Show #9209 2024-11-21 (taped 2024-09-30) Regular

Mehal Shah game 2.

Contestants

Holly Luo — a product designer originally from San Diego, California

Jack Altman — a law student from New York, New York

Mehal Shah — a software engineer from Seattle, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,799)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mehal! $2,200 $4,000 $37,600 $36,263
2-day champion: $46,062
$24,200
27 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Jack $1,600 $2,200 $7,400 $9,801
2nd place: $3,000
$7,400
12 R, 1 W
Holly $3,600 $3,000 $9,800 $4,799
3rd place: $2,000
$9,800
13 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

LEONARDO DA VINCI NONFICTION OTHER NAMES FOR THE CITY CLASSIC TV THEME SONGS ECONOMICS COHAB VOCAB
$200 [8]
Leonardo's 1473renderingof Arno River Valley is considered by some the first of these artistic depictions of natural scenery
a landscape
Holly
$200 [28]
This Southerner went nonfiction with "The Innocent Man", about 2 men wrongly convicted
John Grisham
$200 [26]
"The Athens of the South" & "Music City"
Nashville
Mehal! Holly
$200 [21]
"Here's the story of a lovely lady who was bringing up 3 very lovely girls"
The Brady Bunch
Mehal!
$200 [20]
The Economist publishes an index named for this fast food sandwich that helps determine if national currencies are undervalued
a Big Mac
Mehal!
$200 [30]
It's good before moving in together to set these, which can also be natural features like rivers that function as borders
a boundary
Jack
$400 [10]
Left-handed & not wishing to smudge the ink as he went, Leonardo used this form of writing, named for something used in reading it
mirror writing
Holly
$400 [29]
Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow" delves into "Mass" this "in the Age of Colorblindness"
Incarceration
Mehal!
$400 [27]
George Carlin called this capital of Delaware "The City that Means Well"
Dover
Mehal!
$400 [22]
"The mate was a mighty sailing man, the skipper brave & sure"
Gilligan's Island
Mehal!
$400 [19]
This "elemental" levy is slapped on a business that generates pollution through emissions
a carbon tax
Mehal!
$400 [16]
Punning on something edible, this type of "list" comes before "... the dishes", "... the laundry", etc.
honey-do
Jack
$600 [12]
Not to find a killer but to broaden his knowledge of anatomy, Leonardo performed many of these &drewwhat he discovered
an autopsy
Mehal!
$600 [18]
"Brave New Words" is a new book about A.I. & education from this man famous for his nonprofit "Academy"
Khan
Holly
$600 [5]
You can't miss out on "The Big 'O"' aka this city just north of the Platte River
Omaha
Mehal!
$600 [23]
"Love & marriage, love & marriage, go together like a horse & carriage"
Married... with Children
Mehal!
$600 [6]
Not just for us lowly citizens, these types of ratings are issued to companies & nations by S&P global & moody's
credit ratings
Mehal!
$600 [15]
A censorious old phrase for a boyfriend & girlfriend sharing a home, or a book about cohabitation in Victorian times
living in sin
$800 [9]
Starting out as anapprenticeto the artist Verrocchioas a teen, Leonardo may have been a model for his statue of this biblical slayer
David
Mehal!
$1,000 [17]
The arrival of birds from Polynesia to the raft of this ethnologist is a great moment in his 1950 book
Thor Heyerdahl
Mehal! Holly
$800 [1]
In Michigan, it's "A2"
Ann Arbor
Jack
$800 [24]
"In your satin tights, fighting for your rights and the ol' Red White and Blue"
Wonder Woman
$800 [3]
The Latin for "death" gives us this term for the lessening of the value of assets or debts over a period of time
amortization
Jack
$800 [14]
You may add this word to your "vv"ocabulary, as in "let's ____ up the chores"
divvy
Mehal!
$1,000 [11]
In his portrait of Ginevra de' Benci, Leonardo blended tones to soften sharpoutlines, a method known by this smoky Italian name
sfumato
Holly
DD $2,200 [7]
"Battle of Ink & Ice" details the legendary feud between Frederick Cook & this other explorer
Robert Peary
Mehal!
$1,000 [4]
This city on Florida's West Coast: "The Big Guava" & "Cigar City"
Tampa
Mehal!
$1,000 [25]
"'Cause I'm the unknown stuntman that made Redford such a star"
The Fall Guy
$1,000 [2]
In 1913, this British economist published "Indian Currency and Finance", then got into government work, which is so him-sian
Keynes
Holly
$1,000 [13]
Before big-time success, Roger Taylor & Freddie Mercury of Queen shared an apartment, so Brit-wise, they were these
flatmates
Holly

Double Jeopardy! Round

NORSE MYTH 21st CENTURY CINEMA SILENT P A LITTLE MATH, A LITTLE SCIENCE HAVE FUN STORMING THE CASTLE
$400 [11]
This Norse god kept an eye on his wife Frigg, who herself presided over marriage
Odin
Jack
$400 [19]
Barry Jenkins & Mahershala Aliboth won Oscars for this A24 film about Chiron, who has a tough go of it in Miami
Moonlight
Jack
$400 [24]
It's another way to refer to the United States Marines
Corps
Jack
$400 [5]
It means to express a fraction in a more basic form, like simplifying 365/730 to 1/2
reduce
Jack
$400 [30]
Pirates, science & outer space are popular themes for this type of place where you solve puzzles to get out
an escape room
Jack
$400 [17]
Unable to capture Osaka Castle, Tokugawa Ieyasu made peace--then filled in these, redeclared war & took the castle
moats
Mehal!
$800 [13]
Not just a hamlet in New York, it's the site of slain warriors where the same unfortunate boar is eaten & resurrected daily
Valhalla
Holly
$800 [23]
The "W" in Wall-e's name stands for this, which he's dealing with all around him on Earth
waste
Mehal!
$800 [25]
To the untrained eye it might be hard to tell the difference between eczema & this skin disease
psoriasis
Holly
$800 [4]
Bone up! This element is alphabetically next after cadmium
calcium
Holly
$800 [29]
Have fun at this ballpark when you go see the Baltimore Orioles play home games
Camden Yards
Jack
$800 [18]
Aries was the Roman word for this device used to assault many a castle
a battering ram
Mehal! Jack
$1,200 [16]
Thought invincible, Balder got the kiss of death after getting hit with a sprig of this shrub, the one thing that could do the job
a mistletoe
Mehal!
$1,200 [15]
In this 2004 film Kate Winslet plays Clementine, who hires Lacuna Inc. to help her forget some things
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Mehal!
$1,200 [22]
In slang, these mean proof of supposed wrongdoing, usually in the form of screen caps; now "show me" them!
receipts
Jack
$1,200 [3]
It's a number that represents the power to which a base is to be raised
exponent
Holly
$1,200 [28]
We love this Hasbro game in which players must complete lists of words beginning with the same letter
Scattergories
Mehal!
$1,200 [8]
A Jacobite force failed to take this castle in 1715, the ladder they brought turned out to be too short to scale the ramparts
Edinburgh Castle
$2,000 [14]
As "Watchman of the Gods", he could see 100 leagues; another skill was the ability to hear grass grow, for some reason
Heimdall
$1,600 [6]
This Werner Herzog documentary follows activist Timothy Treadwell, who lost his life to a bear in 2003
Grizzly Man
Mehal!
$1,600 [21]
"Flat Earthism" is often grouped under this branch of not-accepted knowledge
pseudoscience
Holly
$1,600 [2]
The energy an object has by virtue of its motion is this kind, from Greek for "moving"
kinetic
Holly
$1,600 [27]
Head to Munich & drink some suds at this festival whose origins date back to 1810
Oktoberfest
Mehal!
$2,000 [9]
In the event of a surprise attack, defenders could quickly lower this heavy grate
a portcullis
Mehal!
DD $5,600 [7]
The 9 realms include Alfheim, home of the light elves, Nidavellir, home of the dwarves & this, home to us puny ol' mortals
Midgard
Mehal!
$2,000 [12]
This dystopian film from Alfonso Cuarón follows Clive Owen as he escorts a pregnant woman through unfriendly terrain
Children of Men
Mehal!
$2,000 [20]
She's the mortal-born goddess of the soul & wife of Eros
Psyche
Mehal!
$2,000 [1]
2 sides of an angle meet at this 6-letter point
vertex
Holly
$2,000 [26]
A slice of Europe in the Middle East, the Louvre has a satellite location in this emirate
Abu Dhabi
Jack Holly
DD $13,200 [10]
Now meaning to secretly weaken, it originally meant to tunnel below a fortification in order to collapse the walls
undermine
Mehal!

Final Jeopardy!

INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITIES

Following student unrest in 1968, in 1970 the University of this city was divided into 13 smaller ones

Paris

Jack "What is Paris?" — wagered $2,401
Holly "What is Prague?" — wagered $5,001
Mehal! "What is Beijing?" — wagered $1,337

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