Show #6631 2013-06-17 (taped 2013-02-12) Regular

Andrew Moore game 1.

Contestants

Andrew Moore — a test prep instructor from Buford, Georgia

Renee Hennessee — an energy efficiency analyst from Palm Desert, California

Eric Maitland — a telecommunications supply attendant from San Diego, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Eric $800 $4,000 $15,600 $11,600
2nd place: $2,000
$13,600
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Renee $-600 $2,000 $5,200 $3,200
3rd place: $1,000
$5,200
11 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Andrew $1,800 $4,400 $19,200 $31,201
New champion: $31,201
$18,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

CHILDREN'S BOOKS ABBREV-"E"-ATIONS 2010s TV SHOWS BY CHARACTERS ANAGRANDMA UNIQUE NEW YORK TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER
$200 [28]
"Goodnight iPad" is a parody of this beloved book
Goodnight Moon
Renee
$200 [29]
In a business letter, encl. is an abbreviation for this
enclosed (or enclosure)
Andrew
$200 [17]
Roger Sterling, Miss Blankenship, Sally Draper
Mad Men
Eric
$200 [23]
When Grandma's looking for these, sometimes they're on top of her head:SAG LESS
glasses
Eric
$200 [1]
The first of 4 arenas to bear this name opened on May 31,1879 at 26th street & Madison Ave.
Madison Square Garden
Renee
$200 [30]
Like our "Indian" one, a spell of warm, pleasant weather in October in Greece is called this "of St. Dimitrios"
Summer
Eric
$400 [15]
In a 2000 book, 10-year-old Opal adopts a stray dog whom she names this, after the grocery store where she finds him
Winn-Dixie
Andrew
$400 [25]
The clean water act of 1972 was administered by it, the EPA
the Environmental Protection Agency
Andrew
$400 [18]
Dr. Cristina Yang, Dr. Miranda Bailey, Dr. Derek Shepherd
Grey's Anatomy
$400 [12]
If the lumbago comes back, Grandma's grateful for this program:ICE DREAM
Medicare
$400 [2]
What is this place, Grand Central? no, but its 21 tracks can handle more than 1,000 people every 90 seconds
Penn Station
Eric
$400 [26]
It can be a dry spell in the weather or, for a batter, going a long time without a hit
a drought
Renee
$600 [14]
It's the rhyming name of the literal-minded housekeeper in books by Peggy Parish
Amelia Bedelia
Andrew
$600 [10]
E.O.D. can stand for this, perhaps the time when taps is played
end of day
Eric
$600 [19]
Max (a woman), Caroline, Oleg the cook
2 Broke Girls
$600 [13]
Grandma had a mania for this singer in the '60s:MY NUCLEAR PACT
Paul McCartney
$600 [3]
(Former President Bill Clinton presents the clue.) Duke Ellington & Cab Calloway were the 2 bandleaders most associated with this Harlem cabaret once found on 142nd & Lenox
The Cotton Club
Eric Andrew
$600 [8]
A 10 on the modern Beaufort scale for this means ocean waves will have dense white streaks
wind
Andrew
$800 [7]
Thischaracter's tale is a story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread
Despereaux
$800 [11]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for this type of shot--an ECU for short
an extreme close-up
Andrew
$800 [20]
Thomas Boleyn, Edward Seymour, Anne Parr
The Tudors
Eric
$800 [16]
Hoping to meet her friend Juan from college, Grandma's taking a cruise to this city:CANAL ROBE
Barcelona
Eric
$800 [4]
This "theatrical" deli served its last Mel Brooks sandwich & closed in 2012 after 75 years
The Stage Deli
Eric
$800 [9]
Also a cloud surrounding a deity, it's the type of cloud that brings rain
nimbus
Renee
$1,000 [6]
This picture book begins, "In a warm and sultry forest, far, far away there once lived a mother fruit bat and her new baby"
Stellaluna
$1,000 [24]
Medically, EEG is short for this (& ends with the letter M, not ph)
electroencephalogram
Andrew
$1,000 [21]
Meyer Lansky, Senator Warren G. Harding, Chalky White
Boardwalk Empire
Eric
$1,000 [22]
Once a Democrat, & once a Republican, Grandma leans this way now:RETAIL BRAIN
libertarian
Renee
$1,000 [5]
Funeral masses for Babe Ruth & Toscanini were held at this building at 50th & 5th
St. Patrick's
Andrew
DD $1,000 [27]
T.S. Eliot wrote, "under the brown" one of these "of a winter dawn, a crowd flowed over London Bridge"
"fog"
Renee

Double Jeopardy! Round

MUSICIANS' AUTOBIOGRAPHIES IN THE DICTIONARY FEMALE WORLD LEADERS "NORTH", "SOUTH", "EAST", "WEST" THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES GEOMETRY
$400 [25]
2012: "Rod: The Autobiography"
Rod Stewart
Eric Renee
$400 [28]
Part of the sole family, a hogchoker is a North American variety of this creature
a fish
Renee
$400 [5]
PM Johanna Sigurdardottir of this Atlantic island country is the world's first openly gay head of govt.
Iceland
Renee
$400 [1]
"You are now free to move about the country" on this airline
Southwest
Renee
$800 [14]
Advancements included the use of windmills, gunpowder & these numerals
Arabic numerals
Andrew
$800 [17]
The name of this instrument having a graduated arc for measuring angles is from the Latin for "to draw forth"
a protractor
Andrew
$800 [4]
1991: "Ice by Ice"
Vanilla Ice
Eric
$800 [16]
The object called this is upright, but the person called this is not; he's a seller of stolen goods
a fence
Andrew
$800 [6]
Dame Louise Lake-Tack is governor general of Antigua & this geographic partner
Barbuda
Andrew
$800 [2]
In about 2,000 years, Gamma Cephei will replace Polaris as this
the North Star
Andrew
$1,200 [15]
The rise of towns led to the rise of these monopolistic associations of merchants or craftsmen
guilds
Andrew
$1,600 [12]
Descartes invented this type of geometry that uses algebraic methods
analytic
$1,200 [7]
2012: "Luck or Something Like It" by a singing "gambler"
Kenny Rogers
Andrew
$1,200 [27]
According to the OED, in 1772 this word meaning "new word" was a new word
neologism
Eric
$1,200 [9]
Once VP under president Oscar Arias Sanchez, Laura Chinchilla has the top job in this Central American country
Costa Rica
Eric
$1,200 [21]
Rikers Island is in this navigable tidal strait; the RFK Bridge spans it
the East River
Eric Andrew
$1,600 [22]
Within 10 years came the founding of the Franciscans & this order later infamous in the Inquisition
the Dominicans
Eric
DD $2,000 [3]
All points on the surface of this geometric solid are equidistant from its center
a sphere
Andrew
$1,600 [8]
2009: "Miles to Go" by a teenager
Miley Cyrus
Eric
$1,600 [26]
It can mean soft or delicate or, on U.S. currency, money offered for payment of a debt
tender
Eric
$1,600 [10]
The grandmother seenhereis Sheikh Hasina Wazed, Prime minister of this Indian subcontinent nation since 2009
Bangladesh
Andrew
$1,600 [18]
Horace Greeley is generally credited with this 4-word phrase, but some say John Soule used it earlier
"Go west, young man."
Renee
DD $4,000 [23]
In 1054 the "Great Schism" divided the power of the Catholic church between these 2 cities, in east & west
Rome & Constantinople
Eric
$2,000 [13]
A hyperbola is one of the curves produced by the intersection of a plane & a right circular one of these shapes
a cone
Renee Andrew
$2,000 [11]
2012: "Who I Am: A Memoir" by a British guitarist
Pete Townshend
Andrew
$2,000 [24]
10-letter word for an indoor swimming pool--nice vocabulary there, Caesar
natatorium
Andrew
$2,000 [20]
Dilma Rousseff, now president of this South American country, was a student guerrilla in the 1970s
Brazil
Renee
$2,000 [19]
This annual event began in 1987 to showcase the Austin music scene to industry pros
South by Southwest
Eric

Final Jeopardy!

IN THE NEWSPAPER

Her pen name honored a wise woman from the Old Testament & a 19th century U.S. president

Abigail Van Buren (or Dear Abby)

Renee "Who Ril" — wagered $2,000
Eric "Who is Ruth Lincl" — wagered $4,000
Andrew "Who is Abigail Van Buren?" — wagered $12,001

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