Show #9159 2024-09-12 (taped 2024-05-30) Regular

Contestants

Bethany Korp — a Spanish interpreter from Laurence Harbor, New Jersey

Mark Palmere — an energy analyst from Sacramento, California

Will Weiss — a technical program manager from Islip, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $27,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Will $3,200 $5,200 $14,400 $12,399
3rd place: $2,000
$15,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Mark $1,200 $3,000 $8,200 $16,199
New champion: $16,199
$10,200
17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Bethany $1,400 $2,400 $7,600 $14,401
2nd place: $3,000
$7,600
12 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

A SELF-HELPING OF BOOKS BEAR WITH US SPORTY IDIOMS ANIMATED FILMS IN OTHER WORDS THE CLASH LONDON CALLING
$200 [15]
Now imagine me with a mustache, less hair & Oprah-adjacent; I'm this psychologist who wrote "We've Got Issues"
Dr. Phil
Mark
$200 [11]
In 1958thisbear made his debut on "The Huckleberry Hound Show"
Yogi Bear
Bethany
$200 [10]
In football second-guessing Sunday's strategy is the name of the game when you're one of these alliterative types
a Monday morning quarterback
Will
$200 [4]
2003:Locating the captain of the Nautilus
Finding Nemo
Mark
$200 [20]
Some of the greatest loss of life during this war came from the third clash near the city of Ypres in West Flanders
World War I
Will
$200 [16]
443 feet high & on the south bank of the Thames, it takes 30 minutes to do one complete rotation
the London Eye (the Eye of London)
Mark Bethany
$400 [25]
"The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle" is in a book titled this "hot" word, a state when you're emotionally spent
burnout
Bethany
$400 [12]
A 2021 study showed black bears shut down genes involved in the breakdown of bone during this period
hibernation
Bethany
$400 [3]
Your task is almost done if you're on this, the second half of a golf course
the back nine
Mark
$400 [5]
2012:Destroy that thing, Mr. Nader
Wreck-It Ralph
Mark
$400 [21]
William the Conqueror & Harold II duked it out near Hastings in October of this year
1066
Bethany
$400 [28]
Hate to break it to you but the belovedstatuein London's Piccadilly Circus called this love god actually depicts his brother
Eros
$600 [26]
A William McRaven title advises you to do this 3-word daily task upon waking as a little thing that could change your life
making your bed
$600 [13]
Cape Krusenstern National Monument & Bering Land Bridge National Preserve are the only NPS units with sightings of this type of bear
a polar bear
Will
DD $600 [2]
When you're going all out in any effort, you're employing this basketball defense
a full-court press
Will
$600 [6]
2006:Jubilant tootsies
Happy Feet
Bethany
$600 [22]
It's said the Battle of Pelusium between the Persian Empire & the 26th Dynasty of this kingdom was won by the clever use of cats
Egypt
$600 [29]
The lavish interior of London's Australia House, home to its embassy, was used as this bank in the "Harry Potter" movies
Gringotts
Mark
$800 [27]
Ryan Holiday proposed this 3-letter word "Is the Enemy"; put your selfishness aside!
ego
Mark
$800 [14]
Before being transformed into a bear, she was a follower of Artemis
Callisto
$800 [1]
Mallards in their element are the basis of this phrase meaning there are runners on base
ducks on the pond
Bethany
$800 [8]
1999:The ferrous leviathan
The Iron Giant
Will
$800 [23]
Also called the Battle of Sharpsburg, this Sept. 17, 1862 clash was the Civil War's bloodiest one-day conflict
Antietam
Will
$800 [18]
This London street gets its rhyming name from a 17th century game similar to croquet
Pall Mall
Mark
$1,000 [30]
"12 Rules for Life" is from this controversial Torontonian who also has thoughts about endangered masculinity
Jordan Peterson
Will
$1,000 [19]
Thissmallest member of the bear family has the longest tongue of the bear family
a sun bear
Mark
$1,000 [9]
Also a '90s sitcom title, this phrase means a boxer got lucky at the end of a round
saved by the bell
Will
$1,000 [7]
1989:Every canine shows up in Elysium
All Dogs Go to Heaven
Bethany
$1,000 [24]
In 202 B.C. Scipio Africanus got one over on Hannibal at this end-of-the-alphabet clash that ended the 2nd Punic War
the Battle of Zama
$1,000 [17]
This district in London's East End is infamous as the place where Jack the Ripper did his dastardly crimes in 1888
Whitechapel

Double Jeopardy! Round

BIBLICAL FATHERS & SONS STARTS WITH "K" A SHORT COURSE IN CHEMISTRY TV CHARACTERS MOUNTAINS JOB-POURRI
$400 [19]
This most beloved of Jacob's sons spends many years in Egypt but is reunited with dad in Genesis 46
Joseph
Bethany
$400 [21]
A like-minded "spirit", or the title of a 1979 Octavia Butler novel
kindred
Mark
$400 [16]
Blue litmus paperturns red when exposed to an acid; red paperturns blue when exposed to this type of substance
a base
Mark
$400 [15]
She played Rocky Blue on "Shake It Up" & Rue on "Euphoria"
Zendaya
Will
$400 [26]
In 1985 a peak on the border of this California national park was named for the late Ansel Adams
Yosemite
Mark
$400 [27]
In England this dirty job was often performed by orphans known as climbing boys
chimney sweep
Mark
$800 [28]
This third son of Adam "begat Enos" at age 105 & lived another 807 years
Seth
Bethany
$800 [20]
Borrowed from Turkish, it means "destiny"
kismet
Will Bethany
$800 [25]
2 atoms share 3 pairs of electrons in the triple type of this
a (triple) bond
Mark
$800 [8]
Erin Hannon took over as receptionist after this character briefly joined the Michael Scott Paper Company
Pam (Beesly)
Mark
$800 [6]
Mount Chelia in northern Algeria is the highest of the Aures Mountains, a part of this greater system
the Atlas Mountains
Mark
$800 [10]
In Iowa & Nebraska you can get a job detasseling this
corn
Bethany
$1,200 [29]
The angel Gabriel appeared to the priest Zacharias & told him that his wife "Elizabeth shall bear thee a son" named this
John
$1,200 [3]
Lester Shubin helped design the first vests made of this fiber from the DuPont company
Kevlar
Mark
DD $1,200 [24]
In 1869 Dmitri Mendeleyev wrote that when arranged via his method, the elements showed this kind of "change of properties"
periodic
Will
$1,200 [7]
The child of a 2-faced man & a 4,000-year-old mummy, hewas the uniquely handsome host of an HBO anthology show
the Crypt Keeper
Will
$1,200 [5]
In 1983 authorities used dynamite in an effort to divert lava flows during a 4-month eruption of this Sicilian volcano
Mount Etna
Will
$1,200 [9]
Before it was automated, this job might have been right up your alley
a pinsetter (a pin re-racker)
Will
$1,600 [18]
1 Kings says this son of David had 700 wives & 300 concubines
Solomon
Will
$1,600 [1]
A Japanese writing system usingideogramsadapted from Chinese
kanji
$1,600 [22]
It's the term for a substance, usually a liquid, in which other materials dissolve to create a solution
the solvent
$1,600 [13]
Comedian Donny Dunn is stalked by Martha Scott on this 2024 Netflix series
Baby Reindeer
Mark
DD $2,000 [4]
This mountain range forms an arc from the Danube gap near Bratislava to the Iron Gate near Orsova, Romania
the Carpathians
Mark
$1,600 [11]
It's the 6-letter word for a person who makes, sells or repairs knives
a cutler
$2,000 [30]
The progeny of this son of Noah & brother to Shem & Ham settled in the "isles of the Gentiles"
Japheth
Bethany
$2,000 [2]
It's a Scottish shape-shifting mythical creature that appears as a horse & takes the gullible into the deep end of the loch
a kelpie
Bethany
$2,000 [23]
Shortly after he transformed chemistry into a real science, this great Frenchman lost his head during the Reign of Terror
Lavoisier
Will
$2,000 [14]
On a sitcom in the early aughts, this actor raised a family while working at Powers & Sons Aviation
George Lopez
Will
$2,000 [17]
This 19,551-foot Canadian peak towers about 14,000 feet above the Seward glacier in the Yukon
Mount Logan
$2,000 [12]
An early name for The Beatles, or guys of past & present who drill & extract stone
The Quarrymen
Mark

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC NAMES

In 1824, President Monroe invited him back to the adopted country of his youth, which has always cherished his "important services"

the Marquis de Lafayette

Bethany "Who is the Marquis de Lafayette?" — wagered $6,801
Mark "Who was Lafayette?" — wagered $7,999
Will "Who is Alexander Hamilton? (Dizzo!)" — wagered $2,001

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