Show #8836 2023-03-27 (taped 2023-01-11) Regular

Contestants

Kevin Manning — an engineer from Kansas City, Missouri

Nicole Rudolph — an associate dean from Williston Park, New York

Tamara Ghattas — an editor from Chicago, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tamara $2,000 $2,400 $7,800 $1,599
3rd place: $1,000
$12,800
14 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Nicole $2,800 $5,800 $16,800 $16,800
New champion: $16,800
$15,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Kevin $400 $3,000 $7,000 $7,801
2nd place: $2,000
$8,000
19 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE STATUE OF LIBERTY YOU'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOWL BRITISH TO AMERICAN LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR FANTASY SPORTS I LED WHAT CABINET DEPARTMENT? NUMBER "ONE" MOVIE
$200 [6]
The color of the statue comes from oxidation of this metal; the museum has a model of the foot, in its original color
copper
Kevin
$200 [22]
This word for a thick seafood soup, maybe with clams, comes from French for "cauldron"
chowder
Kevin
$200 [16]
A big dipper is more than a cluster of stars, it's also one of these amusement park attractions
a roller coaster
Nicole
$200 [29]
Ginny Weasley had a brilliant career in this sport, joining the Holyhead Harpies
Quidditch
Kevin
$200 [17]
To put it diplomatically, Condoleezza Rice
State
Kevin
$200 [4]
"A Star Wars Story" is the subtitle of this 2016 release
Rogue One
Kevin
$400 [23]
Broken chains lie at the statue's feet; an early plan had her hold broken shackles in her left hand as an homage to this practice's end
slavery
Kevin
$400 [25]
A bigger bowl of theice cream whose name is a dairy product & a nut? Yes, please
butter pecan
Tamara
$400 [8]
In the U.K., this part of your Rolls-Royce is called a mudguard
the fender
Tamara Nicole Kevin
$400 [14]
On "The Office" Flonkerton is predictably played by racing with boxes of this product strapped to your feet
paper
Kevin
$400 [10]
Alexander Hamilton; now say the phrase that pays!
Treasury
Tamara
$400 [21]
This animated Disney "tail" was first released in 1961
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
$600 [7]
In 1916 operatives of this nation exploded the Black Tom munitions depot; the nearby statue was hit & public torch access ended
Germany
Tamara
$600 [26]
This Kellogg's cereal debuted in 1952 with 4 mascots: Katy the Kangaroo, Elmo the Elephant, Newt the Gnu & one more who took over
Frosted Flakes
Tamara
$600 [1]
In Britain, a caravan behind your car isn't a line of vehicles, but just this one, & some pensioners choose to live in one
a trailer
Tamara Nicole
$600 [5]
Katniss & Peeta are about to eat poisonous berries when they learn they can't both win this, but they get a reprieve
the Hunger Games
Nicole
$600 [9]
William Willard Wirtz won workers' well-wishes
Labor
Nicole
$600 [18]
"Get off my plane", says an irate Harrison Ford to a soon-to-be-ejected hijacker in this 1997 thriller
Air Force One
Tamara Kevin
DD $1,000 [13]
The statue's internal flexible skeletal system was designed by this Frenchman, known for his iron work
Gustave Eiffel
Kevin
$800 [27]
Lamb, carrots & potatoes go into the traditional version of this "national" dish; a beef version often adds a little Guinness
Irish stew
Nicole
$800 [2]
On hot summer days in London, you'll welcome an ice lolly, or what we call this treat
a Popsicle
Tamara
$800 [15]
The only rule in the game of Calvinball, seen in a comic strip by him, is that it can't be played the same way twice
(Bill) Watterson
Nicole
$800 [11]
Janet Napolitano, who as president of the University of California later sued this department over its treatment of "dreamers"
Homeland Security
Nicole
$800 [19]
Steven Spielberg directed this 2018 movie about the hunt for an "Easter egg" in a virtual reality called OASIS
Ready Player One
$1,000 [24]
At the 1886 dedication, this president spoke of the statue "keeping watch & ward before the open gates of America"
Cleveland
Kevin
$1,000 [28]
This Hawaiian raw fish dish is often served in bowls over a bed of rice
poke
Nicole
$1,000 [3]
A child's catapult may sound like an ancient war machine, but it's just one of these implements for flinging small projectiles
a slingshot
Nicole
$1,000 [30]
This author says in "Sirens of Titan" that the children of Mars "spent most of their time playing German batball"
Kurt Vonnegut
$1,000 [12]
George Dern, doing good work on preparedness in the 1930s in a job that no longer exists
Secretary of War
Kevin
$1,000 [20]
Clark Gable won his only Oscar for this 1934 comedy
It Happened One Night
Nicole

Double Jeopardy! Round

WHAT A BUNCH OF CARICATURES! THE BIBLE FIGURES OF SPEECH WE QUOTE MR. Ts ISLANDS OF THE FAR NORTH I LIKE AMERICAN MUSIC
$400 [30]
It's not Tarzan the Ape Man, but this Brit, depicted in a satirical magazine in 1871
Darwin
Kevin
$400 [29]
The fifth commandment tells us to honor this duo: Nebat & Zeruah for King Jeroboam
your mother & your father
Tamara
$400 [26]
It's a combination of 2 contradictory terms used together, like "sweet sorrow"
oxymoron
Nicole
$400 [27]
Alan Turing, who could do this pretty well, wrote in 1950, "I propose to consider the question, 'can machines"' do this?
think
Kevin
$400 [28]
Like Antarctica, this vastest island is capped by an ice sheet; it has an average thickness of about 5,000 feet
Greenland
Kevin
$400 [14]
The 11 songs on "Ten" by this Seattle band include "Even Flow" & "Jeremy"
Pearl Jam
Kevin
$800 [19]
Here's this chairman not of the board, who's perhaps applauding himself
Mao
Tamara
$800 [15]
The First Book of Samuel recounts the encounter between these 2, big Philistine & smaller Israelite, in the valley of Elah
David & Goliath
Kevin
$800 [25]
Saying you'll avoid me like the plague is a bit of this French-derived word for an overused phrase, don't you think, darling?
cliché
Nicole
$800 [24]
Who's the boss? In 1871 in NYC, it was certainly him: "As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?"
Boss Tweed
Kevin
$800 [9]
A Russian lieutenant gave this island southeast of Anchorage its name because its outline resembled an Inuit canoe
Kayak Island
$800 [11]
Chronicled in the miniseries "George and Tammy" the complex relationship ofhim & Tammy Wynetteproduced some country classics
George Jones
Nicole
$1,200 [17]
He'sthe Polish-born composer tickling the ivories
Chopin
Kevin
$1,200 [4]
While Moses was up on Mount Sinai, Aaron crafted this using earrings, angering the Lord
a golden calf
Kevin
$1,200 [1]
Saying "That went well" after a disaster is an example of the verbal type of this
irony
Tamara
$1,200 [20]
Harry Truman said this man's "Plan" "will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world"
Marshall
Nicole
$1,200 [6]
Spitsbergen Island in Norway's Svalbard archipelago is known for its great views of this luminous atmospheric display
the northern lights
Tamara
$1,200 [10]
This southern city is a hip-hop mecca & one of its temples is Lenox Square Mall, where the OutKast rappers met
Atlanta
Nicole
$1,600 [18]
Hat's off to this playwright sometimes called "The Father of Modern Drama"
Ibsen
Kevin
$1,600 [5]
After the Last Supper, Jesus traveled to this garden to pray & was arrested there
Gethsemane
Tamara Kevin
$1,600 [2]
An example of this, also called meiosis, is Kathy Bates' line as the Titanic sinks, "Now there's something you don't see every day"
understatement
Tamara
$2,000 [22]
In "Democracy in America", he wrote that in the U.S., "everything is in constant motion & every change seems an improvement"
Tocqueville
Nicole
$1,600 [7]
The High Arctic is home to October Revolution Island & this island, named for the party that seized power during that time
Bolshevik (Island)
Tamara Kevin
$1,600 [12]
"Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" propelled this rock 'n' roll legend to stardom in 1957
Jerry Lee Lewis
Nicole
$2,000 [21]
She's "The Talented Mr. Ripley" author depicted here, with one of her beloved cats
(Patricia) Highsmith
Nicole
$2,000 [16]
St. Paul declares himself to be from the tribe named for this younger son of Rachel & Jacob
Benjamin
$2,000 [3]
When a part is used to represent a whole, it's this figure of speech, as in "all hands on deck"
synecdoche
Tamara Nicole
DD $3,000 [23]
"These lands are ours. No one has a right to remove us, because we were the first owners", said this Shawnee rival of Wm. H. Harrison
Tecumseh
Nicole
DD $5,000 [8]
Canada's northernmost point, Cape Columbia is on Ellesmere Island, part of this vast territory created in 1999
Nunavut
Tamara
$2,000 [13]
An ad in the Village Voice brought drummer Clem Burke into this band he's been playing with since the '70s
Blondie

Final Jeopardy!

CHEMICAL NAMES

The name of this pungent gaseous compound is ultimately derived from the top god of the ancient Egyptians

ammonia

Kevin "What is Ammonia?" — wagered $801
Tamara "What is ozone?" — wagered $6,201
Nicole "What is radon?" — wagered $0

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