Show #8787 2023-01-17 (taped 2022-11-16) Regular

Contestants

Stephanie Pakula — an aerospace engineer from Cambridge, Massachusetts

Vince Bacani — a risk manager from Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Katie Palumbo — a museum interpreter from Amawalk, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Katie $1,200 $6,200 $7,400 $2,400
2nd place: $2,000
$13,000
21 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Vince $3,800 $7,000 $14,000 $13,000
New champion: $13,000
$19,000
26 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
Stephanie $1,400 $1,400 $1,000 $101
3rd place: $1,000
$1,000
4 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE REAL REAL HOUSEWIVES OF... "I" ON ART ALL ABOUT HAIR SUMMING UP THE SPIELBERG MOVIE DOUBLE VOWELS NEXT TO DOUBLE CONSONANTS DURING THE LIZ TRUSS WEEKS
$200 [30]
...Atlanta honor this leader by visiting his national historical park & touring the home where he was born in 1929
(Dr.) Martin Luther King Jr.
Katie
$200 [23]
For centuries, the most widely used type of this used for drawings was made from growths on oak trees called gall nuts
ink
Katie
$200 [10]
The outer covering of a hair shaft is called this, like the area at the base of a fingernail
a cuticle
Katie
$200 [20]
1993:DNA + prehistoric beasts = a billion box office dollars
Jurassic Park
Katie
$200 [6]
These critters are sometimes derisively called trash pandas
raccoons
Stephanie
$200 [29]
A N.Y. Times headline on Sept. 6, the day Truss became PM, read this nation's "nuclear plant... off line after shelling kindles blaze"
Ukraine
Katie
$400 [24]
...this L.A.-area city bask in the fact that realtor.com says the median listing home price is $1,400 per square foot
Beverly Hills
Vince
$400 [22]
William Merritt Chase whose 1880s art is seen here, has been called the first major one of these working in the United States
an impressionist
Vince
$400 [9]
Many shampoos target this annoyance, a form of dermatitis in which a yeast causes your scalp to shed bits of skin
dandruff
Vince Stephanie
$400 [19]
Amity Island has a very, very big tourism problem
Jaws
Vince
$400 [5]
"Trial" item metaphorically floated to gauge public reaction
balloon
$400 [28]
This honorable Yankee set an American League record with his 62nd home run of the season on Oct. 4
(Aaron) Judge
Vince
$600 [15]
...this UAE city may well be from the Philippines or know people who are; Filipinos make up 450,000 of its 3 million people
Dubai
Katie
$600 [13]
Clinton, Massachusetts is home to the museum of Russian these, holy images in the tradition of the Orthodox Church
icons
Vince
$600 [7]
Tiny muscles called arrector pili in our follicles make our hair literally do this, as a ghost in Shakespeare promises to do
stand on end
Katie
$600 [1]
Soldier Matt Damon needs rescuing; wait, Vin Diesel's in the film, too?!
Saving Private Ryan
Vince
$600 [2]
As a verb it can mean to turn out well or to come next in a series
succeed
Vince
$600 [27]
Queen Elizabeth II was laid to rest with her husband, parents & sister in St. George's Chapel in this castle
Windsor Castle
Vince
$1,000 [21]
...Salt Lake City respectfully visit this landmark completed in 1867, home to its famous organ & choir
the Mormon Tabernacle
Katie
$800 [14]
19th century artist William West dramatized the book of Exodus in these people"Passing Through the Wilderness"
the Israelites
Katie
$800 [8]
Hair is mostly keratin, which like collagen & elastin is classified as a structural one of these
a protein (a polymer)
Vince Stephanie
$800 [11]
Making Whoopi age several decades
The Color Purple
Vince
$800 [3]
Types of these in the Senate include Budget & Judiciary
committees
Vince
$800 [26]
Near the end of September, winds of this hurricane hit 155 mph, driving a storm surge toward Fort Myers, Florida
Ian
DD $1,200 [16]
...New York enjoy this 1,046-foot Art Deco skyscraper designed by William Van Alen & built between 1928 & 1930
the Chrysler Building
Katie
$1,000 [17]
Using this -ism that sounds like a magician's skill, Andrea Mantegna painted a ceilingfrescothat seems to be open to the sky
illusionism
Katie
$1,000 [18]
From the Greek for "fox", it's a medical term for hair loss
alopecia
Vince
$1,000 [12]
Young cinema lover Sammy represents cinema lover Steven Spielberg
The Fabelmans
Katie Vince
$1,000 [4]
Anglers know parts of it include the barb, the eye & the bend
fishhook
Vince
$1,000 [25]
Holy smokes! This company agreed to fork over $438.5 million to settle a multistate youth vaping inquiry
Juul
Katie

Double Jeopardy! Round

1980s BESTSELLERS 3 LETTERS, 2 MEANINGS INTERNATIONAL FOOD & DRINK EMMY WINNERS SCIENCEY STUFF A LITTLE WORLD HISTORY
$400 [27]
Moving several years into the future, he gave us "2010: Odyssey Two"
(Arthur C.) Clarke
Vince
$400 [1]
A glass container, or to shock
jar
Vince
$400 [28]
The Spanish diminutive for "meat" gives us the name of these roasted or braised chunks of pork
carnitas
Katie
$400 [26]
In 2022 Lee Jung-jae made Emmy history winning as Lead Actor for a non-English show, this Korean one
Squid Game
Vince
$400 [13]
Is that a Titleist? "Marine biologist" George Costanza helped a whale breathe by pulling a golf ball out of this aperture
the blowhole
Katie
$800 [23]
Having time to draw a cross of his own blood on the ground, Francisco Pizarro was killed in this city in 1541
Lima, Peru
Vince
$800 [17]
A group of Chinese women in San Francisco meet to play mah-jongg & talk in this Amy Tan bestseller
The Joy Luck Club
Vince
$1,200 [16]
To steal, or the person who might arrest you
cop
Katie
$800 [25]
The tiny round pasta called acini di pepe is a foundation of this celebratory soup, minestra maritata in Italian
wedding soup
Vince
$800 [20]
Jean Stapleton won 3 Emmys for playing Edith Bunker, Archie's wife on this '70s sitcom
All in the Family
Vince
$800 [2]
Stars held together by gravity form a star this; the closest to Earth is Hyades, the face of the constellation Taurus
a (star) cluster
Katie
$1,200 [22]
This gruesome weapon named for its smell that some called more like garlic was used in World War I, skirting an 1899 international treaty
mustard gas
Katie
$1,200 [3]
After dishing the dirt on "Hollywood Wives", shetook on "Hollywood Husbands"
(Jackie) Collins
Vince
$2,000 [19]
It can be a big barrier, or the female parent equivalent of sire
dam
Vince
$1,200 [11]
This 4-letter tea drink made with tapioca pearls was created in 1980s Taiwan
boba
Katie
$1,200 [14]
Seen here, she won her first Emmy for playing Tanya on "The White Lotus"
(Jennifer) Coolidge
Vince
$1,200 [4]
This "fictitious force" only exists within a frame of reference, such as discus throwing
centrifugal force
Katie Vince Stephanie
$1,600 [21]
In what's known as the South Sea this of 1720, stock in a British company skyrocketed, then crashed, "bursting" investors' hopes
a bubble
Katie
$1,600 [7]
This bestseller from Dr. Seuss was billed as "a book for obsolete children"
You're Only Old Once
DD $5,000 [18]
A body of water, or a deep, drawn-out howl
a bay
Vince
$1,600 [10]
Invented by German scientist Justus von Liebig from brewer's yeast, this spread big in the U.K. is an acquired taste & 100% vegetarian
Marmite
Katie Vince
$1,600 [8]
This series about a New York doctor in Cicely, Alaska beat out "L.A. Law", among others, to win Best Drama Series at the 1992 Emmys
Northern Exposure
Vince
$1,600 [5]
You'll get an "A", but won't give one by naming this computer programming language with a name 3 characters long
C++
Stephanie
DD $6,000 [24]
He reunited the Eastern & Western Roman Empires in 324 A.D., & the new capital soon bore his name
Constantine the Great
Katie
$2,000 [15]
He made "Contact" with his bestselling novel about Dr. Ellie Arroway, an astronomer trying to reach out to aliens
Sagan
Vince
$2,000 [12]
The Punjab region gives us this blended yogurt drink traditionally served in a clay cup called a kulhar
a lassi
Vince
$2,000 [9]
Claire Danes has won for her role on "Homeland" & for her portrayal of this animal behaviorist & autism activist
Temple Grandin
Katie
$2,000 [6]
A spiraling football is an example of an object displaying the angular type of this
momentum
Katie Vince

Final Jeopardy!

GEOGRAPHY MNEMONICS

MIMAL, sometimes said to be the silhouette of a chef or elf, stands for Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, these 2 states

Arkansas & Louisiana

Stephanie "What are Alabama & Louisiana?" — wagered $899
Katie "What are Alabama + Louisiana?" — wagered $5,000
Vince "What are Louisiana & Illinois?" — wagered $1,000

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