Show #8834 2023-03-23 (taped 2023-01-10) Regular

Melissa Klapper game 4.

Contestants

Daisy Donohue — an actor and artist originally from St. Paul, Minnesota

Alec Chao — a management and program analyst from Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Melissa Klapper — a professor from Merion Station, Pennsylvania (whose 3-day cash winnings total $59,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Melissa $-600 $3,200 $6,800 $1,800
3rd place: $1,000
$14,600
17 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 2 DDs)
Alec $4,400 $7,200 $15,200 $15,505
New champion: $15,505
$15,200
26 R, 6 W
Daisy $2,400 $3,400 $4,600 $2,100
2nd place: $2,000
$4,600
7 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THAT'S COLD! ON THE "J.V." SQUAD WITH A SCULPTURE ON TOP 5-LETTER LITERARY CHARACTERS POST APOCA-LIPSTICK
$200 [3]
This chilly word can precede shoulder, daiquiri or yogurt
frozen
Alec
$200 [10]
This Navy SEAL later went into the wrestling ring, movies & Minnesota politics
Jesse Ventura
Alec
$200 [16]
A classical statue called "Freedom" sits atop the dome of this Washington, D.C. building
the U.S. Capitol
Melissa
$200 [6]
In "The Maltese Falcon" his name is this. Sam this.
Spade
Alec
$200 [28]
Originally a French cavalry call, the bugle song known as "Call To The Post" is commonly heard several times a day at one of these
a racetrack
Melissa Alec Daisy
$200 [29]
Blend in with the other rampaging monsters with Le Monster Lip Crayon, fittingly from this pop superstar
Lady Gaga
Alec
$400 [20]
This word precedes "hare" in the name of the animalshown, or "Dreams" in the title of Barry Lopez's book that mentions the critter
Arctic
Alec
$400 [19]
He played Dawson Leery on "Dawson's Creek" & his last name means "of the creek"
James Van Der Beek
Daisy
$400 [7]
Philly's city hall is topped by a 37-foot tall statue of this colony founder; for a time no building there was built higher than his hat
William Penn
Melissa
$400 [5]
Shakespeare's Goneril kills herself after poisoning this sister
Regan
Daisy
$400 [26]
In addition to her classic works on etiquette, she wrote the 1949 book "Motor Manners"
Emily Post
Melissa
$400 [12]
As society crumbles around you, you'll look posh in the vice lipstick line from the edgy company called "Urban" this
Decay
Alec
$600 [4]
Outside, this tapered spike is formed by solid water; inside, one can be found on a Christmas tree
an icicle
Daisy
$600 [14]
Someone dropped a statue of this "Friday the 13th" slasher in a lake in Minnesota; not cool, man
Jason Voorhees
Alec
$600 [24]
The colossal Christ the Redeemer Statue on Mount Corcovado towers over this South American city
Rio de Janeiro
Melissa
$600 [1]
He teaches the wolf cubs & Mowgli the law of the jungle
Baloo
Alec
$600 [30]
John Rewald's book about this movement is subtitled "From van Gogh to Gauguin"
Post-Impressionism
Alec
$600 [11]
Did aliens cause the fuss? In that case, try this numeric lipstick shade whose name comes before "from Outer Space" in a 1957 film title
Plan 9
Alec Daisy
$800 [21]
In 1998 Michael Keaton was nipping at your nose as this title guy, a dad brought back to life as a snowman
Jack Frost
Melissa
$800 [17]
He's been nominated for 4 Oscars, winning for 1978's "Coming Home"
Jon Voight
Daisy
DD $1,000 [23]
Commissioned by brewer Carl Jacobsen, a sculpture of this fairy-tale figure sits atop a rock in Copenhagen harbor
the Little Mermaid
Melissa
$800 [8]
Last name of Edith Wharton's title farmer Ethan
Frome
Daisy
$800 [2]
I do say, dear courier, please complete your task in this manner that ends with a word meaning speed
posthaste
Alec
$800 [27]
You can still look good in the end times with the lipstick shade named this, the word young Danny repeats in "The Shining"
Redrum
Alec
$1,000 [13]
The purchase of Alaska was derided as "Seward's Folly" & "Seward's" this kitchen appliance
Icebox
Alec
$1,000 [18]
Seen here off the mound, this downtown man eventually married an Upton girl
Justin Verlander
$1,000 [22]
A column topped by a 17-foot statue of this man is the centerpiece of London's Trafalgar Square
Nelson
Melissa
$1,000 [9]
Unstable skipper of the minesweeper U.S.S. Caine who faces a mutiny
(Captain) Queeg
Melissa
$1,000 [15]
In 2017 the Washington Post adopted the slogan this "dies in darkness"
Democracy
Alec
$1,000 [25]
Hail Cthulhu, this tattoo artist & model may have opened up a portal to another dimension with her lipstick shade Lovecraft
Kat Von D
Alec

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC NAMES SCIENCE PULITZER PRIZES TV SHOW LINGO FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY
$400 [7]
For his services in fighting this fleet, British explorer Martin Frobisher was knighted in 1588
the Spanish Armada
Alec
$400 [30]
The mass of gas around a planet, this word is also used as the unit of air pressure equal to 14.7 psi at sea level
1 atmosphere
$400 [28]
Seen here, he was the first to win a Pulitzer Prize for film criticism, doing so in 1975
Ebert
Alec
$400 [11]
Plinko was unveiled on this game show in 1983
The Price is Right
Alec
$400 [29]
When Don Quixote says, "He owes you nothing", he uses this as the last word
nada
Alec
$400 [13]
(Amor Towles presents the clue.) The Lincoln Highway, which starts at Times Square, originally included a ferry across this river
the Hudson River
Alec
$800 [6]
While in the service of the Dutch East India Company, he became the first European to sight New Zealand & the Fiji islands
Abel Tasman
Melissa
$800 [3]
There are more than 3,000 species of this insect in 3 main genera; genus Culex carries encephalitis
mosquitoes
Alec
$800 [21]
In 1947 a special Pulitzer went to this university's graduate school of journalism, for its administration of the Pulitzer prizes
Columbia
Melissa Alec
$800 [16]
This Roy family epic taught us "prekend", starting Thursday after lunch
Succession
Melissa
$800 [26]
Coup de foudre, literally "stroke of lightning", is the French equivalent of this 4-word phrase for instantaneous romance
love at first sight
Melissa Alec
$800 [8]
(Amor Towles presents the clue.) Figuring prominently in my novel is a 1948Studebaker Land Cruiser, a car manufactured in this Lincoln Highway Indiana city, which is also home to students attending Notre Dame
South Bend
Melissa Alec
$1,200 [1]
As queen of the Netherlands, she saw her country through both World Wars
Wilhelmina
Melissa
$1,200 [14]
Sulfur dioxide & nitrogen oxides react with other elements to create this harmful precipitation
acid rain
Daisy
$1,200 [9]
Thishistorian, noted for his biographies of John Adams & Harry Truman, won 2 Pulitzers
McCullough
Melissa
$1,200 [4]
Marshall, played by him on "How I Met Your Mother", coined "Revertigo"
(Jason) Segel
Melissa
$1,200 [12]
Italian for what you say when squeezing past someone in a theater, it rhymes with "juicy"
scusi
Alec
$1,200 [27]
(Amor Towles presents the clue.) Near the end of the book, Emmett & Billy finally set out for the Western Terminusof the highway, which is still at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in this city
San Francisco
Alec
$1,600 [2]
After his troops captured the Alamo, this Mexican general was captured after the Battle of San Jacinto
Santa Anna
Alec
$1,600 [24]
Of the 3 main types of rock, it's what shale is
sedimentary
Melissa Alec
$1,600 [10]
In 2014 Jason Szep & Andrew R.C. Marshall shared a Pulitzer for reporting on the violent persecution of this Muslim minority in Myanmar
the Rohingya
Alec
$1,600 [15]
This substance powers spaceships on "Star Trek"
dilithium (crystals)
$2,000 [20]
It comes before "Ukraini" to mean "glory to Ukraine"; it's also a common nickname
Slava
Alec
$1,600 [25]
(Amor Towles presents the clue.) In Pennsylvania, the Lincoln Highwayfollows the route of the Lancaster, one of these toll roads which back in its day was also an innovative long-distance highway
a turnpike
Alec
$2,000 [5]
Before he got the boot for good in 41 A.D., this emperor wanted a statue of himself placed in the Temple in Jerusalem
Caligula
DD $4,000 [22]
Atomic number 87, this element named for a country by Marguerite Perey is the heaviest of the alkali metals
francium
Melissa
$2,000 [18]
Early in his career, this playwright won 3 Obies; he also won a Pulitzer for his play "Buried Child"
Sam Shepard
$2,000 [17]
In the '60s this comedy mishmash from Dan Rowan & Dick Martin introduced bippy, as in "You bet your sweet..."
Laugh-In
Melissa
DD $4,000 [19]
An Architectural Digest headline said this term "dictated the layout of" a "light-filled residence in Beijing"
feng shui
Melissa
$2,000 [23]
(Amor Towles presents the clue.) The setting for my novel's first chapter & also for Willa Cather's "O Pioneers!", where I got my epigraph, is in this state, which happens to be the midpoint of the Lincoln Highway
Nebraska
Melissa

Final Jeopardy!

MOVIE THEME SONGS

Monty Norman, the composer of this character's theme, said the staccato riff conveyed sexiness, mystery & ruthlessness

(James) Bond

Daisy "Who isDarTh" — wagered $2,500
Melissa "Who is Lara?" — wagered $5,000
Alec "Who is Bond?" — wagered $305

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