Show #9100 2024-05-10 (taped 2024-04-03) Regular

Allison Gross game 4.Will Stewart game 1.

Contestants

Will Stewart — a political organizer originally from Nashville, Tennessee

Jonah Lipton — a writer from Los Angeles, California

Allison Gross — a data scientist from Cleveland, Ohio (whose 3-day cash winnings total $44,598)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Allison $-400 $1,200 $6,000 $0
3rd place: $2,000
$8,800
11 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Jonah $9,000 $10,400 $12,800 $25,600
2nd place: $3,000
$10,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Will $1,400 $4,000 $16,000 $25,601
New champion: $25,601
$16,000
19 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

"O" SAY CAN YOU SEE? PREPOSITIONAL BOOK TITLES BIRDPLAY SPORTS VENUES PRANKS
$200 [30]
"I need physics more than friends", said this scientist, who could have used a few more during a 1954 investigation into his life
Oppenheimer
Will
$200 [29]
He said, "You'd think that being arock star married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is"
David Bowie
Allison
$200 [13]
This novel was originally published as "le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours"
Around the World in Eighty Days
Will
$200 [16]
Many have lost riches trying to ranch this speedy giant
an ostrich (in l ost rich es)
Jonah
$200 [24]
TPC Sawgrass was "built for the pros" of this sport but can be "experienced by you"
golf
Will
$200 [28]
In 1998 a physicist pulled a fast one with an article about Alabama wanting to "slice" this irrational number down to 3
pi
Allison
$400 [4]
In 1892 she told an interviewer, "It is impossible to shoot brilliantly in a tight-fitting bodice"
(Annie) Oakley
Allison
$400 [25]
Still around today, this British landmark had a simple purpose stated as, "to separate the Romans from the barbarians"
Hadrian's Wall
Will
$400 [12]
This Stephen King novel has Chester's Mill, Maine suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field
Under the Dome
Jonah
$400 [17]
If you're like this largest of the perching birds, you probably crave new surroundings
a raven (in c rave n ew)
Will
$400 [22]
Lambeau Field has a boardroom named for this coach who won the first 2 Super Bowls
Lombardi
Allison
$400 [8]
On episodes of this prank-full MTV show, Taylor Swift thought she set fire to a boat & Rihanna stole money from children
Punk'd
Will
$600 [3]
This HBO host: "Cuba. Florida's teardrop tattoo"
John Oliver
Jonah
$600 [23]
Here's a spectacular pic of Jupiter taken by this craft that arrived at the planet in 2016 & is named for the Roman god's wife
Juno
Will
$600 [11]
In this Nick Hornby novel, a 12-year-old misfit & a 36-year-old man-child strike up a friendship that teaches them both valuable lessons
About a Boy
Jonah
$600 [26]
Every day the old folks wander down to the lake to see this dabbler
a swan (in folk s wan der)
Jonah
$600 [21]
The first game at Fenway Park was an exhibition, with this Ivy League team losing 2-0 to the local pros
Harvard
Jonah
$600 [7]
Taco Bell fooled many when it announced plans to buy this Philly icon to reduce the national debt
the Liberty Bell
Jonah
$800 [1]
He joked, "These days, I look in the mirror & I... admit, I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be"
Obama
Will
$800 [15]
Beaver was a name under consideration by Ford for a model introduced in 1954; luckily, they went with this
a Thunderbird
Allison Jonah
$800 [9]
Ring in if you know this Hemingway novel is about Robert Jordan, who fights on the losing side in the Spanish Civil War
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Jonah
$800 [27]
Whenever I mention this raptor, I see a gleam in your eye
eagle (in se e a gle am)
Will
$800 [20]
Home to a jewel in a crown, Pimlico in this state opened in 1870
Maryland
Allison
$800 [6]
On April Fools' Day in 1989 this founder of Virgin Galactic pranked U.K. folks by flying around in a balloon that looked like a UFO
Branson
Jonah
$1,000 [2]
This Greek shipping magnate: "If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month & a half to succeed in"
Onassis
Jonah
$1,000 [14]
This American composer was tempted with several books of Western tunes to bring "Billy the Kid" to balletic life in 1938
Copland
Jonah
DD $3,000 [10]
Virginia Woolf used stream of consciousness in this novel about the Ramsay family vacationing on the Isle of Skye
To the Lighthouse
Jonah
$1,000 [18]
Particular kinds of this songbird you might see depend on your location & time of year
a lark (in Particu lar k inds)
$1,000 [19]
As of 2023, Rafael Nadal had won 14 titles & only lost 3 times in singles at this French Open venue
Roland-Garros
$1,000 [5]
In 1818 this French-American ornithologist pranked a rival by sketching up a bulletproof fish
Audubon
Jonah

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE BUSINESS NAMES SINGERS ON FILM WORLD HISTORY ART & ARTISTS TALKING HOT & COLD
$400 [26]
It's the smaller of the 2 continents completely in the Southern Hemisphere
Australia
Jonah
$400 [30]
One of the most powerful women in business, Karen Lynch became C-E-O of this healthcare co. & drugstore chain in 2021
CVS
$400 [27]
Her film roles have included a witch of Eastwick & biker mom Rusty Dennis in "Mask"
Cher
Jonah
$400 [24]
In 1762 she helped overthrow her husband Peter III in order to take the Russian throne for herself
Catherine the Great
Allison
$400 [28]
Picasso often depicted this creature who's part man, part bull in his works, perhaps to symbolize his own womanizing
a Minotaur
Jonah
$400 [29]
In the 1930s sales guru Elmer Wheeler came up with the phrase "don't sell the steak, sell" this
the sizzle
Will
$800 [23]
The name of this desert is from a Tswana word meaning "the great thirst"
Kalahari
Allison Jonah Will
$1,200 [3]
Pink Cadillacs were unique incentives to top earners from this cosmetics maven, who launched her business in 1963
Mary Kay
$800 [21]
In his 2017 film debut, he played Alex, a soldier trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk
Styles
Jonah
$800 [10]
On Aug. 26, 1789 the French National Assembly adopted this declaration, much to the chagrin of Louis XVI
the Declaration of Rights of Man
Jonah
$800 [22]
In Norwegian this 1893 painting is known as "Skrik"
The Scream
Will
$800 [16]
This acronym refers to the federal agency that enforces laws concerning border control & illegal trade
ICE
Will
$1,200 [9]
The last Olympics held in the hemisphere were hosted by this city in 2016, with more than 11,000 athletes competing
Rio de Janeiro
Will
$1,600 [2]
Last name of Ferdinand, who designed the Volkswagen; his son Ferry designed the eponymous sports car
Porsche
$1,200 [20]
She was handpicked by Aretha Franklin to play the queen of soul in "Respect", released in 2021
Jennifer Hudson
$1,200 [6]
Reigning from 1851 to 1868, King Mongkut opened this country to Western influence & modernization
Thailand (Siam)
Jonah Will
$1,200 [18]
Pre-revolutionary France craved moralistic scenes like the painting seenhereof a father doing this to his children
reading the Bible
Will
$1,200 [15]
In 2022 Wendy's had a holiday version of this dairy dessert for the Christmas season--peppermint
a Frosty
Allison
$1,600 [8]
This 22,800' peak in South America was first summited in 1897 by a team led by Edward Fitzgerald
Aconcagua
Will
$2,000 [1]
This Omaha company's annual shareholders' meeting has featured comedy skits, dancing & of course a Q&A with Warren Buffett
Berkshire Hathaway
Allison
$1,600 [12]
He starred in the 1980 remake of "The Jazz Singer" & also appeared as himself in "Saving Silverman"
Neil Diamond
Allison
$1,600 [5]
More than 13,000 places were surveyed for this census compilation that William the Conqueror ordered in 1085
the Domesday Book
Jonah
$1,600 [17]
This American painter known for his seascapes said, "never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy"
Homer
Allison
$2,000 [13]
Our planet's tropics are also called this "zone", an adjective meaning very hot
the torrid zone
$2,000 [7]
Occupying half of an island, this small country is the only Asian nation completely in the Southern Hemisphere
East Timor
Jonah Will
DD $6,000 [25]
It was the last name of brothers Andre & Edouard, who began manufacturing tires for bicycles & automobiles in the 1890s
Michelin
Allison
$2,000 [11]
In her first major role, Madonna played the free-spirited title character in this 1985 film
Desperately Seeking Susan
$2,000 [4]
The name of this movement that began in Jamaica in the 1930s came from the birth name of Haile Selassie, venerated as the Black Messiah
Rastafarianism
Will
$2,000 [19]
In the 1820s this British landscape painter did a study of clouds over Hampstead Heath at different times of day
Constable
Jonah
DD $4,800 [14]
This military policy is described as a tactic in which you destroy everything that an enemy can use to wage war
scorched earth
Allison

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY BOOKS

A review said this 1966 book about real events "will cause a good deal of myopic squabbling about just what a novel is"

In Cold Blood

Allison "What is" — wagered $6,000
Jonah "What is In Cold Blood? Happy Birthday Ethan!" — wagered $12,800
Will "What is In Cold Blood???" — wagered $9,601

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