Show #6719 2013-11-28 (taped 2013-09-24) Regular

Contestants

Steven Durham — a writer and stay-at-home dad from Asheville, North Carolina

Whitney Magendie — a public health program coordinator from New Orleans, Louisiana

John Kyle Grady — a substitute teacher originally from Hyde Park, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
John $4,400 $3,400 $12,100 $2,599
2nd place: $2,000
$15,600
23 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Whitney $0 $600 $1,800 $1,800
3rd place: $1,000
$1,800
9 R, 6 W
Steven $1,400 $3,400 $10,800 $18,800
New champion: $18,800
$9,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

CAN I GET A NUMBER? ANCIENT GREEKS "V"ERBS SHOW BIZ STUPID ANSWERS FEAT OF CLAY
$200 [14]
It's the base of our number system
10
John Steven
$200 [11]
This blind Greek's epic poems furnished plots for tragic dramatists like Euripides
Homer
Steven
$200 [2]
To compete for something, like a prize
vie
John
$200 [1]
Julie Chen & Sara Gilbert give their view as 2 of the co-hosts of this talk show
The Talk
John Whitney
$200 [21]
In the 1930s the engineers of the Bay Bridge linking these 2 cities sank supports hundreds of feet to reach the bedrock
San Francisco & Oakland
Steven
$200 [26]
Of the 4 Grand Slam tennis tournaments, it's the one played on clay
the French Open
John
$400 [17]
This number when spelled out has the same number of letters as its value
4
Whitney
$400 [12]
Alexander the Great's tutelage under this Greek ended in 336 B.C. after the assassination of Alexander's dad
Aristotle
John
$400 [3]
To express an emotion, or to relieve building pressure
vent
John
$400 [7]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Tennessee.) Nashville's Bluebird Cafe is featured on this TV drama, starring Connie Britton & Hayden Panettiere
Nashville
Whitney
$400 [22]
Messner & Habeler proved to the world in 1978 that they could climb Mount Everest without supplemental this
oxygen
Steven
$400 [27]
We hope you know in mythology, Hephaestus molded this "all gifts" woman out of clay; no word on the box
Pandora
Whitney
$600 [18]
The Baskin-Robbins logo introduced in 1953 included this number
31
John
$600 [13]
This 200s B.C. man demonstrated 467 propositions of plane & solid geometry from axioms & postulates
Euclid
Steven
$600 [4]
To treat with sulfur & heat, thereby strengthening
vulcanize
John
$600 [8]
"The Cleveland Show", which follows a guy named Cleveland Brown & his family, was spun off from this series
Family Guy
Whitney
$600 [23]
Muhammad's booty from the Battle of Badr, Dhu al-Faqar was a magical 2-bladed type of this deadly weapon
a sword
Whitney
$600 [28]
A 2006 Oscar went to a film starring this claymation pair, an inventor & his faithful dog
Wallace & Gromit
Steven
$800 [19]
Revelation 13 declares it "the number of the beast"
666
Steven
$1,000 [16]
This "Oresteia" man was the first to use 2 actors in a tragedy to create dialogue, instead of having one just play to the chorus
Aeschylus
John
$800 [5]
To clear of suspicion
vindicate
John Whitney
$800 [9]
This film popular at Christmas was based on more than one story by Jean Shepherd
A Christmas Story
Steven
$800 [24]
In 1943 Norwegian commandos set back the Nazi atom program by destroying a 4-month supply of this liquid
heavy water (deuterium oxide)
John Whitney
$1,000 [20]
212 is the area code for the Empire State Building; this is the area code for the White House
202
John
DD $3,000 [15]
"Life of" this Greek, by the Roman physician Soranus, was published around 100 A.D.
Hippocrates
John
$1,000 [6]
To defeat in battle
vanquish
John
$1,000 [10]
In 1933 Will Rogers & Janet Gaynor starred in a non-musical version of this film set at the Iowa state fair
State Fair
John
$1,000 [25]
Floyd Bennett won a Medal of Honor for piloting himself & this explorer over the North Pole in 1926
Admiral Byrd

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE COUNTIES OF IRELAND COMPUTER TERMS NATIONAL ATHLETES AWED WORDS THAT AUTHOR'S MIXED UP! THE BARNES FOUNDATION
$400 [21]
In some areas of Donegal County's west coast, this Irish tongue is the spoken first language, not English
Gaelic
John
$400 [16]
To describe how you move objects between icons on a desktop, this word is paired with "drop"
drag
Whitney
$400 [6]
Golf's Ernie Els
South Africa
John
$400 [11]
That was simply this awe-inspiring adjective often paired with "the ridiculous"
sublime
Whitney
$400 [1]
A "miserable(s)" author:TOUCH VIGOR
Victor Hugo
Steven
DD $300 [27]
(Alex presents the clue from the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, PA.) "Haere Pape", the inscription on "Beach Scene", roughly means "she goes down to the fresh water", but a literal translation is rather difficult, which indicatesthat this artist had a rather quirky grasp of the local language
(Paul) Gauguin
John
$800 [22]
Each July pilgrims climb Ireland's holy mountain Croagh Patrick, in this county that sounds like a sandwich spread
Mayo
John
$800 [17]
If we're talking Ni Cads, we're talking about these in laptops
batteries
Steven
$800 [7]
Baseball's Yasiel Puig
Cuba
John Steven
$800 [12]
This title for Christian ministers such as Ike is also an adjective meaning "deserving respect"
reverend
Steven
$800 [2]
Far from the "Twilight" of her career:EERIEST MEN HYPE
Stephenie Meyer
Whitney
$400 [26]
(Alex presents the clue from the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, PA.) For "The Dance", this artist pinned paper cutouts to the canvas; now, this made it much easier to make changes to the mural, but it also gave him a working method that he used to great acclaim later in his career
Matisse
John
$1,200 [23]
From Piccadilly & Leicester square, "it's a long way to" this largest inland Irish county
Tipperary
John
$1,600 [19]
Actors might memorize these rectangles that appear onscreen to present information, then vanish
dialog boxes
John
$1,200 [8]
Figure skating's Elvis Stojko
Canada
Whitney
$1,200 [13]
As part of my sense of awe, I feel this 5-letter synonym for deep fear
dread
John
$1,200 [3]
Oh, the courtroom drama:HORNS JAG HIM
John Grisham
Steven
$1,200 [28]
(Alex presents the clue from the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, PA.)Pointillismmay seem like a novelty, but it's really a scientific use of colored dots to create an overall image; your computer monitor & your television screen work the same way, so in the 1880s, this artist was years ahead of his time
Seurat
John
$1,600 [24]
This largest Irish county in area is home to Doneraile National Park & Blarney Castle
Cork
John
$2,000 [20]
The "RW" in DVD-RW is for this adjective, meaning users can erase what's on the DVD & put new stuff on it
rewritable
Steven
$1,600 [9]
Soccer's Cristiano Ronaldo
Portugal
Whitney
$1,600 [14]
I kneel before this Broadway theatre where "The Phantom of the Opera" has been playing since 1988
the Majestic
$1,600 [4]
A bit of Danish in Africa:I SNEAKED SIN
Isak Dinesen
$2,000 [25]
The lakes of Killarney & Dingle Peninsula make this SW county one of Ireland's most popular tourist destinations
Kerry
John
DD $3,000 [18]
OS can stand for operating system or this movement to make operating systems & other programs freely available
open source
Steven
$2,000 [10]
Cricket's Imran Khan
Pakistan
Whitney
$2,000 [15]
The Latin mirabilis gave us this word for something awesome or what we do "at" it
marvel
Whitney
$2,000 [5]
Rely on this American poet:PERSON WHOM ALL READ
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY NAMES

In 1942 Winston Churchill said, "I can handle this peasant"; historians aren't sure things turned out that way

Joseph Stalin

Whitney "Who is Adolf Hitler?" — wagered $0
Steven "Who is Stalin" — wagered $8,000
John "Who is Hitler?" — wagered $9,501

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