Show #9149 2024-07-18 (taped 2024-05-23) Regular

Contestants

Meredith Miller — a labor economist from Arlington, Virginia

Micah Rahn-Tiemeyer — a mental health crisis therapist from Grand Rapids, Michigan

Jay Fisher — a government relations manager from Lisle, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $16,199)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jay $3,200 $3,400 $6,600 $12,001
3-day champion: $28,200
$6,600
15 R, 3 W
Micah $600 $2,400 $8,000 $2,799
2nd place: $3,000
$12,800
22 R (including 1 DD), 8 W (including 2 DDs)
Meredith $-800 $1,200 $6,000 $1,500
3rd place: $2,000
$6,000
10 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

AMERICA ON STAMPS THAT'S "AA"WESOME GEOLOGY AN ASIAN CAPITAL IDEA THEY MAKE THAT THE OSCAR & RAZZIE WINNER
$200 [14]
The Wonders of America Superlative Series includes Steamboat, the tallest active one of these
a geyser
Jay
$200 [27]
Mr. Judge or Mr. Sorkin
Aaron
Meredith
$200 [30]
18th century German geologist Abraham Werner was called a neptunist because he believed all rocks originated from here
the ocean
Micah
$200 [11]
The job of guarding the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleumin this capital is a high honor
Hanoi
Jay
$200 [26]
The Coppertop battery
Duracell
Micah
$200 [17]
Let's just say his work was more well-received for "The Godfather" than "The Island of Dr. Moreau"
Brando
Meredith
$400 [13]
The Historic Preservation stamps of the 1970s included Decatur House in Washington, D.C. & a cable car in this city
San Francisco
Meredith
$400 [22]
The animated star of his own show on PBS, Arthur Read is just an average 8-year-old one of these insectivores
an aardvark
Micah
$400 [4]
This word is followed by "-ification" when plants transform into a combustible solid with increased carbon content
coal
$400 [10]
A Friendship Bridge across the Mekong River connects Nong Khai, Thailand with this capital of Laos
Vientiane
Micah
$400 [15]
Baseball Nut & Gold Medal Ribbon ice cream
Baskin-Robbins
Jay Meredith
$400 [18]
Some days, you're golden in "The Revenant"; others, you're just another metal in "The Man in the Iron Mask"
DiCaprio
Jay
$600 [12]
This tall monument has been featured on its own stamp as well as on the Greetings from Missouri stamp
the St. Louis Arch (the Gateway Arch)
Jay
$600 [21]
Cape Dutch is another name for this language
Afrikaans
Micah
$600 [3]
250 million years ago at the start of this period without a movie "Park", all the land masses were basically one supercontinent
Triassic
Jay Micah
$600 [8]
Highlightedhere, this city is known as Al-Fayha, "the fragrant", perhaps for its orchards
Damascus
Jay
$600 [16]
The Wet Jet mop starter kit
Swiffer
Meredith
$600 [20]
Life was an Oscar "Cabaret" for her but she also won a Razzie with a Z for "Arthur 2: On the Rocks"
Minnelli
Micah
$800 [1]
A 1996stampcelebrating the 150th anniversary of Iowa's statehood was based on this native son's "Young Corn" painting
(Grant) Wood
Jay
$800 [23]
You can take your Saab to this transmission service center co-founded by Robert Morgan
AAMCO
Jay Meredith
$1,000 [6]
Aeolian landforms such as dunes & ripple ridges are shaped by the action of this
wind
Micah
$800 [7]
Before containing "stan" like its country, this city was known over time as Akmolinsk, Nur-Sultan & also Aqmola
Astana
Micah Meredith
$800 [19]
The trademarked version of Tater Tots: this brand
Ore-Ida
Meredith
$800 [28]
For her, "The Hours" was time well-spent but "Bewitched" bothered & bewildered people
Kidman
Micah
$1,000 [2]
Inspired by its official bird, the scissor-tailed flycatcher, this state's Skydance Bridge spanned astampin 2023
Oklahoma
Micah
$1,000 [24]
This region is mentioned in Phoenician writings from about 1500 B.C. as a land west of the Jordan River
Canaan
Jay
DD $1,600 [5]
An attraction at Carlsbad Caverns is one of these long formations known as the Sword of Damocles
a stalactite
Micah
$1,000 [9]
The downtown of the central part of this city on the Mediterranean was destroyed by a civil war that ended in 1990
Beirut
Jay
$1,000 [25]
The Artisan Series 5 Quart Tilt-Head Stand Mixer
KitchenAid
Meredith
$1,000 [29]
His producing "12 Years a Slave" was a triumph; playing Louis in "Interview with the Vampire", a different type of "win"
Brad Pitt
Micah

Double Jeopardy! Round

SOME HATS, SOME CATTLE POP CULTURE GRAB BAG HISTORY WORLD HERITAGE SITES IN THE BOOKSTORE NUDE, TO THEOED
$400 [29]
The medieval Latin birretum gives us this word for a soft, round, flat hat, oui?
a beret
Micah
$400 [1]
A team of 4 created this 2009 physics-based Rovio game in which you adjust the trajectory of a slingshot; how addictive!
Angry Birds
Micah
$400 [8]
Based on a concept agreed to at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, this intl. association was formed to maintain world peace
the League of Nations
Jay
$400 [30]
6 sites in Colombia make up a "cultural landscape" devoted to the growing & processing of this crop
coffee
Jay
$400 [23]
"Moby-Dick" begins with one of the most famous first lines in literature--these 3 words
Call me Ishmael
Micah
$400 [24]
The OED uses both the R-E & E-R spelling for this word referring to a person appearing nude in a magazine
centrefold (centerfold)
$800 [10]
This "helmet" popular with explorers & postal workers gets its name from the dried tree substance it's made from
pith
Micah Meredith
$800 [11]
"Atomic Shakespeare" & "Maddie Hayes Got Married" were episodes of this 1980s TV series
Moonlighting
Jay
DD $1,000 [2]
In 1899 in his mid-20s, Winston Churchill was captured & imprisoned during this war, escaping a short time later
the Boer War
Micah
$800 [9]
Armenia's Azat Valley is home to one of these religious retreats cut from rock between the 4th & 13th centuries
a monastery
Jay
$800 [22]
This Stephen King novel about a world blasted by plague was reissued in 1990, restoring some 150,000 deleted words
The Stand
$800 [18]
When you've stripped down, you're "wearing" this festive-sounding outfit (that really means you're nude)
birthday suit
Micah
$1,200 [12]
Want coverage from the sun? Trythishat named for a beach job
a lifeguard hat
Micah
$1,200 [25]
This 2020 Switch game from Nintendo was subtitled "New Horizons"
Animal Crossing
Micah
$1,200 [3]
In August 1947 these 2 Asian nations gained independence from Great Britain
Pakistan & India
Micah
$1,200 [26]
Come with me to this section of Algiers, with palaces & the remains of the Old Citadel
the Casbah
Micah
$1,200 [17]
His "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" takes place nearly a century before the events of "A Game of Thrones"
Martin
Micah
$1,200 [19]
"Death Becomes Her" used Catherine Bell as one of these, defined by the OED as a stand-in for nude or explicit movie scenes
a body double
Jay
$1,600 [13]
The name of this cattle breed prized for its marbled beef literally means "Japanese cow"
wagyu
Meredith
$1,600 [27]
Sam Esmail created this TV drama about a computer programmer by day who's a hacker in his off hours
Mr. Robot
$1,600 [4]
Succeeding his grandfather Maximilian in 1519, Charles I of Spain ascended to this more lofty imperial title as Charles V
Holy Roman Emperor
Micah
$2,000 [6]
Australia's Shark Bay is notable not just for sharks but for these Indo-Pacific sea cows with a name from Malay
dugong
Micah
$1,600 [15]
The cruel Mrs. Reed loathes this niece, the title character of a Brontë novel, & deprives her of an inheritance
Jane Eyre
Meredith
$1,600 [20]
Naked may be used on its own or be preceded by this 5-letter word that can mean harsh or severe
stark
Jay
$2,000 [14]
Henry Clay introduced this popular cattle breed to the U.S. from England in 1817
Hereford
Jay Micah
$2,000 [28]
It was fire on ice whenD.B. Sweeney & Moira Kellypaired up in this 1992 film, the ultimate love-skate relationship
The Cutting Edge
Micah
$2,000 [5]
While searching for treasure, this explorer & conquistador became the first European to document the Mississippi River
de Soto
Micah
DD $3,400 [7]
The great spa towns of Europe encompass 11 towns in 7 countries, including this French one of World War II infamy
Vichy
Micah
$2,000 [16]
In 1993 this African-American sci-fi writer published "The Parable of the Sower", about chaos in 2020s California
(Octavia) Butler
Meredith
$2,000 [21]
Turns out this story (& the title outfit) by Hans Christian Andersen leave both too little & too much to the imagination
"The Emperor's New Clothes"
Meredith

Final Jeopardy!

SHOW BIZ MARRIAGES

Married since 1977, the year of this band's 1st album, 2 members referenced another album with their 2023 "Remain in Love" tour

Talking Heads

Meredith "Who is Fleetwood Mac?" — wagered $4,500
Jay "Who are Talking Heads?" — wagered $5,401
Micah "Who I had f" — wagered $5,201

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