Show #6685 2013-10-11 (taped 2013-08-28) Regular

Contestants

Greg Buzzard — an organizing fellow originally from Warrensburg, Missouri

Julie Huffman — a judicial research lawyer from Oxnard, California

William Bernhardt — a novelist from Midwest City, Oklahoma (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
William $3,000 $4,400 $11,600 $13,001
2nd place: $2,000
$11,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Julie $2,400 $3,200 $6,200 $9,200
3rd place: $1,000
$7,200
16 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Greg $2,200 $3,400 $13,000 $24,000
New champion: $24,000
$15,000
16 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS AS HEARD ON TV ___ING ___ WET BAR GLOSSARY THE MAGIC WORD PLEAS
$200 [5]
Of Colorado's 7 congressional districts, 3 are partly within this metropolis & its suburbs
Denver
Greg
$200 [24]
Angie, to Jack Donaghy: "As you know, my single, 'My Single Is Dropping', is dropping"
30 Rock
Julie
$200 [7]
A lone redeeming quality, or a Holly Hunter TV show
saving grace
Julie
$200 [3]
That fifth of whiskey you picked up today means 1/5 of this liquid measure
gallon
William Julie
$200 [1]
This 2-word rhyming phrase, a magical incantation, is also the name of a movie about 3 sister witches
hocus pocus
William Greg
$200 [18]
In criminal law, if a defendant refuses to enter a plea or does not appear, the court enters this plea on his behalf
not guilty
Julie
$400 [6]
In this state the 1st district is the skinny part & the 2nd is the bulgy part by Wyoming
Idaho
William
$400 [25]
Larry David: "1 in 30 (apricots) is a good one. It's such a low-percentage fruit"
Curb Your Enthusiasm
$400 [8]
British people push a trolley when buying tea at Tesco; in the U.S. we push this
a shopping cart
Julie
$400 [4]
Here come the "Jeopardy!" writers; better tap this cask that can hold 165 12-ounce beers
a keg
Greg
$400 [2]
In 1923 Horace Goldin was awarded a patent for this illusion; he later incorporated a buzz saw
sawing a person in half
Julie
$400 [19]
In an attempt to plead this, 2 brothers who robbed a payroll truck in NYC in 1941 barked like dogs & drooled in court
insanity
Greg
$600 [13]
The states with only one district covering the whole state include these threelarge bordering ones
Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota
Julie
$600 [28]
Sue, on Fox: "You think this is hard?! I'm passing a gallstone as we speak! That's hard!"
Glee
Greg
$600 [9]
If your employment has ended, you've been given these
walking papers
William
$600 [23]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a goblet of cognac.) This special goblet used to serve fine cognac narrows at the top to trap & enhance the aroma of the liquor
a snifter
William
$600 [12]
Ironically, this magician says he's never been able to finish the Dickens novel that gave him his stage name
David Copperfield
Julie
$600 [20]
"Stand your ground" laws have increased the possible situations for this hyphenated plea
self-defense
Julie
$800 [14]
One of the 2 states that gained the most new districts following the 2010 census, 4 & 2 seats
Texas (and Florida)
Greg
$1,000 [29]
"Oh my God, Brian, there's a message in my Alpha-Bits. It says 'Oooooo'". "Peter, those are Cheerios"
Family Guy
Greg
DD $1,000 [10]
Australia's unofficial national anthem
"Waltzing Matilda"
William
$800 [27]
Avast ye hearties! Hand me the large beer glass named for this large sailing vessel with at least 2 masts
a schooner
$800 [16]
Bullwinkle tried this cliched magic trick, but his results were feline & ursine, not leporine
pulling a rabbit out of his hat
William
$800 [21]
2-word Latin phrase for a plea in which the defendant does not dispute the charges
nolo contendere
Julie Greg
$1,000 [15]
Thislandmark is divided between New York's10th district(median income, $70,270) and the13th, where the figure is half that
Central Park
Greg
$1,000 [11]
Poultry dominance hierarchy
pecking order
William
$1,000 [26]
It's a tall, often pewter mug with a hinged lid
a tankard
Julie
$1,000 [17]
Author Peter Lamont traveled to India to write "The Rise of" this, called "the world's most famous illusion
the Indian rope trick
Julie
$1,000 [22]
This word comes before "pleading" to mean an argument that blatantly favors only one side of a case
special pleading
Julie

Double Jeopardy! Round

MEDICINE MOVIES BY THE NUMBERS OUR FOUNDING FATHERS LITERARY RECORDS OH SO SERGIO SAILING THE 3 C's
$400 [11]
The sensation that a dark curtain is being pulled across the eye can indicate that this has become detached
the retina
Greg
$400 [1]
A John Hughes classic:"_____ Candles"
16
William
$400 [7]
A captain in Knowlton's Rangers, this Conn. teacher volunteered to spy on the British in September 1776
(Nathan) Hale
William
$400 [2]
The first known one of these self-reflective chronicles in English is Thomas Whythorne's from circa 1576
an autobiography
Julie Greg
$400 [21]
Tiger Woods & this golfer got in a public spat at the 2013 Players Championship
Sergio Garcia
$400 [14]
Wow, that's so weird--I was just thinking about this word for a striking occurrence of 2 events at 1 time
a coincidence
William
$800 [12]
A condition commonly called Dowager's Hump is part of the bone-thinning effects of this disease
osteoporosis
William
$800 [8]
With Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson:"_____"
42
William
DD $1,000 [20]
On March 23, 1775 he told the House of Burgesses that "the war is inevitable--and let it come!"
Patrick Henry
Julie
$800 [3]
John Barry's "Philadelphia Spelling Book" of 1790 was the first book in America with this protection
copyright
Greg
$800 [26]
In 2005 Mexican author Sergio Pitol won the Spanish-language literary award named for this man born in 1547
Cervantes
William
$800 [15]
This college degree is total B.S.
a Bachelor of Sciences
William Julie Greg
$1,200 [19]
This medical therapy is necessary to eliminate wastes & maintain fluid balance in cases of kidney failure
dialysis
Julie
$1,200 [9]
A 2011 high-speed chase with Vin Diesel & Paul Walker:"Fast _____"
5
$1,200 [24]
In 1774 this Virginian attacked the crown in "A Summary View Of The Rights Of British America"
Thomas Jefferson
Julie
$1,200 [4]
His "Murders in the Rue Morgue" in 1841 is considered the first detective story in English
(Edgar Allan) Poe
William
$1,200 [28]
Sergio Marchionne turned around this Italian car company & later became CEO of Chrysler
Fiat
Greg
$1,200 [16]
These household pests targeted by Raid have lived on earth for 250 million years
cockroaches
Greg
$1,600 [22]
Myelin, a substance that protects & coats nerve fibers, becomes swollen & inflamed in this 2-word autoimmune disease
multiple schlorosis
Julie
$1,600 [10]
Jennifer Garner grows up way too fast:"_____ Going On _____"
13 Going On 30
Greg
$1,600 [25]
Later the first Chief Justice of the U.S., he played a leading part in drafting the Constitution of New York
(John) Jay
William
$1,600 [5]
The logo seenherebelongs to this University Press, founded in 1534 & claiming the title of the world's oldest publisher
Cambridge
Julie Greg
DD $2,000 [17]
It's the last of the "5 stages of grief"
acceptance
Greg
$2,000 [23]
The word for this disease comes from the same Latin root as "rage"
rabies
Greg
$2,000 [13]
With Harrison Ford & Anne Heche:"_____ Days _____ Nights"
6 Days, 7 Nights
$2,000 [27]
Rousing the countryside in April 1775, William Dawes arrived in Lexington soon after this man
Paul Revere
Julie
$2,000 [6]
According to UNESCO, the oldest book printed with movable metal type is the Jikji, from Cheongju in this country
Korea
Greg
$2,000 [18]
From the Latin for "to cook together", it means to devise or contrive
concoct
Greg

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD CAPITALS

It's the capital city of the only country that borders both the Mediterranean Sea & the Black Sea

Ankara

Julie "What is Ankara" — wagered $3,000
William "What is Ankara?" — wagered $1,401
Greg "What is Ankara?" — wagered $11,000

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