Show #9235 2024-12-27 (taped 2024-10-30) Regular

Laura Faddah game 7.

Contestants

Herb Jeong — a retired pension administrator from San Francisco, California

Megan Riddell — a human resources data analyst from Linthicum, Maryland

Laura Faddah — a manager from Memphis, Tennessee (whose 6-day cash winnings total $79,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Laura $1,600 $3,400 $10,000 $8,000
7-day champion: $87,400
$11,800
18 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Megan $1,800 $1,800 $1,400 $1,452
3rd place: $2,000
$3,400
10 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Herb $1,000 $400 $3,200 $2,900
2nd place: $3,000
$5,200
9 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

STARTS & ENDS WITH "O" HODGEPODGE CUPS & GLASSES F. SCOTT FITZGERALD THE LAST TYCOON THIS SIDE OF PARODIES
$200 [1]
Founded by King Harald Hardrada around 1050, it's home to more than 1 million people
Oslo
Laura
$200 [6]
At age 14 in 1976, Romanian athlete Nadia Comăneciwas the first Olympic gymnast to receive one of these perfect scores
a ten
Laura
$200 [30]
It's a cylindrical glass cup with an acrobatic name; back in the day, it had a pointed bottom & couldn't be set down without it rolling
a tumbler
$200 [18]
F. Scott Fitzgerald was named for this man, a lyricist of note
Francis Scott Key
Megan
$200 [24]
In 2007 a Time magazine cover story called this News Corporation founder "The Last Tycoon"
(Rupert) Murdoch
Laura
$200 [25]
Roger Rees was the no-goodnik Sheriff of Rottingham in this comedy subtitled "Men in Tights"
Robin Hood
Megan
$400 [2]
This type of work takes its name from a chapel in Rome where musical performances were held in the 16th century
oratorio
Megan
$400 [7]
The most popular TV show in the early 1950s, this sitcom pioneered the use of 3 cameras to film in front of a live audience
I Love Lucy
Laura
$400 [13]
Rather than regular glasses, many hip bars use this type of canning jar named for a 19th century American tinsmith
a Mason jar
Laura
$400 [10]
A disastrous trip from Lyon to Paris was one bump in Fitzgerald's relationship with this other American author
Hemingway
Herb
$400 [23]
This newspaper tycoon brought a Cistercian monastery over from Spain but couldn't put it together again
Hearst
Herb
$400 [26]
This title Swiss mountain girl is "Mad" in a 2022 parody & takes revenge against an evil cheese tyrant
Heidi
Megan
$600 [3]
In Spanish this palindromic word means "eye" or in slang, "watch out!"
ojo
Laura
$600 [8]
First performed in 1892, "The Nutcracker" was the last of this composer's ballets
Tchaikovsky
Megan
$600 [14]
This Toby Keith song is named for a beer pong perennial invented by Robert L. Hulseman
"Red Solo Cup"
Laura
$600 [9]
In one of Scott's stories, a protagonist says his father has one of these "as big as the Ritz-Carlton Hotel"
a diamond
$800 [21]
Known as "The Commodore", he bought a boat in 1810 & began ferrying folks between Staten Island & NYC
Vanderbilt
Laura Megan
$600 [19]
In this film Dewey Cox' Dylan phase includes the lyric "mailboxes drip like lampposts in the twisted birth canal of the Coliseum"
Walk Hard
$800 [4]
Shopping for ingredients in the marinade for souvlaki? Don't forget this essential herb
oregano
Herb
$800 [11]
Founded in 2003, this auto company is named for an 1884 immigrant to the United States
Tesla
Herb
$800 [15]
In the late 12th century, Robert de Boron drew from the Gospel of Nicodemus to tell the tale of this holy vessel
the Grail
Megan
$800 [16]
Fitzgerald paired these young ladies of his day with "Philosophers" for an alliterative book title
flappers
$1,000 [22]
This Greek shipping tycoon died not too far from the water at 63 Boulevard Victor Hugo, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Onassis
Megan
$800 [27]
The high school in "Not Another Teen Movie" is named for this '80s director whose films provided fodder for the parody
(John) Hughes
Laura
$1,000 [5]
A word coined in the 1960s, it's the segment of music heard here... making a nice capper to my clue reading
outro
Herb
$1,000 [12]
"Democracy Dies in Darkness" is the slogan of this newspaper
The Washington Post
$1,000 [29]
Thistype of glass bears the name of a cocktail made with lemon juice, sugar & fizzy water
a collins glass
Herb
$1,000 [17]
Paying her respects over Scott's body, this Round Table wit quoted a line from "The Great Gatsby" that's too salty for us to say
Dorothy Parker
Megan
DD $2,000 [20]
Jay Gould was so unscrupulously wealthy he could be the prototypical this, with a criminal & a noble title in the name
a robber baron
Megan
$1,000 [28]
The sequel to this "Top Gun" parody was "Part Deux"
Hot Shots!

Double Jeopardy! Round

SHOPPING FOR SOUVENIRS SCIENCE MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM GEOGRAPHY THE "D.C." UNIVERSE DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS THE DREADED LESSER-KNOWN OPERA CATEGORY
$400 [6]
From France, how about some of these French-named pouches filled with dried lavender
sachets
Megan Herb
$400 [15]
The surface of our star is peppered with these planet-sized blemishes that have a central dark area called an umbra
a sunspot
Herb
$400 [23]
The Jumbo Shrimp try not to get eaten by Jaguars in this Florida city just south of the Georgia border
Jacksonville
Laura
$400 [21]
He got into the MCU as Iron Man's sidekick Colonel Rhodes, aka Iron Patriot
Don Cheadle
$400 [16]
Aka "ring-tailed bandits", these animals are known to unscrew jars, untie knots & defeat locks
a raccoon
Megan
$800 [17]
Known more for his Marches, he composed the comic opera "El Capitan" about competing Spanish viceroys in Peru
Sousa
Laura
$800 [7]
Throughout Norway, you'll find souvenir shops with figurines of these mythical beings
trolls
Laura
$800 [2]
In a Newtonian law, "F" is for attractive force & "G" is for this constant
gravity
Laura
$800 [11]
The Southern League's Rocket City Trash Pandas play in Madison but were formerly the Bears of this other Alabama "M" city
Mobile
Laura Megan
$800 [1]
Sheplayed the intrepid Janet on "The Good Place"
D'Arcy Carden
$800 [12]
Job held by Tom Brady & Sir Henry Morgan
a Buccaneer
Laura Herb
$1,200 [20]
Originally performed by both female & castrato sopranos, Francesco Veracini's "Rosalinda" was based on this Shakespeare comedy
As You Like It
$1,200 [8]
Some call it liquid gold & in Morocco you can get thereal deal; your silky shiny hair will thank you
argan oil
Laura Megan
$1,600 [4]
These clotting agents form in giant bone marrow cells called megakaryocytes
platelets
Laura
$1,200 [24]
The Sod Poodles are very good boys for this Texas panhandle city whose soil color gives it its Spanish name, meaning "yellow"
Amarillo
Laura
$1,200 [18]
"Rock, Roll & Remember" is a memoir by this man who began hosting "Bandstand" at Philadelphia's WFIL-TV in 1956
Dick Clark
Herb
$1,600 [14]
A woman's name begins this verb that means to indulge or pamper excessively
to mollycoddle
$1,600 [9]
In India & nearby regions, you can pick up this type of shawl or scarf made from the wool of a certain cashmere goat
a pashmina
Laura
DD $1,800 [3]
Gymnosperms like the pine tree reproduce via these organs also called strobili
cones
Laura
$1,600 [25]
It's easy for the Space Cowboys to see the parent club, the Astros--the team plays for this "sweet" city in Houston's metro area
Sugar Land
Laura
$1,600 [22]
In "First Man", Ryan Gosling reunited with this"La La Land" director to tell the story of Neil Armstrong
Damien Chazelle
DD $2,000 [13]
This synonym for clown comes from the Italian for "puff out the cheeks"
a buffoon
Herb
$2,000 [10]
From Venice, hop a boat to this nearby island & buy some authentic glass of the same name--maybe avase
Murano
$2,000 [5]
No. 12 on the periodic table, it's the third-most plentiful structural metal in the world after aluminum & iron
magnesium
$2,000 [26]
The Rumble Ponies horse around in this SUNY city south of Syracuse whose name should bing a bell
Binghamton
Laura
$2,000 [27]
This late, great actor was an amoral, sexist boss in "Nine to Five" & again in "Tootsie"
Dabney Coleman
Herb
$2,000 [19]
In Matthew 22 Jesus is confronted by members of the Pharisees & by this sect
the Sadducees
Laura

Final Jeopardy!

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS

In his very first appearance by name, this character comes downstairs "bump-bump-bump on the back of his head"

Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Bear)

Megan "Who is Winnie the Pooh" — wagered $52
Herb "Who isWinnie TThe Velveteen Rabbit?" — wagered $300
Laura "Who is ?" — wagered $2,000

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