Show #9082 2024-04-16 (taped 2024-03-12) Regular

Alison Betts game 4.

Contestants

Eric Reimund — a substitute teacher originally from Collegeville, Pennsylvania

Veronica Tabor — a study abroad advisor from Ann Arbor, Michigan

Alison Betts — a writer and creative executive originally from San Jose, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $97,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Alison $5,200 $6,800 $11,200 $10,200
4-day champion: $107,700
$9,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Veronica $-400 $1,200 $0 $0
3rd place: $2,000
$0
10 R, 7 W
Eric $200 $400 $11,600 $1
2nd place: $3,000
$14,000
16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

LIVED PAST 100 THE MOVIES PAGING THE FICTIONAL DRIVER DON'T EAT THAT! COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD JUST FOR FUN "Z"s
$200 [26]
Tom Morello's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame acceptance speech on this band's behalf thanked Tom's mom, a centenarian teacher & activist
Rage Against the Machine
Eric
$200 [28]
The title of this Billy Crystal-Meg Ryan film refers to 1977, driving from Chicago to New York together after college
When Harry Met Sally...
Alison
$200 [19]
Paging this 1925 title character who owns a cream Rolls-Royce "terraced with a labyrinth of windshields"; you're blocking a Prius
Gatsby
Veronica
$200 [24]
It comes before poor, nap, cheap & bag
dirt
Alison
$200 [18]
This country on Hispaniola has 2 official languages--French & Creole
Haiti
Alison
$200 [30]
At the Fremont St. Experience, take a thrill ride on one of these, 7 stories high & 2 blocks long; the zoom one is even bigger
a zip line
Alison Veronica
$400 [27]
Known by this title, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon made it to 101 in 2002
the "Queen Mum"
Alison
$400 [29]
In 2023 this book by Judy Blume finally became a movie, with Rachel McAdams as the title girl's mom
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Alison
$400 [20]
Paging Denny in "The Art of Racing in" this condition; just letting you know your dog is in your BMW 3.0 CSi
the rain
Veronica
$400 [25]
A rook is a type of this, another 4-letter fowl
crow
Veronica
$400 [17]
The Strait of Gibraltar separates the mainlands of these 2 countries by about 8 miles
Spain & Morocco
Veronica
$400 [11]
As a 5-year-old hockey fan, Ariana Grande got hit twice with a puck & got to ride on one of these at a Florida Panthers game
a Zamboni
Eric
$600 [5]
Dying at 101, this iconic producer of TV shows like "All in the Family" credited his longevity to work, lox & bagels
(Norman) Lear
Alison
$600 [12]
Steve Carell getting his chest waxed is comedy gold in this 2005 film
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Alison
$600 [21]
Can you hear me, Stephen King teen Arnie Cunningham? Your 1958 Plymouth Fury nicknamed this has a bad muffler--& other issues
Christine
Veronica
$600 [16]
Types of these devices include atomic & grandfather
clocks
Veronica
$800 [1]
In 1960, this island country elected the world's first female prime minister, Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Sri Lanka
Veronica
$600 [10]
Shigeru Miyamoto designed a video game in which players try to defeat the evil Ganon & rescue this princess
Zelda
Veronica
$800 [3]
The first foreign-born citizen to hold the post of secretary of state, he lived 6 months past his 100th birthday
Henry Kissinger
Eric
$800 [13]
The first DVD that Netflix mailed was this spirited film starring Alec Baldwin & Geena Davis as a deceased married couple
Beetlejuice
$800 [22]
This Robert B. Parker detective, if that's your maroon MGB with whitewalls, your lights are on
Spenser
$800 [6]
Binney & Smith began selling boxes of these, made from wax, in 1903; colors ranged from black to yellow
crayons
Veronica
$1,000 [2]
Tikal National Park is part of this country's Maya Biosphere Reserve
Guatemala
Alison Veronica
$800 [8]
Thisrum cocktail was created in the 1930s for a tiki bar called Don the Beachcomber; it might be less fun after too many
the Zombie
$1,000 [4]
This American folk painter who lived up to her byname was still working at the age of 100
Grandma Moses
Alison
$1,000 [14]
Elvis hangs loose in Honolulu after a stint in the Army in this 1961 film
Blue Hawaii
Alison
$1,000 [23]
Dean Moriarty in this 1950s classic, as the title indicates, you're putting some miles on that 1949 Hudson
On the Road
$1,000 [7]
This Peter Frampton band sang "30 Days In The Hole"
Humble Pie
DD $2,000 [15]
The king of this country gets the official title "Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques"
Saudi Arabia
Alison
$1,000 [9]
Down South, cher, this traditional musicheard hereis also known as chanky-chank
zydeco
Alison Eric

Double Jeopardy! Round

VAL, HISTORY'S CLUMSIEST TIME TRAVELER SIBLINGS IN POP CULTURE MAKING NOISE SAY IT IN SPANISH LAND OF MILK & HONEY A "M"EDICAL DICTIONARY
$400 [23]
Trying to go to 1492 but ending up in 1429, Val watches this peasant girl set out for the siege of Orléans--& glory--on April 27
Joan of Arc
Eric
$400 [30]
These twin TV actresses & entrepreneurs were born June 13, 1986
Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen
Eric
$400 [29]
Some travel through the Arctic requires watching out for growlers, smallish but dangerous pieces of this
ice
Veronica
$400 [27]
Orange is anaranjado & red is this word also containing J
rojo
Eric
$400 [28]
Montbéliarde cows are part of the herds in this nation's milk-loving la Gruyère region
Switzerland
Alison Eric
$400 [26]
The dilation of blood vessels is associated with this type of recurring vascular headache
migraine
Alison
$800 [22]
Val wanted to visit the Moorish city in Spain in the 1400s but one misspelled letter has him on this isle of spice & a 1983 U.S. invasion
Grenada
Alison
$800 [17]
They set the film "A Serious Man" in their native Minnesota
the Coen brothers
Eric
$800 [24]
Residents of East Hampton on this island have waged a battle against the noise of weekenders' helicopters
Long Island
Alison
$800 [8]
Meaning "aunt", it precedes Maria in a liqueur order
Tia
Alison
$800 [25]
Known for healthy honey, the Greek isle Ikaria is this type of "colorful" place named for its population's longevity
a blue zone
Veronica Eric
$1,200 [1]
This type of neuron conveys impulses from the brain or nervous system to a muscle, organ or gland to trigger an action
a motor neuron
Alison
$1,200 [18]
Val's not at the 1922 discovery of Tut's tomb in this 4-word area but 100 later, sees Rüfüs Du Sol win a Grammy for "Alive"
the Valley of the Kings
Alison
$1,200 [16]
The Duffer brothers created this TV series that debuted in 2016
Stranger Things
Veronica
$1,200 [9]
OK, smart kid... the dog goes woof & the river-dwelling giant type of this weasel family member goes what? Coo, scream & many others is what!
the giant river otter
Veronica Eric
$1,200 [5]
The name of this dish literally means "rice with chicken"
arroz con pollo
Eric
$1,200 [12]
Not far from the skyscrapers of this emirate metropolis is Camelicious, a company that provides camel milk, ghee & chocolate
Dubai
Veronica
$1,600 [2]
Found in theear, this small bone connects the tympanic membrane to the incus bone
the malleus
Alison
$1,600 [19]
Not great with numbers, Val doesn't end up in 1966 watching the launch of Gemini 10 but in London, in this year of the Great Fire
1666
Eric
$1,600 [15]
In a 2001 film, these siblings played siblings Elizabeth & Donnie Darko
Jake & Maggie Gyllenhaal
Eric
$1,600 [10]
This state dance of Kentucky is a bit like tap but most of the noise is made with the heels
clogging
$2,000 [7]
Thisbeloved indie rock band took its name in 1984 from the way a Spanish-speaking outfielder says, "I got it"
Yo La Tengo
Eric
$1,600 [13]
From Australia & New Zealand, this honey with a Maori name is said to have antibacterial properties
Manuka honey
$2,000 [3]
Term for a type of large white blood cell that digests invading micro-organisms & also "eats" cell debris
a macrophage
Eric
$2,000 [21]
"Where's the president?" a blundering Val asks this senator from Louisiana with a different middle name, church & party
John Kennedy
Eric
$2,000 [14]
Sid & Marty Krofft produced '70s Saturday morning TV like "H.R. Pufnstuf" & this one where a family ends up in a time with dinosaurs
Land of the Lost
$2,000 [11]
Many thought "The Rite of Spring" was just noise, like the "Augurs of Spring" marked to be played this extra-loud way throughout
fortissimo
Veronica Eric
DD $4,000 [6]
A song often heard in Spanish-speaking countries at Christmastime is this "Sabanero", meaning "My Little Savannah Donkey"
Burrito
Eric
$2,000 [20]
India, the leading milk producer in the world, gets almost half of it from this beast not considered cattle
a water buffalo
Alison
DD $2,400 [4]
Swelling of the parotid glands is a symptom of this acute viral disease
the mumps
Eric

Final Jeopardy!

WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS

Churchill gave a word a new meaning when he called for a "talk with Soviet Russia upon the highest level... a parley at" this

the summit

Alison "What Yalta ♡ OJE" — wagered $1,000
Eric "What is the himeleas" — wagered $11,599

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