Show #8924 2023-07-27 (taped 2023-05-19) Regular

Lucas Partridge game 2.

Contestants

Zach Razavi — a palliative physician from Saint Paul, Minnesota

Alicia Schaffer — a physician from Indianapolis, Indiana

Lucas Partridge — a school counselor from Las Vegas, Nevada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lucas $5,200 $5,200 $13,600 $22,100
2-day champion: $42,200
$12,400
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Alicia $1,200 $2,400 $11,000 $17,999
2nd place: $2,000
$13,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Zach $200 $1,200 $2,000 $3,986
3rd place: $1,000
$2,000
3 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC AMERICANS BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT TRIPLE TIME THEFORBES2023 BILLIONAIRES RETITLED MOVIE ADAPTATIONS ANATOMICAL ANAGRAMS
$200 [12]
In 1898, with a war looming with Spain, she wrote Pres. McKinley that she could supply him with "fifty lady sharpshooters"
Annie Oakley
Lucas
$200 [21]
It introduces the 10 plagues & the 10 Commandments
Exodus
Alicia
$200 [17]
Like a pregnancy, Carleton College's academic year is divided into these
trimesters
Lucas
$200 [7]
Forbes cited "investor fears about" him "adding yet another CEO job" after a $44 billion purchase; he fell to No. 2 on the list
Elon Musk
Alicia
$200 [1]
Hans Christian Andersen's chilling story "The Snow Queen" became this animated blockbuster
Frozen
Zach
$200 [10]
Above the toes & below the neck is this joint, one of a pair
elbow (from below)
Alicia
$400 [13]
Saying he was instructed by an angel named Moroni, he translated the "Book of Mormon" from a set of gold plates
Joseph Smith
Lucas
$400 [22]
One of the 2 middle verses of the King James Bible is this book 103:2, "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits"
Psalms
$400 [18]
This organization was founded in Chicago by a group of motoring enthusiasts March 4, 1902
triple-A
Alicia
$400 [8]
"The world's richest woman" is Françoise Bettencourt Meyers; grandpa founded this beauty co., & Françoise is worth it (& $80.5 billion)
L'Oréal
$400 [2]
Nicholas Pileggi's book "Wiseguy" inspired this gangster film that won Joe Pesci a Best Supporting Actor Oscar
Goodfellas
Lucas
$400 [11]
Especially in a crowded cafe, it would be hard to hide this
face (from cafe)
Lucas
$600 [14]
Before partnering with Henry Wells, he worked as an express messenger for Wells' company
Fargo
Lucas
$600 [23]
The book of this woman tells the story of a Moabite widow who was an ancestor of King David
Ruth
Alicia
$600 [6]
Cointreau is a type of this liqueur essential in the making of a Cosmopolitan
triple sec
Lucas Alicia
$600 [9]
2 new faces on the list: this "basketball legend" at $1 billion & this "golf great" at a bit more
LeBron & Tiger
$600 [3]
Peter George's novel "Red Alert" got this title when Stanley Kubrick made it into an apocalyptic big screen black comedy
Dr. Strangelove
Alicia
$600 [27]
All of us here on Earth owe our continued living to this
heart (from Earth)
$1,000 [16]
After helping women gain the right to vote in her home state of Montana, shebecame the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress
Jeannette Rankin
$800 [24]
This "Song" has been viewed as an allegory of God's love for his chosen people & as simply some steamy love poetry
Song of Solomon
Lucas
$800 [19]
As told in Genesis, these are the 3 sons of Noah
Ham, Shem & Japheth
$800 [25]
He founded his sports shoe company "in 1964, with just $500" & he & family are now No. 25 at $45.1 billion
Phil Knight
Alicia
$800 [4]
Cornell Woolrich's short story "It Had to Be Murder" became this Hitchcock film with Jimmy Stewart in the cast & in a cast
Rear Window
Lucas
$800 [28]
If you lose a Birkenstock, you'll soon be treading on this
sole (from lose)
Alicia
DD $2,000 [15]
Soon after he lost his Supreme Court case, this enslaved American was emancipated by the son of his first owner
Dred Scott
Lucas
$1,000 [30]
The Hebrew name of this prophet with his own book is Yeshayahu, "God is salvation"
Isaiah
$1,000 [20]
The 1805 Battle of Austerlitz is also called the Battle of the 3 Emperors, who led these 3 current countries
Austria, France & Russia
Lucas Alicia
$1,000 [26]
Though this ex-mayor donated $1.7 billion to charity, he still had $94.5 billion left & was No. 7
Bloomberg
Zach
$1,000 [5]
"O Brother, Where Art Thou?" was loosely based on this epic written about 2,800 years before
The Odyssey
Lucas
$1,000 [29]
Retain all insurance paperwork after getting this checked out at the eye doctor
retina (from retain)
Alicia

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CITIES PLAY TIME STARTS WITH "H-I" THE BAR MITZVAH BOY THAT SONG SLAYS HERE BE PIRATES!
$400 [16]
Craig Ferguson is a proud Glaswegian--a native of this city
Glasgow
Lucas
$400 [10]
In Peter Shaffer's play "The Royal Hunt of the Sun", a conquistador imprisons Atahuallpa, emperor of this people
the Inca
Lucas Alicia Zach
$400 [18]
It's the handle of a sword
hilt
Lucas
$400 [17]
This Facebook founder had a "Star Wars" theme at Temple Beth Abraham in Tarrytown, New York
Mark Zuckerberg
Alicia
$400 [8]
"I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die" is how one gets the "Folsom Prison Blues", per this singer
(Johnny) Cash
Lucas
$400 [1]
For Disney's "Peter Pan", Hans Conried voiced dual roles: Mr. Darling & this evil pirate
Captain Hook
Lucas
$800 [3]
I found my thrill on Parliament Hill in this city with a visit to the Canadian Senate chamber
Ottawa
Lucas
$800 [11]
Plays by Jean Anouilh include "Antigone", "Becket" & "The Lark", about this 15th century French heroine
Joan of Arc
Lucas
$800 [26]
The northern star coral enters quiescence, commonly known as this, during colder months
hibernation
Lucas
$800 [19]
Then still named Lifshitz, this man with plenty of fashion sense chose a blue blazer for his big day
Ralph Lauren
$800 [4]
"Mama, just killed a man... life had just begun, but now I've gone & thrown it all away" is part of this tune, & no, we will not let you go
"Bohemian Rhapsody"
Lucas
$800 [27]
Andrew Jackson called this French pirate "one of the ablest men" in the Battle of New Orleans
Jean Lafitte
$1,200 [2]
The Georgian city of Batumi dates from around 1000 B.C. & is an important port on this sea
the Black Sea
Alicia
$1,200 [12]
This alliterative 3-word Shakespeare comedy begins with 4 friends swearing off women & romance
Love's Labour's Lost
Alicia
$1,200 [25]
It's not the lady's tux, it just means hairy
hirsute
Lucas
$1,200 [20]
This current Senate leader found the festive mood of his bar mitzvah lessened as it took place Nov. 23, 1963
Chuck Schumer
Lucas
$1,200 [5]
"Murder by numbers, 1, 2, 3, it's as easy to learn as your ABC", sang this group in 1983; someone should call them about that
The Police
Zach
$1,200 [28]
Not named for pirate William, but for an admiral who died on the Arizona at Pearl Harbor, here'sthe USS this, flying the Jolly Roger
the USS Kidd
$1,600 [9]
The massive Lower Usuma Dam was completed in 1990 to bring drinking water to Abuja, about to become this nation's new capital
Nigeria
DD $2,000 [13]
The play "Mrs. Warren's Profession" by this Irishman was considered so scandalous it was banned for years
George Bernard Shaw
Alicia
$1,600 [24]
It's a chemical released by certain white blood cells during allergic reactions
histamine
Lucas
$1,600 [21]
This New York Times columnist known for covering the Mideast mentions his bar mitzvah in his book "From Beirut to Jerusalem"
Thomas Friedman
$1,600 [6]
In a song that really slays, "In The Pines" is the answer to this question asked by Nirvana & by others long before
"Where Did You Sleep Last Night?"
Alicia
$1,600 [29]
In a book by Rafael Sabatini, "Captain Blood" is a feared pirate of this "Spanish" area of New World seas
the Spanish Main
DD $1,800 [15]
Today an art school stands at the place in this huge metropolis where Rudyard Kipling was born in 1865
Mumbai
Alicia
$2,000 [14]
In this "small" Lillian Hellman drama about greed & ambition, a southern family plots to make a fortune by fair means or foul
The Little Foxes
$2,000 [23]
A 1932 article about FDR touches on his "Unexpected" this ability & adds, "the dramatic is not without value in politics"
Histrionics
$2,000 [22]
This future author of unsettling tales became a man on June 13, 1896 in Prague
Kafka
$2,000 [7]
He uses his "silver hammer" to take out a quizzical Joan, an annoyed school teacher, & even the judge at his trial
Maxwell
Alicia
$2,000 [30]
Let's raise a glass of branded rum to this captain, a Welsh buccaneer who somehow ended up as deputy governor of Jamaica in 1674
Captain Morgan
Alicia

Final Jeopardy!

FIGHTING FORCES

Formed in 1831 to help with the conquest of Algeria, its ranks have included Germans, Turks & Chinese

the French Foreign Legion

Zach "What is The French Foreign Legion?" — wagered $1,986
Alicia "What is the French ^ Foreign Legion?" — wagered $6,999
Lucas "What is the French Foreign Legion?" — wagered $8,500

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