Show #8782 2023-01-10 (taped 2022-11-15) Regular

Contestants

Suzanne Zgraggen — a zoo educator from West Valley, Utah

Max Davison — a writer from Studio City, California

Connor Sears — a copy editor from Queens, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Connor $4,600 $4,600 $20,400 $15,999
2-day champion: $43,999
$16,800
23 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Max! $1,600 $4,400 $12,400 $4,399
2nd place: $2,000
$16,400
22 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Suzanne $1,600 $2,800 $3,600 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$3,600
5 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

SPORTS TROPHIES NYC SUBWAY STOPS POTPOURRI ANIMAL, VEGETABLE OR MINERAL ANAGRAMS ON THE SCIENTIST'S RÉSUMÉ THE BOTTOM LINE
$200 [30]
Major League Soccer's top scorer gets the Golden this piece of footwear
Boot
Max!
$200 [7]
The S train has but 2 stops, shuttling across 42nd Street between Times Square & this landmark with much train activity
Grand Central Station
Connor
$200 [29]
This brand of little breath mints was launched in 1969
Tic Tacs
Max!
$200 [28]
Vegetable:FAILURE COWL
cauliflower
$200 [26]
c. 1491-94: Student of astronomy & astrology, U. of Krakow; c. 1515: invited to Fifth Lateran Council to aid calendar reform
Copernicus
Connor
$200 [23]
He ended a poem, "I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference"
Frost
Connor
$400 [15]
Given out on Memorial Day weekend, the Borg-Warner Trophy goes to the winner of this race
the Indianapolis 500
Max!
$400 [6]
Flatbush Avenue! The No. 2 train's stop for the college named for this borough! Please step away from the closing doors
Brooklyn
Connor Max!
$400 [18]
Toss across is basically this pencil-&-paper game but with bean bags
tic-tac-toe
Connor
$400 [27]
Animal:BALL WAY
wallaby
Connor
$400 [25]
1978: T.A., science at Stanford; 1979: completed her NASA training; 1983: made history aboard Challenger
Sally Ride
Connor
$400 [22]
"What immortal hand or eye, dare frame thy fearful symmetry?" ends the poem about this beast
Tyger
Suzanne
$600 [11]
The NHL's Selke Trophy goes to the forward who's best not at scoring but at this
defense
Max!
$600 [4]
Give my regards to Broadway, remember me to this square, named for an old-time newspaper, & its stop on the D train
Herald Square
Max!
$600 [17]
This social media platform was originally called musical.ly
TikTok
Connor
$600 [9]
Mineral:SPY MUG
gypsum
Max!
$800 [14]
1929: Bachelor's in bio from Penn. College for Women; 1962: published "Silent Spring", first serialized in The New Yorker
(Rachel) Carson
Max!
$600 [21]
Sandburg finished a poem titled for this city, "player with railroads and freight handler to the nation"
Chicago
Max!
$800 [10]
Serena Williams is a 3-time winner of the Coupe Suzanne-Lenglen, given to the women's singles champ at this Grand Slam event
the French Open
Suzanne
$800 [2]
Head downtown on the 1, 2 or 3 train to hit this street, the "Ho" in So Ho, & note its pronunciation
Houston (Street)
Suzanne
$800 [16]
Andrew Garfield played composer Jonathan Larson running out of time in this 2021 film
Tick, Tick... Boom!
Suzanne
$800 [8]
Vegetable:TACO HIKER
artichoke
$1,000 [13]
1916: University of Copenhagen, professor of theoretical physics; 1922: Nobel Prize
Niels Bohr
Max!
$800 [20]
In "Harlem" he asked of a "Dream Deferred", "Does it explode?"
Langston Hughes
Max!
$1,000 [5]
Named for a onetime Brisbane Lions coach, the Leigh Matthews Trophy goes to the MVP of the AFL, this
the Australian Football League
Connor
$1,000 [1]
If you want a day at the museum, take the C train to 81st Street to enjoy this "Night at the Museum" museum
the Museum of Natural History
Connor
$1,000 [12]
Rudyard Kipling described him as "a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail"
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Connor
$1,000 [3]
Mineral:CUR MOUND
corundum
Connor
DD $2,200 [24]
1927: Italy's first professor of theoretical physics
Enrico Fermi
Connor
$1,000 [19]
The events of Homer's "Iliad" conclude with a funeral for this hero, "tamer of horses"
Hector
Max!

Double Jeopardy! Round

AROUND THE GLOBE BUSINESS PARTNERS LEAD VOCALIST OF THE BAND 4th & GOAL THE ATTORNEY GENERAL BETWEEN 2 "C"s
$400 [30]
You can climb Nanga Parbat & Nuptse in this mountain range; bring oxygen
the Himalayas
Max!
$400 [28]
Last names of Duncan & Alonzo, who paired up in 1910 with plans to make the world's first portable power tool
Black+Decker
Connor
$400 [14]
Eddie Vedder, this gem of a band
Pearl Jam
Max!
$400 [24]
Launched to recapture this city from the Muslims, the Fourth Crusade ended up sacking Constantinople instead
Jerusalem
Connor
$400 [22]
Former A.G. Roger Taney was Chief Justice for this enslaved man v. Sandford
Dred Scott
Max!
$400 [26]
It describes an opera like "The Maid as Mistress", or can mean any funny performer
comic
Max!
$800 [29]
In 1726 the governor of Buenos Aires founded this city, now the capital of Uruguay
Montevideo
Connor
$800 [27]
During the Great Depression, William & G. Clifford opened what would be the flagship store of this bookseller on 5th Avenue at 18th
Barnes & Noble
Suzanne
$800 [13]
Alt-rocker Rivers Cuomo
Weezer
Max!
$800 [23]
Denis Diderot suggested that actors imagine a fourth this to help them be have more realistically
a wall
Max!
$800 [21]
"These ears are just decorative", said Kate McKinnon while playing this Attorney General on "Saturday Night Live"
Jeff Sessions
Max!
$800 [25]
Adjective meaning having the innocent nature of a childlike angel
cherubic
Connor
$1,200 [9]
The alliteratively named Tonga this contains the second-deepest spot on the ocean floor, more than 35,000 feet down
trench
Connor
$1,600 [17]
In 1852 Henry & William combined to form this banking & delivery co. & their stagecoaches still run, metaphorically
Wells Fargo
Connor
$1,200 [12]
Chrissie Hynde, for real
The Pretenders
Max!
$1,200 [6]
Greek scholars celebrate the fourth of this month as Exelauno Day because exelauno means to do this "forth"
March
$1,200 [20]
In 2002, shortly after her time as Attorney General had come to an end, she ran for governor of Florida
Janet Reno
Max!
$1,200 [3]
Distilled from white wine, it bears the name of the region where it's made
Cognac
Connor
$2,000 [7]
Thisancient Roman road traversed North Central Italy & its name is now paired with Romagna in the name of the region
Via Emilia
Connor
$2,000 [16]
The making & selling of watches brought Richard & Alvah together in Chicago in 1893 but the 2 went big into retail as this, this & co.
Sears Roebuck
Connor
$1,600 [11]
Before a successful solo career, David Byrne
the Talking Heads
Connor Max!
$1,600 [5]
University of Arizona students know that "The Ave" is Fourth Avenue in this city, fun by day & night
Tucson
Max!
$1,600 [18]
In 1992 Edwin Meese wrote a memoir, "With" this president: "The Inside Story"
Ronald Reagan
Max!
$1,600 [2]
To reduce harmful emissions in auto exhausts, this type of "converter" removes unburned hydrocarbons
catalytic
Connor
DD $7,400 [8]
The most populous city in New Zealand, it hasn't been the capital since 1865
Auckland
Connor
DD $4,000 [15]
In the 1850s a German immigrant borrowed $60 from a pal for his optical goods shop; J.J. & Henry partnered up to form this brand
Bausch + Lomb
Max!
$2,000 [10]
Nina Persson, this close-knit Swedish group
The Cardigans
Max!
$2,000 [4]
The goal of this was to capture the ferocious Erymanthian boar
Hercules' fourth labor
Connor
$2,000 [19]
As Obama's A.G., he took on the issue of trying terrorists in civilian rather than military court; today he fights gerrymandering
Eric Holder
Max!
$2,000 [1]
Starting & ending with "C", it's the plain yet elegant white fabric worn here
cambric

Final Jeopardy!

CLASSIC TALE CHARACTERS

In one 19th century translation, she "perceived the dawn of day and ceased" speaking nearly 1,000 times

Scheherazade

Suzanne "Who is the Little Mermaid?" — wagered $3,600
Max! "Who is Sleeping Beauty?" — wagered $8,001
Connor "Who is Echo?" — wagered $4,401

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