Show #6529 2013-01-24 (taped 2012-10-23) Regular

Joshua Brakhage game 2.

Contestants

Waymond Mitchell — a quotation specialist from Houston, Texas

Zora Shinn — a retired attorney from Solvang, California

Joshua Brakhage — a TV news producer originally from South Coffeyville, Oklahoma (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,006)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joshua $4,000 $6,000 $10,000 $20,000
2-day champion: $40,006
$10,000
19 R, 2 W
Zora $800 $2,400 $16,000 $11,900
2nd place: $2,000
$16,800
18 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Waymond $2,000 $3,800 $5,200 $10,400
3rd place: $1,000
$9,800
13 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

LET'S MAKE A QUILT GEO-POLITICIANS "L" CAN EAT AUTHOR! AUTHOR! EYE ON SPORTS VOWELICIOUS
$200 [22]
This "mad" patchwork quilt is made from irregular or scrap pieces sewn in no particular pattern or design
a crazy quilt
Zora
$200 [16]
This first signer of the Declaration of Independence has his name on several towns & a Boston Univ. student village
John Hancock
Joshua
$200 [1]
This twisty candy was used to make the shoe Charlie Chaplin ate in "The Gold Rush"
licorice
Waymond
$200 [11]
Born in a slum, he was admitted to the University of Copenhagen in 1828; his first book of fairy tales came 7 years later
Hans Christian Andersen
Joshua
$200 [6]
Shebegan wearing glasses in 1985; that didn't stop her from being the world's number one tennis player that year & in '86
Martina Navratilova
Waymond
$200 [21]
If you "paddle your own" this transport, you manage independently
a canoe
Zora
$400 [23]
The 19th-centurystyleofquiltnamed for this Maryland city can fetch 6-figure sums at auction today
Baltimore
$400 [17]
J. Strom Thurmond Lake lies on the border of Georgia & this state represented by Senator Thurmond for 48 years
South Carolina
Zora
$400 [2]
In Lombardy this layered dish is a Christmastime specialty, with the sheets of pasta symbolizing Jesus' swaddling clothes
lasagna
Joshua
$400 [12]
The 8th child of sharecroppers & a writer of "Purple" prose, she was blinded in one eye in a childhood accident
Alice Walker
Waymond
$400 [7]
The Nike-designed eyewear of Amare Stoudemire, now of this team, survived tests including a 90-mph squash ball
the New York Knicks
Joshua Waymond
$400 [25]
Aloha! This 4-stringed instrument is related to the guitar
a ukulele
Joshua
$600 [24]
This layer inside a quilt that provides thickness & warmth sounds like an activity for Josh Hamilton
batting
Joshua
DD $800 [18]
Alamo is the seat of the Tennessee county named for this frontiersman & congressman
Davy Crockett
Zora
$600 [3]
To prepare this Thermidor style, mix the meat with a Béchamel sauce & spoon it back into the shells
lobster
Joshua
$600 [13]
In 1994 Candace Bushnell created a column called this; in '95, it was sold as a book; then in '96, to HBO
Sex and the City
Joshua
$600 [8]
Aided by 20/10 vision, this Red Sox "splendid splinter" won the 1958 batting title at age 40
Ted Williams
Waymond
$600 [26]
When it's midnight at this small, fertile desert area with a well, send your camel to bed
an oasis
Zora
$800 [29]
These social gatherings where women would make quilts together were a popular feature of frontier life
a bee
Joshua
$800 [19]
The last U.S. president to have a county named for him (in N.M.), he may be best known for the Teapot Dome scandal
Warren G. Harding
$800 [4]
Delicate sponge cake in the shape of a digit
ladyfinger
Joshua
$800 [14]
His volunteering to take mind-altering drugs as a test subject at a hospital led to a 1962 novel, his best-known work
Ken Kesey
Zora
$800 [9]
Saying he'd be considered legally blind without specs, this golfer got LASIK in 1999, then--natch--won the Disney Classic
Tiger Woods
$800 [27]
It now means rules of social behavior; in French it meant a posting of military orders
etiquette
Waymond
$1,000 [30]
Quilts may be pieced, where shapes are cut & sewn together, or this, where cut pieces are sewn to a background
appliqué
Zora
$1,000 [20]
This 5'4" "Little Giant" who debated Abraham Lincoln has an 11,300' mountain named for him in Montana
Stephen Douglas
Joshua
$1,000 [5]
Make sure you have plenty of schmear to go with this brand of bagels that went frozen in 1962
Lender's
Joshua
$1,000 [15]
This author who said welcome to "The Jungle" organized the EPIC (End Poverty in Calif.) movement in the 1930s
Upton Sinclair
Joshua
$1,000 [10]
On April 18, 1956 Ed Rommel became the first man with this job to wear eyeglasses during work
(baseball) umpire
Joshua Waymond
$1,000 [28]
Propeller is one type of this skullcap
a beanie
Joshua Waymond

Double Jeopardy! Round

ROMAN ALONG NONMUSICAL INSTRUMENTS WATERFALLS WEATHER SONGS BACK WORDS "BOUND" FOR GLORY
$400 [6]
The building of this arena was begun by Vespasian around 70 A.D. & finished by his son Titus in 80
the Colosseum
Zora
$400 [11]
Used car sellers beware--rolling back this instrument to show lower mileage is illegal
odometer
Joshua
$400 [22]
David Livingstone sighted these falls on Nov. 16, 1855 & named them for the monarch
Victoria Falls
Joshua
$400 [1]
"Riders On The Storm" was the last song this Doors vocalist ever recorded; he died in Paris a few months later
Jim Morrison
Zora
$400 [12]
Between the vertebrae are these, which are mostly fibrocartilage & act as shock absorbers
discs
Zora
$400 [14]
To increase rapidly is to "grow by" this 3-word phrase
leaps and bounds
Joshua
$800 [7]
Organized by Augustus in 6 A.D., the Vigiles were a group of these, who might have helped when Nero took over
firemen
$800 [13]
A doctor uses a cardiotachometer to record & time this
heartbeat (or heart rate)
Joshua
$800 [23]
Entering the valley of this national park, you may fall in love with Bridalveil Fall
Yosemite
Zora
$800 [2]
"The answer, my friend", is this No. 2 Peter, Paul & Mary song written by Bob Dylan
"Blowin' In The Wind"
Zora
$800 [27]
It's Latin for "of the back" & follows latissimus in the name of the broadest muscles of the back
dorsi
Zora Waymond
$800 [15]
To exist in plenty
abound
Joshua Waymond
$1,200 [8]
He was Julius Caesar's wingman, leading the left wing of Caesar's troops in the Battle of Pharsalus
Marc Antony
Joshua Waymond
$1,200 [19]
This instrument of torture consisted of a human-sized case in the form of a woman & studded with sharp spikes
iron maiden
Zora
$1,200 [24]
You can take an elevator to the base of this waterfall to visit the Cave of the Winds, which is behind it
Niagara Falls
Waymond
$1,200 [3]
John Fogerty wrote this group's protest song "Who'll Stop The Rain"
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Waymond
$1,200 [28]
SBA is short for this Association that helps those with a certain neural tube defect, the SB in its name
Spina Bifida
$1,200 [16]
After a breakup, you're "on" this
the rebound
Waymond
$1,600 [9]
In 321 A.D. this emperor declared Sunday the legal day of rest & religious worship
Constantine
Zora
$1,600 [20]
A nephograph is an instrument for photographing these in the sky
clouds
Waymond
DD $2,000 [25]
Ironically, it leaps from a plateau whose name means "devil's mountain"
Angel Falls
Waymond
$1,600 [4]
In this 1963 hit Martha & the Vandellas sang, "Whenever I'm with him something inside starts to burning"
"Heat Wave"
$1,600 [29]
The wearing of a brace & surgery are possible treatments for this common lateral curvature of the spine
scoliosis
Zora
$1,600 [17]
A rogue or cad
bounder
Zora
$2,000 [10]
In 212 this emperor known for his baths extended Roman citizenship to all free persons of the empire
Caracalla
Zora
DD $5,000 [21]
This instrument that records respiratory movements shares its name with a classic drawing kit
spirograph
Waymond
$2,000 [26]
A spectacular group of waterfalls in Norway has this numerical name, like the Pleiades
the Seven Sisters
Waymond
$2,000 [5]
In 1970 Anne Murray told it to "spread your tiny wings & fly away"
"Snowbird"
$2,000 [18]
2012 marks the golden anniversary of the U.S. branch of this outdoor education program
Outward Bound
Zora

Final Jeopardy!

OLYMPIC HOST CITIES

When this city hosted the XIV Winter Olympics, it was located in a different nation than today

Sarajevo

Waymond "What is Sarajevo?" — wagered $5,200
Joshua "What is Sarejevo?" — wagered $10,000
Zora "What is Seoul" — wagered $4,100

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