Show #9202 2024-11-12 (taped 2024-09-24) Regular

Contestants

Jonathan Fox — a staffing capacity manager from Plymouth, Massachusetts

Kathleen Clark — an English teacher originally from Stamford, Connecticut

Joey DeSena — a development engineer from Raleigh, North Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,497)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joey $3,600 $4,000 $14,400 $27,201
2-day champion: $44,698
$12,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Kathleen $1,400 $2,800 $7,600 $15,200
3rd place: $2,000
$7,800
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Jonathan $600 $4,600 $13,600 $18,000
2nd place: $3,000
$9,800
14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD OF LEADERS ENGLISH LITERATURE NICE WHEELS MUSIC MISCELLANEA WE'RE SALUTIN' GLUTEN RHYME TIME
$200 [7]
Using mass imprisonment against crime, El Salvador's Nayib Bukele has described himself as "the world's coolest" this
dictator
Joey
$200 [15]
He wrote a sequel, "Paradise Regained", published 4 years after "Paradise Lost"
Milton
Kathleen
$200 [29]
"Giraffes" are what some call these one-wheeled vehicles; they're more for stunts than speed
a unicycle
Joey
$200 [30]
2 of Rihanna's 14 No. 1 hits, "What's My Name?" & "Work", featured this Canadian rapper
Drake
Jonathan
$200 [12]
The lactobacillus bacterium is pivotal to making this bread whose fermentation process decreases its gluten content
sourdough
Kathleen
$200 [24]
An everlasting doorway
immortal portal
$400 [6]
Prime minister of the Netherlands for over a decade, Mark Rutte was appointed secretary-general of this organization in 2024
NATO
Joey Jonathan
$400 [14]
Due to obscenity charges, this last D.H. Lawrence novel wasn't published in full in London until 1960
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Joey
$400 [28]
One of the basic machines pairs wheel with this 4-letter item
an axle
Joey
$400 [19]
Billboard called this Australian singer's "Somebody Like You" the No. 1 country song of the first decade of the 21st century
Keith Urban
Joey Kathleen
$400 [11]
Wheat is typically an ingredient in this condiment, so yeah, it's got gluten; tamari is its gluten-free cousin
soy sauce
Kathleen
$400 [23]
An outspoken native resident
a vocal local
$600 [1]
Viewed as a relative moderate, Masoud Pezeshkian, elected president of this country in 2024, still has to please its supreme leader
Iran
Joey
$600 [13]
The title of this Ian Fleming story for kids about a magical car may have been inspired by the name of an Eton schoolmaster
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang
Joey
$600 [27]
See the sights all at once aboard the London Eye, the world's tallest cantilevered one of these
a Ferris wheel
Jonathan
$600 [16]
Robert Van Winkle is the real name of this rapper who was "cool" in the early 1990s
Vanilla Ice
Joey Jonathan
$600 [8]
This Italian-named cookie is made by first preparing a loaf, then slicing the loaf & baking the slices
biscotti
Joey
$600 [20]
A more prudent Hohenzollern emperor
a wiser kaiser
$800 [2]
Hesucceeded François Hollande as France's president
Macron
Kathleen
$800 [4]
Matthew Arnold wrote the poem "Calais Sands" before his more famous one about this "Beach" across the Channel
Dover (Beach)
Joey
$800 [26]
The tale of Rumpelstiltskin involved one of these machines to turn straw into gold
a spinning wheel
Jonathan
$800 [17]
He topped the charts in 1976 duetting with Kiki Dee on "Don't Go Breaking My Heart"
Elton John
Jonathan
$800 [9]
Your typical dried pasta is made from this 5-letter type of wheat that's high in protein & gluten
durum
$800 [21]
A Lakota evaluation of a past performance
a Sioux review
Joey
$1,000 [5]
Moving the Labour Party more to the center helpedhimreturn it to power as Britain's new prime minister in 2024
Keir Starmer
DD $800 [3]
In the first chapter of this E.M. Forster book, Lucy comments, "I want so to see the Arno"
A Room with a View
Kathleen
$1,000 [25]
Tibetan Buddhists use this device as an aid to meditation
a prayer wheel
$1,000 [18]
In 1957 this jazz trumpeter released the album "Miles Ahead", which had him playing the flügelhorn on all the tracks
Miles Davis
Jonathan
$1,000 [10]
Thesenoodles, from Japanese for buckwheat, are often served cold on a slatted bamboo mat
soba
Kathleen Jonathan
$1,000 [22]
Philanthropy transparency
charity clarity
Kathleen

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S. HISTORY RIVERS OF THE WHIRLED LET'S DABBLE IN SCIENCE TRANSPORTATION HEIST FILMS ENDS IN "CH"
$400 [30]
The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act established the first federal this; it's been increased more than 20 times, but not since 2009
the minimum wage
Kathleen
$400 [23]
Lewis & Clark wintered near it in 1805-1806:CUBA LIMO
the Columbia
$400 [27]
U-Pb dating, using these 2 elements, can determine the age of a rock whether it's in the millions or billions of years
uranium & lead
Kathleen
$400 [25]
Advances in braking technology have all but eliminated this traditional last car on a freight train
the caboose
Jonathan
$400 [29]
In this 2001 film a group robs 3 Vegas casinos on the night of a Lennox Lewis-Wladimir Klitschko boxing match
Ocean's Eleven
$400 [1]
Hammer me with a rusty nail! 3/4 ounce Drambuie liqueur & a jigger of this, over ice
Scotch
Joey
$800 [4]
Before it was annexed by the U.S. in 1845, it claimed a panhandle that extended up into Wyoming
Texas
Joey
$800 [22]
Meaning "great river", it's part of the geography of 6 African countries: MAZE BIZ
the Zambezi
Kathleen
$800 [26]
In taxonomy, all birds are in the same kingdom, phylum & class, but things fly off & change at this next level
order
Kathleen Jonathan
$800 [24]
With seating for 28 downstairs & 36 up above, the AEC Routemaster bus began service in this city in 1956
London
Jonathan
$800 [28]
In the final scene of this film, Keanu tells Swayze, "Vaya con dios"
Point Break
Jonathan
$800 [13]
It's white powder that can be made from a grain & used as a thickener
starch
Kathleen
$1,200 [2]
In 1974 the U.S. repealed a Depression-era ban on private ownership of this that had been meant to prevent hoarding
gold
Joey
$1,200 [9]
Mandalay & Magwe are port cities on it: DRAW DIARY
the Irrawaddy
$1,200 [6]
First predicted in 1930, this particle with no charge can go through miles of matter without reacting with a proton or neutron
a neutrino
Joey
$1,600 [20]
The name of this early form of bicycle is from Latin for "swift foot"
a velocipede
Kathleen
$1,200 [16]
This 2003 remake with Mark Wahlberg & Charlize Theron fittingly begins with a heist in Venice
The Italian Job
Joey
$1,200 [12]
The 6,000-seat Metropolitan Tabernacle has been called "the first-ever" of these evangelical places of worship
a megachurch
Joey Jonathan
$1,600 [3]
In 1899, New York City newsboys went on strike, refusing to distribute papers published by Joseph Pulitzer & this rival magnate
Hearst
Jonathan
$1,600 [10]
It begins at the western end of Great Slave Lake:ECZEMA INK
the Mackenzie
Joey
$1,600 [7]
Lasting from 5.3 to 2.6 million years ago, this epoch was followed by the somewhat similar-sounding Pleistocene
the Pliocene
$2,000 [21]
Introduced in 1935, this legendary alphanumeric airplane built by the Douglas company, helped revolutionize passenger travel
the DC-3
Jonathan
$1,600 [17]
Christopher Nolan said this 2010 film is "something of a heist movie, it's something of a science fiction film"
Inception
Joey
$1,600 [14]
This type of warrant is issued by a judge when a defendant violates the rules of the court
a bench
Kathleen
DD $4,000 [5]
A December 2, 1954 resolution said the conduct of this man "is contrary to senatorial traditions and is hereby condemned"
(Joseph) McCarthy
Joey
$2,000 [11]
Down south, some of the flow of the Mississippi is diverted into it:AHA CALF AT YA
the Atchafalaya
$2,000 [8]
Whoa, nebula, whoa! A new image from the Webb Telescope shows this nebula that's 1,300 light-years away
the Horsehead Nebula
Joey
DD $5,000 [19]
Disneyland opened one of these in 1959; Seattle, in 1962 &Las Vegas, in 1995
a monorail
Jonathan
$2,000 [18]
Boston Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla has admitted to watching this heist film directed by Ben Affleck several times a week
The Town
Jonathan
$2,000 [15]
It's a "frumious" creature mentioned in "Jabberwocky" & "The Hunting of the Snark"
Bandersnatch

Final Jeopardy!

LITERARY MONUMENTS

A 112-foot-tall monument in a Madrid plaza depicts a writer seated above bronze statues of these 2 characters

Don Quixote & Sancho Panza

Kathleen "Who are Don Quixote and Sancho Panza?" — wagered $7,600
Jonathan "Who are Don Quixote and Sancho Hi Jasper & Sterling!" — wagered $4,400
Joey "Who are Sancho Panza & Don Quixote??" — wagered $12,801

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