Show #9216 2024-12-02 (taped 2024-10-02) Regular

Contestants

Mike Ross — a teacher from Kansas City, Missouri

Evan Jones — a software designer from Seattle, Washington

Susan Beachy — a news researcher from Queens, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Susan $0 $1,000 $5,000 $3,000
3rd place: $2,000
$6,000
9 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Evan $4,400 $6,000 $21,800 $17,199
New champion: $17,199
$19,600
25 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Mike $800 $3,400 $13,200 $10,100
2nd place: $3,000
$9,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

AROUND THE CARIBBEAN CHEERS TO BEERS! THAT CHAPTER'S NAMED FOR ME! SPORTS STAR RECORDS ANAGRAMMED OCCUPATIONS FLORIDA WOMAN
$200 [26]
The Trench Town neighborhood of Kingston is considered the birthplace of this music genre
reggae
Mike
$200 [23]
After being honored at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, this brand added "Blue Ribbon" to its name
Pabst
Susan
$200 [21]
This kid who deals with Olympians is the "I" in chapter 1: "I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher"
Percy Jackson
Evan
$200 [24]
From his 1963 spoken-word album: "The fistic world was dull & weary/ With a champ like Liston things had to be dreary"
Muhammad Ali
Evan
$200 [8]
Edifice planner:TIRE CATCH
architect
Evan
$200 [13]
Florida naturally produces its share of astronauts, like Nicole Stott, who took the last flight home from the ISS aboard one of these
the space shuttle
Evan
$400 [25]
At over 10,000 feet Pico Duarte in this nation on Hispaniola is the highest mountain in the Caribbean
the Dominican Republic
Mike
$400 [10]
The 4 main ingredients in beer are water, hops, yeast & this germinated barley grain, beer's main source of sugar
the malt
$400 [16]
"Live and Let Die", chapter 2, is an "Interview with" this letter-perfect head honcho
M
Evan
$400 [27]
Now a Colorado footballcoach, back in 1994, hedropped the rap album "Prime Time"
Deion Sanders
Mike
$400 [4]
Problem solver: THEMATIC MANIA
mathematician
Evan
$400 [12]
This body-shaping brand began when former Disney World employee Sara Blakely had the idea to cut the feet off her pantyhose
Spanx
Susan
$600 [14]
Andros Island in the Bahamas sits alongside one of the world's largest of these, over 120 miles long & a scuba divers' paradise
a (coral) reef
Mike
$800 [2]
Pilsner originated in this European republic that some consider the most beer-drinking nation on Earth
the Czech Republic
Mike
$600 [9]
Chapter 10 of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" is an "Extract from the Diary of" this man
Watson
Susan Evan
$600 [28]
Hisrecords include best men's single season win-loss rate in the Open era & a cover of "Rock & Roll" with the Full Metal Rackets
McEnroe
Mike
$600 [5]
Rock critic:GIGOLO SET
geologist
Evan
$600 [11]
Shewas born in the Florida panhandle & at school in Gainesville was named "Sweetheart of Sigma Chi"
Faye Dunaway
Mike
$800 [15]
In 2016 President Obama traveled to this Caribbean nation, the first visit by a sitting U.S. president in nearly 90 years
Cuba
Evan
DD $1,000 [1]
The name of this bodybuilding title was inspired by a beer, of all things
Mr. Olympia
Susan
$800 [17]
A charming Chapter 4 is entitled "In Which" this animal "Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One"
Eeyore
Susan
$800 [29]
In 2022 this former Laker aka DJ Diesel joined Steve Aoki on the electronic song "Welcome To The Playhouse"
Shaquille O'Neal (Shaq)
$800 [6]
Java Man:AIR TABS
barista
Evan
$800 [18]
Betty Mae Jumper from Indiantown was the first female head of this tribe of Florida
the Seminoles
Evan
$1,000 [3]
The small town of Kralendijk is the capital of this Caribbean island, the "B" of the ABC territories of the Netherlands
Bonaire
Evan
$1,000 [22]
Thispopular 400-year-old Dutch brand of beer is known for its distinctive green bottle with a swing-top cap
Grolsch
Susan
$1,000 [19]
Chapter 6 of "The Wind in the Willows" is named for this character, who gets hustled away from taking a wild ride in a car
Mr. Toad
Susan
$1,000 [30]
In 2011 this boxer & Philippines politician released a cover of "Sometimes When We Touch"
(Manny) Pacquiao
Mike
$1,000 [7]
Beast mounter:TIMID EXTRAS
taxidermist
Evan
$1,000 [20]
Feminist activist Roxcy O'Neal Bolton of Coral Gables was the driving force behind making August 26 this annual day
Women's Equality Day

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE WEDDED OPERA CATEGORY FIELDS AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION GEOGRAPHIC MOVIE TITLES MOONS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM ADD VERBS
$400 [27]
The title of this Mozart opera promises a wedding & includes the name of the groom
The Marriage of Figaro
Evan
$400 [12]
Someone who excels in multiple fields might be called a modern-day this man or woman, throwing it back to 15th c. multi-hyphenates
a Renaissance man
Mike
$400 [30]
New Hampshire got its own governor in 1741 after being a part of this colony for several decades
Massachusetts
Evan
$400 [24]
Chris Rock is the voice of Marty the Zebrawho goes from the Central Park Zoo to this title place
Madagascar
Susan
$400 [28]
Dwarf planet Haumea & its moons, Hi'iaka & Namaka, are named for the goddess of fertility & her 2 daughters in this language
Hawaiian
Evan
$400 [29]
Pardon me while I ____ on & on, also a noun for a stingless male bee
drone
Evan
$1,200 [11]
Sir Walter Scott's "The Bride of Lammermoor" was the basis for the opera called her "di Lammermoor" (& yes, she gets married)
Lucia
Susan
$800 [6]
Nearly 300 acres of rollingfieldsof farmland in Sullivan County, New York provided the venue for this event in August 1969
Woodstock
Susan
$800 [22]
Jean-Baptiste le Moyne de Bienville founded this city in 1718 as a port to handle trade from the Upper Mississippi Valley
New Orleans
Evan
$800 [1]
Kurt Russell & Val Kilmer got top billing in this movie; Stephen Lang was Ike Clanton
Tombstone
$800 [8]
The most recently discovered moon of Pluto, it was named for a mythological river of the underworld
Styx
Evan
$800 [23]
In a traditional alliterative wedding vow, "I take you to be my husband (or wife)" to ____ & to ____ "from this day forward"
to have & to hold
Mike
$1,600 [17]
The traditional "Here Comes The Bride" used at weddings is from his opera "Lohengrin", where Elsa marries the title character
Wagner
Evan
$1,200 [7]
In Greek & Roman myth, the good, the pious & the virtuous retire to these fields in the afterlife
the Elysian Fields
Evan
$1,600 [14]
On October 19, 1752 Benjamin Franklin published results of his kite/electricity experiment in this newspaper he bought 23 years earlier
the Pennsylvania Gazette
$1,200 [2]
Rex Reed called this 1974 mechanized gorefest "the most horrifying motion picture I have ever seen"
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Evan
$1,200 [5]
In 2024 it was announced that the "sand" dunes on this planet's moon Titan may be crushed remains of smaller moons
Saturn
Mike
$1,200 [15]
I wish my darn phone wouldn't ____, reflexively "fix" words it thinks I've Mississippi... misspelled
autocorrect
Evan
$2,000 [18]
One of Smetana's best-knownpiecesis his overture to this opera leading up to a wedding
The Bartered Bride
$1,600 [9]
Faraday viewed one of these fields as a series of lines of induction, then created a law
(electro)magnetic fields
Evan
$2,000 [21]
Wampanoag chief Metacom, aka this "King", was killed at the 1676 Battle of Mount Hope in the war named for him
King Philip
Mike
$1,600 [25]
Daniel Day-Lewis is the very bad Bill the Butcher in this Scorsese film
Gangs of New York
Susan
$1,600 [3]
This largest moon of Mars orbits only 3,700 miles from the surface, the closest to a planet of any moon in the solar system
Phobos
Evan
$1,600 [16]
Hey, cowboy, it's time to ____ that horse, also the word for the gear you'll use to hitch it to the wagon
harness
Mike
DD $3,000 [19]
The Verdi opera named for this Shakespeare character ends with a double wedding & apparently an early same sex one!
Falstaff
Evan
$2,000 [10]
Named for the 2nd president of the Tuskegee Institute, this field in Alabama was used to train Black pilots during World War II
Moton Field
DD $5,000 [13]
In 1653 he established the first municipal government of New Amsterdam, modeling it after cities in Holland
Stuyvesant
Mike
$2,000 [26]
Keith Carradine's "I'm Easy" from the soundtrack of this music-centric movie won a 1975 Oscar for Best Song
Nashville
$2,000 [4]
Voyager 2 discovered in 1989 that this largest moon of Neptune is one of the coldest objects in the solar system at -391 degrees F.
Triton
Evan
$2,000 [20]
In the fall new students ____, a Latin-derived synonym for enroll or register
matriculate
Mike

Final Jeopardy!

POETIC CHARACTERS

In an 1842 poem, it is said of this legendary character that his "quaint attire" is much admired

the Pied Piper (of Hamelin)

Susan "Who isLongfellow?" — wagered $2,000
Mike "Who is Falstaff?" — wagered $3,100
Evan "Who is Daniel Boone?" — wagered $4,601

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