Show #8865 2023-05-05 (taped 2023-02-27) Regular

Hannah Wilson game 3.

Contestants

Brian Alzua — a biocompatibility scientist from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Ashwin Phadnis — an attorney originally from Hillsdale, New Jersey

Hannah Wilson — a data scientist from Chicago, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $71,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Hannah $2,800 $5,800 $13,900 $19,601
3-day champion: $90,601
$14,600
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Ashwin $1,400 $2,600 $9,800 $19,598
2nd place: $2,000
$10,800
14 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Brian $400 $2,200 $7,400 $2
3rd place: $1,000
$7,400
14 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

TAKE ME TO CHURCH QUICK PLANETS EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSE SLANG EN ESPAÑOL IT'S A TV MYSTERY THE GREAT AMERICAN BAKING SHOW WITH ELLIE KEMPER
$200 [11]
Built to commemorate the defeat of the Tatars, St. Basil's Cathedral is in this capital city
Moscow
Brian
$200 [1]
About half the size of Earth, it has a 24.6-hour day
Mars
Hannah Ashwin
$200 [25]
Born in Boston in 1890, she had 9 children, including John, Robert, Edward & Eunice
(Rose) Kennedy
Ashwin
$200 [6]
This Spanish word for father can also mean "cool!" when it comes after "que" in a phrase
padre
Hannah
$200 [17]
"O.M.I.T.B." is short for this, a show & the podcast within it
Only Murders in the Building
Brian
$200 [13]
(Ellie Kemper presents the clue.) Not surprisingly, our British judges, Prue Leith & Paul Hollywood, asked our bakers to prepare this meal, lighter than the high one, consisting of six Victoria sandwiches, six mini strawberry tarts, & six savory scones
low tea (afternoon tea)
Hannah Ashwin
$400 [10]
In ancient Rome it was a temple to 12 gods; in the 600s it became a church to just one, holding the remains of martyrs
the Pantheon
Ashwin
$400 [2]
For 20 years in every 248, it's further from the Sun than Pluto
Neptune
Ashwin
$400 [26]
In 1986 she won an Emmy award for playing Rose Nylund on "The Golden Girls"
Betty White
Ashwin Brian
$400 [7]
In Venezuela enratonado, "moused", means you're in this condition after a night of too much rum & cocuy
hungover
Hannah
$400 [18]
Season one of this series ended with the title teen sleuth solving the murder of her best friend Lilly Kane
Veronica Mars
$400 [14]
(Ellie Kemper presents the clue.) For a signature challenge, our bakers had to come up with an elegantcakeassembled from no less than 20layersofthese French pancakes
crepes
Hannah
$800 [16]
Climbing up on Montmartre Hill, I could see Paris' city lights & this basilica whose name means sacred heart
the Sacré-Cœur
Brian
$600 [3]
It was the first planet explored by a spacecraft, 1962's Mariner 2
Venus
Hannah Ashwin Brian
$600 [27]
After appearing in the "Ziegfeld Follies", she starred in "Star and Garter"
Gypsy Rose Lee
$600 [8]
Ay! Fans of Bart Simpson know this interjection is used to express surprise or dismay
Ay, caramba!
Ashwin
$600 [19]
(I'm Zoë Chao.) I just murdered it on Apple TV+ in "The Afterparty", or did I? Either way, my character of Zoe was a suspect as well as the ex-wife of Brett, played by this man who was a "Celebrity Jeopardy!" champion in 2022
(Ike) Barinholtz
Brian
$600 [22]
(Ellie Kemper presents the clue.) In one challenge, our bakers were asked to combine two classics--achiffon cake with this citrus-based Florida dessert favorite
key lime pie
Ashwin
DD $1,000 [9]
In 2023 16th St. Baptist in this city marks 150 years of the congregation, a history marred by a 1963 bombing
Birmingham, Alabama
Ashwin
$800 [4]
Leda is one of its more than 50 named moons
Jupiter
Ashwin
$800 [29]
Rose of Sharon is pregnant & subsequently abandoned by her spouse in California in this Steinbeck novel
The Grapes of Wrath
Brian
$800 [12]
Don't act too high & mighty in Mexico or you might be called a "fresa", which literally translates to this fruit
a strawberry
Brian
$800 [20]
Nicole Kidman played Celeste, whose abusive husband Perry was pushed to his death in this series based on a Liane Moriarty novel
Big Little Lies
Ashwin
$800 [23]
(Ellie Kemper presents the clue.) During Pastry Week, we asked our bakers to make a dozen of these south-of-the-border treats made with a choux pastry & filled with a yummy chocolateganache
churros
Brian
$1,000 [21]
Controlled by the Palestinian Authority, the Church of this is believed to mark the birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem
the Church of the Nativity
Hannah Ashwin
$1,000 [5]
It's surrounded by phenomena namedA, B, C, D, E, F & G
Saturn
Hannah
$1,000 [30]
D.C. socialite Rose O'Neal Greenhow sent word that Union troops were moving on Manassas, helping the Confederates before this battle
the Battle of Bull Run
Ashwin
$1,000 [15]
"The chabón abides" in Argentina, as el chabón is a local equivalent of this--it's also a nickname for Pope Francis
dude
Hannah
$1,000 [28]
On the BBC's "Sherlock", this acting pair are the modern day Holmes & Watson
Cumberbatch & Freeman
Hannah Brian
$1,000 [24]
(Ellie Kemper presents the clue.) Our bakers made this sweet yeast bread that'sbraided&bakedin a loaf pan &, as my cohost Zach explained, takes its name from the Polish word for "grandmother"
babka
Hannah

Double Jeopardy! Round

NORTHERN LANDS STOCK SYMBOLS A MUSICAL BOUQUET "OH", YES! DUNCE, DUNCE REVOLUTION
$400 [28]
Rifstangi, Iceland's northernmost point, lies less than 2 miles below this line of latitude
the Arctic Circle
Hannah
$400 [24]
Get moving with LULU, the symbol for this athletic apparel company
Lululemon
Ashwin
$400 [30]
This hit by Post Malone & Swae Lee was featured on the soundtrack of "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse"
"Sunflower"
Brian
$400 [27]
Keep your mask on, the signhereis a warning of this 9-letter threat
biohazard
Brian
$400 [29]
He is confidently incorrect as he tells Sancho Panza that the cloud of dust he sees comes from an army; it's sheep
Don Quixote
Hannah
$400 [26]
A peaceful 1905 worker's march turned into what was later called "Bloody" this after Grand Duke Vladimir ordered an attack
Bloody Sunday
Brian
$800 [4]
Trade in this material from walruses sustained the medieval Norse of Greenland
ivory
Hannah
$800 [16]
Life's a bleach for this company with the symbol CLX
Clorox
Hannah
$800 [22]
"I can buy myself flowers", she sings in "Flowers", her 2023 No. 1 hit
Miley Cyrus
Brian
$800 [21]
This leading seaport & industrial center is found on the western shore of Tokyo Bay
Yokohama
Hannah
$800 [20]
Margaret Mitchell wrote that she "had not willingly opened a book since leaving the Fayetteville Female Academy"
Scarlett O'Hara
Brian
$800 [9]
After ordering the deaths of hundreds, Sadegh Khalkhali was much feared after this country's 1979 revolution
Iran
Hannah
$1,200 [1]
Gudmundur Gunnarsson gained fame as a union leader & is the father of this singer, a more famous Icelander
Björk
Brian
$1,200 [14]
Not DING, not DONG, but TWNK is this maker of Twinkies & other baked goodies
Hostess
Hannah
$1,200 [23]
The last song Rodgers & Hammerstein wrote together was this one about an Alpine flower from "The Sound of Music"
"Edelweiss"
Ashwin
$1,600 [6]
Also called turnip cabbage, this member of the mustard family has a thick stem eaten like a vegetable
kohlrabi
Hannah
$1,200 [8]
Neither intellectual giants, Crabbe & Goyle were the cronies of this character in Harry Potter books
Draco Malfoy
Brian
$1,200 [10]
Casimir Pulaski died after attacking this key Georgia port, occupied by loyalists during much of the Revolutionary War
Savannah
Hannah
$1,600 [2]
In 1596 the feisty peasants of Finland rose up against the well-armed Swedes with only these head-bashing items the war is named for
clubs
$1,600 [13]
Headquartered in New York, GS is this leader in global investment banking & securities
Goldman Sachs
Ashwin
$1,600 [17]
Hersong "Smile" was a hit single in the UK early in her career
Lily Allen
$2,000 [7]
Now extinct, this earliest horse was a dog-sized ancestor that lived in North America 50 million years ago
the eohippus
$1,600 [18]
Patrick Bateman in this Bret Easton Ellis book refers to someone named McDermott as Mc Duf Mc Duf Mc Duf Mc Duf Mc Duf Mc Duf Mc DufMcDufus
American Psycho
Hannah
$1,600 [11]
After a speech by Khrushchev in 1956, this country revolted, but the Soviets intervened before year's end
Hungary
$2,000 [3]
This man credited as the first to reach the North Pole proved that Greenland is an island
Robert Peary
Hannah
$2,000 [15]
OXY is the symbol for this oil & gas company
Occidental
Ashwin
$2,000 [25]
This song by The Foundations was on the soundtrack of "There's Something About Mary", so don't break my heart
"Build Me Up Buttercup"
Ashwin
DD $3,000 [5]
In physics it's the intermolecular force that holds together a liquid or solid
cohesion
Hannah
$2,000 [19]
Thersites in this Shakespeare play says Agamemnon "has not so much brain as earwax"
Troilus and Cressida
DD $2,500 [12]
Ordinal name for the commoners who turned into a revolutionary national assembly in 1789 France
the Third Estate
Hannah

Final Jeopardy!

TEAM NAMES

An MLB team got this name in 1902 after some of its players defected to a new crosstown rival, leaving young replacements

the (Chicago) Cubs

Brian "What are the Dodgers?" — wagered $7,398
Ashwin "What are the Cubs?" — wagered $9,798
Hannah "What is the Chicago Cubs?" — wagered $5,701

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