Show #8923 2023-07-26 (taped 2023-05-19) Regular

Lucas Partridge game 1.

Contestants

Alex Muhler — a policy analyst from Oakland, California

Lucas Partridge — a school counselor from Las Vegas, Nevada

Julie Sisson — a library circulation assistant from Everett, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,210)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Julie $1,200 $2,800 $3,200 $3,590
3rd place: $1,000
$3,200
8 R, 2 W
Lucas $1,600 $5,000 $20,100 $20,100
New champion: $20,100
$20,200
22 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Alex $3,400 $7,600 $6,000 $6,100
2nd place: $2,000
$9,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

CROOKS RECENT TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLE ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE WORLD OF RELIGION I'M BLUE "DA" OR "BA" OR "DEE"
$200 [18]
Chinatown gangster Mock Duck snitched on gambling dens but got a 1912 gambling charge himself & was sent to this double-talk prison
Sing Sing
Julie
$200 [3]
"The Balmoral Test"
The Crown
Alex
$200 [8]
The fairy tale about this brother & sister inspired an 1893 opera by the German composer Engelbert Humperdinck
Hansel & Gretel
Alex
$200 [23]
The Mahayana branch of this religion is more recent than the Theravada & includes the concept of adherents becoming Bodhisattvas
Buddhism
Alex
$200 [2]
This Oscar-winning actress has a certain mystique playing Mystique, who, deep down, is all blue
Jennifer Lawrence
Lucas
$200 [14]
When Santa gives these creatures P.T.O. in the summer, some travel up to 800 miles for grazing grounds
reindeer
Lucas
$400 [19]
In 1878 this "childish" gunslinger fought in the Lincoln County War before his date with Pat Garrett in 1881
Billy the Kid
Julie
$400 [5]
"Chapter 13:The Jedi"
The Mandalorian
Julie Lucas
$400 [1]
Seaside police chief Martin Brody fights a corrupt politician & a ferocious predator in this Peter Benchley bestseller
Jaws
Lucas
$400 [13]
Kept at Chartres Cathedral in France, the "Sancta Camisa" is a garment said to have been worn by this woman in childbirth
the Virgin Mary
Alex
$400 [12]
In this novel, a character is described as having "the half-tint blue eyes that told of off-planet foods in his diet"
Dune
$400 [24]
It's the last name of a film character played by both Gary Cooper & Adam Sandler
Deeds
Lucas
$600 [20]
A 1949 obituary said the name of this man "whose magic would double an investment in 90 days, was heard everywhere"
Ponzi
Alex
$600 [15]
"Dear Offred"
The Handmaid's Tale
Lucas
$600 [4]
"Bowman could bear no more. He jerked out the last unit, & Hal was silent forever" is a line from this sci-fi work
2001: A Space Odyssey
Lucas
$600 [9]
Ganesha, the Hindu god of beginnings, is traditionally depicted with the head of this animal, symbolizing breaking through obstacles
an elephant
Alex
$600 [21]
This company with a blue logo calls itself "one of the largest home improvement retailers in the world"
Lowe's
Lucas
$600 [27]
Its name origin is African but this instrument is now widely associated with the music of Latin America
marimba
Alex
$800 [25]
In 1986 reporter Geraldo Rivera opened a vault belonging to this Chi-Town criminal; what was found? Bupkis
Al Capone
Lucas
$800 [16]
"Art of the Swoon", "Capital R Rake","The Viscount Who Loved Me"
Bridgerton
Lucas
$800 [6]
It's him, last name Spier, "vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" in a young adult favorite
Simon
Julie
DD $1,000 [10]
From the Arabic for "struggle", this word can mean a personal effort against sin, or a holy war in defense of Islam
jihad
Alex
$800 [22]
This artist's blue period began around the time of his friend Carles Casagemas' public suicide
Picasso
Lucas
$800 [28]
It's a word describing motorcyclist Bud Ekins, or the name of a Marvel hero
daredevil
Alex
$1,000 [26]
Meaning "shorty", it's the nickname of the Mexican drug lord who has a habit of escaping from prison
El Chapo
Julie
$1,000 [17]
"Educator of the Year"
Abbott Elementary
$1,000 [7]
Dylan Thomas' poem about these "Boys" who "in their ruin lay the gold tithings barren" has inspired book & song titles
"The Boys of Summer"
$1,000 [11]
The building of the Golden Temple in Amritsar was launched around 1604 by Arjan, the fifth guru of this religion
Sikhism
Alex
$1,000 [30]
The skinny on theflagof this South American nation is that the blue symbolizes the sky; while the white is for the snow on the Andes
Chile
Alex
$1,000 [29]
Herb Caen referred to San Francisco as this place "by-the-Bay"
Baghdad
Alex

Double Jeopardy! Round

BRACE FOR LANDING DUAL BIOGRAPHIES PHYSICS TAKING STOCK LONG MOVIES FROM THE FRENCH
$400 [10]
A flight path takes you between mountains and leads to a shortrunwayat India's Leh Airport in this 1,500-mile-long range
the Himalayas
Lucas
$400 [14]
Gordon S. Wood's 2017 dual biography of these 2 feuding Founding Fathers & presidents is titled "Friends Divided"
Jefferson & Adams
Lucas
DD $100 [29]
(Spiros Michalakispresents the clue.) A quantum is basically a small & defined unit of energy; thisis the term for a light quantum, also called the quantum of the electromagnetic field
a photon
Lucas
$400 [18]
The rise & fall of the stock market, in good times & bad, is represented by these 2 animals
bear & bull
Lucas
$400 [6]
A year before her role in "Titanic", Kate Winslet played this doomed character in a 4-hour adaptation of "Hamlet"
Ophelia
Alex
$400 [1]
The French for "remember" gives us this word for a memento that helps you fondly remember your travels
souvenir
Julie
$800 [11]
20 million live in this Brazilian city founded by Jesuits, but its domesticairporthas only two runways? Tricky
São Paulo
Alex
$800 [15]
Delve into this country's history with "Big Fellow, Long Fellow: A Joint Biography of Collins & de Valera"
Ireland
Alex
$400 [25]
February 4 is the natl. day to create one of these empty spaces, defined as having lower than atmospheric pressure
a vacuum
Lucas
$800 [19]
Many believe this is the most volatile month for the stock market with both the great crash of 1929 & the crash of '87 occurring then
October
Alex
$800 [7]
This man directed, co-wrote, produced & starred in the nearly 3 1/2 hour movie "Reds"
Warren Beatty
Alex
$800 [2]
Media matters in this field of study that gets its name from the French for "day"
journalism
Julie Alex
$1,200 [12]
You'll be thanking every saint you can think of after hitting the runway of this Caribbean island with ties to Holland & France
Saint Martin
Lucas
$1,600 [23]
Samantha Morris wrote a book about Lucrezia Borgia & this brother whom Machiavelli admired
Cesare
$800 [27]
Of these 2 opposite everyday words, one has a limit because you can't take away more energy than is there; the other is in theory infinite
cold & heat
$1,200 [20]
A risky venture, some people try to make a living doing this, buying & selling stocks within a matter of hours
day trading
Lucas
$1,200 [8]
A 1962 review for this Best Picture winner called it a "camel-opera that tends to run down rather badly... into its third hour"
Lawrence of Arabia
Julie
$1,200 [3]
I don't do much because I have this feeling of discontent, from the French for "boredom"
ennui
Alex
$1,600 [16]
Head over an 8,000-foot peak, navigate wind shear & then enjoy this Austriancityhome to two Winter Olympics in 12 years
Innsbruck
Lucas Alex
$2,000 [24]
A dual bio covers Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish Supreme Court justice & this Vienna-born manwho was the third
Felix Frankfurter
$1,200 [28]
Gustav Kirchhoff showed that this travels at light speed, so a circuit connecting a motor to a switch will start the motor fast
electric current
Alex
$1,600 [21]
This company headquartered in Omaha has the most expensive stock in the world at about $500,000 a share in April 2023
Berkshire Hathaway
Alex
$1,600 [9]
It's raining frogs (hallelujah!) in this 1999 film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Magnolia
Lucas
$1,600 [4]
Meaning a binding, this word can refer to a military contact or an intimate, perhaps dangerous, meeting
liaison
Julie
$2,000 [17]
Radar? Nope. Youlandmanually in daylight only at Paro, not far from the capital of Thimphu in this Asian kingdom
Bhutan
Lucas
DD $4,000 [22]
In this book with the same title as a Shakespeare play, Adrian Goldsworthy says the 2nd person was "not really that important"--ourch!
Antony and Cleopatra
Alex
$2,000 [30]
In the early 1900s the "plum pudding" model for the internal structure of these was replaced by the planetary model
the atom
Lucas
$2,000 [26]
Japan's equivalent of the Dow Jones Industrial Average is called the this 225
Nikkei
Julie Lucas
$2,000 [13]
At some point in the 13 hours of Jacques Rivette's "Out 1", actors rehearse "Seven Against Thebes" by this ancient playwright
Aeschylus
$2,000 [5]
This 11-letter word for a lover of the arts comes from the French for "know"
connoisseur
Lucas Alex

Final Jeopardy!

OPERA SOURCE MATERIAL

Henri Murger, who was broke & lived in a freezing attic apartment in Paris, wrote the source material for this 1896 opera

La bohème

Julie "What is La Boheme?" — wagered $390
Alex "What is La Bohème?" — wagered $100
Lucas "What is La Boheme?" — wagered $0

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