Show #9217 2024-12-03 (taped 2024-10-02) Regular

Contestants

Stevie Ruiz — an assistant front office manager from Montauk, New York

Luca Gerace — a chef from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Evan Jones — a software designer from Seattle, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,199)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Evan $1,400 $5,200 $15,100 $11,799
2nd place: $3,000
$13,200
19 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Luca $2,600 $2,800 $2,000 $1,980
3rd place: $2,000
$2,000
9 R, 4 W
Stevie $1,200 $2,000 $18,400 $17,987
New champion: $17,987
$18,400
20 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

A WALT WHITMAN SAMPLER SOCIAL MEDIA BRITSPEAK OCCUPATIONAL TV SECTS "N", THE CITY
$200 [29]
In his preface to this collection, Whitman wrote, "The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem"
Leaves of Grass
Evan
$200 [17]
In 2023 Elon Musk renamed Twitter this
X
Evan
$200 [27]
If someone asks you to "give me a tinkle on the blower", they're asking you to do this; don't forget!
call them
Stevie
$200 [24]
On "Sex and the City", this character was a newspaper columnist writing about her experiences
Carrie Bradshaw
Stevie
$200 [28]
The Clapham sect was a group of Anglicans that helped abolish this in England
slavery
Luca
$200 [11]
It's the capital of the Campania region
Napoli (Naples)
Luca
$400 [30]
Of this "noiseless, patient" creature Whitman wrote, "It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself"
spider
$400 [16]
This platform traces its roots to an online service at Harvard that got students to rate each others' attractiveness
Facebook
Luca
$400 [26]
Blimey is an alteration of this 2-word phrase, something that the Philistines did to Samson
blind me
Luca
$400 [15]
Newman on "Seinfeld" & Cliff Clavin on "Cheers" both had this job
a mailman
Stevie
$400 [22]
One of the differences between these 2 branches of Islam is how the passage of power was handled after Muhammad's death
Sunni & Shia
Stevie
$400 [10]
The New Jersey Devils play their home games in this city
Newark
Stevie
$600 [18]
Whitman's "Passage to India" inspired the title of a 1924 novel by this author
Forster
Evan
$600 [4]
This Chinese-owned platform has its own version in China called Douyin
TikTok
Evan Luca
$600 [13]
In "The Waste Land" T.S. Eliot used this double-talk farewell between several "goonight"s
ta ta
Luca
$600 [14]
Alan Harper, Charlie's brother on this sitcom, was a chiropractor
Two and a Half Men
Stevie
$600 [21]
Fuso-Kyo is a mountain-worshipping sect of this religion
Shinto
Evan
$600 [8]
Looks awfully pleasant to visit this city on the Baie des Anges
Nice
Luca
$800 [1]
Whitman began a poem, "Beat! beat! drums!--"Blow!" these! "blow"
bugles
Evan Stevie
$800 [2]
End-to-end encryption is the hallmark of this messaging app whose creator was recently arrested in France
Telegram
Stevie
$800 [5]
In Brit slang, a quod is one of these, like Newgate or Wormwood Scrubs
a prison
$800 [12]
On "Gilligan's Island", Roy Hinkley was the name of the character better known by this occupation
the professor
Evan
$800 [6]
Vaishnavism is a form of Hinduism devoted to this god whose name also starts with a "V"
Vishnu
Luca
$800 [7]
The southern edge of this East African capital has a small national park known as the "Kifaru Ark", kifaru meaning rhino in Swahili
Nairobi
Evan
$1,000 [19]
"A Child's Reminiscence" was later retitled "Out of the Cradle" these 2 words
Endlessly Rocking
$1,000 [3]
Celebs get design inspo online too! Diane Keaton wrote a book called "The House That" this visual discovery platform "Built"
Pinterest
Stevie
$1,000 [25]
Just ask spindly comedian Daniel--"a load of" this 4-letter stuff is garbage, subpar
tosh
$1,000 [23]
Real-life crisis management specialist Judy Smithinspired this character with the same job on "Scandal"
Olivia Pope
DD $2,200 [20]
In the 19th century the Namdhari sect of this religion began wearing turbans straight across the forehead--no more jaunty angles
Sikhism
Evan
$1,000 [9]
The Hu-Ning Highway connects this port on the Yangtze River with Shanghai
Nanjing
Luca

Double Jeopardy! Round

ADMISSIBLE EDIFICE A MIX OF SCIENCE ARTIST BY ALBUMS CAMERAS & PHOTOGRAPHY ITALIAN EXPLORERS 6 LETTERS, ENDS IN "Y"
$400 [14]
The Geisel Library at UCSD / Nifty & wondrous, you really must see / Honors a man of ozecular fame / Under this greatly familiarer name
Dr. Seuss
Evan
$400 [24]
It's a facula that a facula is a bright spot in the photosphere of this body
the Sun
Evan
$400 [6]
"Parachutes" &"X&Y"
Coldplay
Evan
$400 [29]
A type of lens where the focal length is shorter than the lens' length is called this, partly from Greek for "afar"
telephoto
Stevie
$400 [30]
November 3, 1493, gimme a sec, was a... Sunday. No, I'm not a savant, I just know that's when this man sighted the island of Dominica
Columbus
Evan
$400 [13]
Once thought to be influenced by the Moon's phases, it's a word for sheer craziness
lunacy
Stevie
$800 [23]
Seen here living up to its name, The Egg is a performing arts center at Empire State Plaza in this capital
Albany
Stevie
$800 [18]
This mammalian-sounding unit of measurement is equal to Avogadro's number
mole
Evan
$800 [2]
"Unorthodox Jukebox" &"24k Magic"
Bruno Mars
Evan
$800 [27]
A DSLR camera is a digital single-lens this
reflex
Stevie
$800 [26]
In 1503 Ludovico di Varthema dressed as a Muslim & joined a caravan to this holy city with a "temple similar to the Colosseum"
Mecca
Stevie
$800 [12]
It's the difference between your home's value & how much you still owe on it
equity
Evan
$1,200 [22]
Let's talk Turkey... also known as the Church of the Divine Wisdom, this Istanbul structure dates back to the 6th century
the Hagia Sophia
Luca Stevie
$1,200 [17]
This effect named for an Austrian man manifests itself in receding siren noises & cosmic red-shifting expansion
the Doppler effect
Luca
$1,200 [1]
"Reasonable Doubt" &"The Black Album"
Jay-Z
Stevie
$1,600 [19]
To get a stick motionblur, you can allow more light to pass through your cam by setting a slow speed of this device
the shutter
Evan
$1,600 [3]
In 1524 he sighted New York Bay & then "bridged" the Atlantic once again in 1528, when he was eaten by cannibals in the West Indies
Verrazzano
Evan Stevie
$1,200 [10]
Thislarge bird of prey is known for plucking fish right out of the water
an osprey
Luca
$1,600 [15]
ACleveland Cliniccenter for brain health isn't in Ohio, but in this glitzy city whose call Frank Gehry long resisted
Las Vegas
$1,600 [7]
Part of a Canadian province is in the name of this current that usually meets the Gulf Stream around Cape Hatteras
the Labrador Current
$1,600 [4]
"Utopia" &"Astroworld"
Travis Scott
Stevie
$2,000 [28]
The name of this German camera company bears the first 3 letters of the company's early leader Ernst Leitz
Leica
Stevie
$2,000 [25]
In 1497, sailing for the British, he landed in eastern Canada--not sure where--anyway, not Asia as he thought
(John) Cabot
Evan Luca
$1,600 [9]
Differing by a first letter, one word means to gather data or opinions from a group of people; the other, to provide goods or services
survey & purvey
Stevie
$2,000 [21]
In a few hours Frank Lloyd Wright drew the plans for this getaway right on the Bear Run River in Pennsylvania
Fallingwater
Evan
$2,000 [8]
About 1.5% of any quantity of the isotope uranium-238 decays to this element every 100 million years
lead
$2,000 [5]
"Awaken, My Love!" &"Because the Internet"
Childish Gambino
Stevie
DD $4,000 [20]
His first roll of pictures from a Brownie camera was developed at Pillsbury's Pictures in Old Yosemite Village
Ansel Adams
Evan
DD $5,900 [16]
Last name of Niccolò & Maffeo, who in 1271 were given papal letters to present to Kublai Khan
Polo
Evan
$2,000 [11]
In England, it referred to people of high birth, high social class, wealthy landowners ranking just below the nobility
gentry
Stevie

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY EUROPEAN LITERATURE

An early version of this novel was first published as a serial under the title "The Year 1805"

War and Peace

Luca "What is A Farewell to Arms?????" — wagered $20
Evan "What is A Tale of 2 Cities" — wagered $3,301
Stevie "What is Great Expectations" — wagered $413

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