Show #6565 2013-03-15 (taped 2012-10-30) Regular

Drew Horwood game 9.

Contestants

Rob Groves — a classics lecturer from Los Angeles, California

Kathleen Meyer — a journalist and community volunteer from Brookfield, Wisconsin

Drew Horwood — a business analyst from Minneapolis, Minnesota (whose 8-day cash winnings total $138,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Drew $3,000 $5,800 $2,400 $2,400
3rd place: $1,000
$12,400
21 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Kathleen $1,000 $4,000 $11,200 $4,399
2nd place: $2,000
$11,200
13 R, 1 W
Rob $3,200 $6,600 $18,000 $22,500
New champion: $22,500
$17,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

TV SHOW SETTINGS ___ THE ___ PEOPLE HIGH FANTASY MIAMI NICE "SHORT" SWEET
$200 [6]
"Rizzoli & Isles": solving crime in this New England capital
Boston
Rob
$200 [26]
Anonymous London killer of 1888
Jack the Ripper
Drew
$200 [1]
The Finavar tapestry trilogy by Guy Gavriel Kay includes Lancelot, this king & his dog Cavall
Arthur
Drew
$200 [11]
In 2012 the Miami Marlins began playing at a new stadium in the neighborhood called Little this world capital
Havana
Rob
$200 [12]
Used for long distances, it's radio communication at frequencies between 3,000 & 30,000 kilohertz
shortwave
Rob
$200 [21]
This product's familiar packaging is seen here
Sweet n' Low
Drew Rob
$400 [7]
"Treme" & "True Blood": this state
Louisiana
Kathleen
$400 [27]
In Matthew 3 he heralds the coming of Jesus
John the Baptist
Rob
$600 [3]
This sword-wielding barbarian from ancient Cimmeria was created by Robert E. Howard
Conan
Drew
$400 [17]
South Beach's Pelican Hotel has individual rooms called Power Flower, Big Bamboo & Me this, You Vain
Tarzan
$400 [13]
In hockey, the type of goal scored by a team that has a player in the penalty box
short-handed
Drew
$400 [22]
Found in Newtons & with a sugar content of more than 50%, these are among the sweetest fruits
figs
Rob
$600 [8]
"Grey's Anatomy": this seat of King County
Seattle
Drew
$600 [28]
He'd killed numerous men by the time he died around age 20 in 1881
Billy the Kid
Kathleen
$800 [4]
A large white bear fronts the cover of the first book of the "His Dark Materials" series, known as "The Golden" this
Compass
Rob
$600 [18]
Catch shows from The Wiggles to the Deftones at the theatre named for this star of "The Honeymooners"; & away you go!
Jackie Gleason
Kathleen
$600 [14]
My order cost $9.25, I gave you a ten & you gave me 50 cents--you did this!
short-changed
Kathleen
$600 [23]
Rich in vitamin A and cultivated in ancient times by the Aztecs, these edibles are part of the morning glory family
sweet potatoes
Rob
$800 [9]
"Mike & Molly": this midwestern city
Chicago
$800 [29]
Bobby Darin is among those who've sung this tune about the blade-wielding Macheath
Mac the Knife
Drew
DD $1,000 [2]
Ned is told "When you play" this, the title of the book, "you win or you die"
Game of Thrones
Drew
$800 [19]
High art at the Lowe Art Museum includes 1882's "The Barge And The Boat" by this Tahiti lover
(Paul) Gauguin
Rob
$800 [15]
Food prepared quickly is this profession's specialty
short order cook
Drew Rob
$800 [24]
Candy is dandy for Marcel Desaulniers in his cookbook "Death By" this sweet ingredient
Chocolate
Kathleen
$1,000 [10]
A show about a fading country superstar played by Connie Britton: this city
Nashville
Drew
$1,000 [30]
This PBS Kids construction whiz & his "Can-Do Crew" entertain kids in 45 languages
Bob the Builder
Drew
$1,000 [5]
In a novel by Diana Wynne Jones, Howl, the title wizard, has a "moving" one of these domiciles
a castle
Rob
$1,000 [20]
This 2-word 1920s style of architecture has a district named for it in South Beach
art deco
Kathleen
$1,000 [16]
Cut of beef near the shoulder
a short rib
Drew
$1,000 [25]
Sweethearts & wafers come from this company whose name stands in part for "New England"
Necco
Rob

Double Jeopardy! Round

MASON, DIXON, & THEIR LINE SECOND ROCK FROM THE SUN THEY CO-STARRED WITH LEO DiCAPRIO POST MASTERS AMERICAN ANNUAL EVENTS DOUBLE N-DEMNITY
$400 [26]
On Nov. 15, 1763 Mason & Dixon arrived in this Pennsylvania city & shortly headed west
Philadelphia
$400 [6]
Geologically active, Venus has more of these, like Sif Mons, than any other planet in the Solar System
volcanoes
Drew
$400 [1]
That dreamy Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a dream of a movie
Inception
Drew
$400 [16]
These orchestral works by Anton Bruckner, like the 90-minute No. 8, are classics of postromanticism
symphonies
Drew
$400 [11]
Each July Gilroy, California celebrates this pungent herb with a festival of food & fun
garlic
Kathleen
$400 [21]
This type of "joke" or "gag" recurs in a play for cumulative comic effect
running
Kathleen
$800 [27]
M & D used an instrument called a zenith sector for determining degrees of this north of the equator
latitude
Drew
$800 [7]
Venus' atmosphere is 96% this compound that makes up just .037% of Earth's; no wonder its globe has warmed
carbon dioxide
Drew
$800 [2]
Jack Nicholson as a Boston gangster
The Departed
Kathleen
$800 [17]
In the late 300s Prudentius went postclassical with poems combining this religion with traditional Latin forms
Christianity
Rob
$800 [12]
Not Texas but Ridgway, Penn. is home each February to a wood-carving competition using these power tools
a chainsaw
Drew
$800 [22]
Any sudden help, or food miraculously supplied to the Israelites in Exodus
manna
Rob
$1,200 [28]
Jeremiah Dixon was a surveyor & Charles Mason was employed by the Royal Society in Greenwich in this capacity
an astronomer
$1,200 [8]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew explains an animation of Venus on a monitor.) Viewed from Earth, Venus exhibits phases like the Moon. Galileo's 1610 discovery of that fact helped confirmed the Solar System model named for this man
Copernicus
Rob
$1,200 [3]
Cate Blanchett as Ketharine Hepburn, darling
The Aviator
Kathleen
$1,200 [18]
In the 1960s Robert Venturi pioneered the eclectic style of architecture called post-this
postmodernism
Rob
$1,200 [13]
This liquor flows for 6 days at a September festival celebrating it in Bardstown, Kentucky
Bourbon
Drew
$1,200 [23]
Any plant having a life cycle of more than 2 years
a perennial
Drew Kathleen Rob
$1,600 [29]
As a border between free & slave states, "Mason-Dixon line" was first used in debates over this 1820 compromise
the Missouri Compromise
Drew
$1,600 [9]
Tennyson's "Crossing The Bar" begins, "Sunset and" this item in the sky that's really Venus
the Evening Star
Drew Rob
$1,600 [4]
Daniel Day-Lewis in a period piece
Gangs Of New York
Drew
$1,600 [19]
Not yet 30, Picasso was in the groundbreaking 1910 London art show "Manet and" this group
the postimpressionists
Drew Rob
$1,600 [14]
"How many CC you got?" might be heard at the 75-year-old Sturgis, South Dakota rally for these transports
motorcycles
Kathleen
$1,600 [24]
This recent addition to English means a male whose job is child care
a manny
Drew
$2,000 [30]
At 5-mile intervals, stones featured the Coat of Arms of the Penn family on one side, this Maryland family on the other
the Calverts
Kathleen
DD $3,000 [10]
The size of South America, a highland surface area on Venus is named for this Greek goddess
Aphrodite
Rob
$2,000 [5]
Djimon Hounsou, in Africa
Blood Diamond
Drew
$2,000 [20]
Onthis American's death in 2009, the London Times called him "the greatest postwar novelist in English"
John Updike
$2,000 [15]
Each year the International Balloon Fiesta held in this southwest city features a mass ascension
Albuquerque
Kathleen
DD $10,600 [25]
To separate grain from chaff using wind
winnow
Drew

Final Jeopardy!

SHAKESPEARE

Samuel Johnson said Shakespeare "so carefully informs us" that this play is set on the eve of May Day & yet called it this

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Drew "What is A Midsummer Night's Dream?" — wagered $0
Kathleen "What Twelfth Night?" — wagered $6,801
Rob "What is a Midsummer Night's Dream?" — wagered $4,500

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