Show #6627 2013-06-11 (taped 2013-02-05) Regular

Contestants

Judy Wang — an assistant professor of engineering from Highlands Ranch, Colorado

Bill Matheny — a Catholic priest from Wheeling, West Virginia

Tim Anderson — a Spanish professor from Rockford, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $40,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tim $2,600 $5,000 $15,400 $16,000
3-day champion: $56,001
$16,600
22 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Bill $0 $3,400 $7,200 $4,900
2nd place: $2,000
$8,200
11 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Judy! $2,200 $2,000 $2,400 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$2,400
11 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

RANK FILE A ROUND OF GULF COAST ANOTHER BLACK FRIDAY OH SEE, CAN YOU SAY? END OF THE ALPHABET
$200 [11]
Judy Benjamin, a new recruit on film
private
Tim
$200 [13]
File these documents on or before April 15 to avoid a penalty
income tax (return)
Judy!
$200 [20]
This city was founded in 1718 by Jean Baptiste le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, y'all
New Orleans
Bill
$200 [25]
September 24, 1869:A panic ensues when New York financiers try to corner the market in this precious metal
gold
Tim
$200 [3]
Hereare these two criminals in happier times; a sadder time would be when they died in a hail of bullets
Bonnie & Clyde
Judy!
$200 [1]
Zubenelgenubi is the alpha star of this "balanced" constellation
Libra
Judy!
$400 [12]
Bilkoof television
sergeant
Judy!
$400 [14]
A set of letters such as .doc added to the end of a computer file to identify it
an extension
Tim
$400 [21]
Neil Simon had the "blues" in this city
Biloxi
Bill
$400 [26]
July 31, 1987:One of these cuts a swath of destruction through Edmonton
a tornado
Bill
$400 [4]
Check out a1965 model from this company--original price, about $3,000
Ford
Tim
$400 [2]
Of ride it, eat it or make explosives with it, what you'd most likely do with Zwieback
eat it
Tim Judy!
$600 [15]
Clue suspect Mustard
colonel
Tim
$600 [18]
This coated "board" is a synonym for a type of nail file
an emery board
Tim
$600 [22]
Alabama's only seaport, this city is called "the City of Six Flags" because 6 governments have controlled it
Mobile
Bill
$600 [27]
September 8, 1978:The shah's troops massacre protesters in this city's Jaleh Square
Tehran
Tim
$600 [5]
The name of the bird seenherecompares itstailto this harplike instrument
a lyre
Tim
$600 [6]
If you're in zugzwang, you're playing this game & have no choice but to make a dangerous move
chess
$800 [16]
David Bowie's Tom
major
Judy!
$800 [19]
This act that lets you request your FBI file took effect July 5, 1967
the Freedom of Information Act
Tim Bill
$800 [23]
This Texas seaport 2 mi. off the mainland, oh, this Texas seaport 2 mi. off the mainland, "I still hear your sea winds blowin"'
Galveston
Tim
$800 [28]
October 5, 1945:A film industry strike turns into a bloody riot in an incident known as this community's Black Friday
Hollywood
$800 [9]
It's a monarchy with a Sharia legal system
Saudi Arabia
Judy!
$800 [7]
Jacob Zuma has been president of this countrysince 2009
South Africa
$1,000 [17]
Musical innovator Beefheart
captain
$1,000 [30]
Last name of Mrs. Basil E., whose "Mixed-Up Files" were the subject of a Newbery Medal-winning children's book
Frankweiler
Judy!
$1,000 [24]
By 1890 about 270 people lived in this "Sunshine City" at the tip of Pinellas Peninsula on Tampa Bay
St. Petersburg
Bill
DD $1,000 [29]
January 13, 1939:Record summer heat sparks "bushfires" that ravage millions of acres in this country
Australia
Tim
$1,000 [10]
In 2013his24 years representing Connecticut in Washington came to an end
(Joe) Lieberman
Tim
$1,000 [8]
Zurvan is the god of time in this one of the world's religion"z"
Zoroastrianism
Tim

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE MONROE DOCTRINE I SANG THE JAMES BOND SONG BIOLOGY ANTI UP MOOLAH! SCRATCH! DUCATS! SHAKESPEAREAN BEFORE & AFTER
$400 [4]
The doctrine came about because the U.S. feared other nations' trying to take over this country's former colonies
Spain
$400 [14]
"Skyfall"
Adele
Tim
$400 [1]
Protanopia is a type of this in which a person can't distinguish red from green
color blindness
Tim
$400 [2]
Add a letter to "anti" to get this word for a shenanigan
antic
Tim
$400 [19]
This country's one pound coin is seen here
Egypt
Judy!
$400 [21]
Ding dong! Shakespeare's hometown gets house visits from a cosmetics saleslady using a familiar slogan
Stratford-on-Avon calling
Tim
$800 [5]
The Monroe doctrine was primarily the work of this Secretary of State, Monroe's successor as president
John Quincy Adams
Tim
$800 [15]
"Nobody Does It Better"
Carly Simon
Bill
$800 [20]
Like nails, horns & hair, feathers contain this fibrous structural protein
keratin
Bill
$800 [3]
"Antithetical" means directly this
opposite
Bill
$800 [22]
On this holiday in late January or early February, Chinese families make cash offerings to the god of wealth
the Chinese New Year
Tim Bill
$1,600 [28]
A "Bird" who habitually stays up late watching the story of Viola & Orsino
A Twelfth Night Owl
$1,200 [6]
In 1915 U.S. Marines landed in this Haitian capital to prevent civil unrest & keep the Europeans from taking advantage
Port-au-Prince
Tim
$1,200 [16]
"A View To A Kill"
Duran Duran
Bill
DD $1,000 [26]
Appropriately, the name of this bone is from the Latin for "to chew"
the mandible
Bill
$1,200 [9]
Lanacane cream is antipruritic, meaning it prevents this
itchiness
Judy!
$1,200 [23]
Raiseddot patternsto help the visually impaired are featured onbanknotes from this country
Canada
Judy!
$2,000 [27]
Will combines one of his comedy classics with what Mr. Blandings is trying to put up in a Cary Grant film
A Midsummer Night's Dream House
DD $1,200 [7]
James K. Polk cited the doctrine in getting sole control from Britain of this territory below the 49th parallel
the Oregon Territory
Tim
$1,600 [17]
"Thunderball"
Tom Jones
Judy!
$1,600 [12]
Ferns reproduce asexually by means of these cells
spores
Judy!
$1,600 [10]
"Anti" word for the type of conclusion you'd have if the "1812 Overture" ended with a tune on the pennywhistle
anticlimactic
Tim
$1,600 [24]
In the Hindi language, peti is a slang term for 100,000 of these
rupee(s)
Tim
$2,000 [8]
The Monroe doctrine was invoked during this October 1962 incident
the Cuban missile crisis
Judy!
$2,000 [18]
"Goldfinger"
Shirley Bassey
Tim
$2,000 [13]
In vertebrates, this lowest portion of the brain regulates heart rate & respiration
the medulla
Tim
$2,000 [11]
In medicine an anticlotting agent may also be called this "anti-" word
an anticoagulant
Judy!
$2,000 [25]
It's still the basic currency of Burkina Faso, Burundi & Ivory Coast
the franc
Bill

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN LITERATURE

This 1884 novel begins in the fictional town of St. Petersburg & ends in Pikesville, 1,100 miles down the Mississippi

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Judy! "What is Uncle Tom's Cabin??" — wagered $2,399
Bill "What is Tom Sawyer?" — wagered $2,300
Tim "What is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" — wagered $600

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