Show #9137 2024-07-02 (taped 2024-05-15) Regular

Contestants

Kelly Proulx — a non-profit communications director from Billerica, Massachusetts

Chris Nichols — a mechanical engineer from Lawrenceville, Georgia

Matt Brooks — a healthcare IT analyst from Fredericksburg, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Matt $0 $800 $-400 $-400
3rd place: $2,000
$600
11 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
Chris $2,400 $5,000 $8,400 $0
2nd place: $3,000
$13,400
22 R, 7 W (including 2 DDs)
Kelly $2,200 $4,400 $13,200 $16,801
New champion: $16,801
$13,200
14 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

DESCRIBING THE LANDMARK SPORTS MISCELLANY SCRAMBLED FLAGS LEISURE TIMING THE LITERARY CHARACTER WHO SAID...
$200 [16]
Grass on the field, ivy on the walls; visitor Babe Ruth called his shot in its friendly confines; worth its weight in diamond
Wrigley Field
Chris
$200 [11]
Called simply the Boat Race, arowing contestbetween these two British schools has been contested since 1829
Cambridge & Oxford
Matt
$200 [23]
The Cuisinart WMR-CAP2 is one of these devices composed of 2 hinged metal griddles that close together to cook batter
a waffle iron
Matt
$200 [28]
Yo ho ho:JELL OR GORY
the Jolly Roger
Chris
$200 [30]
These 3 colors are represented with slots on a standard roulette wheel
red, green & black
Chris
$200 [27]
"As for the scarlet letter, I wear it for the sake of its gold-thread"
Hester Prynne
Chris
$400 [8]
8 total eyes, each about 11 feet wide; 4 noses, with one in particular about 21 feet; Midwest history
Mount Rushmore
Matt
$400 [7]
The heaviest of the 3 weapons used in fencing is this one that means "sword" in French
épée
Matt Chris Kelly
$400 [22]
This row of very bright illumination along the front edge of a stage is also a term for the theater as a profession
the footlights
Chris
$400 [25]
It rules the waves:I CON A JUNK
the Union Jack
Matt Chris Kelly
$400 [29]
The name of this outdoor activity is an acronym that stands in part for "breathing apparatus"
SCUBA
Matt
$400 [26]
"You shall have your justice. Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do me a service in return"
Vito Corleone
Chris
$600 [3]
Falsely named, as it's 3,000 x 1,650 feet; the eyes of the world looked on in 1989; Mao's still nearby
Tiananmen Square
Chris
$600 [5]
(Phil Simms presents the clue.) In 1987 with the Giants, I led the second New York team to win the Super Bowl, though I admit I didn't quite have the flair ofthisQB for the first one who took the Jets all the way
Joe Namath
Chris
$600 [19]
For 60 years, a red figure & a blue figure have been duking it out in a miniature boxing ring in this action game
Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots
Matt
$600 [17]
It now includes a total of 63 of them:TRAPS SNIDE TSARS
the Stars and Stripes
Chris
$600 [18]
In April 1982 this movie star premiered her home video "Workout", the first of many bestselling tapes
Jane Fonda
Chris
$600 [15]
"God bless us every one!" said while holding Bob Cratchit's hand
Tiny Tim
Chris
DD $1,000 [1]
Some people just lying around? Clement Attlee, Lord Kelvin & the very real Sir Peter Parker
Westminster Abbey
Matt
$800 [4]
Louisville, Kentucky is the site of this horse racing track that's home to a prestigious annual event the first Saturday in May
Churchill Downs
Kelly
$800 [20]
Chiromancy is another name for this hands-on form of fortune-telling
palm reading
Kelly
$800 [9]
Botanical national emblem since 1965:FEMALE PAL
Maple Leaf
$800 [12]
Early in the history of this game, the object hit back & forth was a small cork hemisphere with goose feathers attached
badminton
Matt
$800 [14]
"O master! O master! ... O yonder there, one, two, three canoes; one, two, three!"
Friday
$1,000 [2]
The non-golden arch; sounds like... victory; let's stop by Charles de Gaulle's place
the Arc de Triomphe
Kelly
$1,000 [6]
Between the 1966 to '67 & 1974 to '75 seasons, this head coach lost a grand total of 12 games
John Wooden
Chris
$1,000 [21]
With songs like "I'm Not Wearing Underwear Today", this spoof of Sesame Street won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Musical
Avenue Q
Kelly
$1,000 [10]
It was established as a national flag in 1794 by the law of 27 Pluviôse:ROILE ROTC
the Tricolore
Chris
$1,000 [13]
Special patterns called methods are used by campanologists, practitioners of this musical skill
bell ringing
Chris
$1,000 [24]
(To himself) "Farewell, Lara, until we meet in the next world, farewell, my love"
Doctor Zhivago
Chris

Double Jeopardy! Round

BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR? ELEMENTARY 5-LETTER "X" WORDS THAT'S OLD NEWS THE SUPREME COURT CONNECTION
$400 [14]
Noah is told in no uncertain terms that "the length of the ark shall be three hundred" these
cubits
Kelly
$400 [8]
In the workplace, P.T.O. can stand for this, like a vacation day
paid time off
Kelly
$400 [22]
Fe, the symbol for this element that does not begin with F-E, is taken from its Latin name
iron
Chris
$400 [27]
A political operative who handles P.R. crises, like Olivia Pope on "Scandal"
fixer
Matt
$400 [26]
By the early 1200s Genghis Khan & his Mongol horde were attacking northern China, taking this current capital city in 1215
Beijing
Matt
$400 [25]
"Hours of Idleness" poet & Billy Idol song that begins, "Hey little sister, what have you done?": ____ Byron White ____
Lord Byron White Wedding
Chris
$800 [15]
In a whale of a tale, he "arose, and went unto Nineveh... an exceeding great city of three days' journey"
Jonah
Chris
$800 [4]
An eft is a newt, but E.F.T. is short for this type of monetary transfer
electronic funds transfer
Matt
$800 [21]
In 1985 Sir Harold Kroto & 2 U.S. chemists discovered a new molecular form of this element, the fullerene
carbon
$800 [23]
It's the smallest element of an image on your computer monitor
a pixel
Kelly
$800 [19]
Several of the Ancient Wonders of the World, like the Colossus of Rhodes, were destroyed by this type of natural calamity
an earthquake
Matt
$800 [24]
"Royal" No. 1 hit in 1962 for Gene Chandler & star of "Shampoo":____ ____ Earl Warren ____
Duke of Earl Warren Beatty
Kelly
$1,200 [29]
"Now the weight of gold that came to" this wise king "in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold"
Solomon
Chris
$1,200 [3]
IP can refer to intellectual property or this baseball stat
innings pitched
Kelly
$1,200 [16]
In the human body this violet-colored halogen is found in thyroxine, a compound produced by the thyroid
iodine
$1,200 [6]
Hoovering is a manipulative tactic that sucks people back into this type of "poisonous" relationship
toxic
Chris
$1,200 [10]
From about 400 to 800 A.D., 16 kings ruled from this empire's city of Copán in Central America
the Mayan
Chris
$1,200 [13]
"Shark Tank" vet / creator of FUBU & "Tonight Show" host starting in 1992:____ John Jay ____
Daymond John Jay Leno
$2,000 [30]
It's both an ancient unit of weight & a Hebrew coin; in 2 Kings, it's "two measures of barley for" one of these
a shekel
Matt
$1,600 [5]
Here's a peek at Swede Christer Fuglesangdoing a little spacewalk for the ESA, short for this organization
the European Space Agency
Matt Kelly
DD $2,000 [17]
Hennig Brand became the first known discoverer of an element when, in 1669, he found this, meaning "light bearer"
phosphorus
Chris
$1,600 [2]
A spiral form; Watson & Crick said make ours a double
a helix
Chris
$1,600 [11]
In 218 B.C. Hannibal crossed the Alps with tens of thousands of infantry & cavalry during the second of these wars
the Punic Wars
Chris
$1,600 [1]
Founder of the "Conservateur Litéraire" in 1819 & a 19th century novel narrated by the title horse: ____ Hugo Black ____
Victor Hugo Black Beauty
Kelly
DD $3,000 [18]
In Acts, "the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country; and sounded, and found it twenty" of this measurement
fathoms
Chris
$2,000 [7]
To a nutritionist, M.D. can mean this condition signaled by tremors & apathy, so eat seeds to keep your levels up
magnesium deficiency
Matt
$2,000 [20]
This element, symbol V, used to strengthen titanium alloys, isn't found in pure form but exists in about 5 dozen minerals
vanadium
Chris
$2,000 [9]
It transports water & minerals from the roots of a plant up to the leaves
xylem
$2,000 [12]
Shown here with a ram's head, this deity combined the names of a creator god & the sun god
Amun-Ra
Kelly
$2,000 [28]
Singer/guitarist for KISS & leader of Marvel's Fantastic Four:____ Stanley Reed ____
Paul Stanley Reed Richards
Matt Chris

Final Jeopardy!

STAGE & MOVIE CHARACTERS

Acquitted of shooting her lover in 1924, Beulah Annan was the inspiration for this character in a play, film & musical

Roxie Hart

Chris "Who is Annie?" — wagered $8,400
Kelly "Who is Roxie Hart?" — wagered $3,601

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