Show #8796 2023-01-30 (taped 2022-12-07) Regular

Jake DeArruda game 2.

Contestants

Sarah Howard — a Ph.D. candidate from Durham, North Carolina

Sam Meehan — an attorney from Santa Cruz, California

Jake DeArruda — a delivery dispatcher originally from Ludlow, Vermont (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,797)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Jake	$4,200	$6,200	$26,000	$25,197 2-day champion: $47,994	$22,000 28 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W
Sam	$1,600	$2,200	$13,400	$0 3rd place: $1,000	$13,400 17 R, 6 W
Sarah	$600	$800	$2,000	$1 2nd place: $2,000	$2,800 5 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

WORST CASE ONTARIO	NURSERY RHYMES	GEOLOGY	4, 4	CHANNELING THE TV SHOWS	ENDS IN A DOUBLE VOWEL POTPOURRI
$200 [29] Worst case? Ill-tempered aquatic creatures emerge from this Great Lake upon which Thunder Bay sits Superior Jake	$200 [30] Curds & whey are on the menu for this tuffet sitter Little Miss Muffet Jake Sam	$200 [28] Before it reaches the surface & goes blooey, lava is known as this magma Sam	$200 [27] Musicians know it's what seen here a half note Jake Sarah	$200 [26] "Sleeping with a Killer" & "Dance Moms", shows that happen once in a... Lifetime Jake	$200 [25] Wham-O first sold this in 1957 as a "Pluto Platter" a Frisbee Sam
$400 [23] This province directly to the west makes a series of nighttime cow-tipping raids, causing general chaos Manitoba Jake Sam	$400 [22] Kissing the girls made them cry, but when the boys came out to play, Georgie Porgie did this ran away	$400 [21] "Plucking" is the process by which one of these freezes the bedrock beneath it, cracks it & carries bits away a glacier Jake	$400 [20] It's defined as a short period of very chilly weather that occurs rather suddenly cold snap Jake	$400 [16] "No Demo Reno" & "Flipping 101" live there HGTV Sam	$400 [24] Home to up to 20,000 people, this city had a catastrophically bad day in 79 A.D. Pompeii Jake
$600 [8] King Kong, he's real, & he's climbing this 1,815-foot structure, his eye filling the window of the revolving restaurant the CN Tower Sam	$600 [19] "Pussy cat, pussy cat" went to London because this person is there the queen	$600 [18] This lightweight, porous volcanic rock is used in concrete & plaster as well as in abrasives & scouring compounds pumice Jake	$600 [17] The horses seenhereare on this kind of breeding establishment a stud farm Jake	$600 [15] It has destinations like "Ice Hotels... Not Impossible" & "Portals to Hell" the Travel Channel Sam Sarah	$600 [13] This Nintendo game console first got moving in 2006 the Wii Jake
$800 [7] The intraprovince rivalry between the national capital's Ottawa Senators & these provincial capital NHLers comes to a fever of hate the Maple Leafs Jake Sam	$800 [11] Contrarian Mary gets her garden growing with these 2 things & some pretty maids all in a row silver bells & cockle shells Jake	$800 [12] Also a word for a resident of Russia's capital, it's the most common form of mica muscovite Sam	DD $1,000 [10] With someone outwardly gentle but forceful, you'll find this "in a velvet glove" an iron hand Jake	$800 [14] "Below Deck Mediterranean" & "The Real Housewives of Dallas" are all over its map Bravo Jake	$800 [9] Native Hawaiian women adapted a long, loose garment introduced by missionaries into this long, loose dress a muumuu Jake
$1,000 [1] Zombies (& not the slow ones) are making their way from Detroit to this city across the Ambassador Bridge Windsor Sam	$1,000 [5] The black sheep's not so bad; he's got 3 bags full of wool for these 3 recipients the master, the dame & the little boy who lives down the lane	$1,000 [6] Rocks formed by heat at great depths within the earth can be called abyssal or this, after the Roman god of the underworld plutonic Sam	$1,000 [3] Here's what this mountaineering setup looked like in 1909 on an expedition by an Italian duke and a more recentone base camp Sam	$1,000 [2] "Celebrity Beef" & "Celebrity Game Face"; it's big on celebrities E! Sam	$1,000 [4] Waukesha & West Allis are in the metro area of this Midwestern city Milwaukee Jake

Double Jeopardy! Round

EXPLORATION	SAINTS & THEIR CITIES	WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME	MUSHROOM STEW	SCARY MOVIES	OUT ON A BOOK TOUR
$400 [26] Standing on a peak in Panama in 1513, Vasco Núñez de Balboa became the first European to sight the eastern shore of this ocean the Pacific Jake	$400 [27] Founder of the Franciscan order, St. Francis of this city Assisi Jake	$400 [30] An unbroken series of wins & a T-bone to dine on streak & steak Jake	$400 [16] Chitin, hard enough to form crabs'exoskeletons, also makes up these microscopic mushroom germinators spores Jake	$400 [1] Black people are mysteriously disappearing in this 2017 directorial debut of Jordan Peele Get Out Jake	$400 [25] Henry James' 1884 book "A Little Tour in" this country begins, naturally, at Tours France Sam
$800 [22] In 1889 & 1890 Nellie Bly did this in 72 days, 8 fewer than in the title of a popular novel of the day travel around the world Jake	$800 [23] A follower of St. Francis & a patron of the poor, St. Anthony of this city Padua Jake Sam	$800 [20] An injury & a division of a boxing match wound & round Sam Sarah	$800 [15] This word that starts with an animal is used of various species of mushrooms thought to be inedible or poisonous toadstools	$800 [17] In 1984, ahousein Hollywood got the cinematic address 1428 this for the first time Elm Street	$800 [24] This author's "Six Weeks' Tour" in 1814 with Percy tells of Europeans who in acts "hideous to English eyes, kissed each other" Mary Shelley Jake
$1,600 [5] At the age of 67 Emma Gatewood became the first woman to solo hike all 2,000+ miles of this trail, from Georgia to Maine the Appalachian Trail Jake	$1,200 [7] Egyptian martyr whose symbol is a spiked wheel, not a library book, St. Catherine of this city Alexandria Jake	$1,200 [21] A female rabbit & an oxford a doe & a shoe Sam Sarah	$1,200 [14] White button, cremini, & this beautiful harbor mushroomare all the same variety, just at different stages of life a portobello Sarah	DD $800 [19] Bram Stoker's widow got a court order to have this 1922 German silent classic destroyed--but it survived, as vampires do Nosferatu Sarah	$1,200 [8] In "A Cook's Tour" this late chef & lover of travel went all over the world "In Search of the Perfect Meal" Bourdain Jake
$2,000 [4] Francisco de Coronado found what was supposed to be the 7 Golden Cities of this; they turned out to be a simple Zuni pueblo Cibola Jake	$1,600 [2] Canonized in 1671, the first saint of South America, Rose of this city Lima Jake	$1,600 [28] Proverbial coal mine avian & wheat storehouse a canary & a granary Sam	$1,600 [12] Named for a French nobleman, it's a preparation of chopped mushrooms & herbs that can be a filling or a topping a Duxelles Sam	$1,200 [18] The first Oscar in the new Makeup category went to Rick Baker in 1982 for turning David Naughton into one of these (in London) a werewolf Sarah	$1,600 [9] 1785's "Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides" recounts James Boswell's trip taken with this author Samuel Johnson Jake
DD $5,000 [6] "These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale", this British explorer wrote in 1912 in one of his final diary entries Robert Falcon Scott Jake	$2,000 [3] The first Pole to be made a saint, Stanislaus of this city, formerly the capital of Poland Kraków Sam	$2,000 [29] The boundary between 2 air masses & a typeface used in printing like Korinna Bold a front & font Jake	$2,000 [13] Oregon is the first state to legalize this compound in hallucinogenic mushrooms for supervised mental health treatment psilocybin Sam	$2,000 [11] This 1973 cult classic about pagan rites on a small Scottish isle ends with the burning of the title effigy--& some other things Wicker Man Sam	$2,000 [10] The Jason Segel film "The End of the Tour" was an adaptation of a book subtitled "A Road Trip with" this 3-named author David Foster Wallace Sam

Final Jeopardy!

WORD ORIGINS

Originally relating to a story of suffering, this word now more commonly refers to strong emotion of any kind

passion

Sarah "What isintensepass?" — wagered $1,999

Sam "What is drama" — wagered $13,400

Jake "What is mortal" — wagered $803

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