Show #6248 2011-11-16 (taped 2011-09-21) Regular

Contestants

Will Valverde — a fund-raising consultant from San Francisco, California

Ellen Lewis — a retired high school math teacher from Mount Vernon, New York

Emily Gifford — a historical researcher and writer from Middletown, Connecticut (whose 1-day cash winnings total $33,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Emily $2,800 $7,000 $13,200 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$13,600
21 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Ellen $1,600 $800 $10,600 $10,000
New champion: $10,000
$10,800
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Will $3,800 $7,600 $17,200 $7,999
2nd place: $2,000
$17,200
22 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

LET'S TAKE A BATH VEGAS CASINO RESTAURANTS IN THE "HOUSE" GILLIGAN'S ISLAND FRIEZES THAWS
$200 [10]
The waiting room of NYC's old Penn Station was inspired by the Baths of Caracalla built in the 3rd century in this city
Rome
Will
$200 [20]
Neros, Empress Court
Caesars Palace
Emily
$200 [1]
The name of this enclosure for growing things out of season tells you it's kept warm
a hothouse
Emily
$200 [11]
The island seen in the credits of "Gilligan's Island" is in Kaneohe Bay near this most populous Hawaiian island
Oahu
Ellen
$200 [6]
Afriezethat once adorned the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus shows Greeks battling these warrior women
the Amazons
Emily
$200 [18]
In 2009 the President spoke of "a new beginning" with this nearby island nation
Cuba
Will
$400 [12]
In the late 1700s this American statesman brought the shoe-shaped slipper bathtub back from France
Benjamin Franklin
Will
$400 [24]
Eiffel Tower Restaurant, Le Provencal
Paris
Ellen Will
$400 [2]
John Zenor was a longtime keeper of one of these towers at Yaquina Head on the Oregon Coast
a lighthouse
Will
$400 [17]
This tour boat was named for the chairman of the FCC who called television "a vast wasteland"
the Minnow
Emily
$400 [7]
Asked why his frieze showed 14 of these followers of Jesus, sculptor Jorge Oteiza said, "There was no room for more"
the disciples (or apostles)
Will
$400 [19]
On July 11, 1995 President Clinton announced normalization of relations with this Southeast Asian country
Vietnam
Will
$600 [13]
In Istanbul you can visit a hammam, this kind of place, where Franz Liszt & Tony Curtis also got clean
a Turkish bath
Will
$600 [25]
Canaletto, Valentino
the Venetian
Ellen
$600 [3]
In "Sing a Song of Sixpence", it's where "the king was"
the counting house
Ellen
$600 [28]
For the second season, the theme song was changed to include "The Professor and" this Kansas girl
Mary Ann
Emily
$600 [8]
A templefriezeat Kailasanatha depicts abattle from "The Mahabharata", an ancient epic from this country
India
Emily
$800 [22]
In 2006 Iraq agreed to restore ties with this northwestern neighbor, an ally of Iran
Syria
Will
$800 [14]
Sodium sesquicarbonate is one chemical sold as the soothing additions called "bath" these compounds
salts
Emily
$800 [26]
The Steakhouse at Camelot, Round Table Buffet
Excalibur
Emily
$800 [4]
Cha-mise is a Japanese word for this type of place, seen here
a teahouse
Will
$800 [29]
In the episode "Gilligan Meets Jungle Boy", the Jungle Boy was this future "Escape from New York" star
(Kurt) Russell
Emily
$800 [9]
Because itdepictsthe official counting of Roman citizens, an ancient relief is known as this frieze
a census
Ellen
$1,000 [23]
This 13-letter word for the reestablishment of good relations is apt when France makes up, as with Rwanda in 2009
rapprochement
$1,000 [15]
The earliest known surviving bathtub dates back to 1700 B.C. & was used in the Palace of Knossos on this island
Crete
Will
$1,000 [27]
Roxy's Diner, Top of the World
the Stratosphere
Emily Ellen
$1,000 [5]
The New York Times said about Peter Luger, "No other steakhouse serves" one of these "so breathtaking"
a porterhouse (steak)
Emily
$1,000 [30]
This socialite's maiden name was Wentworth
Mrs. Howell
Will
$1,000 [16]
An RAF veteran poses with a life-sizefriezeat the London memorial to this pivotal 1940 battle
the Battle of Britain
Will
DD $2,000 [21]
A brief thaw in the icy chill of Soviet repression is named for this Russian leader who took power in 1953
Nikita Khrushchev
Emily

Double Jeopardy! Round

SWEET TALK BROADWAY MUSICAL STARS I'M GONNA MOON YOU! HERBAL MEDICINE ON THE COAST THAT'S SO CLICHE!
$400 [1]
This hymn says, "How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me!"
"Amazing Grace"
Will
$400 [6]
She starred in "Victor/Victoria" on film & on Broadway
Julie Andrews
Emily
$400 [7]
As the Moon changes from new to full & more & more of it becomes visible, it's said to be doing this 6-letter action
waxing
Ellen
$400 [26]
This bog fruit is traditionally used to prevent urinary tract infections
cranberries
Ellen
$400 [16]
Mathias Day of Ohio went to the Florida coast & got this "Beach" named for him
Daytona
Emily
$400 [19]
If you're out of touch with reality, you're said to be "out in" this part of a ballpark past third base
left field
Will
$800 [2]
In "Hamlet", he says, "Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest"
Horatio
Emily Ellen Will
$800 [8]
He portrayed Peter Allen in "The Boy from Oz" between stints as Wolverine in "X-Men"
Hugh Jackman
Ellen
$800 [12]
On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong radioed from the Moon, "Houston", this "base here. The Eagle has landed"
Tranquility
Emily
$800 [27]
Raw cloves of this may slow the development of heart disease (& ward off vampires)
garlic
Will
$800 [17]
New Zealand's West Coast region features the little blue type of this bird, the smallest of our flippered friends
a penguin
Will
$800 [22]
As animated here, it means to go out & celebrate boisterously
paint the town red
Emily
$1,200 [3]
Ernest Lehman wrote, "The muted sounds of the city and the rich, sweet smell of" this... lulled "my senses"
success
Ellen
$1,200 [9]
She split with Dr. Crane on "Cheers" to star in "Chicago" & "Damn Yankees"
Bebe Neuwirth
Ellen
$1,600 [14]
When the Moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, it has 3 interior zones--core, mantle & this (just like Earth)
crust
Emily
$1,200 [28]
A 1982 study showed that this spice, Zingiber officinale, controlled nausea better than Dramamine
ginger
Will
$1,200 [18]
Niigata is a leading coastal port on this sea
the Sea of Japan
Will
$1,200 [23]
To suffer a major defeat or setback is to "meet your" this, like Napoleon
Waterloo
Emily
$1,600 [4]
Milton called this lover of Narcissus "sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen within thy airy shell"
Echo
Ellen
$1,600 [10]
Megan Mullally played Victor's high-strung fiancee in this Mel Brooks musical
Young Frankenstein
Emily
DD $1,800 [13]
On Feb. 1, 1958 the Detroit Free Press said, "U.S. Fires Moon!"; they meant the USA's first of these, Explorer 1
a satellite
Emily
$1,600 [29]
Hoodia, sold as an appetite suppressant, is used to reduce hunger by the native San of this S. Africa desert
the Kalahari
Ellen
$1,600 [20]
If you're on the southern coast of Yemen, you're dipping a toe in this gulf
the Gulf of Aden
Emily Ellen
$1,600 [24]
As seen here, it's another way of saying old or aging
long in the tooth
Will
DD $1,800 [5]
Keats' "Ode on" this says, "Sylvan historian, who canst thus express a flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme"
a Grecian Urn
Ellen
$2,000 [11]
A longtime talk show host & short-time "The View" co-host, she once played Golde in "Fiddler on the Roof"
Rosie O'Donnell
Emily
$2,000 [15]
"I'll be back" to say it's the dividing line between the illuminated & unilluminated parts of the Moon
a terminator
Will
$2,000 [30]
For centuries, herbalists have used this wort to treat depression
St. John's wort
Will
$2,000 [21]
A 19th c. "Committee of Vigilance" fought the crime that gave part of San Francisco this North Africa-inspired nickname
the Barbary Coast
Emily
$2,000 [25]
To try to ease a difficult situation is "to pour" this "on troubled waters"
oil
Emily

Final Jeopardy!

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

Still in existence, it began in 1688 in a British coffee shop popular with maritime folk; it soon got involved in their business

Lloyd's of London

Ellen "What is Tetley Tea" — wagered $600
Emily "What is the Mermaid Tavern?" — wagered $13,199
Will "What is Twinings?" — wagered $9,201

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