Show #8825 2023-03-10 (taped 2022-12-16) Regular

Stephen Webb game 4.Ken Jennings hosts.

Contestants

Nick Lauber — an attorney from Sherman Oaks, California

Jannette Peterson — a graduate student originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Stephen Webb — a data scientist from Longmont, Colorado (whose 3-day cash winnings total $80,631)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Stephen	$4,600	$8,200	$20,400	$20,250 4-day champion: $100,881	$18,600 29 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Jannette	$2,400	$2,000	$9,600	$1,600 2nd place: $2,000	$8,600 15 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Nick	$-400	$1,000	$5,400	$1,199 3rd place: $1,000	$5,400 10 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

LET'S VISIT NICARAGUA	SHOPPING AT THE MALL	20th CENTURY NAMES	TV SHOWS IN OTHER WORDS	HODGEPODGE	FROM STEM TO STERN
$200 [5] In 1857 this city beat out León & Granada to become Nicaragua's capital Managua Stephen	$200 [30] I feel like glamming it up, so let's drop by MAC, which sells these, what the "C" stands for cosmetics Jannette	$200 [22] She & co-pilot Fred Noonan were last heard from July 2, 1937 Earhart Stephen	$200 [13] "Felonious Intellects" Criminal Minds Stephen	$200 [14] Per the 1960 census, women's median age at this life event: 20.3 marriage Stephen Nick	$200 [29] A really potent, disgusting, noxious, rotten, fetid, malodorous, lingering smell; what's that...?! a stench Jannette
$400 [4] Current president Daniel Ortega was part of this revolutionary movement that took power in the 1970s the Sandinistas Stephen	$400 [28] Let's check out the sneakers at this store whose logo depicts a referee, with hands on hips, wearing a striped shirt Foot Locker Nick	$400 [21] Tennessee Williams is seen here with this pop art icon who's just being cool in his shades Andy Warhol Stephen	$400 [15] "Cephalopod Contest" Squid Game Jannette	$400 [16] With no combustion engine, electric cars may have a frunk, a combo of these 2 words a front trunk Stephen	$400 [27] Also a printing process, this word refers to a simplified generalization about a social group a stereotype Jannette
$600 [3] A stadium in Masaya is named for this Puerto Rican Pittsburgh Pirate who died flying earthquake relief to Nicaragua Clemente Stephen	$600 [9] Love the tropical vibe at the store named for this made-up island guy, perhaps from Nassau Tommy Bahama Stephen	$600 [8] A then-record crowd at Pimlico watched & FDR delayed a conference to listen on radio as this underdog horse beat War Admiral in 1938 Seabiscuit Stephen Nick	$600 [10] "Legendshatterers" MythBusters Stephen	$600 [25] The traditional story of "Bonny Barbara Allan" is in this genre of folk poetry or song a ballad Jannette	$600 [26] In a courtroom it's the most likely person to be asked, "could you read that last part back?" a stenographer Stephen
$800 [2] Major agricultural products include sugar cane, maize & these green bananas that can be cooked & eaten like a vegetable plantain Stephen	$800 [11] I propose we look at rings at this end-of-the-alphabet jewelers, "the diamond store" Zales Stephen	DD $1,000 [7] His brother Ted eulogized him in 1968 as "a good & decent man who saw wrong and tried to right it" Bobby Kennedy Jannette	$800 [19] "Dread All Ambulatory Inanimate" Fear the Walking Dead Stephen	$800 [20] The Awlad Ali are a desert tribe of this people; thought of as nomadic, they've undergone what sociologists call sedentarization the Bedouins Stephen Jannette Nick	$800 [24] 2-word rock used to traverse a stream, or anything used to propel you upwards on life's journey a stepping stone Nick
$1,000 [1] Nicaragua's longest land border is with this country to its north Honduras Stephen Nick	$1,000 [12] Love the tops & sweaters at LOFT, the more casual spin-off of this store with a woman's name Ann Taylor Nick	$1,000 [6] Henry Ford's son didn't live to see this model named for him, which is maybe just as well the Edsel Stephen Jannette	$1,000 [18] "Zany Former Sweetheart" Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Nick	$1,000 [17] I tell ya, it's gold! Gold! Gold is commonly found in veins of this silica mineral, the second-most common in Earth's crust quartz Stephen Jannette	$1,000 [23] This small tube is inserted into a blood vessel that's blocked up a stent Stephen

Double Jeopardy! Round

FUTURE OSCAR WINNERS	BIOLOGY	GETTING SCHOOLED	TOOL TALK	NATIONAL OFFICIAL LANGUAGES	LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER
$400 [30] As a teen in Arizonahewrote & directed a sci-fi film called "Firelight", a precursor to "Close Encounters" Steven Spielberg Jannette	$400 [17] When the luciferin in some organisms oxidizes, it causes them to do this glow (or light up) Stephen	$400 [18] As opposed to a raw score, grading can be done on this, perhaps a bell-shaped one a curve Nick	$400 [1] Hand-tool name for a potent potable with but 2 ingredients a screwdriver Stephen	$400 [24] Maori & NZSL, a form of sign language New Zealand Jannette	$400 [29] "The Tommyknockers" author who's a deadly venomous snake Stephen King cobra Stephen
$800 [28] Once upon a time at his Kickapoo High School in Missouri, hewas on the student council & was also voted Best Dressed Brad Pitt Nick	$800 [14] This disk-shaped organ that develops during pregnancy provides oxygen & nutrients to the fetus & also carries away waste a placenta Stephen	$800 [19] It's the 12-letter term for a college course that a student must pass before taking an advanced class prerequisite Stephen	$800 [3] Used a different way, the word for this tool is a synonym for an adage a saw Stephen Jannette	$800 [4] Castilian Spain Stephen	$800 [8] Century-plus conflict between England & France involving a sci-fi invasion of Martians in towering tripods The Hundred Years' War of the Worlds Nick
$1,200 [27] Sheknew acting was her calling after playing Lady Macbeth in a high school production Frances McDormand	$1,200 [2] It's the thin, watery outer layer of an amoeba cell, or in the movies, ghost slime ectoplasm Stephen Nick	$1,200 [20] The Latin for "to call" gives us this adjective, a type of training for a particular trade or profession vocational Nick	$1,200 [9] You can cause turmoil by throwing a monkey wrench or this British equivalent "in the works" a spanner Jannette	$1,600 [6] Dari, Pashto Afghanistan Jannette	$1,600 [13] "The Lost Symbol" author who can often be quite grizzly a Dan Brown bear
$1,600 [25] Here a few years away from serving in Vietnam, heused those experiences to shape some of his films like "Platoon" Oliver Stone Stephen Jannette	$1,600 [15] If one organism benefits at the expense of another, it's parasitism; if both benefit, it's this type of symbiosis mutualism Stephen	$1,600 [21] An intelligence test commonly used to evaluate children is called Stanford-this last name Binet Jannette	$1,600 [10] A cutting tool is in this term for a person hired to do someone else's dirty work a hatchet man Stephen	DD $2,000 [7] German, French, Italian &Romansh Switzerland Jannette	$2,000 [12] James Joyce's last book becomes a WHAM! song whose first word is "Jitterbug" Finnegans Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go Stephen
$2,000 [26] Hecould have been a contender for class clown & incorrigible, so much so that his father sent him away to military school (Marlon) Brando Stephen	$2,000 [16] When a male & female gamete get together, they form a fertilized egg cell called this a zygote Stephen	$2,000 [22] More structured than an internship, this type of German-named course offers real-world experience outside the classroom a practicum	$2,000 [23] A laborious task is this kind of work involving 2 tools, one with a point for splitting rock & one with a blade for digging pick-and-shovel work	$2,000 [5] Kirundi, English &French Burundi Jannette	DD $3,000 [11] Prussian monarch military genius whose Jazz Age story plays out on Long Island Frederick the Great Gatsby Stephen

Final Jeopardy!

INVASIONS

Backed by 14,000 troops, he invaded England to restore, in his words, its "religion, laws, and liberties"

William of Orange

Nick "Who is William the Conqueror" — wagered $4,201

Jannette "Who was William the Conqueror?" — wagered $8,000

Stephen "Who is Charles II??" — wagered $150

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