Show #6742 2013-12-31 (taped 2013-10-09) Regular

Jerry Slowik game 4.

Contestants

Reggie Austin — an actor from Culver City, California

Alyson Murray — a server from Boston, Massachusetts

Jerry Slowik — a writer from Arlington Heights, Illinois (whose 3-day cash winnings total $71,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jerry $1,400 $1,400 $16,400 $26,900
4-day champion: $98,800
$15,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Alyson $1,400 $3,600 $13,400 $6,800
2nd place: $2,000
$10,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Reggie $2,200 $0 $2,800 $5
3rd place: $1,000
$5,600
9 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES IT'S A GAS... GIANT MY NAME IS MY BRAND I'M IN... "DE" NILE
$200 [1]
(I'm Chuck Todd of NBC News.) The longer I am in television, the more I like this feature film comedy with Will Ferrell as a San Diego newsman, & I'm really looking forward to the sequel
Anchorman(: The Legend of Ron Burgundy)
Alyson
$200 [14]
It's the giantest gas giant planet
Jupiter
Jerry
$200 [19]
He got rich running a fertilizer co. before becoming a bowtie-wearing popcorn king (& it's not Samuel Jiffypop)
Orville Redenbacher
Alyson
$200 [24]
This, failure perhaps due to bleeding or a heart-attack to get blood to all the tissues; I feel cold
shock
Jerry
$200 [6]
Scattered detritus, litter, trash
debris
$200 [11]
They're the Nile's 2 "colorful" main tributaries
the blue (Nile) and white (Nile)
Jerry Reggie
$400 [2]
(Here with the clue are Mike & Mike of ESPN Radio.) My favorite sports movie is "Field of Dreams"--it's got everything: mystery, romance & baseball......I can beat that--my favorite is this laughter on the links that co-starred Bill Murray as a crazy gopher exterminator
Caddyshack
Reggie
$400 [15]
Nereid is the third largest of its 13 moons
Neptune
Reggie
$400 [20]
Last name of Dr. William, inventor of more than 1,000 foot-care products
Scholl
Jerry Alyson
$400 [25]
This type of "custody", to make sure the mob doesn't get me before I testify
protective
Jerry
$400 [7]
The French phrase for "of good disposition" gives us this synonym for suave
debonair
Reggie
$400 [12]
A 1959 agreement divided the Nile's water between Egypt & this country
the Sudan
Jerry
$600 [3]
(I'm Dana Perino of Fox News.) Hugh Grant played a convincing prime minister in this film that depicts amorous hopefuls from all walks of London life
Love Actually
Jerry
$600 [16]
It's named for the Roman god of agriculture
Saturn
Reggie
$600 [21]
Last name of Louis-Eugene, who sold his French thermal spring with naturally carbonated water in 1903
Perrier
Alyson
$600 [8]
The IRS offers "Six facts about choosing the standard or itemized" these
deductions
Alyson
$600 [13]
Exodus says that Moses' mother put him in a basket made of these grasslike plants & put him in the Nile
reeds (or bulrushes)
Alyson
$800 [4]
(Hi, I'm Harry Shearer.) The Cuban missile crisis was still fresh in viewers' minds when Stanley Kubrick played the situation for laughs in this 1964 classic
Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
Jerry Reggie
$800 [17]
Its ring system was discovered in 1977, nearly 200 years after it was
Uranus
$800 [22]
A 1975 law ending fixed stockbroker commissions helped boost the discount brokerage he founded in 1971
Charles Schwab
Reggie
$800 [9]
The proofreaders mark seenheremeans this
delete
Reggie
$1,000 [5]
(Hi, I'm Elizabeth Perkins.) He directed, co-wrote & starred in "Lost in America", which eviscerated the materialistic culture of the 1980s
Albert Brooks
$1,000 [18]
Its axis of rotation is almost parallel to its orbital plane, so it spins more or less on its side
Uranus
Alyson
DD $2,800 [23]
The copper products co. founded by this man in 1801 is still around today, but in Rome, New York, not Boston
Paul Revere
Reggie
$1,000 [10]
Walnut & teak trees are classified as this, losing their leaves annually
deciduous
Jerry

Double Jeopardy! Round

SONGS FOR NEW YEAR'S THE 15th CENTURY THAT'S OUR ISLAND! ARCHITECTURE 3-LETTER WORDS HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
$400 [16]
This Irish group's 1983 song "New Year's Day" was inspired by the Polish Solidarity movement
U2
Jerry
$400 [11]
This religious suppression began in earnest in 1481 with its first auto-da-fe punishments
the inquisition
Jerry
$400 [18]
Kangaroo Island
Australia
Jerry
$400 [1]
The demolition of this NYC train station in the early 1960s helped spur the city's preservationist movement
Penn Station
Reggie
$400 [6]
A solemn promise, perhaps to a bride
a vow
Reggie
$400 [26]
In this story "The great swans swam round the newcomer; and stroked his neck with their beaks"
The Ugly Duckling
Alyson
$800 [17]
This New Year's Eve staple was the Guy Lombardo orchestra's theme song
"Auld Lang Syne"
Alyson
$800 [12]
Already king of Hungary & Bohemia, Sigismund ascended to this imperial title in 1433
Holy Roman Emperor
Alyson
$800 [19]
Martinique
France
Jerry
$800 [2]
John Howells & Raymond Hood won a 1922 contest to design this city's Tribune Tower; Eliel Saarinen Finnished second
Chicago
$800 [7]
A certain dinosaur knows it's Latin for "King"
rex
Jerry
$800 [27]
In one story they consisted of trousers, a coat & a cloak that were "light as a cobweb"
The Emperor's New Clothes
Alyson
$1,200 [23]
In 1980 this Swedish hit machine of a group wished us "Happy New Year"
ABBA
Jerry
$1,200 [13]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a map of the Ottoman Empire.) In 1462 the mighty Ottoman army retreated after a large massacre by this Wallachian prince and his forces
Vlad (Tepes, Count Dracula)
Jerry
$1,200 [20]
Minorca
Spain
Alyson Reggie
$1,200 [3]
Said to gather all light & positive spirits, asorinis the nine-ringed spire placed atop this type of shrine seen here
a pagoda
Jerry
$1,200 [8]
You can pick it up at a restaurant or push it down as a keyboard button
tab
Jerry
$1,200 [28]
Andersen's visit to this "Oliver Twist" author's home in 1857 was no fairy tale; he overstayed his welcome by 3 weeks
Charles Dickens
Alyson
$1,600 [24]
This Wilson Pickett No. 1 R&B hit from 1965 will get us closer to the new year
"In The Midnight Hour"
$2,000 [15]
Hangulwas developed and made the official writing system of this peninsula
Korea
Jerry
$1,600 [21]
Phuket
Thailand
Jerry
$1,600 [4]
Lubeck's Marienkirche boasts that it has the world's highest brick ceiling that's this, meaning arched
vaulted
Jerry
$1,600 [9]
Bored-sounding 3-letter poetic word meaning "over there"
yon
Reggie
$2,000 [30]
Andersen's "The Nightingale" was a tribute to this Swedish soprano who never returned his love
Jenny Lind
Jerry
$2,000 [25]
13 million have YouTubed a clip of Zooey Deschanel & Joseph Gordon-Levitt asking this in song about "New Year's Eve"
What are you doing New Year's Eve?
DD $2,200 [14]
Losing the battle of Grunwald in 1410 in Poland led to the end of the military power of these knights
the Teutonic Knights
Jerry
$2,000 [22]
Isle of Youth (or Isla de la Juventud)
Cuba
$2,000 [5]
Oscar Niemeyer's first solo project was a 1941 plan for Pampulha in this country where he later designed the capital
Brazil
Jerry
$2,000 [10]
A member of an American Indian people of Colorado
Ute
Alyson
DD $5,000 [29]
Her grandmother told her that when she was 15, she could rise out of the sea & sit on the rocks in the moonlight
The Little Mermaid
Alyson

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY VICE PRESIDENTS

Woodrow Wilson said this man had enough genius to be immortal & "unschooled passion enough to have made him infamous"

(Aaron) Burr

Reggie "Who is Garfield" — wagered $2,795
Alyson "Who is Theodore Roosevelt?" — wagered $6,600
Jerry "Who is Burr?" — wagered $10,500

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