Show #6201 2011-07-25 (taped 2011-03-23) Regular

Contestants

Maggie Diamond — a university development writer originally from St. Louis, Missouri

Edgar Mihelic — an educator from Chicago, Illinois

Linda Percy — a retired emergency room physician from Connellsville, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $31,600)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Linda	$4,000	$7,800	$17,400	$18,400 2-day champion: $50,000	$16,600 26 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Edgar	$2,400	$4,200	$4,200	$8,398 2nd place: $2,000	$4,200 15 R, 6 W
Maggie	$1,600	$3,600	$7,600	$4,600 3rd place: $1,000	$9,600 12 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

HOW CONTINENTAL!	THE NEW YORK TIMESBEST 1,000 MOVIES EVER MADE	ORGANIZATIONS FOR SHORT	PULITZER-WINNING NOVELS	TIME PIECES	EASY AS B_C_D
$200 [11] July temperatures on this continent range from about -94 to a balmy high of around -40 Antarctica Edgar	$200 [21] The Times' review of this film said "Miss Wray goes through her ordeal with great courage" King Kong Maggie	$200 [6] Founded in 1847, the AMA the American Medical Association Edgar	$200 [1] The Pulitzer folks found Michael Chabon's "Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &" him amazing enough to win Clay Linda	$200 [16] This watch brand with a Greek letter name says it made the world's first diver's watch Omega Linda	$200 [26] An untruth told with shameless confidence is this type of "lie" a bald-faced (or bare-faced) lie Maggie
$400 [12] This continent covers only about 5% of the earth's land area; deserts cover about 1/3 of the continent Australia Linda Maggie	$400 [22] "We wouldn't know how closely--if at all--" this film "parallels the life of an eminent publisher, as has been...alleged" Citizen Kane Edgar	$400 [7] The NAACP the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Linda	$400 [2] Richard Ford wrote this novel in which Will Smith saves the world from alien invasion... wait, that's not right Independence Day Linda	$400 [17] A "complication" is a watch feature showing anything besides the time; Blancpain's grand complication has the phases of this phases of the moon Linda	$400 [27] When a check failed to clear because of insufficient funds, we say it did this bounced Edgar
$600 [13] This continent has the longest freshwater lake, 420 miles, in the world Africa Linda Edgar	$600 [23] "John Hughes lets the (5) kids challenge, taunt and confront each other as if this (film was) 'Twelve Angry Men'" The Breakfast Club Maggie	$600 [8] The AKC the American Kennel Club Linda	DD $600 [3] We'd sum up this 1952 winner as quew quits Queeg The Caine Mutiny Linda	$600 [18] (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Mayer Museum in Jerusalem.) Featuring a calendar & barometer & valued at over $10 million, a watch ordered in 1783 for this queen took until 1827 to finish; sadly, she wasn't around to receive it Marie Antoinette Linda Edgar	$600 [28] On Nov. 13, 1979 the 76ers' Darryl Dawkins shattered one of these a backboard Edgar
$800 [14] Both the highest & lowest places on earth are on this continent Asia Edgar	$800 [24] "Mr. Rains is properly slippery and crafty as a minion of Vichy perfidy" in this drama Casablanca Linda	$800 [9] The K of C, all 1.8 million of them the Knights of Columbus Edgar	$800 [4] Virginia Woolf won no Pulitzers, but "Mrs. Dalloway" resonates in 3 different stories & decades in this novel The Hours Linda	$800 [19] The timepiece that in 1760 solved the problem of determining the degrees of this at sea still runs longitude Linda Edgar	$800 [29] The state of being a single guy bachelorhood Edgar
$1,000 [15] A waterfall on this continent has the longest drop in the world, 3,212 feet South America Maggie	$1,000 [25] This pic shows "the social changes taking place in the south between 1948 and 1973, and (a) remarkable 25-year friendship Driving Miss Daisy Maggie	$1,000 [10] Similar to the DAR, the SAR the Sons of the American Revolution Maggie	$1,000 [5] In this novel a southern politician's life is described in stark detail, with exquisite Penn-manship All the King's Men Edgar	$1,000 [20] (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Mayer Museum in Jerusalem.)Thispistol, which marked the hours with the sound of a shot, was made in the early 1800s in this country, fulfilling its reputation for clock-making, but not so much for peaceability Switzerland Edgar	$1,000 [30] Terminating in 2 points, like certain teeth bicuspid Linda

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE DEFIANT ONES	U.S. COUNTIES	ALSO A BLOOD TYPE	"W"HAT?	IN GOD'S NAME	ARE YOU EATING?
$400 [26] He was in jail at Poona when Time named him its Man of the Year for 1930 Gandhi Edgar	$400 [8] Washington county in this state is the easternmost county in the contiguous 48 states Maine Linda	$400 [6] In baseball statistics, these 2 letters represent stepping up to the plate one time AB Linda	$400 [15] Aquatic aid on display here a wetsuit Edgar	$400 [13] Carl Weathers played this boxer who slugged it out with Rocky Apollo Creed Linda	$400 [1] Hawaiians carefully boil the taro root to make this staple, as the raw tubers are poisonous--no pun intended poi Linda
$800 [27] Stokely Carmichael was "honorary prime minister" of these '60s radicals the Black Panthers Maggie	$800 [9] Oneida county, Idaho was named for the lake Oneida area in this state from which many of the early settlers emigrated New York Linda	$800 [7] An interjection, or a popular Vegas show O Edgar	$800 [22] Shakespeare used this word for a tunnel made by an invertebrate; he didn't know it would come up in astrophysics a wormhole Maggie	$800 [14] It's only logical that Spock hailed from this rock Vulcan Maggie	$800 [2] Intertidal zones are a good place to find dulse, a reddish purple type of this popular in the North Atlantic seaweed Linda Edgar
$1,600 [29] Frank Pais was a leader of the 26th of July movement, which sought to overthrow this man's Caribbean regime Fulgencio Batista Edgar	$1,200 [16] This state's Citrus County was named for its citrus trees; today Bellamy Grove is the only remaining commercial grove Florida Edgar	$1,600 [11] One single photography image in which brightness values are reversed A- (a negative) Linda	$1,200 [23] Large or small, these simple turbines can generate power a waterwheel Edgar	$1,200 [19] Diablo Cody won a screenwriting Oscar for this movie with lots of pregnant pauses Juno Linda	$1,200 [3] Forget Kim Jong Il; South Koreans are worried about shortages of this other "kim", their pungent national dish kimchee Maggie
DD $2,000 [28] Pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi was under house arrest in this capital from 2003 to 2010 Rangoon (or Yangon) Maggie	$1,600 [17] The 2 most populous Penn. counties are Philadelphia & this one that shares its name with a Pittsburgh river the Allegheny Linda Maggie	DD $2,000 [10] It sounds like a command urging optimism B+ (be positive) Linda	$1,600 [24] 5-letter word for a hauling machine using a chain wrapped around a drum a winch Linda	$1,600 [20] Remember these rockets? They propelled both the Gemini spacecraft & missiles aimed at the Russkies Titans Linda Edgar	$1,600 [4] Triple word score is yours if you can name this sliced pork loaf made famous by the Pennsylvania Dutch scrapple Linda
$2,000 [30] During World War II, Josip Broz led these Yugoslav resistance fighters against Nazi occupation the Partisans (the People's Liberation Army)	$2,000 [18] New Mexico's last created county, it doesn't have "7 cities", just 2, the county seat of Grants & the village of Milan Cibola Linda	$2,000 [12] The sixth tone in the scale of C minor A Linda	$2,000 [25] This African creature is an affectionate & devoted parent a warthog Maggie	$2,000 [21] What American chocolate lovers call a Milky Way, the British call this a Mars Bar	$2,000 [5] Okay, Lawrence, we've turned off the bubble machines; now finish eating your meal, this gastropod a whelk Maggie

Final Jeopardy!

BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS

The 2003 bestseller "The Meaning of Everything" is subtitled "The Story of" this reference classic

the Oxford English Dictionary

Edgar "What is the Oxford English Dictionary" — wagered $4,198

Maggie "What is Websters Dictio" — wagered $3,000

Linda "What is theOxfordEnglishDictionary" — wagered $1,000

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