Show #9211 2024-11-25 (taped 2024-10-01) Regular

Kevin Laskowski game 1.

Contestants

Carolyn Gramling — a science writer from Washington, D.C.

Kevin Laskowski — an Episcopal priest from Falls Church, Virginia

Adam Hersh — an attorney from Brooklyn, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $29,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Adam $4,400 $5,800 $7,200 $14,300
2nd place: $3,000
$10,200
19 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Kevin $2,000 $2,800 $20,200 $15,200
New champion: $15,200
$18,400
18 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Carolyn $400 $1,200 $5,600 $300
3rd place: $2,000
$5,600
11 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

WORDS WITH DIACRITICAL MARKS HERE'S MY WRITING SAMPLE I'M ON A U.S. STAMP TIME FOR A COCKTAIL? CHARACTER "THE" EPITHET POLYNESIAN CULTURES
$200 [10]
The name of this chili pepper literally means "from the capital of Veracruz"
a jalapeño
$200 [23]
"'Don't be afraid. He hasn't come for you.' And to Javert he said: 'I know what you're here for"'
Hugo
Carolyn
$200 [29]
In 1965, a five-centstamphonored the 700th birthday of this poet--how divine
Dante
Adam
$200 [14]
Coextensive with New York County, it was acquired for trade goods worth about 60 guilders
Manhattan
Kevin
$200 [16]
Corncob pipe & all, this very cool animated guy came to TV in a Dec. 7, 1969 special
Frosty the Snowman
Carolyn
$200 [27]
(Auliʻi Cravalho presents the clue.) Polynesia encompasses the many islands & cultures inside atriangle, stretching from New Zealand in the southwest to Hawaii in the north, to this island also known as Rapa Nui
Easter Island
Adam
$400 [9]
Herr Hitler of the Third Reich used this title meaning "leader", Herr Bismarck of the Second did not
Führer
Adam
$400 [22]
"My biggest problem is my brother, Farley Drexel Hatcher. He's two-and-a-half years old. Everybody calls him Fudge"
Judy Blume
Kevin Carolyn
$400 [28]
A labor organizer & co-founder of the National Farm Workers association, he got the honor in 2003
Chavez
Adam
$400 [15]
The one dubbed Andrew ravaged the Bahamas & South Florida in 1992
a hurricane
Carolyn
$400 [17]
Iconic poster personality seen here
Rosie the Riveter
Adam
$400 [26]
(Auliʻi Cravalho presents the clue.) My character, Moana, is a wayfinder, one of the master navigators who steered ancient Polynesians across the Pacific by observing natural signs such as ocean swells & celestial objects like this group of stars
the Big Dipper
Adam Kevin
$600 [6]
It can refer to an embassy staff member with special duties, perhaps a cultural or naval one
an attaché
Adam
$600 [4]
"The self-same moment I could pray; and from my neck so free / The albatross fell off, and sank like lead into the sea"
Coleridge
Adam
$600 [1]
This "Wizard of Westwood" was honored with the Medal of Freedom in 2003 & a U.S. stamp in 2024
(John) Wooden
Adam
$600 [11]
Helen Gurley Brownbecame this publication's first female editor in the 1960s
Cosmopolitan
Adam
$600 [18]
Waste bin curmudgeon with a pet worm, slimey
Oscar the Grouch
Adam Carolyn
$600 [24]
(Auliʻi Cravalho presents the clue.) A Polynesian trickster figure whose many feats include stealing fire, lifting the sky & fishing up islands like the Hawaiian one named for him is the basis of this hero voiced by Dwayne Johnson
Maui
Carolyn
$800 [7]
We should get a good table, I know this person, the head waiter at the restaurant we're going to
the maître d'
Adam
$800 [5]
"There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word--man"
George Orwell
$800 [2]
If you want my 3 cents, a 1948 stamp had her picture as well as stating "founder of the American Red Cross"
(Clara) Barton
Adam
$800 [12]
Celebrated Cardinals pitcher Bob or Dodgers outfielder Kirk
Gibson
Kevin
$800 [19]
Eugene Kolkey first sketched this cereal mascot, based on fellow adman Raymond Anthony Wells
Tony the Tiger
Kevin
$800 [25]
(Auliʻi Cravalho presents the clue.) Pearls are French Polynesia's number one export; the prizeblack varietyis cultivated on many islands but named for this famously beautiful one
Tahiti
$1,000 [8]
At the 2024 Olympics, swimmerLéon Marchandwas acclaimed as "Le héros" this national word
français
$1,000 [21]
"Yeager was standing erect with his parachute rolled up... and staring at them quite levelly out of what was left of his face"
Tom Wolfe
Adam Kevin
$1,000 [3]
Fannie Lou Hamer & this fellow civil rights icon, assassinated at his home in 1963, were honored together in 2009
Medgar Evers
DD $1,000 [13]
Byname of the 1550s British queen who imposed Catholicism on her subjects with a lethal fervor
Bloody Mary
Kevin
$1,000 [20]
"The Cimmerian" is another epithet for this sword-wielding Robert E. Howard character
Conan the Barbarian
Kevin
$1,000 [30]
(Auliʻi Cravalho presents the clue.) The letter "G" represents an "ungh" sound in the language ofthisU.S. territory whose capital is pronounced "PAHNG-oh PAHNG-oh"
American Samoa
Adam

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE MODERN HOBBYIST RAP, SCHOOLS OLD & NEW BOD-"E" ANIMAL QUOTES FIRST ENCOUNTERS MAKING A GOOD IMPRESSIONIST
$400 [14]
Start yappin' on your own this; Esquire's Best of 2021 included "You're Wrong About" & "My Favorite Murder"
podcast
Adam
$400 [9]
The Beastie Boys promised, "No! sleep! 'til" this borough! Even if you don't know the song, you have a 1-in-5 shot
Brooklyn
Carolyn
$400 [19]
Meibomian glands secrete lubricating fluids for these coverings, which are closed via a cranial nerve
your eyelids
$400 [1]
Joe Biden quoted his mom with an old favorite: "Joey, if it looks like" this "& walks like" this... "it's" this
a duck
Carolyn
$400 [30]
Thomas Jefferson & John Adams became off-&-on friends after meeting at the Continental Congress in this city in 1775
Philadelphia
Kevin
$400 [26]
2024 marks 150 years since the first Impressionist exhibition, by a group calling itself by this word for nameless or unknown
Anonymous
$800 [15]
A product from this Hungarian man led to the creation of blindfolded speedcubing, which is quite the feat
Rubik
Kevin
$800 [10]
In this title place, "I'm a doll but I still wanna party, pink 'Vette like I'm ready to bend, I'm a ten so I pull in a Ken"
Barbie World
Carolyn
$800 [20]
This sex hormone is created primarily in the ovaries
estrogen
Kevin
$800 [2]
"Poor Richard's Almanack" included prudent gems like "He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with" these
fleas
Carolyn
$800 [24]
Henry VIII met this first wife when he was only 10 as she prepared to marry his brother Prince Arthur
Catherine of Aragon
Adam
$800 [27]
An Impressionist masterpiece is Renoir's"Luncheon of the Boating Party", in French, this meal "des canotiers"
déjeuner
Adam
$1,200 [16]
They sound like part of a fishing rod, but making these short videos on Instagram can be a lot of fun
Reels
Adam
$1,200 [11]
MC Hammer used Rick James' "Super Freak" in this 1990 Top 10 hit with a "tactile" title
"U Can't Touch This"
Adam Kevin
$1,600 [22]
One main function of this tube that connects the middle ear with the back of the throat is to equalize air pressure
Eustachian
Kevin
$1,200 [3]
The Bible says it's "easier for" this "to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God"
a camel
Adam
$1,200 [5]
Before he was a journalist, he was a naval courier & on a delivery to the White House, met Mark Felt, later "Deep Throat"
Woodward
Adam
$1,200 [25]
This Impressionist's wife, Camille, was a frequent subject of his paintings, including"Woman with a Parasol"
Monet
Kevin
$1,600 [17]
Freeze lightis a type of photography using long this
exposure
Kevin
$1,600 [12]
"911 Is A Joke" is a track on their 1990 album "Fear of a Black Planet"
Public Enemy
Kevin
$2,000 [23]
It's the innermost layer of the heart
the endocardium
$2,000 [8]
In "Richard III" Richard claims, "The world is grown so bad that wrens make prey where" these "dare not perch"
eagles
Carolyn
$1,600 [6]
He'd reminisce about his first meeting with fellow mobster Lucky Luciano when they were just kids & Lucky was shaking down Jews
Meyer Lansky
Kevin
$1,600 [28]
Degas & this American had an artistic bond; there are even a few of his brushstrokes in her "Little Girl in a Blue Armchair"
Cassatt
Kevin
$2,000 [18]
Thishobby is dubbed the world's largest treasure hunt; download an app & find stuff hidden near you
geocaching
Carolyn
$2,000 [13]
2023 rap songs with movie title titles included "The Gods Must Be Crazy" & Ken Carson's recalling this Megan Fox-Amanda Seyfried film
Jennifer's Body
Kevin
DD $3,000 [21]
The major glands of this type include the pituitary & thyroid
endocrine
Kevin
DD $3,000 [4]
Huey Newton wrote this "is a fierce animal, but he will not attack until he is backed into a corner; then he will strike out"
a (black) panther
Adam
$2,000 [7]
First meeting by letter, poet Robert Browning would later meet Elizabeth Barrett in person, at her home on this London street
Wimpole Street
$2,000 [29]
Alfred Sisley liked to give his impression of places around Paris, like this island that Georges Seurat more famously painted
La Grande Jatte
Carolyn

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY NOVELS

The mention of a new railway section between Rothal & Allahabad in India leads to an argument & then a bet in this novel

Around the World in Eighty Days

Carolyn "What is A Passage to India?" — wagered $5,300
Adam "What is Around the World in 80 Days?" — wagered $7,100
Kevin "What is ...?" — wagered $5,000

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