Show #9307 2025-04-08 (taped 2025-02-24) Regular

Mike Dawson game 3.

Contestants

Anise K. Strong-Morse — a history professor from Kalamazoo, Michigan

Joe Lancour — a quality and export compliance manager from Agawam, Massachusetts

Mike Dawson — a technology manager from Portland, Oregon (whose 2-day cash winnings total $35,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mike $4,200 $4,800 $16,400 $21,400
3-day champion: $57,000
$16,400
19 R, 2 W
Joe $2,000 $3,000 $1,800 $3,600
3rd place: $2,000
$8,800
18 R, 7 W (including 2 DDs)
Anise $-2,000 $-1,000 $2,900 $3,607
2nd place: $3,000
$5,400
10 R, 7 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

TALK O' TUESDAY BEGINNING WORDS WATERFALLS BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN CHAPTER VERSE
$200 [30]
With 4 times the usual number of shares traded, the U.S. stock market crashed on "Black Tuesday" in this year
1929
Joe
$200 [28]
Also meaning to cooperate, this 2-word phrase is the subtitle of MLB rule 5.01, "starting the game"
play ball
Joe
$200 [27]
The Canadian part of these falls is separated from the American by Goat Island, where you can enjoy the Cave of the Winds
Niagara Falls
Joe
$200 [29]
Specifically, back in this saddle used in show jumping, as opposed to the Western one used more for work
an English saddle
Anise
$200 [21]
The first chapter in this book is "Mowgli's Brothers"
The Jungle Book
Joe
$200 [26]
Charli xcx agrees that this "don't fall far from the tree, coz I've been looking at you so long, now I only see me"
the apple
Joe
$400 [24]
After Thanksgiving, there's Black Friday, Shop Small Saturday, Cyber Monday & then this day to be generous to others
Giving Tuesday
Mike
$400 [18]
An opening musical piece, it can also mean an opening move in a negotiation
overture
Joe Anise
$400 [22]
Vatnajökull, said to be the largest glacier in Europe, feeds the gorgeous Dettifossin this island nation
Iceland
Mike
$400 [23]
Uh-oh, I think I left these on my horse! They're leather screens attached to the bridle to stop it from seeing sideways
blinders (blinkers)
Joe
$400 [20]
Volume 1, Book 1, Chapter 5 is "Quasimodo"; Chapter 6, of course, is her
Esmeralda
Joe
$400 [25]
Neil Young sang, "My my, hey hey, rock & roll is here to stay, it's better to burn out than to" do this
fade away
Mike
$600 [16]
This redundantly titled Taylor Swift breakup song begins, "Once upon a time, I believe it was a Tuesday when I caught your eye"
"Forever And Always"
Mike
$600 [17]
Meaning "arrival", in religious contexts it often precedes "calendar"
advent
Anise
$600 [13]
During the rainy season, 300,000 gallons of water per second flows over the edge of this landmark along the Zambezi
Victoria Falls
Mike
$600 [15]
Thisheavy draft horse was bred in Lanarkshire, Scotland, through which its namesake river flows
Clydesdale
Joe
$600 [19]
Chapter 83 of "Moby-Dick" is this biblical prophet "Historically Regarded"
Jonah
Anise
$600 [14]
In "Poker Face" Lady Gaga predictably tells us, "I wanna hold 'em like they do in" this state, "please. Woo!"
Texas
Joe
$800 [5]
This author's "Tuesdays with Morrie" includes flashbacks to its characters back in college as student & professor
Mitch Albom
Joe
$800 [2]
This very early time of day precedes "of Civilization" in the title of a classic work on early human cultures
Dawn
Mike
$800 [1]
You can get up close & personal by these in Switzerland, located on the same-named large river
the Rhine Falls
Joe Anise
$800 [6]
If a horse is back in the snaffle again, it has this metal piece in its mouth to give the rider control; hope it isn't "spit"
the bit
Mike Anise
DD $1,000 [8]
In this novel Chapter 10 is "The Shell and the Glasses"& 12,"Cry of the Hunters"
Lord of the Flies
Joe
$800 [12]
"Watching through windows, you're wondering if I'm okay", sang Cyndi Lauper in this hit
"Time After Time"
Joe
$1,000 [11]
2017's Tuesday Night Massacre occurred when Donald Trump fired this FBI head for his handling of the Hillary Clinton email controversy
Comey
Mike
$1,000 [3]
Latin gave us this beginning word, the title of a Best Picture nominee from 2010 with Leonardo DiCaprio
inception
Joe Anise
$1,000 [4]
Falls falls falls... near the city of Twin Falls, Idaho, Shoshone Falls is a cataract on this river
the Snake
Mike
$1,000 [7]
At the 1912 Olympics Sweden swept the medals for individual equestrian this, a French term for the discipline
dressage
Joe
$1,000 [9]
"The River Bank" & "Mr. Badger" are titles in a book by him
Kenneth Grahame
Joe Anise
$1,000 [10]
"When did it end? All the enjoyment / I'm sad again, don't tell my boyfriend", laments this song from a blockbuster film
"What Was I Made For?"

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENTIFIC LAW REVIEW NOT GOING ANYWHERE TV ROLES THE NATIONAL ROAD ANCIENT HISTORY DITCH THE X
$400 [30]
Ohm's law describes the relationship between current, resistance & this, noted as V
voltage
Mike
$400 [26]
Near Zagan, Poland, you can visit the partly preserved one of these facilities, made famous in "The Great Escape"
a POW camp
$400 [29]
On "Stranger Things", Millie Bobby Brown has our number as this character
Eleven
Joe
$400 [28]
In 1806 this president, big on pushing west, signed the bill authorizing the USA's first federally funded road
Jefferson
Anise
$400 [12]
This second king of Israel conquered Jerusalem from the Jebusites around 1000 B.C. & made it the capital of his people
David
Anise
$400 [27]
X-tract the X from a type of fisticuffs to get this sound of a rebounding spring
boing (bo x ing)
Mike
$800 [25]
Jacques Charles formulated the law saying the volume of a fixed amount of gas under constant pressure is directly proportional to this
its temperature
$800 [23]
In a memorable children's book scene, Rabbit tells him, "You're stuck"
Winnie the Pooh
Mike
$800 [21]
He played Robert California on"The Office"&Raymond Reddingtonon "The Blacklist"
James Spader
Joe
$800 [22]
About every mile, the road had one of these convivial establishments; many raised a glass at Penn.'s Mount Washington one
a tavern
Mike
$800 [4]
One of the great empires of its age, Assyria ruled from its capital of Nineveh on the upper reaches of this river
the Tigris
Joe Anise
$800 [24]
Drop the X from the milky substance of certain plants to get this synonym for delayed
late (late x )
Anise
$1,200 [17]
No. 1 of Kepler's 3 laws of planetary motion stated the planets got in their workout via orbits of this shape
an ellipse
Mike
$1,200 [20]
To immobilize the fello whereby binding the feet together
hog-tie
Mike
$1,200 [18]
In 2023 Norman Reedus in this role got his own "Walking Dead" spin-off
Daryl
Joe
$1,600 [7]
One of the 2 most common vehicles seen on the road in its heyday was this covered wagon called "the ship of inland commerce"
the Conestoga
Mike
$1,200 [2]
The Norte Chico civilization built pyramids in what's now this S. Amer. nation c. 2600 B.C., around the time of the ones in Egypt
Peru
Anise
$1,200 [15]
Disable the X in a shaft beneath your car & have a refreshing glass of this
ale (a x le)
Mike
$1,600 [11]
His equation specifies how probability waves are altered by external influences; his cat just asks, am I alive or not?!
Schrödinger
Anise
$1,600 [6]
On the BBC since 1942, people have chosen these "Discs" for a place you can't leave; Colin Firth wants Mahler & Curtis Mayfield
Desert Island (Discs)
Mike
$1,600 [5]
This Oscar winner played multiple roles on "American Horror Story" & portrayed Joan Crawford in "Feud"
Jessica Lange
$2,000 [8]
When built in 1849, thesuspension bridgeon the National Road over the Ohio River at this West Virginia city was the world's longest
Wheeling
Mike Joe
$1,600 [1]
This Bronze Age culture on Crete was the first high civilization of the Aegean & reached its peak somewhere around 1600 B.C.
the Minoan civilization
Mike Joe
$1,600 [13]
Strip the X from a building added on to a larger one & hail this 18th century English monarch
Anne (anne x )
Anise
$2,000 [16]
We're standing on principle--this Swiss mister's principle on how a fluid's speed relates to the fluid's pressure
Bernoulli
Joe
$2,000 [10]
2-word term for a group with no choice but to hear what's being said to them; it's used for mandatory anti-union meetings
a captive audience
Mike
$2,000 [9]
Recently winning the first major acting awards in her 45-year career, in the '80s she played Jackie Templeton on "General Hospital"
Demi Moore
DD $6,000 [19]
The National Road was also called this for the Maryland city where construction began in 1811 heading west
the Cumberland Road
Joe
$2,000 [3]
King Tut's father was this religious reformer who abandoned & attacked the old religion of Egypt
Akhenaten
Anise
DD $2,500 [14]
Remove the X from within a statement of a basic principle & you do this, inflict a severe injury
maim (ma x im)
Anise

Final Jeopardy!

HONORS

Burt Lancaster & Joanne Woodward were among the first 8 honored at a 1958 ceremony held on this street

Hollywood Boulevard

Joe "What is Hollywood Boulevard? ❤ Quinn Kailie" — wagered $1,800
Anise "What is Hollywood Blvd? Thanks Robbie, Katharine," — wagered $707
Mike "What is Hollywood Boulevard?" — wagered $5,000

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