Show #9173 2024-10-02 (taped 2024-06-04) Regular

Ryan Manton game 3.

Contestants

Erin Ward — a software developer originally from London, Ontario, Canada

Scott Tcheng — an ER doctor from San Francisco, California

Ryan Manton — a systems administrator from Columbus, Ohio (whose 2-day cash winnings total $43,778)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ryan $3,000 $5,800 $12,400 $23,601
3-day champion: $67,379
$13,800
17 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Scott $2,800 $5,800 $11,800 $23,600
2nd place: $3,000
$11,800
18 R, 2 W
Erin $3,800 $3,600 $4,800 $800
3rd place: $2,000
$4,800
7 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

ON AUSTRALIAN CURRENCY HEALTH & MEDICINE TV, CURRENTLY HAVING "FUN" PLEASE DON'T GO... WE'RE JUST GETTING STARTED
$200 [26]
The $1 coin is all hopped up with 5 of these animals
kangaroos
Scott
$200 [18]
An AOM practitioner is trained in this "& Oriental medicine"
acupuncture
Scott Erin
$200 [9]
This actress & singer, do you love me? Are you riding? I mean, we're both TV hosts, as you've been on "Password" since 2022
Keke Palmer
Erin
$200 [15]
The name of this Christian movement goes back to pamphlets published by Lyman & Milton Stewart in the 1910s
fundamentalism
Scott
$200 [29]
I know I've been singing this song about a young fish a lot lately, but... doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo... it's so much fun
"Baby Shark"
Scott
$200 [30]
In the late 1950s the U.S. & the USSR began this rhyming competition involving satellite launches & rockets
the Space Race
Scott
$400 [25]
Adorning the $50 bill is Edith Cowan, who sat in the Western Australia legislative assembly as Oz' first female MP, short for this
a member of Parliament
Ryan
$400 [17]
In the first part of 2024, almost 150 U.S. cases of this disease aka rubeola were reported, with nearly half in Chicago
measles
Scott
$400 [10]
Devan Chandler Longtried out for the Carolina Panthers but ended up dying to be a Viking, playing Thorfinn on this CBS sitcom
Ghosts
Ryan
$400 [19]
A startup may turn to this, a general term for financing by smaller dollar amounts from many people
crowdfunding
Scott
$400 [28]
I know you kind of hate my guts right now, but I made your favorite for dinner, this Russian dish with mushrooms & meat over noodles
stroganoff
Ryan
$400 [23]
This word for supporters of Thomas Jefferson returned in the 1850s as the name of a new political party
Republicans
$600 [24]
An egg-laying monotreme, this insectivore graces the 5-cent coin
an echidna
Ryan
$600 [16]
Like yellow fever, the Zika virus is transmitted by these insects
mosquitoes
Ryan
$600 [6]
This sitcom character was introduced in 1984, got his own series in 1993, & got his own series again 30 years later
Frasier
Scott
$600 [20]
It's the first & last name of an animatedguy with a crush on Patti Mayonnaise
Doug Funnie
Scott
$600 [27]
Sure I got you a vacuum cleaner for Mother's Day, but it was one from this brand that shares a name with our 31st president
Hoover
Scott
$600 [22]
The "10 Percent Plan" of 1863 was the first program of this 14-letter period that started after the Civil War
Reconstruction
Scott
$800 [13]
On the $10 bill, Banjo Patersonpenned some of the country's most beloved songs, including the words to this dancing ditty
"Waltzing Matilda"
Erin
$800 [12]
During pregnancy this procedure where a sample of fluid is taken from around the fetus is used to test for genetic disorders
amniocentesis
Ryan
$800 [14]
I'll lay it out in black & white, Andrew Scottplays the title grifter on this Netflix show
Ripley
Erin
$800 [21]
On this kind of railway, 2 train cars use each other as counterweights
a funicular
Ryan
$800 [3]
Maybe I erred in saying your friend reeks like this rarely blooming flower, also known as titan arum, but I nearly passed out
a corpse flower
Ryan
$800 [4]
The Great Fear was just a precursor to this similarly named time of which the fall of the Girondins was a bellwether
the Reign of Terror
$1,000 [8]
A toast to this acclaimed Australian soprano & dame who appears on the $100 bill
Dame Nellie Melba
$1,000 [7]
Occurring more often in women, this syndrome, CFS, is characterized by extreme exhaustion lasting 6 months or longer
chronic fatigue syndrome
Scott
$1,000 [11]
Ramón Rodríguez plays this ABC title guy who works for the Georgia Bureau of Investigations & has a cute li'l pup named Betty
Will Trent
Scott
$1,000 [5]
In economics, it describes goods that can be exchanged for one another since they are equal in value; some tokens are the "non" kind
fungible
Erin
$1,000 [2]
Yes, I spent our last dollar to build a Lego version of this mausoleum in Agra, but it was a labor of love!
the Taj Mahal
Erin
DD $1,000 [1]
A 1914 gathering of lawyers & police officials from 24 countries led to the creation of this organization based in Lyon
Interpol
Ryan

Double Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY PLAYWRIGHTS ON THE BUCKET LIST TRIPLE RHYME TIME RELIGIOUS MATTERS FOREIGN FILM TITLES IT'S A THEORY
$400 [23]
This comic playwright's trio of autobiographical "B.B."s hit their targets, finishing with "Broadway Bound"
Neil Simon
$400 [22]
Exchanging aircraft for Kraftwerk, Tegel Airport in this city is now a techno bumpin' nightclub must-see
Berlin
Scott
$400 [28]
Now in twofold form, it's a floating gaseous sphere full of broken concrete & stone
a double rubble bubble
$400 [27]
The 2 major sects of Tibetan Buddhism, Nyingma & Gelug, are also called red these & yellow these, for items worn by monks
hats
Scott
$400 [24]
One of Marlene Dietrich's greatest films: "Der blaue Engel"
The Blue Angel
$400 [19]
A widely accepted cosmological theory is named for this primordial event 13.8 billion years ago
the Big Bang
Scott
$800 [30]
William Inge once had a terrier named Lula Belle, an inspiration for this little dog that isn't coming back in his classic play
Sheba
$800 [15]
Faneuil Hall & the Pahk Street Church are on this pathway for Patriots
the Freedom Trail
Ryan
$800 [4]
It's the item that removes lint from the guy trying to knock the pins down at the top extremity of the world
a roller bowler polar (polar bowler roller)
Scott
$1,200 [21]
This Irish saint is known as "The Mary of the Gael"
St. Brigid
$800 [25]
The U.S. version runs over 6 1/2 hours:"Voyna i mir"
War and Peace
Ryan
$800 [18]
The theory of general relativity is concerned with this one of the universe's 4 fundamental forces
gravity
Ryan
$1,200 [29]
In 1985, this playwright-actor wrote & starred in the film "Fool for Love", which was based on his earlier one-act play
(Sam) Shepard
Erin
$1,200 [14]
Charter a bus from El Calafate to Torres del Paine National Park & see this region shared by Argentina & Chile
Patagonia
Ryan
$1,200 [1]
The more compact of the 2 people going after a piece of legal tender on their hands & knees
the smaller dollar crawler
Ryan
$1,600 [10]
The monks in this Indian religion carry peacock-feather dusters to remove insects from their paths as they walk
Jainism
$1,200 [20]
Ingmar Bergman film whose title is from the Book of Revelation:"Det Sjunde Inseglet"
The Seventh Seal
$1,200 [13]
Melanie Klein's object relations theory emerged from this Freudian method, which she tried on patients as young as 3
psychoanalysis
Scott
$1,600 [17]
Zoë Akins had a hit & a memorable title with the 1930 play these people "Had a Word for It"
the Greeks
$1,600 [8]
Mexico City has bars dedicated to this beverage made from the sap of the agave plant; it has the color of milk & tastes sour
pulque
Ryan Erin
$1,600 [3]
Now shattered though it was made of such a sturdy wood, it's a little item that let you onto the subway
a broken token that's oaken
Erin
$2,000 [9]
This Christian sect in Egypt chooses its pope by having a blindfolded young boy pick a name out of a glass chalice
the Coptics
Ryan
$1,600 [6]
Fellini's numerical autobiographical film:"Otto e mezzo"
8 1/2
Scott
$2,000 [11]
The usual example of this, the classic game theory problem, is you & a pal are both accused of a crime; do you confess?
the prisoner's dilemma
$2,000 [16]
(Henry Winkler presents the clue.) Drama was a means for political change for this playwright who created a technique called gestus to mean a character's gesture that's also a social comment, like Courage's silent scream over her dead son
Bertolt Brecht
$2,000 [7]
Take a Ding Ding tram on Hong Kong Island, then stroll the Mong Kok District on this densely populated peninsula
Kowloon
Scott
$2,000 [2]
Neatly & elegantly dressed, he applauds the style of a young & liberated 1920s woman
a dapper flapper clapper
Ryan
DD $5,000 [26]
During the Meiji restoration of the 19th century, Japan's emperor was validated as the high priest of this religion
Shintoism
Ryan
$2,000 [5]
Pedro Almodóvar's Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film: "Todo Sobre Mi Madre"
All About My Mother
DD $5,600 [12]
Relating an object's worth to the hours needed to make it, the labor theory of value was a pillar of this 3-volume work by Karl Marx
Das Kapital
Ryan

Final Jeopardy!

SCIENCE

Physicist John Wheeler said he coined this term as a faster way to say "completely collapsed objects"

black holes

Erin "What is col[unfinished letter]" — wagered $4,000
Scott "What is Black Hole?" — wagered $11,800
Ryan "What are black holes?" — wagered $11,201

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