Show #9117 2024-06-04 (taped 2024-05-06) Regular

Adriana Harmeyer game 5.

Contestants

Travis Kissire — a deputy public works director from Boise, Idaho

Christina Paul — a Foreign Service officer from Davie, Florida

Adriana Harmeyer — an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana (whose 4-day cash winnings total $91,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Adriana $4,000 $6,200 $17,400 $24,400
5-day champion: $116,200
$17,400
27 R, 2 W
Christina $600 $600 $2,400 $0
3rd place: $2,000
$3,200
6 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Travis $2,600 $3,000 $4,800 $9,599
2nd place: $3,000
$8,600
10 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

TREE-VIA COMMON BONDS OTHER GOOD BOOKS 21st CENTURY SPORTS EUROFOOD WHAT "IZ" IT?
$200 [16]
This subtropical marsh region of Florida has the largest mangrove forest in the continental United States
the Everglades
Adriana
$200 [17]
Video, ticker, Scotch
tape
Adriana
$200 [6]
If you're looking for updates on the March sisters, try "Good Wives" by this 19th century American woman
Alcott
Adriana
$200 [13]
Since 2022 this NYC Grand Slam tennis tournament has used a system called Hawk-Eye instead of humans to call balls in or out
the U.S. Open
Christina
$200 [22]
The German pastrieshereare Schnecken, meaning these animals with coiled shells; eating the actual creature is more of a French thing
snails
Travis
$200 [1]
NOAA calls it "precipitation... of water less than 0.5 mm in diameter"
drizzle
Adriana
$400 [23]
These tall trees of the myrtle family are native to Australia, where they are also known as gums & stringybarks
eucalyptus
Christina
$400 [18]
Mug, booster, jump
shots
$400 [7]
Flannery O'Connor titled a collection of short stories "A Good Man Is" these 3 words; preach, sister
Hard to Find
Adriana
$400 [27]
In 2007 this NL squad became the 1st team with 10,000 losses; in 2008 they won the World Series behind Cole Hamels & Ryan Howard
the Phillies
Christina
$400 [14]
At bars in Lisbon, small plates are called petiscos; in Madrid, the small dishes are called this
tapas
Christina
$400 [2]
A magical sorcerer; it was also slang for "excellent" in the 1920s
wizard
Adriana
$600 [24]
This tree in the cashew family is grown for its edible green nuts
pistachio
Adriana
$600 [19]
Jon, Dicky, Uzi Vert
Lil rappers
Adriana
$600 [8]
P.G. Wodehouse continues his tales of Bertie Wooster in "Very Good" this guy, Bertie's manservant
Jeeves
Adriana
$600 [28]
(Pro Football Hall of Famer Bill Cowher presents the clue.) I coached the first 6th-seeded team to win the Super Bowl, even though this quarterback of my Steelers threw for half as many yards as the Seahawks passer
Roethlisberger
Adriana
$600 [12]
On "Searching for Italy", Stanley Tucci's Turin tour included bagna càuda, like the one here; it means this, which you step into
a hot bath
Adriana
$600 [3]
A wisp of hair curling askew; Garnier sells an "anti"-this serum
frizz
Travis
$800 [25]
Quebecol is a compound derived from the sap of this tree
(sugar) maple
$800 [20]
A smile, an egg, the books
things you can crack
Travis
$800 [9]
Angelic Aziraphale & demonic Crowley are friendly rivals in this comedic tale of pending apocalypse by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Good Omens
Adriana
$800 [29]
A bit like sci-fi's Anywhere Door or Phoenix Gate, it opened on Oct. 15, 2018 to whisk college athletes to a new school
the transfer portal
DD $1,000 [11]
Colcannon is a traditional Irish dish made with potatoes & this veggie that puts the "col" in the name
cabbage
Christina
$800 [4]
Thisseasoned pork sausage is popular in Mexico
chorizo
Adriana
$1,000 [26]
A slight breeze will cause the leaves of this aspen to tremble, thus its name
a quaking aspen
Travis
$1,000 [21]
Cymbals, the stock market, uninvited guests
things that crash
Adriana
$1,000 [10]
Pearl S. Buck won a Pulitzer for this novel set in China
The Good Earth
Christina
$1,000 [30]
Then with Oklahoma City, this master of the triple-double became the first back to back MVP of the NBA All-Star Game since the 1950s
Russell Westbrook
Adriana
$1,000 [15]
Smoked herring eaten as these, previously shunned as the breakfast of a bygone Britain, is making a comeback
kippers
Travis
$1,000 [5]
It's Sid Meier's video game series where you start at the dawn of history & can get to the Space Age
Civilization
Travis

Double Jeopardy! Round

JUNE 4 EVER MORE IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS MODERN POTPOURRI FEELING A LITTLE ART "C" ANY PORT IN A STORM
$400 [30]
1896:He astounds Detroiters on his first drive in his 500-pound brakeless "Quadricycle"
Henry Ford
$400 [4]
Boxing gave us this idiom for the best & closest spot to watch the action of any kind
a ringside seat
Adriana
$400 [12]
Choose letters wisely on this New York Times game that feted its 1,000th puzzle by lighting up the Empire State Building
Wordle
Travis
$400 [21]
Having no added binder, this drawing material made of burnt vines or twigs is easily manipulated with the artist's finger
charcoal
Adriana Christina
$400 [18]
West of Lafayette, Port Charles lies on a deepwater channel in this state
Louisiana
Adriana
$400 [22]
In a 2014 film Russell Crowe as this title character sees storms on the biblical horizon & goes to see his granddad Methuselah
Noah
Adriana
$800 [29]
1912:Massachusetts becomes the first state to pass a law regarding minimum these
wages
Adriana
$800 [5]
This term for a stockpile of cash is more often applied to money to wage a political campaign than a military one
a war chest
Travis
$800 [13]
K is for this brand that offers k-rounds coffee pods
Keurig
Adriana
DD $1,000 [15]
Picasso called this Post-Impressionist known for his "Bathers" series the "father of us all"
Cézanne
Christina
$800 [16]
The Sui Seung Yan, meaning "born on the water", are the boat people that add to the local color of this rhyming Chinese port
Hong Kong
$800 [23]
accuweather.com debunked the premise of this 2013 TV movie, saying marine life could not be swept up by the title storm
Sharknado
Adriana
$1,200 [6]
1940:The last of 340,000 troops are hastily evacuated from this seaport
Dunkirk
Adriana
$1,200 [7]
This tradition when you meet the pope is a snide expression meaning to show extreme subservience to anyone
bend the knee (kiss the ring)
Travis
$1,200 [14]
Be careful--a fake Windows update could be this, named for the fee you'll have to pay hackers
ransomware
Christina
$1,200 [2]
This American expatriate modeled for Edgar Degas, including his painting "At the Milliner's"
Mary Cassatt
$1,200 [1]
Piraeus is not only this capital city's main port, it is a terminus for railway passengers
Athens
Travis
$1,200 [24]
Dennis Quaid sounded the alarm on climate change in this 2004 movie that saw the world plunged into a new ice age
The Day After Tomorrow
Adriana
$1,600 [27]
1859:French & Sardinian troops defeat the Austrians at this Italian town soon to give a purplish-red color its name
Magenta
$2,000 [9]
Janis Joplin's last concert was fronting aband with this 3-word name, meaning all out & including a synonym for to dance
Full Tilt Boogie
$1,600 [19]
In 2009 Patrick O. Brown took a sabbatical from Stanford & began work on what would become this brand of plant-based burgers
Impossible
Adriana
$1,600 [3]
This 1948 painting depicts a young woman trying to crawl up a hill to her farmhouse
Christina's World
Adriana
$1,600 [11]
A major European port, this second-largest Dutch city straddles both banks of the New Meuse
Rotterdam
Adriana
$1,600 [25]
Bogie attests, "One Rocco more or less isn't worth dying for" in this tempest-tossed John Huston thriller
Key Largo
$2,000 [28]
1970:This Pacific kingdom gains its independence from Great Britain
Tonga
Adriana
DD $3,800 [8]
Sticky foot pads called pulvilli are needed if you want to literally be this & listen to others' conversations while unseen
a fly on the wall
Travis
$2,000 [20]
Blockchain technology was intended to keep transactions this, meaning no individual has control, all do
a decentralized system
$2,000 [10]
Head of a Banditis one of the surviving sculptures by this double "C" Frenchwoman who destroyed much of her own work
Camille Claudel
Travis
$2,000 [17]
Literally "White Bay", this alliterative Argentine city is a major port of Buenos Aires province
Bahía Blanca
$2,000 [26]
This Tarantino Western finds its title characters taking refuge from a nasty blizzard in a Wyoming cabin
The Hateful Eight
Adriana

Final Jeopardy!

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS

This character in a series of popular books begun in 1934 promises, "I'll stay till the wind changes"

Mary Poppins

Christina "Who isThe WizaWinnie the Pooh" — wagered $2,400
Travis "Who is Mary Poppins?" — wagered $4,799
Adriana "Who is MaryPoppins? Poppins" — wagered $7,000

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