Show #8894 2023-06-15 (taped 2023-04-04) Regular

Contestants

Kiran MacCormick — a math teacher from Burlington, Vermont

Suzanne Goldlust — a marketing manager from Reston, Virginia

Holly Hassel — an English professor from Fargo, North Dakota (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Holly $1,000 $3,600 $8,000 $16,000
2nd place: $2,000
$8,000
13 R, 5 W
Suzanne $4,000 $5,600 $17,700 $18,700
New champion: $18,700
$17,400
21 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W
Kiran $2,000 $2,800 $5,600 $4,800
3rd place: $1,000
$5,600
15 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE CZAR 21st CENTURY HORROR NOVELS ROLLING STONES LYRICS DATING/APPS THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE BIRD IDIOMS
$200 [18]
Known for his brutality, he went to war with Livonia--now Latvia & Estonia--in 1558; the 25-year event ended up as a bust
Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible)
Kiran
$200 [16]
Christina Henry's "Looking Glass" is the last book in a chilling trilogy about a woman with this 5-letter name
Alice
Holly
$200 [6]
"But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas"
"Jumpin' Jack Flash"
Suzanne
$200 [8]
You're a Mets fan? Let's hit a sports bar & enjoy these mini sandwiches that share a name with a pitch mastered by Justin Verlander
a slider
Suzanne
$200 [13]
Upon completion in 1937, it was the world's tallest & longest bridge of this type that uses cables above the span
a suspension bridge
Kiran
$200 [1]
If you keep late hours, you are one of these birds
a night owl
Kiran
$400 [21]
A true great, in 1721 he dumped "czar" for "emperor of all Russia" to help with primacy over the church but the old title stuck
Peter the Great
Kiran
$400 [17]
In Grady Hendrix' "How to Sell" this place, it has a sealed attic & creepy puppet collection & Redfin will be no help
a haunted house
Suzanne
$400 [7]
"I've been around for a long, long year, stole many a man's soul & faith"
"Sympathy For The Devil"
Holly
$400 [9]
Ooh--poppers made with this hot green Mexican pepper! Filled with cheese & topped with crumbled tortilla chips? Yes, please
jalapeños
Suzanne
$400 [14]
The bridge carries both U.S. Route 101 & California State Route 1, also called this, PCH
the Pacific Coast Highway
Suzanne
$400 [2]
NBC strutted its stuff using this 4-word idiom as a slogan in the early 1980s
proud as a peacock
Suzanne
$600 [22]
Alexis' mid-1600s reign saw peasants get tied to land & landlords & fall into slavery as this class
serfs
Holly
$600 [25]
The Scooby gang was often accused of being these, the title of a book by Edgar Cantero about 4 teens with a telepathic pooch
meddling kids
Holly Suzanne
$600 [23]
"You make a grown man cry"
"Start Me Up"
Kiran
$600 [10]
I'm vegan & you ordered this app of dough-wrapped & baked cocktail sausages? Oh wow, look at the time...!
pigs in a blanket
Kiran
$600 [15]
The first step in construction was placing 60,000-ton concrete blocks on each end called this, like an Alaskan city
anchorage
Holly
$600 [3]
Cliff diving for your 75th birthday? Better act your age; you're no... this
a spring chicken
Suzanne
$800 [29]
This man I, who died in 1855, was dubbed the emperor who froze Russia for 30 years; this man II ensured there'd be no this man III
Nicholas
Suzanne
$800 [26]
Megan James pays homage to this horror master & his creation Cthulhu with her graphic novel "Innsmouth"
Lovecraft
Holly
$800 [24]
"You'll come running back to me"
"Time Is On My Side"
$800 [11]
My abuela uses homemade tortillas for this app whose name is from Spanish for "cheese"--are you close to your gran?
quesadillas
Suzanne
$800 [19]
Head north out of San Francisco & cross thebridgeto reach the headlands of this affluent county on the other side
Marin (County)
Kiran
DD $1,000 [4]
This 1843 story has become a metaphor for one who is unpromising initially
"The Ugly Duckling"
Suzanne
$1,000 [30]
Paul I favored showy army drilling on this type of ground, & that's where a monument to him stands at Gatchina Palace
a parade ground
Suzanne
$1,000 [27]
Clive Barker's "Scarlet Gospels" revisits the Hellraiser universe where this prickly priest of hell mans the pulpit
Pinhead
Holly
$1,000 [28]
"Am I hard enough?Am I rough enough?Am I rich enough?"
"Beast Of Burden"
Holly
$1,000 [12]
Oh, you like to travel? I'd love to visit Myanmar but the closest I've gotten is this geographic cream cheese & crab app
crab Rangoon
Kiran
$1,000 [20]
It's the 2-word "global" name for the bridge's color, chosen to stand out from sea & sky
international orange
$1,000 [5]
This 4-word phrase describes the fowl seen here, or idiomatically, any pompous blowhard
the cock of the walk

Double Jeopardy! Round

"G", LOOK AT THAT AMERICAN CAVES FACT: NONFICTION PHYSICS & ENERGY TV CRIMINALS ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES
$400 [5]
They're the people seenherewho help make sure the big day goes off smoothly
groomsmen
Holly
$400 [30]
The world's longest cave system is Mammoth Cave National Park in this state
Kentucky
Suzanne Kiran
$400 [21]
In 2022 "The Light We Carry" carried its way to the top of the nonfiction bestseller list for this ex-first lady
Michelle Obama
Suzanne
$400 [11]
This 1895 discovery with medical implications led to the first Nobel Prize for physics
the X-ray
Kiran
$400 [6]
On this show, Piper Chapman was originally sentenced to 15 months at Litchfield Prison
Orange is the New Black
Suzanne
$400 [16]
A marketplace or square, Rome's Navona one is famous
a piazza
Kiran
$800 [4]
Itgets its name from a town outside of Milan
Gorgonzola
Kiran
$800 [14]
Located in the Black Hills region of this state, Wind Cave National Park boasts 160 miles of explored cave passageways
South Dakota
Holly
DD $1,000 [22]
Beverly Gage's "G-Man" looks at this powerful figure "& the Making of the American Century"
J. Edgar Hoover
Suzanne
$800 [26]
In nuclear physics, this 6-letter word is the opposite of radioactive
stable
Suzanne
$800 [7]
The villainous Supe Homelander on this series is the leader of the Seven, a group of some not-so-super heroes
The Boys
$800 [17]
With or without "Asti", use this word to order sparkling wine
spumante
Holly
$1,200 [3]
Like its relative the vicuna, this wild camelid of South America has a wool coat used to make high-grade cloth
the guanaco
$1,200 [13]
This aquatic creature with a name like a young dog dwells in caves; the Devils Hole species lives in areas only 10 feet wide
a pupfish
Holly Kiran
$1,200 [23]
Dearest Helga, my time grows short; "Our America" is "A Photographic History" from this TV documentarian of the Civil War
Ken Burns
Suzanne
$1,200 [27]
Don't move! I'm pointing a stretched rubber band at you & until I release it, it has this type of stored energy
potential (energy)
Kiran
$1,200 [8]
Stringer Bell studied macroeconomics while managing West Baltimore drug dealers on this show
The Wire
Holly
$1,200 [18]
Also a holiday album by Il Volo, it's how to wish someone merry Christmas in Italian
Buon Natale
Suzanne
$1,600 [2]
This word that now refers to anything light & filmy originally meant the item seen here
gossamer
Holly Kiran
$1,600 [12]
The Giant Dome &Twin Domesare quite a sight, & don't miss the Big Roomwhen visiting this national park in New Mexico
Carlsbad Caverns
Kiran
$1,600 [24]
"Come On-A My House" & "Witchy Woman" are tunes discussed by this music legend in "The Philosophy of Modern Song"
Bob Dylan
Holly
$1,600 [28]
These most common units of sound energy can be deceiving because higher-pitched noises are perceived as louder
decibels
Holly
$1,600 [9]
In "The Company You Keep", this actor seenhereplays Charlie, a con man in love with a CIA agent
Milo Ventimiglia
Kiran
DD $1,500 [19]
It means "at a slow tempo"; Samuel Barber composed one "for Strings"
adagio
Suzanne
$2,000 [1]
Seen here is a work of the Venetian Renaissance by this painter, whose name means "Big George"
Giorgione
Kiran
$2,000 [10]
Sadly, vandalism has destroyed much of the prehistoric art in Samuel's Cave in this state's La Crosse County
Wisconsin
Suzanne
$2,000 [25]
These 3 words complete the title of Stephen R. Covey's "The 7 Habits of..."; be one of them now
highly effective people
Holly Kiran
$2,000 [29]
Menlo Park, California has a 2-mile-long linac, short for this structure, to crack the secrets of matter
a linear accelerator
Suzanne
$2,000 [15]
Mr. Scratch is a villain who first appeared in season 10 of this CBS series set at the B.A.U.
Criminal Minds
Holly
$2,000 [20]
It's the English equivalent of "a caval donato non si guarda in bocca", you ungrateful thing!
don't look a gift horse in the mouth
Suzanne

Final Jeopardy!

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT

Established in 1938, this congressional group was still issuing subpoenas in 1969 & finally ceased to exist 6 years later

the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

Kiran "What is the House Unamerican activities Commission" — wagered $800
Holly "What isHouse UnaHUAC?" — wagered $8,000
Suzanne "What is the HUAC?" — wagered $1,000

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