Show #8808 2023-02-15 (taped 2022-12-15) Regular

Stephen Webb game 1.

Contestants

Jason Carpenter — a fast food worker and stand-up comedian from Santa Rosa Valley, California

Stephen Webb — a data scientist from Longmont, Colorado

Kendra Westerhaus — a licensed psychologist from Pocatello, Idaho (whose 2-day cash winnings total $47,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kendra $1,400 $2,800 $10,800 $13,201
2nd place: $2,000
$10,800
10 R, 1 W
Stephen $5,000 $5,600 $25,800 $38,401
New champion: $38,401
$18,600
22 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Jason $1,600 $6,400 $19,200 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$16,800
22 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

LANDMARKS THE CLASS MENAGERIE ON A STAMP ACC SCHOOL HISTORY A DECADE OF NO. 1 HITS TELLS A STORY SERVING T FOR 3
$200 [14]
The settling of the foundation of this medieval structure caused a slant of about 5.5 degrees by the 20th century
the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Jason
$200 [12]
Caecilians & newts are members of this animal class
amphibians
Jason
$200 [15]
One of Canada's rarest stamps, the 1851 12-pence black features a youthful portrait ofher
Queen Victoria
Kendra
$200 [6]
Its website says it opened in 1864 in the South End to educate its city's "predominantly Irish, Catholic immigrant community"
Boston College
Stephen
$200 [1]
"Love Me Do","You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin"', "Where Did Our Love Go"
the 1960s
Stephen
$200 [16]
The chirping noise of a bird, or the app where people do a lot of chirping
Twitter
Jason
$400 [23]
In 2022 a fire damaged some of the iconic Moai statues on this remote Pacific island
Easter Island
Stephen
$400 [13]
For their somewhat ursine looks, the microscopic members of the class Eutardigrada are called water these
bears
Jason
$400 [21]
The 2017 Total Eclipse of the Sun stamp depicts a black disk that turns into this under the heat of a finger
the Moon
Kendra
$400 [5]
In 1872 this New York school chose its official colors--pink & green; its students chose orange in 1890
Syracuse
Stephen
$400 [8]
"Can't Help Falling In Love", "It Must Have Been Love", "How Am I Supposed To Live Without You"
the 1990s
Kendra Jason
$400 [17]
If you can name another 28-letter word with 3 Ts besides this church-related one, we will also accept it with absolute awe
antidisestablishmentarianism
Jason
$600 [26]
What has the face of a man but the body of a recumbent lion, is 240 feet long & is carved out of limestone? This
the Sphinx
Jason
$600 [20]
The class Malacostraca includes crabs, shrimps & homaridae, the delicious "true" these
lobsters
Jason
$600 [22]
One of the most valuable U.S. stamps is the "Inverted"this, the female nickname of the Curtiss JN-4 shown upside down
Jenny
Jason
$800 [3]
The founder of this university willed his South Carolina home & 814 acres to start an agricultural college
Clemson
Stephen
$600 [9]
"Crazy In Love", "Promiscuous","It Wasn't Me"
the 2000s
Stephen Jason
$600 [7]
Sounding like it will hold up to legal scrutiny, this walk is taken daily to keep healthy
a constitutional
Jason
$800 [25]
Some 275 separate waterfalls form this spectacular South American landmark whose name means "great water"
Iguazú Falls
Kendra
$800 [27]
It's the tallest & heaviest member of the class Aves
an ostrich
Jason
$800 [30]
The "Skilled Hands for Independence" series saluted wheelwrights, leatherworkers, blacksmiths & this job of Betsy Ross
a seamstress
Stephen Jason
$1,000 [2]
The founder of what would be this univ. petitioned the Pennsylvania state assembly & got the school started in a log cabin in 1787
Pitt
Stephen
$800 [10]
"Call Me","I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)","Baby Don't Forget My Number"
the 1980s
Kendra
$800 [18]
One is said to die this way if they did not make a valid will
intestate
$1,000 [24]
The holiest shrine in Islam is this one located in Mecca's Great Mosque
the Kaaba
Jason
$1,000 [28]
Members of the class Chondrichthyes include these flat-bodied fish that sound like winter footwear
sea skates
Stephen
$1,000 [29]
Included in a set of stamps celebrating American architecture was this Pennsylvania house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
Falling Water
Kendra
DD $2,000 [4]
In 1926 this southern school enrolled about 650 full-time students, but of all things, a hurricane nearly put it out of business
the University of Miami
Stephen
$1,000 [11]
"Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?", "You're So Vain","You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"
the 1970s
Stephen
$1,000 [19]
From the Latin for "abandoned", it means lacking food, clothing & shelter
destitute
Jason

Double Jeopardy! Round

I HAVE AN IDEA TV PARTY TONIGHT! CRAFTS LOVE CONQUERS ALL
$400 [13]
In 1920 Detroit police officer William Potts had the idea to add this signal to make simple stop/go traffic lights safer
a yellow light
Stephen
$400 [14]
Dwight buys brown & gray balloons to match the conference room carpet for Kelly's birthday party on this show
The Office
Stephen
$400 [1]
Trapunto is a form of this craft of making bedcovers using multiple layers of cloth in high relief
quilting
Stephen
$400 [21]
The 3 title elements of this Elizabeth Gilbert book take place in Italy, India & Indonesia
Eat, Pray, Love
Jason
$400 [3]
After being in Frankish control for over 80 years, this city fell to Saladin on Oct. 2, 1187
Jerusalem
Stephen Jason
$400 [30]
A direction-finding device is in this 12-letter word that follows "all"
encompassing
$800 [16]
The idea to write "The Remains of the Day" came when Kazuo Ishiguro's wife said he should pretend to an interviewer that he was this servant
a butler
Stephen
$800 [22]
A pool party erupts into a fight among karate students in a 2021 episode of this Netflix series
Cobra Kai
Jason
$800 [19]
Whittling uses wood, while scrimshaw typically involved carving this material
tusks (bones or ivory)
Kendra
$800 [28]
"Who can sever love from charity?" says this Shakespeare play with "Love" in the title
Love's Labour's Lost
Stephen
$800 [4]
With the help of crusaders who had stopped in Porto, in 1147 Afonso I took this city, later a capital, from the Moors
Lisbon
Jason
$800 [25]
A bet on a horse to place either first, second or third is called "across" this, a phrase also meaning "all"
across the board
$1,600 [8]
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was the idea of this current senator
Warren
Stephen
$1,200 [24]
Henry Blake's farewell party on this show is followed by a gut punch--his plane is shot down over the Sea of Japan
M*A*S*H
Stephen
$1,200 [18]
French for "cut out" gives us the name of this craft, similar to collage, of using paper cutouts to decorateobjects
découpage
Kendra
$1,200 [11]
It's "To" him "with Love" in E.R. Braithwaite's title about a dedicated teacher in a tough London school
To Sir
Jason
$1,200 [5]
He styled himself "Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular"
Idi Amin
Stephen
$1,200 [10]
A Mexican entree ends this idiom that means the entirety
the whole enchilada
Stephen
$2,000 [2]
The institute named for this 18th c. Scot says his radical insight was that national wealth isn't gold but productive capacity
Adam Smith
Jason
$1,600 [29]
On "The Sopranos", a welcome home from jail party for Paulie takes place at this alliterative club
the Bada Bing!
Jason
$1,600 [17]
To make simple candles, pour wax such as paraffin or this animal fat into a container around a wick
tallow
Stephen
$2,000 [27]
"Do I dare to eat a peach?" muses the middle-aged man in this T.S. Eliot poem
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Kendra
$1,600 [6]
In 1827, the ruler of this North African capitalhita French diplomat with a fly whisk, a pretext for the French to conquer the city
Algiers
Jason
$1,600 [26]
Wrestling gave us this 3-word phrase meaning everything & anything is legal
no holds barred
Jason
DD $7,000 [15]
S.D. state historian Doane Robinson's original idea for what became this was carvings of Western heroes, including Native Americans
Mount Rushmore
Stephen
$2,000 [23]
Blair has a wild bachelorette party before her upcoming wedding to Prince Louis on a 2012 episode of this CW series
Gossip Girl
Kendra
$2,000 [20]
It's the malicious-sounding name for loosely twisted yarn used in fancy embroidery
crewel
Kendra
DD $4,000 [12]
This Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel takes place in South America amid the outbreak of disease
Love in the Time of Cholera
Jason
$2,000 [7]
A mixture of Turks & Mongols, this "gleaming" group took lands from the Carpathians to Siberia
the Golden Horde
Stephen
$2,000 [9]
2 extremities of a boat are in this nautical idiom for including everything
from stem to stern
Stephen

Final Jeopardy!

THE U.S. MILITARY

Losses over Asia in the 1960s led to the establishment of the program known as this at a San Diego naval base in 1969

Top Gun

Kendra "What is Top Gun?" — wagered $2,401
Jason "What is B-2" — wagered $19,199
Stephen "What is Top Gun?" — wagered $12,601

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