Show #8831 2023-03-20 (taped 2023-01-10) Regular

Melissa Klapper game 1.

Contestants

Jake Garrett — a football coach and teacher from Trussville, Alabama

Melissa Klapper — a professor from Merion Station, Pennsylvania

Kelly Barry — a marketing communications specialist from Seattle, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kelly $3,000 $3,000 $8,200 $16,200
3rd place: $1,000
$8,000
12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Melissa $600 $5,200 $24,400 $24,801
New champion: $24,801
$20,400
22 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Jake $3,400 $6,800 $12,400 $24,800
2nd place: $2,000
$12,400
21 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

STATE OF THE AIRPORT GIFTS FOR THE SPORTS FAN? QUITE THE FISH STORY "ME" MYSELF & EYE
$200 [5]
Ontario International, John Wayne Airport
California
Melissa
$200 [16]
The littleplanecalled a Piper this would be a perfect gift for a Chicago baseball fan
a Cub
Jake
$200 [18]
Fish argue whether a dentist is using a Hedstrom file or a K-Flex in this Pixar film; the DDS did use the Schilder technique
Finding Nemo
Kelly Melissa
$200 [11]
This adjective for something neither bad nor good is from Latin for "of middle quality"
mediocre
Melissa
$200 [7]
Her autobiography's dedication included "Malia and Sasha" & a man "who always promised me an interesting journey"
Michelle Obama
Kelly
$200 [28]
Attention, students! Anisocoria is where these eye parts are unequal in size, maybe due to a torn or blocked blood vessel in the neck
the pupils
Melissa
$400 [3]
Ketchikan International, Wiley Post-Will Rogers
Alaska
Kelly Jake
$400 [17]
This word for any cheap trinket sounds perfect for a Big Apple hoops lover
a knickknack
Melissa
$400 [19]
"Piranha 3D" ate up the screen with Elisabeth Shue, Ving Rhames & great Scott!--this inventive "Back to the Future" actor
Christopher Lloyd
Jake
$400 [12]
Koplik's spots are associated with this contagious disease
the measles
Jake
$400 [9]
His book "i Woz" is subtitled "Computer Geek to Cult Icon"
Steve Wozniak
Kelly
$400 [27]
"Avian" term for the tiny wrinkles that form around the eyes as we age; we prefer to call them "smile lines"
crow's feet
Jake
$600 [1]
Vero Beach Regional, Naples Airport
Florida
Jake
$600 [20]
A young Tampa hockey fan would probably dig a toy car depicting this cinematic speedster
Lightning McQueen
Jake
$600 [30]
The force of Lasse Hallström was strong to pull in this Scot to play a fisheries expert in "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen"
Ewan McGregor
Melissa
$600 [13]
Metheglin is a variety of this fermented beverage
mead
Jake
$600 [8]
Part of the "Life" of this Rolling Stones guitarist: "I am pulled over by police officers in Arkansas... and a standoff ensues"
Keith Richards
Jake
$600 [26]
Everyone has a blind spot, as there are no photoreceptors--that is, rods or these--in the optic disk
cones
Kelly
$800 [2]
Lewiston/Nez Perce County, Pocatello Regional
Idaho
Kelly
$800 [21]
This 1987 Tom Clancy novel would make even the most curmudgeonly Belichick fan happy
Patriot Games
Melissa
$800 [29]
Michael Caine said he never saw himself in this 4: "The Revenge", "but I've seen the house it bought for my mum. It's fantastic"
Jaws
Jake
$800 [14]
To wander aimlessly
meander
Jake
$800 [6]
His autobio said in 1835 Mr. Freeland hired him from his master, but he wanted "to live upon free land as well as with Freeland"
Frederick Douglass
Melissa Jake
$800 [25]
It's a clouding of what was once a clear eye lens; seeing halos around lights is a sign of them
cataract
Kelly Melissa
DD $1,200 [4]
Cheboygan County, Grosse Ile Municipal
Michigan
Kelly
$1,000 [24]
This 2-word fungus that's used to make beer will be welcomed by your suds-crafting, baseball-loving bro in Milwaukee
brewer's yeast
Melissa
$1,000 [22]
Melissa Etheridge gave Brad Pitt lessons in fly-fishing so he could play Paul Maclean in this film
A River Runs Through It
Melissa
$1,000 [15]
A body part is found in this word describing one who refuses to tell the truth in plain language
mealymouthed
$1,000 [10]
If we may get existential for a moment... in 1963 this thinker published "Les Mots", or "The Words" of his life
Sartre
Melissa
$1,000 [23]
Referring to the device used, these 2 words are the "L-A" in LASIK eye surgery
laser-assisted
Jake

Double Jeopardy! Round

UNESCO's INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES SHORT STORY, SHORTER WALK, THE LINE CRY UNCLE
$400 [5]
The sericulture of China made UNESCO's list along with the skill of making this resulting fabric
silk
Kelly
$400 [13]
Read at Clinton's inauguration, her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" contains the line "lost in the gloom of dust and ages"
Angelou
Melissa
$400 [21]
Between Tarrytown & Nyack, New York lies a watery section of river known as the Tappan this
the Zee
Melissa
$400 [7]
Roderick, Madeline & their place itself don't make it to the end; after all, it is "The Fall of" this
the House of Usher
Melissa
$400 [17]
Walk the Moon recounts a night at the disco: "I said, 'you're holding back', she said" this title
"Shut Up And Dance" with me
Jake
$400 [22]
At her wedding to FDR in 1905, Eleanor was given away by this uncle, who happened to be president at the time
Theodore Roosevelt
Jake
$800 [1]
Argentina & Uruguay were recognized for this dance developed in Buenos Aires & Montevideo
the tango
Kelly
$800 [14]
His second inaugural marked the first time African Americans had been included in the inaugural parade
Lincoln
Kelly Jake
$800 [27]
"Every kiss begins with" this jeweler
Kay
Melissa
$800 [6]
After a bad Hessian session, this schoolmaster is never seen in Sleepy Hollow again
(Ichabod) Crane
Jake
$800 [16]
Migos & this Canadian teamed up on the 2018 hit "Walk It Talk It"
Drake
Jake
$800 [23]
It was the last name of dancer &choreographer Agnes & her famous uncle Cecil B.
de Mille (DeMille)
Melissa
$1,200 [2]
Castells, orhuman towers, are created by amateur groups at festivals in this Spanish region that includes Barcelona & Tarragona
Catalonia
Jake
$1,200 [11]
FDR's 1st inaugural gave us this 10-word statement, a "firm belief" about "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror"
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"
Jake
$1,200 [28]
This word precedes "England Slept" in a 1940 book by JFK
Why
$1,200 [10]
Frank Stockton leaves it up to you--"Which came out of the opened door--the lady or" this?
the tiger
Melissa
$1,200 [18]
Vanessa Carlton was nominated for 3 Grammys for her song that said, "You know I'd walk" this far to "just see you tonight"
a thousand miles
Jake
$1,200 [24]
At the time of his 1914 assassination, Franz Ferdinand was heir to the throne occupied by this man, his uncle
Franz Joseph
Kelly
$1,600 [3]
In 2022 UNESCO honored this long French loaf of bread, the most popular kind eaten in France year round
a baguette
Jake
$1,600 [12]
His nearly 8,500-word address is by far the longest ever; he should have saved his energy
William Henry Harrison
Jake
$1,600 [29]
The poem Amanda Gorman read at the U.N. General Assembly was titled "An Ode We" this
Owe
$1,600 [9]
A "Scrivener" hired to copy legal documents, he's an early advocate of quiet quitting, then quits life itself
Bartleby
Melissa
$1,600 [19]
According to the Bangles, "Slide your feet up the street, bend your back, shift your arm, then you pull it back" to do this
walk like an Egyptian
Kelly
$1,600 [25]
Real name Ivan, he's the bitter, aging title character of a Chekhov play
Uncle Vanya
Melissa
$2,000 [4]
UNESCO referred to thedudukas Armenia's equivalent of this Western reed instrument
an oboe
Kelly Jake
$2,000 [15]
He, his wife & 9-year-old daughter were the first first family to walk all the way from the Capitol to the White House
the Carters
Melissa
DD $3,000 [30]
It's a term for the seat of authority of a bishop
a see
Melissa
$2,000 [8]
A Bierce last line--"Peyton Farquhar was dead; his body... swung gently... beneath the timbers of" this title structure
Owl Creek Bridge
$2,000 [20]
Oddly, the official video for this '80s Katrina & The Waves hit showed the band strolling through a misty London in heavy coats
"Walking On Sunshine"
Melissa
DD $5,000 [26]
In a letter to Tacitus, this man wrote of his elder uncle's death at Vesuvius from "some gross and noxious vapor"
Pliny
Melissa

Final Jeopardy!

COUNTRIES OF AFRICA

At one time a province of the Roman Empire, this kingdom is known to Arabic scholars as Al-Maghrib Al-Aqsa, "the far west"

Morocco

Kelly "What is Morocco?" — wagered $8,000
Jake "What is Morocco?" — wagered $12,400
Melissa "What is Morocco?" — wagered $401

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