Show #8838 2023-03-29 (taped 2023-01-11) Regular

Contestants

Iris Masucci — a pharmacist from Rockville, Maryland

Jordan Davis — a private music teacher and choir director from Draper, Utah

Lisa Sriken — a lawyer from New York, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lisa $4,400 $5,400 $21,400 $17,199
2-day champion: $26,800
$16,000
26 R (including 2 DDs), 6 W
Jordan $1,400 $4,000 $5,200 $200
3rd place: $1,000
$5,200
11 R, 2 W
Iris $2,800 $6,200 $17,200 $9,000
2nd place: $2,000
$15,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN NATIONAL NICKNAMES WRITERS & POETS COMMON BONDS A REAL LONG SHOT A DISASTER ARIA Ps OUT!
$200 [5]
At different times in its history, this nation has been called Hibernia & the Celtic Tiger
Ireland
Lisa
$200 [26]
You want tales? Oh, we got some tales to tell! "The Clerk's", "The Manciple's", "The Reeve's"... all part of this
The Canterbury Tales
Lisa
$200 [19]
Irrational, ordinal, prime
numbers
Jordan
$200 [21]
In game 3 of the 1970 NBA finals, Jerry West hit a 60-footer to force overtime against the Knicks--but this team still lost
the Lakers
Lisa
$200 [7]
In a Gounod opera, Juliet sings to him that she forgives him for killing one of her clan
Romeo
Jordan
$200 [6]
Get the double P out of a word meaning elated to get this fodder grass
hay (from happy)
Lisa Jordan
$400 [4]
The Netherlands, meaning low-lying country, is also known as the land of these flowers
tulips
Jordan
$400 [27]
Always seeming to find large amounts of trouble, this CIA agent is the protagonist in "Clear & Present Danger"
Jack Ryan
Lisa
$400 [18]
Pencil, walrus, handlebar
a mustache
Lisa
$400 [22]
This Manchester United superstar said a 55-yard score in 1996 "kicked open the door to the rest of my life"
David Beckham
Lisa
$400 [8]
"Lensky's Aria" from "Eugene Onegin" finds Lensky lamenting his fate after having agreed to this type of challenge
a duel
Lisa
$400 [11]
Delete the P from a word meaning cost & you'll get this non-costly grain
rice (from price)
Iris
$600 [3]
Norway is known as the land of the midnight sun & the land of these medieval marauders
the Vikings
Lisa
$600 [28]
Consecutive chapters in this book are "The Minister's Vigil" & "Another View of Hester"
The Scarlet Letter
Jordan
$600 [15]
Royals, Guardians, Pirates
baseball teams
Iris
$600 [23]
Matt Stutzman, a 2012 silver medalist at these international games, set a longstanding record for hitting an archery target 930.4 feet
the Paralympics
Iris
$600 [9]
Revenge spurs the queen of night in this Mozart opera as she urges her daughter towards murder in a bloodthirsty aria
The Magic Flute
Jordan
$600 [12]
Cut all 3 Ps from a flower of remembrance to get this Yiddish interjection
oy (from poppy)
Lisa
DD $1,000 [2]
Hungarians know their country not as the land of the Huns, but as the land of this nomadic people who settled there in the 9th c.
the Magyars
Lisa
$800 [29]
The many travails of the title hero of this Dumas novel include an involuntaryswimafter being tossed into the sea
The Count of Monte Cristo
Lisa
$800 [16]
Herb, rock, zen
gardens
Jordan
$800 [24]
In a 1973 game against Buffalo, this Boston Bruin scored on a length-of-the-ice shot from behind his own goal line
Orr
Lisa Iris
$800 [10]
Lammermoor Castle is witness to the grief of this woman & her aria "Il dolce suono"
Lucia
Iris
$800 [13]
Lose the paired Ps from a small wave to get this verb meaning to anger
rile (from ripple)
Lisa
$1,000 [1]
Due to its location, this small nation, a grand duchy, has been called the little fortress & the Gibraltar of the North
Luxembourg
Lisa
$1,000 [30]
Sethe is haunted by the ghost of her nameless baby, described by the title adjective of this Toni Morrison novel
Beloved
Jordan
$1,000 [17]
Blush, baby, coral
pinks (or shades of pink)
Iris
$1,000 [25]
In 2021 Jalen Suggs banked in a 40-foot buzzer-beater to eliminate UCLA & send this Washington school to the NCAA title game
Gonzaga
Iris
$1,000 [20]
Meaning "none shall sleep", this aria from "Turandot" carries an explicit threat of execution
"Nessun dorma"
Lisa
$1,000 [14]
Slice the double P out of a tree fruit to get this fermented beverage
ale (from apple)
Iris

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE INITIALS & ACRONYMS DALÍ GOES HOLLYWOOD TREE-NAMED PLACES SYNONYMS PLANES, TRAINS AUTOCRATS
$400 [14]
Helping you walk & talk, CNS is short for this
central nervous system
Lisa
$400 [6]
Dalí wrote a movie for this comedy group, including a scene where Chico plays the piano in a diving suit
the Marx Brothers
Lisa
$400 [25]
The Black Panther Party was founded in this Northern California city in 1966
Oakland
Jordan Iris
$400 [1]
The name of this animal seenhereis a synonym of "chatter at length"
yak
Jordan
$400 [26]
The British Harrier "Jump Jet" was the first operational airplane with VTOL capability, this "takeoff and landing"
vertical
Lisa
$400 [19]
Miguel Primo de Rivera, this country's 1920s dictator, repressed the Catalans who'd supported him
Spain
Iris
$800 [15]
The logo seenherebelongs to the NRC, the independent organization known by this name
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Iris
$800 [7]
Dalí designed a deck of these cards for the James Bond film "Live & Let Die", but they weren't used
tarot
Iris
$1,200 [28]
This lofty Colorado city is on the Roaring Fork River
Aspen
Jordan
$800 [2]
Homily is another word for one of these religious speeches delivered from the pulpit to a congregation
sermon
Iris
$800 [24]
Running above 15,000 feet, the Peruvian Central Railwaycarries oxygen for passengers suffering from soroche, this sickness
altitude sickness
Lisa
$800 [23]
Central American strongman Omar Torrijos negotiated the 1977 treaties to cede this to his country's control
the Panama Canal
$1,200 [16]
Once big in televisions, CRT is short for this
cathode ray tube
Iris
$1,200 [11]
Spencer Tracy has a surreal dream of crawling down the aisle in a sequence inspired by Dalí for this 1950 comedy
Father of the Bride
Lisa
$1,600 [29]
Seen here, this South Carolina resort sounds like it has 2 trees in its name
Myrtle Beach
Iris
$1,200 [8]
Enjoy the view or this, also starting with "V", one letter longer
vista
Iris
$1,200 [3]
When it started service in 1862, the Flying Scotsman rail route took 10 1/2 hours between these 2 cities; now it does it in 4
London & Edinburgh
Lisa
$1,200 [20]
After his troops opened fire on demonstrators in 1989, this country's Nicolae Ceausescu was chased from power & executed
Romania
Lisa
$1,600 [17]
Of the 3 words that combine to make LORAN, it's last, admiral
navigation
Lisa Jordan
$1,600 [12]
Dalí created the weird dream imagery used in this director's 1945 film "Spellbound"
Hitchcock
Iris
$2,000 [30]
This tree comes before "Bluff" in the name of a city in Missouri
Poplar
Lisa
$2,000 [10]
Making a departure? Use a synonym from religion, like Exodus or this journey that covered about 210 miles in 622 A.D.
the Hejira
$1,600 [4]
The largest woodenplaneever built, the Howard Hughes project with this rhyming name was actually mostly birch
the Spruce Goose
Lisa Jordan
$1,600 [21]
Saloth Sar was the birth name of this despot whose brutal 1975-1979 regime killed more than a million Cambodians
Pol Pot
Lisa
$2,000 [18]
Regarding hazardous substances at work, REL stands for "recommended" this "limit"
exposure
Lisa
$2,000 [13]
Adrien Brody plays Dalí during one of Owen Wilson's magical French walks in this Woody Allen movie
Midnight in Paris
Lisa
DD $6,000 [27]
This town in the Mojave Desert is named for a plant that early settlers said reminded them of a biblical guy
Joshua Tree
Lisa
DD $3,000 [9]
In opera, diva is a synonym for this 2-word Italian term
prima donna
Iris
$2,000 [5]
Australia's Indian Pacific train runs from Sydney on the Pacific side to this state capital 2,000 miles to the west
Perth
Lisa
$2,000 [22]
Omar al-Bashir is currently awaiting trial for atrocities in this region of Western Sudan
Darfur
Lisa

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN AUTHORS

In a periodical in 1807, he called New York City "Gotham, Gotham! most enlightened of cities"

Washington Irving

Jordan "Who is Thomas Paine?" — wagered $5,000
Iris "Who is Harper?" — wagered $8,200
Lisa "Who is goodbye cruel world" — wagered $4,201

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