Show #9101 2024-05-13 (taped 2024-04-03) Regular

Will Stewart game 2.

Contestants

Joyce Yang — a data analyst from Germantown, Maryland

Michael Richter — an elections officer from Portland, Oregon

Will Stewart — a political organizer originally from Nashville, Tennessee (whose 1-day cash winnings total $25,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Will $1,000 $2,400 $18,600 $18,700
2-day champion: $44,301
$18,200
21 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Michael $-200 $-400 $-400 $-400
3rd place: $2,000
$-400
10 R, 7 W
Joyce $2,000 $5,200 $9,200 $10,000
2nd place: $3,000
$9,200
14 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE GOLDEN AGE CELEBRITIES SAME 3 LETTERS, 2 DIFFERENT MEANINGS HELLO, WALLS BIG GEO ALSO A COLLECTIVE NOUN
$200 [30]
The last dramas of "the Golden Age of" this, "Suspense" & "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar", ended their runs in 1962
radio
Will
$200 [28]
This rapper's "From Crook to Cook" cookbook has staples like fried bologna sandwiches with chips &, of course, gin & juice
Snoop Dogg
Michael
$200 [13]
A level of special, affectionate attention & a cable TV network now featuring shows like "90 Day Fiancé "
TLC
Michael
$200 [15]
This pilgrimage site in Jerusalem is the only remaining section left from what surrounded the Temple Mount
the Wailing Wall (Western Wall)
Will
$200 [23]
Visiting this place? Remember, it's an 850-mile trek from McMurdo Station
the South Pole
Joyce
$200 [24]
An academy for the chub or tilapia
a school
Joyce
$400 [22]
Servicemen bought homes with zero down thanks to this U.S. bill signed in June 1944, helping start the "Golden Age of Capitalism"
the G.I. Bill
Joyce
$400 [27]
John Legend helped her clarify that her Norwegian last name should be said with a long I in the first syllable, not a long E
Chrissy Teigen
Joyce
$400 [14]
A stat for a pitcher to keep low & a change to the Constitution first proposed in 1923
ERA
Michael
$400 [25]
Home Depot says, "Dig a trench and if you get heavy rains, install a drainage pipe behind this type of wall seen here
a retaining wall
Michael
$400 [7]
At nearly 600,000 square miles, it's Canada's largest province, & note I said province
Quebec
Will
$400 [19]
A series of links for Dominica & St. Lucia
a chain
Joyce
$600 [29]
In the golden age of the Tang Dynasty the capital, Chang'an, passed this pop. milestone 1,000 years before London did around 1800
a million people
Joyce
$600 [21]
In 2024 he ended his long partnership with Nike & launched his own clothing line called Sun Day Red
Tiger Woods
$600 [10]
A college of Gamecocks & a college of Trojans
USC
Will
$600 [5]
Through name & deed, Nikolai Khabibulin earned the nickname "The Bulin Wall" playing this position professionally
goalkeeper (goalie in the NHL)
Joyce
$600 [6]
This Alaskan peak rises 18,000' from a base just 2,000' above sea level, leading some to say it's the world's tallest mountain
Denali
Joyce
$600 [18]
A swift adjective for the Caine or the Bounty
a fleet
Will
$800 [4]
The pretty items being offered in apainting from Spain's Golden Age, tell you the goddess is this Roman one
Flora
$800 [20]
Mark Hamill met her at the Golden Globes in 2024 & tweeted a picture of them, saying, "Now I have finally met my 'mother"'
Natalie Portman
Michael
$800 [11]
A food additive common in Chinese cuisine & an indoor venue atop Penn Station
MSG
Will
$800 [9]
Found in the wall of the pharynx, these can partially grow back from tissue that remains after their removal
tonsils
Michael Joyce
$800 [1]
It's a 7,900-foot plunge down this giant gorge into the Snake River below
Hells Canyon
$800 [16]
A circle of an Old-Fashioned & a Mojito
a round
$1,000 [3]
This police rank must look over clues carefully; it was common in British golden age detective novels: Grant, French, Cockrill...
an inspector
$1,000 [26]
On Broadway in 2023 Josh Groban sang the title role in this musical set on Fleet Street
Sweeney Todd
Joyce
$1,000 [12]
Texting shorthand for disbelief or disappointment & a major newspaper Down Under
SMH
Michael
$1,000 [17]
A protective shield, or a hastily constructed obstruction or wall, like those made in "Les Mis"
a barricade
Will
DD $1,000 [2]
At just shy of 500,000 square miles of mountains, jungle & arid coastline, it's the third largest country in South America
Peru
Will
$1,000 [8]
A church area with singers for Zachariel & Selaphiel
a choir
Michael

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY TITLE OCCUPATIONS ____ FROM THE ____ COLONIAL AMERICA LEXICONGRESS MEN OF MEDICINE TV'S FANTASTICAL PLACES
$400 [15]
Emily Chambers is one of these spiritual intermediaries in a C.J. Archer novel, hunting a demon & talking to a ghost
medium
Will
$400 [1]
A woman who has given birth has gotten this, an avian idiom
a visit from the stork
Will
$400 [30]
If you needed some upholstery work done in this city, you could go to the shop Betsy & John Ross ran on Arch Street
Philadelphia
Michael
$400 [27]
Senators can "ask for the yeas & nays", also known as this 2-word vote that's also the name of a D.C.-based newspaper
roll call
Michael
$400 [28]
In 1915, these two physician brothers gave $1.5 million to the University of Minnesota to establish a research foundation
Mayo
Will
$400 [25]
Mystic Falls is the locale for blood-sucking brothers Damon & Stefan on this long-running CW show
The Vampire Diaries
Joyce
$800 [14]
In a special edition J.K. Rowling did her own illustrations for the story collection titled "The Tales of Beedle the" this
the Bard
Michael
$800 [18]
This rhyming phrase is evoked when someone or something from long ago evokes a feeling of nostalgia
a blast from the past
Will
$800 [13]
New York's colonial village of Bedford is today joined in a neighborhood name with this last Dutch governor of New Amsterdam
Stuyvesant
Michael Joyce
$800 [21]
Although it sounds like Congress goes to play on swings & seesaws, it actually means a brief pause in proceedings
a recess
Will
$800 [29]
In the 1960s Lars Leksell invented the gamma knife for surgery on this, where precision is really, really important
the brain
Michael
$800 [24]
This castle was the ancestral home of Ned Stark & family on "Game of Thrones"
Winterfell
Will
$1,200 [16]
In "The Magician's Nephew", animals talk like humans & Jadis, an evil witch, flees from Charn & reaches this fantasy land
Narnia
Will
$1,200 [17]
This colorful phrase meaning "unexpected" invokes visions of lightning
a bolt from the blue
Michael
$1,200 [5]
This political pamphleteer's works like "Common Sense" did much to rally the cause of American independence
Paine
Will
$1,200 [26]
The word for this position comes from a fox-hunting term for the person keeping the dogs in line
the whip
Michael
DD $1,000 [7]
In 1853 this British anatomist wrote "On the Structure and Use of the Spleen"; his more famous work came 5 years later
Gray
Will
$1,200 [6]
This undersea abode of cartoon fame is based on an actual atoll used for atomic testing between 1946 & 1958
Bikini Bottom
Will Michael
$1,600 [2]
In a James Patterson novel, an attorney is incarcerated & becomes literally this type of title behind-bars advocate
a jailhouse lawyer
$1,600 [9]
Meaning to speak frankly, this saying alludes to Old West gunslinger days
shoot from the hip
Will
$1,600 [4]
The first governor of the separate colony of North Carolina, hedoesn't have a loathsome face like the same-named Stevenson character
Mr. Edward Hyde
$1,600 [19]
Since 1975 the CBO, this nonpartisan agency, has told lawmakers how much their programs & pork will cost or save
the Congressional Budget Office
Joyce
$1,200 [23]
In 1963 France's Dr. Georges Mathé announced that he had cured a leukemia patient by transplanting this spongy tissue
marrow
Joyce
$1,600 [11]
"Veronica Mars" was set in this town that also has a planetary name
Neptune, California
Will
$2,000 [8]
Holocaust survivor Sol runs a shop whose customers are often desperate in this novel made into a Rod Steiger movie
The Pawnbroker
Will
$2,000 [10]
To recover from devastating defeat is to "rise like" this bird of myth
Phoenix from the ashes
Will
$2,000 [3]
In 1630 John Winthrop sailed west from England to become the governor of this colony & a key leader of the Puritans
the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Will Michael
DD $4,000 [22]
Jason Smith currently holds this title that includes the name of the legislature of the United Kingdom
the Parliamentarian
Will
$2,000 [20]
Hisname is a homophone of a childhood bone disease, but it was epidemic typhus for which he identified the micro cause
(Howard) Ricketts
$2,000 [12]
First seen in 1969, this planet on "Doctor Who" was caught up in a time war with the Daleks
Gallifrey
Will

Final Jeopardy!

CINEMA HISTORY

Films made outside the U.S. in the '50s like "3 Coins in the Fountain" & "Quo Vadis" led to an era dubbed "Hollywood on" this river

the Tiber

Joyce "What is the Tiber?" — wagered $800
Will "What is the Tiber?" — wagered $100

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