Show #8862 2023-05-02 (taped 2023-02-27) Regular

Kevin Belle game 3.

Contestants

Amanda Hendrickson — a costumer from Highland Village, Texas

Paul Guelpa — an attorney from Rossmoor, California

Kevin Belle — a trail planner from Silver Spring, Maryland (whose 2-day cash winnings total $24,398)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kevin $2,000 $3,600 $14,400 $18,400
3-day champion: $42,798
$16,400
20 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Paul $1,000 $4,600 $10,200 $5,998
2nd place: $2,000
$12,200
18 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Amanda $-2,400 $-1,200 $2,400 $2,415
3rd place: $1,000
$1,200
11 R (including 1 DD), 6 W

Jeopardy! Round

THEY WON THE BATTLE A JR. IN ENTERTAINMENT MIND YOUR GRAMMAR AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS JEOPAIR! BOARDING PROCESS
$200 [30]
The 1689 Battle of Killiecrankie in this country:the Jacobites
Scotland
Amanda
$200 [18]
This actor, in "Endgame": "Are you seriously telling me that your plan to save the universe is based on 'Back to the Future'?"
Robert Downey Jr.
Paul
$200 [29]
"To happily follow wherever you may lead" employs this, once verboten but less so today
a split infinitive
Paul
$200 [28]
A Port Macquarie hospital specializes in treating these critters, including the one seen here, who was rescued from a bush fire
koalas
Kevin
$200 [1]
A person born in the 1980s or early 1990s
a millennial
Kevin
$200 [13]
Come on up, lanyard-wearing "unaccompanied" these not-yet-voters
minors
Amanda
$400 [24]
The 1876 battle of this river:the Lakota & the Cheyenne
Little Bighorn
Paul
$400 [17]
Zoinks! It was a double dose of Jr.s with Freddie Prinze Jr. as Fred & Miguel A. Núñez Jr. in a 2002 film named for this cartoon dog
Scooby Doo
Kevin
$400 [23]
Generations have done this to the Latin verb for "to love": amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant
conjugate
Amanda
$400 [21]
This wild dog of Australia rarely barks but it does howl like a wolf
a dingo
Paul
$400 [2]
Ariana Grande is among celebs who keep their tresses under control with this accessory
a barrette
Paul
$400 [27]
We're happy to greet passengers in this cabin, also a 2011 "X-Men" prequel with mutants like Riptide & Emma Frost
first class
Kevin
$600 [20]
The Union:the 1865 battle of this Court House
Appomattox
Paul
$600 [16]
Tha (Dwayne) Carter Jr. went platinum at age 17 when he was with the Hot Boys, but you may know him under this nom de rap
Lil Wayne
Kevin
$600 [11]
A Big Red "S.F." on a term paper stands for this, a sequence of words lacking subject, verb or both
a sentence fragment
Amanda
$800 [5]
Spiny anteater is another name for this egg-laying mammal
echidna
Paul Amanda
$600 [3]
It means once a year
annually
Amanda
$600 [26]
We invite aboard those who've achieved this Jeopair! status, a synonym for highest found before "being" to refer to God
supreme
Amanda
$800 [19]
The 1940 Battle of Britain:this group of aviators
the RAF (the Royal Air Force)
Paul
$800 [15]
The fans' choice as NASCAR's Most Popular Driver 15 straight times, he voiced himself--well, a version of himself--in "Cars"
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Kevin
$800 [7]
This grammatical case doesn't mean blaming someone but indicates that a noun is a direct object of a verb
accusative
Paul
$1,000 [10]
The common species of this burrowing marsupial can weigh up to 80 pounds
a wombat
Paul
$800 [4]
Literally without a cent
penniless
Paul
$800 [25]
Boarding group 11, in a class we call this synonym for basic or elemental & just as it sounds, comes from Latin for "rude"
rudimentary
$1,000 [22]
The October 14, 1066 Battle of this:William the Conqueror
Hastings
Paul
$1,000 [14]
UT Austin's trove of material from this Jr.'s career includes his "Raging Bull" boxing robe & even scripts from "Dirty Grandpa"
Robert De Niro
Amanda
$1,000 [6]
Parataxis is where you place clauses, you insert phrases, you add thoughts one after the other without using these
conjunctions
Paul Amanda
DD $2,000 [9]
This creature with a fierce reputation is Australia's largest carnivorous marsupial
a Tasmanian devil
Paul
$1,000 [8]
On a military base, it's a grocery store; at a movie studio, it's a lunchroom
a commissary
Paul Amanda
$1,000 [12]
We welcome all active duty military to board, & we do this common 5-word phrase said to our folks in uniform
thank you for your service
Kevin

Double Jeopardy! Round

MYTHOLOGY NONFICTION EAT FOOD. NOT TOO MUCH. MOSTLY PLANTS TV & MOVIE COMEDIES WORLD CITIES THAT'S SO "EXTRA"
$400 [1]
This god of love hid Psyche & visited in secret until she found out who he was
Cupid (or Eros)
Paul Amanda
$400 [25]
Natalie Portman began this 5-letter lifestyle after reading "Eating Animals" & narrated the documentary version of the book
vegan
Paul
$400 [20]
California Pizza Kitchen & Whole Foods offer pizza crusts made from this veggie, a cabbage relative
cauliflower
Paul
$400 [14]
Seen here, Iain Armitage plays the gifted & geeky title character on this sitcom, a prequel to "The Big Bang Theory"
Young Sheldon
Kevin
$400 [11]
The State Hermitage Museum is in this "saintly" Russian city
St. Petersburg
Kevin
$400 [10]
George Blanda kicked an NFL record 943 of these
extra points
Kevin
$1,200 [3]
She used her magic to help Jason, but after 10 years of marriage, he wed another; she killed her own children & the second wife
Medea
Amanda
$800 [27]
Abraham Maslow's "Toward a Psychology of Being" includes his famous "Hierarchy of" these
Needs
Kevin
$800 [23]
A dish prepared "à l'Argenteuil" means served with stalks of this green veggie
asparagus
Kevin
$800 [15]
In 2021 fans bid farewell to Jake Peralta, Captain Holt & the rest of the squad on this sitcom
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Kevin
$800 [12]
In 1809 John Molson linked Quebec & this city by water with the first Canadian steamboat
Montreal
Kevin
$800 [9]
ESP is short for this purported ability that includes mind reading & precognition
extrasensory perception
Kevin
$1,600 [4]
She was chained to a rock, left to be devoured by a sea monster; Perseus swooped in & saved her
Andromeda
Amanda
$1,200 [26]
In Jo Walton's novel "The Just City", Athene creates a community based on this Plato work of philosophy
The Republic
$1,200 [22]
A New York Times magazine article called "I Heart" these vegetables talks about trimming & preparing them
artichokes
Kevin
$1,200 [16]
He's the filmmaker behind the movies about Madea, a character he describes as "a cross between my mother & my aunt"
Tyler Perry
Paul
$1,600 [17]
The worker bee is a symbol of this industrial city in northern England & represents unity since a 2017 bombing there
Manchester
Kevin
$1,200 [8]
Partly from the Latin for "wander", it's a spectacular event
extravaganza
Kevin
DD $2,000 [2]
The theme song to the James Bond film "Goldfinger" mentions this king of Phrygia
Midas
Amanda
$1,600 [29]
The Belgian exploitation of the Congo region is detailed in this king's "Ghost"
(King) Leopold II
Paul
$1,600 [24]
The "J" is pronounced like an "H" in the name of this crisp vegetable that's native to Mexico
jicama
Paul
$1,600 [18]
"Happily never after" is a tagline for this 2022 Disney musical sequel with Amy Adams as Giselle
Disenchanted
Amanda
DD $2,000 [13]
Over 10,000 feet in elevation, this South American capital is one of the International Cities of Peace
La Paz
Kevin
$1,600 [7]
Chad & Samoa are 2 countries with which the U.S. has no treaty for this process of returning wanted criminal suspects
extradition
Kevin
$2,000 [5]
Among Greek heroes, No. 1 is Achilles & No. 2 is this son of Telamon who rescues Achilles' body from the Trojans
Ajax
Amanda
$2,000 [30]
"Mountains Beyond Mountains" is a biography of this late physician known for his work in public health in Haiti & Rwanda
Dr. Paul Farmer
$2,000 [28]
Similar to tofu, this 6-letter Indonesian foodstuff is made from fermented soybeans & often used as a meat substitute
tempeh
Kevin
$2,000 [19]
Lawyers Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn are on opposite sides of a case in this classic comedy
Adam's Rib
$2,000 [21]
You can study physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in this city, like 1900 grad Albert Einstein did
Zurich
$2,000 [6]
Forecasting the temperature at a location based on historic data is an example of this process
extrapolation
Amanda

Final Jeopardy!

MEDICAL HISTORY

A vaccine against this respiratory illness came out in the U.S. in 1914 & eventually combined with 2 other vaccines

whooping cough (pertussis)

Amanda "What isPertussis?whooping cough?" — wagered $15
Paul "What is Tuberculosis" — wagered $4,202
Kevin "What is pertussis?" — wagered $4,000

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