Show #8868 2023-05-10 (taped 2023-02-28) Regular

Hannah Wilson game 6.

Contestants

Hope Silberstein — an attorney from Penn Valley, Pennsylvania

Brad Davis — a talent acquisition writer from Kansas City, Missouri

Hannah Wilson — a data scientist from Chicago, Illinois (whose 5-day cash winnings total $147,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Hannah $6,600 $9,400 $23,000 $16,000
6-day champion: $163,801
$20,200
29 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Brad $600 $1,800 $6,400 $1
2nd place: $2,000
$5,400
13 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Hope $400 $800 $-800 $-800
3rd place: $1,000
$-800
8 R, 6 W

Jeopardy! Round

WELCOME TO THE U.S. HOUSE! CLASSIC MOVIES HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE MISSION: IMPASSABLE WAY BACK IN THE 1900s AFTER SCHOOL
$200 [18]
In 1837 the House banned the wearing of these in the chamber; they'd become so tall they obstructed both view & hearing
hats
Brad
$200 [27]
Having chipped his front tooth as a child, this comic actor removed the cap in "Dumb & Dumber"
Jim Carrey
Brad
$200 [1]
Check out a view of downtown this West Coast city of 900,000 from its Twin Peaks
San Francisco
Hannah
$200 [30]
Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park shelters creatures like the cream-banded swallowtail type of this
butterfly
$200 [29]
In 1971 this Missionaries of Charity woman received the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize
Mother Teresa
Hannah
$200 [16]
One of the 2 main traditional components of the "Jolly Roger" symbol
a skull
Hannah
$400 [26]
Like incoming students, since 1921 new House members have gone through this welcome & get-your-bearings program
orientation
Hope
$400 [15]
The last word in this 1974 Jack Nicholson movie is its title--"Forget it, Jake, it's" this place
Chinatown
Hannah
$400 [2]
When the country's capital was moved there in 1868, Edo was renamed this
Tokyo
Brad
$400 [21]
In Exodus 15, "The horse of" this man "went in with his chariots... into the sea, and the Lord brought again the waters... upon them"
Pharaoh
Hope
$400 [28]
At the Mob Museum in Vegas, you can see a bullet-ridden wall salvaged from this 1929 event in Chicago
the St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Hope
$400 [17]
Ingredient in a classic two-part cocktail favored by Princess Margaret
tonic
Hope
$600 [24]
Members vie for coveted assignments on these, like Appropriations or Energy & Commerce
committees
Hope
$600 [11]
John Singleton was the first African-American directing Oscar nominee with this film, set in South Central L.A. where he grew up
Boyz n the Hood
Brad
$600 [7]
The Château Frontenac Hotelwas built in 1893 overlooking the St. Lawrence River in this provincial capital
Québec City
Hannah
$600 [14]
A twist on the Cold War barrier that divided Europe, it was the Pittsburgh NFL team's defense in the 1970s
the Steel Curtain
Brad Hope
$600 [10]
On Sept. 4, 1962 JFK warned the world--especially one part of the world--that no offensive weapons should be sent to this nation
Cuba
Brad Hope
$600 [25]
Disney canine character who shares on-screen pasta
the Tramp
Hannah
$800 [22]
Representatives introduce bills by placing them in a wooden box called this, after the bin in which grain goes in a mill
a hopper
Hannah
$800 [4]
1932's "I am a Fugitive from" this shackled-together group stirred outrage against that penal practice
a chain gang
Brad
$800 [6]
This Siberian lake contains about 20% of all the world's unfrozen fresh water
Lake Baikal
Hannah
$800 [13]
Sit, this 3-headed doggy of myth! You snacked on anyone who tried to escape Hades! Who's a bad boy? You are! You are!
Cerberus
Hannah
$800 [9]
Problems with debt were expo-sed when this city hosted the 1976 Summer Olympics
Montreal
Hannah Hope
$800 [19]
Inevitable certainty, according to Ben Franklin
taxes
Brad
$1,000 [23]
Score! As a new representative, you'll get this privilege of sending postage-free mail to constituents
franking
Hope
DD $1,000 [3]
An Alex Trebek movie trivia favorite: Who are Janning, Hahn, Lampe & Hofstetter? (We'll add they're the German judges in this movie)
the Judgment at Nuremberg
Brad
$1,000 [5]
A desert by the sea, Punta Gallinas, in this nation is the northernmost point in continental South America
Colombia
Hannah
$1,000 [12]
The BBB, or this-this barrier, is crucial to regulating the entry of microorganisms into the central nervous system
blood-brain
Hannah
$1,000 [8]
Victorious general Giap compared the French position in this decisive 1954 battle in Vietnam to the bottom of a rice bowl
Dien Bien Phu
Hannah Brad
$1,000 [20]
Item needed for the classic kids' runnng race that combines speed & balancing
a spoon
Hannah

Double Jeopardy! Round

BETTER TOMES & GARDENS FROM THE FRENCH THE ELEMENTS NEW NEW ORLEANS MUSIC BELIEVE IT OR NOT... STRAIGHT TO JAIL
$400 [29]
He published "A Child's Garden of Verses" in 1885, a year before his novel "Kidnapped"
(Robert Louis) Stevenson
Brad
$400 [24]
The pecan pie seenhereis served this 3-word way
à la mode
Hannah
$400 [28]
In 1861 rubidium was discovered by Gustav Kirchhoff & this scientist for whom a burner is named
Bunsen
Hannah
$400 [30]
To respect native people who aided runaway slaves, artists like Flagboy Giz wear beaded suits for this event--Feb. 21 in 2023
Mardi Gras
Hannah Hope
$400 [25]
Octopuses have 3 of these: 2 send blood to the gills, one sends blood to the rest of the body
hearts
Brad
$400 [27]
Socrates spent his last hours in an Athenian jail awaiting a cup of this poison
hemlock
Hannah
$800 [23]
The gamekeeper's little garden in this D.H. Lawrence novel features "double daffodils" that "rose in Tufts"
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Hannah
$800 [3]
The French for "bunch" gives us this word for a wine's smell
bouquet
Brad
$800 [19]
In 1955 a bunch of chemists created an element & named it for this chemist who devised the periodic table
Mendeleev
Brad
$800 [26]
Proudly from New Orleans, PJ Morton released a 2020 gospel album; he is also known for playing in this band with Adam Levine
Maroon 5
Hannah
$800 [17]
In 2023 British police foiled a plan by thieves to poach 200,000 Creme Eggs from this chocolatier
Cadbury
Hannah
$800 [21]
For an "affront to religion & common decency", this famous lover was arrested in Venice in 1755 & imprisoned in the doge's palace
Casanova
Brad
$1,200 [14]
Alice finds a marvelous garden in Wonderland but has trouble managing this bird while playing croquet there
a flamingo
Hannah
$1,200 [10]
A recess in a wall, or any perfect job; it comes from a word for "nest"
niche
Hannah
$1,200 [11]
An oxide of this element, atomic number 30, is used in sunscreens to provide protection from UV rays
zinc
Brad Hope
$1,200 [22]
Trumpeter Chief Xian a Tunde Adjuah sometimes plays with a tilted bell just like this musician before him
Dizzy Gillespie
Hannah
$1,200 [16]
Noodling, a sport involving catching these barehanded, officially became legal in Louisiana in 2022
catfish
Hannah
$1,600 [1]
This inventor who struggled to cash in on his vulcanization of rubber did time in debtor's prison in Philadelphia, Boston & Paris
Goodyear
Hannah
$1,600 [12]
After finding a key, Mary in this Frances Hodgson Burnett tale says, "Perhaps it has been buried for ten years"
The Secret Garden
$1,600 [2]
The movie "Rocky" had one of these, many shots juxtaposed to form a theme
montage
Hope
$2,000 [4]
Before penicillin, salvarsan, a compound of this poisonous element, was used to treat syphilis
arsenic
Hannah
$1,600 [20]
This New Orleans-set HBO series opened with the Rebirth Brass Band playing "Feel Like Funkin' It Up" during a second line
Treme
Hannah
$1,600 [15]
A house known as "The One" sold for $126 million (down from $295 mil.) in this area of "lovely atmosphere" next to Beverly Hills
Bel Air
Hannah
$2,000 [8]
In 1898 this "Gift of the Magi" author spent time in the pokey for embezzlement of bank funds
O. Henry
Hannah
$2,000 [13]
This woman's story, "Kew Gardens", wasillustratedby her sister Vanessa Bell, also a member of the Bloomsbury Group
Virginia Woolf
$2,000 [9]
You can't change things, it's this 2-word situation, "concluded fact" in French
fait accompli
Hannah
DD $2,600 [5]
The name of this metal element, also a deep blue pigment, comes from a German word for a goblin said to trouble its miners
cobalt
Brad
$2,000 [6]
In 2021 this New Orleans pianist won an Oscar & released a new album while keeping his day job as Stephen Colbert's bandleader
Jon Batiste
Hope
$2,000 [7]
The Apollo 11 astronauts had to declare Moon rocks to this government service upon returning to Earth
Customs
Hannah Hope
DD $4,000 [18]
In 1919 he came up with a scheme regarding postal reply coupons & would later offer investors 50% interest in 45 days
Ponzi
Hannah

Final Jeopardy!

INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

In 1901 6 colonies joined together to form this nation, today the sixth largest in area

Australia

Brad "What is Kazakhstan?" — wagered $6,399
Hannah "What is" — wagered $7,000

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