Show #9214 2024-11-28 (taped 2024-10-01) Regular

Kevin Laskowski game 4.

Contestants

Laurel Day — a project manager originally from Austin, Texas

Debbie Mercer — a retired special education teacher from Oak Park, Illinois

Kevin Laskowski — an Episcopal priest from Falls Church, Virginia (whose 3-day cash winnings total $52,999)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Kevin	$200	$3,400	$9,400	$18,799 2nd place: $3,000	$10,400 14 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Debbie	$2,400	$1,400	$9,400	$14,602 3rd place: $2,000	$9,400 16 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Laurel	$0	$600	$14,600	$18,801 New champion: $18,801	$15,400 18 R (including 1 DD), 8 W

Jeopardy! Round

HOW CONVENTIONAL	LIFE SCIENCE	3-WORD PHRASES	FUN WITH ZIP CODES	SPORTS-POURRI	TURKEY DAY
$200 [6] Adopted in 1886, the Berne Convention gives international protection to these; the standard term is author's life plus 50 years copyright Kevin	$200 [1] A life-size 20-foot-tall rock carving of this animal in Niger shows that the Sahara supported more varied life 5,000 years ago a giraffe Kevin Laurel	$200 [14] Our relationship is strictly NSA, this no strings attached Debbie	$200 [21] 89109 is the ZIP Code for most of the hotels on this city's strip Vegas Laurel	$200 [8] The deuce, the hook & Uncle Charlie are baseball slang for this type of breaking pitch a curveball Kevin	$200 [24] A symbol of Turkey since Ottoman times, this flower has inspired decorative motifs on carpets, clothing & ceramics a tulip Debbie Laurel
$600 [12] In a stirring speech, sherebuked mobs disrupting an 1853 women's rights convention in New York City Sojourner Truth Laurel	$400 [2] Fish need shade too, sometimes provided by these, the floating leaves of plants such as Nuphar advena lily pads Kevin Laurel	$400 [15] The Atlantic gets a lot smaller in this phrase meaning over in America to a Brit, or vice versa across the pond Debbie	$400 [22] Batter up & head to this Chavez Ravine ballpark that's not in 90210 but in its anagram, 90012 Dodger Stadium Debbie	$400 [9] Muhammad Ali KOed George Foremanin the 1974 fight called "The Rumble in" this the Jungle Kevin	$400 [25] Yagli gures, one of the most popular sports in Turkey, is a variety of this one, but with the grapplers covered in oil wrestling Kevin
$800 [13] 184 countries are signatories to CITES, the Convention on Intl. Trade in these plants & animals, the E.S. of CITES Endangered Species Debbie	$600 [3] A desire to work in the kelping professions may lead you to phycology, defined as the study of these algae	$600 [16] An uneasy accord has been reached when you do this rhyming phrase, politely let go of a dispute without resolution (you're still wrong) agree to disagree Debbie	$600 [23] The city of Schenectady has 11 ZIP Codes; the highest in number is this, & it's easy as... 12345 Debbie Laurel	$600 [10] Incricket, the only defensive player who wears gloves is the guy in charge of keeping this vital thing the wicket Kevin	$600 [26] Made with molten glass, anazar boncuğuis a Turkish amulet used for protection against this negative force the evil eye
DD $1,000 [7] The 1899 Hague Convention explicitly forbade dropping bombs from these; nice idea, but technology soon passed it by hot air balloons Kevin	$800 [4] Geneticist Polly Fordyce dislikes this term for the 98% of DNA that is non-coding; much of it does come out in gene expression junk DNA Laurel	$800 [17] To pine for someone, or more literally, to participate in a pre-Olympics ceremony carry a torch Kevin	$800 [29] When writing to this famous residence, use the ZIP Code 20500 the White House Laurel	$800 [11] Any castaway knows this brand makes the NCAA official beach championship game volleyball Wilson Laurel	$800 [27] Producing more than 70% of the world's supply, Turkey is the world's largest grower of these nuts, aka filberts hazelnuts Debbie
$1,000 [20] On Jan. 16 & 17, 1793 France's National Convention voted to sentence this man to death Louis XVI Kevin	$1,000 [5] All of a manatee's teeth, which gradually move forward in its jaw, are these molars Debbie	$1,000 [18] It means doing everything right, or getting a hit every time up, though the math doesn't strictly work on that last one batting 1.000	$1,000 [30] ZIP Codes go up to 99950, which belongs to a city in this state Alaska Debbie Laurel	$1,000 [19] In 2014, 260 years after its founding, this legendary golf club finally agreed to accept female members St. Andrews Debbie Laurel	$1,000 [28] Before Turkey's largest city was renamed Istanbul, it was Constantinople & just before that, known as this Byzantium Kevin

Double Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPHY	ASIAN LITERATURE	DO YOU WANT TO BUILD A BUILDING?	A REAL SMOKE SHOW	A PROJECT	-OLOGY
$400 [17] In 1964 the island of Zanzibar, with its own subspecies of leopard, became part of this East African country Tanzania Laurel	$400 [4] In the Iraqi novel "The President's Gardens", Abdullah spends 2 decades as a P.O.W. in this country after the 1980s war Iran Laurel	$400 [8] In 1873 Daniel Burnham & John Root started a firm to build together in this city; 2 decades later, Burnham built a fair there Chicago Debbie	$400 [16] We're still not too sure about a lot that happened on this ABC show, but for sure the Man in Black is also the Smoke Monster Lost Laurel	$400 [26] This project was designed as a bridge between the Mercury & Apollo programs Gemini Debbie	$400 [19] Robert L. Kelly began collecting arrowheads at 10 & is co-author of a standard text on this subject archaeology Kevin Debbie Laurel
$800 [6] This alliterative Central American capital has been ruined multiple times by earthquakes since 1854 San Salvador Laurel	DD $400 [1] "Frog" by Mo Yan follows Gugu, a midwife during China's implementation of this policy the one-child policy Laurel	$800 [9] Mughal histories say it had around 37 designers, including Ustad Ahmad from Lahore & Turkish dome-builder Ismail Afandi the Taj Mahal Debbie	$800 [15] Here's the straight dope: "Up in Smoke" was the first film starring this pair of comics Cheech & Chong Kevin	$800 [27] A WSJ post asked, "He couldn't run a hamburger stand. How did Oppenheimer run" this project's "secret lab?" the Manhattan Project Kevin	$800 [20] In "Middlemarch" Mr. Casaubon is writing a book on this & in debating "the solar deities, he had become indifferent to the sunlight" mythology Debbie Laurel
$1,200 [7] This body of water divides Maryland into 2 parts, the eastern & western shores Chesapeake Bay Debbie	$800 [3] In 2024 Netflix adapted this Chinese sci-fi novel named for a conundrum involving a trio of celestial objects Three-Body Problem Laurel	DD $1,200 [10] In 1943 this art collector asked Frank Lloyd Wright to build a building for a museum unlike any other in the world (Solomon R.) Guggenheim Debbie	$1,200 [18] Set in Mississippi, his play "Summer & Smoke" is about a repressed minister's daughter in love with the hedonistic boy next door Tennessee Williams Debbie	$1,200 [28] In "Project Hail Mary" by this author, the amnesiac Ryland Grace has to save the Earth & find out how he got "beach-bod buff" Andy Weir	$1,200 [21] At the university campus building seen here, students work toward their degree in this subject hamburgerology Debbie
$1,600 [13] Maxing around 160 feet deep, the relatively shallow Korea Bay is the northeastern arm of this "colorful" sea the Yellow Sea	$1,600 [2] This Pulitzer Prize-winner by Vietnamese-American author Viet Thanh Nguyen begins, "I am a spy... a man of two faces" The Sympathizer Laurel	$1,600 [11] King Charles II approved this man to repair St. Paul's Cathedral; he went ahead & gave it a major dome Sir Christopher Wren Laurel	$1,600 [24] Official videos for this Deep Purple classic include an animated one & one live at Montreux, where the song is set "Smoke On The Water" Kevin	$1,600 [29] The CIA called this project "the code name for a covert... mind-control & chemical interrogation research program" MKUltra Kevin	$1,600 [22] The first 3 letters are an abbreviation some have discarded, but this is still the study of flying saucers & the like Ufology (UFOlogy) Kevin Laurel
$2,000 [14] This forest that can be spelled with or without an S at the end is located in both France & Belgium Ardennes Laurel	$2,000 [5] In "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" by Yukio Mishima, a Buddhist monk burns down the title temple in this old capital Kyoto Laurel	$2,000 [12] In the late 19th c. Eusebi Güell became a patron of this architect, leading to a pavilion, a park & a palace in Spain Gaudí Laurel	$2,000 [25] The Jerome Kern-Otto Harbach musical "Roberta" is best remembered for this classic song about a "lovely flame" "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" Debbie	$2,000 [30] Born Ephraim Goldberg, this architect designed Seattle's Experience Music Project now the Museum of Pop Culture (Frank) Gehry Laurel	$2,000 [23] King James I of England published a guide to witchcraft & devilry titled this "-ology" Demonology

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. BUSINESSES

In 2024 this company said only 4 of its 400+ locations will let Mr. Munch, Helen Henny, Jasper T. Jowls & its namesake still perform

Chuck E. Cheese

Kevin "What is Chuck E. Cheese?" — wagered $9,399

Debbie "What is Chuck-E-Cheese?" — wagered $5,202

Laurel "What is Chuck E Cheese?" — wagered $4,201

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