Show #9114 2024-05-30 (taped 2024-04-09) Regular

Adriana Harmeyer game 2.

Contestants

Sandee Baker — a real estate broker from Lake Tapps, Washington

Brad Miller — an IT director from Wentzville, Missouri

Adriana Harmeyer — an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana (whose 1-day cash winnings total $26,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Adriana $4,600 $9,000 $22,200 $20,000
2-day champion: $46,200
$21,800
28 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Brad $800 $1,600 $3,700 $6,001
2nd place: $3,000
$4,800
13 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Sandee $800 $1,800 $3,000 $1,800
3rd place: $2,000
$3,000
8 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

...BUT WHO'S COUNTYING? GIVING YOU THE THIRD DEGREE FIRST NAME'S THE SAME SLANGUAGE WE HAVE FOOD AT HOME CANON EVENTS
$200 [18]
Named in 1877, a Montana county honors this man who did not exactly enjoy himself in the territory the year before
Custer
Adriana
$200 [13]
It's the third letter in the Greek alphabet
gamma
Adriana
$200 [11]
From the world of film: Wilder & Crudup
Billy
Adriana
$200 [12]
Alas, cozzie livs is short for this; Hawaii has the highest, while Mississippi has the lowest
cost of living
Adriana
$200 [5]
You going all the way to Nobu? I'm gonna walk over to my cupboard & eat this, the chunk white albacore kind
tuna
Adriana
$200 [26]
When but a child, this FBI agent tried unsuccessfully to save a lamb, a moment that would stay with her later in life
Clarice (Starling)
Sandee
$400 [17]
At about 400,000, Pulaski is the Arkansas county with the most folks; stands to reason, with this city as the county seat
Little Rock
Sandee
$400 [19]
He had a killer term as the third U.S. vice president
Aaron Burr
Sandee
$400 [1]
Providing different kinds of entertainment:Kwan & Pfeiffer
Michelle
Brad
$400 [14]
Also something bodybuilders do, this4-letter word means to brag or show off
flex
Brad
$400 [6]
As tempting as that A5 wagyu filet mignon looks, I think I'll stay home & make this sammy with a common first name in it
a sloppy joe
Adriana
$400 [27]
Kill the dog of this man, the underworld's most feared assassin? That'll bring out some hand cannons
John Wick
Adriana
$800 [10]
This Kansas county is known for its federal pen that was home to the Birdman of Alcatraz (before he was the Birdman of Alcatraz)
Leavenworth
Adriana
$600 [20]
The third son of Adam & Eve mentioned in the Bible, he was born after Abel was killed
Seth
Adriana
$600 [2]
Both can make you dance:Allen & Gibson
Debbie
Brad
$600 [23]
It makes sense that rizz, meaning charmingly seductive, comes from this word
charisma
$600 [7]
Why get takeout when we have a perfectly good half-eaten Hass one of these in the fridge? Just put it on some toast
an avocado
Adriana Brad
$600 [28]
An enchantress' curse in this 1991 Disney film forced a life of reclusiveness for one of the title pair
Beauty and the Beast
Adriana
$1,000 [15]
The "WOW" counties of this Midwest state are Washington, Ozaukee & Waukesha
Wisconsin
Adriana
$800 [21]
The third woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, she's now the most senior female member
Sotomayor
Adriana
$800 [3]
Creative types Schumann & Ludlum
Robert
Sandee
$800 [24]
A good song does this, sounding like the action of an open hand
slaps
Brad
$800 [8]
Pay for water? Not when we have a Persian one of these gourds; it's 96% water & we can be fancy & put it in our tap water
a cucumber
$800 [29]
In "The Princess Bride", Count Rugen offers everything to this man who kills the count anyway, saying, "I want my father back"
Inigo Montoya
Adriana
DD $2,000 [16]
Lyon, Sac & Sioux are 3 of the 99 counties that presidential candidates try to visit in this state
Iowa
Adriana
$1,000 [22]
Get it on, sound a gong for this third-most populous city in Maine
Bangor
Adriana
$1,000 [4]
Very different leaders Mumford & Garvey
Marcus
Adriana Brad
$1,000 [25]
If you're dressed perfectly or made the right move at the right time, you "understood" this 10-letter word, like in school
the assignment
Adriana
$1,000 [9]
Maybe we use cheap scotch since we don't have kirsch to make this flaming cherry dessert
cherries jubilee
Brad
$1,000 [30]
In "Kill Bill", she played Elle Driver, who lost an eye to her master Pai Mei; she'd later see things differently
Daryl Hannah
Adriana

Double Jeopardy! Round

PLAY CHARACTERS THANKS A "MILL"-ION! GLASS NATIONAL COATS OF ARMS SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE CANNON EVENTS
$400 [11]
"O, I am fortune's fool!" says this Shakespeare title character after killing Tybalt
Romeo
Brad
$400 [2]
There are 1,609,344 of these in a mile, but who's counting?
millimeters
Brad
$400 [23]
Beer is often bottled in brown or green glass to prevent these rays from altering the taste of the beverage
ultraviolet
Brad
$400 [25]
The Isthmus of Panama appears on the coat of arms of this nation, Panama's South American neighbor
Colombia
Brad
$400 [6]
In the title of a Rascal Flatts song, "Life Is" this type of road
a highway
Adriana
$400 [18]
In 1781 at this battle site in Virginia, the British surrendered some 240 artillery pieces to George Washington's army
Yorktown
Brad
$800 [12]
He wrote, "I couldn't stop at 'A Doll's House'; after Nora, I had to create Mrs. Alving" in "Ghosts"
Ibsen
Adriana
$800 [5]
A river in Princeton University's backyard, or a proverbial burden around one's neck
a millstone
Adriana
$800 [16]
In the 1670s George Ravenscroft added oxides of this element to regular glass & the type of glass we call crystal
lead
Adriana Brad
DD $500 [26]
4 red bars representing Catalonia & 2 red cows of Béarn, France adorn its coat of arms
Andorra
Brad
$800 [7]
In one version of this song, Elton John uses the phrase "it's the wheel of fortune"
"The Circle Of Life"
Adriana
$800 [30]
It's the female nickname for the German Howitzer that destroyed Fort Loncin in the Siege of Liège during World War I
"Big Bertha"
Sandee
$1,200 [13]
Played on stage by Joe Morton, he has some big speeches in David Hare's play, "Stuff Happens" about the war in Iraq
Colin Powell
Brad
$1,200 [4]
To make bajra roti like your Nani's, you need to start with this grain
millet
Sandee
$1,200 [17]
A drawing called a cartoon is used in the preparation of one of these, to ensure that all the colored glass pieces fit together
a stained-glass window
Sandee
$800 [28]
This largest New World cat appears on both sides of a white shield on Guyana's coat of arms
the jaguar
$1,200 [8]
Ezra Koenig sang about "life & all its suffering" as lead singer of this band, not Dracula Workday but...
Vampire Weekend
Adriana
$1,200 [24]
Private John Thompson wrote, "The batteries doing us most damage were on Morris Island" during this April 1861 battle
Fort Sumter
Adriana
$2,000 [15]
Actors love playing Melissa & Andy in this epistolary play by A.R. Gurney & sometimes do so incombinationsyou wouldn't expect
Love Letters
$1,600 [1]
Expressed in the Book of Revelation, this -ism foresees 1,000 years of peace & prosperity heralded by the 2nd Coming of Christ
millennialism (millenarianism)
Sandee
$1,600 [19]
In the mid-1930s, this New York glass company cast the 200-inch Pyrex mirrorfor the Mount Palomar Telescope
Corning
Adriana
$1,200 [27]
A sailing ship & the national motto, "The Love of Liberty Brought Us Here", appears on this African nation's coat of arms
Liberia
Brad
$1,600 [9]
This ordinal band sang about a "semi-charmed kind of life" in a song with a lot of doo doo doo, doo doo-doo doos
Third Eye Blind
Adriana Brad Sandee
$1,600 [21]
Before a decisive 1805 battle, a few extra cannons were added to this vice admiral's HMS Victory
Nelson
Adriana
DD $4,000 [14]
In a shocking play of the 1960s, asylum inmates re-enact the death of Jean-Paul Marat, directed by this mad, bad Frenchman
Marquis de Sade
Adriana
$2,000 [3]
Consisting of many smallflowers & plants, it was a popular style of background for tapestries in the 15th century
millefleur
$2,000 [20]
In 2002 this artist was honored with a pedestrian "Bridge of Glass" for the opening of the Museum of Glass in his native Tacoma
(Dale) Chihuly
Brad Sandee
$2,000 [29]
Including Wallachia & Moldavia the historical provinces of this country are represented on itscoat of arms
Romania
$2,000 [10]
Thisrapper said "life is good" with Drake & repped the "Low Life" with Abel Tesfaye
Future
$2,000 [22]
In 1453 this city's emperor declined to buy cannons...& then saw them used against his own walls by the Turks
Constantinople

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN BANKING

Around 1930 a bank named for this NYC area known as a slum was the USA's largest savings bank by total deposits

the Bowery

Sandee "What is Hell's Kitchen?" — wagered $1,200
Brad "What is Bowery?" — wagered $2,301
Adriana "What is Battery?" — wagered $2,200

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