Show #9086 2024-04-22 (taped 2024-03-13) Regular

Contestants

Elly Trickett — a blog and podcast editor from Danbury, Connecticut

Nam Nguyen — a playwright from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Marko Saric — a math professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina (whose 2-day cash winnings total $26,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Marko $9,000 $12,800 $14,700 $1,199
2nd place: $3,000
$15,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Nam $2,400 $5,200 $28,200 $26,999
New champion: $26,999
$24,400
27 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Elly $1,000 $-400 $-800 $-800
3rd place: $2,000
$-800
5 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

TAKE ME TO THE BRIDGE! BOOKED IN BOOKS LAST NAME'S THE SAME AN EMMY-WINNING ROLE ALSO A BASKETBALL TERM THE SUNDAY SCARIES
$200 [26]
I'm sold on walking across this bridge from Centre Street in Manhattan to Tillary Street on the other side of the East River
the Brooklyn Bridge
Nam
$200 [27]
In an 1862 work he is chained by the neck & taken to a prison in Toulon after stealing some bread
Jean Valjean
Nam
$200 [17]
Of businessman Warren & singer/songwriter Jimmy
Buffett
Nam
$200 [28]
You will rue the day & be far from "Euphoria" if you don't remember she took home a 2022 statue for starring as Rue
Zendaya
Marko
$200 [29]
A group of notes on which a musical composition is based, such as C major & F-sharp minor
key
Nam
$200 [30]
It's Sun., Oct. 27, 1929 & brokers are freaking out; the 28th will be this "colorful" day on Wall Street... like 12.8% down historic
Black Monday
Nam
$400 [25]
Begun in 1787, the Pont de la Concordeused remnants of the Bastille as a source for masonry to help span this river
the Seine
Marko
$400 [18]
In this nonfiction book, Helen Prejean writes to "Elmo Patrick Sonnier... death row, Louisiana State Penitentiary"
Dead Man Walking
Marko Elly
$400 [16]
Of prime minister William the Younger & actor Brad
Pitt
Nam
$400 [8]
Lee Yoo-miwas a winner as Ji-yeong on this game show-set Netflix drama where second place definitely wasn't three grand
Squid Game
Marko
$400 [14]
The ghost of Hamlet's father tells Hamlet he was murdered, "murder most" this, "as in the best it is"
foul
Elly
$400 [19]
Mr. & Mrs. Jones are nervous about the haggling coming up on Monday but look forward to getting a new SUV, a Sorento from this company
Kia
Marko
$800 [13]
Ponte dei Sospiri is the Italian name for this bridge that spans the Rio di Palazzo
the Bridge of Sighs
Marko
$600 [4]
In this Dickens work Abel Magwitch tells Pip he was sentenced to 14 years in prison
Great Expectations
Nam
$600 [1]
Ofthesetwo women, a first lady & an actress who has portrayed first ladies
Nixon
Elly
$600 [9]
Julie Bowen got Emmy bookends in 2011 & '12 for her work as Claire Dunphy on this ABC sitcom
Modern Family
Marko
$600 [23]
"Expedition Bigfoot" & "Destination Fear" are TV shows on this channel
Travel
Marko
$600 [20]
"His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy"; sounds like Eminem is describing the Sunday scaries in this song
"Lose Yourself"
Nam
$1,000 [12]
This London bridge used hydraulic pumps driven by steam until 1976, when it went electric
Tower Bridge
Nam
$800 [6]
In this Donn Pearce novel, later turned into a Paul Newman film, the title convict bets Society Red he can eat 50 eggs
Cool Hand Luke
Marko
$800 [2]
Of an accused ax murderer & her distant cousin who invented a process for condensing milk
Borden
Marko
$800 [10]
His wife said the posthumous Emmy won by this actor for voicing T'Challa in Marvel's "What If...?" was "a beautiful alignment"
Boseman
Nam
$800 [24]
This word can follow twilight, buffer or comfort
zone
Marko
$800 [21]
That high schooler is anxious about their Monday oral presentation on the 1821 2nd Compromise that let this state join the Union
Missouri
Nam
DD $3,600 [7]
The world's longest rotating metal bridge, El Ferdan, spans the Western shipping lane of this Egyptian waterway, dating to 1869
the Suez Canal
Marko
$1,000 [5]
His confession to 2 murders & his good deeds help limit this 19th century Russian character's prison term to just 8 years
Raskolnikov
Marko
$1,000 [3]
Of poets Marianne & Clement Clarke
Moore
Marko
$1,000 [15]
Winning an Emmy for being one of "Two & a Half Men" as Alan Harper must have been just Duckie for him
Jon Cryer
$1,000 [11]
Type of grant in which the federal government gives an annual sum of money to a state or local government to aid in a project
a block grant
$1,000 [22]
I need my daily look at Diego Rivera's industry murals in the DIA, this city's Institute of Arts, but it's closed Mondays--What now?
Detroit
Marko Elly

Double Jeopardy! Round

SECRETS OF THE OCTOPUS HISTORICAL FIGURES ZIMBABWE LIBRARIES AND THE ROLE ALMOST GOES TO... 6-SYLLABLE WORDS
$400 [26]
Anoctopusbearing the name of this ocean can grow from the size of a grain of rice to the size of a bus, measuredarm tip to arm tip
the Pacific octopus
$400 [25]
Arsinoe IV, the sister of Cleopatra, fought the Roman army at this Egyptian port city around 48 B.C.
Alexandria
Nam
$400 [29]
Until 1980 Zimbabwe bore the name of this 19th century British colonizer
Rhodes
Nam
$400 [30]
This Ivy League university's Nassau Hall once housed the school's library; since 1948 Firestone Library has served as its main library
Princeton University
$400 [28]
If not for his "Magnum P.I." contract, Tom Selleck, not Harrison Ford, might've played this iconic character
Indiana Jones
Marko Nam
$400 [16]
This process of getting back together was achieved & celebrated in Germany in 1990
reunification
Marko
$800 [23]
A species of octopus is named for this fruit; it used theshellas a hiding place
coconut
Nam
$800 [24]
Rebelling peasants inspired by the Reformation were let down by this man's tract "against the murderous, thieving hordes of peasants"
(Martin) Luther
Nam
$800 [11]
A group called Zimas combats the stigma of this pigment-lacking condition unusually common in Zimbabwe; sunscreen & hats can help
albinism
Nam
$800 [13]
This city's public library on Boylston Street has murals that John Singer Sargent spent decades on
Boston
Elly
$800 [27]
Either Sharon Stone or Sarah Jessica Parker, not Jennifer Grey, might've been "Baby" Houseman in this 1987 film
Dirty Dancing
Elly
$1,200 [7]
The PV in HPV; there's a vaccine for that
papillomavirus
Nam
$1,200 [19]
Anoctopuscan change the pigment of its skin in one fifth of a second, despite the fact that all octopuses have this vision deficiency
color blindness
Elly
$1,600 [2]
This Black explorer learned the language & skills of the Inuit people on many trips searching for the North Pole
(Matthew) Henson
Nam
$1,200 [5]
Niagara Falls is a city in New York at the Canadian border; similarly, this is a town in Zimbabwe at the Zambian border
Victoria Falls
Nam
$1,200 [14]
The building of this country's José Martí National Library was funded by a tax on sugar
Cuba
Marko Nam Elly
$1,200 [1]
"Keanu was perfect", said Will Smith of this 1999 film, which he passed on for "Wild Wild West"; "I would've ruined it"
The Matrix
Nam
$1,600 [8]
From the Latin for "conversation", it's an informal or regional expression like "bodacious"
a colloquialism
$1,600 [9]
Theday octopuscan shape shift & blend into the rough & smooth surfaces of coral in this site off northeastern Australia
the Great Barrier Reef
Marko
$2,000 [12]
Former radical left Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras gave his son the middle name Ernesto, after this man
(Che) Guevara
Marko Elly
$1,600 [4]
He served as Zimbabwe's prime minister & president for 37 years, resigning in 2017 after political & military pressure
Mugabe
Nam
$1,600 [15]
A Monaco library named for her is dedicated to the culture of Ireland, her ancestral land, & includes her private collections
(Grace) Kelly
Nam
$1,600 [21]
After a phone call with Peter Jackson, Russell Crowe turned down this role (& a ton of money) that went to Viggo Mortensen
Aragorn
Nam
$2,000 [17]
Meaning "tireless", it was the first British ship sunk at the 1916 Battle of Jutland
the HMS Indefatigable
$2,000 [22]
A species ofoctopusis named for this trait, it can make itself resemble otheranimals, like asea snakeor lionfish
mimicry
Nam
DD $5,000 [3]
In the 1850s Congress awarded this man $20,000 for negotiating the Kanagawa Treaty
(Commodore) Perry
Nam
$2,000 [6]
Named for an African chief, this capital city is home to the National Archives & the University of Zimbabwe
Harare
Marko
$2,000 [18]
Named for this architect who designed it in 1676, Cambridge's Trinity College Libraryholds over 1,000 medieval manuscripts
Wren
Nam
$2,000 [20]
Akira Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress" helped inspire "Star Wars", & the role of Obi Wan was reportedly offered to this star
Toshiro Mifune
DD $3,300 [10]
19th c. liberation fighter José de San Martín got about as high in the military as possible, named this of the republic of Peru
the generalissimo
Marko

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY AUTHORS

Best known for a novel, she wrote at least 6 full-length plays & collaborated with Moms Mabley on a 1931 Broadway revue

Zora Neale Hurston

Marko "Who is Plath?" — wagered $13,501
Nam "Who is Hansberry?" — wagered $1,201

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