Show #6748 2014-01-08 (taped 2013-11-05) Regular

Contestants

Julia Dye — a vice president of production from North Hills, California

Dinu Nesan — a postdoctoral fellow and university lecturer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Andrew Nelson — an antiquarian bookseller from New Bedford, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Andrew $400 $2,600 $9,000 $1,599
3rd place: $1,000
$8,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Dinu $3,800 $5,800 $9,900 $18,001
New champion: $18,001
$11,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Julia $1,200 $3,800 $8,200 $9,901
2nd place: $2,000
$8,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

MASCOTS ADJECTIVAL COUNTRY NAMES PLAYING LINCOLN FICTIONAL WITCHES I'M JUST WILD ABOUT "ARRY" LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! IT'S...
$200 [1]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands with a college mascot.) In 1914, a columnist wrote that this Southwestern college team showed the fight of wildcats, hence the team's name &, since 1959, Wilbur the Mascot
Arizona
Julia
$200 [17]
It's the island of Great Britain plus a bit more
the United Kingdom
Julia
$200 [28]
For playing Honest Abe, he won his third Oscar
Daniel Day-Lewis
Julia
$200 [2]
Cho Chang & Fleur Delacour are 2 of the many witches in this book series
Harry Potter
Julia
$200 [11]
To defend oneself by deflecting a potential blow
parry
Dinu
$200 [3]
It's this dazzling phenomenon as seen from Alaska
the Northern Lights
Julia
$400 [7]
The operating system Linux has this type of bird as its mascot, appropriately named Tux
a penguin
Andrew
$400 [18]
In 1961 this nation withdrew from the British Commonwealth over member criticism of its apartheid policies
South Africa
Dinu
$400 [29]
Raymond Massey showed us Lincoln in his younger days in 1940's "Abe Lincoln in" this state
Illinois
Andrew
$400 [25]
In "Macbeth" the three witches who prophesy his success & doom are appropriately also known as these "sisters"
the weird sisters
Julia
$400 [12]
A basketball infraction
carrying
Dinu
$400 [4]
One of these that streaked across the sky over Russia in February 2013, then exploded with the force of an atomic bomb
a meteor
Dinu
$600 [8]
In 2011 thieves in Ireland made off with a statue of Mr. Bib, this tire company's mascot
Michelin
Dinu
$600 [19]
Caribbean country bearing the name of an order of Catholic priests
Dominican Republic
Andrew Julia
$600 [22]
Billy Campbell played the big man in a 2013 TV adaptation of this Bill O'Reilly book
Killing Lincoln
Dinu
$600 [24]
Jadis of Charn is the evil White Witch laying chilly havoc to this C.S. Lewis land
Narnia
Andrew
$600 [13]
Like I do at the dessert table, it's to stay somewhere perhaps a little longer than you should
tarry
Julia
$600 [5]
It's a flock of these birds in motion--they're like little stars of the sky
starlings
Dinu
$800 [9]
Originally named Jumpman, this Nintendo mascot got a new name for Donkey Kong Jr.
Mario
Dinu
$800 [20]
The Cook Strait separates the 2 main parts of this Southern Hemisphere country
New Zealand
Andrew
$800 [23]
Walter Huston played Lincoln in a 1930 film, this director's first talkie
D.W. Griffith
Julia
DD $1,000 [26]
In "The Thirteenth Sacrifice", witches have returned to this city & Boston cop Samantha Ryan is hunting them
Salem
Julia
$800 [14]
To combine one thing with another, with or without a shotgun
marry
Dinu
$800 [6]
This constellation, the "Chained Maiden"
Andromeda
$1,000 [10]
A Berkeley blog likened Stanford's unofficial mascot, one of these, to a "constipated squid struggling with dinner"
a tree
$1,000 [21]
The adjective in its 2-word name comes from the nation's position near 0 degrees latitude
Equatorial Guinea
Dinu
$1,000 [30]
This tall "Moby Dick" actor played Lincoln in the 1980s TV miniseries "The Blue & the Gray"
Gregory Peck
$1,000 [27]
Jane, Alexandra & Sukie are the 3 title uninhibited magical mavens in this Updike novel
The Witches of Eastwick
Andrew
$1,000 [15]
It's a Scottish cap with straight sides
a glengarry cap
$1,000 [16]
A 350-seat A350-1000 from this aircraft company with another type of transport in its name
Airbus
Julia

Double Jeopardy! Round

MAINE STAYS IN THE FUNNY PAPERS THE ORIGINAL T-PAINE FROM "G" TO "G" BIBLICAL FATHERS & SONS BRINGING UP BABY
$400 [1]
"41" is HBO's documentary about him & his life in Kennebunkport, his "anchor to windward"
George H.W. Bush
Andrew
$400 [19]
He's the gifted "Peanuts"character seen here
Schroeder
Andrew Dinu
DD $100 [28]
Paine was elected to France's Natl. Convention in 1792 but was imprisoned in 1793 after opposing this king's execution
Louis XVI
Dinu
$400 [7]
During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Mao's wife & 3 others were known as this "of Four"
Gang
Andrew
$400 [13]
Upon his death at age 175, he was buried by his sons Isaac & Ishmael in the cave of Machpelah
Abraham
Andrew Dinu
$400 [14]
Baby likes it when mommy jogs while pushing him in a special 3-wheel one of these
a stroller
Andrew
$800 [2]
A year after he retired to Walden Pond, he headed for the backwoods of Maine & wrote 3 essays about his trip there
Thoreau
Andrew
$800 [20]
In 1975 this "Doonesbury" creator became the first comic strip artist to win a Pulitzer Prize
(Garry) Trudeau
Julia
$400 [6]
Thomas Paine's opponents bashed "The Age of" this as an "atheist's bible", but the work does talk about a creator
Reason
Julia
$800 [8]
Despite its name, this marmot can climb trees & swim just like the squirrels to which it's related
a groundhog
Julia
$800 [24]
He cursed Canaan, the son of his son Ham, saying, "a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren"
Noah
Julia
$800 [15]
Baby wants to take over for Ann Turner Cook, whose "baby" face became the official trademark of this co. in 1931
Gerber
Dinu
$1,200 [3]
This future president left N.H. for Bowdoin College, where he was friends with Nathaniel Hawthorne
Franklin Pierce
Andrew
$1,200 [21]
On Oct. 3, 2010 Ms. Guisewite ended this partly autobiographical strip after a 34-year run
Cathy
Dinu
$800 [12]
A 1772 Paine work proposed a raise for excise officers, basically collectors of these--Paine's own job at the time
taxes
Julia
$1,200 [9]
This term for the Soviet forced labor camps takes its name from an acronym for the agency that ran them
the Gulag
Andrew
$1,200 [25]
For doubting God's word, Zechariah, father of this forerunner of Christ, lost his voice until after his son was born
John the Baptist
Dinu
$1,200 [16]
The Mayo Clinic suggests baby get a supplement of vitamin this, to help "absorb calcium and phosphorus"
D
Julia
DD $2,000 [4]
This historian went to Colby College in Waterville; she later met & married Richard Goodwin, adviser to JFK & LBJ
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Andrew
$1,600 [22]
This man says his famous feline is a composite of all the cats from his childhood rolled into one feisty orange fur ball
Jim Davis
Andrew
$1,200 [27]
Paine noted, "when authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the" this
the ridiculous
Andrew
$1,600 [10]
This Swedish shipbuilding port is known for its canals
Gothenburg
Andrew
$1,600 [26]
Reuben was the only one of this man's sons to object to killing Joseph, whom he suggested tossing into a pit
Jacob
$1,600 [17]
Johnson's Baby Shampoo promises to be as easy on baby's eyes as water, hence this trademarked 3-word slogan
"No More Tears"
Julia
$2,000 [5]
This artistimmortalized Prouts Neck, the Maine village that became his home in the 1880s
Winslow Homer
Andrew
$2,000 [23]
Earl the dog & Mooch the cat are featured in this strip
Mutts
$2,000 [11]
The turbulent ending of a regime or institution, it's German for "twilight of the gods"
Goetterdaemmerung
Julia
$2,000 [18]
We know baby has good lungs when he has the infant type of this, from the name of another internal organ
colic

Final Jeopardy!

2013 OBITUARIES

She was called a "savior", a "heartless tyrant", a "trailblazer", "intimidating" & a "real toughie"

Margaret Thatcher

Julia "Who was Margaret Thatcher" — wagered $1,701
Andrew "Who is ?" — wagered $7,401
Dinu "Who is Thatcher" — wagered $8,101

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