Show #9170 2024-09-27 (taped 2024-06-03) Regular

Clips from this show appeared on the 2025-06-19 episode of the Peacock streaming TV seriesPoker Face.

Contestants

Kate Roesch — a data visualization developer from Indianapolis, Indiana

Marianne McGowan — a writing professor from Framingham, Massachusetts

Maddie Carwile — a healthcare program coordinator from New York, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Maddie $2,800 $5,200 $20,600 $600
3rd place: $2,000
$18,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Marianne $1,000 $600 $5,400 $10,400
2nd place: $3,000
$5,400
9 R, 1 W
Kate $2,800 $5,600 $20,200 $28,200
New champion: $28,200
$13,200
19 R (including 2 DDs), 7 W

Jeopardy! Round

O CANADA PROVINCE CAPITAL DYING ON TV WILD LINES NICKNAMES ALL BETS R OFF
$200 [23]
In 1758 Halifax, capital of this province, was the site of Canada's first representative government
Nova Scotia
Marianne
$200 [22]
Oh, I say, bad luck old chap--Matthew Crawley made Lady Marya widow on this drama; Dan Stevens wanted to leave the show
Downton Abbey
Maddie
$200 [24]
"Why do you lead me" on one of these ridiculous quests, an unhappy Sancho Panza asks Don Quixote
a wild goose chase
Kate
$200 [29]
The International Rose Test Gardenis in this Oregon city, nicknamed "The City of Roses"
Portland
Kate
$200 [16]
Latin for "before" gives us this poker word for the initial wager all players must make
an ante
Marianne
$200 [27]
Let the "R" take a break from the energy required to move an object against a force & season this Asian pan
a wok (wo r k to wok)
Maddie
$400 [2]
Founded by Samuel de Champlain in 1608, this city has a name that comes from Algonquian for "the river narrows here"
Quebec (City)
Maddie Kate
$400 [1]
On "Game of Thrones", this awful king played by Jack Gleeson did not survive the "Purple Wedding"--but tell Cersei, it wasn't me
Joffrey
Maddie
$400 [15]
Buffalo Bill met the Queen of England "at the door of the box, with my sombrero in my hand and welcomed her to" this place
the Wild West
Kate
$400 [25]
Wrigley Field is nicknamed "The Friendly" these
Confines
Kate
$400 [30]
It's the 4-letter bet where you get paid if your horse comes in 1st, 2nd or even 3rd
show
$400 [17]
Remove an "R" from a word for a family member & get this word for annoy, which that person might do to you
bother (b r other to bother)
Maddie
$600 [3]
This Alberta city is called "The Gateway to the North" & in the 2022-23 season, the gateway to 64 Connor McDavid goals
Edmonton
Maddie
$600 [5]
(Tony Hale presents the clue.) As Buster Bluth, I dressed up as a stripper & danced to "The Final Countdown" at my father's funeral on this sitcom; then the casket fell in the grave, but everyone applauded
Arrested Development
Kate
$600 [13]
In a 1964 Caldecott Medal winner, young Max cries, "Let the wild" this "start!"
rumpus
Maddie
$600 [11]
The standard American World War I training aircraft, the Curtiss JN-4, had this female nickname
Jenny
$600 [8]
This type of parlay that combines multiple bets in one wager shares its name with an all-play-all tournament
a round robin
Kate
$600 [18]
Render the "R" from a type of cooking fat & meet this word for a young fellow
lad (la r d to lad)
Maddie
$800 [4]
This Manitoba city is called "The Gateway to the West" & in the 2022-23 season, the gateway to 42 Mark Scheifele goals
Winnipeg
Kate
$800 [6]
On "The Wire", this Michael K. Williams character was no longer comin' after he was killed in a convenience store
Omar
Kate
$800 [12]
In the Old Testament an angel tells Hagar that she will bear a son who "will be a wild man" & that she should call him this
Ishmael
Maddie
$800 [20]
"Big Beefhead" was one nickname for this late 19th century president
Grover Cleveland
Marianne Kate
$800 [9]
Guess the color of Gatorade dumped on the coach's head to win this 4-letter kind of side bet
prop
$800 [19]
Ship off the "R" on the word for a boat's docking locale & get this first name of female characters Dutton & Harmon
Beth (be r th to Beth)
$1,000 [28]
It has been the capital of British Columbia ever since the province joined Canada in 1871
Victoria
Maddie
$1,000 [7]
Motorcycle madness! After learning his mom Gemma was behind the murder of his wife, Jax committed matricide on this FX show
Sons of Anarchy
Kate
$1,000 [14]
"None of nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild", this environmentalist wrote in 1898
Muir
Marianne
DD $2,200 [26]
New Orleans is also called this city because of its placement on a sharp bend of the Mississippi River
the Crescent City
Kate
$1,000 [10]
The Martingale betting system suggests: at least do this after every loss to recoup the initial stake
double your wager
Kate
$1,000 [21]
Kick out the "R" from a pile of stones on a hiking trail & wander aimlessly; the word becomes this name of a man in Genesis
Cain (cai r n to Cain)
Kate

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN AUTHORS CAMEOS THE NATURAL WORLD LANGUAGES IT'S A CRISIS! WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME
$400 [23]
Best known for his Alaska-based adventures, one involving dogs, he spent lots of time in Hawaii before his death in 1916
London
Kate
$400 [22]
After a burrito incident, Jack Black kicks this anchorman's beloved dog Baxter off a bridge
Ron Burgundy
Maddie Kate
$400 [24]
The Goliath birdeater, a South American type of this spider, makes a hissing sound when threatened
a tarantula
Kate
$400 [13]
It seemed an unlikely goal, but Eliezer Ben-Yehuda made this biblical language spoken once more
Hebrew
Marianne
$400 [26]
In the 1898 Fashoda Crisis, the British squared off with this country's Major Marchand over rights to the Sudanese Nile
France
Marianne Kate
$400 [27]
A short life story of someone, & a 3-member musical act
trio & bio
Kate
$800 [1]
During WWII this author of "The Red Pony" served as a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune
John Steinbeck
Marianne
$800 [30]
Thislegendary guitarist appeared as Captain Jack Sparrow's pop in "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End"
Keith Richards
Kate
$800 [18]
The leaves of a small shrub called the Egyptian privet produce this orange-brown dye used to color hair
henna
Marianne
$800 [6]
Irish is one form of this language also called Erse
Gaelic
Maddie
$800 [10]
A Japanese financial crisis was sparked in 1927 when a govt. minister mistakenly said that the Tokyo Watanabe one of these had gone bust
a bank
Maddie
$800 [11]
A trainee in a skilled trade, & to lure by arousing desire or hope
apprentice & entice
$1,200 [2]
This author of "The Accidental Tourist" is good friends with a fellow Baltimore resident, director John Waters
Anne Tyler
Marianne
$1,600 [4]
In a blink-&-you-missed-it cameo, he appears as Vanisher in "Deadpool 2"
Brad Pitt
$1,200 [5]
The name of this water bird comes from the Latin Corvus marinus, which means "sea raven"
a cormorant
Marianne
$1,600 [8]
Tamil is the official language of this Indian state with "Tamil" in its name
Tamil Nadu
Maddie
$1,200 [16]
One crisis that jump-started the Intl. Crisis Group: famine in this land where clans fought after Mohammed Siad Barre's dictatorship
Somalia
Kate
$1,200 [12]
A tremulous, pulsating vocal effect, & a Russet Burbank
vibrato & potato
$1,600 [3]
In 1992 this "Naked Lunch" author had a shaman perform an exorcism on him to cast out what he called "the ugly spirit"
Burroughs
Kate
$2,000 [21]
Paul Reubens' final film appearance was a cameo in this movie in which Awkwafina plays the game show-obsessed title female
Quiz Lady
$1,600 [17]
Hard to find in its natural habitat, the Ituri Rainforest, this smaller giraffe relative was unknown to Western science until 1900
the okapi
Maddie
$2,000 [9]
In 2011 Morocco made an official language of Tamazight, the native tongue of this large ethnic group
the Berbers
Kate
$1,600 [25]
A crisis was sparked by this leader's 1958 demand that the U.S. & its allies pull their troops out of West Berlin
Khrushchev
Maddie
$1,600 [14]
Disfiguring skin disease once resulting in quarantining, & a little too interested in the affairs of others
leprosy & nosy
Maddie
$2,000 [20]
Shemade appearances in the movies "Rumble Fish" & "The Outsiders", both based on her novels
Hinton
Kate
DD $7,000 [28]
Ming-Na Wen voiced the title character in this 1998 film & made a cameo in the 2020 live-action remake
Mulan
Kate
$2,000 [19]
The Indian pipe plant is mycoheterotrophic, meaning it gets most of its food directly from this type of organism
a fungus
Maddie
DD $3,000 [7]
The ancient Middle Eastern region of Fars is the birthplace of this country's official language
Iran
Maddie
$2,000 [29]
A 21st century humanitarian crisis was caused by the Islamist insurgency of this group also called the Nigerian Taliban
Boko Haram
Maddie
$2,000 [15]
To pay no attention to, & an Italian version of "Mr." heard in "That's Amore"
ignore & signore
Kate

Final Jeopardy!

LANDMARKS

At its dedication, Senator John Sherman said, "Simple in form... it rises into the skies higher than any other work of human art"

the Washington Monument

Marianne "What is the Washington Monument?" — wagered $5,000
Kate "What is the Washington Monument" — wagered $8,000
Maddie "What is the St. Louis Arch? (Thanks J+K+K •ᴗ•)" — wagered $20,000

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