Suggest correction - #7937 - 2019-02-26
Show #7937 - Tuesday, February 26, 2019
2019 All-Star Games match 2, continuation of game 1.
Contestants
Team Julia
Playing the Jeopardy! Round: Ben Ingram, a business technology integration consultant from Lake Wylie, South Carolina
Playing the Double Jeopardy! Round: Seth Wilson, a private events manager from Chicago, Illinois
Playing the Final Jeopardy! Round: Julia Collins, an administrator of a female-centric website from Wilmette, Illinois
Team Austin
Playing the Jeopardy! Round: Austin Rogers, a bartender from New York, New York
Playing the Double Jeopardy! Round: Roger Craig, a machine learning consultant from Newark, Delaware
Playing the Final Jeopardy! Round: Leonard Cooper, a graduate student at Brown University from Little Rock, Arkansas
Team Ken
Playing the Jeopardy! Round: Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
Playing the Double Jeopardy! Round: Matt Jackson, a digital fundraising professional from Washington, D.C.
Playing the Final Jeopardy! Round: Monica Thieu, a Ph.D. student in psychology from New York, New York
Jeopardy! Round
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It's what the now-departed 4,000 Fotomats promised to do in just 1 day |
develop your film
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This president was "The Great Emancipator" |
Lincoln
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Be careful, that person could be one of these "in sheep's clothing" |
a wolf
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It's the first rule of Fight Club |
you do not talk about Fight Club
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This high-up military rank comes from Arabic for "emir of", as in "emir of the seas" |
admiral
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"Jude the Obscure"; remember to let it into your heart |
the 19th century
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Colin Hanks' documentary "All Things Must Pass" tells about the "Rise and Fall" of this iconic record store chain |
(Austin: What is [*]?) (Alex: You're out of the hole.) (Austin: Thank you.)
Tower
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This appellation bestowed on Gandhi means "great soul" |
Mahatma
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This plumbing tool is a type of auger |
a snake
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Crime film that features Gene Hackman as Buck Barrow |
Bonnie and Clyde
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In 2006 the Chicago Symphony Orchestra gave Pierre Boulez the title conductor this Latin word meaning "retired" |
emeritus
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Saddle up for "Don Quixote" |
(Austin: What is the 16th?)
the 17th (or the 1600s)
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Thom McAn lived on as a brand name on these sold at Sears & Kmart |
shoes
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This golfer is "The Great White Shark" & his website is shark.com |
(Alex: Austin and Ben, are your signaling devices working? I'm a little concerned.) (Austin: Yes, unfortunately. They are.)
Greg Norman
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It's slang for an indoor antenna that typically sat on top of the TV |
rabbit ears
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This Dario Argento horror classic about a dance studio that's really a coven was remade in 2018 |
Suspiria
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This adjective is used in the British House of Commons during debate, as in "the ____ minister for Pudsey" |
honourable
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"The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling", not a Welsh singer |
(Austin: What is the 17th century?)
the 18th century (or the 1700s)
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In 2015 this beloved 3-level toy store on Fifth Avenue closed its doors; in 2018 a new location opened |
FAO Schwarz
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Alliteration alert! The first pope of this name, from 590 to 604, was "the Great" |
Gregory
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Maybe you're a canvasback if you start a new activity & "take to it like" this |
(Ken: What's fish to water?)
duck to water
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Here's this silent film comedy star in "Safety Last!" |
(Ken: Who is--it's not Buzzy. Who is [*]?) [Laughter] (Alex: You would have been correct in--with both of them.)
Harold Lloyd
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This can be the title of a Hindu priest or the job description for a political commentator |
pundit
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Johannes Gutenberg didn't write it, but his Bible... huge |
(Austin: What is [*]?) (Alex: You got it.) (Austin: Yay!)
the 15th
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Though its stores closed in 2008, you can still purchase its high-tech products, gadgets & air purifiers online |
Sharper Image
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In his heyday this author was "The Great Unknown", having published his "Waverley" novels anonymously |
Sir Walter Scott
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Weighing several tons, it's obvious to everyone present, but no one has the courage to talk about it |
the elephant in the room
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In it, reporter Rosalind Russell tells Cary Grant, "I wouldn't cover the burning of Rome for you if they were just lighting it up" |
His Girl Friday
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In 1853 the shogun of Japan called himself "taikun" when meeting this American; it eventually became our word tycoon |
(Matthew) Perry
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"The Canterbury Tales" start to get told |
(Ken: What is the 13th?)
the 14th
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Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):
Team Ken |
Team Austin |
Team Julia |
$8,600 |
-$200 |
$2,600 |
Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:
Team Ken |
Team Austin |
Team Julia |
$9,800 |
$2,800 |
$5,600 |
Double Jeopardy! Round
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This robust New World crop descended from teosinte, which only had about a dozen kernels per ear |
maize
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The House of Representatives convened in 2019 with Kevin McCarthy in this post |
House Minority Leader
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Lake Wakatipu in this country was used as a backdrop in the "Lord of the Rings" movies |
New Zealand
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Time for follow the leader: 19. Hayes 20. Garfield & 21. him |
(Chester) Arthur
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A group action to get a substance abuser to seek help |
intervention
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Taking over "The Tonight Show" gig in 2014, this comedian quipped, "I'll be your host...for now" |
(Jimmy) Fallon
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Used to break up the soil, it evolved from the prehistoric digging stick & was improved in the 18th century with a moldboard |
a plow
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The 2 Asian apes are the orangutan & this arboreal one |
(Roger: What is... lemur?)
the gibbon
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During monsoon season, this river in Cambodia reverses its flow, flooding the Tonle Sap River & Tonle Sap Lake |
the Mekong
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Walter Reuther ran this union's GM department from 1939 & the whole union from 1946 to 1970 |
United Auto Workers
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Safety Paul Krause holds the NFL record with 81 of these |
interceptions
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The Festrunk brothers were the "Two Wild & Crazy Guys" played by this pair on "Saturday Night Live" |
Steve Martin & Dan Aykroyd
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The Romans made sure to plant legumes, which increase yield by returning this element to the soil |
nitrogen
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To the nearest thousand, the height in feet of Mount Everest |
(Roger: What is 28,000 feet?)
29,000
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Boundary Lake is shared by North Dakota & this Canadian province |
(Roger: What is Saskatchewan?)
Manitoba
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Comic songs & sounds were his forte as 1940 bandleader of the City Slickers |
Spike Jones
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Around 1950 these devices became common to talk to NYC apartment dwellers |
intercoms
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"Sexy French Depression" is one of her musical numbers as Rebecca on "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" |
(Rachel) Bloom
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Shakespeare's shortest play is this twisted yarn with twins both named Antipholus |
The Comedy of Errors
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The Amazon River begins not in Brazil but with headwaters in this western South American country |
Peru
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Viktor Orban is the anti-immigrant leader of this European country |
Hungary
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Some think that the electric car will abolish ICE, short for this traditional type of engine |
internal combustion engine
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Manuel, Polly & of course, Basil were denizens of this wacky British TV establishment |
Fawlty Towers
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Deuteronomy 8:8 promises a land not of milk & honey but of this salad dressing "and honey" |
(Roger: What is vinegar?) [A commercial break is taken after the 15th clue.]
olive oil
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Maynard Jackson's 1973 election as the first black mayor of this state capital was seen as a sign of "The New South" |
Atlanta
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The Iberian peninsula's second-longest river, it flows into the Mediterranean southwest of Barcelona |
the Ebro
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In 2003 Liberians were happy that life was blah as this brutal leader turned over power to Moses Blah |
(Charles) Taylor
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From the Latin for "fought to the death", this adjective is used of fighting with a group |
internecine
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On "The Carol Burnett Show", he was Eunice's husband Ed & often got the giggles in sketches with Tim Conway |
(Harvey) Korman
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Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:
Team Ken |
Team Austin |
Team Julia |
$37,500 |
$6,800 |
$11,200 |
Final Jeopardy! Round
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His seldom-used last name reflects his birth near the mouth of a river that flows from the Alps to the North Sea |
Julia | Who is Michaelangelo? | $11,200 | | | $0 | Monica | Who is Rembrandt? | $2,503 | Rembrandt van Rijn |
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Final scores:
Team Ken |
Team Austin |
Team Julia |
$40,003 |
$8,000 |
$0 |
Game dynamics:
Team Ken |
Team Austin |
Team Julia |
$24,000 |
$6,800 |
$11,200 |
Ken |
Austin |
Ben |
$6,800 |
$2,800 |
$5,600 |
Matt |
Roger |
Seth |
$17,200 |
$4,000 |
$5,600 |
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