Show #6619 2013-05-30 (taped 2013-01-29) Regular

Contestants

Katrina Whitehead — a strategic analyst from Sandston, Virginia

Les Chun — a property manager from San Francisco, California

Sam Hopkins — an M.B.A. student originally from Prairie Village, Kansas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sam $3,600 $5,400 $19,000 $12,400
2-day champion: $31,601
$16,000
23 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Les $2,800 $5,800 $20,400 $2,799
2nd place: $2,000
$17,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Katrina $2,000 $2,800 $10,400 $300
3rd place: $1,000
$10,400
12 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

SOFA'S CHOICE IN THE CAPITAL CITY "PARTY" TIME! TREES THE CHARM CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS JOHNNY GILBERT GOES TO THE MOVIES
$200 [26]
Shikibuton is the Japanese word for the mattress part of this collapsible sofa
futon
Katrina
$200 [3]
Oct. 6, 1981:Anwar Sadat is assassinated
Cairo
Sam
$200 [6]
A group sent out to look for someone who is missing
search party
Katrina
$200 [2]
The world's tallest living tree, the coast this is also a wide body: its trunks can be 25 feet wide
redwood
Sam
$200 [1]
This organization started by Millard & Linda Fuller has built more than 500,000 homes
Habitat for Humanity
Les
$200 [21]
(Johnny Gilbert reads the clue.) "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?"
The Graduate
Sam
$400 [27]
This type of sofa that changes into a bed shares its name with a type of car that lets you get some sun
convertible
Les
$400 [4]
April 29, 1945:Eva Braun gets married
Berlin
Sam
$400 [7]
In 1949 this pre-wedding affair for Jimmy Stewart was televised & featured a "Wizard of Oz" Munchkin in a diaper
a bachelor party
Sam
$400 [11]
Though it's Georgia's state fruit, about 3/4 of the fruit grown in the U.S. from this tree is from California
peach
Les
$400 [17]
The group known as WWP helps these injured service men & women, WWs for short
wounded warriors
Sam
$400 [22]
(Johnny Gilbert reads the clue.) "Fiddle-dee-dee! war, war, war; the war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring"
Gone with the Wind
Sam Katrina
$600 [28]
This 9-letter type of sofa has independent pieces that can be rearranged
sectional
Sam
$600 [5]
Dec. 11, 2012:Hugo Chavez has major cancer surgery (it's not Caracas)
Havana
Les
$600 [8]
The title of a 2005 Dave Chappelle film, it's an outdoor festival held on a closed-off city street
block party
Les
$600 [12]
A flowering tree that produces acorns, the California white type of this can be 90 feet tall
oak
Sam
$600 [18]
French physicians & journalists started this medical aid group in the wake of war & famine in Biafra & floods in Pakistan
Doctors Without Borders
Les
$600 [23]
(Johnny Gilbert reads the clue.) "If...you're not with him, you'll regret it. maybe not today. maybe not tomorrow, but soon, & for the rest of your life"
Casablanca
Les
$800 [29]
An overstuffed sofa & a topcoat with a velvet collar are both named for the Earl of this
Chesterfield
Les Katrina
$1,000 [14]
1665:the "Great Plague" kills 7,000 people in one week
London
Katrina
$800 [9]
A band of Native American fighters who raid an enemy, or a hawkish political group
war party
$800 [15]
Hey there, hoss, the Ponderosa type of this is common in the Rockies & the eastern side of the Cascades
pine
Katrina
$800 [19]
Appropriately, this 4-letter organization started out in 1946 by sending packages to survivors of WWII
CARE
Les
$800 [24]
(Johnny Gilbert reads the clue.) "Hello! my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die"
The Princess Bride
Les
$1,000 [30]
From the French, it's someone you tell secrets to, or the type of sofa seen here
confidant
Sam
DD $1,800 [13]
Nov. 7, 1867:The future Marie Curie is born
Warsaw
Sam
$1,000 [10]
Alliterative term for an occasion where you indulge in feeling sorry for yourself
pity party
Les
$1,000 [16]
A Yarmouth, Maine tree called Herbie, a majestic American type of this tree, had to be cut down in 2010 at age 217
elm
Katrina
$1,000 [20]
The logo of this ecologically-minded group is seen here
the Nature Conservancy
Sam
$1,000 [25]
(Johnny Gilbert reads the clue.) "I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh?... Funny how? How am I funny?"
Goodfellas
Sam Les

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE COLOMBIA ENCYCLOPEDIA ALPHABETICALLY FIRST GIMME A "D" THE NAPOLEONIC ERA I SAW THAT BOOK ON TV COMEDY TEAMS?
$400 [2]
Under "B":it's the capital & largest city
Bogotá
Sam
$400 [23]
Of the zodiac signs
Aquarius
Sam Katrina
$400 [24]
German gives us the name of this type of restaurant--try the knishes
delicatessen
Sam
$400 [1]
Napoleon's invasion of this nation in mid-1812 was a turning point in his fortunes
Russia
Sam
$400 [30]
Based on a book series, this CW show about catty young ladies in Manhattan ended its 6-year run in 2012
Gossip Girl
Les
$400 [7]
Game show dealmaker Mr. Hall plus a reticulated slitherer
Monty Python
Sam
$800 [3]
Under "C":it's Colombia's most important legal agricultural export
coffee
Sam
$800 [22]
Of the 5 Great Lakes
Erie
Katrina
$800 [28]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Traffic engineer Henry Barnes advocated this system of diagonal crossing; because of the way pedestrians weave around each other in the middle of the intersection, it's called the Barnes this
Barnes Dance
Sam
$800 [16]
Napoleon met his Waterloo in 1815 just outside the town of Waterloo in what's now this country
Belgium
Les
$800 [18]
Julia McKenzie, born in 1941, began playing this British snoop in 2008's "A Pocket Full of Rye"
Miss Marple
Les
$800 [8]
Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton & Dave Alexander in Iggy Pop's band
The Three Stooges
Sam
$1,200 [4]
Under "V":in 2009 & 2010, one of these named Galeras caused major evacuations
volcano
Katrina
$1,200 [19]
Of the English titles of the books making up the Pentateuch
Deuteronomy
Les
$1,200 [21]
The "D" in products like Zyrtec-D & Claritin-D stands for this, which will help your stuffy nose
decongestant
Sam
$1,200 [15]
Victory in this October 1805 battle established British naval supremacy for the next 100 years
Trafalgar
Sam
$1,200 [17]
Writer Andrew Davies adapted this novelist for 1994's "Middlemarch"
(George) Eliot
Les
$1,200 [9]
Coldplay's Chris & boxer Lennox
Martin & Lewis
Les
$1,600 [5]
Under G:this 4-letter word for "big" preceded "Colombia" in the 1820s, when it also included Ecuador
Gran
Sam
$2,000 [25]
Of the properties in a classic Monopoly game
Atlantic Avenue
Sam
$1,600 [27]
In legalese, this 8-letter word means a person's true, fixed & permanent residence
domicile
Katrina
$1,600 [14]
This British prime minister, the Younger, helped lead the fight against Napoleon until his death in 1806
(William) Pitt
Katrina
$1,600 [12]
In 2005 TV viewers could see "Oprah Winfrey Presents" this Zora Neale Hurston book
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Les
$1,600 [10]
Separated at birth: "Manifesto" man Karl & "Right Here Waiting For You" singer Richard
The Marx Brothers
Sam
DD $4,000 [6]
Under "E":Many Spanish explorers came to Colombia searching for this fabled city of gold
El Dorado
Sam
DD $5,000 [20]
Of the First Ladies' first names
Abigail
Les
$2,000 [29]
This type of glazed ear then ware is named for a Dutch town
Delft
Katrina
$2,000 [26]
Napoleon commissioned the Arc de Triomphe after this 1805 battle, one of his greatest victories
Battle of Austerlitz
$2,000 [13]
The Brits did up this John Galsworthy "Saga" splendidly in 1967 & again in 2002
The Forsyte Saga
Les
$2,000 [11]
The Canadian students inside school before their classrooms open
Kids in the Hall
Les

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN SCIENTISTS

In 1920, the New York Times said he lacks the “knowledge ladled out daily in high schools”; on July 17, 1969, the paper apologized

Robert Goddard

Katrina "Who is Scopes?" — wagered $10,100
Sam "Who is Kennedy?" — wagered $6,600
Les "Who is Oppenheimer?" — wagered $17,601

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