Show #8897 2023-06-20 (taped 2023-04-13) Regular

Ben Goldstein game 3.

Contestants

Janie Sullivan — a scrum master from Park Ridge, Illinois

Tym Blanchard — a cryptocurrency and angel investor from Nashville, Tennessee

Ben Goldstein — a content marketing strategist from Dexter, Michigan (whose 2-day cash winnings total $15,198)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ben $3,200 $5,600 $6,800 $6,095
3-day champion: $21,293
$6,800
17 R, 5 W
Tym $0 $-1,000 $-3,800 $-3,800
3rd place: $1,000
$-1,800
7 R, 7 W (including 1 DD)
Janie $1,200 $3,500 $7,500 $500
2nd place: $2,000
$11,000
18 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

LET'S STICK TOGETHER ARCHITECTS VOWEL, VOWEL, CONSONANT, CONSONANT NONPROFITS AMERICAN HISTORY TRIPLE "A"-RATED FOOD
$200 [20]
This "Equalizer" has few equals in Hollywood when it comes to marriage longevity; he said I do to Pauletta in 1983
Denzel Washington
Ben
$200 [8]
Jean Nouvel says this building in Nantes, France is meant to convey the open impartiality of justice
a courthouse
$200 [5]
Sow sound
oink
Ben
$200 [15]
Helping minority kids go to college, the foundation named for this Brooklyn Dodger was begun in 1973, a year after his death
Jackie Robinson
$200 [2]
The U.S. flag was flown at this location for the first time on July 20, 1969 & the original flag is still there
the Moon
Janie
$200 [16]
It's squid! Buon appetito!
calamari
Janie
$400 [4]
Director Taylor Hackford seems to treat this woman like a queen as they've been together since 1986
Helen Mirren
Janie
$400 [17]
One of the last buildings Zaha Hadid worked on was a Beijing tower with one of these Latin-named inner spaces over 600' tall
an atrium
Ben
$400 [1]
It's 2 ranks below duke & they're not making many new ones these days
earl
Janie
$400 [21]
You might try Farm Share in Florida if you need this type of organization whose name reflects its reserves of comestibles
a food bank
$400 [9]
With dueling illegal in New York, Burr & Hamilton had their deadly 1804 clash at a secluded spot in Weehawken in this state
New Jersey
Ben
$400 [11]
Meat, cheese & vegetables are popular fillings for this baked or fried pastry with a Spanish name
an empanada
Janie
$600 [3]
After 27 years together with Erwin Bach, this singer must have found out what love had to do with it & the 2 tied the knot in 2013
Tina Turner
Ben
$600 [30]
After World War II, these evolved Moorish to Modernists as in architect Percival Goodman's Shaarey Zedekin suburban Detroit
temples (synagogues)
Ben Janie
$600 [6]
Shakespeare's Caesar would not have made this cry, as in English it dates only to the 1830s
ouch
$600 [22]
The Michael J. Fox Foundation works to improve "knowledge about the lived experience" of this disease
Parkinson's
Ben
$600 [10]
The only signer of both the Declaration & Constitution to sit on this body, James Wilson, took his oaths on October 5, 1789
the Supreme Court
Ben
$600 [12]
From Turkish, it's the name of a sweet nutty pastry
baklava
Ben
$800 [18]
Harrison Ford was no longer flying solo in 2002 when he began seeing this "Ally McBeal" actress; the wedding was in 2010
Calista Flockhart
Ben
$1,000 [24]
Minoru Yamasaki designed the arched airportterminalin this U.S. city associated with both arches & aviation
St. Louis
Ben
$800 [7]
duh-DUH, in poetry
iamb
Janie
$800 [23]
Providing aid to veterans & their families, Soldiers' Angels was founded by a relative of this "Old Blood & Guts" general
Patton
Tym
$800 [26]
The demand for decorations on women's hats led Theodore Roosevelt to set up the USA's first 50 reserves for these
birds
Tym
$800 [13]
These little anise-flavored seeds are popular in breads & crackers
caraway
Ben
$1,000 [19]
This co-star of "How I Met Your Mother" met David Burtka in 2004 & there were wedding bells 10 years later; legendary!
Neil Patrick Harris
Janie
DD $1,500 [28]
In the 1690s he began designing the twin-domed Royal Hospital for seamen in London
Sir Christopher Wren
Janie
$1,000 [27]
To push someone out of a position, perhaps a dictator
oust
Janie
$1,000 [25]
Underinsured folks can get help from the PAN Foundation, with PAN short for this person "Access Network"
Patient
Janie
$1,000 [29]
A golden spike ceremony on May 10, 1869 near this Utah "Point" marked the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
Promontory
Tym
$1,000 [14]
Thisbread was created in the 1980s as Italy's answer to the baguette
ciabatta
Janie

Double Jeopardy! Round

LET'S STICK TOGETHER CHAPTER & VERSE LOVE ISLAND U.K. THAT MUSICAL ACT IS UNREAL! THERE WILL BE MATH JUST SAY...
$400 [27]
How are we on office supplies? We need more 3x3 super sticky Post-It Notes from this alphanumeric company
3M
Tym
$400 [26]
Each book except the last in Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events" has this many chapters... unfortunately
13
Janie
$400 [30]
About 700 miles southeast of NYC & home to around 70,000 people, it's known for its shorts & some troublesome triangulation
Bermuda
Ben
$400 [14]
As David St. Hubbins of this band, Michael McKean sang, "Big bottom drive me out of my mind, how can I leave this behind?"
Spinal Tap
Janie
$400 [29]
It's a story's line of development, or a portion of a circle's circumference
arc
Janie
$400 [21]
During a military roll call, it means "present"; in Spanish, it means "I"
yo
Janie
$800 [13]
This sticky stuff is found before-comb,-dripper &badger
honey
Ben
$800 [17]
Robert Burns wrote to this food, "Cut ye up wi' ready slight, / Trenching your gushing entrails bright... warm-reekin, rich!"
haggis
Tym
$800 [25]
"Remain!" In 2013 people in this South Atlantic territory were nearly unanimous in their vote to stay under British rule
the Falkland Islands
Tym Janie
$800 [10]
The Wonders broke into the big time in this 1996 film with the title song, written for real by the late, great Adam Schlesinger
That Thing You Do!
Janie
$800 [28]
Let's crunch the numbers:It's the least common multiple of 4 & 10
20
Ben Tym
$800 [20]
361 stones are used in this board game of Japan
Go
Tym
$1,200 [5]
Retene is a hydrocarbon isolated from this sticky tree product that baseball batters can't do without
pine tar
Ben Janie
$1,200 [15]
A Gwendolyn Brooks poem begins, "We real cool. We left" this & ends, "We jazz June. We die soon"
school
Ben
$1,200 [23]
George Town is the capital of this 3-island territory known for low taxes &--how to put it?--interesting handling of intl. money
the Cayman Islands
Ben
$1,200 [9]
Not just the house band on this "Show", Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem did "Can You Picture That?" in a 1979 film
The Muppet Show
Ben
$1,200 [18]
Thesymboltells you this is the relation between A & B
a subset of B
$1,600 [11]
Buddha found shade & more under the tree known as this
the Bodhi (Bo)
Tym
$1,600 [4]
The tragacanth & xanthan types of this substance are used as binding agents in pills & bread, respectively
gum
Janie
$1,600 [3]
"How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice That Eat His Peaches" is Ch. 61 of this Dumas tale of vengeance--no, really
The Count of Monte Cristo
Tym
DD $2,000 [22]
Bligh me! In 1970 the British high commissioner in New Zealand became gov. of this very small, volcanic island in the South Pacific
Pitcairn
Janie
$1,600 [7]
In 2023 Riley Keough streamed down the Amazon, playing this '70s woman who sang "Kill You To Try"
Daisy Jones
Janie
$1,600 [1]
It's the law that says a(b+c) = ab + ac
the distributive law
Ben
DD $2,000 [19]
Its headwaters are near Monte Viso in the Alps
the Po
Tym
$2,000 [6]
Put on this old "L.P.", a thick white adhesive that, as you might guess, can be used for bookbinding
library paste
$2,000 [16]
Most of the stanzas in this Coleridge poem have 4 lines; a single 9-line stanza mentions a steersman
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Ben
$2,000 [24]
In 1493 Columbus named this volcanic island in the West Indies; the French had it for a bit, but the U.K. has had it since 1783
Montserrat
$2,000 [8]
Later a movie, Roddy Doyle's first novel is about this soulful but imaginary Irish band
The Commitments
Ben Tym
$2,000 [2]
Legend says facing a teacher's make-worktaskto add up the first hundred positive integers, Carl Gauss quickly saw 50 pairs each totaling this
101
Tym
$2,000 [12]
For a time, this lover of Zeus was turned into a cow
Io
Tym

Final Jeopardy!

THE OLYMPICS

This sport that made its Olympic debut in 1988 has a playing surface of only about 45 square feet

table tennis

Ben "What is handball?" — wagered $705
Janie "What issquash?sumo wrestling" — wagered $7,000

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