Show #8181 - Monday, March 16, 2020

Contestants

[<< previous game]

Sid Katz, a retired school psychologist from Cherry Hill, New Jersey

Sarah Schmitt, a podcaster and stay-at-home mom from Columbus, Ohio

Jessica Babbitt, a personal stylist from Austin, Texas (whose 3-day cash winnings total $71,598)

 [next game >>]

Jeopardy! Round

CLUES ACROSS AMERICA
THAT'S WHAT I'M WALKING ABOUT
X MARKS THE MIDDLE SPOT
(Alex: "X" will come up exactly in the middle of each correct response.)
RECENT EVENTS
THE WOMAN OF THE CENTURY
RADIO ACTIVE
    $200 26
(Hi, I'm Eric Perkins from KARE 11. [He presents from U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota.]) In the first sporting event at Minneapolis' U.S. Bank Stadium, Chelsea played AC Milan in this sport
    $200 21
"V" is for these 2 British Columbia cities that host annual World Partnership Walks to fight global poverty
    $200 11
You ain't just whistlin' this, once slang for a $10 bill
    $200 1
In 2018 the skies got tougher for emotional support animals, like Dexter, this kind of bird rejected by United Airlines
    $200 6
Billie Holiday
    $200 16
This singer seen here got a lot of radio play in 2019 with "Never Really Over"
    $400 27
( Hi, I'm Alicia Vitarelli from 6ABC. [She presents from Franklin Fountain in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.]) After the stock market crash of 1929 Dreyer's created a flavor of chocolate ice cream with nuts & marshmallow & gave it this name
    $400 22
The March for Babies is sponsored by this organization founded in 1938 to stamp out polio
    $400 12
Job of one who cleans up rich people's messes, like Ray Donovan
    $400 2
In 2019 a new buttermilk batter helped this chain sell out of its chicken sandwiches in just 2 weeks
    $400 7
Pocahontas marries & dies
    $400 17
This apathetic Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber title precedes "when I'm with my baby, yeah"
    $600 28
(Hi, I'm Lee Goldberg from New York's ABC7. [He presents from Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York.]) Plymouth Church in Brooklyn was once a stop along the underground railroad; often the next leg was on a northbound ship up this river, to Albany, & then on to Canada
    $600 23
The NDSS, the National this Syndrome Society, has held its Buddy Walks since 1995
    $600 13
A short, proverbial saying, or Mr. Gorky
    $600 3
Love it or hate it, this NHL mascot seen here was introduced in 2018
    DD: $1,000 8
Anne Boleyn
    $600 18
This 8-minute Led Zeppelin song from 1971 is a mainstay of classic rock radio
    $800 29
( Hi, I'm Deborah Knapp with KENS 5. [She presents from the Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas.]) The Witte Museum has an extra-small horse-drawn carriage given by P.T. Barnum to this man when he was 26 inches tall; he got the larger one after he'd grown to 40 inches
    $800 24
In 1985 APLA, this Project Los Angeles, held the first walk for it, raising nearly 7 times the goal amount
    $800 14
Bending a limb, & maybe posing as you do
    $800 4
This game involving scavenging was first announced at the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards but didn't become available until 2017
    $800 9
Joan of Arc
    $800 19
In the '60s the first 2 Top 40 Hits for this group had the word "Surfin"' in the title; No. 4, "Surfer"
    $1000 30
(I'm Jerry Anderson
from WTOL 11. [He presents from Fifth Third Field in Toledo, Ohio.]) Since 1987 the Toledo Mud Hens have been a farm team of this American League team located about 60 miles to the northeast of Toledo
    $1000 25
The AHA's Heart Walk raises money "to save lives from this country's No. 1 and No. 5 killers, heart disease and" this
    $1000 15
A link, or the core of a situation
    $1000 5
Carlos Ghosn, disgraced head of this car company, made a dramatic house arrest-break in Japan & fled to Lebanon
    $1000 10
Catherine the Great
    $1000 20
Mishearing "Life In The Fast Lane" as "flies in the vasoline" led to a line of a hit in 1994 for these "aviators"

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Jessica Sarah Sid
$1,800 $600 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jessica Sarah Sid
$4,000 $3,800 $3,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

NORTH KOREAN GEOGRAPHY
A NOVEL PASSAGE
RODS & COHNS
SHAKESPEARE MEANS SOMETHING ELSE
ARCHITECTURE HISTORY
RADIOACTIVE
    $400 11
The ancient capital of the legendary Tangun Dynasty that founded the Korean state; today it's a city of over 3 million
    $400 17
"And now, gentlemen, it's one for all and all for one. That's our motto, and I think we should stick to it"
    $400 16
Maggie May know that in 2016 this rocker was knighted for his services to music & charity
    $400 6
Claudius uses these to mean rumor-mongers, not a ring-in or time's-up device you press on a game show
    $400 1
Around 1793 amateur architect William Thornton won the design competition for this domed D.C. edifice
    $400 26
Oh, K...one isotope of this silvery metallic element, atomic number 40, is radioactive
    $800 12
Kangwon Province faces the East Sea, better known to us by this national name
    $800 18
"The report spread of a wonderful Yahoo, that could speak like a Houyhnhnm"
    $800 22
Marc Cohn mentions W.C. Handy & "the ghost of Elvis" in his song "Walking In" this city
    $800 7
In home renovation it means hired by the general contractor; in "King Lear", it means promised in marriage
    $800 2
In the 1880s Richard Hunt designed the pedestal for this 305-foot-tall monument in New York City
    $800 27
For some isotopes, this is just a few milliseconds, but isotope 243 of americium clocks in at 7,370 years
    $1200 13
Your map showing Mount Mantap may be out of date; in 2018 this manmade event shifted or perhaps even collapsed it
    $1200 19
"On a mental ward. Miss Ratched's ward! The reekerputions will be... devastating!"
    $1200 23
Here's this man from Queensland in his prime in the 1960s
    $1200 8
In "Antony and Cleopatra" this word doesn't mean an available motel room; it means one's leisure time
    $1200 3
One of Frederick John Kiesler's last works was the Shrine of the Book, completed in 1965 in this country
    $1600 14
North Korea borders South Korea, China & this country whose leader met Kim Jong un for the first time at a 2019 summit
    $1600 20
"Now, Mr. Earnshaw did not understand jokes from his children: he had always been strict and grave with them"
    $1600 24
He told TV viewers that science fiction is "the improbable made possible; fantasy, the impossible made probable"
    $1600 9
In "Cymbeline", it means something like "free use"; nowadays it refers to a sports team or the right to open a fast food outlet
    DD: $2,000 4
Bernini meant for his design of the colonnades in front of this basilica to represent the encircling arms of the church
    $2000 15
NK's longest river is this 500-mile one that served as a strategic goal for U.N. forces during the war in the 1950s
    $2000 21
"Mother died today. or, maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure"
    $2000 25
This onetime communist-hunting lawyer is a malevolent presence in "Angels in America"
    $2000 10
In modern life this 8-letter word means "not having a romantic partner for the evening"; in "Richard II" it means "without end"
    $2000 5
Not black eyeliner but stained-glass windows & pointed arches exemplify this architectural style begun around 1130

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jessica Sarah Sid
$12,000 $5,400 $18,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

MOVIE MUSICALS
Water pressure issues in Culver City, home to MGM, impacted the filming of an iconic scene in this 1952 movie musical

Final scores:

Jessica Sarah Sid
$24,000 $5,400 $25,874
2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $25,874

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Jessica Sarah Sid
$11,600 $5,400 $18,000
18 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 10 R,
2 W		 21 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $35,000

[game responses] [game scores] [suggest correction]

Game tape date: 2020-01-15
The J! Archive is created by fans, for fans. Scraping, republication, monetization, and malicious use prohibited; this site may use cookies and collect identifying information. See terms. The Jeopardy! game show and all elements thereof, including but not limited to copyright and trademark thereto, are the property of Jeopardy Productions, Inc. and are protected under law. This website is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or operated by Jeopardy Productions, Inc. Join the discussion at JBoard.tv.