Show #6741 2013-12-30 (taped 2013-10-09) Regular

Jerry Slowik game 3.

Contestants

Alexis Browsh — a teacher and tutor from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

Armen Terjimanian — a web content producer originally from Troy, Michigan

Jerry Slowik — a writer from Arlington Heights, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $49,998)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jerry $2,800 $8,000 $21,600 $21,902
3-day champion: $71,900
$21,000
27 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Armen $1,400 $3,400 $10,600 $5,600
2nd place: $2,000
$10,600
12 R, 1 W
Alexis $1,000 $1,800 $2,400 $400
3rd place: $1,000
$4,600
12 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

FLYERS & FLYING CALIFORNIA FOOD FESTIVALS HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS THE 1970s LOCO FOR LOGOS "HAPPY" HOUR
$200 [15]
In 1919 John Alcock & Arthur Brown made the first nonstop one of these flights; Lindbergh's in '27 was the first solo
trans-Atlantic
Alexis
$200 [26]
Fallbrook's festival devoted to this fruit includes a contest for the best guacamole
avocado
Alexis
$200 [1]
AKA a pancake or hotcake (26 points)
a flapjack
Armen
$200 [2]
On Jan. 2, 1974 President Nixon signed a bill lowering the maximum speed limit on the highways to this
55
Jerry
$200 [16]
Can you pick me up a littlepick-me-up from this chain?
Starbucks
Armen
$200 [6]
It made The Fonz a star
Happy Days
Jerry
$400 [22]
In 1889 they began publishing a weekly Dayton, Ohio newspaper called the West Side News
the Wright Brothers
Alexis
$400 [27]
Pismo Beach has been honoring this creature for 67 years with digging & chowder cook-offs
the clam
Jerry
$400 [11]
To make the pressure between 2 forces the same (26 points)
equalize
Alexis
$400 [3]
This third-largest U.S. automaker needed & got a $1.5 billion federal loan guarantee
Chrysler
Armen
$400 [17]
It's the high-flying company whose logo is seen here
Qantas
Armen
$400 [7]
Adam Sandler comedy about a hockey player turned golf pro
Happy Gilmore
Jerry
$600 [23]
In the 1920s she wrote an aviation column for Cosmopolitan Magazine
(Amelia) Earhart
Armen
$600 [28]
A visit to Gilroy's celebration of this stinking rose wouldn't be complete without a scoop of ice cream flavored with it
garlic
$600 [12]
Like a bold, impulsive quest or a man of La Mancha (26 points)
quixotic
Jerry
$600 [4]
On June 30, 1971 the Supreme Court upheld the right of the N.Y. Times & the Washington Post to publish these classified papers
the Pentagon Papers
Jerry
$600 [18]
Thiscompany's logocelebrates 60 years in 2013
Playboy
Jerry
$600 [8]
"Gray skies are gonna clear up", so put on one of these
a happy face
Alexis
$800 [24]
In 1933 this mogul took a job at American Airways as a co-pilot using the pseudonym Charles W. Howard
Howard Hughes
Armen
$1,000 [30]
At the "Spitway" at Sunland-Tujunga's celebration of this food, you can spit 3 seeds for a buck; longest in each age group wins
watermelon
Jerry
$800 [13]
Rusted, from a chemical point of view (26 points)
oxidized
Jerry
$800 [5]
In June 1978 California voters overwhelmingly approved this amendment to slash property taxes
Proposition 13
$800 [19]
Itwent live March 21, 2006
Twitter
Jerry
$800 [9]
Will Smith starred in this 2006 film about an aspiring stockbroker & his son
The Pursuit of Happyness
Armen
$1,000 [25]
After the 1922 crash of the airship Roma, the U.S. Navy switched to this safer but more expensive gas
helium
Jerry
DD $1,400 [29]
An Oxnard festival for this condiment advertises that it celebrates "the food, the music, the dance"
salsa
Jerry
$1,000 [14]
8-letter adjective describing the science of animals (20 points)
zoologic
Jerry
$1,000 [21]
In 1975 this nation captured the U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez & its crew in the Gulf of Thailand
Cambodia
Armen
$1,000 [20]
Get up to speed with this speedy automaker
Ferrari
Armen
$1,000 [10]
"The only one for me is you, and you for me", the Turtles sang in this 1967 No. 1 hit
"Happy Together"
Jerry

Double Jeopardy! Round

GENEALOGY GREEK ISLANDS BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS MOVIE COMEDY "CO" DEPENDENT GRIMM, GRIM
$400 [21]
One of the best resources for family history is this, the latest released with personal data being the 1940 one
the Census
Jerry
$400 [16]
Ikaria is named for this mythical aeronaut who plunged to his death
Icarus
Alexis
$400 [6]
A botanist & chemist: "Wizard of Tuskegee"
George Washington Carver
Alexis
$400 [1]
Director Mel Brooks plays 2 roles in this 1974 comedy: Governor William J. Le Petomane & an Indian chief
Blazing Saddles
Jerry
$400 [11]
This word is from the Latin for "to work with"
cooperate
Jerry Alexis
$400 [24]
Her mom dies in paragraph 1, her 2 evil stepsisters arrive in No. 2, but it works out; in the end, pigeons peck out their eyes
Cinderella
Alexis
$800 [22]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew presnts the clue on a monitor.) Anne and Oscar sharethe same grandfather, John. Therefore, Oscar is this relation to Anne
cousin
Alexis
$800 [17]
In 2010 Giorgio Armani bought Skorpios for $190 million from heirs of this billionaire who married Jackie Kennedy
Onassis
Alexis
$1,200 [8]
A British film director: "The Dark Side of Genius"
Alfred Hitchcock
Jerry
$800 [2]
Though he didn't speak, this man helped deliver laughs in comedy classics like "Horse Feathers"
Harpo Marx
Jerry
$800 [12]
Concealed or sheltered, perhaps like some government "ops"
covert
Jerry
$800 [25]
Unable to spin straw into gold, a woman barters her firstborn kid to this guy, a psycho with name issues
Rumplestiltskin
Jerry
$1,200 [23]
Celebrities whose family history has been traced on this TV series include Reba McEntire & Helen Hunt
Who Do You Think You Are?
$1,200 [18]
At 8,058 feet, Mount Ida is the highest point on this island & was once a holy mountain in Minoan culture
Crete
Jerry
$1,600 [9]
An American novelist: "Just One Catch"
(Joseph) Heller
Jerry
$1,200 [3]
Melissa McCarthy steals Jason Bateman's name to become the title character of this 2013 film
Identity Thief
Jerry
$1,200 [13]
From the French, it's a synonym for "a flirt"
coquette
Jerry
$1,200 [26]
As proof this girl is dead, the huntsman brings a boar's lung to the stepmom, who later dances herself to death
Snow White
Jerry Alexis
$1,600 [29]
This man's "peerage", dating back to 1826, is a guide to the noble families of the United Kingdom
John Burke
$1,600 [19]
This island in the Aegean was the birthplace of such poets as Alcaeus, Terpander & Sappho
Lesbos
Jerry
$2,000 [10]
A religious leader: "Here I Stand"
Martin Luther
$1,600 [4]
Billy Wilder's first choice for the role of Sugar Kane in this film was Mitzi Gaynor, but Marilyn Monroe got the part
Some Like it Hot
Jerry
$1,600 [14]
Congo & Zambia have more than half the world's reserves of ores of this element, atomic number 27
cobalt
Jerry Armen
$1,600 [27]
2 of these animals were harmed big-time in "Little Red-Cap"; one by a rough diet of stones, the other by drowning
wolves
Armen Alexis
DD $2,000 [30]
With over 10 billion genealogical records. this website says it's the "largest online family history resource"
ancestry.com
Jerry
$2,000 [20]
Today, the only statues you'll find in its Mandraki harbor are 2 statues of a deer species unique to the island
Rhodes
DD $2,200 [7]
An explorer: "The Man Who Presumed"
Henry Morton Stanley
Alexis
$2,000 [5]
In this 1994 film Jeff Daniels' tongue gets fused to a frozen metal pole
Dumb and Dumber
Armen
$2,000 [15]
It's a constant placed before & multiplying another quantity, as 5 in the expression 5x
coefficient
Armen
$2,000 [28]
A dad steals food for his dying wife, gets caught & must give away his kid, this girl who gets locked in a tower
Rapunzel
Jerry

Final Jeopardy!

WORD ORIGINS

When evidence was lacking, juries of yore would reply with this Latin word meaning "we do not know"; now it means a dunce

ignoramus

Alexis "What is no comprende" — wagered $2,000
Armen "What is no lo contendre" — wagered $5,000
Jerry "What is ignoramus?" — wagered $302

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