Show #8815 2023-02-24 (taped 2023-01-29) High School Reunion

2023 High School Reunion Tournament quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

Isabella Pagano — a first-year student at Caltech from Libertyville, Illinois

Ryan Presler — a senior at Brandon Valley High School from Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Jackson Jones — a junior at Vanderbilt University from Louisville, Kentucky

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jackson $5,200 $8,800 $16,200 $22,001
Winner: semifinalist
$15,600
25 R (including 2 DDs), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Ryan $4,600 $5,400 $11,000 $20,801
2nd place: $5,000
$11,000
14 R, 1 W
Isabella $4,400 $4,400 $10,400 $10,400
3rd place: $5,000
$10,400
15 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

VERY ARTISTIC HITS OF THEN & NOW A GOVERNMENT OFFICE HOMOPHONES I LIKE TO SCIENCE! GET READY FOR THE "G-R-E"s
$200 [29]
Matt Groening drew his own initials in the design of this TV character--the "M" is in his lower hairline, the "G", his ear
Homer Simpson
Jackson
$200 [30]
With her 2019 song "Bad Guy", at 17 years old this artist became the first born in the 21st century to have a No. 1 song
Billie Eilish
Jackson
$200 [27]
Conveniently based in this U.S. city, the Office of Cuba Broadcasting provides uncensored information to the island
Miami
Jackson
$200 [28]
A vaulting staff & a survey of voters
a pole/poll
Jackson
$200 [24]
This 20th c. British physicist said, "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can & will create itself from nothing"
Hawking
Jackson Ryan
$200 [26]
The speedy dog breed the Whippet may have developed from this even faster breed
Greyhound
Ryan
$400 [18]
In 1505 this 1-named artist planned to make 12 marble Apostles for a local cathedral, but he'd be called to Rome by pope-ular demand
Michelangelo
Jackson
$400 [15]
On "Black Panther: The Album" in 2018, this rapper gazed at "All The Stars" with SZA
Kendrick Lamar
Isabella
$400 [21]
The Off. of Minority Health says disease of this organ, the USA's top killer, takes 30% fewer Hispanics & 30% more Blacks than whites
the heart
Ryan
$400 [25]
Your physical debut & a bed on a train
birth/berth
Jackson
$400 [22]
Seen here, this American advised President Theodore Roosevelt & Mahatma Gandhi about agriculture
George Washington Carver
Jackson
$400 [23]
This word now meaning sociable & outgoing comes from the Latin for flock
gregarious
Ryan
$600 [17]
Used as a doorstop in Long Island, a vase from this Chinese dynasty eventually sold for $1.3 million at auction in 2012
the Ming Dynasty
Jackson Isabella
$600 [12]
Ariana Grande was on the Hot 100 in 2019, singing, "So, look what I got, look what you taught me, & for that I say" this grateful title
"thank u, next"
Isabella
$600 [14]
The Wall of Honorat the Office of Personnel Management honors five employees of this service that delivers for you
the Postal Service
Ryan
$600 [20]
Brahmins for one & to throw out a lure when angling
a caste/cast
Jackson
$800 [10]
Once a resident of Smiljan, he immigrated to the U.S. with 4 cents & later patented a polyphase system of A.C. dynamos
Tesla
Jackson
$600 [16]
This symbol of the U.S. has an eagle on the front & an unfinished pyramid on the reverse
the Great Seal
Jackson Isabella
$800 [2]
Praise this painting from the early 1500s on its use of sfumato, the use of fine shading, but please don't tell her to smile more
the Mona Lisa
Isabella
$800 [9]
"I wish I knew you wanted me", he sings in the 2022 smash "Bad Habit"
Steve Lacy
Jackson
$800 [4]
The Office of Career, Technical & Adult Education has initiatives for this read ability
literacy
Isabella
$800 [19]
A particular manner of walking & a waiting area inside an airport terminal
a gait/gate
Jackson
$1,000 [5]
He had a pretty good 19th century run, including saving France's beer, wine & silk industries
Pasteur
Isabella
$800 [7]
Traditionally made from pomegranates, this red syrup is an ingredient in Shirley Temples
grenadine
Isabella
$1,000 [1]
Victor Hugo didn't want to pose for a bust, so this French sculptor made some quicksketches, &, voilà, abustwas born
Rodin
Jackson
$1,000 [8]
He rolled into 2019 with a hit tune featuring Drake rapping, "Young La Flame, he in sicko mode"
Travis Scott
Ryan
$1,000 [3]
During WWII, the Office of Strategic Services pulled off ops like dropping Jewish spies into the Innsbruck area of this country
Austria
Ryan
$1,000 [13]
To take from someone by force & to take a break
wrest/rest
Ryan
DD $2,600 [11]
In 1957, long before she had her own institute, she met Louis Leakey, who guided her to Gombe Stream to study chimps
Jane Goodall
Jackson
$1,000 [6]
John Gardner wrote a novel from the point of view of this monster from an Old English epic
Grendel
Ryan

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY REUNIONS SHORT, TINY & SMALL DESCRIBING THE HORROR FILM FRANCHISE WORLD GEOGRAPHY STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME VOWEL BLACK HISTORY
$400 [19]
In the "Odyssey" Odysseus has a brief but memorable reunion with Argus, one of these, as he returns to Ithaca
his dog
Jackson Isabella
$400 [30]
Heard here, it's the smallest & highest-pitched woodwind instrument in an orchestra
a piccolo
Isabella
$400 [27]
An extremely unlucky day at camp; Kevin Bacon got the point in film No. 1; Jason's "Final Chapter"? Not even close
Friday the 13th
Ryan
$400 [26]
It's the world's second-longest river, but the longest in the Western Hemisphere
the Amazon
Ryan
$400 [29]
Handel's "Messiah" is a famous one
an oratorio
Jackson Isabella
$400 [22]
In 1930 "Don't buy where you can't work" was a slogan of this economic strategy vs. stores that wouldn't hire African Americans
a boycott
Jackson
$800 [18]
Anne Sexton's poem about this "Eve" mentions 12 grandchildren at the family reunion & "the bulbs of the tree"
Christmas
Isabella
$800 [28]
Pesto saucemakes a tasty topping for these small potato dumplings
gnocchi
Jackson
$800 [25]
A torso-bursting good time; Ripley's continuing believe it or not; bad company, I can't deny
Alien
Isabella
$800 [17]
What was called Mount McKinley for nearly 100 years is now officially known by this Native American name
Mount Denali
Isabella
$800 [20]
Brush up on your Shakespeare & name this board game
Othello
Jackson
$800 [21]
From around the mid-1910s, families vacationed in "Black Eden", Idlewild in the central region of this state's Lower Peninsula
Michigan
Ryan
$1,600 [1]
In her 2018 novel "Normal People", Connell & Marianne meet up again at university in Dublin & resume their situationship
Sally Rooney
Isabella
$1,200 [16]
The sword-billed species of this tiny bird has the longest bill in relation to its body size of any bird in the world
a hummingbird
Jackson
$1,200 [24]
Title tool of the trade; locked up folks, cutting to the chase; the Tobin Bell tolls for thee
Saw
Ryan
$1,200 [11]
Ancient Mesopotamia was the land "between rivers", these 2 to be exact
the Tigris & the Euphrates
Isabella
$1,200 [13]
This secret group of "enlightened" individuals figures prominently in conspiracy theories & in Dan Brown's "Angels & Demons"
the Illuminati
Jackson
$1,200 [4]
Ed Bradley & Bayard Rustin are alumni of Cheyney U., founded in 1837 & claiming the title first of these, often abbrev. to 4 letters
HBCUs (historically black colleges & universities)
Ryan
$2,000 [2]
Some 20 books in, he won a Pulitzer for "American Pastoral", which delves deep into the psyche at a 45th high school reunion
Philip Roth
Jackson
$1,600 [15]
This tiny & remote kingdom has the smallest population of any country in mainland Asia
Bhutan
Isabella
$1,600 [23]
Once a year, anything goes!; Ethan Hawke's son unlocks the door to trouble; later, it's "Anarchy"
The Purge
Isabella
$2,000 [5]
It's the capital of Georgia, the country, not the state
Tbilisi
Jackson
$1,600 [10]
The giant Australian rock formation seenhereis sacred to the Anangu people who call it by this name
Uluru
Ryan
$1,600 [8]
Around 1910 there was no such thing as Chicago blues; this 2-word exodus of Black folks brought the music north
the Great Migration
Jackson
DD $3,600 [6]
This title woman finally returns to Rochester, blinded after a fire; but fear not! He regains some sight after they marry
Jane Eyre
Jackson
$2,000 [14]
Lasting a mere 2 months, 17 days in 1483, the fifth king of this name was the shortest-reigning male monarch of England
Edward V
Jackson Isabella
$2,000 [12]
A high school plane trip to Europe! What could possibly go wrong?; making death mad... problematic; hi, Mr. Bludworth!
Final Destination
DD $3,800 [3]
This desert that's rich in wildlife covers parts of Botswana, Namibia & South Africa
the Kalahari
Jackson
$2,000 [9]
When it comes to blood, this literally means "red cell"
an erythrocyte
Jackson
$2,000 [7]
The Boston Women's Memorial includes a bronze of this 18th century poet who wrote "On Being Brought from Africa to America"
Phillis Wheatley
Jackson

Final Jeopardy!

THE ANCIENT WORLD

The ancient writer Galen said books on ships arriving to this city's port were seized, originals kept & copies returned

Alexandria

Isabella "What is Athens?" — wagered $0
Ryan "What is Alexandria?" — wagered $9,801
Jackson "What is [letter or two scribbled over] Alexandria?" — wagered $5,801

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