Show #6457 2012-10-16 (taped 2012-08-07) Regular

Stephanie Jass game 7.

Contestants

Shaanti Kapila — a climate change specialist from Washington, D.C.

Carlo Abulencia — a stay-at-home dad from Chatsworth, California

Stephanie Jass — a history professor from Milan, Michigan (whose 6-day cash winnings total $123,970)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Stephanie $2,800 $6,200 $20,600 $23,600
7-day champion: $147,570
$20,600
23 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Carlo $1,400 $3,200 $5,200 $8,200
3rd place: $1,000
$6,200
12 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Shaanti $1,000 $3,400 $8,000 $10,500
2nd place: $2,000
$11,000
13 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

29 & HOLDING BODY WORKS NEW DEAL PROGRAMS WHAT'S THE SPORT? BRAND NAMES "OCK"-TOBERFEST
$200 [21]
In his capacity as president of the Senate, vice president John Adams voted a record 29 times because of these
ties
Stephanie
$200 [26]
These smallest blood vessels are barely wider than the blood cells that pass through them single file
capillaries
Carlo
$200 [1]
This 1935 act provided assistance to the elderly using payroll tax funds
Social Security
Stephanie
$200 [7]
Touchback, forward progress
football
Shaanti
$200 [3]
Until 1914, before its days as a mouthwash, this antiseptic brand was only available to doctors & dentists
Listerine
Carlo
$200 [12]
Sheep herdor bird bunch
a flock
Carlo
$400 [22]
Title conveyance seen on Track 29 in a Glenn Miller song
The Chattanooga Choo Choo
Stephanie
$400 [27]
Skin color ranging from pale yellow to black is largely determined by the amount of this dark pigment in the skin
melanin
Stephanie
$400 [2]
When established in 1934, it regulated 623 radio stations & a telephone industry consisting of 14 million phones
the FCC
Shaanti
$400 [8]
Chip out, Nassau
golf
Carlo
$400 [4]
Unofficially named "Larry", the logo of this brand got amakeoverin 2012 that included a hair trim and losing his double chin
Quaker
Shaanti
$400 [13]
Foolish talk, ora clay pot used to hold food
a crock
Stephanie
$600 [23]
This B-29 aircraft that dropped the first atomic bomb was named for the mother of pilot Paul Tibbets
the Enola Gay
Stephanie
$600 [28]
This chamber, also called the voice box, is larger in males than in females, producing a deeper voice
the larynx
Carlo
$600 [17]
WPA funds helped build 75,000 bridges, including the Lake Shore Drive one still standing over this river
the Chicago River
Stephanie
$600 [9]
Chukker, tail shot
polo
Stephanie Carlo
$600 [5]
He was a bank clerk with an avid interest in photography before he launched the Kodak brand
(George) Eastman
Carlo
$600 [14]
Lewis Carroll wrote, "Beware" this creature "my son! the jaws that bite, the claws that catch!"
the Jabberwock
Carlo
$800 [24]
In this classic work of English lit, 29 pilgrims & the narrator gather at the Tabard Inn
The Canterbury Tales
Shaanti
$800 [29]
This largest artery in the body is over a foot long
the aorta
Shaanti
$800 [18]
The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 established this government body, guaranteeing bank accounts up to a certain limit
the F(ederal) D(eposit) I(nsurance) C(orporation)
Shaanti
$800 [10]
Backcheck, delayed whistle
hockey
Stephanie
DD $1,000 [6]
An animated character called Willy the Hillbilly was an early spokesperson for this soda
Mountain Dew
Carlo
$800 [15]
It's what's being offered in the fatal cup in the painting shown here
hemlock
Stephanie
$1,000 [25]
At the 1968 Summer Olympics, he broke the 28-foot barrier in the long jump, & the 29-foot barrier too
Bob Beamon
Stephanie
$1,000 [30]
(Satah of the Clue Crew shows us a picture of a very tall man.) Robert Wadlow, the tallest man on record, grew to 8'11" due to a condition called gigantism in which too much growth hormone is produced by this important gland at the base of the brain
the pituitary
Carlo
$1,000 [19]
Headquartered in Knoxville, this agency created electric power & controlled floods in a 7-state area
the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
Stephanie
$1,000 [11]
Memphis attack, high post
basketball
Carlo
$1,000 [20]
This cosmetics brand is named for T.L. Williams' sister
Maybelline
$1,000 [16]
A projection with a tuft of hair on the back of a horse's leg just above the hoof
a fetlock

Double Jeopardy! Round

BESTSELLERS YOU CAN FIND ME ONLINE TREATIES STUBBORN WORDS POP CULTURE MUSINGS OLD STATE CAPITALS
$400 [6]
In "Prague Winter" this former Secretary of State told "A personal story of remembrance and war, 1937-1948"
(Madeleine) Albright
Stephanie
$400 [1]
This onetime second lady & photographer for the Nashville Tennessean has a website of her photographs
Tipper Gore
Stephanie
$400 [11]
In 1691 the rights of this island's Catholics were supposed to be restored by England under the treaty of Limerick
Ireland
Shaanti
$400 [12]
Piggish means greedy; this adjective from the name of a hybrid equine means stubborn
mulish
Stephanie
$400 [13]
If no one's there to hear a man whisper "Rosebud" before dying in this 1941 film, how does anyone know that last word?
Citizen Kane
Carlo
$1,200 [22]
From 1818 to 1826 Tennessee's capital was this boro
Murfreesboro
Shaanti
$800 [7]
A plant-based diet is extolled for reducing heart disease in the recent nonfiction bestseller called "Forks Over" these
Knives
$800 [2]
(Queen Rania of Jordan reads the clue.) In 2008 I launched my own channel on this website & more than 3 million people worldwide have seen the videos posted there that help break down stereotypes about Arabs & Muslims
YouTube
Shaanti
$800 [18]
Under the 1814 Treaty of Kiel, Denmark was forced to give Norway to this country
Sweden
$800 [26]
To stubbornly refuse; or if you're a pitcher, to illegally deceive a baserunner
balk
Shaanti
$800 [14]
With lyrics like "There were plants & birds & rocks & things" & "The heat was hot", how did this song by America hit No. 1?
"A Horse With No Name"
Stephanie
$1,600 [24]
Named in 1775 after a battle, it was once Kentucky's capital
Lexington
Shaanti
DD $1,200 [8]
Naturally this singer/songwriter titled her memoir "A Natural Woman"
Carole King
Stephanie
$1,200 [3]
This renowned physicist's website explains that the batteries for the speech computer are under the wheelchair
(Stephen) Hawking
Stephanie
$1,200 [19]
On June 28,1919 this treaty was signed in the Hall of Mirrors
the Versailles Treaty
Stephanie
$1,200 [28]
Jeremiah said those who refused to keep the Sabbath had a stiff this
neck
$1,200 [15]
Where to begin with this show...?! Okay... why'd the smoke monster kill the Oceanic pilot in the 2004 premiere? What'd he do?
Lost
Shaanti
$2,000 [23]
Vallejo & Benicia are former capitals of this state
California
Carlo
$1,600 [9]
Bestsellers by this humorist include "Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk" & "Me Talk Pretty One Day"
David Sedaris
Stephanie
$1,600 [4]
Hard to believe it took until 2011 for the launch of this 11-time NBA All-Star & TNT analyst .com
(Charles) Barkley
Stephanie
$1,600 [20]
On Sept. 2, 1192 Richard I & Saladin signed a treaty ending the third one of these
the Crusades
Shaanti
$1,600 [27]
Stubborn "O" words include obdurate & this, with the same first 2 & last 2 letters
obstinate
Carlo
$1,600 [16]
Detailing a trip on a "Learjet up to Nova Scotia", this Carly Simon song is more than "probably" about the person, right?
"You're So Vain"
Stephanie
$2,000 [10]
In "Quiet", Susan Cain reveals "The power of" these shy people "in a world that can't stop talking"
introverts
Stephanie
$2,000 [5]
The first 2 English words you see at dalailama.com are this honorific
His Holiness
DD $3,000 [21]
In the 1921 Thomson-Urrutia Treaty, Colombia got $25 million for recognizing this country's independence
Panama
Shaanti
$2,000 [25]
Latin tenere, "to hold", gave us this adjective for one who holds on tight & won't let go
tenacious
Stephanie
$2,000 [17]
What happened to the sub left in the scientist's body in this 1966 Raquel Welch film? Only the people re-enlarge in the end
Fantastic Voyage
Carlo

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICANA

The creator of this comic strip did not like its 1950 change in title, believing it suggested insignificance

Peanuts

Carlo "What is Peanuts?" — wagered $3,000
Shaanti "What is Peanuts?" — wagered $2,500
Stephanie "What is Peanuts?" — wagered $3,000

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