Show #9125 2024-06-14 (taped 2024-05-07) Regular

Adriana Harmeyer game 13.

Contestants

Kaitlin Tarr — an aspiring ceramicist from Denver, Colorado

Susan Ayoob — a content strategist from San Francisco, California

Adriana Harmeyer — an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana (whose 12-day cash winnings total $278,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Adriana $2,800 $7,200 $12,400 $20,500
13-day champion: $299,000
$12,000
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Susan $2,400 $3,000 $10,200 $0
3rd place: $2,000
$10,200
9 R, 0 W
Kaitlin $1,200 $3,800 $12,800 $12,390
2nd place: $3,000
$15,000
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

1824 SETTING PRETTY THAT'S A FACT RHYMING PHRASES JEN TONIC
$200 [22]
The American Colonization Society approved this name for a country established on the West African coast
Liberia
Kaitlin
$200 [12]
"Wuthering Heights" speaks of spending time in these grasslands, "on a bank of heath... with the bees humming dreamily"
the moors
Kaitlin
$200 [17]
Toss a standard pair of dice & your odds of rolling the total known by this serpentine name are 1 in 36
snake eyes
Kaitlin
$200 [1]
A trip on a party boat with alcohol aplenty
a booze cruise
Kaitlin
$200 [6]
Kerry Washington grew up in the Bronx, where this girl "from the block" was her substitute dance teacher
Jennifer Lopez
Adriana
$200 [30]
For a classic gin & tonic, you can use this brand's sapphire gin
Bombay
Kaitlin
$400 [23]
18-year-old Henriette Sontag was the soprano as this man's final symphony premiered in Vienna
Beethoven
Kaitlin
$400 [13]
"As You Like It" finds the Duke & his retinue exiled to the lush environs of this forest
Arden
Adriana
$400 [18]
Once upon a midday weary, researchers in Sweden found these birds were better at planning ahead than apes or 4-year-olds
a raven
Kaitlin
$400 [2]
There's a male first name in this phrase meaning all tied up or 50-50
even Steven
Adriana
$400 [7]
This "American Idol" finalist played Motormouth Maybelle in the 2016 live TV production of "Hairspray"
Hudson
Adriana
$400 [11]
Remembered now as a gift to Jesus, this rare 5-letter gum derived from thorny trees was used in tinctures & perfumes
myrrh
Adriana
$600 [24]
The U.S. War Department created the B.I.A., this agency, to handle Native American issues
the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Susan
$800 [15]
Prince Siegfried in this ballet named for its setting takes a gander at Odette & later, her maidens dance a waltz
Swan Lake
Adriana
$600 [19]
The trail named for this pair winds 4,900 miles through 16 states
Lewis & Clark
Kaitlin
$600 [3]
Bangers & mash or fish & chips, maybe alongside a pint of ale
pub grub
$600 [8]
In "Office Space" she played a waitress at Chotchkie's who was reprimanded for not wearing enough "flair"
Aniston
Susan
$600 [27]
Remedies used this daisy-like flower as an antiseptic; you may be more familiar with it in your herbal tea
chamomile
Kaitlin
$800 [25]
This man whose independence forces defeated the Spanish army in Peru was proclaimed its dictator
Bolívar
Adriana
DD $1,000 [14]
The first act of this Verdi opera takes place in the king's palace in Memphis (not Tennessee)
Aida
Adriana
$800 [20]
Supreme Court Justice John Campbell wrote a concurring opinion in the 1857 decision about this enslaved man
Dred Scott
Adriana
$800 [4]
The main roads & side roads of a place, collectively
the highways & byways
Susan
$800 [9]
In "Legally Blonde" Reese Witherspoon as Elle teaches her as Paulette how to "bend & snap"
Jennifer Coolidge
Kaitlin
$800 [28]
Now interchangeable with "liqueur", this type of alcohol, from the Latin for "heart", once meant the drink had the qualities of a tonic
a cordial
Kaitlin
$1,000 [26]
Florida's capital was moved to Tallahassee, midway between these two cities that had been alternating in the role
Pensacola & St. Augustine
Adriana
$1,000 [16]
James Hilton wrote that its pavilions "clung to the mountainside... with the chance delicacy of flower petals impaled upon a crag"
Shangri-La
Adriana
$1,000 [21]
This 5-letter word can stand by itself or precede Mennonite to refer to a Christian group in America
Amish
Adriana
$1,000 [5]
There are 2 negatives in this 4-word phrase meaning something can be done without difficulty
no muss, no fuss
$1,000 [10]
She served as press secretary for President Biden & got her own show on MSNBC in 2023
(Jen) Psaki
Susan
$1,000 [29]
If you've heard of a tonic, you've heard of a balm that gets its name from this type of tree that's 2 letters longer than "balm"
balsam
Adriana

Double Jeopardy! Round

AROUND SCOTLAND AMERICAN POETS TILL DEATH DO US PART NO. 1 ON THEBILLBOARDHOT 100 FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES ANOTHER DAY IN PARASITES
$400 [7]
The Scottish Parliament & the royal residence of Holyrood Palace are in this city
Edinburgh
Kaitlin
$400 [6]
Thewomanwe know as this submitted her first great work "Renascence", for a prize under the gender-hiding name E. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Adriana
$400 [26]
Before he slipped into a coma in January 1957, he told Lauren Bacall, "Goodbye, kid. Hurry back"
Humphrey Bogart
Adriana
$400 [5]
2018:"God's Plan" &"Nice For What"
Drake
Adriana
$400 [24]
Norwegian for "sloping track", it's the sloping track seen here
slalom
Kaitlin
$400 [16]
In truly a hairy situation, these parasitic insects have biting types & sucking types, all of which sound just delightful
lice
Adriana
$800 [8]
These Scottish geographic features include Rannoch, Lomond & Ness
lochs
Kaitlin
$800 [21]
"Some, Too Fragile for the Winter Winds" is a poem from this "Belle of Amherst"
Dickinson
Susan
$800 [27]
After he passed away on Halloween in 1926, his widow Bess held annual seances on that date to try to make contact with him
Houdini
Kaitlin
$800 [4]
2020:"Savage" & "WAP"
Megan Thee Stallion
Kaitlin
$800 [25]
This Italian diminutive word applies to works like 1890's "Robin Hood", featuring the tune "Brown October Ale"
operetta
Adriana
$800 [15]
That ain't your house! Cuckoos practice brood parasitism, putting an egg in this place, so other birds rear the young
a different nest
Kaitlin
$1,200 [17]
Inverness is in the center of this elevated region, the most northerly mainland Scottish region
the Highlands
Adriana
$1,200 [20]
In 1981, this poet's home on East 127th St. was declared a New York City landmark
Hughes
Susan
$1,200 [28]
A grandson of Diego Rivera has suggested that Diego may have helped end the life of this suffering wife as a final act of love
Frida Kahlo
Kaitlin
$1,200 [3]
The artist formerly known with a "$", in 2010:"We R Who We R" &"Tik Tok"
Kesha
Kaitlin
$1,600 [9]
From the Yiddish, it can mean chicken fat or excessive sentimentality
schmaltz
Kaitlin
$1,600 [13]
You give me fever, the hard type of this parasite--Texas cattle fever, hemorrhagic fever, Q fever...
ticks
$1,600 [18]
This home of golf is also home to the first university in Scotland, founded in 1413
St. Andrews
Susan
$1,600 [22]
Louis, the father of this Beat Generation figure, was also a poet but wrote more traditional verse like "Morning in Spring"
Ginsberg
Adriana
$1,600 [29]
After this president's death in 1908, his wife Frances would become the first first lady to remarry
Cleveland
Kaitlin
$1,600 [2]
One week in 1998:"One Week"
Barenaked Ladies
Susan
$2,000 [10]
A member of the Communist power structure in Russia, it's come to mean the loyal subordinate of a political leader
an apparatchik
DD $2,000 [14]
Anopheles mosquitoes transmit one-celled parasites of the genus Plasmodium to humans, causing this sometimes-fatal disease
malaria
Kaitlin
$2,000 [19]
A major industrial burgh in the east, Dundee is the principal city of this former county that shares its name with a cattle breed
Angus
$2,000 [23]
Sparing him a treason trial, this poet was declared insane in 1946 & spent the next 12 years in a hospital
Ezra Pound
$2,000 [30]
Sadly, an assassin's bullet took civil rights activist Medgar from this wife June 12, 1963 in Mississippi
Myrlie Evers(-Williams)
Susan
$2,000 [1]
2022:"First Class"with the Fergie sample
Jack Harlow
DD $3,000 [11]
"Health" in Spanish; you're wishing someone good health when you toast them saying this word
salud
Kaitlin
$2,000 [12]
Parasitic worms in undercooked pork can cause this disease, so cook those BBQ ribs to at least 137 degrees
trichinosis
Kaitlin

Final Jeopardy!

1960s AMERICA

Helping draft an executive order in 1961, Hobart Taylor Jr. almost used the word "positive", but instead chose this alliterative phrase

affirmative action

Susan "What is ?" — wagered $10,200
Adriana "What is Affirmative Action?" — wagered $8,100
Kaitlin "What is ?" — wagered $410

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