Show #17 2023-10-18 (taped 2023-08-23) Celebrity

2023-2024 PrimetimeCelebrity Jeopardy!quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

Melissa Fumero — an actor and director originally from Lyndhurst, New Jersey

Shane Battier — a two-time NBA champion originally from Birmingham, Michigan

Steven Weber — an actor and writer originally from Queens, New York

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Steven $1,100 $2,200 $9,000 $25,000
Winner: semifinalist
$18,100
35 R (including 3 DDs), 7 W (including 1 DD)
Shane $1,000 $1,900 $2,900 $21,400
2nd place: $30,000 to the Battier Take Charge Foundation
$11,600
29 R, 8 W (including 1 DD)
Melissa $-400 $-600 $-1,000 $900
3rd place: $30,000 to the International Community Foundation supporting This is About Humanity
$-400
9 R, 7 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

HISTORICAL MARKERS REPETITIVE SONG TITLES BOARD GAMES RESPOND LIKE A PIRATE POPULAR BABY NAMES OF THE 2010s "POP" QUIZ, HOTSHOT
$100 [1]
Located in Kokomo, Indiana, "Haynes' Horseless Carriage" is on the spot where Elwood Haynes first tested one of these in 1894
automobile
Steven
$100 [22]
It ain't no lie--*NSYNC had a top 10 hit in 2000 with this song (and we'd love for you to do the "talking puppet hand" motion)
"Bye Bye Bye"
Shane
$100 [6]
If you play the latest version of this Hasbro game you can be Chef White or Solicitor Peacock
Clue
Steven Melissa
$100 [11]
In 2022, this fast food chain launched a line of dog toys shaped like roast beef sandwiches and curly fries
Arby's
Steven
$100 [26]
#1 for boys: a boatload of kids share their name with this biblical ark builder
Noah
Steven
$100 [16]
AMC Theatres claims to sell 52 million bags of this snack food every year
popcorn
Steven
$200 [2]
The inscription seenherewas etched into the steps of this DC landmark in 2003
the Lincoln Memorial
Shane
$200 [23]
The "explosive" trio of Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj collaborated on this 2014 hit
"Bang Bang"
Shane Melissa
$200 [7]
One yummy change to this game over the years was renaming the Molasses Swamp the Chocolate Swamp
Candyland
Shane
$200 [12]
It's the world's smallest and shallowest ocean
the Arctic
Steven
$200 [27]
#1 for girls: it's also the first name of actresses Watson, Roberts & Thompson
Emma
Shane
$200 [17]
In 2013, cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio assumed this lofty title
Pope
Shane
$300 [3]
William Faulkner and Eudora Welty are featured on markers along a writers trail in this U.S. state
Mississippi
Shane
$300 [21]
Say the name of Buffalo's NFL team three times, and you'll say the title of this Destiny's Child song
"Bills, Bills, Bills"
Steven Shane
$300 [8]
Released in 2003, A Game of Thrones put players in the great houses of this fictional continent
Westeros
Shane
$300 [13]
When he's not searching for the Lost Ark or the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones teaches this subject
archaeology
Steven
$300 [28]
#5 for boys: a term for a worker who lays bricks or stone
Mason
Shane
$300 [18]
If you love Dum Dums & Chupa Chups, you're a real sucker for this treat
a lollipop
Steven
$400 [4]
A marker in Martinez, CA hails the town as the "birthplace of the martini"; it recommends 2/3 gin and 1/3 this
vermouth
Shane
$400 [24]
Questions asked by Run-DMC in this song include: "Why ya buggin'?" & "Why you out there stuntin'?"
"Mary, Mary"
$400 [9]
On a standard Scrabble board there are only 8 of these premium squares that boost your points
Triple Word Score
Shane
$400 [14]
There's a cannon in the logo of this English soccer team nicknamed "The Gunners"
Arsenal
Shane
$400 [29]
#2 for girls: it refers to a type of tree whose branches are symbols of peace
Olivia
Shane
$400 [19]
The United Nations estimated that the world's this reached 8 billion on Nov. 15, 2022
population
Steven
DD $900 [5]
Along with "Deep Throat", he's the reporter mentioned on a historical marker outside a parking garage in Arlington, VA
Bob Woodward
Shane
$500 [25]
The Financial Times called this ABBA song, "a lament about being poor in a rich man's world"
"Money, Money, Money"
Steven
$500 [10]
In Monopoly, Boardwalk is in the same color group as this alliterative property
Park Place
Shane Melissa
$500 [15]
The World Tango Museum is located in this country
Argentina
Steven
$500 [30]
#10 for girls: you'll see this name on a map of Wisconsin
Madison
Shane
$500 [20]
In 1953, 10-year-old Gayla Peevey sang about wanting this large animal for Christmas
a hippopotamus
Shane

Double Jeopardy! Round

ON ANOTHER PLANET DENZEL WASHINGTON HISTORIC QUOTES REPHRASED PODCASTS OTHER WORDS FOR DOIN' IT MIDDLE "MAN"
$200 [4]
Thisplanet is often called Earth's evil twin because it's similar in size & density, but it's a hot toxic mess
Venus
Steven Shane
$200 [11]
"Mo' Better Blues", "Malcolm X", "Inside Man": all Denzel Washington films & all directed by this man
Spike Lee
Steven
$200 [16]
Richard Nixon, 1973: "I don't self-identify as a thief"
"I am not a crook"
Steven Shane
$200 [26]
"Splinters with Gary Rogowski" is a podcast in which the host discusses his expertise working with this material
wood
Melissa
$200 [1]
In a simpler time, this phrase meant "hang out & watch a movie"; it's evolved to mean "hang out, watch a movie &... you know"
Netflix & chill
Melissa
$200 [21]
Used in several types of Sharpie markers, this kind of ink sounds like it will last forever (spoiler alert: it doesn't)
permanent
Melissa
$400 [5]
This2nd-largest planet in our solar system is mostly made up of hydrogen & helium, so don't try standing on it
Saturn
Shane
$400 [12]
Before Wakanda, Washington covered the cost of this aspiring actor to study at Oxford
Boseman
Shane
$400 [17]
Teddy Roosevelt, 1901: "Treat others with respect, but make sure they know your military could still kick their ass"
speak softly, and carry a big stick
Steven
DD $600 [27]
"5-4" is a podcast that calls itself an "occasionally profane take on the ideological battles" of this federal body
the Supreme Court
Melissa
$400 [2]
Austin Powers may be pop culture's greatest champion of this randy British verb; it even made the title of his sequel
shag
$400 [22]
In 2021, Daniel Craig was given this honorary rank in the British Royal Navy, the same rank as James Bond
Commander
Steven
$600 [8]
The ancient Romans named this planet after their god of war, perhaps because it resembles a drop of blood in the night sky
Mars
Steven
$600 [13]
"No one would take on his case... until one man was willing to take on the system" was a tagline for this 1993 Washington film
Philadelphia
$600 [18]
Michelle Obama, 2016: "If jerks are being jerks, keep it classy"
if they go low, we go high
Melissa
$600 [28]
Including an episode on petrochronology, "Gneiss Chats" is a podcast whose host has a PhD in "applied" this
geology
$600 [3]
For absurd innuendo, nothing beats "nudge, nudge" or this other matching word pair, from a classic Monty Python sketch
wink, wink
Steven
$600 [23]
The marsupial seen here is called athisdevil, named after the Australian island it's native to
Tasmanian
Steven
$800 [9]
The largest known storm in our Solar System, the Great Red Spot, has been swirling across this planet for centuries
Jupiter
Steven
$800 [14]
Hiscredits include the HBO comedy series "Ballers" & the 2018 film "Blac Kk Klansman"; he's also Denzel Washington's son
John David Washington
Steven Melissa
$800 [19]
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888: "Tough situations will build my resilience--assuming I don't die first"
what doesn't kill me makes me stronger
Steven Shane
$800 [29]
Evoking a home run stat belonging to one of its players, "755 is Real" is a podcast about this major league team
the Atlanta Braves
Shane
$800 [6]
There might be no dopier word for "have sex with" than this 1-syllable verb ending in "K", likely meant to evoke bouncing
boink (or bonk)
Melissa
$800 [24]
Published annually, this type of reference book is full of facts & information, like the "World" or "Old Farmer's" one
an almanac
Steven
$1,000 [10]
Thisblue-green ice giant was the first planet to be discovered with a telescope
Uranus
Steven Shane
$1,000 [15]
In a 2021 film adaptation of "Macbeth", Washington delivers the famous line "Out, out, brief" this
candle
Steven
$1,000 [20]
John Paul Jones, 1779: "Surrender? I'm just getting started"
"I have not yet begun to fight"
Melissa
$1,000 [30]
On the podcast "Disability Visibility", an episode covering politics mentionsthisUS senator from Illinois
Tammy Duckworth
$1,000 [7]
We can thank "Jersey Shore" for the popularity of this hookup verb--which certainly evokes compression, if not romance
smush
Steven
DD $3,000 [25]
Ernest Hemingway wrote about "The Snows of"this highest peak in Africa
Kilimanjaro
Steven

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS WOMEN

She joined the Sisters of Loreto at age 18, then took her good works to Calcutta, where she was called this

Mother Teresa

Melissa "Who is Mother Teresa" — wagered $400
Shane "Who is Mother Theresa" — wagered $10,700
Steven "Who was Mother Theresa?" — wagered $600

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