Show #8910 2023-07-07 (taped 2023-05-16) Regular

Contestants

Raquel Stewart — an accountant from Austin, Texas

Tom Zulewski — a sports writer and author from Washington, Utah

Alex Gordon — a medical student from Somers, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $25,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Alex $2,600 $6,600 $16,300 $16,500
2-day champion: $41,500
$15,400
25 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Tom $200 $800 $2,400 $100
3rd place: $1,000
$3,400
9 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Raquel $-400 $3,800 $7,800 $12,800
2nd place: $2,000
$11,800
18 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

I'VE GOT YOUR ATOMIC NUMBER HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE SEEING RIGHT THROUGH YOU EAGLES HOTEL CALIFORNIA TAKE IT "E-Z"
$200 [5]
20:It's a major component of bone mineralization
calcium
Alex
$200 [24]
In 2002, hegot 100% of the presidential vote of his country, but the next year, he was out of power for good
Saddam Hussein
Tom
$200 [20]
Blueberi & Ohranj are creative & creatively spelled Stoli varieties of this see-through potent potable
vodka
Raquel
$200 [30]
On Dec. 15, 1968 the Phila. Eagles were 2-11 as fans booed & hurled snowballs at a teen picked from the stands to play this jolly old soul
Santa Claus
Alex Tom
$200 [26]
In 1929 the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel hosted the first one of these, but of course, it wasn't televised
the Oscars
Tom
$200 [9]
Oui, oui! The "Z" is silent in this type of liaison
a rendezvous
Tom
$400 [3]
47:This metal tarnishes
silver
Alex Tom
$400 [11]
Peter Schoeffer, a former employee of this printer, testified against him during a 1455 lawsuit
Gutenberg
Alex
$400 [17]
Bacteriologist Robert Koch's assistant gave his name to these glass or plastic dishes used to culture microorganisms
a Petri dish
Raquel
$400 [25]
Sure, this Marquette Golden Eaglehereis a Miami Heat legend & won Olympic gold, but his real career highlight--he became a game show host
(Dwyane) Wade
Alex
$400 [29]
Hit the bricks for this theme park in Carlsbad that opened a New Castle Hotel on the premises in 2018
LEGOLAND
Alex
$400 [6]
For "Pulp Fiction", Quentin Tarantino actually rewrote the Bible for Jules Winnfield's quotation of this Old Testament book
Ezekiel
Alex
$600 [2]
9:It's found in toothpaste
fluorine
Alex
$600 [12]
The first outbreaks of this deadly hemorrhagic disease occurred in Africa in 1976, killing more than 400 people
Ebola
Raquel
$800 [16]
...Literally! This thin, transparent membrane covers the front part of the eye; scratching it may be painful, but it can heal fast
the cornea
Alex
$600 [19]
Not long after his "Hail Flutie" beat Miami, Doug Flutie of the Boston College Eagles picked up this award on Dec. 1, 1984
the Heisman Trophy
Alex
$600 [13]
Such a lovely place, the hotel pictured on the Eagles' "Hotel California" album is actually this one in the 90210 ZIP code
the Beverly Hills Hotel
Tom Raquel
$600 [7]
Hyphenated French name for the type of eyewear you are eyeing here
pince-nez
Raquel
$800 [1]
19:Coconut water has plenty of it, as does the Cavendish
potassium
Alex
$800 [22]
The colonists balked at the taxes on newspapers & pamphlets imposed by this 1765 act & refused to pay
the Stamp Act
Raquel
DD $1,000 [10]
The subtitle to this H.G. Wells novel is "A Grotesque Romance"
The Invisible Man
Tom
$800 [14]
On the pitch, the Eagles of Crystal Palace have been flying in this league since their most recent promotion in 2013
the Premier League
Tom
$800 [28]
A 4-diamond inn & oasis in the middle of no where is a high point of this lowest point in North America
Death Valley
Raquel
$800 [8]
The one-act opera "Cavalleria rusticana" features one of these orchestral interludes
an intermezzo
Alex
$1,000 [4]
27:It's essential to smartphone batteries
cobalt
Alex Tom Raquel
$1,000 [23]
French admiral Pierre Villeneuve was captured & lost about 20 of his 33 ships to the British in this 1805 battle
Trafalgar
Alex
$1,000 [21]
Check out theman-of-war whose nationality derives from its resemblance to warships once made in this country
Portugal
Raquel
$1,000 [15]
"The Emus" was right there for E.M.U., this "directional" university in Ypsilanti, but it soars proudly as the Eagles
Eastern Michigan University
Tom
$1,000 [27]
The historic Hotel Atwater on this island south of L.A. dates from the 1920s
Santa Catalina
Raquel
$1,000 [18]
Thistype of music that has its roots with Ashkenazi Jews features the clarinet & violin, among other instruments
klezmer
Alex

Double Jeopardy! Round

A BRIDGE TOO FAR COUNTRY SINGERS IN COUNTRY SONGS ANCIENT ARTIFACTS WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY BEHIND THE BOND ONLY ONE CONSONANT
$400 [25]
The Duge Bridgebetween the Yunnan & Guizhou provinces of this country is called the highest bridge in the world
China
Raquel
$400 [27]
"Yeah, I kinda need to wash my truck but hell, I kinda don't care. I think old Alan Jackson said it best: It's" this:00 "somewhere"
5:00
Alex
$400 [24]
Appropriately, the Trundholm sun chariotwas cast around 1400 B.C. in this alloy
bronze
Alex
$400 [14]
A 2008 presentation on the culture of this newish website said some 15% of its videos were remakes or remixes
YouTube
Raquel
$400 [23]
Fleming went diving with this Frenchman in 1953 & mentioned him in "Live and Let Die"
Cousteau
Alex
$400 [2]
This, a deer, a female deer
doe
Raquel
$800 [20]
A bridge in Bath crossing the River Avon was named for this prime minister after his death in 1965
Churchill
Alex
$800 [28]
A song by Heidi Newfield begins, "There's something 'bout a man in black" & the chorus says, "I want a love like Johnny &" her
June
Raquel
$800 [8]
A vulture & one of these reptiles jut out of the forehead of the mask of Tutankhamun
a cobra
Alex
$800 [10]
Sociologists say the U.S. balances between community & this -ism; Herbert Hoover spoke of the "rugged" kind
individualism
Raquel
$800 [16]
This Bond novel was once titled "The Richest Man in the World"
Goldfinger
Raquel
$800 [3]
Tree known for its hard, durable wood in furniture making
oak
Alex
$1,200 [21]
Abridgeover 200 years old across a canyon in Málaga, Spain is called this, reminiscent ofonein Paris that's over 400 years old
New Bridge (Puente Nuevo)
Raquel
$1,200 [1]
She reached the top 10 on the country charts with her debut single "Tim McGraw"
Taylor Swift
Raquel
$1,200 [19]
The Nebra sky disktold ancients it was time to add a leap month when the crescent moon was by this sisterly star cluster
the Pleiades
Alex
$1,200 [11]
Barbara Ehrenreich gave her 15 cents on the effects of welfare reform on the working class in this 2001 book with 2 coins in the title
Nickel and Dimed
Raquel
$1,200 [15]
The title of this James Bond novel was inspired by a De Beers advertising tag line
Diamonds are Forever
Alex
$1,200 [6]
"Goodbye!" in Italian
ciao
Alex
$1,600 [22]
The news on this bridge built in the 1590s is making coffee on the steps by the Grand Canal can get you a hefty fine
Rialto Bridge
$1,600 [29]
"Damn These Dreams" tells how Dierks Bentley was inspired by this superstar "Jr.", son of the '50s legend who died young
Hank Williams Jr.
Tom
$2,000 [9]
Archaeologists are still struggling to decode the Phaistos Discfound in 1908 during an excavation of a palace of this culture on Crete
Minoans
Alex
$1,600 [12]
His "The Souls of Black Folk" includes a study of the Freedmen's Bureau & his disagreements with Booker T. Washington
Du Bois
Raquel
$2,000 [18]
A fan letter calling the Beretta "a lady's gun" prompted Fleming to switch Bond's gun to this German type
a Walther (PPK)
Alex
$1,600 [4]
Get the door--it's grandpa's HCA, short for home care this
aide
Raquel
$2,000 [26]
Connecting South Africa & Namibia, the Ernest Oppenheimer Bridge spans this colorful river
the Orange
Alex
$2,000 [30]
Jimmie Allen's "Down Home" mentions this trailblazing Black country singer who died in 2020
Charley Pride
Tom
DD $2,500 [7]
Heinrich Schliemann found gold ornaments he called "The Jewels of Helen" while excavating this site in 1873
Troy
Alex
$2,000 [13]
This French thinker's multi-volume "History of Sexuality" discusses power dynamics in society
Michel Foucault
Alex
DD $4,000 [17]
The Spektor device in "From Russia with Love" is based on this German machine that Fleming tried to steal codes from during World War II
the Enigma machine
Raquel
$2,000 [5]
On the ocean bottom, globigerina is a type of this gooey mud containing dead organisms
ooze
Tom

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORY & NATURE

In March 1519, these were again seen in mainland North America for the first time in 10,000 years with the arrival of 16 of them

horses

Tom "What is alligators?" — wagered $2,300
Raquel "What is the horse?" — wagered $5,000
Alex "What are horses?" — wagered $200

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