Show #9085 2024-04-19 (taped 2024-03-13) Regular

Contestants

Molly Fitzpatrick — a writer from Queens, New York

Scott Nations — a financial engineer and option trader from Chicago, Illinois

Marko Saric — a math professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $3,799)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Marko $2,800 $4,800 $15,900 $22,801
2-day champion: $26,600
$20,400
23 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Scott $1,400 $2,400 $11,400 $4,499
3rd place: $2,000
$9,200
11 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Molly $3,800 $4,000 $4,800 $9,598
2nd place: $3,000
$5,800
16 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

ANATOMY A TO Z U.S. GEOGRAPHY FUN FACTS ORDINAL PHRASES BOWLING SILENCE!
$200 [27]
L:Sprains of them range from grade 1 to grade 3
ligaments
Marko
$200 [28]
It's the "Boomer State" as well as the "Sooner State"
Oklahoma
Molly
$200 [23]
On April 1, 1979 David Kirke used an elastic rope & plunged from a bridge in Bristol, England, inventing this extreme sport
bungee jumping
Marko
$200 [29]
It's how the law regards possession, idiomatically
nine-tenths of the law
Molly
$200 [24]
Hope Gramly rolled a spare & 9 of these to lead the McKendree University Bearcats to the 2022 NCAA women's bowling title
strikes
Molly
$200 [30]
The right to remain silent & to have an attorney was enshrined in 1966 when the Supreme Court ruled in his favor
Miranda
Molly
$400 [12]
J:The upper one is also known as the maxilla
your jaw
Marko
$400 [26]
Thisstate capital is located at the confluence of two rivers, one of which shares its name
Des Moines
Marko
$400 [22]
These marshmallow chick candies took 27 hours to make individually by hand in 1953; now 509 are hatched every 8 seconds
Peeps
Marko
$400 [25]
Trump did it over 400 times in a 2022 deposition
took the Fifth
Scott
$400 [7]
Usually the central No. 5 pin, it has this "regal" name
the king pin
Scott
$400 [17]
Heavier bells were silenced in this 185-foot landmark in the 1900s to make sure their movement didn't worsen its classic feature
the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Marko Molly
$600 [1]
O:They're the major source of estrogen
ovaries
Molly
$600 [16]
The Catskill Mountains in New York are part of this much larger mountain system
the Appalachians
Marko Molly
$600 [13]
Mei Xiang, Tian Tian & their cub flew from Dulles to China on a flight nicknamed this, like an American Chinese restaurant chain
Panda Express
Marko
$600 [9]
In the "Hair" song "Aquarius", the Moon is here, ruled in part by Libra
the seventh house
Molly
$600 [20]
Thespotamongst the pins you most want to hit with your ball, it sounds like it's part of your trousers
the pocket
Scott Molly
$600 [21]
This letter--repeat, this letter!--is silent in the name of a partridge-like grouse of the genus Lagopus that lives in the Arctic
P
Marko
$800 [4]
T:Adenoids are a type of these
tonsils
Marko
DD $1,000 [2]
Leapin' lizards! This river flows 630 miles before joining the Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona
the Gila River
Molly
$800 [14]
During a yacht trip, a captain told Ringo Starr about the creatures beneath the waves, inspiring Ringo to write this Beatles song
"Octopus's Garden"
Marko Molly
$800 [6]
Addressing the audience directly in a play is an example of doing this
breaking the fourth wall
Marko
$800 [10]
So, this form where you knock down slenderer items is popular in New England & eastern Canada? Most illuminating
candlepin bowling
Molly
$800 [18]
"There's a weapon that we must use in our defense--silence" in this song by Jane Wiedlin & Terry Hall about their secret romance
"Our Lips Are Sealed"
Molly
$1,000 [5]
P:Part of the alimentary canal, this passageway is between the esophagus & mouth
the pharynx
Molly
$1,000 [3]
Located in a caldera in the Cascade Mountains, it's the USA's deepest lake
Crater Lake
Marko
$1,000 [15]
Inspired by Viking history, Klaus Teuber created this board game that debuted in 1995
Settlers of Catan
Molly
$1,000 [8]
Ask the bard, it's the eve of Epiphany
Twelfth Night
$1,000 [11]
In 1895 the son-in-law of this "Br"and's founder organized the first American Bowling Congress
Brunswick
Scott
$1,000 [19]
Said in this novel: "Buffalo Bill's name is William Rubin... he was referred to me in April or May 1975, by my patient Benjamin Raspail"
The Silence of the Lambs
Molly

Double Jeopardy! Round

AFRICAN HISTORY NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS ON GUITAR POETS OF LOVE PLUMBING THE DEPTHS
$400 [24]
Persian settlers made the Comorosan island group in the Indian Ocean, Africa's southernmost nation, mainly of this religion
Islam
Marko
$400 [25]
Pesade describes this animal rearing up on its hind legs with its front legs in the air--perhaps in a statue
a horse
Scott
$400 [29]
"Freaky Rob" Gueringer backed Dre, Snoop, Eminem, 50 Cent, Mary J. Blige & Kendrick Lamar at this Feb. 13, 2022 event
the Super Bowl Halftime Show
Marko
$400 [30]
"Love Song" by this Algonquin Round Table member goes full vicious circle: "He is all my heart, & I wish somebody'd shoot him"
(Dorothy) Parker
Scott
$400 [27]
Other names for this plumbing stalwart include force cup & plumber's friend or helper
a plunger
Molly
$400 [17]
Centered off Sumatra, this deepest trench of the Indian Ocean is named for another Indonesian island
Java
Marko
$800 [4]
With uses in the 19th c. compared to plastics' in the 20th, trade in this material led to exploitation of Africans & animals
ivory
Scott
$800 [19]
If you're a quidnunc, Latin for "what now?", you have this quality of excess curiosity, from a body part
nosy
$800 [20]
That's Jonny Buckland doing the electric intro riff on this colorful tune, Coldplay's first hit
"Yellow"
Molly
$800 [18]
This poet who died young in Rome wrote, "Hither, hither, hither / Love this boon has sent--/ If I die & wither / I shall die content"
Keats
$800 [22]
Cobra fittingly makes this type of tool that can extend to a plumber-friendly 15 feet
a snake
Marko
$800 [12]
Making up the order Actiniaria, these sea organisms are not delicate despite their flower name--some live 30,000 feet deep
sea anemones
Molly
$1,200 [6]
Long-time human rights abuses in this region are attributed to Sudanese fighters called the Rapid Support Forces
Darfur
Marko
$1,200 [9]
In South Asia, you might give your dhoti, seen here, to a dhobi, a person with this job
laundry (washing clothes)
Scott
$1,200 [28]
Prince could do it all, including the jaw-dropping outro guitar solo on this tune about looking for the purple banana (huh?)
"Let's Go Crazy"
$1,600 [3]
This Roman poet got sappy with it in "Eclogues"; "Love conquers all: let us too yield to love"
Virgil
Molly
$1,200 [23]
The Energy Dept. lauds this type of water heater, aka "instantaneous", as it's more energy efficient than the storage kind
a tankless water heater
Scott
$1,200 [16]
Herbert Nitsch is renowned in this activity & has gone more than 700 feet underwater on a single breath
free diving
Scott Molly
$1,600 [7]
After a pilgrimage in 1324, Mali emperor Mansa Musa built the Great Mosque in this trading post
Timbuktu
Marko
$1,600 [5]
Lovely day, nothing to do, I'll go apricate in the sun, though I don't know why when this 4-letter synonym will do fine
bask
Marko
$1,600 [1]
A 1961 Stratocaster helped this guitarist & singer make the solos on "Sultans Of Swing" immortal
Knopfler
Marko
$2,000 [15]
The final stanza of this poem by Matthew Arnold begins, "Ah, love, let us be true to one another!"
"Dover Beach"
Marko
$1,600 [11]
This rhyming device helps suck water from basements or crawl spaces
a sump pump
Marko
$1,600 [13]
This odd name chosen by the McPublic is now borne by a submersible that has gone deep under the Thwaites Glacier to study its ice loss
Boaty McBoatface
Molly
$2,000 [8]
This double-talk anti-colonial movement of the 1950s originated among the Kikuyu people of Kenya
Mau Mau
Marko
DD $4,200 [10]
Below the line on ancientcoins, the exergue is the space with the alliteratively named this mark, herefor the city of Siscia
mint mark
Scott
$2,000 [21]
Rolling Stone's 250 Greatest Guitarists put this Sleater-Kinney axewoman at No. 64 & called her a "shameless guitar hero"
(Carrie) Brownstein
Marko
DD $4,500 [2]
Percy Shelley wrote, "Nothing in the world is single; / All things by a law divine / In one spirit meet &" this, like at a mixer
mingle
Marko
$2,000 [26]
Plumbers should know that the "PE" in PEX pipes stands for this, the most widely used plastic in the world
polyethylene
Scott
$2,000 [14]
"B" is for this type of map that uses contour lines to show the ocean's depths
a bathymetric map

Final Jeopardy!

COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS

Featured in a 2020 film, she gets her name from a 16th c. Italian stock character who often wore diamond-patterned outfits

Harley Quinn

Molly "Who is Harley Quinn" — wagered $4,798
Scott "Who is Wonder Woman?" — wagered $6,901
Marko "Who is Harley Quinn? ♡ ◇" — wagered $6,901

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