Show #9435 2025-11-14 (taped 2025-10-07) Regular

Harrison Whitaker game 4.

Contestants

Brent Steele — an environmental engineer from Sellersburg, Indiana

Sarah Khan — a graduate student originally from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Harrison Whitaker — a researcher originally from Terre Haute, Indiana (whose 3-day cash winnings total $91,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Harrison $2,600 $4,600 $21,800 $24,799
4-day champion: $116,600
$22,400
23 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Sarah $4,800 $5,800 $9,400 $14,001
2nd place: $3,000
$9,400
13 R, 1 W
Brent $-200 $2,200 $7,000 $4,599
3rd place: $2,000
$7,000
15 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

SOURCES DUETS CAKE WORDS IN THE PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION LIVRES EN FRANCAIS NOTABLE WOMEN
$200 [21]
Steven Wright deadpanned, "What's another word for" one of these books? Roget would know
a thesaurus
Brent
$200 [23]
She sang in Fleetwood Mac, put out solo records & joined Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers on "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"
Stevie Nicks
Brent
$200 [25]
World War II rationing meant bakers used beetroot juice for this colorful cake that's now made with food coloring
red velvet cake
Brent
$200 [30]
Neil Armstrong set foot in a "Sea" of it in 1969
Tranquility
Brent
$200 [28]
Contains both French & Russian elements:"La guerre et la paix"
War and Peace
Sarah
$200 [29]
In 1971 Erin Pizzey founded the U.K.'s first shelter for women who were victims of this nightmare just where one should feel safe
domestic violence
Sarah
$400 [20]
On July 8, 1889 Charles Dow (of Dow Jones fame) began printing financial & business news in what became this newspaper
The Wall Street Journal
Brent
$400 [22]
In 1998 Brandy & Monica had a hit with this song that sounds as much like a duel as a duet
"The Boy Is Mine"
Brent
$400 [24]
Though it sounds European, the name of this cake refers to the brand of chocolate used, not its country of origin
German chocolate cake
Brent
$400 [26]
Hoops stars Sabrina Ionescu & Rebekah Gardner are with them in the Big Apple
the (New York) Liberty
Harrison
$400 [6]
Pure poetry from a Brooklyn bard:"Feuilles d'herbe"
Leaves of Grass
Harrison
$400 [18]
Following the death of this Shoshone woman, William Clark served as legal guardian of her children
Sacagawea
Brent
$600 [16]
On March 13, 2012 this venerable encyclopedia maker said the time had come to stop printing books & go all digital
Britannica
Sarah
$600 [19]
In 2025 Barbra Streisand sang "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" with this Irishman nearly 50 years her junior
Hozier
Harrison
$600 [14]
The spiral shape of the sponge cake & what it's filled with are big hints to the name of this treat
jelly roll
Sarah
$600 [11]
It can mean both the good fortune of a person & financial assistance to an individual by the government
welfare
Sarah
$600 [5]
Adventure in Africa: "Au coeur des ténèbres"
Heart of Darkness
Brent
$600 [9]
From 2006 to 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was this African nation's president
Liberia
Harrison
DD $1,000 [3]
Warren Buffett said it changed his life to read this biographical dictionary of notables "in America"
Who's Who
Harrison
$800 [10]
The 2014 Top 10 hit "Love Me Harder" is a duet between The Weeknd & this singer--they also collabed on "Save Your Tears"
Ariana Grande
$800 [15]
Jenny Åkerström created princess cake, which is covered with a green layer of this sweetened almond paste
marzipan
Harrison
$800 [12]
To make someone a priest
ordain
Sarah Brent
$800 [1]
About a quest or quête:"L'épée dans la pierre"
The Sword in the Stone
Sarah
$800 [7]
"The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" was actually written by this other woman
Stein
Harrison
$1,000 [4]
CMOS is short for this reference, now in its 18th edition; it offers guidance on commas with quotations
The Chicago Manual of Style
Sarah
$1,000 [27]
In "Happy Gilmore" Adam Sandler unconvincingly tells Julie Bowen, "What? Friends listen to" this Ross-Richie duet "in the dark"
"Endless Love"
$1,000 [17]
Michel Bras was inspired by an après-ski hot cocoa when he invented his version of this cake with its signature ganache core
a lava cake (molten chocolate cake)
Harrison
$1,000 [13]
From the Latin for "later", it's a word referring to all future generations collectively
posterity
$1,000 [2]
Briony does bad:"Expiation"
Atonement
Harrison
$1,000 [8]
In the 1850s she began practicing medicine in New York City, hiring her sister Emily to work with her
Elizabeth Blackwell
Sarah

Double Jeopardy! Round

RESOURCES HOW DID IT GET TO THE MUSEUM? TRIOS ACTOR-DIRECTOR PARTNERSHIPS WESTERN EUROPE ENDS WITH A DOUBLED CONSONANT
$400 [20]
In 1859 captain N.C. Brooks claimed Midway Island for the U.S. under a law named for this bird-excreted resource
guano
Harrison
$400 [29]
Last name of Peggy, who bought a version of Magritte's "Empire of Light", now in her collection you can visit in Venice
Guggenheim
Harrison
$400 [28]
After defeating Pontus, a kingdom in what's now Turkey, Julius Caesar is said to have uttered "Veni, vidi, vici", meaning this
I came; I saw; I conquered
Brent
$400 [30]
Hector Elizondo was in 18 movies directed by Garry Marshall, including this one as manager of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel
Pretty Woman
Brent
$400 [26]
Cape Roca, mainland Europe's westernmost point, lies in this country
Portugal
Sarah
$400 [27]
Alexander Pope wrote that to do this "is human"
err
Brent
$800 [19]
Inspired by OPEC, in 1974 Latin American countries tried to get the U.S. over a bunch as UPEB, a cartel of exporters of these
bananas
Brent
$800 [23]
Van Gogh's "Roses" is one work bought by shipbuilder Kojiro Matsukata & now in Tokyo's NMWA, Nation Museum of this kind of art
Western Art
Harrison
$800 [24]
Focusing on the final defeat of Nazi Germany, 1945's conference at this Crimean city saw FDR, Churchill & Stalin meet
Yalta
Harrison
$800 [22]
(James Gunn presents the clue.) When I take the director's chair, I always seem to find myself working with Michael Rooker&this actor who is no "Rookie" to a Gunn film; he first appeared in my directorial debut, "Slither", & now rocks a bowl cut as Green Lantern in "Superman"
Nathan Fillion
Brent
$800 [21]
This nation on the slopes of Mount Titano is the smallest republic in Europe--just 8 miles across at its widest
San Marino
Harrison
$800 [25]
The police, or the fibrous covering of a peach
the fuzz
Sarah
$1,600 [8]
Climate change has led to devastation of timber resources by the many species of these alliterative insects
bark beetles
Sarah
$1,200 [17]
This Abiquiu artist's 8'x24' cloud painting toured to Chicago, was too big for its next stop & stayed at the Art Institute
Georgia O'Keeffe
$1,200 [4]
Matthew's gospel tells the story of the 3 wise men whom history has given the names Balthasar, Melchior & this guy
Caspar (Gaspar)
Harrison
$1,200 [5]
The year they were married, Jean-Luc Godarddirected Anna Karina in "Une femme est une femme", titled this in English
A Woman Is a Woman
Harrison
$1,600 [6]
Muckle Flugga, the name for a lighthouse & the rocky isle it sits on, is part of these islands, the U.K.'s northernmost point
the Shetland Islands
Harrison
$1,200 [15]
One of the 5 pillars of Islam, it refers to a pilgrimage each Muslim is supposed to take at least once in life
Hajj
Harrison
$2,000 [11]
The British turnover called a pasty is also named for this region & was the standard lunch of its tin miners
Cornwall
Sarah
$1,600 [7]
Seeking a home for this vast series, Monet considered the land where the Rodin Museum is now, but it ended up at the Orangerie Museum
Water Lilies
Harrison
$1,600 [1]
In Greek mythology, this trio spins the threads of human destiny, they were Clotho, Lachesis & Atropos
the Fates
Harrison
$1,600 [3]
Thislongtime star made four Hitchcock films but eight with Anthony Mann, starting with "Winchester '73"
Jimmy Stewart
Brent
$2,000 [12]
Spain's Pyrenees are often blasted by these winds whose name comes from the Arabic for "East"
sirocco
Harrison Sarah
$1,600 [14]
As a noun it's a long, unbroken wave; as a verb, it means to grow in size or volume
swell
DD $3,200 [18]
The U.S. has only one operating mine producing this battery & coin metal, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
nickel
Harrison
$2,000 [10]
This earl said he had an Ottoman OK to ship off Greek antiquities now in the British Museum, plus he was saving them from looters
Elgin
Harrison
$2,000 [16]
Borneo, the world's third-largest island, is shared by this trio of nations
Indonesia, Malaysia & Brunei
Harrison
$2,000 [2]
Jeff Nichols says he owes is career to this man who's been in six of Jeff's films, including "The Bikeriders" & "Midnight Special"
(Michael) Shannon
Harrison
DD $4,800 [9]
The cities of Paris, Brussels & Cologne form a triangle around this great forest area
the Ardennes
Harrison
$2,000 [13]
Beginning with a prefix meaning million, this unit of power is used to measure how much electricity is used in a large region
megawatt
Brent

Final Jeopardy!

21st CENTURY NOVELS

Part 1 of this novel is Toronto & Pondicherry; Part 2 is the Pacific Ocean

Life of Pi

Brent "What is Eat, Pray, Love?" — wagered $2,401
Sarah "What is Life of Pi?" — wagered $4,601
Harrison "What is The Life of Pi?" — wagered $2,999

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