Show #9232 2024-12-24 (taped 2024-10-30) Regular

Laura Faddah game 4.

Contestants

Jenna Hayes — an attorney from New York, New York

Harry Jarin — an emergency services consultant from Edgewater, Maryland

Laura Faddah — a manager from Memphis, Tennessee (whose 3-day cash winnings total $30,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Laura $2,400 $2,000 $5,200 $10,200
4-day champion: $40,400
$5,200
11 R, 5 W
Harry $1,800 $3,600 $13,200 $1
3rd place: $2,000
$15,200
16 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Jenna $3,600 $6,800 $18,200 $9,200
2nd place: $3,000
$16,200
20 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY NOVELS SCIENCE TIMELINE AIR TRAVEL JUST PEACHY DUMB WAITER
$200 [26]
Charles Deville's idea that volcanic craters lead to a network of passages inspired this man's "Journey to the Center of the Earth"
Jules Verne
Harry
$200 [28]
1796: In a pioneering lecture, Georges Cuvier uses the mastodon to show that this can & does happen to animal species
extinction
Jenna
$200 [1]
In 2019 Louisville renamed its international airport for a native son, this boxing legend
Muhammad Ali
Jenna
$200 [30]
Though he famously played for Detroit, baseball's Ty Cobb was known by this nickname based on his birthplace
the Georgia Peach
Harry
$200 [15]
"Don't get fooled!" became "Don't take any wooden" these coins
nickels
$200 [21]
In a 2004 episode of this show, a waiter makes the fatal mistake of complaining to Christopher & Paulie about a tip
The Sopranos
Laura
$400 [29]
In 1895 he published "Almayer's Folly" & gave up on trying to teach British readers the name Józef Korzeniowski
(Joseph) Conrad
Harry
$400 [6]
1833: Anselme Payen discovers diastase, aka amylase, the first of these proteins that catalyze chemical reactions
enzymes
Jenna
$400 [5]
With TSA precheck, you get to keep your shoes & belt on & leave these 2 "L"s in your bag
laptops & liquids
$400 [11]
This video game character is the ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom
Princess Peach
Jenna
$400 [16]
Maybe you're "dumb as a bag of" these, like the claw or cross peen type
a hammer
Laura
$400 [22]
The object of Charlie Day's & Charlie Kelly's affection, Mary Elizabeth Ellis plays the waitress on this show
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Harry
$600 [8]
Recent translators of this Italian novel say the title character is brattier than the one in the Disney movie
Pinocchio
$600 [27]
1880: Jacques & Pierre Curie discover "piezo-" this, emitted by certain crystals when they're put under pressure
electricity
Harry
$600 [2]
These seats that face a wall or curtain often mean more legroom & no one reclining in your lap
the bulkhead
Laura
$600 [12]
Using peach containers in the 1890s, James Naismith created this recreational activity
basketball
Jenna
$600 [17]
A great slam is saying that someone is depriving a village of its this; a Monty Python sketch featured a gathering of them
idiots
Jenna
$600 [23]
Steve Buscemi makes an appearance as a waiter dressed as Buddy Holly in this Tarantino film
Pulp Fiction
Jenna
DD $1,000 [9]
Not bad for a title too: Stephen Crane wrote that Henry "wished that he too, had a wound, a" these 4 words
a red badge of courage
Jenna
$800 [7]
1912: Max von Laue discovers the diffraction of these bursts of short-wavelength radiation
X-ray
$800 [3]
According to its website, the airport of this U.S. city is not only the world's busiest, but also the most efficient
Atlanta
Laura
$800 [13]
One of this pair's original 31 flavors of ice cream was peach
Baskin & Robbins
Harry
$800 [18]
Calling someone this "Hellraiser" villain is an insult that will torment them forever
a Pinhead
$800 [24]
She revisited a job from her pre-superstar days playing the sorely in need of flair Joanna in "Office Space"
Aniston
Jenna
$1,000 [10]
In this Jane Austen novel, Anne is single after some convincing--what's a better word?--got her to refuse Frederick
Persuasion
Jenna
$1,000 [20]
1965: Leonard Hayflick shows that these can divide & reproduce only a finite number of times before dying
cells
Jenna
$1,000 [4]
In 2007, the largest passenger airliner entered service--this manufacturer'sA380, which can hold up to 853 passengers
Airbus
Harry
$1,000 [14]
Vanilla & raspberries are part of the recipe for this dessert invented at the Savoy Hotel for a famous opera singer
a peach Melba
Laura
$1,000 [19]
A German word for "not" likely gave us the beginning of this 6-letter rhyming word that describes someone not so clever
a nitwit
$1,000 [25]
In this 1970 film Jack Nicholson tells a stubborn waitress to hold the chicken (between her knees!)
Five Easy Pieces
Laura

Double Jeopardy! Round

NICKNAMES OF HISTORIC WOMEN INSCRUTABLE WORDS INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WHEN IT'S TIME TO RHYME READ FLAGS HOLIDAY ENTERTAINMENT
$400 [30]
Nicknamed "Lady Lindy", she learned to fly in the early 1920s from female pilot Neta Snook
Amelia Earhart
Laura
$400 [19]
The music genre of Howlin' Wolf & John Lee Hooker
blues
Harry
$400 [1]
It's the body of water between Sudan & Saudi Arabia
the Red Sea
Jenna
$400 [18]
A 1784 version of "Roses are red, violets are blue" also rhymes "thine" with this amorous saint
Valentine
Jenna
$400 [29]
After a mutiny in "Treasure Island", the Hispaniola has this "flag of piracy--flying from her peak"
the Jolly Roger
Harry
$400 [28]
The "Parade of Wooden Soldiers" is a highlight of their "Christmas Spectacular" at Radio City Music Hall
the Rockettes
Jenna
$800 [10]
Martha was the real first name of this legendary figure of the American West who died in South Dakota in 1903
Calamity Jane
Laura
$800 [20]
Most wind power facilities have an array of these 3-bladed structures
turbines
Harry
$800 [2]
The Mekong River separates this country from Myanmar & Thailand
Laos
Laura Jenna
$800 [14]
Reduplicative rhyming words include this "H" word meaning acting all high & mighty
hoity-toity
Laura
$800 [6]
The book "Flags of Our Fathers" is an account of Marines who raised a partly red flag on this island
Iwo Jima
Laura
$800 [24]
This Dr. Seuss animated special first aired on TV in December 1966
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Laura
$1,200 [11]
Last name of "Lemonade Lucy", the 19th century first lady who allowed no alcohol to be served in the White House
Hayes
Laura
$1,200 [21]
An association of suppliers that restrict competition, like the Phoebus or Sinaloa
a cartel
Harry
$1,600 [4]
From Malmö in southern Sweden, take Route E20 across the Øresund Strait to this national capital on the west
Copenhagen
Harry
$1,200 [15]
Rhyming mnemonics include this exception-riddled one that does help you spell "receive"
I before E except after C
Jenna
$1,200 [7]
In a Margaret Atwood sequel, a "flag of the erstwhile United States... has been painted over with that of" this place
Gilead
Laura
$1,200 [25]
Natalie Wood was only 8 when she played the little Santa Clause skeptic in this classic film
Miracle on 34th Street
Laura
$1,600 [12]
Later pardoned by President Ford, Iva Toguri D'Aquino was one of the DJs with this infamous nickname during World War II
Tokyo Rose
Harry
$1,600 [22]
Artie Shaw & Pete Fountain were jazzmen who specialized in this instrument
clarinet
Jenna
$2,000 [5]
Thisformer Soviet republic borders Lithuania to the north, Poland to the west & Ukraine to the south
Belarus
Harry
$1,600 [16]
"Freak with / ...keep a secret" & "to the precinct / ...nothing' recent" are in "Turn It Up Remix" by this rapper perfect for the category
Busta Rhymes
Laura
$1,600 [8]
Set in 1793, Victor Hugo's last novel contains the line "It is a flag"--the French one called this
a tricolor
Harry
$1,600 [26]
A 2019 album celebrating Hanukkah featured such artists as Jack Black & this band of sisters--Este, Danielle & Alana
Haim
Jenna
$2,000 [13]
For helping advance women in the Navy, this 4-term, 3-name Maine senator was the "Mother of the Waves"
Margaret Chase Smith
$2,000 [23]
A food made from gluten that's also called wheat meat; some restaurants use it to make mock duck
seitan
Harry
DD $3,000 [3]
These mountains extend more than 1,200 miles through Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia
the Atlas Mountains
Jenna
$2,000 [17]
My name is Ken / I am the host / Don't take my job, now, / Colin Jost... this "Roll Call" with roots in Prince & Spike Lee
the "Shabooya Roll Call"
DD $2,000 [9]
A book put out by MoMA highlights this artist & his "deceptively straightforward paintings of flags"
Jasper Johns
Harry
$2,000 [27]
This Russian-born composer counted "White Christmas" among his favorite songs that he wrote
Berlin
Jenna

Final Jeopardy!

GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC AWARENESS

As individuals, only Santa Claus & this public service ad icon introduced in 1944 have their own ZIP codes

Smokey Bear

Laura "Who is Smokey the Bear" — wagered $5,000
Harry "Who is Uncle Sam?" — wagered $13,199
Jenna "Who is Rosie the Riveter?" — wagered $9,000

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