Show #9304 2025-04-03 (taped 2025-02-11) Regular

Bryce Wargin game 4.

Contestants

Alfred Wallace — a librarian from Grand Forks, North Dakota

Mary Walheim — a retired risk manager from Berwyn, Pennsylvania

Bryce Wargin — a post market surveillance coordinator from Kansas City, Missouri (whose 3-day cash winnings total $59,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bryce $1,800 $11,600 $16,000 $10,799
4-day champion: $70,199
$12,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Mary $3,800 $4,800 $6,000 $1
3rd place: $2,000
$6,000
12 R, 2 W
Alfred $1,600 $2,800 $10,600 $600
2nd place: $3,000
$12,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

'ALLO, GUV'NAH COMPLETE THE BRITISH TV PROGRAMME TITLE ANATOMY CLASS JAVA FACTS 5-SYLLABLE WORDS TELL ME A STORY, QUICKLY
$200 [20]
In 2010 this governor did some moonlighting when he played Trench in "The Expendables"
Schwarzenegger
Bryce
$200 [27]
David Attenborough covers a rather important 2/3 of the globe: this "Planet"
Blue Planet
$200 [7]
From the Latin for "curve", they're the hollows at the front of the skull connecting to the nasal cavities
sinuses
Alfred
$200 [15]
After this component of coffee is absorbed, the liver turns it into paraxanthine & your blood pressure increases
caffeine
Bryce
$200 [2]
Demonic & cruel, so as to remind one of Satan
diabolical
Bryce
$200 [24]
Prep school kid leaves prep school, tools around New York, dreams of becoming the book's title
The Catcher in the Rye
Bryce
$400 [19]
It was the last name of New York's governor from 1983 to 1994 & in the next generation from 2011 to 2021
Cuomo
Alfred
$400 [28]
Plotting to murder an ex-lover to protect your career is most definitely not an efficacious move; "A Very English" this
Scandal
Mary
$400 [6]
The chief muscle used in breathing, it's dome-shaped & attached to the lower ribs
the diaphragm
Bryce
$400 [14]
It's a manual or electrical device used to pulverize your coffee beans that sounds like a dating app
a grinder
Mary
$400 [5]
Variously applied to both rivers & termites, this adjective means below the Earth's surface
subterranean
Bryce
$400 [23]
Lawyer meets the title client at his castle; pal of lawyer's fiancee is murdered due to said client, whom the lawyer then kills
Dracula
$600 [16]
...Or g'bye; in July 2009 she unexpectedly resigned as Alaska's governor, you betcha!
Palin
Bryce
$600 [22]
The British get the idea it's time to leave India: "The Jewel in" this
the Crown
Mary
$600 [4]
This adjective meaning very simple or very skinny is also the major body system that holds up all the others
skeletal
Mary
$600 [8]
This word for a type of espresso drink comes from the name of an order of monks
cappuccino
Alfred
$600 [11]
Pythagoras believed in this; in "Twelfth Night", his view is summarized as "the soul of our grandam might haply inhabit a bird"
reincarnation
Bryce
$600 [21]
Guy steals a new Russian submarine with some pals; Russia gets kinda displeased; the U.S. sends a CIA analyst to work it all out
The Hunt for Red October
Bryce
$800 [17]
She embraced the nickname "Big Gretch" given to her by Detroit rapper Gmac Cash
(Gretchen) Whitmer
Alfred
$800 [29]
Political satire about a TV news crew: "Drop the Dead" this equine associated with a U.S. political party since 1828
a donkey
Bryce
$800 [3]
The white, fibrous tissue of the eye, the sclera extends from the optic nerve to this part at the front where focusing starts
the cornea
$800 [9]
Typica & Bourbon are 2 varieties of this species of coffee, the world's most widely grown
Arabica
Alfred
$800 [12]
It's the study of substances like quartz & dolomite, including their distribution, identification & properties
mineralogy
Mary
$1,000 [26]
An orphan finds blacksmithing isn't for him, comes into some money & heads off to London to not blacksmith
Great Expectations
Bryce
$1,000 [18]
In 2023, in Little Rock this former White House Press Secretary was inaugurated as the U.S.A.'s youngest serving governor
(Sarah Huckabee) Sanders
Bryce
$1,000 [30]
In the 1990s, five teens lived through difficulties both personal & political in a city in Northern Ireland, these"... Girls
Derry Girls
Bryce
$1,000 [1]
Thisshorter of the two forearm bones is the one on the thumb side
the radius
Mary Alfred
$1,000 [10]
17th century holy man Baba Budan is credited with smuggling coffee beans into India from Mocha in this country
Yemen
Mary
$1,000 [13]
Fittingly, this word for foods that supposedly arouse desire comes from the name of a love goddess
an aphrodisiac
Alfred
DD $4,400 [25]
Families gather, slips of paper are chosen, a black spot's on one, Tessie Hutchinson has a very bad day
"The Lottery"
Bryce

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY IN THE MAKING STRAIT EDGE KNOWN BY THEIR INITIALS TAKE THE LONG WAY MOVIE MUSICALS RISING FROM THE "GRAVE"
$400 [5]
This Venezuelan leader freed his own slaves by 1821 even though slavery endured after the trade was abolished there
Bolívar
Alfred
$400 [10]
Mackinaw City in this state is on a strait spelled not quite the same way
Michigan
Bryce
$400 [25]
Sensational showman Phineas Taylor
Barnum
Alfred
$400 [30]
In 1935 Jesse Owens set a record of 26'8" in this event that wasn't surpassed for 25 years
the long jump
Mary
$400 [17]
This 2023 musical features Taraji P. Henson as Shug Avery & songs like "Huckleberry Pie" & "Keep It Movin"'
The Color Purple
$400 [18]
Working during this period usually means between midnight & 8 A.M.
the graveyard shift
Mary
$800 [4]
In 2010 St. Joseph, Mo. celebrated the 150th anniversary of the success of this, then symbolized by the return of Johnny Fry
the Pony Express
Alfred
$800 [9]
Pliny the Elder wrote that it went from "the village of Mellaria" to "the White Cape of Africa"
Gibraltar
Alfred
$800 [24]
Bestselling author Joanne Kathleen
Rowling
Bryce
$800 [29]
A long one typically weighs 2,240 pounds
a ton
Bryce
$800 [16]
Fanny Brice is the name of Barbra Streisand's slum-born character with big dreams inthis1968 musical
Funny Girl
Mary
$800 [19]
Being close to death because of advanced age or illness is the meaning of this idiom that includes a body part
one foot in the grave
Bryce
$1,600 [2]
This Icelandic parliament was founded in 930 & under Danish rule, moved to Reykjavik & reopened in 1845
the Althing
Alfred
$1,200 [6]
The first American ship sunk in WWII, city of Rayville went down in the Bass Strait off this southern Australian mainland state
Victoria
Bryce Mary Alfred
$1,200 [23]
Pioneering movie director David Wark
D.W. Griffith
Alfred
$1,200 [28]
With its green skin & extensive antennae, the katydid is sometimes called a "long-horned" one of these insects
grasshopper
$1,200 [15]
Chris Pine's last name made sense when he played the charming prince in the movie of this Sondheim musical
Into the Woods
Bryce
$1,200 [20]
This multigenerational family of actors includes Lynn & Gemma seenhereat the funeral of patriarch Michael
Redgrave
Mary Alfred
$2,000 [3]
On June 15, 1215 King John granted the Magna Carta in this field south of the Thames
Runnymede
Alfred
$1,600 [7]
Vancouver Islandis the northern border of this strait named for a man who sailed in Spain's service
Juan de Fuca
Alfred
$1,600 [12]
Tobacco magnate Richard Joshua
(R.J.) Reynolds
Bryce
$1,600 [27]
The "long-period" variety of these objects are those that take more than 200 years to orbit the Sun
comets
Alfred
$1,600 [14]
This actress played Sally Bowles in Bob Fosse's classic movie musical "Cabaret"
Liza Minnelli
Mary
$1,600 [21]
When making a solemn promise some swear on this; for George Michael & Carrie Fisher, it's beside their own
my mother's grave
Alfred
DD $2,800 [1]
Thankfully, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka overturned this unfortunate decision of 1896
Plessy v. Ferguson
Alfred
DD $3,000 [8]
The Strait of Hormuz connects the Persian Gulf & this other gulf with a national name
the Gulf of Oman
Alfred
$2,000 [11]
New York City bartender & restaurateur Patrick Joseph
P.J. Clarke
Mary Alfred
$2,000 [26]
One story says that this type of underwear got its name from a 19th century bareknuckle boxer who wore them in the ring
long johns
Alfred
$2,000 [13]
"Viva Las Vegas" paired Elvis Presley & this Swedish beauty
Ann-Margret
$2,000 [22]
Named for a town in Denmark, this variety of apple is great in pies
the Gravenstein

Final Jeopardy!

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS

Boq is one of these fictional people, "not as big as the grown folk... but neither were they very small"

a Munchkin

Mary "What is a Lilliputian?" — wagered $5,999
Alfred "What are [something crossed out] Lili" — wagered $10,000
Bryce "What areLilliputiansDwarves?" — wagered $5,201

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