Show #8895 2023-06-16 (taped 2023-04-04) Regular

Ben Goldstein game 1.

Contestants

Erica Rapheal — an epidemiologist from Saint Paul, Minnesota

Ben Goldstein — a content marketing strategist from Dexter, Michigan

Suzanne Goldlust — a marketing manager from Reston, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Suzanne $1,400 $1,400 $3,000 $3,000
3rd place: $1,000
$4,600
11 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Ben $1,800 $3,800 $8,600 $6,198
New champion: $6,198
$12,600
21 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Erica $1,600 $2,000 $11,000 $4,799
2nd place: $2,000
$9,600
12 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

CONTINENTAL GEOGRAPHY BIRTHSTONES 3-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN X GREASE & ROAM NIGHT SKIES FINISH LAST
$200 [6]
In the 17th century this continent was given the name New Holland
Australia
Erica
$200 [26]
This June birthstone is the only one produced by a living organism
pearl
Ben
$200 [1]
Suit for a formal
a tux
Ben
$200 [14]
A rating of 10W-40 means a multigrade engine oil has a viscosity of 10 in cold weather, 40 in warm; the "W" stands for this
winter
$200 [16]
With a small telescope & averted vision, it's possible to see the galaxy M51 near the handle of this asterism
the Big Dipper
Ben
$200 [25]
Last-place competitors in this bicycle race are known as the "lanterne rouge", like the red light on the back of a vehicle
the Tour de France
Suzanne
$400 [7]
Africa's 54 nations are more than any other continent has, with this country the newest
South Sudan
Suzanne
$400 [27]
Big in the Southwest, it's one of the birthstones for December
turquoise
Ben
$400 [2]
To dishonestly influence something to reach a predetermined outcome
fix
Erica
$400 [15]
Boat owners know about marine grease from Lucas Oil, headquartered in this Midwest city where its name is on a football stadium
Indianapolis
Ben
$400 [17]
Illuminating the dark chrysalis of space, M6 emerges in Scorpius & is called this insect cluster; its stars resemble wings
butterfly
Suzanne
$400 [21]
Fenwick & Pretension are horses that finished last in this annual Triple Crown race in Maryland
the Preakness
Suzanne
$600 [8]
It's the windiest continent & on average, the highest
Antarctica
Suzanne Ben Erica
$600 [28]
Ranging from light purple to deep royal purple, it's the birthstone for February
amethyst
Erica
$600 [3]
To bewitch someone or cast a spell upon them is to do this
hex
Suzanne
$600 [11]
Automotive grease is heavily used in this system that provides steering stability & keeps passengers from bouncing all over the place
the suspension
Suzanne
$600 [18]
Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star in this constellation with a famous belt, may go supernova soon... in 100,000 years
Orion
Ben
$600 [22]
With apologies to our good fans in Ohio, this NFL team is the most recent to finish a season with 0 wins
the (Cleveland) Browns
Ben
$1,000 [10]
This continent bears the name of a mythological Phoenician princess pursued by Zeus
Europe
Ben
$800 [29]
Composed of hydrated silica, this October birthstone is known for its play of color
opal
Erica
$800 [4]
To disturb with minor irritations
vex
Ben
$800 [12]
A type of this clear oil also found on pharmacy shelves is often used to break in airplane engines
mineral oil
Suzanne
$800 [19]
Mizar A & B are what's called a visual this word, like a kind of computer code, for their apparent closeness
a binary system
$800 [23]
After a 10-72 last-place finish in the 2015-16 season, this team got the first overall draft pick & chose Ben Simmons
the Philadelphia 76ers
DD $1,600 [9]
Asia & North America are just 55 miles apart where the Chukchi Peninsula almost meets this Alaskan one
the Seward Peninsula
Suzanne
$1,000 [30]
Red spots of iron oxide give abirthstonefor March this name
bloodstone
Ben Erica
$1,000 [5]
No war, for a Roman
pax
Erica
$1,000 [13]
Used in cars with stick shifts, gear oil protects meshing moving parts after a driver releases this pedal
the clutch
Erica
$1,000 [20]
NGC 6355is one of these star clusters named for their somewhat spherical shape
a globular cluster
Suzanne
$1,000 [24]
Known as "Mr. Cub" & a player on more than one last-place team, he said, "The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose"
Ernie Banks
Ben

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC GROUPS OPPOSITIONAL BOOK TITLES GO TELL IT ON THE FOUNTAIN THAT EUROPEAN LANGUAGE CUFFING SEASON THIS IS ALL A BIT MUCH
$400 [21]
Around 1870 the U.S.-based Fenian Brotherhood hoped to conquer Canada & force Great Britain to free this island
Ireland
Erica
$400 [6]
A young woman reopens a closed homicide case with dangerous results in Holly Jackson's "A Good Girl's Guide to" this crime
murder
Ben
$400 [26]
In this Swiss city for Red Cross meetings check out the Jet d'Eau; it can shoot 7 tons of water about 450 feet high
Geneva
Suzanne
$400 [1]
Spoken in the very first IKEA store
Swedish
Ben
$400 [20]
It was SZA szn on TikTok after she sang about "cuffing" a large man for the cold months on this NBC show
Saturday Night Live
Erica
$400 [15]
This word refers to the great flood endured by Noah, or torrential rain of non-biblical proportions
diluvial (deluge)
Ben
$800 [11]
Bleda & his younger brother became co-rulers of this group of nomadic invaders in 434
the Huns
Ben
$800 [2]
The subtitle of this nonfiction work by a Catholic sister is "An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States"
Dead Man Walking
Suzanne Ben
$800 [27]
Here'sthe Fountain of Wealth, representing oneness in spirit in this city-state at the tip of the Malay Peninsula
Singapore
Erica
$800 [22]
This language of Scotland was suppressed in the 18th century
Scottish Gaelic
$800 [16]
In this 1999 film Laurence Fishburne breaks the chains off his handcuffs before jumping out of a building & into Keanu's arms
The Matrix
Suzanne
$800 [7]
You've "gone" this, like Goldie Hawn in a movie title & Anna Faris in the remake
overboard
Ben
$1,200 [12]
Perhaps a candidate for a name change, Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety exercised control during this 1793-94 period
the Reign of Terror
Erica
$1,200 [3]
"Enormous Smallness" is Matthew Burgess' portrait of this poet who often used no uppercase letters
e.e. cummings
Ben
$1,200 [28]
Versailles' statue of this Roman god rising symbolically at dawn on his chariot to light the world is seen here
Apollo
$1,600 [24]
Rz is usually a single sound, but surprise! Not in Marznac
Polish
$1,200 [17]
The cuffs worn by this superhero in the 1970s TV show are made from feminum, a metal mined on Paradise Island
Wonder Woman
Suzanne
$1,200 [8]
There may be a bit of chagrin involved when this long word comes before "of riches" in an idiom
embarrassment
Ben
$1,600 [13]
Even the Industrial Workers of the World say theories on how they got this nickname are on shaky ground
the Wobblies
Ben
$1,600 [4]
This Harvard symbologist character first shows up in Dan Brown's "Angels & Demons"
Robert Langdon
Erica
$1,600 [29]
Fed by an aqueduct built in 19 B.C., this fountain in Italy got its name from its location at the convergence of 3 roads
the Trevi
Ben
$2,000 [25]
Remember your double vowels: tuli is fire, tuuli is wind
Finnish
$1,600 [18]
This Bulls & Lakers coach once used the basketball-appropriate malaphor "I'm shooting from the cuff"
(Phil) Jackson
Ben
$2,000 [10]
From the Greek for "fullness", this 8-letter word can mean an overabundance
a plethora
$2,000 [14]
The 1926 Balfour report brought about this 12-letter group "equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another"
the Commonwealth (of Nations)
$2,000 [5]
A page from this visionary English poet & artist's "The Marriage of Heaven & Hell" from around 1790 is seen here
William Blake
$2,000 [30]
The world's longest bridge fountain at 3,740 feet, Seoul's Moonlight Rainbow shoots water recycled from this river below
the Han
Ben
DD $2,600 [23]
Mark Twain said capitalizing every noun is one of its few good qualities
German
Erica
$2,000 [19]
It was lit when this Titan hung with mankind but it got real dark after Zeus cuffed him to that mountain
Prometheus
Erica
DD $4,000 [9]
It means wastefully extravagant, like an offspring in Luke 15
prodigal
Ben

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY

Native Americans called it Okwa-ta, or "wide water"; Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville would rename it for a countryman

Lake Pontchartrain

Suzanne "What is Lake Huron?" — wagered $0
Ben "What's Lake Champlain?" — wagered $2,402
Erica "What is St. Lawrence River" — wagered $6,201

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