Show #9294 2025-03-20 (taped 2025-01-28) Regular

Alex DeFrank game 5.Cameron Berry game 1.

Contestants

Cameron Berry — a data analyst and college administrator from Brighton, Massachusetts

Hillary Hess — an export policy analyst from Arlington, Virginia

Alex DeFrank — an inventory specialist from Brooklyn, New York (whose 4-day cash winnings total $102,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Alex $200 $2,400 $4,000 $8,000
2nd place: $3,000
$4,000
16 R, 8 W
Hillary $2,200 $2,600 $7,500 $0
3rd place: $2,000
$6,200
9 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Cameron $6,800 $9,400 $28,600 $24,600
New champion: $24,600
$23,800
27 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

POETS & POETRY THAT'S A FACT 3 MEANINGS, 1 WORD TV SHOW BY GOOGLE SEARCH LET'S ROLL THE DICE YANGTZE!
$200 [16]
Haru is this season, the time of sakura, & yuku haru is departing this, a traditional haiku theme
spring
Hillary
$200 [17]
Time to belly up to the bar, & the drink is on me! It's the main potent potable in a Cuba libre
rum
Alex
$200 [27]
A measuring device, a musical series, a part of a fish
a scale
Cameron
$200 [10]
"Why was Pete Campbell 'not great?"';"man falling in opening credits, survive?";"whiskey & cigarettes healthy?"
Mad Men
Alex
$200 [30]
Throw doubles 3 times in a row in Monopoly & you're off to this place, & it ain't Marvin Gardens
jail
Cameron
$200 [22]
The Yangtze runs nearly 4,000 miles to the East China sea from its source in the plateau named for this autonomous region
Tibet
Hillary
$400 [5]
Edgar Allan Poe had these title objects "tinkle, tinkle, tinkle", "clang, and clash, and roar!"
the bells
Alex Cameron
$400 [23]
Established in 1947, this Major League Baseball award has never been won twice by the same player
Rookie of the Year
Alex
$400 [28]
An angler's toss, an acting ensemble, an orthopedic device
cast
Alex
$400 [29]
"East Highland High School dress code";"Who sings 'Still Don't Know My Name"';"Zendaya last name"
Euphoria
Alex Cameron
$400 [13]
I used a roll of thed20to attack in this game created in 1974; my strength isn't great, but my charisma will open doors
Dungeons & Dragons
Alex
$400 [21]
Home to 25 million, this city at the mouth of the Yangtze became a word meaning to kidnap a mariner
Shanghai
Alex
$600 [4]
A Shakespeare sonnet begins, "Let me not to the marriage of" these 2 words "admit impediments"
true minds
Hillary
$600 [24]
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan returned for book 19 in the series, "A Conspiracy of" these body parts
bones
Cameron
$600 [8]
A structure, a dental device, a card game
a bridge
Cameron
$600 [15]
"Shortbread Biscuit recipe";"offside soccer rule"; "Is there really a Nelson Road Stadium in London?"
Ted Lasso
Cameron
$600 [12]
In craps, you're truly playing the this if you bet on the shooter rolling 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11 or 12
the field
$600 [20]
Parts of the Yangtze are home to the giant type of this amphibian, which can weigh over 100 pounds & wails like a crying infant
salamander
Alex Cameron
$800 [3]
Now this was a guy big into odes, but if I had to pick, that one on the urn, with "mad pursuit" & "wild ecstasy"? that's a nifty ode!
Keats
Hillary
$800 [25]
Established in 2021, it's the next federal holiday after Memorial Day
Juneteenth
Cameron
$1,000 [6]
A debit, an electrical accumulation, an attack
a charge
Cameron
$800 [14]
"Mandalorian but with Princess Leia as baby Yoda";"Tatooine cave Air BnB";"How do you properly pronounce Ewan McGregor?"
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Cameron
$800 [11]
Dice rolls will lead you to getting the orange wedge after knowing your sports & leisure in this game
Trivial Pursuit
Hillary
$800 [19]
Completed in 2006 after displacing 1.3 million people, this structure stretches more than a mile across the Yangtze
the Three Gorges Dam
Alex
$1,000 [2]
"Let the Irish vessel lie / Emptied of its poetry", says W.H. Auden's 1939 poem "In Memory of" him
Yeats
Cameron
$1,000 [26]
This school whose Welsh name means "high hill" was the first women's college to offer the Ph.D.
Bryn Mawr
Cameron
DD $2,400 [7]
A set of elevators, a steep slope, a blood-storage depot
a bank
Cameron
$1,000 [9]
"Noir TV show but with aliens";"forgot Apple account password";"Colin Farrell joins Blue Man Group?"
Sugar
$1,000 [1]
A Chinese game combines with a Vegas one in this 3-word casino game, but the added joker can be an ace & dice are often involved
pai gow poker
$1,000 [18]
3 Yangtze river cities merged to form this city known for its metallurgy industry & as COVID-19's epicenter
Wuhan
Alex

Double Jeopardy! Round

ART OF THE STATE THE 1300s ANCIENT GREEK THEATER THE SONG OF ROLAND DRUM MACHINES PLANT LORE ____ OF THE ____
$400 [8]
Seal skin was one of many media of George Ahgupuk, a famed artist from this state
Alaska
Alex
$400 [13]
Culture in China flourished under this dynasty that began ruling in 1368
the Ming
Alex Cameron
$400 [18]
As well as letting one actor play multiple parts, these projected the voice like a megaphone
the mask
Alex Hillary
$400 [15]
This group was joined by their friend Roland on a 2000 No. 1 hit in which they tell a lover to "Say My Name"
Destiny's Child
Alex
$400 [25]
Paired with "jolly" in the U.S., this plant was called Christmas in parts of England & used as a Christmas tree
holly
Alex
$400 [30]
In the rom-com "Leap Year", Amy Adams seeks love in Ireland & we get to hear this movie-traditional Irish greeting
top of the morning
Cameron
$800 [7]
Who else but this artist would give us the oil-on-canvas "Bear Lake, New Mexico, 1930"
Georgia O'Keeffe
Cameron
$800 [12]
In 1314 this king won a great Scottish victory over the English in the Battle of Bannockburn
Robert the Bruce
Cameron
$800 [20]
In Euripides' drama about this title woman, a phantom version is abducted to Troy while the real one stays in Egypt
Helen
Alex
$800 [14]
A Roland beat is heard on "One More Night" by this singer who first gained pop fame as a human drummer
Phil Collins
Cameron
$800 [28]
Popular in wedding bouquets, white lilies are also known as these lilies, another name for the Virgin Mary
Madonna lilies
$1,200 [23]
From their garb, the minister, priest & rabbi who walk into a bar could each be called this
men of the cloth
Alex
$1,200 [6]
In 2008 this Saturday Evening Post icon became Massachusetts' official state artist
Norman Rockwell
Cameron
$1,200 [3]
Call her Hedwig or call her Jadwiga, she was only a child when she became queen of this country in 1384
Poland
Cameron
$1,600 [17]
The unscrupulous Athenian politician Cleon was satirized as a manipulative slave in "Knights" by this comedic playwright
Aristophanes
Cameron
$1,200 [11]
The title of his album "808s & Heartbreak" refers to the death of his mother Donda, & to the Roland TR-808 used on the songs
Kanye West
Alex
$1,200 [24]
Blow on the seeds of this plant to make a wish; pick its flowers on St. George's Day to make its wine
dandelion
Alex Cameron
$1,600 [22]
Plural phrase for the real mastermind of a plan or action
brains of the operation
Cameron
$1,600 [5]
"Pennsylvania Landscape", or "Lafayette's Headquarters", is by this artist who passed away in Chadds Ford in 2009
Andrew Wyeth
$1,600 [2]
He wrote more than 300 Italian sonnets to a woman named Laura, though Laura may not have existed
Petrarch
Alex
$2,000 [16]
In "Eumenides", the goddess Athena casts the deciding vote for this man's acquittal after he kills his mother
Orestes
Alex Hillary
$1,600 [10]
Echo in this band's name was their drum machine, but Echo was retired in favor of machines including a Roland TR-66
Echo & the Bunnymen
Cameron
$1,600 [26]
On Pentecost, rose petals are dropped through the oculus of this storied Roman building
the Pantheon
Alex
$2,000 [21]
Shown here, it's a song title by The Replacements & shorthand for independent & college radio
"Left Of The Dial"
Cameron
$2,000 [4]
Appropriately, Thomas Hart Benton's mural depicting the history of this state can be found in its capitol building
Missouri
Hillary
$2,000 [1]
In 1381 he led a peasants' revolt in England over heavy taxation of the poorer classes
Wat Tyler
Hillary
DD $2,500 [19]
As part of a play, the parodos was the song recited or sung as this group of commentators made its entrance
the chorus
Hillary
$2,000 [9]
There's a Roland on this classic LL Cool J track whose album version doesn't include any of the ringing its title suggests
"Rock The Bells"
Cameron
$2,000 [27]
Berries from this tree were once used as medicine by the Greeks & Romans, but we are more familiar with their use in gin
juniper
Alex Cameron
DD $4,000 [29]
When it comes to certain acts such as arson, there's some truth to the cliché about guilty folks returning to here
the scene of the crime
Cameron

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. CITIES

Named for a 1775 battle, this city contains the graves of John Breckinridge & Henry Clay

Lexington, Kentucky

Alex "What is Lexington?" — wagered $4,000
Hillary "What" — wagered $7,500
Cameron "What is Charleston?" — wagered $4,000

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