Show #8827 2023-03-14 (taped 2022-12-16) Regular

Stephen Webb game 6.

Contestants

Jessica Ashooh — a policy director from San Francisco, California

Long Nguyen — a retired engineer from Las Vegas, Nevada

Stephen Webb — a data scientist from Longmont, Colorado (whose 5-day cash winnings total $139,281)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Stephen $6,600 $9,600 $18,000 $16,000
6-day champion: $155,281
$18,000
25 R, 2 W
Long $4,000 $6,000 $400 $800
3rd place: $1,000
$11,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Jessica $2,400 $3,400 $6,000 $11,000
2nd place: $2,000
$9,400
11 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

11-LETTER WORDS THE TITLE TV CHARACTER'S BUDDIES IN THE COOKIE JAR HERE'S YOUR REPORT CARD "B" IN GEOGRAPHY A PLEASURE TO HAVE IN CLASS
$200 [29]
It's a book collector or just a lover of books
bibliophile
Jessica
$200 [26]
Coach Beard, with an affinity for both soccer & chess
Ted Lasso
Stephen
$200 [24]
One of its slogans is "Milk's favorite cookie"
Oreos
Long
$200 [30]
Page 1 of this commission's eagerly awaited 2004 report says, "Atta and Omari boarded a 6:00 a.m. flight..."
the 9/11 Commission
Long
$200 [28]
They're the 2 New York City boroughs that fit the category
Bronx & Brooklyn
Long
$200 [27]
In 1997 Kocheril Raman Narayanan became the first member of a scheduled caste to serve as president of this country
India
Stephen
$400 [19]
To draw the boundaries of an electoral district in a way that gives one political party an advantage
gerrymander
Stephen
$400 [25]
Willow Rosenberg, keeping Sunnydale safe in a bewitching manner
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Long
$400 [23]
Named for their appearance, the holiday favorites seen here with this wintry name practically melt in your mouth
snowballs
Jessica
$400 [17]
The 1998 report by Kenneth Starr on President Clinton's affair with this woman was written in part by Brett Kavanaugh
Lewinsky
Long
$400 [4]
This city on the River Lagan is home to a campus of Ulster University
Belfast
Stephen
$400 [22]
Pew Research Center found "the share of adults who live in" this "class households fell from 61% in 1971 to 50% in 2021"
(shrinking) middle class
Jessica
$600 [11]
This system illustratedheregets your blood & lymph going
circulatory system
Stephen
$600 [18]
Cowboy Curtis & Miss Yvonne, playing for laughs in the Playhouse
Pee-wee Herman
Stephen
$600 [21]
These "slender" chocolate-covered Girl Scout cookies have been found in America's cookie jars for more than 70 years
Thin Mints
Stephen
$800 [6]
Almost 6,000 personal interviews informed his 1953 report on "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female"
Kinsey
Stephen
$600 [3]
Let's rock & roll:Home to the University of Colorado, this city is known for its Flatirons, seen here
Boulder
Jessica
$600 [20]
It was the term for upper class people in ancient Rome; today, it'd be more for fans of author Cornwell or actress Clarkson
patricians
Long
$800 [10]
Any imaginary ideal place, or the location of the Dumbo ride at Disney World
fantasyland
Jessica
$800 [15]
Susie Myerson, the comic manager who works marvelously
Mrs. Maisel
Long
$800 [8]
Look what we stole from the cookie jar--these Italian-named treats
biscotti
Stephen
$1,000 [5]
Britain's 1942 Beveridge Report proposed lifelong social support--in a common metaphor, between these 2 resting places
the cradle & the grave
Stephen
$800 [2]
This country finds itself in the middle of things, with a northern border with Russia & on its south, Ukraine
Belarus
Long
$800 [13]
A laborer in the feudal system; "Our American Cousin" author Tom Taylor titled a play about one, subtitled "Love Levels All"
a serf
Long
$1,000 [9]
One of Abraham Lincoln's nicknames was "The Great" this
Emancipator
Stephen
$1,000 [16]
Gabrielle, bubbly bard bud of a warrior princess
Xena
Stephen
$1,000 [7]
A simple recipe for these cookies calls for a cup of butter, 1/2 cup of sugar & 2 of flour; Walker's says it makes "the world's finest"
shortbread
Jessica
DD $1,600 [14]
Put out by the Air Force in 1995, a report on a 1947 incident here is subtitled "Facts vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert"
Roswell
Long
$1,000 [1]
Seaweed farmer is a major job on this Indonesian island & in "Ticket to Paradise", George Clooney's daughter falls for one
Bali
Stephen
$1,000 [12]
"The Communist Manifesto" notes "two great classes directly facing each other--bourgeoisie &" this harder-working one
the proletariat
Stephen

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY LONDON LORD OF THE DINGS DISEASES SCRAMBLED U.S. HISTORY BANKING & FINANCE CONTRONYMS
$400 [12]
In "The Secret Agent" by Joseph Conrad, an East European spy is ordered to blow up this London observatory
Greenwich
Stephen
$400 [30]
In the film "Hook", Julia Roberts played this fairy whose mere entrance into a scene caused tintinnabulation
Tinker Bell
Stephen
$400 [22]
The fatal scourge bovine spongiform encephalopathy was identified in 1986 but most people remember it better as this
mad cow disease
Jessica
$400 [27]
1930s calamity:O DESPERATE GRINS
the Great Depression
Long
$400 [28]
Talk about cold cash! Wells Fargo owns the only 2 of these machines in Antarctica--one is used just for its parts
an ATM
Stephen
$400 [29]
To do this can mean either to remove something like dirt from your house, or to sprinkle something like sugar on a pie
to dust
$800 [2]
Opening at the Tower of London, this novel about a mistress to a Tudor king was filmed with Scarlett Johansson as Mary (not Anne)
The Other Boleyn Girl
Long
$800 [8]
Mark Margolis first got our attention by ringing a little bell while playing Hector Salamanca on this show
Breaking Bad
Stephen
$800 [10]
Recommended for teens & preteens, Menveo is a vaccine that helps prevent this highly contagious disease
meningitis
Stephen
$800 [17]
Big deal in 1803:A USUAL HIP SCENARIO
the Louisiana Purchase
Long
$800 [26]
Invest $10,000 at 4%, add $100 per month & in 10 years you'll have nearly $30,000; the oft-cited "miracle of" this 2-word phrase
compound interest
Stephen
$800 [25]
Regarding food, it's adding a flourish; regarding wages, it's taking them away
garnish
Jessica
$1,600 [9]
The title woman of this Virginia Woolf novel hears Big Ben strike just as she starts out on a walk
Mrs. Dalloway
Stephen
$1,200 [7]
This NBA team has featured a snake & a bell on one of its logos & before home games a bell is ceremonially rung to root them on
the 76ers
Jessica
$1,200 [5]
In the 1930s Grace Eldering & Pearl Kendrick made a newly effective vaccine against this very noisy respiratory disease
whooping cough
Stephen
$1,600 [18]
1794 uprising:SOBER WHINE LIKELY
the Whiskey Rebellion
Long
$1,200 [15]
Securities as well as your funds for that new house--congrats!--can be held by a third party on behalf of the 2 others in this
escrow
Long
$1,200 [24]
It can mean both to ask advice, as from your doctor, & to give it, as to a client, perhaps charging a fee
consult
Stephen
$2,000 [13]
This 1932 novel begins in 2540 A.D. at the Central London Hatchery where children are being created artificially
Brave New World
Long
$1,600 [6]
"Hells Bells" by these Aussie rock gods opens with the pealing of serious bells
AC/DC
Stephen
$1,600 [3]
Avril Lavigne's song "Head Above Water" & Meghan O'Rourke's book "The Invisible Kingdom" are by sufferers of this tick-borne disease
Lyme disease
Jessica
$2,000 [19]
One was on the radio April 28, 1935:CHIEFS TIRADE
a fireside chat
Long
$1,600 [14]
One investment strategy is a bond one of these structures; the time between maturity dates can be thought of as rungs
a (bond) ladder
Stephen
$1,600 [23]
It can mean done to completion, or spent & having no more use
finished
DD $3,400 [1]
This 1881 Mark Twain novel takes place in London's poorer areas as well as in some of its ritzier locales
The Prince and the Pauper
Jessica
$2,000 [11]
In "It's a Wonderful Life", little Zuzu Bailey says, "Every time a bell rings", this happens
an angel gets his wings
Stephen Long
$2,000 [4]
In 2001 Frank Carlson fought an awful diagnosis & started the Foundation for Life to fight this neuro-degenerative disease
ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease)
DD $12,400 [20]
1820s announcement:NO CREDO ON MERIT
the Monroe Doctrine
Long
$2,000 [16]
Come on get "A.P.Y."; A.P.Y. is short for this, money earned from a savings account over a specific amount of time
annual percentage yield
Stephen
$2,000 [21]
From the Latin for "prescribe by law", it can mean to authorize or to condemn something
to sanction
Jessica

Final Jeopardy!

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD

Part of the largest contiguous land empire during the 1200s & 1300s, today it's the world's second-largest landlocked country

Mongolia

Long "What is Mongolia?" — wagered $400
Jessica "What is Mongolia?" — wagered $5,000
Stephen "What isMongoliaKazakstan" — wagered $2,000

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