Show #8347 - Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Contestants

Jeopardy! Round
MOUNTAINS GUITAR TALK FISH & CHIPS SPORTS TROPHIES & AWARDS PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACES UP RISING

(Mike: Each response is two words; one with "up" and one without.)

$200 29

Sagarmatha is its name in Nepali

mount everest

michele

$200 5

The long, narrow part of a guitar that carries the strings from the body to the headstock has this anatomical name

neck

michele

$200 16

Alaskan pollock is the key ingredient in this alliterative McDonald's sandwich

(Jon: What is the fish fillet?)

Filet-O-Fish

Jon

$200 6

World Boxing Council champs get these, handmade of Italian leather

belts

Jon

$200 7

Honolulu

Barack Obama

Jon

$200 23

"Up" goes before a mathematical group to make a word meaning "angry"

set

DD: $1,000 30

This highest mountain in Japan is actually a volcano that last erupted in 1707

Mount Fuji

Michele

$400 4

Don't worry, we're sure you know this word for the strips of metal embedded in a guitar's fingerboard

frets

Jon

$400 17

Kettle Brand makes Backyard, Country Style & Korean versions of this classic chip flavor

barbecue

Jon

$400 13

MLB's Rookie of the Year awards are named for this groundbreaker who won the award in 1947

(Michele: Who is Cy Young?)

Jackie Robinson

Michele

$400 8

Hope

Bill Clinton

Jeff

$400 24

"Up" rises to the top of a truck's cargo so you can move data from your computer to a server

(Jon: What is upload?)
(Jeff: What is backup?)

load and upload

Jon Jeff

$600 15

Opened in 2016, a rail tunnel under these mountains is the world's longest; here are miners with the drilling machine known as Heidi

swiss alps

Jon

$600 3

A guitar's strings are set to E-A-D-G-B-E in "standard" this

tuning

Jon

$600 18

La Banderita adds both chia & flax seeds to its organic blue corn these chips

tortilla chips

Jon

$600 14

South African Gary Player was the first non-American to receive this association's lifetime achievement award

the PGA

Jeff

$600 11

Brookline

John Kennedy

$600 25

Take the focal point of a theater & add "up" to get the back of that part

stage

Jon

$800 10

Here's the crater of this Hawaiian volcano with a one-word name

(Jon: What is Haleakala?)

Kilauea

Jon

$800 2

Guitarists use picks, also known by this other "P" word

plectrum

Jon

$800 19

popchips adds this dairy product to both cheddar- & onion-flavored potato chips

sour cream

Jon

$800 21

College football rivalries can have their own trophies; the Ireland Trophy goes to the winner of Boston College vs. this school

Notre Dame

Jon

$800 12

Kinderhook

Van Buren

Michele

$800 26

"Up" is placed before an emotion to give us a word for "snobbish"

(Michele: Uh, what is stuck and stuck up?)

pity

Michele

$1000 9

In 1794 George Vancouver caught sight of this peak from Cook Inlet, an arm of the Gulf of Alaska

Mount Denali

Jon

$1000 1

This type of clamp raises the pitch of a guitar's strings

capo

Jon

$1000 20

In the 1970s a savvy marketer rebranded the tasty Patagonian toothfish as the "Chilean" this

sea bass

Jeff

$1000 22

The NHL's Vezina Trophy goes to the league's top player at this position

goalie

Michele

$1000 28

Yorba Linda

Richard Nixon

Michele

$1000 27

When "up" is rising to the front of a serving of liquor, now we have the gist of an argument

shot

Jon

Scores at the first commercial break
Jon Jeff Michele
$4,000 $1,000 $600
Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round
Jon Jeff Michele
$6,800 $1,600 $3,800
Double Jeopardy! Round
COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER

5-LETTER WORDS

U.S. MUSEUMS

ALTERNATE HISTORY NOVELS

COMPOUNDS

MAKING & REMAKING ROBIN HOOD

$400 21

In 1698 Scotland tried to found a colony on this New World isthmus; its failure was a financial disaster

panama

jeff

$400 16

An additional airing of a previously broadcast TV show

rerun

jon

$400 1

Leavenworth, Washington is home to a museum devoted to these, & it's not just open at Christmas

nutcrackers

michele

$400 6

The title of this Colson Whitehead Pulitzer winner refers to an actual train system operating beneath southern soil

underground railroad

michele

$400 26

Vaporizing a liquid means pulling its molecules apart; for phenol, which forms strong hydrogen bonds, this point is high at 359.6ยบ F.

boiling point

jon

$400 14

In a 2018 movie unafraid of anachronism, these traditional Robin Hood weapons blow up walls on contact

arrows

michele

$800 22

The image here depicts the lost colony on this North Carolina island

roanoke

michele

$800 17

Candy word meaning to falsify numbers

(Jon: [Sighs] What is cook?)

fudge

jon

$800 2

The Museum of the American Revolution opened in 2017, 2 blocks away from Independence Hall in this city

philadelphia

michele

$800 7

In "Ruled Britannia", the Spanish Armada was victorious & this Spaniard rules England alongside Bloody Mary Tudor

(Jon: Who's Francis Drake?)

philip II

jon

$800 27

Amyl nitrite is often used to treat this chest pain, a symptom of coronary artery disease

angina

jon

$800 13

Alan Hale Sr. played this big buddy opposite Errol Flynn & Douglas Fairbanks

little john

jon

$1200 23

Henry Ford created Fordlandia in Brazil to produce latex for this material, but bugs made it impossible

rubber

jon

$1200 18

Literally, sheep-ish

ovine

jon

$1200 3

The Winterthur Museum of Decorative Arts in Delaware was founded by a member of this famous family

dupont

michele

$1200 8

Philip Roth's "The Plot Against America" finds FDR losing the 1940 presidential election to this aviator

lindbergh

jeff

DD: $2,000 28

Potassium sorbate, which inhibits the growth of molds & yeasts, is mainly used in foods as this

preservative

jon

$1200 9

Instead of Friar Tuck, this director played Rabbi Tuckman in his parody called "Robin Hood: Men in Tights"

mel brooks

jon

$1600 24

Churchill described the fall of this future city-state to the Japanese in 1942 as the "worst disaster... in British history"

singapore

jon

$1600 19

With lovely crystals inside, it's Iowa's state rock

geode

jon

$1600 4

"I'm going to" this city, this city, "here I come" to visit the American Jazz Museum & The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

kansas city

michele

$1600 10

Set in a world where Germany & Japan prevailed in WWII, "The Man in the High Castle" is a tale from this sci-fi legend

philip dick

jeff

$1600 29

Nickel nitrate is used to make this positive electrode in batteries

cathode

$1600 11

Sean Connery is an older Robin wooing Audrey Hepburn in the 1976 film "Robin &" this maid

marian

jeff

$200 25

After Mormons were driven out in the 1840s, French colonists called the Icarians failed to make this Illinois city work

nauvoo

$2000 20

A block of precious metal of a standard shape & weight

ingot

jeff

$2000 5

A large stabile called "Two Discs" is one of many works by this artist belonging to the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden

calder

jon

DD: $2,000 15

In "The Alteration" by Kingsley Amis, this man became Pope Germanicus I in the 16th century so the Reformation never happened

martin luther

michele

$2000 30

In 1839 John Herschel used sodium thiosulfate "to arrest action of light", making it this type of photographic agent

fixer

jeff

$2000 12

Alan Rickman won a BAFTA Award for playing this lawman in "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves"

the Sheriff of Nottingham

jon

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy
Jon Jeff Michele
$22,400 $8,400 $11,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

WORLD LEADERS ADDRESS CONGRESS

The 2 to address 3 joint sessions are Churchill & this leader, his non-European country's longest-serving PM, in 1996, 2011 & 2015

(Mike: [To Jon] The Israeli prime minister.)
Jon Jeff Michele
$401 $8,000 $11,399
Who is Netenyahu? Who is Tony Blair? Who is Fidel Castro?

Benjamin Netanyahu

Final scores:
Jon Jeff Michele
$22,801 $400 $1
2-day champion: $60,002 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph
Coryat scores:
Jon Jeff Michele
$21,600 $8,400 $10,800
26 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W
8 R,
1 W
15 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $40,800

Game tape date: 2021-01-12