Show #8813 2023-02-22 (taped 2023-01-29) High School Reunion

2023 High School Reunion Tournament quarterfinal game 3.

Contestants

Sreekar Madabushi — a junior at the Georgia Institute of Technology from Basking Ridge, New Jersey

Autumn Shelton — a junior at Princeton University from Lamar, Missouri

Stephanie Pierson — a junior at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill from Macon, Georgia

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Stephanie	$0	$2,800	$14,400	$22,801 Winner: semifinalist	$10,000 15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Autumn	$2,200	$4,200	$4,200	$4,000 3rd place: $5,000	$4,200 12 R, 3 W
Sreekar	$5,800	$11,600	$25,800	$22,799 2nd place: $5,000	$17,800 23 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN CITIES	WHO PLAYED 'EM?	HAVE A NOSH	SCIENCE CRITTERS	WELCOME BACK!	IT'S GREAT TO "CU"
$200 [1] Though Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands, the seat of government is in this city The Hague Sreekar	$200 [7] Dr. Stephen Strange, 2016 & 2022 (Benedict) Cumberbatch Autumn	$200 [17] I know I want the Flamin' Hot kind of these snacks; the question is:Crunchy or puffs? Cheetos Stephanie	$200 [22] It's the animal in the name of the unit equivalent to 33,000 foot-pounds of work per minute a horse Stephanie Autumn Sreekar	$200 [12] In 2017 this Anaheim theme park stopped stamping the hands of exiting guests who wanted to return; now it takes photos Disneyland Stephanie	$200 [26] No joke, Whoopi Goldberg considered using the stage name Whoopi this Cushion Stephanie Autumn
$400 [2] "Carmen" is set in this city; "The Marriage of Figaro" takes place nearby Seville Autumn	$400 [10] The conflicted Ben Solo/Kylo Ren, 2015, 2017 & 2019 (Adam) Driver Autumn	$400 [18] I might be in the mood for a Fuji or a Gala one of these apples Stephanie	$400 [27] In an Oscar-winning 2020 documentary, this sea creature was a "Teacher" an octopus Autumn	$400 [13] The Brits call this type of airline ticket a return a round trip Sreekar	$400 [25] Meaning "with distinction", it follows summa & magna in college honors cum laude Stephanie
$600 [4] Seen here is some merrymaking in this capital of Bavaria Munich Sreekar	$600 [8] Gandalf, sometimes grey, sometimes white, 6 times starting in 2001 McKellen Autumn	$600 [19] Noshing at AMC Theatres can include this appetizer, tortilla chips & melted cheese nachos Sreekar	$600 [28] If you've taken biology, you've probably studied Drosophila, these alliterative winged insects fruit flies Sreekar	$600 [15] Set in a high school, the '70s TV series "Welcome Back, Kotter" made thisno-longer-high school-age star a star (John) Travolta Autumn	$600 [21] Grab a broom--it's the [Mayim laughs] sport being played here curling Autumn
$800 [5] Since 1578 a sacred 14-foot linen shroud has been preserved in a cathedral in this city Turin Sreekar	$800 [3] Dominic Toretto, 7 times so far since 2001 Vin Diesel Sreekar	$800 [16] Rold Gold & Snyder's of Hanover both make these snacks pretzels Stephanie	$1,000 [30] This Nobel-winning physicist came up with a thought experiment involving a cat & whether or not it's alive Schrödinger Stephanie	$800 [11] The citizens of St. Louis lined the riverbank to welcome this pair back on September 23, 1806 Lewis & Clark Stephanie	$800 [23] From the French, it's a quiet dead end street a cul-de-sac Sreekar
$1,000 [6] Warsaw lies on both banks of this river, the longest in Poland the Vistula Sreekar	$1,000 [9] Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, 1986 & 2022 Tom Cruise Sreekar	$1,000 [20] How about a handful of these Hawaiian nuts, commonly paired with white chocolate in cookies macadamia nuts Autumn	DD $3,000 [29] This Russian physiologist trained many breeds of dogs to reflexively salivate at the sound of noises they associated with food Pavlov Sreekar	$1,000 [14] Still in quarantine after splashing down, the Apollo 11 astronauts were welcomed back by this president Nixon Stephanie Sreekar	$1,000 [24] Sumerian & Akkadian were 2 of the main languages to be written in this ancient wedge-shaped script cuneiform Sreekar

Double Jeopardy! Round

COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES	TRAVEL FACTS	THE PRESIDENTIAL VICTOR	TV SWITCHEROO	LITERARY MOVEMENTS	A JOLLY RHYME
$400 [5] (I'm Troian Bellisario.) Considering my first name, maybe I was predestined to attend this university's school of dramatic arts where I earned a fine arts degree; fight on, Trojans! USC Autumn	$400 [9] Mainland Australia has 3 of these, ranging from UTC +8 to UTC +10 time zones Sreekar	$400 [20] In 1964 he won in a landslide over Barry Goldwater LBJ (Lyndon B. Johnson) Sreekar	$400 [30] In 2006 "Monday Night Football" began airing on this network after decades as a mainstay on ABC ESPN Stephanie Autumn Sreekar	$400 [24] Gregory Corso, one of the leading poets of this hip 1950s movement, incorporated jazz rhythms into his verse the Beat movement Sreekar	$400 [25] Streetcar transit from days of old is being revived, like the one seenherein St. Louis, called this a (Loop) trolley Autumn
$800 [3] Its main campus in West Lafayette, Indiana includes the Krannert School of Management Purdue Sreekar	$800 [13] A legacy of its colonial past, Burundi's currency is this, divided into 100 centimes the franc	$800 [14] Lincoln defeated this Illinois senator (Stephen A.) Douglas Stephanie	$800 [28] Dwight was perplexed when Randall Park, seen here, showed up in an "Office" episode impersonating this character Jim (Halpert) Sreekar	$1,200 [21] Poet & playwright Amiri Baraka is considered the founder of this 1960s & '70s movement, BAM for short the Black Arts Movement	$800 [16] An act of sheer madness or idiocy folly
$1,200 [1] This Boston school of music is named for its second president; his first & last names were reversed Berklee Sreekar	$1,600 [11] Remember to drive on the left in this country once known as Ceylon Sri Lanka Sreekar	$1,200 [6] Grover Cleveland would have his revenge on this victor Benjamin Harrison Autumn	$1,200 [29] Lacey Chabert voiced this character on the first season of "Family Guy", but Mila Kunis picked up the ball & ran with it Meg	$1,600 [22] Wordsworth & this sometime friend & writing partner were the big stars of the early 19th century Lake School of English poetry Coleridge Sreekar	$1,200 [17] North Carolina State University's Memorial Bell Toweris seen with the skyline of this city behind it Raleigh Stephanie
$1,600 [2] The Hawthorne-Longfellow Library is at this private college in Brunswick, Maine Bowdoin Stephanie	$2,000 [10] Say yes to grandma when she wants to take you on a cruise to the stretch of the Yucatan coast invitingly called the "Mayan" this the Mayan Riviera Stephanie	$1,600 [7] He waxed Wendell Willkie in wartime Franklin D. Roosevelt Autumn	$1,600 [27] On the "Wanda Vision" episode about Wanda's reunion with this "mercurial" brother, he's a different actor from "Age of Ultron" Quicksilver Stephanie Sreekar	$2,000 [23] For their gallant verses & loyalty to Charles I, 1600s poets like Richard Lovelace were known as these mounted knights cavaliers	$1,600 [18] 1621's "Anatomy of" this sad mood rhymes, "All my griefs to this are jolly" melancholy Stephanie
$2,000 [4] One of the Claremont Colleges, it's named for a mining engineer & focuses on engineering, science & math Harvey Mudd Sreekar	DD $7,000 [12] No shorts or miniskirts if you want to get into this Vatican chapel constructed from 1473 to 1481\ the Sistine Chapel Sreekar	$2,000 [8] Samuel J. Tilden beat him in the popular vote but did not become President Tilden Rutherford B. Hayes Stephanie	$2,000 [26] After a big time jump in season 9 of this show, we find a new actress playing young Judith Grimes & she's there to help the survivors The Walking Dead	DD $5,200 [15] Gertrude Stein is credited with giving this bleak nickname to a group of young writers alienated from post-World War I society the Lost Generation Stephanie	$2,000 [19] A camera mounted on a cart is used for this type of movie shot in moving toward a subject or out for the reverse a dolly

Final Jeopardy!

PEOPLE & PLACES

Thought to descend from people of Southeast Asia, the Chamorro make up this U.S. territory's largest ethnic group

Guam

Autumn "What are the U.S. Virgin Islands?" — wagered $200

Stephanie "What is Guam?" — wagered $8,401

Sreekar "What is American Samoa?" — wagered $3,001

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