Show #9187 2024-10-22 (taped 2024-09-17) Regular

Will Wallace game 1.

Contestants

Will Wallace — a game design director from Austin, Texas

Stephanie Cooper — a Ph.D. candidate from Baltimore, Maryland

Tristan Brown — a re-entry employment advocate from Richmond, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tristan $5,000 $6,800 $10,000 $0
3rd place: $2,000
$10,000
20 R, 3 W
Stephanie $1,800 $3,200 $10,400 $5,400
2nd place: $3,000
$10,400
16 R, 3 W
Will $600 $1,000 $9,400 $18,799
New champion: $18,799
$11,000
13 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

SELLING INSURANCE THAT'S JUST PART OF THE STORY 6 BY 6 NAMES TV TRANSPORTS IT'S A PENINSULA "M" BEFORE "N"
$200 [30]
An alumnus of L.A.'s Groundlings, Stephanie Courtneyis best known for portraying this perky pitchwoman
Flo
Tristan
$200 [14]
On the question of "Life, the Universe and Everything" in this book series, the answer is 42, "which is a little aggravating"
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Will
$200 [7]
This daughter of a minister was chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021
Angela Merkel
Tristan
$200 [16]
A passenger jet from Oceanic Airlines delivered this show's characters right into the heart of a mystery
Lost
Stephanie
$200 [17]
The Strait of Gibraltar separates the southern tip of this peninsula from Africa
the Iberian Peninsula
Tristan
$200 [29]
The wythe & flue liner are parts of this household mainstay where Santa starts his B&E hijinks
a chimney
Tristan
$400 [27]
Early in his career, Barry Manilow composed commercial jingles, including this company's "Like A Good Neighbor..."
State Farm
Will
$400 [13]
"We have real dinosaurs out there now. That's what people want to see"
Jurassic Park
Tristan
$400 [8]
She died at age 23 in a hail of bullets along with her outlaw partner sitting in a stolen Ford outside Sailes, Louisiana
Bonnie Parker
Will
$400 [2]
The S.S. Minnow was only supposed to provide a 3-hour tour for its guests, but ended up shipwrecked on this sitcom
Gilligan's Island
Tristan
$400 [6]
Though it looks like it should be part of Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsulawas ceded to this state after a border war with, of course, Ohio
Michigan
Tristan
$400 [21]
In 1924 André Breton published one of these declarations "of Surrealism"
a manifesto
Tristan
$600 [26]
In 2005 this company changed its logo to include its famous duck
Aflac
Will
$600 [12]
The hero of this tale thinks, "Do you believe the great DiMaggio would stay with a fish as long as I will stay with this one?"
The Old Man and the Sea
Stephanie
$600 [9]
This actress known for movies & British TV like "Fleabag" & "Broadchurch" is not related to fellow 6x6 thespian Ronald
Olivia Colman
Tristan
$600 [3]
In the '80s this lucky title guy got to drive a Ferrari 308 GTS around Hawaii for 8 seasons
Magnum
Tristan Stephanie
$600 [1]
Yalta see Livadiya Palace or Sevastopol on this peninsula
the Crimean
Tristan
$600 [19]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation advises scrubbing the underside when cleaning this; it's usually the dirtiest area
the mane
Stephanie
$800 [25]
For a new ad campaign in 2019, this company introduced its dynamic duo of Li Mu Emu & Doug
Liberty Mutual
Tristan
$800 [11]
The Lady Madeline isn't the corpse we were told she was--at least not until after a family reunion--in this 1839 short story
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
$800 [10]
In 1966 he was elected governor of California, beating the incumbent Edmund G. Brown in a landslide
Ronald Reagan
Stephanie
$800 [4]
Since 1969, Scooby-Doo & the gang have gotten around in avan with this alliterative name
the Mystery Machine
Tristan
$800 [18]
The Western-most point of the North American continent is at the tip of this Alaskan peninsula named for a man crucial to the state's history
Seward
Will
$800 [20]
Thisspice, a member of the parsley family, is a key ingredient in the Indian potato dish jeera aloo
cumin
Stephanie
$1,000 [24]
In 1950 an exec at Allstate had a sick daughter but his wife reported positively on the doctor, saying Joann was "in" these
good hands
$1,000 [15]
It's the last name of Philip Roth's character Alexander, who has at least one issue with his mom, Sophie
Portnoy
Tristan
$1,000 [28]
In 1517 he sent a letter to Archbishop Albrecht of Mainz criticizing the sale of indulgences to free sinners from divine punishment
Martin Luther
Stephanie
$1,000 [5]
The coffin-based Drag-u-la roadster made a fast & furious appearance in the "Hot Rod Herman" episode of this comedy
The Munsters
Stephanie
DD $2,400 [23]
At the tip of Pinellas Peninsula, it's nicknamed "The Sunshine City" & has a major sister city in Russia
St. Petersburg
Will
$1,000 [22]
This word for a balcony level in a theater comes in part from an Italian word for "middle"
the mezzanine
Will

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE DUTCH COLONIAL EMPIRE POP STARS THE CULTURAL 19th CENTURY FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES CHEMISTRY SHE'S A SAINT!
$400 [30]
The Netherlands' colonial empire was mainly split between these 2 directional trading companies
the (Dutch) East India Trading Company & West India Trading Company
Tristan Stephanie
$400 [3]
This singer has said "No Body But Yours" to wives Miranda Lambert & Gwen Stefani
Blake Shelton
Stephanie
$400 [28]
Thomas Wilson's exhaustive work "The Treasures of Terpsichore" cataloged popular English country these
dances
Stephanie
$400 [4]
French for "in the manner of", it can precede neige, Suisse or king
à la
Stephanie
$400 [13]
The FDA calls it "a highly addictive chemical compound present in a tobacco plant"
nicotine
Stephanie
$400 [23]
Tradition says that St. Priscilla allowed this New Testament figure also called Simon to use her home as his HQ while in Rome
Peter
Stephanie
$800 [29]
Batavia, founded in 1619 on Java, resembled a dutch town with canals; 3 centuries later, it was renamed this
Jakarta
Stephanie
$800 [9]
Since her 2022 diagnosis, this Canadian singer has opened up about her battle with stiff person syndrome
Celine Dion
Tristan
$800 [27]
German art moved from Romanticism to this other "R"-ism, as in Adolph Menzel's"The Iron Rolling Mill"
Realism
Will
$800 [5]
No no, my friend, quite the opposite--or in 2 French words, this
au contraire
Tristan
$800 [14]
A substance's lowest possible energy state is this 2-word term, -273.15 degrees C. or an equally frosty -459.67 F.
absolute zero
Will
$800 [22]
This Nobel Prize winner reached the ranks of the blessed in the church's then shortest time & was canonized in 2016
Mother Teresa
Tristan
$1,200 [18]
The Dutch moved into the Caribbean to mine salt used to pack & preserve this fish; they love the maatjes type
herring
Stephanie Will
$1,200 [10]
This singer/rapper's "Old Town Road" used a sample from Nine Inch Nails' "34 Ghosts IV"
Lil Nas X
Stephanie
$1,200 [1]
This "Deerslayer" author came up with the Bread and Cheese Club, a meeting of early 19th century minds
James Fenimore Cooper
Will
$1,200 [6]
Another term for megalomania is the French "folie de" this
grandeur
$1,200 [15]
Fe2O3is the chemical formula for this 4-letter concern
rust
Will
$1,200 [21]
On May 30, 1431 the English threw her ashes into the Seine River
Joan of Arc
Tristan
DD $2,000 [19]
In 1633, when New Netherland occupied part of New York state, ancestors of this 19th c. U.S. president settled in Rensselaer County
Martin Van Buren
Will
$1,600 [11]
Leroi Moore, Boyd Tinsley, Carter Beauford & Stefan Lessard, his "Band", are 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees
Dave Matthews
Will
$1,600 [2]
Rachmaninoff's first opera, "Aleko", was based on a work by this 19th century Russian poet
Pushkin
Tristan
$1,600 [7]
A big party thrown by the Vanderbilts at their homeknown as the Petit this inspired a storyline on "The Gilded Age"
Chateau
Tristan
DD $2,000 [16]
Jöns Jacob Berzelius honored the gods of his Swedish ancestors naming this element, now a powerful nuclear reactor fuel
thorium
Will
$1,600 [24]
The sixth station of the cross is this saint "wipes the face of Jesus"; tradition says she used her veil
St. Veronica
$2,000 [20]
The Dutch seized Fort Willoughby from the British in this future capital of Suriname & renamed it Fort Zeelandia
Paramaribo
$2,000 [12]
"Snow Angel" is the debut album of this woman, who left TV's "The Sex Lives of College Girls" to focus on being a pop star
Reneé Rapp
Stephanie
$2,000 [26]
French for "half world", this term described a class of women who'd lost status due to indiscreet behavior
demimonde
Tristan
$2,000 [8]
The French now use visage for "face"; an older, shorter form gave us this alternative to "regarding the matter of"
vis-à-vis
Stephanie
$2,000 [17]
It's "a" mixture or blend of mercury with another metal
an amalgam
Tristan
$2,000 [25]
This Italian-born patron saint of immigrants came to New York City in 1889 to help immigrants
Mother Cabrini

Final Jeopardy!

DETECTIVE AUTHORS

For much of the 1920s, he lived on Eddy Street in San Francisco's Tenderloin District

(Dashiell) Hammett

Will "Who is Hammett?" — wagered $9,399
Tristan "Who is Moseley? xoxo Julie Polly Matt Allison" — wagered $10,000
Stephanie "Who is I had fun! Hi Bmore" — wagered $5,000

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