Show #6696 2013-10-28 (taped 2013-09-16) Regular

Contestants

Gus Iurillo — a business ownership coach from Glen Allen, Virginia

Molly Kossoff — a beauty-industry magazine editor from West Hills, California

Mike Shapiro — an actuary from Denver, Colorado (whose 2-day cash winnings total $24,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mike $600 $2,000 $11,000 $1,000
3rd place: $1,000
$11,200
11 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Molly $4,600 $5,000 $16,200 $11,100
New champion: $11,100
$18,200
28 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Gus $0 $1,000 $7,000 $5,500
2nd place: $2,000
$7,000
9 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY LITERARY DECADES ANOTHER JACKSON 5 IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS FORWARDS & BACKWORDS THINGS TO DO TODAY WICKED
$200 [11]
"The Crucible" &"On the Road"
the 1950s
Molly
$200 [16]
In 1987 Lisa Jackson took a job with this govt. agency & oversaw Superfund industrial cleanup sites; in 2009 she became its leader
the EPA
Gus
$200 [21]
Its main campus lies along the Charles River
Harvard
Molly
$200 [1]
Married &nightly condensation
wed & dew
Molly
$200 [23]
Send that check to charity; this guy & his wife Melinda's foundation has granted $26 billion
Bill Gates
Gus
$200 [6]
I'm Elphaba--"Wicked" is based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel subtitled "The Life & Times of" this character
the Wicked Witch of the West
Molly
$400 [12]
"Carrie" &"Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders"
the 1970s
Molly
$400 [17]
In the spring of 1862, you did not want to be a Union commander up against this major general in the Shenandoah Valley
Stonewall Jackson
Mike
$800 [22]
It's home to the Lauder Institute of Management & the Wharton School of Business
Penn (the University of Pennsylvania)
Mike
$400 [7]
Ignore someone at a party &hot dog holders
buns & snub
Mike
$400 [24]
Make a dent in this 1,400-page Tolstoy novel, issued in complete form in 1869
War and Peace
Molly
$400 [5]
They call me "Wonderful" in the show & give me credit for the idea of building a wonderful road of yellow brick & a town of this color
emerald (green)
Molly
$600 [13]
"All Quiet on the Western Front" &"This Side of Paradise"
the '20s
Gus
$600 [18]
From 1990-1996, heserved as a nonvoting member of the U.S. Senate from the District of Columbia
Jesse Jackson
Molly
$600 [8]
Tough blue fabric &extracted ore
denim & mined
Molly
$600 [25]
Pick up more of these for that roofing job--I'll need cedar ones in the 24-inch "royal" length to match
cedar shingles
$600 [2]
My name is Madame Morribile& "weather is my specialty", which creates a huge plot twist when I conjure up this weather phenomenon
the tornado
Molly
$800 [14]
"Valley of the Dolls" &"Silent Spring"
the 1960s
Molly
$1,000 [20]
This artist started to move from representation to abstraction after a 1938 nervous breakdown
Jackson Pollock
Gus
$800 [9]
"Pale" beer type &kingly
lager & regal
Mike Molly
$800 [26]
Whip up a 7-course meal, including this expensive, boneless, 2-word cut of beef from the small end of the tenderloin
filet mignon
Mike Molly
$800 [3]
I, Galinda, try to teach my less fortunate college roommate Elphaba to be more like me in this show-stopping number"Follow my lead /And, yes, indeed /You /Will /Be..."
"Popular"
Molly
$1,000 [15]
"The Good Earth" &"It Can't Happen Here"
the 1930s
Mike Molly Gus
DD $2,000 [19]
Maynard Jackson was mayor of fhis city, & one of the USA's busiest airports now bears his name
Atlanta
Molly
$1,000 [10]
After-dinner treats &emotionally strained
desserts & stressed
Mike
$1,000 [4]
Fiyerohere--I've been the love interest of both Elphaba & Galinda for 10 years, since the show opened on Broadway in 2003, the night before this holiday (fitting for a show about 2 witches)
Halloween
Molly

Double Jeopardy! Round

HOUSE HUNTERS INTERGALACTIC ANTHONY HOPKINS MOVIES BY ROLE IT'S IN THE "CAN" MIDDLE AGE MEN ARE YOU GONNA EAT THAT? POTPOURRI
$400 [22]
This ex-planet's average distance of 3.7 billion miles from Earth could pose commuting problems
Pluto
Molly
$400 [1]
Professor Van Helsing(1992)
Dracula
Molly
$400 [12]
A soldier carries water in it
a canteen
Molly
$400 [6]
In the 1280s this Venetian served as an official for Kublai Khan in the city of Yangzhou
Marco Polo
Gus
$400 [18]
These, even if you call them escargots, their French name--non
snails
Molly
$400 [30]
John McCain says he has to translate this friend & fellow senator's Southern accent into English
Lindsey Graham
Gus
$800 [29]
You might want to wish upon Proxima this, a star only 4.2 light-years from our sun
Centauri
Molly
$800 [2]
Odin(2011)
Thor
Molly
$800 [11]
This postal marking or perforation on a stamp indicates that it's been used
cancellation
$800 [7]
This poet had mooned over Beatrice Portinari for 9 years before she even spoke to him in 1283
Dante
Molly
$800 [19]
This generic 4-letter variety of seaweed, kombu in Japanese--no
kelp
Molly
$800 [21]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The 4 great rivers of Africa are the Niger, the Nile, the Zambezi &this one that lends its name to 2 countries in its basin
the Congo
Mike
$1,200 [28]
Not many are looking to settle in Valles Marineris, canyons discovered on this planet by Mariner 9 in 1971
Mars
Molly
$1,200 [3]
Defense lawyer John Quincy Adams(1997)
Amistad
Mike
$1,200 [8]
In "Moby Dick", Melville wrote, "better sleep with a sober" one of these flesh-eaters "than a drunken Christian"
a cannibal
Molly
$1,600 [16]
In 1057 he was killed in battle at Lumphanan in Aberdeenshire, not at Dunsinane Castle
Macbeth
Mike
$1,200 [13]
This, Foeniculum vulgare, looking sort of like celery & tasting like licorice--no!
fennel
Molly
$1,200 [23]
A century-old Silver Ghost from this British car company sold for $7.1 million in 2012
Rolls Royce
Molly
$1,600 [27]
If you have your heart set on this 2-letter moon of Jupiter, pack a coat; temperatures get below -225 degrees
Io
Molly
$1,600 [4]
Butler James Stevens(1993)
The Remains of the Day
Gus
$1,600 [9]
In a 1972 hit, Sammy Davis Jr. told us that he could "take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew"
the Candy Man
Molly
$2,000 [17]
At the battle for Jaffa in 1192, Richard the Lionheart's mount was killed, so this Muslim foe sent him 2 to replace it
Saladin
Gus
$1,600 [14]
Also known as the velvet stem, the enoki type of this--yes
a mushroom
Mike
$1,600 [24]
Like the one in your nose, this dividing membrane between 2 halves takes its name from the Latin for "fence"
septum
Gus
DD $5,000 [26]
Want land? Buying on this moon of Saturn is a no-brainer: its 3,200-mile diameter is bigger than Mercury!
Titan
Mike
$2,000 [5]
Mad genius Bailey(a 2013 sequel)
RED 2
$2,000 [10]
In Catholicism this part of the mass begins after the preface & sanctus & ends just before the Lord's prayer
the canon
DD $3,200 [15]
Al-Razi gave the first description of acquired immunitv in a discussion of this disease that disfigured & killed
smallpox
Mike
$2,000 [20]
The comice type of this fruit--yes, with good cheese
a pear
$2,000 [25]
In 2013 Detroit became the largest U.S. city ever to take this undesirable step
declaring bankruptcy
Mike

Final Jeopardy!

LITERARY CHARACTERS

This 19th century character talks about his own writings about tattoo marks & on the tracing of footsteps

Sherlock Holmes

Gus "Who is Fagin" — wagered $1,500
Mike "Who is Fagen" — wagered $10,000
Molly "Who ??" — wagered $5,100

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