Show #6730 2013-12-13 (taped 2013-09-30) Regular

Contestants

Evan Struble — a librarian from Columbus, Ohio

Tiffany Gholar — an abstract painter from Chicago, Illinois

Woody Bell — an Air Force officer from Columbia, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,399)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Woody $1,600 $3,200 $8,000 $1
2nd place: $2,000
$8,000
12 R, 2 W
Tiffany $3,400 $2,800 $11,200 $6,399
New champion: $6,399
$13,600
17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Evan $1,600 $2,000 $4,800 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$7,600
14 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

INDIAN FIRSTS HEY, 4 Is! LANGUAGES BY ANY OTHER NAME 60 YEARS OF THE TV STATION ENJOY THE FLIGHT THE MOVIE IS COMPLIMENTARY
$200 [22]
The first Miss India to go on to win this title was Sushmita Sen in 1994
Miss Universe
Woody
$200 [7]
Anyone who thinks he's going to break up the United States needs to check out this word in the pledge of allegiance
indivisible
Woody
$200 [12]
Nederlands
Dutch
Tiffany
$200 [17]
1953 brought station WHP to this capital of Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Evan
$200 [1]
You must be 15 to sit in one of these rows
an exit row
Evan
$200 [2]
1977:"The Force is strong with this one"
Star Wars
Evan
$400 [23]
The first Indian Nobel Peace Prize winner was this Albania-born Indian citizen in 1979
Mother Teresa
Tiffany
$400 [8]
If you say "to boldly go", you've "split" this grammatical term
the infinitive
Evan
$400 [13]
Siamese
Thai
Woody
$400 [18]
Starting in 1953 you could watch TV on your mobile--I mean Mobile device on WALA in this state
Alabama
Evan
$400 [27]
Relax--by traveling more than 768 mph, giving us this type of distinctive speed, we will definitely be arriving on time
supersonic speed
$400 [3]
1967:"I think you're the most attractive of all my parents' friends"
The Graduate
Evan
$600 [24]
The first Indian one of these was the Aryabhata, launched on April 19, 1975
a satellite
Woody
$600 [9]
Inflammation of the gums
gingivitis
Tiffany
$600 [14]
Lettish
Latvian
$600 [19]
In the early '60s, Houston's KHOU had this Texan as its news director
Dan Rather
Tiffany
$600 [28]
The American Airlines inflight magazine, or one of the things fought for by Superman (& there he is at 25,000'!)
The American Way
Evan
$600 [4]
2008:"I've never wanted a human's blood so much"
Twilight
Evan
$800 [25]
The first Indian to achieve this exalted chess title was Viswanathan Anand in 1988
grand master
Woody
$800 [10]
The organization NORML advocates this 4-"I" process with marijuana
decriminalization
Evan
$800 [15]
Ellinika
Greek
Tiffany
$800 [20]
Diana Pierce anchors the news on KARE in this city a lot better than Ted Baxter did on fictional WJM
Minneapolis
Woody Tiffany Evan
$800 [29]
Take a nap--you're on the world's longest-distance nonstop flight, 8,500 miles from Sydney to DFW, this airport
Dallas/Fort Worth
Woody
$800 [5]
2010:"You are probably going to be a very successful computer person"
The Social Network
Tiffany
$1,000 [26]
Occult writer Aleister Crowley led the first team to try to summit this highest Indian peak, the world's third highest
Kangchenjunga
$1,000 [11]
One who enforces the rules in a strict manner is a stern this 14-letter word
disciplinarian
Woody
$1,000 [16]
Judeo-German
Yiddish
Tiffany
DD $2,400 [21]
In 1953, KLAS became the first TV station in this Western state
Nevada
Tiffany
$1,000 [30]
Your carry-on fits nicely in the device with this rhyming name; that means it'll fit in the overhead bin, so carry on
Size Wise
$1,000 [6]
1972:"He got a real pretty mouth, ain't he?"
Deliverance
Evan

Double Jeopardy! Round

MARSH MADNESS THEIR FIRST TOP 40 POP HIT SILVER A CASE OF WRITER'S BLOCK BEFORE & AFTER BEHIND EVERY GREAT MAN
$400 [20]
The Chinese Communists squelched through the Zoige Marsh on this 1930s trek
the Long March
$400 [5]
"You Give Good Love"(1985)
Whitney Houston
Tiffany
$400 [6]
Cervantes wrote in "Don Quixote" that "Every man was not born with" one of these "in his mouth"
a silver spoon
Woody
$400 [11]
She said, "'Chamber of Secrets', I really did have writer's block... about 5 weeks. & compared to some... what's 5 weeks?"
(J.K.) Rowling
Evan
$400 [25]
Nursery rhyme waterspout crawler who's a Marvel crime fighter
Itsy Bitsy Spider-Man
Evan
$400 [18]
Napoleon crosses the St. Bernard Pass, part of these mountains seen at the back
the Pennine Alps
Tiffany
$800 [21]
Pope Sixtus V died of this disease contracted at the Pontine Marshes, which he wanted to reclaim
malaria
Tiffany
$800 [4]
"Any Man Of Mine"(1995)
Shania Twain
Evan
$800 [7]
In 1963 the first $1 Federal Reserve note was issued; until then, most $1 bills were these
silver certificates
Tiffany
$800 [12]
In 1952 he hit it big with "Invisible Man"; he spent 40 years on novel No. 2 & did not complete the book by his 1994 death
Ralph Ellison
Tiffany
$800 [26]
A motion indicating a Christian symbol that also allows the other lawyer to discredit the witness
sign of the cross examination
Tiffany
$800 [19]
Here's Albert Einstein & co. in front of this type of facility on Mt. Wilson
an observatory
Tiffany
$1,200 [22]
What was once the Mideast's largest wetlands, mainly in this country, faced draining in the '90s & face drought today
Iraq
Woody
$1,200 [3]
"You Shook Me All Night Long"(1980)
AC/DC
Evan
$1,200 [8]
Most silent films have not survived because film stock made of this volatile compound decomposes easily
silver nitrate
Tiffany
$1,200 [13]
Hanging upside-down in gravity boots helps this "Da Vinci Code" author relax & defeat the block
Dan Brown
Evan
$1,200 [27]
Rope-pulling contest whose proceeds are set aside for a political campaign
tug-of-war chest
Tiffany
$2,000 [28]
Naturally, a piano is behind this Russian-American virtuoso known for retirements & comebacks
Vladimir Horowitz
Woody
$1,600 [23]
European armies always had to go around the Pripet Marshes, as in the USSR's invasion of this country in September 1939
Poland
Woody
$1,600 [2]
"Your Song"(1970)
Elton John
Evan
$1,600 [9]
Kenny Davis of the 1972 U.S. Olympic team in this sport forbade his heirs from ever accepting a silver medal
basketball
Tiffany
$1,600 [14]
"A whole year passed... O sorrow and shame... I have done nothing!" he managed to write; Albatross, meet neck
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
$1,600 [17]
Heavy-duty tool that can cut through crashed cars & Twain River memoirs
jaws of Life on the Mississippi
Woody
$2,000 [24]
New England's 20,000-acre Great Marsh is this type of marsh whose name reflects its irrigation by seawater
a salt marsh
$2,000 [1]
"Wonderful! Wonderful!"(1957)
Johnny Mathis
Tiffany
$2,000 [10]
This rainmaking process was developed at GE & originally was done with dry ice or silver iodide
cloud seeding
Woody
DD $2,800 [15]
A big-time block (& maybe a lot of partying) delayed "Answered Prayers" by this "non-fiction novelist"
Truman Capote
Evan
$2,000 [16]
Egyptian queen's obelisk that should be pretty easy to locate in that big clump of dried grass
Cleopatra's needle in a haystack

Final Jeopardy!

HEALTH & MEDICINE 2013

There's news of the first lab test for this 10-letter condition the NIH calls the leading cause of disability for Americans 15 to 44

depression

Evan "What is scoliosis" — wagered $4,799
Woody "What obesity" — wagered $7,999
Tiffany "What is -" — wagered $4,801

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