Show #8925 2023-07-28 (taped 2023-05-19) Regular

Lucas Partridge game 3.Last game of Season 39.

Contestants

Monika Chavez — a career education librarian from Alhambra, California

Sharon Bishop — a high school Spanish teacher from Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Lucas Partridge — a school counselor from Las Vegas, Nevada (whose 2-day cash winnings total $42,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lucas $1,000 $5,200 $12,000 $24,000
3-day champion: $66,200
$14,400
22 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Sharon $600 $5,000 $17,000 $9,999
2nd place: $2,000
$18,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Monika $1,400 $1,200 $1,200 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$1,200
5 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

TALKING ABOUT WOMEN WORKING WORDS BREEDS OF SHEEP MESSIN' WITH TEXAS IT GETS OLD REAL FAST
$200 [16]
After her death, a newspaper recalled "those stricken hospitals of the Crimea through which the lady with the lamp passed"
Florence Nightingale
Lucas
$200 [9]
Sounds gruesome, but it's actually a person who recruits candidates for top-level jobs
a headhunter
Monika
$200 [21]
With a white face mostly free of wool, the Columbia was developed by this Cabinet department in the early 1900s
Agriculture
Lucas
$200 [1]
In 2014 Decatur, Texas rescheduled this holiday back to the 30th, as it conflicted with Friday night high school football
Halloween
Lucas Sharon
$200 [3]
The ship Old Ironsides has bolts & sheathing made by this patriot & metalworker
Paul Revere
Sharon
$200 [14]
The speedy skating of 1940s NHL great Maurice Richard earned him this self-propelled nickname
the Rocket
$400 [17]
In 1938 André Breton said the art of this Mexican painter "is a ribbon around a bomb"
Frida Kahlo
Sharon
$400 [10]
A good manager knows how to do this 8-letter word, transfer responsibility for specific tasks to their employees
delegate
Lucas
$400 [27]
Suffolk is popular both for lamb & this, meat from a sheep that's a yearling or older
mutton
Monika
$400 [2]
Allemande left & take a chance / As you do this state folk dance / Swing yer partner & do-si-do / That's it for now, I got to go
square dance
Monika
$400 [4]
In the classic children's song, she "ain't what she used to be, many long years ago"
the old gray mare
Sharon
$400 [15]
Sifan Hassan holds the women's world record in this track event: 4 minutes, 12.33 seconds
a mile
Sharon
$600 [7]
Kate McKinnon told The New York Times Magazine that this leader, "to me, is a very emotional German"
(Angela) Merkel
Lucas
$800 [19]
It's the controversial cost-saving practice of subcontracting services once done in-house to a third party
outsourcing
Lucas
$600 [28]
The North Ronaldsay, the Blackface & the Border Cheviot (with a black muzzle) are breeds first developed in this U.K. country
Scotland
Lucas Monika
$600 [6]
This org. did not make Chuck Norris an honorary member until 2010, so could it have busted Chuck for impersonating an officer in the '90s?
the Texas Rangers
Lucas
$600 [5]
Buchanan, in this state, is a beautiful storybooktownper Matthew Ramsay of the band Old Dominion who grew up there
Virginia
Lucas
$600 [13]
In 2017 the Minnesota Twins' Byron Buxton zoomed around the bases in 13.85 seconds on one of these exciting plays
in-the-park home run
Sharon
$800 [8]
A title from a 1974 article about this heiress read, "From Self-Willed College Girl to Gun Toter"
Patty Hearst
Monika
$1,000 [20]
It's the 2-word Latin phrase meaning a particular way of doing something, work-wise or criminally related
modus operandi
Sharon
$800 [29]
Sheep like the Dorperthat shed & don't need shearing are called not wool, but this type, also a word before "trigger" or "raising"
hair
Lucas
$800 [22]
At least 1,800 men took on about 180 at this landmark in February & March of 1836, with predictable results
the Alamo
Lucas
$800 [26]
V.S.O.P., standing for very superior old pale, is a premium grade of this liquor aged at least 4 years
cognac
Lucas
$800 [24]
Jorge Masvidal used a flying knee strike to knock out his opponent in just 5 seconds at this event in 2019
the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship)
$1,000 [18]
Nina Simone said this opera singer of Greek heritage "was a fiery diva" & she "did what she wanted to do"
Maria Callas
Sharon
DD $2,400 [11]
Referring to writers & others who are self-employed & work job to job, it was first used of mercenary knights
freelance
Lucas
$1,000 [30]
Originally a Spanish breed, it first came to Australia in 1797 & changed that country's economy forever
the Merino
Sharon
$1,000 [12]
At dusk, hundreds of thousands ofbatsemerge from under the Ann Richards Congress Avenue Bridge in this city
Austin
Lucas
$1,000 [23]
An unfulfilled claimant to the British throne, in the 18th century James Edward Stuart was known as the "Old" one of these
the Old Pretender
$1,000 [25]
Drivingjet-propelled cars, Craig Breedlove repeatedly broke the world land speed record at this Utah spot in the 1960s
Bonneville (Salt) Flats
Sharon

Double Jeopardy! Round

ON THE MONEY BRITISH LITERATURE NATIONAL ANTHEMS IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU ACTORS "CC" ME
$400 [6]
He introduced a bill to limit the death penalty while a member of the Virginia legislature
Thomas Jefferson
Sharon
$400 [23]
Thomas Hardy gave up writing fiction after this gloomy novel about Jude Fawley
Jude the Obscure
Lucas
$400 [19]
One of its anthems includes the lyrics, "iwi Maori, pakeha, rupeke katoa"
New Zealand
Sharon
$400 [11]
It's often said that this is "the best medicine"--it's fun to share, adds joy to life & it relieves stress
laughter
Lucas
$400 [3]
Thislate, great actor excelled at playing movie villains
Rickman
Lucas
$400 [14]
The American Cancer Society says, "Stay away from" this, "quitting... is not easy but it can be done"
tobacco
$800 [7]
He was the first to breed mules in America on his farm
George Washington
Monika
$800 [24]
Perhaps wandering lonely as a cloud, this poet was inspired to pen "Daffodils" about the flowers he saw at Lake Ullswater
Wordsworth
$800 [20]
Again the U.K.'s anthem, "God Save The King" says, "send him victorious... &" this splendid word that rhymes with victorious
glorious
Lucas Sharon
$800 [12]
Doing this before bed can help you sleep better; try the bridge or legs up the wall poses
yoga
Lucas
$800 [1]
This redhead was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "The Help" but lost out to castmate Octavia Spencer
Chastain
Lucas
$800 [15]
In the 5 stages of grief, it comes last
acceptance
Sharon
$1,200 [8]
He was born in the British West Indies
Hamilton
Lucas
$1,200 [25]
Elizabeth Gaskell's 1855 novel "North & South" depicts this British city as a cotton-spinning hellmouth, calling it "Milton"
Manchester
$1,200 [21]
Rabindranath Tagore wrote the anthems of these 2 countries, one independent since 1947, one since 1971
India & Bangladesh
Monika
$1,200 [13]
You're advised to brush your teeth & floss daily because of a link between heart disease & this 11-letter type of gum disease
periodontal disease
Lucas Sharon
$1,200 [5]
After winning an Oscar in 2023, heexclaimed, "Goonies never say die!"
Ke Huy Quan
Lucas
$1,200 [16]
It begins as a hot dry desert wind over northern Africa before picking up moisture as it crosses the Mediterranean
a sirocco
Sharon
$1,600 [9]
He published a feminist tract written under the pseudonym Silence Dogood
Franklin
Lucas
DD $2,000 [29]
In the 1850s she published the book-length love poem "Aurora Leigh"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sharon
DD $2,000 [22]
This anthem was made official in a decree of July 14, 1795
"The Marseillaise"
Sharon
$1,600 [27]
Short on time but want to get in a good workout? Some people enjoy this form of exercise, HIIT for short, but don't overdo it
high intensity interval training
Sharon
$1,600 [2]
In "A Fish Called Wanda", John Cleese played Archie Leach, actually the real name of this movie star
Cary Grant
Sharon
$1,600 [17]
Behold the man, of suffering Christ in the painting called this, seen here
Ecce Homo
$2,000 [10]
He died on April 15
Abraham Lincoln
$2,000 [30]
Her scary story "The Birds" became a scary big-screen thriller
(Daphne) du Maurier
Lucas
$2,000 [28]
The music of Germany's anthem was composed by this Austrian for the 1797 birthday of the Holy Roman Emperor
Haydn
$2,000 [26]
Plain & simple, give someone a hug; it releases these feel-good hormones, named in part for a narcotic
endorphins
Sharon
$2,000 [4]
This Canadian doesn't just act: she also wrote & directed "Women Talking"
Sarah Polley
Monika
$2,000 [18]
In medicine it's the complete or partial obstruction of a blood vessel, especially an artery
occlusion
Sharon

Final Jeopardy!

WORD ORIGINS

Theories on the origin of this, a style of journalism, include Cajun slang for unhinged jazz & Boston slang for a person on a bender

gonzo

Monika "What is gotcha?" — wagered $1,200
Lucas "What is Gonzo?" — wagered $12,000
Sharon "What is mudslinging?" — wagered $7,001

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