Suggest correction - #7934 - 2019-02-21
Show #7934 - Thursday, February 21, 2019
2019 All-Star Games match 1, continuation of game 1.
Contestants
Team Brad
Playing the Jeopardy! Round: Brad Rutter, an actor and producer from Los Angeles, California
Playing the Double Jeopardy! Round: Larissa Kelly, an editor for academic competitions from Richmond, California
Playing the Final Jeopardy! Round: David Madden, an academic competition director from Ridgewood, New Jersey
Team Colby
Playing the Jeopardy! Round: Colby Burnett, a college counselor from Chicago, Illinois
Playing the Double Jeopardy! Round: Alan Lin, a software engineer from Riverside, California
Playing the Final Jeopardy! Round: Pam Mueller, a think tank researcher from Culver City, California
Team Buzzy
Playing the Jeopardy! Round: Alex Jacob, a freelance trivia writer from Greensboro, North Carolina
Playing the Double Jeopardy! Round: Buzzy Cohen, a music executive from Los Angeles, California
Playing the Final Jeopardy! Round: Jennifer Giles, a third grade teacher from Longmont, Colorado
Jeopardy! Round
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This "butcher of Uganda" attacked Tanzania in 1978, but his forces were routed & he fled into exile |
Idi Amin
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Joonas Suotamo stepped into Peter Mayhew's large, large shoes to play this hairy fella in "Solo: A Star Wars Story" |
(Colby: Who is [*]?) (Alex Trebek: Yeah.) [Colby imitates [*] with a throaty yell.]
Chewbacca
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Some celebrate National this Pie Day on October 12, not long before Halloween |
(Brad: My favorite. Uh, let's get rid of TRIPLE RHYME TIME for $400.)
pumpkin pie
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France: This country to the north |
Belgium
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A frightful creamery pixie |
a scary dairy fairy
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"Thank God! He lives, and he lives forever", said an 1897 New York Sun editorial reply to an 8-year-old with this first name |
(Alex Trebek: "Yes, [*], there is a Santa Claus.")
Virginia
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Notorious weapons dealer Adnan Khashoggi was a key figure in this 1986 scandal that saw 1,500 missiles head to Tehran |
the Iran-Contra scandal
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He decided to accept the very possible mission to play Ethan Hunt & deal with the "Fallout" |
(Tom) Cruise
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It was a capital idea when this "pie" became the official state dessert of Massachusetts |
Boston cream pie
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Mexico: Just to the southeast |
Belize
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Wet earth-smeared pal who's part of your test prep team |
a muddy study buddy
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One legend about this ship has its captain forever sailing the North Sea, playing dice for his soul with the devil |
the Flying Dutchman
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The prison break of 2 murderers named Matt & Sweat is dramatized in TV's "Escape at" this place in New York state |
Dannemora
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In 2018 Ewan McGregor played this A.A. Milne guy all grown up with grown-up problems |
Christopher Robin
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The sour Montmorency type of this fruit makes a tasty pie |
cherry
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Romania: A Balkan buddy |
Bulgaria
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Exploring Hellenic mountains for a full 7 days |
a Greek peak week
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Instead of merging with the NBA, owners of the St. Louis team in this league got a cut of NBA TV money in perpetuity--hello, $300 mil.! |
the ABA (or American Basketball Association)
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Nicknamed the "Angel of Death", serial killer Charles Cullen committed his crimes while employed as one of these |
a nurse
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Christopher Nolan directed this 2017 film about a dramatic mass rescue in World War II |
(Colby: What's [*]?) (Alex Trebek: You're right. You're on the board.) (Colby: Whew! That's great.)
Dunkirk
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Some recipes for Jefferson Davis pie call for this nut, familiar from another Southern pie staple |
a pecan
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Paraguay: These 2 |
Bolivia & Brazil
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What Puff from Honalee calls his beer mug-carrying Radio Flyer |
a dragon wagon flagon
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Also a magazine title, this is a festival that goes on in perpetuity in Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" |
Vanity Fair
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Rosemary & Leno LaBianca were murdered on his orders |
Manson
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Ryan Gosling played him in "First Man" |
Armstrong
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Using lemon juice, Montgomery pie is a more tart version of this pie from Pennsylvania that's so sweet it attracts insects |
shoo-fly pie
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India: Burma & these other 2 |
Bangladesh & Bhutan
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Rocky Mediterranean strait that jumps over the place where ritual sacrifices are made |
(Alex Trebek: What is [*]?) (Brad: Ah!) (Alex Trebek: Brad, you knew that.) (Brad: No, I knew two of 'em. It's just the third one that's so tough.) (Alex Trebek: That's why it's TRIPLE RHYME TIME.)
a Gibraltar altar vaulter
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In myth Selene couldn't bear this handsome guy ever dying, so she had him sleep forever; Keats wrote a poem about it |
(Brad: Who is Adonis?)
Endymion
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Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):
Team Buzzy |
Team Colby |
Team Brad |
$4,600 |
$2,400 |
$3,600 |
Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:
Team Buzzy |
Team Colby |
Team Brad |
$6,600 |
$3,200 |
$8,400 |
Double Jeopardy! Round
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HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS GREAT COMPOSERS |
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Change the last 2 letters in "flow" to get this term for the rate of flow through an area |
flux
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Fiorello La Guardia got to be mayor by promising to oust this infamously corrupt NYC Democratic organization |
Tammany Hall
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In marketing there are 5 categories of these consumers; "early" these help popularize a new product |
an adopter
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"Love is blind", sighs Jessica, a nice Jewish girl in this Shakespeare play |
The Merchant of Venice
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Golfers "drive for show" & do this "for dough" |
putt for dough
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(Hershey Felder presents from the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.) Perhaps music's most famous motif is often said to represent fate knocking, but others attribute the opening of this work to the deaf Beethoven feeling the vibrations of a little bird tapping on a tree |
(Alex: And our thanks to Hershey Felder for all of those categories. I saw him perform the music of Beethoven. He is just fantastic.)
Beethoven's 5th
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2 basic types of motion are moving along a line & this type of movement around an axis |
rotational movement
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As he was president of this august body, it was only fair that John Hancock got to sign the Declaration of Independence first |
the Second Continental Congress
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It's French for "Why?" |
pourquoi
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Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in" this 2-word place is thought to be that of St. Giles', where the poet is now buried |
a country churchyard
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Sault Ste. Marie is on this peninsula in Michigan |
Upper
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This "O" word refers to 1 complete cycle of a pendulum; the time it takes is called the period |
oscillation
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At the 1988 Democratic convention, this fellow Texan said George H.W. Bush was born with a silver foot in his mouth |
Ann Richards
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Introduced in 1991 & already one of the USA's favorite varieties, this apple is named for its sweet taste & firm crunch |
a honeycrisp
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A ruined statue in Egypt inspired this sonnet by Percy Shelley |
"Ozymandias"
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Grateful waiters know Johnny Depp is famous as a big one |
a tipper
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Victor Hess showed that certain rays intensify with altitude, so they must be from space; Robert Millikan named them these |
cosmic rays
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Before going to the Supreme Court, he made history by winning 3 straight California gubernatorial elections |
[After the 15th clue, the show breaks for commercial.]
(Earl) Warren
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This white anesthetic called "milk of amnesia" was involved in the death of Michael Jackson |
propofol
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In this novel by E.M. Forster, Lucy Honeychurch & her cousin visit Florence, Italy |
A Room with a View
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Physicist James gave his name to this law saying heat from electricity is proportional to the square of the current |
Joule's law
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After the financial crisis of 2008, Christopher Dodd teamed up with this Massachusetts man for a regulatory bill |
Barney Frank
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This synonym for "silly" is used of a pointless lawsuit; SCOTUS defines it as alleging facts irrational or incredible |
frivolous
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Dr. Primrose is the title priest living in the title parish with his wife & kids in this novel by Oliver Goldsmith |
The Vicar of Wakefield
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A round hide- or felt-covered central Asian tent |
a yurt
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Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:
Team Buzzy |
Team Colby |
Team Brad |
$26,200 |
$6,400 |
$29,800 |
Final Jeopardy! Round
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The 7-letter names of these western- & easternmost mainland countries begin with the same letter |
| | $0 | Jennifer | What is I love you, grandma | $0 | David | What are Senegal & Somalia? | $20,000 | Senegal & Somalia |
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Final scores:
Team Buzzy |
Team Colby |
Team Brad |
$26,200 |
$0 |
$49,800 |
Game dynamics:
Team Buzzy |
Team Colby |
Team Brad |
$17,800 |
$6,400 |
$23,600 |
Alex |
Colby |
Brad |
$6,600 |
$3,200 |
$5,600 |
Buzzy |
Alan |
Larissa |
$11,200 |
$3,200 |
$18,000 |
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