Show #8896 2023-06-19 (taped 2023-04-13) Regular

Ben Goldstein game 2.

Contestants

Jonathan Belford — a television researcher originally from Garland, Texas

Mary Kate Gliedt — a nonprofit director from Kansas City, Missouri

Ben Goldstein — a content marketing strategist from Dexter, Michigan (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,198)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ben $3,400 $4,000 $10,000 $9,000
2-day champion: $15,198
$10,800
18 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Mary Kate $1,200 $400 $100 $0
2nd place: $2,000
$1,600
9 R, 6 W (including 2 DDs)
Jonathan $800 $2,200 $-600 $-600
3rd place: $1,000
$-600
11 R, 8 W

Jeopardy! Round

IT'S A SPECIAL DAY TV "F"IVE LETTER WORDS THE ANIMAL KINGDOM ON THE STATE'S LONGEST WESTERN BORDER GETTING AN EYEFUL
$200 [28]
Made a U.S. federal holiday in 2021, it's also known as Black Independence Day
Juneteenth
Mary Kate
$200 [15]
After her daytime talk show ended, shespent some time on "The View", & in 2022 she made a cameo on the reboot of "A League of Their Own"
(Rosie) O'Donnell
Ben
$200 [16]
Aesop knows it's a short narrative often making an edifying point
a fable
Ben
$200 [27]
Among the fastest tortoises, this variety with a flattened shell bears the name of a breakfast food
a pancake (tortoise)
Ben
$200 [30]
On New Mexico's
Arizona
Jonathan
$200 [26]
A call for an act of retribution, it's No. 196 in the 18th century B.C. code of Hammurabi
eye for an eye
Ben
$400 [19]
Every March brings a holiday in Iran on the date in 1951 when the country nationalized this industry
the oil industry
Jonathan
$400 [8]
A classic TV show's opening narration says, "That's the signpost up ahead! Your next stop..." this title
The Twilight Zone
Ben
$400 [4]
It's what someone who buys & resells stolen goods is called
a fence
Ben
$400 [13]
The ribbon moray species of this fish is born male but later changes its color & its sex
an eel
Ben
$400 [29]
On New Hampshire's
Vermont
Jonathan
$400 [9]
This term for someone sleuthing for a fee came from the first letter of "investigator"
private eye
Ben
$600 [20]
This U.S. territory celebrates Flag Day on April 17, the day in 1900 that Old Glory was raised in Fagatogo on Tutuila Island
American Samoa
Jonathan
$600 [5]
Before he starred on "Castle" & "The Rookie", he was Captain Mal Reynolds on "Firefly"
(Nathan) Fillion
Mary Kate
$600 [1]
It's a person with a habit of texting, "OMG! Sorry I can't make it! I forgot I have a thing. We should totally hang out soon though"
a flake
Mary Kate Jonathan
$600 [14]
Living up to their name, the African springboks seenhereare a variety of this horned mammal
a gazelle (an antelope)
Jonathan
$600 [23]
On Georgia's
Alabama
Jonathan
$600 [10]
This one of the leading acts in 1960s blue-eyed soul is pictured here
The Righteous Brothers
Ben
$800 [21]
Jerusalem's November 29 Street is named for the day in 1947 the U.N. voted to partition this British-controlled land
Palestine
Jonathan
$800 [6]
Not-Tom-Hanks on "Bosom Buddies", this late actor became a regular on "Newhart" & guested on "Girls"
Peter Scolari
Jonathan
$800 [2]
"You give me" this in a song originally recorded by "Little Willie" John
fever
Ben
$800 [17]
We hate to let a season pass with no mention of Alex Trebek's favorite animal, this 750-lb. Arctic ruminant with curved horns
a musk ox
Jonathan
$800 [24]
On North Dakota's
Montana
$800 [11]
When a storm reaches hurricane strength, an "eye" appears in the covering shield of these clouds, from Latin for "curl"
cirrus clouds
$1,000 [22]
If you're in Peru in June, head to Cuzco on the 24th for Inti Raymi, "Sun Festival" in this language
Quechuan
Mary Kate
$1,000 [7]
"The Newsroom" is just one of the fast-talking showshehas created
Sorkin
Ben
DD $800 [3]
It's a genus of tree that can be grown as a houseplant such as the fiddle-leaf fig
Ficus
Ben
$1,000 [18]
As with flamingos, the scarlet species of this bird of South America gets its color from the crustaceans that it eats
an ibis
Jonathan
$1,000 [25]
On Ark--on that of Arkansas
Oklahoma
Jonathan
$1,000 [12]
Used for more than 100 years, this standardeye chartbears the name of the Dutch ophthalmologist who developed it
the Snellen chart

Double Jeopardy! Round

FIRST SPEECHES IN SHAKESPEARE RANDOM FACTS WHAT AN IDIOM! GENERAL ASSEMBLY WEIGHTS & MEASURES LET'S MAKE A MOVIE CROSSOVER!
$400 [6]
"From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean"
Romeo and Juliet
Mary Kate
$400 [10]
In 1974 a horde of terra cotta warriors were found at the resting place of the man who made himself this country's first emperor
China
Jonathan
$400 [17]
It means to willfullyignoreobvious danger signs
bury your head in the sand
Ben
$400 [26]
After his victory at Waterloo, he said, "I hope to God that I have fought my last battle. It is a bad thing to always be fighting"
the Duke of Wellington
Jonathan
$400 [20]
The size of a digital video is measured in these units whose name combines "picture" & "element"
a pixel
Mary Kate
$400 [18]
A natural pair! A character who fought Ivan Drago & Clubber Lang "&" a moose who took on Jason Alexander's Boris Badenov
Rocky and Bullwinkle
Jonathan
$800 [5]
"Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, assume the port of Mars"
Henry V
Ben
$800 [1]
Google's recent entry into the world of A.I. has this name just like a poet of yore
Bard
Ben
$800 [14]
If you're "in for a penny", you're also in for one of these British units
a pound
Mary Kate
DD $500 [27]
In absentia he was sentenced to death in 1940, weeks after a London radio speech in which he asked the French to keep fighting
Charles de Gaulle
Mary Kate
$800 [21]
This Swede initially had 0 degrees as the boiling point of water & 100 degrees for the melting point of snow on his temperature scale
Celsius
Ben Jonathan
$800 [2]
Disney meets Kurosawa: An animated 1937 title woman "& the" title septet led by Takashi Shimura
Snow White and the Seven Samurai
Ben
DD $1,000 [7]
"Take but good note & you shall see in him the triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet's fool"
Antony and Cleopatra
Mary Kate
$1,200 [9]
The stock market crash of 1929 led to the creation of this regulatory body in 1934
the SEC
Ben Jonathan
$1,200 [12]
If you are impoverished, you are as poor as this rodent
a church mouse
Mary Kate
$800 [25]
At Columbia, S.C.'s state house, bronze stars mark the spots where shells from this general's cannons once hit
Sherman
Mary Kate
$1,200 [22]
This ancient measure was based on the length from elbow to middle finger tip
a cubit
Mary Kate
$1,200 [3]
You stay classy, Kali! A 2004 San Diego news anchorman "&" a 1984 Indiana Jones title structure
Ron Burgundy & the Temple of Doom
$1,600 [8]
"It did always seem so to us: but now, in the division of the kingdom, it appears not which of the dukes he values most"
King Lear
Jonathan
$1,600 [11]
Pope Francis was selected for the big job by one of these special assemblies of the College of Cardinals
a conclave
Mary Kate
$1,600 [13]
You can be as mad as a hatter or as mad as this, also a character in "Alice in Wonderland"
March Hare
Ben
$1,600 [28]
Subutai, a general of this people, was devastating Europe in the 13th c. when he was called back for an election for a new great khan
the Mongols
Ben
$1,600 [23]
A knot equals one of these, a bit over 6,000 feet, per hour
nautical mile
$1,600 [4]
An Alan Rickman "Die Hard" villain "wants those detonators" from a title Great Dane of 2002!
Hans Gruber and Scooby-Doo
Mary Kate
$2,000 [16]
"My brother Jaques he keeps at school, & report speaks goldenly of his profit"
As You Like It
$2,000 [29]
Thegreen cometthat visited Earth in 2023 was thought to come from this cloud named for a Dutch astronomer
the Oort
$2,000 [15]
In a 1696 play, a character says, if I get a patent "I shall be as rich as" this proverbially rolling-in-it king
Croesus
Jonathan
$2,000 [30]
Though this brother of Claudius & father of Caligula campaigned near the Rhine, that's not where he got his familiar name
Germanicus
$2,000 [24]
Parsec, an astronomical unit of length, is a portmanteau of this word & "second"
parallax
Mary Kate
$2,000 [19]
Masks are compared when a "Friday the 13th" icon "takes on" a Robin Williams woman who enjoys a cake moisturizer
Jason Meets Mrs. Doubtfire
Ben

Final Jeopardy!

ENTERTAINERS

In 2022 Jeff Bezos awarded her $100 million to give to charitable causes because "she gives with her heart"

Dolly Parton

Mary Kate "Who is Oprah?" — wagered $100
Ben "Who is Lady Gaga?" — wagered $1,000

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