Show #8826 2023-03-13 (taped 2022-12-16) Regular

Stephen Webb game 5.

Contestants

Karen Rittenbach — an academic tutor from Freehold, New Jersey

Roy Camara — a grocery specialist from Crawfordville, Florida

Stephen Webb — a data scientist from Longmont, Colorado (whose 4-day cash winnings total $100,881)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Stephen $3,800 $8,000 $19,200 $38,400
5-day champion: $139,281
$19,200
23 R, 0 W
Roy $3,400 $3,800 $28,000 $17,599
2nd place: $2,000
$15,800
20 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Karen $700 $700 $1,500 $1,100
3rd place: $1,000
$1,400
6 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

'TIS SHAKESPEARE ADVERTISING ICONS FILL IN THE BLANKET BLOSSOM THE BIG BANG THEORY CALL ME "CAT"
$200 [7]
In Act 3 Hamlet tells this other character to "Get thee to a nunnery"
Ophelia
Karen
$200 [27]
Bartholomew is the first name of this anthropomorphic legume in ads for Planters
Mr. Peanut
Stephen
$200 [30]
Q____(5 letters)
a quilt
Roy
$200 [23]
Tokyo's Ueno Park is known for the more than 1,000 of these fruit trees that blossom spectacularly every spring
cherry blossoms
Stephen
$200 [6]
The 1883 Krakatoa eruption was heard 3,000 miles away; that's like hearing something in L.A. when you're in this Rhode Island capital
Providence
Stephen
$200 [24]
Something very appealing to people is likened to this "feline" herb of the mint family
catnip
Karen
DD $500 [8]
These are Richard III's "beastly" last 5 words
my kingdom for a horse
Karen
$400 [26]
To advertise their services, Travelocity has used one of these treasure-guarding lawn ornaments
a gnome
Stephen
$400 [29]
C____R(9 letters)
comforter
Stephen
$400 [22]
Seen here, the Red Flare water this blooms at night as it floats on ponds
a lily
Stephen
$400 [5]
When you wish upon an exploding star, here's Kepler's this 9-letter event--a sudden visitor to our night sky in 1604
a supernova
Stephen
$400 [18]
19th c. consumers liked buying from folks they knew, so Mr. Montgomery Ward might send a personal note if you ordered from this
the catalog
Karen
$600 [9]
This knight's first line in "Henry IV, Part 1" is asking what time it is, which leads to 100 lines of banter & trash talk
Falstaff
Roy
$600 [25]
This comedian who passed away in 2022 was the longtime distinctive voice of the AFLAC duck
Gilbert Gottfried
Stephen
$600 [28]
D____(5 letters)
a duvet
Roy
$600 [19]
A Gerbera this, give me your answer do; I'm half crazy, all for the love of seeing you grow in sand & bloom spring through fall
a daisy
Stephen
$600 [3]
In 2020 improper storage of ammonium nitrate led to an explosion equivalent to 500 tons of TNT in this Mideastern city
Beirut
Stephen
$600 [17]
This No. 1 hit has haunted fathers since 1974 as they watch time pass all too quickly as their sons grow up
"Cat's In The Cradle"
Stephen Karen
$800 [11]
Trout tickling, a way of catching fish with the bare hands, is mentioned in this comedy subtitled "Or What You Will"
Twelfth Night
Roy
$800 [21]
The first 3 female icons on the Madison Ave. Walk of Fame are the Morton Salt Girl, Miss Chiquita Banana & this insurance seller
Flo
Roy
$800 [20]
Heated WWII flying suits led to the patent:E____(8 letters)
the electric blanket
$800 [15]
The U.S. Botanic Garden noted the "powerful stink" of this flower that "opened in peak bloom" on August 9, 2022
the corpse flower
Stephen
$800 [2]
Code-named Castle Bravo, the largest U.S. nuclear bomb test ever was conducted in 1954 on this atoll in the Marshall Islands
the Bikini Atoll
Stephen
$800 [16]
Someone full of big talk without being able to back it up is said to be "all hat, no" this
cattle
Stephen
$1,000 [10]
This friar conducts the ill-fated marriage of Romeo & Juliet
Friar Lawrence
Karen
$1,000 [14]
Available at convenience stores, the drink known as an Icee is represented by one of these ursines
a polar bear
Roy
$1,000 [13]
It reduces stress for some:W____D(8 letters)
a weighted blanket
$1,000 [4]
Hawaii's state flower, the yellow this has bell-shaped blossoms & is endangered
the (yellow) hibiscus
Karen
$1,000 [1]
In 1669 this Sicilian volcano spit out nearly a billion cubic yards of lava, the flow of which took out a dozen villages
Mt. Etna
Stephen
$1,000 [12]
You're sitting in this idiomatic "seat" when you have a position of great advantage
the catbird seat
Roy

Double Jeopardy! Round

WATER ON THE EARTH A STONE GROOVE GOVERNORS DEEP THOUGHTS DYNASTIES OF SPAIN SAME CONSONANT THRICE
$400 [29]
Eschewing the traditional barrel, skydivers began leaping from 14,000 feet over this international border landmark in 2021
Niagara Falls
Roy
$400 [30]
On "Heart Of Stone" this singer & actress sang the title cut along with "If I Could Turn Back Time"
Cher
Roy
$400 [6]
In a total recall election in 2003, Gray Davis was out as California governor & he was in
Schwarzenegger
Stephen Roy
$400 [27]
Library & museum director John Cotton Dana wisely said, "Who dares to teach must never cease to" do this
learn
Roy
$400 [28]
The marriage of this royal pair in 1469 led to the Trastamara Dynasty ruling over 2 kingdoms united into one
Ferdinand & Isabella
Roy
$400 [1]
Safety glasses often held in place with a strap
goggles
Roy
$800 [26]
Nine stonepostsmark the footprint of Thoreau's 1840s cabin at this body of water
Walden Pond
Karen
$800 [18]
This band was on the 2013 charts singing, "if you're lost & alone, or you're sinking like a stone, carry on"; sounds like...
fun.
$800 [7]
The daughter of Indian immigrants, Clemson graduate Nikki Haley was this state's first female governor
South Carolina
Roy
$800 [19]
Nietzsche said that he who has a this 3-letter word to live for can put up with almost any "how"
why
Roy
$800 [23]
From 1808 to 1813 King Joseph of this Corsican family ruled Spain
Bonaparte
Stephen
$800 [11]
Large hairy pollinator of the genus Bombus
a bumblebee
Roy
$1,200 [25]
Construction of this seaway to the Atlantic began in 1954 & used enough cement to build a 1,000-mile-long highway
the St. Lawrence Seaway
Stephen
$1,200 [13]
Naturally, strings are featured on "Turn To Stone", a 1977 hit for this band known by a 3-letter abbreviation
ELO
Roy
$1,200 [14]
Michael Dukakis was in his third term as governor of this state when he ran for president in 1988
Massachusetts
$1,200 [3]
Add -ism to a Swedish vodka brand to get this, the moral view that there are universal principles for judgment
absolutism
$1,200 [9]
Current king Felipe VI is of this royal house that at other times has ruled France & Sicily
Bourbon
Stephen
$1,200 [15]
As a degree major at Purdue University this word can be preceded by civil or mechanical
engineering
Roy
$2,000 [21]
The name of this swamp on the Florida-Georgia line is said to derive from an indigenous word for "trembling earth"
Okefenokee
Roy
$1,600 [12]
A motor oil brand helped inspire the name of this grunge band with hits like "Vasoline" & "Creep"
STP (Stone Temple Pilots)
Roy
$2,000 [24]
Worth over $3 billion, this Illinois governor is America's wealthiest
(J.B.) Pritzker
Stephen
$1,600 [4]
In Buddhist thought desire lies at the root of much dukkha, usually translated as this 9-letter word meaning undergoing pain
suffering
Stephen
$1,600 [8]
Home to the Alhambra Palace, this last Moorish kingdom of Spain was ruled by the Nasrid Dynasty from the 1200s to 1492
Granada
$1,600 [16]
Similar to embezzlement, doing this to "funds" is illegally using someone else's money
misappropriation
DD $4,200 [2]
Switzerland claims about 134 square miles of this Alpine lake; France, about 90
Lake Geneva
Roy
$2,000 [22]
Chicago gave us the song "Stone Of" this mythological guy; "I'm gonna roll it back to you"
Sisyphus
Roy
DD $11,200 [20]
The only governor elected in 2 states, he held office in Tennessee from 1827 to 1829 & then, of course, in Texas from 1859 to 1861
(Sam) Houston
Roy
$2,000 [5]
William MacAskill said it's the view that "future people have moral worth" & we should work to make their lives better
longtermism
Stephen
$2,000 [10]
Around 585 A.D. King Leovigild of this Germanic people united much of Spain & began a dynasty that reigned there until 711 A.D.
the Visigoths
Stephen
$2,000 [17]
Past tense word forpantsthat pool around the feet
puddled

Final Jeopardy!

LITERATURE

A 2006 book was titled "The Poem That Changed America:" this "Fifty Years Later"

"Howl"

Karen "What is l" — wagered $400
Stephen "What is Howl?" — wagered $19,200
Roy "What is I know why the caged bird sings?" — wagered $10,401

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