Show #9133 2024-06-26 (taped 2024-05-14) Regular

Drew Basile game 6.

Contestants

Maryl Harris — a study operations manager from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Natalie Miliano — a manufacturing engineering manager from Portland, Maine

Drew Basile — a graduate student from Birmingham, Michigan (whose 5-day cash winnings total $91,283)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Drew $3,600 $5,000 $20,200 $20,318
6-day champion: $111,601
$17,000
24 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Natalie $2,000 $2,200 $6,200 $4,700
3rd place: $2,000
$6,200
9 R, 3 W
Maryl $2,000 $4,800 $10,000 $6,201
2nd place: $3,000
$9,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

AROUND THE WORLD THEY WROTE THE BOOKS YOU DON'T HEAR AS MUCH ABOUT... HATS ON GRAPPLE SAUCE IN YOUR DREAMS!
$200 [26]
In their native tongues, these 2 neighbors are Norge & Sverige
Norway & Sweden
Drew
$200 [17]
"The Pelican Brief" &"The Client"
Grisham
Maryl
$200 [21]
...this state's Inner Banks, where you'll find the lovely town of Beaufort & the Rachel Carson Reserve
North Carolina
Maryl
$200 [28]
The name of this broad-brimmed hat is from Spanish for "shade"
a sombrero
Drew
$200 [29]
He was already a popular pro wrestling star when he made the leap into movies like "The Scorpion King" & "Fast Five"
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
Drew Natalie
$200 [30]
Greaves were part of a suit of this
armor
Maryl
$400 [11]
In India it's customary for brides to wear this color associated with the goddess Durga, & a symbol of power & strength
red
Natalie
$400 [16]
"The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle" &"The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit"
(Beatrix) Potter
Drew
$400 [20]
...these, "also very much a thing for women before or during menopause", per a Cleveland Clinic web page
cold flashes
Drew
$400 [27]
A Sarah Bernhardt play gave us this word for a soft felt hat later favored by many a movie mobster
a fedora
Maryl
$400 [22]
The 2 ways to win a match in this form of wrestling are to force an opponent to the ground or out of a 15-foot circle
sumo
Natalie
$400 [19]
This 5-letter verb means to wake someone up from sleep & get 'em moving
rouse
Maryl
$600 [12]
This annual event in Munich kicks off with the exclamation "O'zapft is!", "It's tapped!"
Oktoberfest
Drew
$600 [1]
"Prince Lestat" &"The Queen of the Damned"
Anne Rice
Maryl
$600 [7]
...these people, the title of a book by Cokie Roberts about Revolutionary War female heroes like Molly Pitcher
the Founding Mothers
Natalie Maryl
$600 [18]
This stiff felt hat with a rounded crown & narrow brim got its name in 19th century America, not from a big British horse race
a derby
Drew Maryl
$600 [23]
In Genesis this patriarch wrestles all night with God & won't stop until receiving a blessing
Jacob
Drew
$600 [4]
The "truth"? This lifesaver is from the Latin for "watery fluid"
serum
Drew Natalie
$800 [13]
The Buryats & Yakuts are among the indigenous groups that occupy this 5-million-square-mile region of Russia
Siberia
Natalie
$800 [2]
"Grey" &"The Missus"
E.L. James
Drew
$800 [8]
...this London mini-landmark dating from 1892
Little Ben
Drew
DD $1,000 [10]
In the 1860s he designed an all-weather felt hat he called "The Boss of the Plains"
(John) Stetson
Maryl
$800 [24]
The 2 types of wrestling in the Olympics are freestyle & this hyphenated variety
Greco-Roman
Maryl
$800 [5]
While you ponder, weak & weary, its synonyms include dismal & gloomy
dreary
Natalie
$1,000 [14]
The special administrative region of Macau has 2 official languages: Chinese & this colonial one
Portuguese
Natalie
$1,000 [3]
"Absalom, Absalom!" &"Light in August"
Faulkner
Drew
$1,000 [9]
...a bad Samaritan--how about this wicked biblical queen who tried to establish idol worship in Samaria
Jezebel
Drew Maryl
$1,000 [15]
You wear this Scottish cap anywhere, not just to a David Mamet play about real estate salesmen
a glengarry
Drew Natalie
$1,000 [25]
In 1938, in what was billed as the first women's match in this, when a winner was declared, it took time to figure out who she was
mud wrestling
$1,000 [6]
I'm filled with this, the heat of desire or passion, from Latin for "burn"
ardor
Drew

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC NAMES DOUBLE TALK ELLIS ISLAND FROM THE GERMAN SCIENC"E" ALL THAT JAZZ
$400 [1]
On May 19, 1536 this second wife of Henry VIII very suddenly became his ex-wife
Anne Boleyn
Maryl
$400 [26]
In 1928 Donald Duncan had the idea to market this toy & saw its popularity explode
the yo-yo
Drew
$400 [30]
Ellis Island immigrants Abe Beame & William O'Dwyer rose to this office, like Fiorello La Guardia, who was an interpreter there
mayor of New York City
Drew Maryl
$400 [21]
It's heeeeeere... it, being this type of ghost that causes physical disturbances
a poltergeist
Drew
$400 [27]
By definition, it's a substance that can't be chemically decomposed into a simpler one
an element
Drew
$400 [28]
King Oliver mentored this jazz great nicknamed Satchmo, bringing him up to Chicago
Armstrong
Natalie
$800 [17]
This captain for whom a large Canadian city is named mapped the coast of California & Puget Sound
Vancouver
Drew
$800 [25]
Toulouse-Lautrec immortalized Jane Avril doing a high kick of this dance
the can-can
Maryl
$800 [29]
It's been debunked that this often happened at Ellis Island--inspectors just verified info from ship manifests
names changed
Maryl
$800 [22]
U2 could tell you it's a German word for "attention", baby!
achtung
Drew
$800 [23]
There are dynamic, thermodynamic & chemical types of this state of balance
equilibrium
Drew
$800 [24]
Kansas City jazz in the '30s featured arrangements with these repeated syncopated phrases, a word possibly from "refrain"
riff
$1,600 [4]
Empress Wu Zhao, the only woman to rule China in her own right, added a little zest to this dynasty beginning in 690
the Tang Dynasty
$1,200 [13]
The French author Colette created this title girl whose story was turned into an Oscar-winning film in 1958
Gigi
Drew
$1,200 [11]
In 2008 the museum's library was named for this ski-nosed comedian who came through Ellis Island as a 4-year-old
Bob Hope
$1,200 [10]
A German "car path"; I feel like this word will come to you super-fast
Autobahn
Maryl
$1,200 [5]
When an electron absorbs a photon & moves to a higher energy state, it's said to be in this agitated condition
excited
Maryl
$1,200 [2]
"Ornithology" by this saxophonist is sort of a jazzy remix of the standard "How High The Moon"
Parker
Drew
$2,000 [16]
Builder of Egypt's first pyramid & later worshipped as a god of medicine; his name lives on in the "Mummy" movies
Imhotep
$1,600 [14]
Doradocan also be called dolphinfish, or this Hawaiian name
mahi-mahi
Drew
$1,600 [12]
More detainments occurred due to trachoma, a contagious condition of this organ, than any other ailment
the eye
Maryl
$2,000 [19]
This word for broken-down & completely useless ends with a double T in German; we just use one
kaput
Maryl
$1,600 [8]
Acids & bases are among these current-conducting fluids
electrolytes
Natalie
$1,600 [6]
Live in Berlin, Ella Fitzgerald scatted her way through this standard from "The Threepenny Opera"
"Mack The Knife"
Maryl
DD $3,000 [3]
The Pax Romana, or Roman peace, which lasted for more than 200 years, began with his reign in 27 B.C.
Augustus
Drew
$2,000 [15]
The repeating name of this island in French Polynesia comes from words meaning "first born"
Bora Bora
Natalie
$2,000 [20]
Emma Goldman, who wrote a book titled this political -ism, didn't enter the U.S. at Ellis Island but was deported via it in 1919
anarchism
Maryl
DD $3,000 [18]
Meaning synthetic, artificial or fake, this German word could've been in an "ENDS WITH 'Z'" category
ersatz
Drew
$2,000 [9]
Partly from Greek for "heat", it's a cold-blooded animal
an ectotherm
Drew
$2,000 [7]
Dizzy Gillespie played in the band of this alliterative scat singer who wasn't hip to Diz's bebopping
Cab Calloway
Maryl

Final Jeopardy!

LITERATURE

The British Library says of this 19th c. man, "One of his most famous poems... is a warning about the arrogance of great leaders"

(Percy Bysshe) Shelley

Natalie "Who is Blake?" — wagered $1,500
Maryl "Who is Coleridge?" — wagered $3,799
Drew "Who is Percy Bysshe Shelley?" — wagered $118

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