Show #8819 2023-03-02 (taped 2023-01-30) High School Reunion

2023 High School Reunion Tournament quarterfinal game 9.

Contestants

Maggie Brown — a junior at the University of West Florida from Pensacola, Florida

Caleb Richmond — a sophomore at Georgetown University from Bedford, New Hampshire

Hannah Nekritz — a senior at Brandeis University from Stamford, Connecticut

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Hannah $600 $1,400 $9,000 $0
2nd place: $5,000
$9,000
15 R, 4 W
Caleb $10,218 $12,418 $23,618 $29,235
Winner: semifinalist
$21,200
28 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Maggie $-800 $-400 $-1,600 $-1,600
3rd place: $5,000
$-1,600
2 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

BIRDS NEAR WATER IN THE SPORT COURSE DESCRIPTIONS RANDOM STUFF U.S. HISTORY THAT'S D-MINUS WORK
$200 [30]
This big-billed coastal native is featured on the flag of Louisiana
a pelican
Caleb
$200 [28]
Inherited runners, appeal play, pickoff
baseball
$200 [26]
Psych 200:Analyzing 1901's "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" by this man; also, how your mom figures in to that, in some way
Freud
Caleb
$200 [24]
In 2023 this transport for millions of young students was celebrated on a new postage stamp
a school bus
Caleb
$200 [25]
The U.S. had this kind of convention in 1787; the states later held hundreds, but the last full one was Rhode Island's of 1986
(a) constitutional (convention)
Hannah
$200 [21]
A tentative first outline of a document edits out a D to be a floating platform
draft & raft
Caleb
$400 [29]
Once a symbol of the Great Northern Wilderness, it'snow happy in parks & municipal ponds
a Canada goose
Caleb
$400 [27]
Best ball, casual water, closed face &--the absolute worst--shank
golf
Caleb
$400 [16]
History 400:A dive into the 20 active years of this party, including 32 days of riding high during the William Henry Harrison presidency
the Whig Party
Caleb
$400 [23]
About the size of a grain of rice, one of these embedded in your pet maximizes the chance of it being returned if lost
a microchip
Maggie
$400 [22]
In the 1930s, Charles Evans Hughesresisted FDR's ultimately failed plan to pack this body
the Supreme Court
Caleb
$400 [20]
The software that signals a printer leaves the letter D behind & becomes a body of water
driver & river
$600 [18]
Also the name of a Marine Corps aircraft, this raptor is alternately known as a fish eagle
an osprey
$600 [17]
Eight-count, accidental butt, cutman (for said accidental butt)
boxing
$600 [15]
Business 600:Devaluing your brand & still getting a $445 million payout--an examination of Adam Neumann & this office rental co.
WeWork
Caleb
$600 [9]
Some people swear by ice facials to reduce the appearance of these natural holes in the skin
pores
Hannah
$800 [3]
A 1915 article says of this modern type of woman, "her hair, newly coiled... exposed... her neck"
a flapper
Hannah
$600 [19]
To rise to your feet kicks away a D to become a slang word taken from an Eminem song
Stan & stand
Hannah
$800 [12]
This species of African wading birds seenhereshares its name with a similar-looking shark
a hammerhead
Caleb
$800 [11]
Penalty killing, plus-minus, the five-hole,"the biscuit" (that's what everyone's chasing)
hockey
$800 [7]
Law 800:Focusing on the 1735 court case of publisher John Peter Zenger, charged with this, & how freedom of the press won big
libel
Caleb
$800 [6]
In mythology this twin sister of Apollo is a goddess of the hunt
Artemis
Caleb
$1,000 [13]
Starting in 1821 it was a commercial trail southwest from Missouri; in 1846 Stephen Kearny & his troops used it to invade Mexico
the Santa Fe Trail
Caleb
$800 [8]
Crushed up paper into a ball loses a D & means walked through water up to the knees
wadded & waded
Hannah Caleb Maggie
$1,000 [4]
This bird of the genus Actitis gets its name from running along seashores making short, high-pitched noises
the sandpiper
$1,000 [10]
Chukker, gag bit, mallet, a lot of money
polo
Hannah Caleb
$1,000 [2]
French Lit 1000:A look at the works of this writer, including Les Temps Modernes, a monthly review she founded with Sartre in 1945
Simone de Beauvoir
Caleb
$1,000 [5]
The national park of this U.S. territory is located on 3 separate islands: Tutuila, Ofu & Ta'u
American Samoa
Caleb
DD $5,018 [14]
Civil War generals issued a lot of general orders; this man's No. 9 of April 1865 sent the Army of Northern Virginia home
Robert E. Lee
Caleb
$1,000 [1]
The stuff farmers give their horses & cows eats up a D & becomes a fixed charge you pay
fee & feed
Hannah

Double Jeopardy! Round

-POL, -POLI, -POLIS CITIES HIT ALBUMS ACTION & ADVENTURE NOVELS TRANSPORT OVER THE AGES DOCUMENTARY SUBJECTS ODD WORDS
$400 [20]
Communities near this state capital include Greenwood & Speedway
Indianapolis
Hannah
$400 [30]
She hit fame with "The Fame", featuring "Poker Face"
Lady Gaga
Hannah
$400 [22]
In "The Mystery of the Ivory Charm", this teen sleuth & her friends uncover a stolen cache of jewels & thwart a kidnapping
Nancy Drew
Maggie
$400 [29]
Ancient longships are called the boats of these people who dominated northern European waters with them for centuries
the Vikings
Caleb
$400 [27]
The CBS crew, not a news team but this kind of street artists, are the subject of "Can't Be Stopped"
graffiti artists
Caleb
$400 [25]
To egosurf is to search the Internet for mentions of this
yourself
Caleb
$800 [8]
This Italian name of a big city on a bay is from words meaning "new city"
Napoli
Caleb
$800 [24]
This 2-word subtitle followed "Red" & "Fearless" on 2 No. 1 albums of 2021
Taylor's Version
Hannah
$800 [21]
A misfit computer hacker teams up with a reporter in Sweden in this 2005 novel, the first in a series
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hannah
$800 [28]
America's first commercial railway, the B&O, short for this, was used by some traveling on the Underground Railroad
the Baltimore & Ohio
Caleb
$800 [26]
A 2009 doc profiles preacher Arthur Blessitt, who walked 40,000 miles across the globe carrying a 12-foot one of these
a crucifix
Hannah
$800 [17]
This symbol found on your keyboard gets its name from "and per se and"
an ampersand
Caleb
$1,200 [5]
This city on Maryland's Severn River is the seat of Anne Arundel County
Annapolis
Hannah
$1,200 [2]
2021 saw the release of this latest of Adele's numerically titled chart toppers
30
Hannah Caleb
$1,200 [13]
Craig Alanson created this series of novels, exforce for short, as a "military space opera"
Expeditionary Force
$1,200 [9]
This fantasy novelist wrote"Une ville flottante", or "The Floating City", inspired by his time on the "Great Eastern" steamer
Verne
Caleb
$1,200 [12]
In "The Territory", the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau people of the Amazon battle this process, the mass clearing of trees by humans
deforestation
Hannah
$1,200 [16]
Pig Latin & a word for nothing are the source of this 5-letter word meaning "to reject"
ixnay
Hannah
$1,600 [3]
Seen here is the obelisk of this once great Egyptian Sun city
Heliopolis
Caleb
$1,600 [1]
2020's "Eternal Atake" was a smash for this rapper born Symere Woods
Lil Uzi Vert
$1,600 [7]
A canine is the main character of this 1903 novel set in part in Canadian gold rush country
The Call of the Wild
Caleb
$1,600 [10]
As part of reparations after World War I, Germany provided to the U.S. one of these, the LZ-126
a zeppelin
Hannah Maggie
$2,000 [19]
Thisphotographer & advocate for marginalized folks & against opioid companies goes in front of the camera in a 2022 doc
Nan Goldin
$1,600 [15]
From the French, this word referring to a commotion or uproar sounds like there's laughing at the end of it
a brouhaha
Hannah
$2,000 [4]
This major port is the largest city in Crimea
Sevastopol
Caleb
$2,000 [23]
With 2012's "Babel", this not-actually-a-family band topped the charts & won an Album of the Year Grammy
Mumford & Sons
$2,000 [6]
In 11 books by C.S. Forester, this intrepid sailor starts as a midshipman & ultimately becomes an admiral
Horatio Hornblower
DD $10,018 [11]
Merchants on this trade route with a fabric in its name used the Bactrian camel to hump their goods along
the Silk Road
Caleb
DD $10,018 [18]
It means excessive talkativeness, it's from the Greek for "word" & it wins Nupur Lala The National Spelling Bee in a classic doc
logorrhea
Caleb
$2,000 [14]
Head toward the end of the alphabet for this word meaning an extreme fear of foreigners
xenophobia
Hannah

Final Jeopardy!

NONFICTION

It has the line, "The discovery of America... opened up fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie"

The Communist Manifesto

Hannah "What is The Communist Mani" — wagered $9,000
Caleb "What is the Communist Manifesto? (Hoya Saxa!)" — wagered $5,617

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