Show #9179 2024-10-10 (taped 2024-06-05) Regular

Mark Fitzpatrick game 5.

Contestants

Cynthia Bullock — a nonprofit executive from Colorado Springs, Colorado

Mike Obstgarten — a test-prep coach and tutor from Henderson, Nevada

Mark Fitzpatrick — a content manager from Riverside, Connecticut (whose 4-day cash winnings total $81,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mark $2,600 $5,000 $18,600 $25,601
5-day champion: $107,201
$12,400
18 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W
Mike $0 $3,600 $12,800 $12,800
2nd place: $3,000
$12,800
20 R, 4 W
Cynthia $2,000 $800 $4,400 $1,400
3rd place: $2,000
$4,400
7 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

BBL, BUSY ANIMAL ANAGRAMS RECEIPTS PROOF TIMELINE SCREEN SHOTS
$200 [26]
I'm busy updating my iPhone with iOS 18, the OS short for this
operating system
Mark
$200 [20]
Barnyard bovid:TOGA
a goat
Mark
$200 [25]
Whether your cart is full of its Kirkland Signature goods or not, you'll have to show your receipt when exiting this store
Costco
Cynthia
$200 [30]
In 2023 2 teenagers presented "an impossible proof" of this theorem named for an ancient Greek to the Amer. Mathematical Society
the Pythagorean theorem
Mike
$200 [5]
Queen Mary docked with the throne in 1553 but set sail for the hereafter in 1558, & a new age dawned with this royal
Queen Elizabeth
Mark
$200 [10]
Schwarzenegger made his film debut as this strongman of myth "in New York" but his voice didn't--Arnold got dubbed over by an American
Hercules
Mike
$400 [29]
Not now, I'm watching all 13 seasons of this Texas-set animated show with Hank & Dale
King of the Hill
Mike
$400 [12]
Plated for protection:RADIO MALL
armadillo
Mark
$400 [18]
Keep your receipts! In this 2-word arrangement in which an employer pays for lunches & such; Pete Campbell on "Mad Men" had one
an expense account
Mike Cynthia
$400 [22]
Need proof the Earth is round? Watch the device called Foucault's this change direction as the planet spins
pendulum
Mark
$400 [4]
In 1940 he became chief of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund; 27 years later, he became a supreme authority
(Thurgood) Marshall
Mark
$400 [7]
Pre-"Sherlock", he had an early role on British TV as Rory Slippery on "Forty something"
Cumberbatch
Mark
$600 [28]
I can't talk, I can only boogie; I'm trying to get an AA while playing this double-talk arcade game
Dance Dance Revolution
Mark
$600 [15]
Popular pet:AMHERST
a hamster
Mike
$600 [19]
Ancient receipts for sacrifices are preserved on this material from a water plant--could your Wendy's receipt be museum bound?
papyrus
$600 [27]
In the 1920s, Robert Millikan proved that certain high-energy "rays" came from outer space & coined this term to describe them
cosmic rays
$600 [3]
The sequence of U.S. vice presidents goes Breckinridge, Hannibal Hamlin, this man but tragedy saw him serve only a few weeks
Andrew Johnson
Mike
$600 [9]
Her 1st IMDb credit is for "Married... with Children"; she then checked in to "General Hospital" but eventually, she made a royal exit
Meghan Markle
$800 [14]
I didn't answer your phone because I was knee-deep in some low-tide muck searching for razor & butter types of this bivalve
clams
Mark Mike
$800 [16]
Horny herbivore:CHOIR SNORE
rhinoceros
Mike
$800 [21]
You can get a donation receipt for gifts to worthy causes like this Memphis hospital fighting pediatric cancer since 1962
St. Jude
Mike
$800 [17]
A famous 1880s experiment showed there was no evidence for this "luminiferous" medium thought to carry light waves
ether
DD $1,000 [2]
A major war began in 1618 & ended with the Peace of Westphalia in this year; know the event, do the math & you're home
1648
Mark
$800 [8]
Set in the Aussie Outback, 1983's "Bush Christmas" was the feature film debut of this Oscar-winning actress
Nicole Kidman
$1,000 [13]
I'm putting you on read 'cause I'm a guest on "The Really Good Podcast" with this host, & she is so serious that it's scaring me
Bobbi Althoff
$1,000 [11]
Aquatic & endangered:EMANATE
a manatee
Cynthia
$1,000 [24]
Receipts can be uploaded, speedily of course, to this Intuit service to let business owners track finances
QuickBooks
Mike
$1,000 [23]
Andrew Wiles electrified the 1990s math world with a proof of the 350-year-old mystery known as this man's last theorem
Fermat
Mark Cynthia
$1,000 [1]
This began in 1934 & would cross 18 mountain ranges & 24 rivers before reaching Shaanxi province the following year
the Long March
Mark Mike
$1,000 [6]
Showbiz is easy! Anna Paquin won an Oscar for her first screen role in this 1993 film & was instrumental to its success
The Piano
Cynthia

Double Jeopardy! Round

AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPORTS HISTORY WORLD LEADERS THE VERY OLD SONG & DANCE CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES STORIES WITHIN STORIES YOU GET AN "FF"
$400 [10]
On May 26, 1991 Willy T. Ribbs became the first African American to drive in this auto race
the Indy 500
Mike
$400 [26]
On the TV show "Servant of the People", heplayed a high school teacher who becomes president after a viral video
Zelensky
Mike
$400 [1]
In 1949 "Le Combat" was first performed as an extended one of these French-named ballet dances for 2 performers
a pas de deux
Mike
$400 [27]
Tourists in this Jamaican capital may want to visit the Bob Marley Museum & Liberty Hall, a museum devoted to Marcus Garvey
Kingston
Cynthia
$400 [29]
A man cuckolds himself in "The Man Who Was Recklessly Curious", which is read by a priest in this Cervantes work
Don Quixote
Mark
$400 [25]
"Ness" added to "great" is an example of this
a suffix
$800 [9]
In 2021 this gymnast became the 1st woman to land a Yurchenko double pike in a competition; in 2023 it was renamed to honor her
Simone Biles
Mike
$800 [19]
In March 2024, Vaughan Gething, a Zambian-born lawyer, was elected First Minister of this UK constituent unit by the Senedd
Wales
Mike
$800 [5]
This Scottish folk song about "my Bonnie" may actually be about royal pretender Prince Charlie
"My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean"
$800 [24]
The Almendares River traverses this Caribbean capital & empties into the Straits of Florida
Havana
Mike
$800 [30]
In this collection, "The Porter & the 3 Ladies of Baghdad" leads to "The First Kalandar's Tale", which leads to even more stories
A Thousand and One Nights ( The Arabian Nights )
Cynthia
$800 [20]
It's a crude representation of a person such as Guy Fawkes, sometimes destroyed as a form of protest or ridicule
effigy
Mark
$1,200 [4]
In 1957 she became the first African American to win Wimbledon singles; later she was the first Black woman to join the LPGA
Althea Gibson
Cynthia
$1,200 [14]
In 2014 "acche din aane wale hain", or "good times are coming", was the slogan used by the BJP to elect this leader
Modi
$1,200 [6]
"The sun shines bright" on this Stephen Foster tune written in the 1850s & designated a state song in 1928
"My Old Kentucky Home"
Cynthia
$1,200 [17]
Gustavia, capital of Saint Barts, was named for this country's King Gustav III
Sweden
Mark
$1,200 [21]
Taking 5 from a whale tale, in "The Town-Ho's Story" this narrator tells of a mutiny while smoking with some buds in Lima, Peru
Ishmael
Mike
$1,200 [11]
Often by being between 2 objects, it's something that lessens or absorbs the shock of an impact
a buffer
Mike
$1,600 [3]
When MLB included Negro League stats, this hitter came out on top with a career batting average 5 points over Ty Cobb's
Josh Gibson
Mike
$1,600 [8]
His majesty King Jigme Khesar rules over this small Asian nation that promotes the gross national happiness index
Bhutan
Mike
$1,600 [7]
Moving to music in 2/4 time with 3 quick steps & a hop, this lively Bohemian folk dance can be seen in Smetana's "The Bartered Bride"
polka
Mark
$1,600 [18]
This capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands was founded in 1666 as Taphus, Danish for "beer hall"
Charlotte Amalie
$2,000 [23]
The postmodern "The Crying of Lot 49" includes a summary of a fake revenge play from this literary era that began in 1603
the Jacobean Era
$1,600 [12]
Term for the transmission of light through a translucent material
diffusion
Mike
$2,000 [2]
In 1989, hebecame the NFL's first Black head coach of the modern era when he took over the Raiders, a team he had once played for
Art Shell
Mark Mike
DD $6,600 [15]
Before taking a higher position, he was mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998
Erdoğan
Mark
$2,000 [28]
On Nov. 26, 1945 this saxophone great recorded "Ko Ko" with Dizzy Gillespie & a teenaged Miles Davis
Charlie Parker
$2,000 [16]
In 1749 the French laid out this capital in a grid pattern around a port called L'Hopital
Port-au-Prince
Mike
DD $3,000 [22]
In a story within this 1880 Russian novel, Ivan tells his sibling Alyosha a tale about Jesus & the Grand Inquisitor in Spain
The Brothers Karamazov
Mark
$2,000 [13]
When making this German dish, note farm-raised rabbit is milder than wild & may not need marinating as long as in oma's recipe
Hasenpfeffer
Mark

Final Jeopardy!

MOVIES

More than 25 cast members from this 1990 film drama would later appear on an HBO series with a similar theme

Goodfellas

Cynthia "What is Star Trek? Hi Kyle & Kelly" — wagered $3,000
Mike "What is Goodfellas?" — wagered $0
Mark "What is Goodfellas" — wagered $7,001

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