Show #6699 2013-10-31 (taped 2013-09-16) Regular

Contestants

Jermaine Jones — a program manager from Brooklyn, New York

Rhea Hantelman — an administrative assistant from Marysville, Washington

Jennifer Spirko — a public librarian from Maryville, Tennessee (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jennifer $1,600 $5,600 $5,600 $100
3rd place: $1,000
$5,600
16 R, 2 W
Rhea $1,600 $2,400 $26,000 $25,000
New champion: $25,000
$26,200
25 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Jermaine $3,800 $6,000 $7,400 $4,800
2nd place: $2,000
$10,400
12 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

STATE YOUR BUSINESS THE WORLD OF DR. SEUSS A TREASURE TROVE ABBREVIATED VIDEO GAME TITLES WORDPLAY GRAB BAG INDEPENDENCE SEAPORT MUSEUM
$200 [2]
General Motors
Michigan
Jennifer
$200 [1]
He stole Christmas but then gave it back
the Grinch
Jermaine
$200 [16]
A solid-gold funeral mask was featured in the 1970s traveling exhibit "Treasures of" this king
Tutankhamun
Rhea
$200 [21]
Oh, wow, "W.O.W." stands for this bestselling multiplayer game
World of Warcraft
Jennifer
$200 [11]
"K" rations: it projects from the bottom of a boat's hull to give stability
keel
Rhea
$200 [26]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, PA.) Launched in 1892, the Olympiasoon sailed to the Pacific, where she fought at Manila Bay, the first battle of this war, of which Olympia is the last surviving ship
the Spanish-American War
Jennifer
$400 [7]
Apple Inc.
California
Jennifer Jermaine
$400 [3]
Can you name him? Yes you can, this main character in "Green Eggs & Ham"
Sam-I-Am
Jennifer
$400 [17]
The wealth of gold & silver in its mountains earned it the nickname "The Treasure State"
Montana
Jennifer Rhea
$400 [22]
We'll need to enlist your knowledge of "C.O.D.". this action game series
Call of Duty
Jennifer
$400 [12]
Crossword clues:complain, complain, complain, G _ I _ _
gripe
Jermaine
$400 [27]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, PA.) Celebrated as America's first sculptor, William Rush of Philadelphia was renowned for his ship carvings and figureheads, like this one, which represents this, symbolized by thedovein her hand
peace
Jennifer
$600 [8]
Wal-Mart
Arkansas
Rhea
$600 [4]
Mack, who dethrones King Yertle with a burp, is this kind of animal
turtle
Rhea
$600 [18]
John Huston & Walter Huston both won Oscars for this film
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Jermaine
$600 [23]
"S.L." is this game where you can virtually build a whole other existence
Second Life
Jennifer
$600 [13]
10-letter words: self-denial of alcohol or sex
abstinence
Jennifer Jermaine
$600 [28]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, PA.) Here, in a painting attributed to Richard Paton, is the famous navalduelbetween Britain's Serapis & the Bonhomme Richard, captained to victory by this father of the American Navy
John Paul Jones
Jermaine
DD $600 [9]
Delta Air Lines
Georgia
Rhea
$800 [5]
Title number of hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
500
$800 [19]
In legend, Siegfried captured the treasure of the Nibelungen, a race of these beings
dwarves
$800 [24]
You can be a troll, an elf, or whatever suits your fantasy when playing this popular game from Sony, abbreviated "E.Q."
EverQuest
Jennifer
$800 [14]
Add a letter:take a contract renting property to another & add a letter to get this polite word
please
Rhea
$800 [29]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, PA.) Voyages became safer with the invention of this device that accurately determines longitude; its name is from the Greek for "time measure"
chronometer
Jennifer
$1,000 [10]
Anheuser-Busch
Missouri
Jermaine
$1,000 [6]
Real last name of the good Doctor
Geisel
Jermaine
$1,000 [20]
The Louvre is home to some of the world's great art treasures, including this armless statue of Aphrodite
Venus de Milo
Rhea
$1,000 [25]
The "III" version of "A.C.", this game, takes place in part in 1775 Colonial America
Assassin's Creed
Jennifer
$1,000 [15]
In the dictionary:pertaining to creatures without a backbone
invertebrate
Jermaine
$1,000 [30]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, PA.) During World War II, the Becunareceived four battle stars for her service in the Pacific and as the submarine flagship of this legendary commander
(Douglas) MacArthur
Jermaine

Double Jeopardy! Round

GONE WITH THE WIND "RET-" BUTLER PARTING WORDS FRANKLY, MY DEAR WE GIVE A DAM
$400 [2]
Mark Twain composed on a Remington one of these, rarely seen around the office anymore
a typewriter
Rhea
$400 [1]
Vengeful repayment
retribution
Jennifer
$400 [7]
Carson, the butler on this TV show, said, "Keeping up standards is the only way to show the Germans... they will not beat us"
Downton Abbey
Jennifer
$400 [12]
To make trivial distinctions is to do this to "hairs"
split
Jennifer
$400 [17]
Richard Steele once wrote, "A woman seldom writes her mind but in her" this, abbreviated P.S.
postscript
Rhea
$400 [22]
The authorities are so proud of the Krasnoyarsk Dam in this country that it's featured on the 10-ruble bill
Russia
Rhea
$800 [27]
He's the character in "Gone with the Wind" whose world is truly gone with the wind: "winnowed out", as Rhett says
Ashley Wilkes
Jennifer
$800 [3]
This adjective coined in the 20th century means exemplifying an earlier time's styles
retro
Rhea
$800 [8]
On TV 6'9" Ted Cassidy played this "Addams Family" butler
Lurch
Rhea
$800 [13]
The discontinuity named for Andrija Mohorovicic, a seismologist, is where Earth's crust ends & this layer below starts
mantle
Rhea
$800 [18]
P.J. O'Rourke said this -ism was "the result of... women letting the cat out of the bag about which is the superior sex"
feminism
Rhea
$800 [23]
When the reservoir behind Switzerland's Verzasca Dam was filled in 1965, tremors were felt in these mtns.
the Alps
Jermaine
$1,200 [28]
In the late 1970s Philips introduced this home video disc that, alas, couldn't record
LaserDisc
$1,200 [4]
Prudential's "Day One Stories" are about the first day of this--get out the fishing pole
retirement
Rhea
$1,200 [9]
"Some men just want to watch the world burn", says this butler in a 2008 film
Alfred
$1,200 [14]
A break in a friendship, or a tear in an organ, often the appendix
rupture
Rhea
$1,200 [19]
"The female of the species is more deadly than the male", wrote this Bombay-born British poet
Kipling
Rhea
$1,200 [24]
Name in common to a "low" dam (completed in 1902) & a "high" dam (1970) built to control the Nile's annual floods
Aswan
Rhea
$1,600 [29]
Akin to a manatee, the Steller's sea this reached 30 feet & 20,000 lbs.; it was extinct within 30 years of its 1741 discovery
cow
Rhea
$1,600 [5]
Having a netlike appearance; you may have heard of the python
reticulated
Rhea
$1,600 [10]
The name of this butler to Frank-N-Furter in "Rocky Horror" sounds like he's one of the lowest class of people
Riff-Raff
Rhea
$1,600 [15]
Failed chromosomal disjunction can lead to trisomy 21, aka this syndrome causing cognitive issues
Down syndrome
Rhea
$1,600 [20]
In 1888 this German philosopher wrote, "Woman was God's second mistake"
Nietzsche
Jermaine
DD $2,000 [25]
Originally named the Karababa, a dam on the Upper Euphrates was renamed this to honor the founder of modern Turkey
Kemal Atatürk
Rhea
$2,000 [30]
This liberal radio network with the name of a Mel Gibson-Robert Downey Jr. film lasted from 2004 to 2010
Air America
Rhea
$2,000 [6]
A body of retainers who wait upon someone important
a retinue
Jermaine
$2,000 [11]
"The Third" incarnation of this "colorful snake" finds Rowan Atkinson playing butler to Prince George
Blackadder
Rhea
$2,000 [16]
In geometry, it's any line that cuts an angle into 2 equal parts
bisector
Jennifer
DD $3,000 [21]
This ancient playwright's "Lysistrata" contains the line "can't live with them, or without them!"
Aristophanes
Jermaine
$2,000 [26]
Woody Guthrie wrote the song "Roll On Columbia" in praise of this "Grand" dam
the Grand Coulee
Rhea

Final Jeopardy!

THE TUDORS

"Alone in prison strong / I wail my destiny" & "let pass my weary, guiltless ghost" are lines from a poem attributed to her

Anne Boleyn

Jennifer "Who was Elizabeth I ?" — wagered $5,500
Jermaine "Who is Mary Queen of Scots?" — wagered $2,600
Rhea "Who isMaryMary Queen of Scots?" — wagered $1,000

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