Show #9293 2025-03-19 (taped 2025-01-28) Regular

Alex DeFrank game 4.

Contestants

Adam Silverman — a scientist from Arlington, Massachusetts

Ann Velenchik — an economics professor from Brookline, Massachusetts

Alex DeFrank — an inventory specialist from Brooklyn, New York (whose 3-day cash winnings total $75,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Alex $5,000 $8,000 $37,400 $26,800
4-day champion: $102,400
$27,600
32 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W
Ann $2,200 $4,400 $6,000 $6,000
3rd place: $2,000
$6,000
9 R, 2 W
Adam $1,400 $3,000 $13,000 $13,000
2nd place: $3,000
$13,000
15 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

10 POINTS FOR SLITHERIN' "STICK" UP MOVIES BY DECADE FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES TALKIN' 'BOUT MY GENERATION THE WHO?
$200 [14]
When it lacks a shell, a snail relative is generally called this
a slug
Ann
$200 [27]
Long before its use in gaming, it was slang for a baseball bat
a joystick
Adam
$200 [26]
"Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom"
the 1980s
Alex
$200 [30]
A film about St. Francis is "Fratello sole, sorella luna"; Fratello & Sorella are brother & sister, sole & luna are these
sun & moon
Adam
$200 [9]
Increasing the population more than 50% starting the year after WWII ended through 1964 was how this 2-word gen got its name
the Baby Boomers
Ann
$200 [25]
Who indeed! He wrote, "My town is called Who-ville, for I am a who and we Whos are all thankful and grateful to you"
Dr. Seuss
Alex
$400 [13]
Darwin did an in-depth study on these commonplace annelids; one species can grow to 11 feet in length!
earthworms
Alex
$400 [3]
It's the term for a cocktail stirrer, often with a little ball on one end
a swizzle stick
Alex
$400 [19]
"Good Will Hunting"
the 1990s
Adam
$400 [29]
Meaning "my soulmate", "mi media naranja" is literally my half this fruit for which many parts of Spain are famous
oranges
Alex
$400 [10]
Covering births from 1965 to 1980 & obviously the best generation, it's aka the MTV generation, but that's just too many letters
Generation X
Alex
$400 [2]
She's the who who led her party to a landslide victory in 1983, winning a 144-seat majority & retaining her Downing St. address
Thatcher
Alex
$600 [12]
One vowel off from the name of a stinky mammal, this lizard likes to burrow & live in the ground
a skink
Alex
$600 [15]
Something that provides stability or the insect seen here
a walking stick
Alex
$600 [18]
"Zootopia"
the 2010s
Alex
$600 [22]
Gyaku-Gire, the anger of one who's in the wrong, is also a Panda trading card in this world that sometimes outsells Pokémon
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Ann
$600 [24]
Those born from 1997 to 2010 like Greta Thunberg & Jenna Ortega are letter-perfect as this generation
Gen Z
Alex
$600 [6]
Why, he's the 19th century genius who made a major invention & also started the Volta Bureau for the Deaf
Alexander Graham Bell
Alex Adam
$800 [11]
Despite the name, this type of arthropod comes up a bit short, usually maxing out at only 200 pairs of feet
a millipede
Alex
$800 [5]
At the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, you can enjoy a meal at this tavern with the same name as the one in the books
Three Broomsticks
Adam
$800 [17]
"The Guns of Navarone"
the 1960s
Alex Adam
$800 [21]
Sometimes delicate, sometimes decadent, artof the period before & even after 1900 is called Fin de siècle, or end of this
the century
Alex
$800 [28]
1981 to 1996 kids are called these; a 2017 business book has the alliterative title "Motivating" them
Millennials
Ann
$800 [7]
Who, what, where, when:Catherine the Great, becoming empress, this then Russian capital, July 9, 1762
St. Petersburg
Ann
DD $1,000 [1]
There are many types of these, named for how they move; only one is an American rattlesnake, so it's the one used as an insult in Westerns
sidewinders
Alex
$1,000 [4]
Often occurring in kids, this "colorful" fracture happens when a bone bends & cracks, instead of separating totally
greenstick
Ann
$1,000 [16]
"Sergeant York"
the 1940s
Ann
$1,000 [20]
"Not for all the butter in Småland" is the Swedish equivalent of this English phrase involving an Asian country
not for all the tea in China
Ann
$1,000 [23]
A Tom Brokaw book title defined this group that covers those born from 1901 to 1927
the Greatest Generation
Alex
$1,000 [8]
"Who am I? Why am I here?", asked James Stockdale, the running mate of this then independent candidate at a VP debate in 1992
Perot
Alex

Double Jeopardy! Round

TAKE TIME FOR BOOKS OLYMPIC HOST CITY ATTRACTIONS BALLET & OPERA POP CULTURE ANATOMY EMBASSIES IN WASHINGTON TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS
$400 [28]
This physicist followed up "A Brief History of Time" a few years later with "A Briefer History of Time"
Stephen Hawking
Adam
$400 [20]
The Spandau Citadel &the Tiergarten
Berlin
Alex
$400 [29]
Gertrude Stein fêted Teresa of Avila & others, working with Virgil Thomson on the opera titled "Four" of these "in Three Acts"
saints
Alex
$400 [30]
He first appeared in the short film "Frog Baseball" alongside his compatriot-in-crass Beavis
Butt-Head
Alex
$400 [27]
In Oct. 2023 its ambassador & former PM Kevin Rudd naturally threw a barbie for the opening of its new D.C. embassy
Australia
Adam
$400 [24]
From the Latin for "blot out", it's what you want the authorities to do to the records of that crime you committed years ago
expunge
Ann
$800 [11]
"The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul" was the second novel by this author to feature his holistic detective Dirk Gently
Douglas Adams
Adam
$800 [19]
The Holmenkollen Ski Museum &the Munch Art Museum
Oslo
Alex
$800 [4]
Not only do the Snow King & Queen turn up in this popular ballet, the Mouse King also makes an appearance
The Nutcracker
Adam
$800 [26]
"Rolling Stone" called the members of this band "five brainy lads" & lauded "Hail to the Thief" as an "anxious digi-rock masterpiece"
Radiohead
Alex
$800 [22]
Gardiner Hubbard, a founder of this world-spanning society, once owned the present-day Hungarian embassy
the National Geographic Society
Ann
$800 [25]
A day on which night & day are of the same length
equinox
Alex
$1,200 [7]
"A Time to Kill", John Grisham's novel about a murder trial in the South, takes its title from this Bible book
Ecclesiastes
Adam
$1,200 [15]
Casa Vicens Gaudí &the Palace of Catalan Music
Barcelona
Adam
$1,200 [3]
This Virgil work inspired the opera "Les Troyens" by Hector Berlioz
The Aeneid
Alex
$1,200 [13]
In 2024 Idris Elba voiced this title character in a Paramount+ show set in the Sonic the Hedgehog universe
Knuckles
Alex
$1,200 [23]
Where did this president live after the Brits trashed the White House? A complex called The Seven Buildings, where Mexico'sembassyis now
Madison
Alex
$1,200 [8]
Add an "E" to a word for a wife or husband & you get this verb you use when you adopt a cause
espouse
Adam
$1,600 [6]
Proust's "À la recherche du temps perdu" is sometimes translated, very literally, as this
In Search of Lost Time
Alex
$2,000 [18]
Juventus Stadium &the Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile
Torino
Alex
$2,000 [1]
"The Fallen Woman" in Italian, this opera centers on the courtesan Violetta
La traviata
Alex
$1,600 [14]
Inthiscolorfully named 2023 Netflix show, Maya Erskine voices Mizu, a female warrior bent on revenge in feudal Japan
Blue Eye Samurai
$1,600 [16]
The sons of this late architect designed the Chinese embassy
I.M. Pei
Alex
$1,600 [9]
Beginning with an early month abbreviation, it means "feverish"
febrile
Adam
$2,000 [5]
In H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine", an explorer travels to the future & meets 2 races: the Eloi & these subterranean workers
the Morlocks
Adam
DD $6,000 [17]
The Leonard Cohen Mural &Place des Arts
Montreal
Alex
DD $7,000 [2]
This German composed "Ritterballett", or "Knight's Ballet", while he was still living in Bonn
Beethoven
Alex
$2,000 [21]
Jennifer Lawrence received her first Oscar nomination for Best Actress as Ree in this film set in the Ozarks
Winter's Bone
Alex
$2,000 [12]
France's embassy has a reception room named for this Frenchman whose 1831-32 visit led to a classic book on American democracy
de Tocqueville
Ann
$2,000 [10]
This word for a hero or upright person is the term for one of Charlemagne's legendary champions
a paladin
Adam

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORICAL HORSES

Named for an 1807 battle & valiant in one 8 years later, Copenhagen was this man's steed; society ladies donned strands of his hair

the Duke of Wellington

Ann "Who is" — wagered $0
Adam "Who is the Duke of Wellington?" — wagered $0
Alex "Who is Trafalgar? Love you Ashley" — wagered $10,600

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