Show #9126 2024-06-17 (taped 2024-05-08) Regular

Adriana Harmeyer game 14.

Contestants

Kelsey Kaunisviita Vockrodt — a stay at home mom from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ty Patton — a communications specialist from Des Moines, Iowa

Adriana Harmeyer — an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana (whose 13-day cash winnings total $299,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Adriana $2,800 $7,000 $16,200 $27,000
14-day champion: $326,000
$14,200
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Ty $1,200 $2,800 $13,400 $26,799
2nd place: $3,000
$9,800
16 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Kelsey $-200 $-600 $2,200 $2,200
3rd place: $2,000
$2,200
8 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

STATE SONGS CANDY IS DANDY BON JOVI RELIGION THE "LAST" SHALL BE FIRST THE HUMAN RACE
$200 [10]
The third verse of this state's song begins, "I love your old gray missions, love your vineyards stretching far"
California
Kelsey
$200 [19]
A 1950s song named for this goodie says, "Sweeter than candy on a stick, huckleberry, cherry or lime"
lollipop
Adriana
$200 [14]
(Jon Bon Jovi presents the clue.) In 2000, "It's My Life" took us back to the top of the charts; in the song, I refer to this man, born 30 miles from where I was, a role model as a singer who later got into acting, and likehesaid, "I did it my way"
Frank Sinatra
Adriana
$200 [24]
A temple in Kandy, Sri Lanka is said to house a very special relic: a tooth belonging to this religious founder
Buddha
Adriana
$200 [1]
We'd better get one more round--barkeep just said it was this
last call
Ty
$200 [11]
Treatment of the dead varies; some South Koreans make these into beads, in contrast to scattering dad at midfield
ashes
Kelsey
$400 [8]
This state's song is about its flag, "The Simple Flag Of A Last Frontier"
Alaska
Ty
$400 [20]
There are about 420 grains of rice in each of these milk chocolate bars Nestlé introduced in 1938
Crunch
Ty
$400 [15]
(Jon Bon Jovi presents the clue.) In 1989, we flew over the Iron Curtain to play a concert in Moscow with Mötley Crüe, Skid Row & others, including this legend
Ozzy Osbourne
Adriana
$400 [25]
An upside down cross is an ancient symbol of this sainted apostle who tradition says was crucified upside down
Peter
Adriana
$400 [4]
Something you turn to when nothing else works, or, heading south on the Las Vegas Strip, Mandalay Bay
the last resort
Kelsey
$400 [12]
They're the 2 main human language modalities; one might have begun 2 million years ago, the other 5,000
speech & writing
Adriana Ty
$600 [3]
In 1960 Ray Charles took this "old sweet song" to No. 1
"Georgia On My Mind"
Adriana
$600 [21]
First sold in 1928, they were sometimes called Penny Cups because they were sold for a penny
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Ty
$600 [16]
(Jon Bon Jovi presents the clue.) It was at the house where Richie Sambora was still living with his mom & dad that we wrote about life on the road; for the record the steel horse I ride in this song was our tour bus
"Wanted Dead Or Alive"
Adriana
$600 [26]
Sajjadat salat is an Arabic name for a prayer rug used by Muslims, placed so that the top points towards this holy city
Mecca
Kelsey
$600 [5]
A famous one happened June 25, 1876
a last stand
Adriana
$600 [13]
One of the oldest Homo sapiens skulls, now thought to be pushing 240,000, was found in Ethiopia by Richard of this family
Leakey
Adriana
DD $1,000 [2]
"The shot heard 'round the world" goes off " in the third line of this state's official song
Massachusetts
Ty
$800 [22]
The bee on its wrappers calls the product "nutty little honey chews"
Bit-O-Honey
Ty
$800 [17]
(Jon Bon Jovi presents the clue.) I wrote "Blaze Of Glory" for Emilio Estevez's character in the sequel tothis1988 Western; I even had a cameo as an inmate who, as fate would have it, got shot through the heart
Young Guns
Adriana
$800 [27]
The custom of hanging thison the doorpost of a Jewish home comes from a commandment in Deuteronomy
a mezuzah
$800 [6]
There's a shout of approval in this term for a swan song or final campaign
a last hurrah
Adriana
$800 [28]
Skin, eye & hair color are all largely determined by the chemistry of this biochrome pigment
melanin
Ty
$1,000 [9]
John Philip Sousa was an admirer of this college song about the "grand old badger state"
"On, Wisconsin!"
Ty Kelsey
$1,000 [23]
In a strange case of evolution, the eagle on the wrapper of this prism-shaped Swiss chocolate bar changed to a bear
Toblerone
Adriana
$1,000 [18]
(Jon Bon Jovi presents the clue.) I love Elvis, so it was a big deal to meet this man; he was Elvis' manager, & he had an unforgettable question for ours, "How do you make any money on five of them there Bon Jovis?"
Colonel (Tom) Parker
Adriana
$1,000 [30]
It's the collective name for the oldest & most sacred books of Hinduism
the Vedas
$1,000 [7]
The sacrament of extreme unction is also known as this
last rites
Ty
$1,000 [29]
Using animal fat & sticks, a team of Spanish researchers tried to solve this kind of obvious question about cave paintings
how did they paint in a dark cave
Ty Kelsey

Double Jeopardy! Round

A HISTORY LESSON MUSICAL INSTRUMENT RHYME TIME BOOK SEQUELS THE HUMANS RACE SCIENTISTS LABOR UNIONS
$400 [10]
In 1886, after 3 wars with the British, Upper Burma was made a province of this colony
India
$400 [26]
The incorrect disk-shaped metal bell
the wrong gong
Kelsey
$400 [5]
He, Huck Finn & Jim try to cross the ocean in a balloon in Mark Twain's sequel him "Abroad"
Tom Sawyer
Kelsey
$400 [27]
Not Charles Barkley but Lucy Charles-Barclay was your 2023 women's winner of this race in Hawaii with a time of 8:24:31
the Ironman Triathlon
Ty
$800 [23]
Now widely used in medicine, this process of filtering particles in liquids was first developed by Thomas Graham in the mid-1800s
dialysis
$800 [18]
NALC is the National Association of these postal workers; rural workers have their own union, NRLCA
Letter Carriers
Ty
$800 [11]
In 1649 this English king's disagreements with the Roundheads led to his little ol' round head rolling off the chopping block
Charles I
Adriana Kelsey
$800 [1]
A laid-back bass member of the violin family
a mellow cello
Adriana
$800 [6]
Boris Johnson had a Jack Russell; the prime minister's dog in Dodie Smith's sequel "The Starlight Barking" is this breed
Dalmatian
Adriana
$800 [28]
The 1998 Daytona 500 & 7 NASCAR championships were won by this "Intimidator"; Jr. did pretty well, too
(Dale) Earnhardt (Sr.)
Ty
$1,200 [22]
We hope Louis Pasteur washed his hands a lot while pioneering this theory of disease transmission in the 19th century
germ theory
Ty
$1,200 [15]
The International Association of these first responders sponsors a "fill the boot" campaign to raise funds for muscular dystrophy
firefighters
Ty
$1,200 [12]
When founded in 1922, the USSR consisted of Russia, Belorussia, the Transcaucasian Federation & this Black Sea nation
Ukraine
Ty
$1,200 [2]
An anesthetized tabla
a numb drum
$1,200 [7]
The best thing from the Swiss Alps besides Ricola, she "Grows Up" in a sequel from 1938
Heidi
Kelsey
$1,200 [17]
Starting in 2008, this American skier seenherewon 3 straight World Cup overall championships
Vonn
Adriana
$1,600 [24]
Brenda Milner's pioneering work helped show that these lobes named for being on the side of the brain are key to memory
the temporal lobes
Ty Kelsey
$2,000 [21]
The full name of the carpenters union is the United Brotherhood of Carpenters & these cabinetmakers of America
Joiners
$1,600 [13]
A 1960s Florida society lady in the TV series "Palm Royale" is raising money for loyalists to this exiled Cuban dictator
Batista
$1,600 [3]
A transverse woodwind instrument argument
a flute dispute
$1,600 [8]
Name that concludes the title "Auntie..." & the sequel title "Around the World with Auntie..."
Mame
Adriana
$1,600 [19]
In 1977 this TV mogul captained Courageous, defending America's Cup 3 years before CNN could cover it
Ted Turner
Ty
$2,000 [25]
In 1871 John William Strutt, later Lord this, explained that atmospheric scattering makes the sky blue
Rayleigh
DD $5,000 [16]
In 2024 Jalen Reeves-Maybin, president of this union, said he'd like to see all stadiums switch to natural grass
the NFL Players union (the NFL Players Association)
Ty
$2,000 [14]
An emperor of this Chinese dynasty at its height in the early 1400s took the reign name Yongle, "perpetual happiness"
the Ming Dynasty
$2,000 [4]
A genuine device of graduated metal bars
a real glockenspiel
DD $4,000 [9]
William Goldman wrote "Brothers", a sequel to this thriller about a young runner in which Agent Scylla is alive
Marathon Man
Adriana
$2,000 [20]
Just 2 men have had a season winning all 3 of cycling's grand tours, those being the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia & this a España
the Vuelta

Final Jeopardy!

2 LAST NAMES, SAME FIRST LETTER

Born 344 years apart, they are the 2 real people mentioned by name in the titles of 1990s Best Picture Oscar winners

Shakespeare & Schindler

Kelsey "Who are Schindler & Smith?" — wagered $0
Ty "Who are Shakespeare & Schindler?" — wagered $13,399
Adriana "Who are Shakespeare & Schindler?" — wagered $10,800

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