal wedding united this princess & photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1960
Princess Margaret
Mitch Kathy
$1,000 [19]
...caves:this Kentucky attraction, the world's longest system of them, with more than 400 miles of explored passages
Mammoth Cave
Ray
DD $3,000 [21]
Born in New Jersey in 1956, this magician has "A Christmas Carol" in his top 10 books list, not the 1850 book he's named for
David Copperfield
Ray
$1,000 [8]
To Tom Cruise:"Nobody knows what's gonna happen next... & certainly not on a racetrack with 40 other infantile egomaniacs"
Days of Thunder
Ray

Double Jeopardy! Round

CLIMATE BIG BATTLES THE BOTTOM 10 ATLANTIC ISLANDS THERE'S A BOOK IN THAT BOOK CROSSWORD CLUES "N"
$400 [30]
A byproduct of using fossil fuels, it's the main greenhouse gas affecting Earth's climate due to human activity
carbon dioxide
Mitch
$400 [10]
This pivotal July 1863 battle is depicted here
Gettysburg
Mitch
$400 [29]
"The Hearts Filthy Lesson" only went to 92 for this legend; "Suffragette City" never even cracked the chart
David Bowie
Mitch
$400 [28]
East Falkland is the larger of the 2 of that name & in 1982 was the scene of battles between these 2 nations
Great Britain & Argentina
Ray
$400 [24]
Anagram fans know Loney M. Setnick's "The Pony Party!" is a feature in the "Autobiography" of this author of "Unfortunate Events"
(Lemony) Snicket
Mitch
$400 [21]
"Super" star(4 letters)
nova
Kathy
$800 [17]
This climate region is defined as being between about 23.5 degrees north & south of the equator
the tropics
Ray Mitch
$800 [6]
Boosting morale, Washington's troops defeated a force of these mercenaries at the Battle of Trenton in 1776
the Hessians
Kathy
$800 [23]
Not many could take "The Star Spangled Banner" into the Top 20 twice, but she did; however, "Whatchulookinat" only looked at 96
Whitney Houston
$800 [12]
Scotland's Shetland Islandsform part of the border between this sea & the rest of the Atlantic
the North Sea
Ray
$800 [25]
In this novel, Winston is inspired by a copy of "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism"
1984
Ray
$800 [20]
Rules for acceptable online behavior(10 letters)
netiquette
Ray
$1,200 [16]
Affecting weather worldwide, it's a female-named periodic anomaly of cooler temperatures in the southeastern Pacific Ocean
La Niña
Mitch
$1,200 [7]
Fought from Feb. to Dec. with 700,000 casualties, the Battle of Verdun was the longest of this war
World War I
Ray
$1,200 [22]
We'll be blunt; James Blunt topped the chart in 2006 with this "gorgeous" song but "High" only went as high as 100 that year
"You're Beautiful"
$1,200 [4]
Tenerife is the largest island of this Atlantic group that belongs to Spain
the Canary Islands
Ray
$1,200 [1]
In a book by this man, "Misery's Return" was a hard-to-execute novel by his character Paul Sheldon
Stephen King
Mitch
$1,200 [5]
Buddhist's bliss(7 letters)
nirvana
Kathy
$1,600 [11]
This "effect" governs in which direction hurricanes & other storms will spin
the Coriolis effect
Mitch
$1,600 [8]
1709's Battle of Poltava in Ukraine saw this czar lead an army to victory over Sweden, spurring the rise of the Russian Empire
Peter the Great
Kathy
$1,600 [26]
No stranger to the Top 10, this Jersey band could only take "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" to 97 in '93
Bon Jovi
Ray
$1,600 [3]
Corvo Island of the Azores is a home to this divingbirdthat locals call corvo-marinho
cormorant
$2,000 [13]
Hannibal Lecter is found with a copy of "Le grand dictionnaire de cuisine" in this "colorful" novel
Red Dragon
Mitch
$1,600 [18]
Halo or rain cloud(6 letters)
nimbus
Ray
$2,000 [15]
One climate provision in 2022's big Democratic bill provides money to protect these "O.G." forests
old growth
Mitch
DD $3,000 [9]
Joan of Arc's victory over the English at this French city in 1429 was a turning point in the Hundred Years' War
Orleans
Kathy
$2,000 [27]
"So What'cha Want" hit 93 for this trio in 1992, though some call the album it's off, "Check Your Head", a masterpiece
the Beastie Boys
Ray
$2,000 [14]
Around 1450, vines imported from Crete were used to start vineyards on this Portuguese island known for its fortified wine
Madeira
Mitch
DD $3,600 [2]
"The Grasshopper Lies Heavy" is an underground novel in this Philip K. Dick book set in a conquered America
The Man in the High Castle
Mitch
$2,000 [19]
Coin collector(11 letters)
numismatist
Ray

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS NAMES

In 2001 he published a book called "Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall"; in 2002, "Existencilism"

Banksy

Kathy "Who is [some letters crossed out] Bradbury" — wagered $5,000
Mitch "Who is Banksy?" — wagered $1,999
Ray "Who is Banksy?" — wagered $9,800

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