Show #8776 2023-01-02 (taped 2022-11-14) Regular

Ray Lalonde game 13.

Contestants

Chris Blair — a development operations manager from Newbury Park, California

Denise Carlon — an attorney from Seaside Heights, New Jersey

Ray Lalonde — a scenic artist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 12-day cash winnings total $354,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ray $2,600 $3,800 $16,100 $32,100
13-day champion: $386,400
$21,400
25 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs)
Denise $3,200 $8,800 $16,000 $32,000
2nd place: $2,000
$14,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Chris $2,200 $3,000 $8,200 $8,200
3rd place: $1,000
$8,200
10 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

GIVING YOU SOME METALS THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW LET THERE BE FROGS GRAND OLE OPRY MEMBERS 3 LETTERS, STARTS WITH "A" HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH ERIK LARSON
$200 [26]
Composed of tin, copper & antimony, Britannia metal is this type of 5-letter mixture
an alloy
Ray
$200 [4]
It calls itself "The oldest major soft drink in America"
Dr Pepper
Ray
$200 [7]
A genus of frogs is called this type, presumably because they croak in unison like a group of actors speaking together in a play
chorus
Ray
$200 [21]
Sadly, in 2022 we lost this "Coal Miner's Daughter", an Opry member for 60 years, at the age of 90
Loretta Lynn
Denise
$200 [13]
Brew made with a top-fermenting yeast
an ale
Ray
$200 [30]
(Erik Larson presents the clue.) My bestseller "The Devil in the White City" told the incredible true story of how a prolificserial killerlured his victims using the 1893World's Fairin this Midwest city
Chicago
Ray
$600 [3]
Used to make very thin metallic leaf, Dutch metal is a yellowish mix of copper & this end-of-the alphabet element
zinc
Denise
$400 [24]
This Dr. was in when Blackstreet featured him on "No Diggity"
Dr. Dre
Denise
$400 [22]
A common phrase & relationship books say you've got to kiss a lot of frogs to find this
a prince
Ray
$400 [20]
He had "Friends In Low Places" in 1990; in 2018, 85,000 of them bought tickets to see him at Notre Dame Stadium
Garth Brooks
Denise
$400 [12]
Yellowfin in Hawaii
ahi
Chris
$400 [29]
(Erik Larson presents the clue.) In "Dead Wake", I explore the infamous 1915 torpedoing by a U-boat of this luxury liner; with a loss of over 1,000 lives, including some 130 Americans, thattragedyhelped convince the U.S. to join World War I in 1917 on the side of the Allies
the Lusitania
Denise
$800 [2]
Rubbingsare hand-made copies of the engraved plates of this metal that adorned many an old tomb
brass
Ray
$600 [18]
Him: "Austin Powers--he's the snake to my mongoose. Or the mongoose to my snake. Either way, it's bad. I don't know animals"
Dr. Evil
Denise
$600 [17]
This cartoon character was likely inspired by a reptile found alive inside a time capsule that was opened in 1928
Michigan J. Frog
$600 [19]
In 2001 this redheaded legend from Oklahoma got her own one-named sitcom, which ran for more than 100 episodes
Reba McEntire
Ray
$600 [11]
Toward the stern
aft
Denise
$600 [28]
(Erik Larson presents the clue.) My book "The Splendid and the Vile", set during the early days of World War II, takes readers inside Chequers, this prime minister's country home where he figured out how to keep his family & his nation together
Churchill
Denise
$1,000 [1]
Symbol Pd, it shares its name with a legendary Greek statue & several famous theaters
palladium
Denise
$800 [6]
This brand takes on plantar fasciitis with its custom fit orthotic inserts
Dr. Scholl's
Denise
$800 [16]
In "The Jungle Book", the mother wolf calls this fur-less character "Little Frog"
Mowgli
Ray
$800 [15]
Her first Top 40 country hit was "Dumb Blonde", which she clearly is not
Dolly Parton
Ray
$800 [10]
"No Exit" has but one
act
Denise Chris
$800 [27]
(Erik Larson presents the clue.) My book "Thunderstruck" examines how in 1910, Dr. Hawley Crippennearly committed the perfect murder &fledacross the Atlantic, only to be captured later that year with the help of this man's invention of wireless telegraphy
Marconi
Chris
DD $2,000 [25]
The second-most abundant metal in the Earth's crust, it's number one down in the core
iron
Denise
$1,000 [5]
"The tragicall history" tour is coming to take you away with this Christopher Marlowe play featuring Mephistopheles
Doctor Faustus
Ray
$1,000 [8]
They hop to it as the sports teams for Texas Christian University
the Horned Frogs
Denise
$1,000 [14]
This Down Under man will be the judge of that! That, being "American Idol", from 2013 to 2016
(Keith) Urban
Chris
$1,000 [9]
Khan you tell me it was a military commander in Ottoman times
aga
Ray
$1,000 [23]
(Erik Larson presents the clue.) Do you know monsters when you see them? My book "In the Garden of Beasts" tells the story of Martha Dodd, daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Nazi Germany & her affair with the first head of this political police organization
the gestapo
Ray Denise

Double Jeopardy! Round

FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT TO THE MAP WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES STATE GOVERNORS THE CHASE SACRIFICIAL ROLES FRIENDS 'TIL THE ENDS
$400 [3]
This Vatican basilica is one of the largest churches in the world with a capacity of 60,000
St. Peter's
Ray
$400 [16]
Of fairy tale author Hans Andersen
Christian
Ray
$400 [11]
It was not an act--Ronald Reagan was a 2-term governor of this state
California
Ray
$400 [10]
Classic chasers include sangrita, a drink historically made with pomegranate juice & traditionally served with this liquor
tequila
Denise
$400 [21]
Harrison Ford said this hero's sacrifice for the other characters would lend emotional weight to a 2015 film
Han Solo
Chris
$400 [26]
It's paired with "Axis" in the name of a digital Hasbro game set in 1942
Allies
Denise
$800 [1]
Both Oxford & Cambridge have colleges named for this biblical Mary; only Cambridge's has an "E" at the end
Magdalene
Ray
$800 [15]
Of Nobel Prize winner William Yeats
Butler
Ray
$800 [22]
Holland Taylor wrote & starred in "Ann" , a Tony-nominated play about this Texas governor
Ann Richards
Denise
$800 [9]
This activity that takes your dog around in a circle can be a sign of boredom & lack of exercise
chasing his tail
Chris
$800 [20]
In "Endgame" this Avenger makes a heroic sacrifice & takes a terrible fall in order to obtain the Soul Stone
Black Widow
Chris
$800 [27]
As the song says, "Life is a cabaret, old" this synonym for friend
chum
Chris
$1,600 [4]
A central location in this Bavarian city of "monks" is Marienplatz, or "Mary's Square"
Munich
$1,200 [14]
Of the author of 1841's "Self-Reliance"
Waldo
Ray
$1,200 [23]
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge went on to be the first head of this Cabinet department
Homeland Security
Chris
$1,200 [8]
Also done by horses, it's seenhereas part of human athletics
steeplechase
Denise
$1,200 [19]
In the TV episode "Bullets Over Bel-Air", Will took a bullet for this cousin; & Philly was supposed to be too dangerous...!
Carlton
Denise Chris
$1,200 [28]
French for "good friend", this 2-word phrase can refer to a buddy or to a girlfriend
bon ami(e)
Ray
$2,000 [2]
3 blocks long, the NYC St. called this Gospel man's Place has been home to Alexander Hamilton's widow, Leon Trotsky & Debbie Harry
St. Mark's
Denise
$1,600 [13]
Of H.G. Wells; his first name was Herbert
George
Ray
$1,600 [24]
Elected in 2002, in 2009hebecame the first Illinois governor to be impeached
Blagojevich
Denise
$1,600 [7]
The 5 Oscars for this 1971 Gene Hackman movie include best editing, maybe due to its NYC train & car chase
The French Connection
Ray
$1,600 [18]
Trying to spare Regan from evil in this 1973 thriller, Jason Miller as Father Karras screams "Take me" & is taken
The Exorcist
Ray
DD $1,300 [30]
"C" is for this word, once one of the divisions of a Roman legion; it now can mean a colleague or a person born in the same year
a cohort
Ray
DD $4,000 [5]
Santo Stefano Church in Genoa, Italy is where, according to tradition, this sailor was baptized in 1451
Columbus
Ray
$2,000 [12]
Of C.S. Lewis; his first name was Clive
Staples
Ray
$2,000 [25]
This state's second-most populous county is named for Governor Napoleon Bonaparte Broward
Florida
Denise
$2,000 [6]
In 1862's Great Locomotive Chase, Union soldiers tried to make it from central Georgia to this Tennessee city they hoped to capture
Chattanooga
Ray
$2,000 [17]
In "Game of Thrones" he really was a gentle giant, saving Bran by holding the door & fending off a horde of nasties
Hodor
Ray
$1,600 [29]
This type of friend comes after "Food Lover's" & "Pokemon Visual", 2 books that offer guidance
Companion
Ray

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC CRIMES

Saying it was stolen by Napoleon, self-styled Italian patriot Vincenzo Peruggia took it in 1911

the Mona Lisa

Chris "What is The shroud of turin" — wagered $0
Denise "What is the Mona Lisa?" — wagered $16,000
Ray "What is the Mona Lisa?" — wagered $16,000

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