Show #8844 2023-04-06 (taped 2023-01-17) Regular

Brian Henegar game 3.

Contestants

Cameron Creel — a software engineer from Weehawken, New Jersey

Eliza Haas Marr — an educator from Portland, Oregon

Brian Henegar — a guest services agent from LaFollette, Tennessee (whose 2-day cash winnings total $43,202)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Brian $4,200 $7,000 $30,000 $25,000
3-day champion: $68,202
$27,800
33 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W
Eliza $-400 $200 $2,200 $200
3rd place: $1,000
$2,200
8 R, 6 W
Cameron $0 $2,800 $10,000 $10,000
2nd place: $2,000
$9,800
11 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

WORD PUZZLES ANCIENT CITIES AT THREES & FOURS BIG AMERICAN LANDOWNERS LIT-POURRI NOT MAKING IT TO THE END OF THE MOVIE
$200 [8]
A relative by marriageSISTER
a stepsister
Brian Eliza
$200 [19]
Now in Syria, Aleppo lies at a crossroads of great commercial routes about 60 miles away from both the Euphrates River & this sea
the Mediterranean
Brian Eliza Cameron
$200 [11]
In a kids' tale, they are the victims of trespassing by a child who eats their food, breaks a chair & sleeps in their beds
the three bears
Brian
$200 [20]
Owners of many farms in Idaho, the Simplot family is one of McDonald's largest suppliers of these
potatoes or French fries
Brian
$200 [15]
This novel by Johanna Spyri begins, "The pretty little Swiss town of Mayenfeld lies at the foot of a mountain range..."
Heidi
Brian Eliza
$200 [26]
Tina Fey said "Gravity" was about how this actor would rather float away & die in space than spend time with a woman his own age
George Clooney
Cameron
$400 [7]
Workwear with strapsDENIM_____ALL ALL
denim overalls
Brian
$400 [17]
In 1687 Venetians besieging Athens hit this temple with a mortar, setting off gunpowder stored inside; it's never been the same
the Parthenon
Cameron
$400 [9]
It's represented by a triangle, which means of course it's the 4th letter in the Greek alphabet
Delta
Brian
$400 [21]
Brad Kelley's holdings include this state's Calumet Farm, source of many a Derby winner
Kentucky
Cameron
$400 [27]
This last name of James Thurber's character Walter can have -esque added to mean having fantasies far above your abilities
Walter Mitty
Brian
$400 [25]
Bad puddy tat! This evil uncle admits fratricide when he whispers, "I killed Mufasa" to Simba
Scar
Eliza
$600 [1]
A B-flat woodwindECLART
a clarinet
Brian
$600 [4]
Circa 330 A.D. the city once known as this got a new name under new emperor Constantine
Byzantium
Eliza Cameron
$600 [5]
This youth group promises, "I pledge my head to clearer thinking, my heart to greater loyalty" & 2 other things
the 4-H Club
Brian
$600 [22]
Among this Amazon founder's major holdings: the Blue Origin sub-orbital launch site in West Texas
Bezos
Brian
$600 [28]
By its title, this Lois Lowry Y.A. novel needs a receiver, & his name is Jonas
The Giver
Eliza
$600 [12]
Gwyneth Paltrow returns to the U.S. from Hong Kong, sickens & dies & this 2011 pandemic thriller is off & running
Contagion
Eliza Cameron
$800 [2]
A favorite dinner at my houseGEHRYCAPRAGARBANZOPINTO
Franks & beans
Brian
$800 [16]
Copan, an important city of the Classic period of these people is in modern-day Honduras, near the border with Guatemala
the Mayans
Cameron
$800 [6]
Unroll the thread; it's your destiny to know it's the collective name for Zeus' 3 daughters--Clotho, Lachesis & Atropos
the Fates
Eliza
$800 [23]
The island of Niihau belongs to the Robinson family, whose ancestor bought it in the 1860s from the 4th king of this name
Kamehameha
Brian
$800 [29]
"The Revenger's Tragedy" of 1607 is one of several plays on the theme of vengeance from this literary era named for King James I
Jacobean
Eliza
$800 [13]
Look how they massacred my boy; James Caan wore 100-plus squibs to pay a heavy price at the tollbooth in this 1972 film
The Godfather
Brian
$1,000 [3]
A single serving of a November dessert☮UMPKIN 3.141592
a piece of pumpkin pie
Brian
DD $1,200 [18]
This town, named for a Greek hero was one of several destroyed by a 79 A.D. disaster
Herculaneum
Cameron
$1,000 [10]
The sole-hornedonegets all the press, but this describes an animal having four horns, like the antelope seen here
a quadricorn
Brian Cameron
$1,000 [24]
This Georgia media magnate & former owner of the Atlanta Braves owns the largest private herd of bison on Earth--more than 50,000
Ted Turner
Brian
$1,000 [30]
2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of this novelist & 75 years since his breakthrough, "The Naked and the Dead"
Norman Mailer
Eliza
$1,000 [14]
Sometimes, you get older, adamantium in your body poisons you & a clone of your younger self up & kills you, like this 2017 guy
Logan
Cameron

Double Jeopardy! Round

LATIN WORDS & PHRASES BE ARTHUR GOLDEN GIRLS & THEN THERE'S MOD STATE OF THE ART MUSEUM SPEECHES
$400 [22]
Meaning "before the war", it commonly refers to the period before the American Civil War
Antebellum
Brian
$400 [28]
In a historic first, he won the U.S. Open tennis tournament in September 1968
Arthur Ashe
Brian
$400 [26]
Winning four in 2016, shetied the record for the most gold medals won in a single Olympics by a female gymnast
Simone Biles
Brian
$400 [17]
Mod style included these shoes named for a coin & worn by Miles Davis, the coolest man then alive
penny loafers
Brian
$800 [1]
The Andy Warhol Museum, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art
Pennsylvania
Brian Eliza
$800 [13]
"It'll be" this "or it'll be the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death", cautioned Malcolm X in a 1964 speech
the ballot
Brian
$800 [3]
It's used when something is repeated "to the point of sickness"
ad nauseam
Brian
$800 [27]
In the 1920s, he began a successful mail order business to teach ballroom dancing; his dance centers can be found worldwide
Arthur Murray
Brian
$800 [25]
Make a racket for these 2 siblings who won the gold in women's doubles tennis at the 2000, 2008 & 2012 Olympics
Venus & Serena Williams
Brian
$800 [18]
Stylist Leonard of Mayfair gave Lesley Hornby the short hairdo that made her a mod icon under this one name
Twiggy
Brian
$1,200 [2]
Whitney Museum of American Art, Corning Museum of Glass
New York
Eliza
$1,200 [10]
In 1588 she declared, "I know I have the body... of a weak & feeble woman, but I have the heart & stomach of a king"
Queen Elizabeth I
Brian
$1,200 [4]
Legally, someone who is this phrase meaning "not of sound mind" may not be responsible for his or her actions
non compos mentis
Brian
$1,200 [8]
He wrote an "Ivanhoe" opera without his partner W.S. Gilbert
Arthur Sullivan
Brian
$1,600 [24]
Must be something in the water--this Olympian swimmer with 10 medals, including 7 gold, hails from Maryland like Michael Phelps
Ledecky
Cameron
$1,200 [19]
Mod stylebegan in the late '50s; in the late '70s, its avatar was this band, led by Paul Weller
The Jam
$1,600 [14]
DePaul Art Museum, Rockford Art Museum
Illinois
Eliza Cameron
$1,600 [11]
Following this calamity, Ronald Reagan spoke of those who "slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of God"
the Challenger disaster
Brian
$1,600 [5]
Meaning "course of one's life", it's more extensive than a resumé & emphasizes academic achievements
a curriculum vitae
Brian
$1,600 [7]
A hearty sláinte to this 18th century Irishman who focused on brewing porters & ales; his name is still found on a stout beer
Guinness
Eliza
$2,000 [23]
This Norwegian ice skater & future movie star won the first of her Olympic gold medals at age 15 at the 1928 Games in St. Moritz
Sonja Henie
Brian
$1,600 [20]
The transport of the model mod is this motor scooter whose name is Italian for "wasp"
Vespa
Brian
$2,000 [15]
The Parthenon, Frist Art Museum
Tennessee
Brian
$2,000 [12]
In 1872 this British conservative leader orated about "the continuous order... the only parent of personal liberty & political right"
Disraeli
Cameron
$2,000 [6]
While he popularized the concept, John Locke didn't actually use this term for the idea that the mind is a blank slate at birth
tabula rasa
Cameron
DD $3,000 [9]
Marilyn Monroe was the basis for the character of Maggie in his play "After the Fall"
Arthur Miller
Brian
DD $2,400 [16]
At the Winter Olympics in 2018, Anna Gasser of Austria became the first woman to win the big air event in this newer sport
snowboarding
Brian
$2,000 [21]
Yves Saint Laurent got in the mod spirit with adressinspired by this painter, who died in 1944
Piet Mondrian
Brian

Final Jeopardy!

FASHION HISTORY

These decorative items get their name from their origin in the port city of Strasbourg, on the border of France & Germany

rhinestones

Eliza "What are ♡ L" — wagered $2,000
Cameron "What are" — wagered $0
Brian "What are spats?" — wagered $5,000

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