Show #9181 2024-10-14 (taped 2024-09-16) Regular

Modified set with single-screen game board and new Final Jeopardy! monitor.The category is highlighted upon clue selection.Ken approaches the individual lecterns for the contestant interviews.

Contestants

Caryn Radick — an archivist from Kendall Park, New Jersey

Jack Swansey — a writer originally from Durham, North Carolina

Eamonn Campbell — a lawyer originally from Manchester, Vermont (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Eamonn $4,000 $3,800 $14,800 $29,500
2-day champion: $43,200
$16,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Jack $1,200 $4,000 $14,600 $1
3rd place: $2,000
$12,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Caryn $3,200 $2,600 $4,600 $7,600
2nd place: $3,000
$4,600
8 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

BEGINS & ENDS WITH "E" OCTOBER IN HISTORY MULTIPLES OF 3 LET'S GO FOR A SPIN U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SAYS... FAMILY FEUD
$200 [28]
To get hitched without parental consent; in modern, less dramatic usage, it means to have a small wedding
elope
Eamonn
$200 [23]
Before a revolutionary tribunal in October 1793, this queen was convicted of treason
Marie Antoinette
Eamonn
$200 [29]
The eastern terminus of this route is near Lake Shore Dr. in Chicago; the western, officially at Lincoln & Olympic in Santa Monica
Route 66
Jack
$200 [14]
It's the type of spin being done here, or a bakery treat--mmm, bakery treat
donut
Jack
$200 [27]
This danger, the subject of some thoughts by Stevie Nicks, can move downhill at double digit mph, faster than you
a landslide
Eamonn
$200 [30]
The Roy family battled royally for control of a media empire on this drama
Succession
Eamonn
$400 [22]
This.com offers "on-trend digital invitations" & also "RSVP tracking"
Evite
Caryn
$400 [13]
Joining the House, a bipartisan Senate vote in October 2002 authorized the use of military force against this nation
Iraq
Jack
$400 [26]
There are this many letters in the classical Greek alphabet; guess the Greeks are more economical than we are
24
Jack
$400 [3]
Switzerland's Denise Biellmann put her name on a move in this sport where the athlete extends their leg above the head as they spin
figure skating
Eamonn
$400 [10]
Symbol Ti, it's one of the critical minerals to the U.S. economy & most of it is used in white pigments
titanium
Caryn
$400 [15]
"Boyfights", a series of videos created by George Bluth Sr. on this sitcom, featured his sons Michael & G.O.B. brawling
Arrested Development
Caryn
$600 [1]
To guarantee, or a nutritional protein shake
ensure
Eamonn
$600 [17]
In Boston Harbor on October 21, 1797, this 44-gun U.S. Navy frigate was launched into service
the USS Constitution
Jack
$600 [7]
DiMaggio said there was no ad deal with Heinz if Joe hit in this many straight games in 1941, but Joe fell one game short anyway
57
Eamonn
$600 [4]
Dead or Alive sang, "You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round, like a" this, "baby, right 'round, 'round 'round"
like a record, baby
Caryn
$600 [9]
The survey keeps an eye on this fish &, with a webcam near Hyder, Alaska, on the river named for it
salmon
Eamonn
$600 [5]
As the title characters of this film, Will Ferrell & John C. Reillybicker incessantly until bonding over a hatred of Adam Scott
Step Brothers
Jack
$800 [2]
Your posse, from French for "to surround"
entourage
Caryn
$800 [18]
In October 331 B.C. at the Battle of Gaugamela, Darius panicked & fled when this man's personal cavalry wheeled toward him
Alexander the Great
Jack
DD $1,000 [8]
It's the number of the amendment that gave Black men the right to vote
the 15th
Eamonn
$800 [6]
In 1967 scientists at Cambridge Univ. discovered the first known one of these, a rapidly spinning neutron star
a pulsar
$800 [20]
Earthquake data is crowdsourced via a program called DYFI, short for this question we often ask each other here in California
did you feel it
Jack
$800 [11]
Christopher Plummer's death inthis2019 film casts suspicion on every member of his squabbling family
Knives Out
Eamonn
$1,000 [24]
Different parts of the pancreas act like these 2 main types of glands
endocrine & exocrine
$1,000 [21]
This empire declared war on Russia in October of 1853, igniting the Crimean War
the Ottoman Empire
Jack
$1,000 [25]
A duodecennial refers to a period of this many years
12
Caryn
$1,000 [16]
Here's a spinning this, patented in 1770; it uses many spindles to do its textile business
a spinning jenny
Eamonn Jack
$1,000 [19]
The 'Vey is working to protect water flow changes that may affect the plant called wild this grain, sacred to Great Lakes tribes
wild rice
$1,000 [12]
This 1980s primetime soap about the feuding Carrington & Colby families was set in Denver, Colorado, of all places
Dynasty
Caryn

Double Jeopardy! Round

ASIAN GEOGRAPHY THE CHARACTERS THEY BIRTHED CHOOSE A NAME SIGNS & SIGNALS WEDDING SONGS ALLITERATION
$400 [29]
This country's Ishikari River, sacred to the Ainu people, has been heavily polluted due to industrial growth
Japan
Eamonn
$400 [13]
Narcissa Malfoy, Fleur Delacour
J.K. Rowling
Eamonn
$400 [19]
He switched from his Hebrew name Saul to a Roman one to make it easier to convert Gentiles
Paul
Jack
$400 [24]
The origin of this item is with 17th c. Croatian soldiers; of one on the doorknob meaning "getting busy inside", unknown
a (neck)tie
Eamonn Jack
$400 [27]
"Tenerife Sea" & "Thinking Out Loud" by this redheaded Brit have fast become top choices for first dances
Ed Sheeran
Eamonn
$400 [25]
Vertically oriented phrase meaning exaggerated, hard-to-believe stories
tall tales
Caryn
$800 [5]
The glaciers in this world's highest plateau located in western China have the largest volume of ice outside of the poles
Tibet (the Tibetan Plateau)
Jack
$800 [1]
Ellen O'Hara, Melanie Wilkes
Margaret Mitchell
$800 [2]
Dunno what he had in mind--Buffy? Fern? But in 1952, Martin Charteris asked her what regnal name she'd use; she said, "Mine"
Elizabeth II
Jack
$800 [14]
In scuba diving, you can use the "OK" circle, but this other sign meaning "it's OK" on land gets you brought to the surface
a thumbs-up
Eamonn
$800 [15]
A popular choice for "Twilight" fans is this one by Christina Perri with a perfectly "millennial" title
"A Thousand Years"
$1,200 [18]
Before "favorite", it's another way to say the one expected to win
odds-on
$1,200 [4]
The Johor Strait separates this city-state from the Malay Peninsula
Singapore
Jack
$1,200 [10]
Newland Archer, Zenobia Frome
Wharton
Eamonn
$1,200 [7]
This first name was chosen carefully, including the "C" spelling--unlike, say, Khloe or Kendall
Caitlyn
$1,600 [12]
Hang loose-it's the name of the Hawaiiansignwith thumb & pinky out
a shaka
Eamonn
$1,200 [16]
"Everybody clap your" buzzer & name this song by DJ Casper that has grandmas criss-crossing & foot stomping at weddings
the "Cha Cha Slide"
DD $1,400 [17]
"The Gallopin' Gaucho" is an early film featuring him, before his name came to mean small-time & unimportant
Mickey Mouse
Eamonn
$1,600 [3]
The capital city Ashgabatsits in this type of place--a contrast to much of Turkmenistan, & the Ashgabatis love their fountains
an oasis
$1,600 [9]
O-Lan, a mother; Lotus, a concubine
(Pearl S.) Buck
Caryn
$1,600 [11]
Being as objectivist as possible, we'll say Alisa Rosenbaumchose this as her professional name
Ayn Rand
Eamonn
$2,000 [21]
Thesignwhose official designation is warning of this 8-letter possibility should get a truck driver's attention
rollover
Jack
$1,600 [22]
This song by The Isley Brothers began as an improvised call-&-response riff on their cover of "Lonely Teardrops"
"Shout"
Eamonn
$1,600 [23]
In a much-imitated spiel, old travel films end, "as the sun sinks slowly into XX body of water, we bid" this alliterative goodbye
a fond farewell
Eamonn
$2,000 [6]
In this capital city's downtown you'll find the Royal Hashemite Court, aka Al-Maqar or "The Headquarters"
Amman, Jordan
$2,000 [20]
Mr. Brocklehurst, Shirley Keeldar
Charlotte Brontë
$2,000 [28]
Charlie Gasko, a Santa Monica, California resident from 1996 to 2011, was the chosen alias of this notorious Boston thug
Whitey Bulger
Eamonn
DD $3,000 [8]
This colorful animal sits at the top of the royal arms of Scotland & that may be why it's one of Britain's most popular pub names
the red lion
Jack
$2,000 [30]
For couples with wanderlust, how about a few swirls to this Sinatra song that mentions a natural satellite & 2 planets?
"Fly Me To The Moon"
Jack
$2,000 [26]
An adjustment to the path of a ship to get it headed to its destination, or any similar change in a non-nautical process
a course correct(ion)
Eamonn

Final Jeopardy!

CORPORATE MASCOTS

A 2014 tweet said that this mascot was the "embodiment of a milkshake or taste bud"

Grimace

Caryn "Who is Grimace?" — wagered $3,000
Jack "Who is Sonic?" — wagered $14,599
Eamonn "Who is Grimace" — wagered $14,700

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