Show #8885 2023-06-02 (taped 2023-03-24) Regular

Jared Watson game 2.

Contestants

Sylvia Izzo Hunter — a marketing manager from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jong Limb — a retired software developer from Glen Allen, Virginia

Jared Watson — a quality control specialist from Greenville, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jared $5,000 $4,200 $20,600 $24,601
2-day champion: $38,601
$22,800
31 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Jong $2,200 $2,400 $2,400 $400
3rd place: $1,000
$2,400
6 R, 5 W
Sylvia $1,400 $2,400 $12,300 $3,999
2nd place: $2,000
$12,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

YOU HAVE SELECTED REGICIDE OHIO GEOGRAPHY GARDEN PARTY THEIR MIDDLE INITIAL SPORTS STARS CALLING IT QUITS INTERNAL ORGANS (& OTHER BODY PARTS)
$200 [15]
6th c. B.C. assassin Zhuan Zhu spent months learning to prepare & fillet these so he could hide a dagger in one & kill king Liao
a fish
Jared
$200 [14]
Ohio's shoreline on this lake to the north stretches for 312 miles
Lake Erie
Jong
$200 [12]
This onion relative helps fight infection & wards off Dracula? It's definitely going in the garden
garlic
Jared
$200 [25]
Of General George Patton
S.
Jared
$200 [26]
Jackie Robinson spent his entire major league career with this team; when traded to the Giants, he retired
the (Brooklyn) Dodgers
Jong
$200 [29]
To leap down into water; you "take" it when you make a quick decision
a p lung e
Jared
$400 [27]
This king this king, oh no, he gotta go, said the French National convention in 1793
Louis XVI
Jared
$400 [30]
The Ohio Agricultural & Mechanical College opened near this city in 1873; now it's much bigger & has another name
Columbus
$400 [28]
Queen Anne's lace, also called wild this plant, is the ancestor of the cultivated veggie; the leaves show a family resemblance
carrot
Sylvia
$400 [24]
Of journalist & broadcaster Edward Murrow
R.
Jared
$400 [7]
Formerly the all-time leading goal scorer in women's soccer, she retired as a player in 2004
Mia Hamm
Jared
$400 [18]
A slow-moving person, like a certain mollusk
a s nail
Jared
$600 [1]
Known for his cruelty & wild ways, this emperor was killed at the Palatine Games by Cassius Chaerea, among others
Caligula
Jared
$600 [21]
This seat of Stark County has a special place for Y.A. Tittle, Weeb Ewbank & Steve Young
Canton
Jared
$600 [11]
This 2-word morning glory family member different from a common spud has tons of vitamin A
a sweet potato
Sylvia
$600 [8]
Of President Rutherford Hayes
B.
Jared
$600 [4]
The most decorated Olympian, he announced his retirement in 2016
Michael Phelps
Jared Jong
$600 [17]
You "hang out your" this when you establish your medical practice
a shin gle
Sylvia
$800 [2]
In 1762 this emperor III, grandson of "the Great", was taken out by conspirators--got an alibi, Alexei Orlov?
Peter
Jared
$1,000 [23]
Rumored to hold UFO tech & debris in its Hangar 18, this hyphenated Air Force base is northeast of Dayton
Wright-Patterson
$800 [13]
They're named for their origin in Belgium & I grow them for their anti-inflammatory benefits & great taste when roasted
Brussels sprouts
Sylvia
$800 [9]
Of statesman & Chief Justice Salmon Chase
P.
Jared
$800 [5]
In 2019, after numerous injuries, this Alpine racer with over 80 World Cup wins announced she was leaving the slopes
Lindsey Vonn
Jared
$800 [16]
Army rank for the "bird"s
colon el
$1,000 [3]
Welsh foot soldiers wielding halberds are said to be behind the big blow to the base of the skull of this king at Bosworth
Richard III
Jong
DD $3,000 [22]
Once home to several tire companies, this city takes its name from the Greek for "highest point"
Akron
Jared
$1,000 [20]
George H.W. Bush was famously not a fan of this veggie but it grows fast, is high in vitamins A, C & K, so it gets planted
broccoli
Jared
$1,000 [10]
Of sci-fi & fantasy author Ursula Le Guin
K.
Jong
$1,000 [6]
In August 2003, both Pete Sampras &this other tennis champ hung up their rackets from tournament play
Michael Chang
Jong
$1,000 [19]
In 1066 the Normans paid a visit here
En gland
Jared

Double Jeopardy! Round

INVENTORS & INVENTIONS WOMEN AUTHORS STATE OF THE UNION IT'S A FACT ANIMAL ROCK WORDS ENDING IN "Y"
$400 [9]
In 1893 Whitcomb Judson patented an early type of this; a later version was marketed as a "hookless fastener"
a zipper
Jared Jong Sylvia
$400 [1]
In "Hamnet", Maggie O'Farrell reimagines the life of this writer & his family, including his son, who may have died of bubonic plague
William Shakespeare
Sylvia
$400 [13]
Joe Jonas & Sophie Turner, at the Little White Wedding Chapel; an Elvis impersonator officiated
Nevada
Jared Jong Sylvia
$400 [16]
The city of Baltimore is on the Patapsco River, which runs into this large bay
Chesapeake Bay
Jared
$400 [5]
In their first Top 10 hit, Duran Duran was "Hungry like the..."
the wolf
Jared
$400 [2]
Hopefully, your golf ball ends up here after your tee shot
the fairway
Jared
$800 [27]
A cut above, in 1930 Jacob Schick obtained a patent for an electric this
a razor
Jared
$800 [14]
Lucy Maud Montgomery grew up in this Canadian province where she set her "Anne of Green Gables" books
Prince Edward Island
Sylvia
$800 [30]
Jimmy Carter & Rosalynn Smith, at a Methodist church in their hometown
Georgia
Jong
$800 [26]
Catholicism has 7; confirmation is one "of initiation"
sacraments
Sylvia
$800 [6]
Loudon Wainwright III had a '70s novelty hit with "Dead" this "in the middle of the road, stinking to high heaven"
a skunk
Jared
$800 [8]
It sounds like a place where chimps & gorillas are kept, but as you cansee, it's not
an apiary
Sylvia
$1,200 [10]
Seen here, Charles Hull is one of the inventors of this technology, also called stereolithography
3D printing
Jared
DD $1,500 [15]
After the success of this classic about Francie Nolan & her impoverished New York family, Betty Smith co-wrote a musical based on it
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Sylvia
$1,200 [20]
Prince Rogers Nelson & Mayte Garcia, at a church from his youth
Minnesota
Jared
$1,200 [17]
He came up with the name Kodak
(George) Eastman
Jared
$1,200 [3]
In the title of their 2000 hit, the Baha Men wanted to know this
"Who Let The Dogs Out"
Jared
$1,600 [24]
If something sounds false, it's said to strain this quality, from the Latin for "believe"
credulity
Jared
$1,600 [11]
Going up? Going down? He made elevators more secure with his invention of a safety brake
Otis
Jared
$1,600 [28]
Mary Anne Evans was the real name of this "Middlemarch" author
(George) Eliot
Jared
$1,600 [21]
Jim Thorpe & Iva Miller, at St. Patrick's Church in Carlisle
Pennsylvania
$1,600 [18]
The 2 most common conditions making up COPD are emphysema & this inflammation
bronchitis
$1,600 [4]
Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" mentions a hookah-smoking one of these insects
a caterpillar
Sylvia
DD $2,000 [23]
It's the branch of a government that oversees the application of laws
the judiciary
Jared
$2,000 [12]
In 1642 this Frenchman for whom a computer program is named invented a mechanical adding machine
Pascal
Sylvia
$2,000 [29]
She recently took the 3 top spots on the paperback trade fiction list with "It Ends with Us", "It Starts with Us" & "Heart Bones"
Colleen Hoover
$2,000 [22]
Jackie & JFK, at St. Mary's Church near Hammersmith Farm
Rhode Island
Jong
$2,000 [19]
The Nazis' advance into Russia was stopped in this city where 2 of their armies surrendered Feb. 2, 1943
Stalingrad
Jared
$2,000 [7]
Boy George sang, "You come and go, you come and go" in this hit
"Karma Chameleon"
Jong
$2,000 [25]
The life story of a saint, it has come to mean an admiring or idealized chronicle of anyone
hagiography
Sylvia

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY AMERICA

In bold letters, it was the 2-word historic N.Y. Times headline for August 9, 1974, followed by "He urges a time of 'healing"'

"Nixon Resigns"

Jong "What is Nixon Pardoned" — wagered $2,000
Sylvia "What is Carter defeated" — wagered $8,301
Jared "What is Nixon resigns?" — wagered $4,001

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