Show #6460 2012-10-19 (taped 2012-08-07) Regular

Contestants

Matt Oldani — a manager of bear foundations from St. Louis, Missouri

Abby O'Reilly — a teacher's aide and tutor from Clifton, New Jersey

Glenn Fleishman — a technology journalist from Seattle, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,199)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Glenn $2,800 $6,200 $18,600 $13,199
2-day champion: $28,398
$20,600
27 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Abby $2,200 $4,400 $12,000 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$13,000
15 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Matt $2,600 $3,600 $5,600 $11,199
2nd place: $2,000
$5,600
11 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

GONE BABY GONE A NOVEL CATEGORY ACTRESSES THAT'S A KEEPER EVERYTHING'S OK "UTE" TELL ME
$200 [16]
She was last seen in a twin-engine Lockheed Electra in July 1937
Amelia Earhart
Matt
$200 [8]
Characters in this bestseller include Skeeter & maids Aibileen, Minny & Yule May
The Help
Matt
$200 [2]
Most famous as Princess Leia, she had a one-woman stage show called "Wishful Drinking"
Carrie Fisher
Abby
$200 [5]
This container is so named because it's where young women keep linens & such in anticipation of marriage
a hope chest
Abby
$200 [13]
This nickname for Oklahomans stems from those who jumped the homesteading starting gun in 1889
Sooners
Glenn
$200 [1]
To water down
dilute
Matt
$400 [17]
The first recorded disappearance of a U.S. ship in this area of the Atlantic was the USS Cyclops in March 1918
the Bermuda Triangle
Glenn
$400 [9]
John Drake's 2009 novel "Flint And Silver" was a prequel to this 1883 Robert Louis Stevenson classic
Treasure Island
Glenn
$400 [3]
In 1977, this legendary star was the first female honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award
(Bette) Davis
Glenn
$400 [27]
Made mainly of this material, a vitrine is a showcase where memorabilia can be kept
glass
Glenn
$400 [14]
It's Oklahoma's leading crop & is especially big in the north, near the Kansas border
wheat
Glenn
$400 [23]
Drive in from the burbs
commute
Glenn
$600 [18]
One minute in 79 A.D., you're this city of 10-20,000; post-Vesuvius, you're a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Pompeii
Matt
$600 [10]
Inspired by "Twilight", E.L. James turned her fan fiction into a steamy trilogy that begins with this novel
Fifty Shades of Grey
Matt
$600 [4]
Zoe Saldana played the Na'vi Neytiri in this 2009 blockbuster
Avatar
Glenn
$600 [28]
A freestanding closet fitted with hooks & bars for hanging clothes, or the clothes that go into one
wardrobe
Glenn
$600 [15]
Tahlequah, Oklahoma is the tribal capital of this Native American nation
the Cherokee
Matt
$600 [24]
Hairy
hirsute
Abby
$800 [19]
Pieces of arms were found with this statue on a Greek island in 1820
the Venus de Milo
Glenn
$800 [11]
It was first published in 1967 under the Spanish title "Cien Años de Soledad"
A Hundred Years of Solitude
Glenn
$800 [6]
She played Bellatrix Lestrange in the "Harry Potter" films & the Red Queen in "Alice in Wonderland"
Helena Bonham Carter
Abby
$800 [29]
"Fair" enough--this dressing table has a mirror & a compartment where milady can keep her cosmetics
a vanity
Abby Matt
$800 [21]
This humorist & native son lends his name to Oklahoma City's main airport
(Will) Rogers
Glenn
$800 [25]
In a proper one of these, the forefinger touches the hat just to the right of the right eye
salute
Abby
$1,000 [20]
In August of 1590 2 words carved on trees--Croatoan & Cro--were the last traces of the 100 colonists on this island
Roanoke
Glenn Abby
$1,000 [12]
Thumbs up for his "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues", which tells of a female hitchhiker with enormous thumbs
Tom Robbins
Matt
$1,000 [7]
This Swedish actress won an Emmy & a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Golda Meir
Ingrid Bergman
Abby
DD $1,000 [30]
The name of this large cabinet reveals its original use for keeping weapons
an armoire
Abby
$1,000 [22]
The National Weather Service's storm prediction center is in this city, also home to the University of Oklahoma
Norman
Matt
$1,000 [26]
Jekyll calls Hyde this type of rough fellow "that slept within me"
brute
Glenn

Double Jeopardy! Round

18th CENTURY AMERICA BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS DEAR ABBEY 7-LETTER WORDS THE WORLDWIDE WORLD WIDE WEB
$400 [1]
In 1763 England received Florida from this country in exchange for Havana
Spain
Glenn
$400 [7]
"If I Were A Rich Man" & "Tradition"
Fiddler On The Roof
Glenn
$400 [21]
A 2011 Pulitzer went to "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of" this disease
cancer
Matt
$400 [12]
This London landmark is the final resting place of 17 monarchs
Westminster Abbey
Glenn
$400 [30]
Rather than passengers, a train may be carrying this, goods ranging from coal to cucumbers
freight
Glenn
$400 [6]
.ec represents this country; one of its neighbors has .pe
Ecuador
Abby
$800 [2]
This colony & New York shared the same governor until 1738, when Lewis Morris was named its governor
New Jersey
Glenn
$800 [8]
"Dancing Queen" & "The Name Of The Game"
Mamma Mia!
Abby
$800 [22]
"The Looming Tower" examines this terrorist group & "The Road To 9/11"
al-Qaeda
Glenn
$800 [17]
The Great War was a most unpleasant disruption for the Crawley Family & their servants on this PBS show
Downton Abbey
Glenn
$800 [29]
Send me those shoes pronto; I'll pay the P&H, this "& handling"
postage
Glenn
$800 [13]
The British Monarchy's official website is royal.gov. these 2 letters
uk
Glenn
$1,200 [3]
In a 1789 Congressional race in Virginia, James Madison defeated this future president by 336 votes
James Monroe
Abby
$1,200 [9]
"Popular" & "Defying Gravity"
Wicked
Matt
$1,200 [23]
This astronomer nabbed the prize in 1978 for "The Dragons Of Eden"
(Carl) Sagan
Glenn
$1,200 [18]
St. Mary's Abbey in this city lent its name to a theater that W.B. Yeats helped run
Dublin
Abby
$1,200 [26]
A facial expression that's basically no expression; Buster Keaton was famous for it
deadpan
Abby
$1,200 [14]
.sh is the domain extension for this place, the final home of a famous exile
St. Helena
$1,600 [4]
In 1774 Mother Ann Lee brought this religious sect known for its furniture to America from England
the Shakers
Glenn
$1,600 [10]
"The Morning Of The Dragon" & "The American Dream"
Miss Saigon
Abby Matt
$2,000 [25]
Jonathan Weiner told "The Story of Evolution" in "The Beak of" this bird
the finch
Glenn
$1,600 [19]
The legend of this liqueur says a monk invented it in 1510 at the Abbey of Fecamp
Benedictine
$1,600 [27]
It's the main piece of equipment in the clean & jerk
a barbell
Abby
$1,600 [15]
We bet you know .mo is the domain for this Asian gambling haven
Macao
DD $3,000 [5]
One of these acts passed in 1798 called for the deportation of foreigners considered dangerous
the Alien & Sedition Acts
Glenn
$2,000 [11]
"Boy Falls From The Sky" & "Bouncing Off The Walls"
Spider-Man
DD $3,000 [24]
He won a Pulitzer for his nonfiction "The Armies of the Night" as well as for his fictional "The Executioner's Song"
Norman Mailer
Glenn
$2,000 [20]
"On the banks of this delightful stream / we stood together" are Wordsworth "lines composed a few miles above" here
Tintern Abbey
Matt
$2,000 [28]
It's the metal ring seen here
a grommet
Glenn
$2,000 [16]
This Central African country's websites are at .td; its name in French has a "T" before the "CH"
Chad
Abby

Final Jeopardy!

CABLE TV FIRSTS

When Turner Classic Movies began broadcasting on April 14, 1994, the first movie shown was this one

Gone with the Wind

Matt "What is Gone With the Wind?" — wagered $5,599
Abby "What is Casablanca" — wagered $11,999
Glenn "What is Its a Wonderful Life?" — wagered $5,401

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