Show #9229 2024-12-19 (taped 2024-10-29) Regular

Laura Faddah game 1.

Contestants

Laura Faddah — a manager from Memphis, Tennessee

Neal Bowling — a journeyman lineman from Mackinaw, Illinois

Eric Weldon-Schilling — a bar manager and sommelier from Houston, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Eric $2,800 $3,400 $10,000 $0
3rd place: $2,000
$7,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Neal $-600 $400 $9,800 $2,800
2nd place: $3,000
$9,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Laura $2,200 $6,400 $13,600 $11,200
New champion: $11,200
$13,600
15 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. HISTORY 500 QUESTIONS 3-LETTER, 3-LETTER "B" MOVIES POETIC WOMEN POTENT POTABLE RHYME TIME
$200 [10]
In 1839 it replaced Vandalia as Illinois' capital
Springfield
Eric
$200 [16]
In many states, the difference between these 2 types of larceny is if money or goods worth $500 or more is stolen in the crime
grand larcency & petty larcency
Laura
$200 [15]
It comes between "ready" & "go" in a preparatory phrase
get set
Eric
$200 [21]
Feathered friends become foes & attack in this Hitchcock horror that starred Tippi Hedren & Rod Taylor
The Birds
Neal
$200 [26]
The "Envelope Poems" of this 19th century New Englander are named for what she scribbled on
Emily Dickinson
Laura
$200 [1]
A bubbly locomotive
a champagne train
Eric
$400 [11]
The 20th Amendment, which moved the presidential inauguration up from March to January, has this "avian" nickname
Lame Duck
Neal
$400 [17]
It's what the letters stand for in the S&P 500, an index thought by many investors to be the best measure of the stock market
Standard & Poor's
Laura
$400 [22]
In collegiate parlance, they're the first 2 words of the acronym BMOC
big man
Eric
$400 [6]
"Lads do football or boxing or wrestling, not friggin' ballet" is a line in this film
Billy Elliot
Laura
$400 [27]
Elizabeth Barrett Browning asked, "How do I love thee?", then answered her own question starting with these 5 words
let me count the ways
Laura
$400 [2]
A timepiece fueled by Lagavulin or Balvenie
a Scotch watch
Eric
$600 [12]
Located in Wyoming & of volcanic origin, it was the first U.S. national monument to be established
Devils Tower
Eric Neal
$600 [18]
In a Dr. Seuss story about bullying, this young boy is somehow wearing 500 hats on his head
Bartholomew Cubbins
$600 [23]
This Fred Astaire/ Ginger Rogers movie title is also something that completes a spiffy men's outfit
Top Hat
Eric
$600 [7]
This2022 fast-moving action film takes place aboard the imaginary Nippon Speed Line
Bullet Train
Neal
$600 [28]
A painter & a poet in her own right, Frieda Hughesstill finds herself living in the shadow of herparents, Ted Hughes & her
Sylvia Plath
Eric
$600 [3]
Entomb the fortified Spanish wine
bury the sherry
DD $1,000 [13]
During his tenure as chief justice of the United States, he swore in 5 presidents, including Andrew Jackson
John Marshall
Neal
$800 [19]
The title of this quirky 2009 film referred to the length of a romance with Zooey Deschanel, not a season
(500) Days of Summer
Neal
$800 [24]
It's a hyphenated adjective meaning "understated"; in recent slang it's an adverb too, as in "He ____ wants to go out with you"
low-key
$800 [8]
In a junkyard, a young woman discovers a battle-scarred & broken Autobot in this transformative action adventure
Bumblebee
Laura
$800 [29]
In "First Fig" she wrote, "My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night"
Edna St. Vincent Millay
$800 [4]
A bat-logo rum brand soiree
a Bacardi party
Eric
$1,000 [14]
On October 10, 1973, heresigned as vice president & pleaded no contest to one count of income tax evasion
Spiro Agnew
Eric
$1,000 [20]
One of his rags-to-riches stories is called "Five Hundred Dollars: Or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret"
Horatio Alger
Eric Laura
$1,000 [25]
Nothing to do with a sober marathon, it's a term for a rehearsal or practice
a dry run
Laura
$1,000 [9]
"The monster demands a mate" is a tagline forthis1935 sequel starring Elsa Lanchester
Bride of Frankenstein
Eric
$1,000 [30]
Thispoet who wrote "The New Colossus" has been called one of the first successful Jewish-American authors
Emma Lazarus
Laura
$1,000 [5]
A Mexican beer in the setting where Romeo & Juliet loved & lost
a Corona Verona (Verona Corona)
Laura

Double Jeopardy! Round

A WORD IN A SHAKESPEARE PLAY TITLE BOOMERS THE SCIENCE FARE WRITE FOR TV GO JUMP IN THE OCEAN INITIALS FROM GREEK GOD TO ROMAN GOD
$400 [20]
As a holiday it celebrates the halfway point of a harvest season
Midsummer
Eric
$400 [8]
Famous people named Al born in NYC in 1954 who at one point lost more than 100 pounds include Al Roker & this minister & activist
Al Sharpton
Laura
$400 [13]
In 2019 officials at this New Mexico lab announced a $13 billion plan to ramp up production of plutonium cores
Los Alamos
Eric
$400 [3]
Richard Price wrote gritty novels like "Ladies' Man" before writing for this Baltimore-set HBO show
The Wire
Eric
$400 [2]
If you want to get a book off the Barents Shelf, you'll have to jump into this ocean
the Arctic Ocean
$400 [1]
E to C:As mommy, Aphrodite was out & Venus was in for these 2 li'l guys
Eros & Cupid
$800 [21]
The short-tailed variety of this insectivore uses toxic saliva to immobilize prey
a shrew
Neal
$800 [9]
In 1970 Annie Leibovitz got her 1st photo assignment from this magazine & boomer Bible: Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane
Rolling Stone
Neal
$800 [14]
Julius Rosenwaldof the Sears company raised millions to convert a World's Fair building to a Science & Industry museumin this city
Chicago
Neal
$800 [4]
David Benioff wrote "City of Thieves" then co-created this fantasy show that ran from 2011 to 2019
Game of Thrones
Neal
$800 [18]
Way down on the ocean floor, the process of subduction creates these, like the Java & Aleutian ones
trenches
$800 [27]
H to M:When the gods absolutely, positively needed something delivered overnight (or sooner!), they were the dudes to call
Hermes & Mercury
Neal
$1,600 [23]
Pitching for the Yankees, Tommy John once committed 3 of these on one play
errors
$1,200 [10]
Astronaut Kathryn Sullivan spent lots of time in orbit & was fittingly born on the day of the Bobby Thomson home run known as this
the "Shot Heard 'Round the World"
$1,200 [15]
Back in 1989, this 3-letter drug was the only one approved for use against AIDS & it cost a shocking $8,000 per year
AZT
Laura
$1,200 [5]
This TV show began as a script written by Michael Crichton about 24 hours in a hospital
ER
Neal
$1,200 [19]
Also known as the Ganga Trough, the Swatch of No Ground is a haven for whales in this alliterative bay
the Bay of Bengal
$1,200 [28]
D to B:With these 2, come for fruitfulness & vegetation, but stay for the wine & ecstasy
Dionysus & Bacchus
Eric
$2,000 [24]
Woman: "I'm Beatrice Reiner. I stop at the hotel"; Groucho: "I'm Ronald Kornblow. I stop at" this
nothing
Neal
$1,600 [11]
As well as "Sin City", he's famous for creating "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns", but was a Superboy fan as a boomer kid
(Frank) Miller
Neal
$1,600 [16]
Completed in 2003, this effort of mapping 3 billion base pairs of DNA in Homo sapiens cost about $2.7 billion
the Human Genome Project
Laura
$1,600 [6]
This "Speed-the-plow" playwright & "House of Games" screenwriter also wrote the TV movie "Phil Spector"
David Mamet
Neal
$1,600 [25]
The North Atlantic Gyre has 4 parts: the North Atlantic Current, the Canary Current, the North Equatorial Current & this warm flow
the Gulf Stream
Eric
$2,000 [30]
A to M:A word to the wise--they were equal opportunity as war goddesses
Athena to Minerva
Neal Laura
DD $3,000 [22]
Sir, please come back to the restaurant--instead of the customer copy, you kept the slip marked this "copy"
merchant
Neal
$2,000 [12]
Oversized steel versions of inflatable pool toys are one consumer culture-influenced series by this artist
Jeff Koons
$2,000 [17]
Itslaunch date--December 25, 2021; its cost at time of launch--$10 billion
the James Webb (Space) Telescope
Eric
$2,000 [7]
Crime writer Walter Mosleylent his pen tothisFX series about South Central drug dealer Franklin Saint
Snowfall
Neal
$2,000 [26]
Named for an English explorer, this passage connects the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans south of South America
the Drake Passage
Laura
DD $4,600 [29]
H to J:These chief goddesses had their jealous moments in both civilizations
Hera & Juno
Eric

Final Jeopardy!

SUPER BOWL HISTORY

It's the only team to play in the Super Bowl before Neil Armstrong's Moon walk that has not been back to the Big Game since

the Jets

Neal "What is The Cleveland Browns?" — wagered $7,000
Eric "What is giants?" — wagered $10,000
Laura "What is Houston?" — wagered $2,400

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