Show #6731 2013-12-16 (taped 2013-10-01) Regular

Contestants

Matthew Church — a medical student from Prince George, British Columbia, Canada

Betsy Foss — an English-as-a-second-language instructor from Ann Arbor, Michigan

Tiffany Gholar — an abstract painter from Chicago, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,399)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tiffany $2,200 $1,800 $11,400 $100
2nd place: $2,000
$10,600
12 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Betsy $1,600 $3,600 $9,800 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$8,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Matthew $6,200 $10,000 $24,000 $24,000
New champion: $24,000
$22,000
24 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

SECRET SERVICE CODE NAMES LAWYERING UP ON TV GORILLAS 1930s ENGINEERING FEATS THINGS THAT ARE ROUND TIME TO END IT "ALL"
$200 [16]
This vice president from Tenn. joked he was so dull, his code name was simply his name, but officially, he was "Sundance"
Al Gore
Betsy
$200 [1]
Julianna Margulies got out of TV nursing & into TV law as Alicia Florrick on this drama
The Good Wife
Tiffany
$200 [26]
A group of gorillas living together is called this, just like in Boy Scouts
a troop
Tiffany Betsy
$200 [11]
On opening day in 1937, the San Francisco Chronicle referred to it as a "35 million dollar steel harp"
the Golden Gate Bridge
Betsy
$200 [6]
The golden snitch is that round thing with wings Harry Potter et al. are trying to catch in this game
quidditch
Tiffany
$200 [21]
To plummet
to fall
Betsy
$400 [17]
The Secret Service also protects foreign dignitaries; "Halo" was this late man's code name
Pope John Paul II
Matthew
$400 [2]
Fighter pilot to navy lawyer was the career path for Harmon Rabb on this drama, for 10 years on 2 different networks
JAG
Matthew
$400 [27]
Koko.org is a conservation website named for a famous gorilla who communicates with humans using this language
American Sign Language
Betsy
$400 [12]
On May 1, 1931 the lights were turned on in this NYC skyscraper with the press of a button in the White House
the Empire State Building
Matthew
$400 [7]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue on a monitor.) In a tournament, if I play Jimmy, & Jimmy plays Kelly, & Kelly plays me, it's this kind of match arrangement
round-robin
Betsy
$400 [22]
To play for time
stall
Betsy
$600 [18]
Fittingly, Fraction is the Secret Service code name for this cabinet post
Secretary of Education
$600 [3]
Patty Hewes, played by her, went through 5 seasons of "Damages", including those done to her ethics
Glenn Close
Betsy
$600 [28]
Gorillas are mammals that belong to this scientific order that includes lemurs & marmosets
primates
Tiffany Matthew
$800 [14]
A highway completed in 1938 allowed one to drive from Miami to this southernmost city in the continental U.S.
Key West
Tiffany
$600 [8]
Sir Lucan & Sir Kay were both members of this fabled circle
the Round Table
Betsy
$600 [23]
To exclude or ostracize someone
blackball
Matthew
$800 [19]
This late Massachusetts senator was "Sunburn"; his mom, "Coppertone"
Ted Kennedy
Matthew
$800 [4]
Richard Fish, on this Calista Flockhart show: "Objection, your honor! This is boring"
Ally McBeal
Matthew
$800 [29]
Captured in 1966, Snowflake was the only gorilla ever discovered of this type; his skin was unable to produce pigment
albino
Matthew
$1,000 [15]
Between 1937 & 1939 NYC's North Beach Airport was enlarged, becoming what's now this airport
LaGuardia
Betsy Matthew
$800 [9]
It's the rhyming alternate name for the pill bug seen here
a roly poly
Betsy
$800 [24]
It's home to the sclera
the eyeball
Matthew
$1,000 [20]
Sarah Palin was assigned this code name, the native name of the tallest mountain in her state
Denali
Matthew
$1,000 [5]
This man played both law (a sage small-town sheriff) & order (wily lawyer Ben Matlock)
Andy Griffith
Tiffany
$1,000 [30]
Actually done with cupped hands, this often-imitated male gorilla action is part of a 9-step series that begins with hooting
chest-beating
Betsy
DD $2,600 [13]
This massive project was the first in North America to contain more masonry than the Great Pyramid at Giza
the Hoover Dam
Matthew
$1,000 [10]
On Wall Street an order of under 100 shares is an "odd" one of these; 100 shares or a multiple is a "round" one
a lot
Matthew
$1,000 [25]
To become uninteresting through familiarity
pall

Double Jeopardy! Round

POETIC WOMEN A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH" BITTER LET'S ROCK! FLORENCE THE MACHINE
$400 [2]
The Nancy in this Scot's "A Fond Kiss" was Agnes McLehose
Robert Burns
Tiffany
$400 [7]
Bread, as the mainstay of the human diet, is known as this
the staff of life
Betsy
$400 [6]
Maror is Hebrew for the bitter herb eaten at the Seder meal on this Jewish holiday
Passover
Matthew
$400 [16]
LMFAO:"____ Rock Anthem"
Party
Matthew
$400 [26]
Florence is the capital of Florence province & this region known for its Chianti wine & leghorn hats
Tuscany
$400 [21]
In 1922 Maytag introduced the agitator for moving water around in the drum in one of these
a washing machine
Matthew
$800 [3]
Richard Lovelace's poem "To Althea: From Prison" says, "stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars" one of these
a cage
Tiffany
$800 [8]
A source of rescue in a crisis; phone a friend is one example
a lifeline
Betsy
$800 [12]
A bittersweet cherry liqueur is called this, the same as a specially treated cherry
a maraschino
Matthew
$800 [17]
Gary Glitter:"Rock And Roll ____ ____"
Part 2
Matthew
$800 [27]
In 1494 this ruling family was driven out of Florence; in 1512 they came back
the Medici
Betsy
$800 [22]
Created in 1897, the first one used gunpowder; some today use compressed air & can throw a change-up
a pitching machine
Tiffany
$1,600 [5]
This Robert Browning title girl "passes" the time on her day off from a silk mill
Pippa
Tiffany
$1,200 [9]
Alliterative term used to publicize a circus performer who puts himself at great risk
death-defying
Matthew
$1,200 [13]
The name of this green veggie precedes "rabe" in the name of a bitter green veggie
broccoli
Betsy
$1,200 [18]
The Black Eyed Peas:"Rock That ____"
Body
$1,200 [28]
The world's largest Franciscan church, the Basilica of Santa Croce is the burial place of this 17th c. astronomer
Galileo
Matthew
$1,200 [23]
The Medbox Co. has created a machine that dispenses this plant for medicinal purposes & brownies too!
marijuana
Matthew
DD $2,000 [4]
Longfellow called her the "hand somest of all the women in the land of the Dacotahs"
Minnehaha
Tiffany
$1,600 [10]
Though they sound like they sit on the beach, they're the senior British army regiment & first saw action in 1665
the Life Guards
$2,000 [15]
Back in 1824 a German doctor formulated what is now this brand of aromatic bitters
Angostura
Matthew
$1,600 [19]
The Ramones:"Rock 'n' Roll ____ ____"
High School
Tiffany
$1,600 [29]
In the 1920s this "G"-man opened a leather goods shop on the Via Vigna Nuova
Gucci
Tiffany
$1,600 [24]
In this Canadian province's oil sands, the Bucyrus RH400 hydraulic shovel has in one hour excavated 9,000 tons of earth
Alberta
Matthew
$2,000 [1]
On April 6, 1348, 21 years to the day after Petrarch first saw her, she died in Avignon, possibly of the plague
Laura
$2,000 [11]
One of the Arabian Nights begins with a proud king who's not so proud when this heavenly being appears to him
the Angel of Death
Tiffany
DD $3,000 [14]
This bitter green liqueur is distilled from alcohol infused with wormwood
absinthe
Betsy
$2,000 [20]
Neil Young:"Rockin' In The ____ ____"
Free World
Matthew
$2,000 [30]
The royal apartments, a carriage museum & a costume gallery are just a few of this palace's attractions
the Pitti Palace
Tiffany
$2,000 [25]
In 2012 Purdue students built amachinenamed for this cartoonist; it took 300 steps to blow up & pop a balloon
Rube Goldberg
Matthew

Final Jeopardy!

COUNTRIES FOR SHORT

North Korea is the DPRK; this country is the LPDR

Laos

Betsy "What is Taiw" — wagered $9,799
Tiffany "What is the Dominican Rep" — wagered $11,300
Matthew "What is Laos?" — wagered $0

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