Show #6743 2014-01-01 (taped 2013-10-09) Regular

Jerry Slowik game 5.

Contestants

John Coulter — a creative director from Henderson, Nevada

Bridget O'Donnell — a law enforcement specialist from Burlington, Vermont

Jerry Slowik — a writer from Arlington Heights, Illinois (whose 4-day cash winnings total $98,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jerry $2,400 $5,600 $21,600 $23,000
5-day champion: $121,800
$15,200
26 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Bridget $600 $3,400 $10,000 $5,800
2nd place: $2,000
$13,400
14 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
John $-200 $2,600 $5,800 $799
3rd place: $1,000
$6,800
9 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

NATIONAL MEMORIALS DYLAN SONGS IN OTHER WORDS ROMAN ARCHITECTURE TERMS PORTRAITS IN HISTORY GUESS WHAT I'VE GOT? "O-M-G"!
$200 [26]
Justice & hope are forever enshrined in this man's Washington, D.C. memorial
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jerry
$200 [15]
"Borne Along By Gusts"
"Blowin' In The Wind"
Bridget
$200 [9]
From the Latin for "to hear", it was a building where orators, poets & critics would speak
an auditorium
Jerry
$200 [4]
One thing you'd never hear from him--"I'm not the marrying kind"
Henry VIII
John
$200 [21]
A pack of this 3M item--it'd take about 550 million of the 2 7/8-inch square ones to circle the world
Post-it notes
Jerry
$200 [1]
This annual school event usually centers on a big football game & welcomes current & former students
homecoming
Jerry
$400 [27]
The memorial to veterans of this war was dedicated on July 27, 1995 by Bill Clinton & Kim Young Sam
the Korean War
Jerry Bridget
$400 [16]
"In The Manner Of A Moving Mineral Aggregate"
"Like A Rolling Stone"
Jerry
$400 [10]
Consisting of a final cold pool, a frigidarium was the third & last chamber of one of these public buildings
a bath
Jerry
$400 [5]
Hiswife, Abigail, called the portrait of him painted by Samuel Morse "a stern, unpleasing likeness"
John Adams
Jerry
$400 [22]
It used to be known as the "1 1/2 Calorie Breath Mint"; today, it's 1.9--either way, I have a box in my pocket
Tic Tacs
Jerry
$400 [2]
This type of computer language includes the popular Java & Python
programming language
Jerry
$600 [28]
Fittingly, a cultural center for this ethnicity is 5 blocks from Philadelphia's Kosciuszko National Memorial
Polish
Jerry
$600 [17]
"Get Prone, Noblewoman, Get Prone"
"Lay Lady Lay"
Bridget
$600 [11]
In a Roman villa, a cenatio was a formal one of these
dining room
$600 [6]
He's the French author & philosopher seen here, book in hand
Voltaire
Bridget
$600 [23]
This style of nickel; 1.2 billion were struck between 1913 & 1938
buffalo head
Bridget
$600 [3]
In 1961 this upscale chain of department stores introduced the first designer shopping bags
Bloomingdale's
$800 [29]
Chamizal National Memorial commemorates the settlement of a border dispute between this Texas city & Juarez, Mex.
El Paso
John
$800 [18]
"Pounding At The Gates Of Paradise"
"Knockin' On Heaven's Door"
Jerry
$800 [12]
These water channels could be placed on high arches above ground or go through tunnels below
aqueducts
Jerry
$800 [7]
Hecame, he saw, he conquered in South America
Pizarro
John
$800 [24]
A key from this organization founded in 1776 that believes "Love of Learning is the Guide of Life"
Phi Beta Kappa
Jerry Bridget
$800 [14]
By federal law since 2000, all commercial flights within the U.S. have been this type
non-smoking
John
$1,000 [30]
Daniel Chester French designed the statue in this memorial, but it was the Piccirilli Brothers of N.Y. who carved it
the Lincoln Memorial
John
$1,000 [19]
"Honorific Hand Percussion Guy"
"Mr. Tambourine Man"
Jerry
$1,000 [13]
A sacrarium was one of these in a home or temple, smaller than the L.A. awards show venue dating from 1926
a shrine
John
DD $1,000 [8]
He's the Italian hero pictured here--you might recognize him by the color of his attire
Garibaldi
John
$1,000 [25]
A Rouge et Noir safety fountain pen dating back to 1909 from this luxury company
Montblanc
Bridget
$1,000 [20]
It's the "Equality State"
Wyoming
John

Double Jeopardy! Round

WRITERS IN PRISON WHICH CABLE NETWORK? GEOGRAPHIC NAME CHANGES BOTANY STANDARD TIME DIFFERENCES TAKE A WALK ON THE MILD SIDE
$400 [9]
Alexander Solzhenitsyn spent years in the Gulag after criticizing this leader he called "the whiskered one"
Stalin
Jerry
$400 [14]
"Key and Peele" & "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart"
Comedy Central
Jerry
$400 [20]
The ancient city of Byzantium is today this city
Istanbul
Jerry
$400 [6]
Ants live inside these sharp projections of some acacia trees; the ants protect the trees, which produce ant food
thorns
John
$400 [26]
It's 9 a.m. in New York City & most people are asleep at this corresponding hour in Los Angeles
6:00 a.m.
Jerry
$400 [1]
A painting of a bowl of oranges is said to be a this "life"
still
Jerry
$1,200 [11]
An author, statesman & saint, he was jailed in 1534 & later executed for an act of religious defiance
Thomas More
Jerry
$800 [15]
"Friendzone" & "Snooki & JWOWW"
MTV
Jerry
$800 [19]
This modern African republic was once known as Abyssinia
Ethiopia
Bridget
$800 [7]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Alaska.) Parts of Southeast Alaska receive about 70 inches of precipitation a year, creating a lush, temperate type of this forest that you might expect to find much further south
rainforest
Bridget
$800 [27]
Noon. Lunchtime in NYC, but out West, only this good time for a snack in Salt Lake City
10:00 a.m.
Jerry
$800 [2]
The posterior muscular portion that separates the oral cavity from the nasal cavity is this palate
the soft palate
$1,600 [12]
"Le Morte d'Arthur" author Sir Thomas Malory was jailed often, the last time for favoring the Lancastrians in these wars
the War of the Roses
Bridget
$1,200 [16]
"Conan" & "King of the Nerds"
TBS
Jerry
$1,200 [21]
What was once the city of Christiania is today this Scandinavian capital
Oslo
Bridget
$1,200 [8]
The seeds of the red-bead tree were once used to weigh gold due to their uniform weight: 4 seeds equal this metric measure
a gram
Jerry Bridget
$1,200 [28]
Turned on the TV to watch tennis from London but it was all over! I forgot they're this many hours ahead of NYC
five
Bridget
$1,200 [3]
"Goodness" this word from the Latin for "favor", "great balls of fire!"
gracious
John
$2,000 [13]
The "idiot"! He got mixed up with the Petrashevsky Circle of socialists & did 8 months in 1849
Dostoyevsky
Jerry
$1,600 [17]
"Hell on Wheels" & "Talking Dead"
AMC (American Movie Classics)
Bridget
$1,600 [22]
For awhile in the 20th century, it was the Malagasy Republic
Madagascar
$1,600 [24]
Also called cape jasmine due to its fragrance, this corsage flower was named for a Charleston, South Carolina physician
a gardenia
$1,600 [29]
Turned on the TV to watch the pope--good thing I remembered Rome was this many hours ahead of NYC
six hours
Bridget
$1,600 [4]
It precedes catch, deal & dinkum
fair
John
DD $7,200 [10]
He spent 30 days in jail for vagrancy in 1894 before heading to the Klondike, the setting for some of his best stories
Jack London
Jerry
$2,000 [18]
"Covert Affairs" & "White Collar"
USA
Bridget
$2,000 [23]
The city of Durban in this country was once known as Port Natal
South Africa
Bridget
DD $3,400 [25]
In the scientific name of the common onion, Allium cepa L., the "L" stands for this botanist
Carolus Linnaeus
Bridget
$2,000 [30]
Next, time to call a buddy in Tel Aviv, this many hours ahead of NYC
seven
$2,000 [5]
In Congress-speak, "the chair recognizes" not "the man from Montana" but this type of "man from Montana"
gentle
Jerry

Final Jeopardy!

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TED

John "What is NSA?" — wagered $5,001
Bridget "What is GMC" — wagered $4,200
Jerry "What is TED?" — wagered $1,400

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