Show #9151 2024-07-22 (taped 2024-05-29) Regular

Neilesh Vinjamuri game 2.

Contestants

Monica Anderson — a master control operator from Sterling, Virginia

Sean Duffie — a Spanish and civics teacher from Kentwood, Michigan

Neilesh Vinjamuri — a software engineer from Lionville, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Neilesh $5,000 $9,000 $26,100 $29,100
2-day champion: $41,100
$23,400
28 R (including 3 DDs), 1 W
Sean $1,200 $3,600 $5,200 $2,799
2nd place: $3,000
$5,200
10 R, 1 W
Monica $400 $2,000 $7,600 $2,600
3rd place: $2,000
$7,600
12 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES STARS WE LOST LAST YEAR ALL APOLOGIES STATE HOLIDAYS MOUTH TO MOUTH CLASSIC POEMS' ENDINGS
$200 [10]
Calculations by Urbain Le Verrier were integral to the discovery of this ice giant that was observed in 1846
Neptune
Neilesh
$200 [11]
Yo!Burt Youngplayed Adrian's brother Paulie for the first time in this 1976 film; it would not be the last
Rocky
Neilesh
$200 [18]
Beg this? Eisenhower generously gave 1,110 of 'em
pardon
Neilesh
$200 [22]
This state, the home of Betsy Ross, is the only one that celebrates Flag Day as an official legal holiday
Pennsylvania
Monica
$200 [23]
Idiomatically, something said to come straight from this beastly location is from the most reliable source
the horse's mouth
Sean
$200 [1]
"Mighty Casey has struck out"
"Casey at the Bat"
Neilesh
$400 [9]
This German discoverer of the 3 laws of planetary motion also invented a valveless gear pump
Kepler
Neilesh
$400 [12]
He was the C in CSNY, whose 1970 album "Déjà Vu" was called "a virtual loyalty oath to the counterculture" by the N.Y. Times
David Crosby
Monica
$400 [17]
These, "I've had a few, but then again, too few to mention"; you "send" them when turning down an invitation
regrets
Sean
$400 [4]
In 2021 Arizona made August 14 a legal state holiday to honor this tribe's indigenous code talkers from World War II
the Navajo
Sean
$400 [24]
The white interior of a water moccasin'smouthgives it this alternate name
a cottonmouth
$400 [2]
"I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference"
"The Road Not Taken"
Neilesh
$600 [6]
British physicist Sir J.J. Thomson discovered this subatomic particle in 1897
electron
Neilesh
$600 [13]
Melinda Dillon graced such films as "Close Encounters", "Slap Shot" &, as Mother Parker, this 1983 holiday classic
A Christmas Story
$600 [16]
It's "the classic game of sweet revenge"
Sorry!
$600 [5]
In 2023 Governor Hochul signed legislation making this Hindu festival of lights a school holiday in New York City
Diwali
Neilesh
$600 [25]
This character in "2001: A Space Odyssey" reads the lips of the astronauts, who think they are talking privately
HAL
Monica
$600 [3]
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light"
"Do not go gentle into that good night"
Neilesh
$800 [7]
This Frenchman was practicing medicine without a license when he tried out his rabies vaccine on a boy in 1885
Pasteur
Neilesh
$800 [14]
As 2 very different cops, Andre Braugher brought the drama to "Homicide" &, playing Captain Raymond Holt, the funny to this NYC-set sitcom
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Sean
$800 [19]
Oh, I "C", this adjective means chastened or penitent
contrite
$800 [26]
Iowa honors this president with a special day, the Sunday that falls closest to August 10, his birthday
Hoover
Neilesh
$800 [28]
In Jewish folklore, when a sacred word written on paper was placed in the mouth of one of these, the creature would come to life
a golem
Monica
$800 [20]
"All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe"
the "Jabberwocky"
Sean
$1,000 [8]
Astronomer Vera Rubin said, "In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light" this "is about a factor of 10"
matter
Neilesh
$1,000 [15]
2 decades after her early fame, from 1984 to 1986 she had 10 Top 40 hits, including "It's Only Love", a duet with Bryan Adams
Tina Turner
$1,000 [21]
This 2-word Latin phrase is a formal way to acknowledge fault
mea culpa
Sean
$1,000 [27]
April 2 is Pascua Florida Day, celebrating his arrival in what's now Florida
Ponce de León
Neilesh
$1,000 [29]
The Shatt al-Arab River in southeastern Iraq is formed where the mouths of these 2 rivers meet at the town of Al-Qurnah
Tigris & Euphrates
Neilesh
DD $1,000 [30]
"Noble six hundred!"
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
Neilesh

Double Jeopardy! Round

THAT'S AN EXECUTIVE ORDER THE II SONGS FROM THE MOVIE SOUNDTRACK FOOD HISTORY WORLD CITIES 3 "O"s
$400 [26]
President Biden's Oct. 30, 2023 order on the development & use of this noted its "extraordinary potential for both promise and peril"
artificial intelligence
Sean
$400 [21]
John Adams II served as an aide to this man, his father, & got to get married at the White House in 1828
John Quincy Adams
Monica
$400 [15]
Just 2 of its 4 No. 1s were "If I Can't Have You" & "How Deep Is Your Love"
Saturday Night Fever
Monica
$400 [3]
It's not anything space-y but a malted dairy product that gave its name to this candy bar first sold in 1924
Milky Way
Neilesh Monica
$400 [13]
FDR became the first president to fly while in office when he attended a conference in this African city, sweetheart
Casablanca
Monica
$400 [8]
Here's an actual one of these at a space center in Houston
Moon rock
Neilesh
$800 [27]
Lincoln's order of Sept. 3, 1864 gave thanks to General Sherman & his "gallant" troops for their capture of this city
Atlanta
Monica
$800 [22]
This guy II knew something about cars, like when he brought the Thunderbird to market
Henry Ford (II)
Neilesh
$800 [16]
"I Believe I Can Fly" got things animated in this 1996 film
Space Jam
Sean
$800 [4]
Sam Panopoulos gave this name to the pizza he created; it's been called a "Canadian treasure" & "a Polynesian perversion"
a Hawaiian pizza
Sean
$800 [12]
Istanbul's European & Asian sides are separated by this strait
Bosporus
Neilesh
$800 [9]
These performers can bend over backwards, literally, & twist their bodies in all kinds of unusual ways
contortionist
Neilesh
$1,200 [28]
During the Korean War, Harry Truman ordered a takeover of the industry making this vital alloy; the Supreme Court said no
steel
Neilesh
$1,200 [23]
Shakespeare's play about this king deposed in 1399 was staged in 1601 as part of a feeble rebellion against Queen Elizabeth I
Richard II
Neilesh
$1,200 [2]
"Sunflower" by Post Malone & Swae Lee brightened up this 2018 installment in the "Spider-Man" franchise
Into the Spider-Verse
$1,200 [5]
This British dessert was first used to liven up some leftover cake with booze; its name also means "something of little significance"
a trifle
Sean
$1,600 [11]
The operetta "The Student Prince" is set in this city in southern Germany, site of the country's oldest university
Heidelberg
Neilesh Monica
$1,200 [14]
Seen here in full bloom, it's the state tree of Virginia as well as its state flower
dogwood
Monica
$2,000 [30]
In 1964 LBJ made this soon-to-be 70-year-old exempt from impending compulsory retirement under federal law
J. Edgar Hoover
$1,600 [24]
A 16th century Antwerp artist was a re-Pieter, sometimes known by this name II
Bruegel
Neilesh
$1,600 [1]
Curtis Mayfield's "Pusherman" & "Freddie's Dead" are cuts from the uber-cool soundtrack of this 1972 movie
Superfly
Monica
$1,600 [6]
Andrew Zimmern's website notes that this portmanteau of a dish goes by the moniker "three-bird roast" in the United Kingdom
the turducken
Monica
$2,000 [18]
Addis Ababa was founded by this emperor II in the late 1880s
Menelik
Neilesh
$1,600 [19]
The name of a biblical king gives us this adjective meaning "wise"
Solomonic
Sean Monica
DD $2,500 [29]
Martin Van Buren's first order, March 7, 1837, commanded the surgeon general to accompany this ailing man headed home to Tennessee
Andrew Jackson
Neilesh
$2,000 [25]
James W. Alexander II was one of the founders of this -ology in which forms like a mug & a donut are equivalent
topology
Neilesh
$2,000 [17]
It featured "Kiss" by Prince & The Revolution, & it wasn't "Purple Rain"
Under the Cherry Moon
$2,000 [7]
A 1940 ad in the Australian Women's Weekly recommended one teaspoon of this spread "for good health & digestion"
Vegemite
Monica
DD $3,000 [10]
It's France's oldest city & its main seaport
Marseille
Neilesh
$2,000 [20]
Mohammed VI became king of it in 1999
Morocco
Neilesh

Final Jeopardy!

AUTHORS

"Love" is within the titles of 3 of his most famous books; a fourth, "The Rainbow", calls love "the flower of life"

(D.H.) Lawrence

Sean "Who is ____?" — wagered $2,401
Monica "Who is Hi James!" — wagered $5,000
Neilesh "Who Lawrence" — wagered $3,000

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