Show #6269 2011-12-15 (taped 2011-10-25) Regular

Alex'swife Jean, 91-year-old mother Lucille, and cousin Dolores from Floridafeatured in the audience.

Contestants

Beth Watkins — a graduate student of medieval studies from Savannah, Georgia

Silas Crawford — an attorney from Jacksonville, Florida

Boomie Aglietti — a writer for TV and stage from Los Angeles, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $58,799)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Boomie $5,400 $7,000 $18,600 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$18,400
22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Silas $400 $3,400 $8,600 $16,600
2nd place: $2,000
$8,600
13 R, 2 W
Beth $2,600 $4,800 $18,600 $37,200
New champion: $37,200
$18,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

PASTIMES THE ENTERTAINER'S TWITTER BIO DIALECTS COMPANY LOGOS BURNS, BABY, BURNS "S" AS IN SIMILE
$200 [21]
Wendy the Snapple Lady is among those who collect these candy dispensers
Pez
Beth
$200 [16]
This actor's bio reads: "born small...now huge... winning... bring it..! (unemployed winner...)"
Charlie Sheen
Silas
$200 [1]
Several dialects of this spoken in the Kagoshima area are unintelligible to speakers of the standard language
Japanese
Beth
$200 [25]
An insurance company: 2 cupped hands
All State
Silas
$200 [11]
The poet Robert Burns was born on Jan, 25, 1759 in Alloway, a village on the river Doon in this country
Scotland
Beth
$200 [6]
"___ as a bug in a rug"
snug
Beth
$400 [22]
Take a page from this pastime seen here
scrapbooking
Beth
$400 [17]
For this NBC "Late Night" guy, you'll find "astrophysicist"
Jimmy Fallon
$400 [2]
When in the cities of Jeddah & Medina, you'll most likely encounter the Hijazi dialect of this language
Arabic
Boomie
$400 [26]
Fresh fruit: a blue sticker with the yellow outline of a woman in a Carmen Miranda hat
Chiquita
Boomie
$400 [12]
Robbie is generally given credit for the words of this song about "auld acquaintance"
"Auld Lang Syne"
Beth
$400 [7]
"___ as an eel"
slippery
Silas
$600 [23]
The first modern one of these was published Dec. 21, 1913 in the New York World's Sunday Supplement
crossword puzzle
Boomie
$600 [18]
For this ex-NBC "Late Night" guy you'll find "the voice of the people. sorry, people"
(Conan) O'Brien
Boomie
$600 [3]
Alemannic, a dialect of this language, has 2 main forms in Switzerland centering on Bern & Zurich
German
Beth
$600 [27]
A retailer: a red & white bull's-eye
Target
Beth
$600 [13]
Burns called this food item, sheep's heart & liver minced with suet, "great chieftain O' the pudding-race!"
haggis
Boomie
$600 [8]
"___ as a tack"
sharp
Boomie
$800 [24]
The FCC assigns call signs, like N8DNR, to use in this hobby
ham radio
Boomie
$800 [19]
This woman is a "2-time Emmy award winning comedian & star of Bravo's my life on the d-list"
Kathy Griffin
Silas
$800 [4]
Dialects of this European language include Anpaluz, Madrileño & Canario (from the Canary Islands)
Spanish
Boomie
$800 [28]
Gas stations: a red Pegasus
Mobil
Boomie Silas
$800 [14]
Finish the burns line: "Give me a spark O' nature's fire! / that's a' the learning I..."
"desire"
Boomie Silas
$800 [9]
"___ as a mule"
stubborn
Silas
$1,000 [30]
This basic knitting stitch is drawn through the back of the preceding loop
purl
Beth
$1,000 [20]
"Keep up" with this "business woman, exec producer, fashion designer, perfumista"
Kim Kardashian
Silas
$1,000 [5]
Cebuano is widely spoken in Cebu, Western Leyte & parts of Mindanao in this country
The Philippines
Boomie
$1,000 [29]
A fast-food chain: the name of the chain in red on a bun
Burger King
DD $1,200 [15]
Steinbeck took note when Burns wrote "the best laid schemes o" these two things "gang aft agley"
"mice and men"
Boomie
$1,000 [10]
"___ as a statue"
still
Beth

Double Jeopardy! Round

TIMES PAST THE BIRDS & THE "B"s CHURCHES & CATHEDRALS TV SHOW SUPPORTING CHARACTERS FABRICS MIDDLE T
$400 [25]
On Oct. 1, 1949 he said, "Today, our China enters into the family of nations who love peace and freedom"
Mao
Boomie
$400 [4]
Take these broken wings & learn to fly, you Turdus merula, aka this colorful bird
blackbird
Boomie
$400 [16]
Czech out the cathedral of St. Vitus in this world capital
Prague
Beth
$400 [1]
Bumblebee Man, Kent Brockman, Dr. Nick Riviera
The Simpsons
Silas
$400 [30]
South Pacific islanders make tapa cloth from this part of the paper mulberry or breadfruit tree
the bark
Boomie
$400 [11]
An elevated place where you get married (or sacrificed--it really does depend on the situation)
altar
Boomie
$800 [24]
The 1987 Meech Lake Accord was a failed attempt to recognize this Canadian province as a "distinct society"
Quebec
$800 [5]
This kingfisher that shares its name with an "iron chancellor" lives in New Guinea, not Germany
Bismarck (kingfisher)
Beth
$800 [17]
Astatueof Leif Eriksson is out front of the Hallgrmskirkja Church--one of this country's tallest buildings
Iceland
Beth
$800 [2]
Mr. Eko, Richard Alpert, Charles Widmore
Lost
Boomie
$800 [26]
This strong, coarsely woven fabric often used to make sacks is also known as jute hessian
burlap
Silas
$800 [12]
To refrain from casting one's vote or from boozing it up
abstain
Silas
$1,200 [21]
Diocles, kind of the Jimmie Johnson of ancient Rome, earned over 30 million sesterces with his daring racing of these
chariots
Beth
$1,200 [6]
It's britspeak for a type of parakeet
a budgie
Silas
$1,600 [19]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Jerusalem.) Sites corresponding to the tenth through final stations of the cross are within the Church of the Holy this--another word for a tomb; it's been called Christianity's most hallowed ground
Sepulcher
Beth
$1,200 [3]
Parker Scavo, Ana Solis, Danielle Van de Kamp
Desperate Housewives
$1,200 [27]
This soft, thin fabric has a wrinkled surface, as does a type of paper with which it shares its name
crepe
Boomie
$1,200 [13]
I have $1,200 for knowing this term, also a type of bridge card game...$1,200 once! twice! sold!
auction
Boomie
DD $2,000 [22]
In the congress system of 1815-25, nations tried to solve conflict diplomatically, starting with the Congress of here
Vienna
Beth
$1,600 [7]
This tropical seabird was named for its supposed lack of intelligence; not afraid of humans, it was easily killed
the boobie
Boomie
$2,000 [20]
In 1453 Ottoman Turks converted this cathedral, whose Greek name means "holy wisdom", into a mosque
the Hagia Sophia
Boomie
$1,600 [9]
E, Turtle, Ari
Entourage
Silas
$1,600 [29]
In 1891 Hilaire Chardonnet began producing this first manmade fiber, sometimes called chardonnet silk
rayon
Boomie
$1,600 [14]
It's the 7th letter of the Greek alphabet
eta
Boomie Silas
$2,000 [23]
By 878 the Vikings had conquered all of England except for this southern kingdom controlled by Alfred the Great
Wessex
Beth
$2,000 [8]
Buteo buteo is the common species of this large, slow-moving bird of prey
the buzzard
Beth
DD $3,000 [18]
Teddy Roosevelt spoke to a crowd of 10,000 at the laying of the foundation stone for this cathedral in 1907
the National Cathedral
Beth
$2,000 [10]
Drs. Taub, Chase &Thirteen
House (, M.D.)
Silas
$2,000 [28]
To purchase Harris tweed at its source, you'll have to travel to these "outer" Scottish islands
Hebrides
Beth
$2,000 [15]
It's another term for a werewolf
a lycanthrope
Beth

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN AUTHORS

He was born in NYC on April 3, 1783, toward the end of the Revolutionary War, & named for one of the war's heroes

Washington Irving

Silas "Who is Washington Irving?" — wagered $8,000
Beth "Whoiswas Washington Irving?" — wagered $18,600
Boomie "Who is Hawthorne" — wagered $18,600

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