Show #6203 2011-07-27 (taped 2011-03-23) Regular

Contestants

Ryan Fox — a graduate student in mathematics education from Athens, Georgia

Amy George — a geographic information systems analyst from Richmond, Virginia

Linda Percy — a retired emergency room physician from Connellsville, Pennsylvania (whose 3-day cash winnings total $70,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Linda $6,000 $10,800 $19,600 $9,199
2nd place: $2,000
$19,800
27 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Amy $800 $3,800 $15,000 $2
3rd place: $1,000
$12,200
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Ryan $-600 $1,400 $14,800 $18,800
New champion: $18,800
$13,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE FRANKS ABBREVIATED NO. 1 HITS TRIAL PARTICIPANTS QUOTATIONS FROMBARTLETT'S FACE BOOK THE "SOCIAL" NETWORK
$200 [11]
Around 486 the Franks took control of the region once known by this 4-letter name
Gaul
Amy
$200 [6]
Whitney Houston,1992:"I.W.A.L.Y."
"I Will Always Love You"
Amy
$200 [1]
British Captain Thomas Preston was a central figure in the trial regarding this unfortunate 1770 event
the Boston Massacre
Linda
$200 [17]
Among the remarks attributed to this baseball player are "It was deja vu all over again" & "You can observe a lot by watching"
Yogi Berra
Linda
$200 [12]
Makinghima revolutionary martyr, the Bolivian Army tracked down this man and killed him in 1967
(Che) Guevara
Amy
$200 [26]
This 1935 U.S. federal law provided assistance in old age pensions, insurance & unemployment
Social Security
Linda
$400 [22]
He co-ruled the Franks with his brother Carloman but became sole king when his brother died in 771
Charlemagne
Linda
$400 [7]
Glen Campbell,1975:"R.C."
"Rhinestone Cowboy"
Linda
$400 [2]
Lawson Botts, who defended this fiery abolitionist at his 1859 trial, died fighting for the Confederacy in 1862
John Brown
Linda
$400 [18]
In a 1961 song, it's the question that precedes "Girls have picked them every one, oh, when will they ever learn?"
Where have all the flowers gone?
Linda
$400 [13]
After the death ofherhusband in 1861, she did not go out in public again for three years, and refused to wear anything but black
Queen Victoria
Linda
$400 [27]
This term for someone attempting to gain a higher position in society sounds like a casual mountaineer
a social climber
Ryan
$600 [23]
This "short" guy became King of the Franks in 751 & was the first to be officially anointed by a pope
Pepin
Amy
$600 [8]
The Byrds,1965:"T! T! T!"
"Turn! Turn! Turn!"
Ryan
$600 [3]
In 1521 it was Charles V presiding & the Archbishop of Trier, John Eck, prosecuting this man
Martin Luther
Linda Ryan
$600 [19]
One of Garrison Keillor's quotes begins, "That's the news from" this place, "where all the women are strong"
Lake Wobegon
Ryan
$600 [14]
The original head shrinker, hefled to London in 1938 following the Nazi annexation of Austria
Sigmund Freud
Linda Ryan
$600 [28]
The USSR was a Union of Soviet these
Socialist Republics
Amy
$800 [24]
In 732, when he defeated an invading Muslim army at Tours, a king earned the nickname Martel, meaning this
the hammer
Linda
$800 [9]
Gwen Stefani,2005:"H.G."
"Hollaback Girl"
Linda Amy
DD $600 [4]
In 1633 Urban VIII had this man tried; Father Firenzuola prosecuted
Galileo
Linda
$800 [20]
A 1920 Robert Frost poem begins, "Some say the world will end in" this, "some say in ice"
fire
Amy
$800 [15]
This Four Quartetspoet was awarded both the Nobel Prize and the Order of Merit in 1948
T.S. Eliot
$800 [29]
S.A.D. can stand for this psychological condition, a fear of being humiliated in front of others
the social anxiety disorder
Linda
$1,000 [25]
Early Frankish king Clovis I belonged to this dynasty whose name comes from its founder, Merovech
Merovingian
Linda
$1,000 [10]
The Beatles,1970:"T.L.A.W.R."
"The Long And Winding Road"
Linda
$1,000 [5]
The accusers in his 399 B.C. trial were Meletus, Anytus & Lycon
Socrates
Linda
$1,000 [21]
On March 21, 1973 this White House counsel said that "we have a cancer within, close to the presidency, that is growing"
John Dean
Linda
$1,000 [16]
Now retired, this foreign-born American influenced U.S. national policy for decades
Henry Kissinger
Amy
$1,000 [30]
Implicit agreement in which the individual surrenders liberty in return for protection
a social contract (or social compact)
Amy Ryan

Double Jeopardy! Round

LAWS FUNERAL PLOTS THEIR DEBUT NOVELS COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES LOCAL COLOR WITH THIS "RING"
$400 [24]
There's a law of supply & a law of this partner, namely: the higher the price, the less people want to buy an item
demand
Linda
$400 [30]
The title of this film tells you what events Hugh Grant & his friends will be attending (though not in that order)
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Linda
$400 [6]
1895:"The Time Machine"
H.G. Wells
Amy
$400 [1]
The Walter P. Reuther library at Wayne State University in Detroit is devoted to this movement
labor
Linda Ryan
$400 [16]
In the Irish language, this very Irish color is glas, & the political party is Comhaontas Glas
green
Linda
$400 [11]
Adventurous courage, perhaps shown by the young man on the flying trapeze
daring
Amy
$800 [25]
Grimm's Law of consonant shifts says the Indo-European "P" sound became an "F", so piscis became this English word
fish
Amy
$800 [27]
Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Glenn Close & other friends gather & reminisce for a friend's funeral in this film
The Big Chill
Linda
$800 [7]
1863:"Five Weeks in a Balloon"
(Jules) Verne
Ryan
$800 [2]
Learn fiddle & gee-tar at the Blair school of music of this university--it is in Nashville, after all
Vanderbilt
Ryan
$800 [17]
In a Paris shop, the English word "jaundice" may help you remember this French word for "yellow"
jaune
Amy
$800 [12]
Cities in Missouri & Massachusetts are called this, also the capital of a third state
Springfield
Ryan
$1,600 [28]
Many of us have felt the effects of Parkinson's law: this expands to fill the time allotted for it
work
Linda
$1,200 [21]
Obsessed with death, Bud Cort meets Ruth Gordon at a funeral in this classic
Harold and Maude
Linda
$1,200 [8]
1996:"The Notebook"
(Nicholas) Sparks
Amy Ryan
$1,200 [3]
The university of this Texas city is not actually located within the city itself but in the neighboring city of Irving
Dallas
Ryan
$1,200 [18]
Mavi is Turkish for this, the color of a landmark mosque there
blue
Amy
$1,200 [13]
Dexter Holland's band
the Offspring
$2,000 [29]
Dalton's law says that the total amount of this exerted by a mix of gases is the sum of what each gas would exert alone
pressure
Ryan
$1,600 [22]
Jimmy Stewart returns to the town of Shinbone for John Wayne's funeral & sets the record straight in this manly western
The Man who Shot Liberty Valance
Linda
$1,600 [9]
1940:"Native Son"
Richard Wright
Amy
$2,000 [5]
This university in a borough named State College was founded in 1855 as a 4-year college called Farmers' High School
Penn State
Amy Ryan
$1,600 [19]
This zona, Spanish for "pink zone", is a touristy part of Mexico City
the Zona Rosa
Amy
$1,600 [14]
Listen up! It's a session in which testimony is presented before a judge in a lawsuit
a hearing
Amy
DD $4,000 [26]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew pours water into a bowl of polymer powder.) There's a law of conservation of mass, but when I add water to this super absorbent polymer used to make artificial snow, you can see there's no law of conservation of this, mass divided by density
volume
Amy
$2,000 [23]
Chris Rock starred in a 2010 remake of this British film in which chaos ensues at what should be a solemn occasion
Death at a Funeral
$2,000 [10]
1992:"The Bridges of Madison County"
(Robert James) Waller
Linda
DD $3,000 [4]
This New England institution is the only one of the Ivy League schools officially called a college
Dartmouth College
Ryan
$2,000 [20]
German for "white", in Bavaria it's found before "Bier"
weiss
Amy
$2,000 [15]
This emcee at a circus is traditionally part announcer, part equestrian director
a ringmaster
Ryan

Final Jeopardy!

ROYALTY

On the run following the siege of Oxford, he surrendered May 5, 1646 near Newark on Trent

Charles I

Ryan "Who was Charles I?" — wagered $4,000
Amy "Who is Richard III?" — wagered $14,998
Linda "Who is James II?" — wagered $10,401

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