Show #6717 2013-11-26 (taped 2013-09-24) Regular

Rani Peffer game 6.

Contestants

Janel Stogdill — a homeschool mom from Valrico, Florida

Mike Nickel — a social worker from St. Louis, Missouri

Rani Peffer — a corporate finance manager from Crittenden, Kentucky (whose 5-day cash winnings total $68,701)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Rani $2,600 $6,200 $14,600 $1
2nd place: $2,000
$14,600
20 R, 2 W
Mike $1,600 $1,300 $20,200 $29,210
New champion: $29,210
$20,000
22 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Janel $2,000 $3,000 $-1,800 $-1,800
3rd place: $1,000
$-1,800
7 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

LITERATURA EN ESPAÑOL DOOHICKEYS TOMB SERVICE FOOD WORDS CREATED IN THE AMERICAS OUT OF WHAT? CINDERELLA ON BROADWAY
$200 [13]
A Dickens classic:"Grandes Esperanzas"
Great Expectations
Rani
$200 [10]
Also one of the senses, it's that little metal notch on a rifle barrel that helps you aim
sight
Janel
$200 [21]
He died in 1924 & is entombed in Red Square; an electric pump was inserted in his body to maintain constant humidity
Lenin
Rani
$200 [7]
Avocado is from the Nahuatl, as is this dip made with avocado, tomato, onion & spices
guacamole
Janel
$200 [1]
An attorney not following court rules, or what a broken vending machine is
out of order
Rani
$200 [5]
(The star of Cinderella, Laura Osnes, gives us the clue from the New York Broadway Theatre.) In costumes by William Ivey Long, I'm magically transformed from apoor servant girlto aprincessready for the ball; however, the magic all wears off at this hour
midnight
Mike
$400 [14]
A classic:"La Letra Escarlata"
The Scarlet Letter
Janel
$400 [12]
The raised connector for the positive side of a car battery
the terminal (or the cathode)
$400 [22]
(CNN correspondent Sumnima Udas delivers the clue.) Completed in 1570, Delhi's Humayun tomb inspired design of this other example of Mughal architecture built in Agra in the next century
the Taj Mahal
Rani
$400 [8]
This nut from the state tree of Texas is a Southern pie staple
pecan
Janel
$400 [2]
"Out of" this sense means unhip or no longer in contact with
out of touch
Mike
$400 [11]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew gives us the clue from the Broadway Theatre in New York.) After making her dramatic Act II entrance, this magical character sings the motivational "There's Music In You"
the fairy godmother
Rani
$600 [15]
Yo ho ho:"La Isla del Tesoro"
Treasure Island
Rani
$600 [18]
Those ridges on a bolt that a nut screws onto
threads
Mike
$600 [23]
This wall-building emperor's cylindrical tomb in Rome later served as a fortress & is now a museum
Hadrian
Mike
$600 [9]
5-letter word for meat in strips that has been preserved by drying
jerky
Rani
$600 [3]
If you're "out of breath" you may also be "out of" this; if you're angry you're "bent" out of this
shape
Rani
$600 [27]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives us the clue from the horse-drawn carriage on the set of Cinderellain the Broadway Theatre in New York.) Cinderella makes her way to the ball in a carriage pulled by 4 white horses that used to be these creatures
mice
Rani
$800 [16]
Be Wells-read:"La Maquina del Tiempo"
The Time Machine
Rani
$800 [26]
The 3-letter mouthpiece of a horse's bridle
the bit
Rani
$1,000 [25]
This mausoleum with 150-foot ceilings stands in Riverside Park in Manhattan
Grant's Tomb
Mike
$800 [19]
It's a type of pepper, or the dish of the pepper ground with chopped onion, bell pepper, kidney beans & tomatoes
chili
$800 [4]
Clothing phrase for a cash expenditure that wasn't in the budget
out of pocket
Janel
$800 [28]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us several costumes backstage at the Broadway Theatre in New York.) Some of the Tony Award-winning costumes in "Cinderella" were inspired by the gowns of this Medici woman, the mother of 3 kings
Catherine de Medici
Rani
$1,000 [17]
Beloved by girls:"Mujercitas"
Little Women
Janel
$1,000 [30]
That "CE" key on calculators... what's it stand for again?
clear entry
Rani Mike
DD $1,500 [24]
This writer's tomb in Amiens, France was featured on the masthead of Amazing Stories magazine for many years
Jules Verne
Mike
$1,000 [20]
When it means "to flatten", it's from the French; when it's a fruit that's in the gourd family, it's from the Narragansett
squash
Rani
$1,000 [6]
Unacceptable, or no longer in the queue
out of line
Mike
$1,000 [29]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew strolls through the set of Cinderellain the Broadway Theatre in New York.) While Broadway's "Cinderella" has a clever & witty new book by Douglas Carter Beane, he drew on the original story by this French fairy tale author
Charles Perrault

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR SCIENCE NEWS '80s ONE-HIT WONDERS 4-SYLLABLE WORDS DRIVING IN EUROPE THE "VILLE" OF THE PEOPLE
$400 [6]
The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French & Indian War as well as this larger global conflict
the Seven Years War
Rani Mike
$400 [18]
In 2013 the Supreme Court ruled that human ones can't be patented, though synthetic versions can
genes
Mike
$400 [1]
This actor in 1987, doing a little moonlighting with "Respect Yourself"
Bruce Willis
Mike
$400 [12]
The games or series of games that get 4 competitors down to the last 2
semifinals
Mike
$400 [11]
The post-WWII revival of the German auto industry centered on this "people's car"
the Volkswagen
Rani
$1,200 [27]
Established in 1960, the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center helped stimulate the growth of this Alabama city
Huntsville
Rani
$800 [7]
The British won the 1759 battle for this Canadian city & protected it from recapture 7 months later
Quebec
Mike
$800 [19]
This ability, in which humans (notably named Seaver & Elway) excel, helped our hunting & thus our evolution
throwing (passing)
Mike
$800 [2]
Lipps, Inc. in 1980, asking, "Won't you take me to..."
"Funkytown"
Mike
$800 [14]
Since cars first met wet roads, drivers have had problems with loss of control due to this event, as seen here
hydroplaning
Mike
$800 [13]
This maker of the A6 bears the Latin translation of the founder's name
Audi
Rani
$1,600 [25]
The site of a World's Fair, this city serves as a gateway to Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Knoxville
Rani
$1,600 [9]
In the 1750s the British expelled most of these French peasants from the maritime provinces
the Acadians
Mike
$1,200 [20]
The X-ray type of this beam is advancing medical imaging, like modeling an enzyme that counteracts sleeping sickness
a laser beam
Mike
$1,200 [3]
Toni Basil in 1982, with her song about this fine guy who blew her mind
Mickey
Rani
$1,200 [23]
Term coined in the early '60s for a 2-piece bathing suit with the top piece missing
monokini
$1,200 [15]
In 1959 the cars of this Swedish company were the first to make a 3-point safety belt standard
Volvo
Mike Janel
$2,000 [26]
This city that's home to the main campus of the U. of Arkansas was occupied by Union troops during the Civil War
Fayetteville
Janel
DD $2,000 [8]
In 1758 the British captured Fort Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, thus gaining access to this vital river
the St. Lawrence
Mike
$1,600 [21]
A newly discovered body part, Dua's layer is in this part of the eye that along with the lens does the focusing
the cornea
Rani Janel
$1,600 [4]
Vangelis, with his theme from this movie
Chariots of Fire
Mike
$1,600 [28]
The artwork seenheredepicts this of St. Jerome
flagellation
Mike
$2,000 [17]
In Germany the fastest road is an Autobahn; in Italy it's this toll road also starting with "auto"
the autostrada
$2,000 [10]
This Indian confederacy that controlled Upstate New York sided with the British
the Iroquois
Mike
$2,000 [22]
The scarily named "antimatter gun" fires bursts of these particles sometimes called antielectrons
positrons
Rani Janel
$2,000 [5]
This actor, then starring as Frisco on "General Hospital", with "All I Need"
Jack Wagner
Mike
$2,000 [24]
This word for intricate or complicated literally means "having overlapping folds"
convoluted
Janel
DD $2,500 [16]
This little 1959 car was built because of the Suez fuel crisis; a British race car driver soon put his own stamp on it
the Mini (Cooper)
Mike

Final Jeopardy!

AUTHORS

An international airport in Jamaica is named for this author who set many of his stories of the 1950s & 1960s there

Ian Fleming

Rani "Who is Kerouac?" — wagered $14,599
Mike "Who is Ian Fleming" — wagered $9,010

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