Show #6694 2013-10-24 (taped 2013-09-11) Regular

Contestants

Mike Shapiro — an actuary from Denver, Colorado

Rebecca Anderson — an accounting manager from Phoenix, Arizona

Bill Tolany — a marketing executive from Austin, Texas (whose 3-day cash winnings total $44,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bill $1,600 $5,400 $13,800 $1,500
2nd place: $2,000
$15,800
20 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Rebecca $3,400 $3,800 $3,400 $100
3rd place: $1,000
$3,400
10 R, 3 W
Mike $-800 $-200 $12,300 $3,401
New champion: $3,401
$11,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

HOSPITAL CORNERS WHAT'S ON YOUR iPOD? MATH APPEAL FOODIE CALL FRAGILE THIS SIDE "UP"
$200 [26]
Center Street & 3rd Avenue SW in Rochester, Minnesota: this clinic
the Mayo Clinic
Mike
$200 [16]
(Hi, I'm Isaac Mizrahi.) This dance pop diva from New York has her own sense of fashion & is all over my iPod with songs like "Bad Romance"
Lady Gaga
Mike
$200 [11]
As the bases are 90 feet apart, it's the area in square feet of a baseball infield
8,100 square feet
Bill Mike
$200 [1]
Foodies swear by the Himalayan pink type of this seasoning, said to be mined from the Himalayan foothills
salt
Rebecca
$200 [21]
The object seenherehelps create these fragile items
bubbles
Mike
$200 [6]
Dude, you're way too this word, nervous & easily annoyed
uptight
Mike
$400 [27]
Huron & St. Clair Streets, Chicago: Memorial Hospital of this nearby "directional" university
Northwestern
Rebecca
$400 [17]
(Hey, there, I'm Neil Patrick Harris.) Sometimes I think about running away & joining this French-Canadian troupe, especially when I'm listening to "Alegria" & their other soundtracks
Cirque du Soleil
Bill
$400 [12]
In 67 divided by 22, 67 is this, also a nice check stockholders get
a dividend
Mike
$400 [2]
Dishes flavored or garnished with these fancy fungi are called a la Perigourdine
truffles
Rebecca
$400 [22]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a micrograph on the monitor.) Fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited form of intellectual disability, gets its name from the appearance of the genetic mutation on the "X" one of these
chromosome
Bill
$400 [7]
This "Saturday Night Live" newscast title has been used since a weekend in 1975
Weekend Update
Rebecca
$600 [18]
(I'm Kelly O'Donnell of NBC News.) Sometimes I like to go country on my iPod, listening to this trio whose hits include "Here Comes Goodbye" & "Life Is a Highway"
Rascal Flatts
Bill
$600 [13]
To write one of these as a decimal, move the decimal point 2 places to the left
a percentage
Bill
$600 [3]
I spy that this "CIA" has campuses cooking in California, New York, Texas & Singapore
the Culinary Institute of America
Rebecca Mike
$600 [24]
This woman who won a Massachusetts Senate seat in 2013 co-wrote "The Fragile Middle Class"
Elizabeth Warren
Bill
$600 [8]
"Casablanca" begins with an order to do this to "all suspicious characters and search them"
round up
Bill
$800 [19]
(Hi, I'm CCH Pounder.) My iPod's got soul--specifically, this "Godfather of Soul", & his 1968 Top 10 hit "Say It Loud--I'm Black And I'm Proud"
James Brown
Rebecca
$800 [14]
A 2013 paper on "twin" these numbers shows there are infinitely many pairs of them no more than 70,000,000 apart
prime numbers
Bill
$800 [4]
It can be a type of bivalve mollusk or a thin slice of meat made flatter by pounding
a scallop
$800 [23]
In 2011 Steve Wynn bought 4 of these for $12.8 million & sent them back to China (a good idea for a guy who once tore a Picasso)
vases
Bill Rebecca
$800 [9]
In summer 2013 shares of Pandora stock surged after Goldman Sachs did this to it from "neutral" to "buy"
upgrade
Rebecca
$1,000 [20]
(I'm Lewis Black.) My iPod includes the Stones, Stevie Wonder & this First Daughter of country music whose hits include "Seven Year Ache"
Rosanne Cash
$1,000 [15]
7 x (6 x 3) = (7 x 6) x 3 is an example of this law, meaning it doesn't matter which pair you multiply first
associative
Mike
$1,000 [5]
Making a reduction using this fruit that has hundreds of seeds? Not to worry, you can buy its juice from POM Wonderful
a pomegranate
Rebecca
$1,000 [25]
Truces between Israel & this group that runs Gaza & intends Israel's destruction are often called fragile
Hamas
Bill
$1,000 [10]
Hang gliders ride these rising currents of air to stay aloft
updrafts
Bill

Double Jeopardy! Round

A DAY ON THE BOAT LET IT SLIDE OSCAR MIRE "P"OETS ALBERTA ANAGRAM PAIRS
$400 [6]
It's the May 31, 1911 launch of this ship that displaces 52,000 tons; now, its fitting-out phase begins
the Titanic
Mike
$400 [18]
PowerPoint is often used to create this frame-by-frame presentation used by marketing & sales people
a slide show
Mike
$400 [2]
He had 5 nominations for Best Director, including in consecutive years for "Lifeboat" & "Spellbound"
Alfred Hitchcock
Bill
$400 [12]
"Enough Rope", the 1st collection by this Algonquin Round Table member, contained "Resume", her poem about suicide
(Dorothy) Parker
Bill Rebecca
$400 [25]
In 2013 75,000 people in this most populous Alberta city were evacuated due to flooding
Calgary
Mike
$400 [9]
A coffee cup to store your Juicy Fruit
gum mug
Mike
$800 [20]
It's Dec. 25, 1492 & this ship, Columbus' flagship, has run aground off Haiti & will be lost
the Santa Maria
Mike
$800 [19]
A beach park in Brazil is home to "Insano", at 135 feet the world's tallest freestanding one of these
a water slide
Bill
$800 [5]
"The Big Chill" is that she was nominated for 5 Oscars in the '80s: ...but no cigar
Glenn Close
Bill
$800 [13]
She wrote most of the poems in her collection "Ariel" in the winter of 1962 after Ted Hughes left
(Sylvia) Plath
Rebecca
$800 [17]
In a 2012 election, Albertans gave 17 seats to an upstart party named for this wild official provincial flower
the wild rose
$800 [1]
Stressed-out youngsters over the age of 12
tense teens
Bill
$1,200 [21]
It's Oct. 21, 1797 & Boston sees the launch of this ship; the copper sheathing on its bottom was made by Paul Revere
the Constitution
Bill
$1,200 [23]
The slider helped Sparky Lyle & Zack Greinke achieve success in this profession
(baseball) pitching
Rebecca
$1,200 [4]
He retired in 2012; final score, 0 wins in 8 nominations, including twice as the same king, in "Becket" & "The Lion in Winter"
Peter O'Toole
Bill
$1,200 [14]
His "The Rape of the Lock" poked fun at a quarrel between Arabella Fermor & a lord who had snipped a lock of the lady's hair
Pope
Mike
$1,200 [26]
One of Alberta's exports to the U.S. is this woman who wrote & sang "Big Yellow Taxi"
Joni Mitchell
Mike
$1,200 [7]
Someone who searches out a buddy or pal
friend finder
Mike
DD $2,000 [22]
It's Feb. 17, 1864; this sub has just sunk the Housatonic with its spar torpedo, but she's not looking so good herself
the Hunley
Bill
$2,000 [24]
In the 1500s a sliding column was added near the mouthpiece of this instrument to adjust the pitch; it's still there
trombone
Bill Rebecca
$1,600 [3]
Loved by the ladies, he's been spurned by Oscar for playing a captain, a barber & a children's author
Johnny Depp
Bill
$2,000 [16]
On Easter Sunday 1341, this Italian was crowned poet laureate, the first to be named in Rome since antiquity
Petrarch
Bill Mike
$1,600 [27]
Alberta wildlife includes a vole named for this type of landscape; Alberta is called the same type of province
a prairie
Bill
$1,600 [8]
To pointlessly use up perspiration
waste sweat
Bill
$2,000 [11]
This female producer with an alliterative name has 7 nominations from "E.T." to "War Horse"
Kathleen Kennedy
DD $2,500 [15]
This Imagist became immersed in Fascist politics while living in Italy
(Ezra) Pound
Mike
$2,000 [10]
Seat for the queen in a hive of a type of wasp
hornet throne
Mike

Final Jeopardy!

ART IN THE U.S. CAPITOL

Members of the Hungarian, Swedish & Israeli parliaments spoke when a bust of this foreign diplomat was unveiled

Raoul Wallenberg

Rebecca "Who is Weisel" — wagered $3,300
Mike "Who is Kissinger?" — wagered $8,899
Bill "Who is Desrali?" — wagered $12,300

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