Show #8777 2023-01-03 (taped 2022-11-14) Regular

Ray Lalonde game 14.

Contestants

Lloyd Sy — a graduate student in literature originally from Rockford, Illinois

Claire Theoret — a high school registrar from Essex, Vermont

Ray Lalonde — a scenic artist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 13-day cash winnings total $386,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ray $2,000 $5,000 $12,000 $24,000
2nd place: $2,000
$15,000
22 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
Claire $2,400 $3,200 $11,200 $22,400
3rd place: $1,000
$11,200
14 R, 1 W
Lloyd $2,600 $4,595 $12,490 $24,490
New champion: $24,490
$11,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

FICTION'S FICTIONAL PLACES AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS ORGS. FOR SHORT ROMANTIC MOVIE LINES HERE'S LOOKING AT "U" KID CUISINE
$200 [19]
Now a term for any dreamy society, this Thomas More land from a 1516 work was Communist & populated by pagans
Utopia
Ray
$200 [28]
Here's this silversmith, a teapot in hand, in a portrait by John Singleton Copley
Paul Revere
Ray
$200 [30]
In a 1978 hit "It's fun to stay at" this place
the YMCA
Ray
$200 [26]
This classic film gave us the line "Here's looking at you, kid"
Casablanca
Claire
$200 [21]
Yellowcake, a compound of this element, is the raw stuff for commercial nuclear materials
uranium
Lloyd
DD $5 [22]
History professor Paul Josephson's definitive article on these breaded items is titled "The Ocean's Hot Dog"
fish sticks
Lloyd
$400 [14]
In the illustration seen here, the title character is tied up on business in this land
Lilliput
Ray Lloyd
$400 [18]
In 1929 she painted "The Lawrence Tree", which she enjoyed gazing upon at D.H. Lawrence's New Mexico ranch
Georgia O'Keeffe
Claire
$400 [29]
Fight intoxicated driving by calling 877-ASK-THIS
MADD
Lloyd
$400 [11]
In this film Renee Zellweger tells Tom Cruise, "You had me at hello"
Jerry Maguire
Lloyd
$400 [20]
Type of instrument seen here, good for the homeowner who has limited space & budget
an upright piano
Ray
$200 [27]
The 16th, 2nd & 10th letters of the alphabet make up this favorite sandwich
PB&J
Claire
$600 [3]
"The Hunger Games" says this country "rose up out of the ashes of a place that was once called North America"
Panem
Ray
$600 [13]
One of Albert Pinkham Ryder's best known works is the macabre-toned painting "The Race Track", or this "On a Pale Horse"
Death
Claire
$600 [15]
A college conference, or an agency that protects investors
the SEC
$600 [12]
In "The Princess Bride", Westley says this phrase to Buttercup over & over, which she finally realizes means "I love you"
As you wish
Ray
$600 [8]
Collective term for the creatures seen here
the undead
Ray
$400 [10]
If your kids aren't from New England, they may enjoy this two-word dish made with a veggie, more than its clam or fish cousin
corn chowder
Ray
$800 [2]
This shipwrecked character ends up on the island of Despair in 1659
Robinson Crusoe
Claire Lloyd
$800 [5]
In the 1930s this Iowa native designed a mural called "Breaking the Prairie Sod" for Iowa State University
(Grant) Wood
Lloyd
$800 [6]
It owns & operates Washington, D.C.'s Constitution Hall, opened in 1929
the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution)
$800 [9]
"I wish I knew how to quit you" is a line from this 21st century film
Brokeback Mountain
Lloyd
$800 [16]
Here are ancestors of this tribe that let Salt Lake City college athletes use its name to build respect for its history & culture
the Utes
Lloyd
$600 [25]
Being a favorite of Eleven on "Stranger Things" boosted sales of this Kellogg's non-cereal brand
Eggos
Lloyd
$1,000 [1]
Macondo is a town that's originally isolated from the outside world in this 1967 Gabriel García Márquez classic
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Claire
$1,000 [4]
Roy Lichtenstein's comic book style paintings include "Blam" & this! of 2 planes in combat, a title reminiscent of a pop music duo
Whaam!
Ray
$1,000 [23]
President Biden did not like its autumn 2022 production cuts
OPEC
Ray
$1,000 [7]
In "Moonstruck", after Nicolas Cage says, "I'm in love with you", Cher slaps him twice & says these 4 words
Snap out of it
Lloyd
$1,000 [17]
The first Italiankingof this name formed the Triple Alliance with Austria, Hungary & Germany in the late 19th century
Umberto
Ray
$1,000 [24]
San Diego's El Indio restaurant claims Ralph Pesqueira created these diminutive items by adapting flautas
the taquito

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE GOOD, OLD, U.S. OF A. SCIENCE NEWS POP MUSIC-POURRI L'HISTOIRE DE FRANCE FUN WITH 21 SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER
$400 [29]
From c. 1640 & built using dovetailing, the USA's oldest of these 2-word symbols of hardy pioneer life is in western New Jersey
a log cabin
Lloyd
$400 [27]
It was the "A" in NASA's DART, which hit the bullseye on one in 2022--maybe saving us from planetary doom one day
asteroid
Claire
$400 [30]
"Don't Get Above Your Raisin"' is a song from Flatt & Scruggs; it's also the name of an episode of this Ken Burns series
Country Music
Ray
$400 [10]
Cheers to Henry IV, who became France's first king from this ruling house in 1589
Bourbon
Claire Lloyd
$400 [23]
Played since the early 1700s, the French card game vingt-et-un lives on as this casino game
blackjack
Ray
$400 [25]
A water pipe with a bowl & a flexible tube used for smoking
a hookah
Ray
$800 [28]
Amound-buildingculture 1,000 years ago left monuments like the Marching these carnivores; you can see it from abovein Iowa
bears
Claire
$800 [26]
Following a bone marrow transplant, in 2019 a patient was declared free of this virus, for only the second time ever
the AIDS virus (HIV)
Ray
$800 [13]
Her song "You've Got A Friend" came out the year after her pal James Taylor sang of "lonely times when I could not find a friend"
Carole King
Ray
$800 [9]
1804 to 1815 is known as the Empire Period; in the decorative arts it featured swans, a symbol of this empress
Josephine
Claire
$800 [22]
Utah ratified the 21st Amendment, ending this on Dec. 5, 1933 around 3:30 PM local time, letting New Yorkers celebrate at dinner
Prohibition
Ray
$800 [24]
An area of land, or a pamphlet
a tract
Ray
$1,200 [16]
This sizable city a bit south of Seattle has re-created Fort Nisqually, the first British outpost on Puget Sound
Tacoma
$1,200 [5]
Gene-edited versions of the embryonic type of these cells have helped geckos regrow their tails more perfectly
stem cells
Ray
$1,200 [3]
Alejandro Fernández' 2009 release "Dos Mundos", meaning this, held not one, not 2, but 3 spots on the Billboard Latin Album charts
two worlds
Lloyd
$1,200 [8]
Named for a war minister, this 1930s "Line" of forts & small concrete bunkers, built to stop the Germans, didn't
the Maginot Line
Ray
$1,200 [21]
The U.S. 21-gun salute is fired to honor our president, a visiting head of state or this symbol of our nation
the flag
Ray
$1,200 [12]
Ridged steel rod used to strengthen concrete
rebar
Claire
$1,600 [17]
As well as a building material, it's astructuremade of it; the Avilaoneis the oldest existing house in Los Angeles
adobe
Ray Claire
$1,600 [6]
In 2019 the IAU announced the discovery of 20 new moons of this planet, putting it 3 ahead of Jupiter's total
Saturn
Ray
$1,600 [1]
To tweak an '80s lyric from this band, lovin' would be easy if your colors were those on Ghana's flag, red, gold & green
Culture Club
Ray
$2,000 [7]
The first examples of art by prehistoric people are Cro-Magnon, like at this French cave discovered by 4 teens in 1940
Lascaux
Claire
$1,600 [20]
Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 inspiredthis1972 Neil Diamond song with "Song" in the title
"Song Sung Blue"
Ray
$1,600 [15]
A gathering spot, like an ancient Greek marketplace
agora
Lloyd
$2,000 [18]
Have an electrifying visit to this, "New York's Birthplace Park" at the southern tip of Manhattan
the Battery
$2,000 [2]
An Australian study found that forests of these trees that grow around swamps & coastlines expand & contract with a 19-year lunar cycle
mangroves
Claire
$2,000 [11]
Watching his bride out on the floor at his wedding, polio survivor Doc Pomus got the idea for "Save" this "For Me"
the Last Dance
Lloyd
DD $3,095 [4]
After WWI, Germany lost this hyphenated border region to France, got it back in WWII, then lost it to France again
Alsace-Lorraine
Lloyd
$2,000 [19]
In the 19th century this former gold coin of Britain was worth 21 shillings, one more than in a pound
a guinea
Ray Claire
DD $3,000 [14]
A type of tax, or to remove material, such as from a book or film
excise
Ray

Final Jeopardy!

FOREIGN-BORN AUTHORS

Early in her career she translated romance novels into Spanish, often changing the dialogue to make the heroines smarter

(Isabel) Allende

Claire "Who is Isabel Allende?" — wagered $11,200
Ray "Who is Allende?" — wagered $12,000
Lloyd "Who is Isabel Allende?" — wagered $12,000

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