Show #6751 2014-01-13 (taped 2013-11-06) Regular

Contestants

Matthew Linnabary — a phlebotomist from Wichita, Kansas

Miriam Musco — a children's museum education manager from Freeville, New York

Michelle DeGrothy — a Navy helicopter pilot from Neptune Beach, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Michelle $5,000 $7,800 $12,200 $12,200
2-day champion: $25,900
$12,800
25 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Miriam $400 $-800 $4,000 $100
3rd place: $1,000
$4,000
9 R, 4 W
Matthew $-200 $-800 $4,400 $799
2nd place: $2,000
$5,200
7 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN CAPITALS AS THE TITLE CHARACTER'S WIFE CADILLACS WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? "B" ABBREVIATIONS VALLEY FORGE
$200 [1]
It has sprouts named for it
Brussels
Michelle
$200 [6]
This actress ties the knot with "Forrest Gump"
Robin Wright Penn
Michelle Miriam
$200 [17]
He originally ran what became Cadillac, before taking his crazy assembly-line ideas elsewhere
(Henry) Ford
Michelle
$200 [7]
Pyrophobia
fire
Miriam
$200 [9]
bp(a cooking or chemistry indication)
boiling point
Matthew
$200 [24]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Valley Forge Nat'l Historical Park in Pennsylvania.) One of the problems at Valley Forge was the inaction of this body, then meeting not far away at York, which failed to provide even shirts & blankets despite Washington's desperate letters
the Continental Congress
Miriam
$400 [2]
You can see the two major airports, but fog obscures the lights of these surrounding suburbs of this city
London
Michelle Matthew
$400 [8]
She completes "Jerry Maguire"
Renee Zellwegger
Michelle
$400 [18]
This sporty Caddy "Coupe" with a name meaning "of the town" was introduced in 1949
(Coupe) de Ville
Michelle
$400 [14]
Xenophobia
foreigners (strangers)
Miriam
$400 [10]
BA(important for a hitter)
batting average
Miriam
$400 [27]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Valley Forge Nat'l Historical Park in Pennsylvania.) At Valley Forge, both Washington & his men were indebted to this French marquis who used his own money to clothe soldiers & help defeat a plot to remove Washington from command
Lafayette
Michelle
$600 [3]
This capital is divided into 18 districts including Wlochy, Bialoleka & Srodmiescie
Warsaw
Michelle
$600 [11]
Kelsey Scott plays Anne, wife of Solomon Northup, a free black man who's enslaved for more than a decade in this film
12 Years a Slave
Miriam
$600 [19]
Rolled out in 1998, it was Cadillac's first luxury SUV
Escalade
Michelle
$600 [15]
Wiccaphobia
witches
Michelle
$600 [16]
BLM(a government agency)
the Bureau of Land Management
$600 [28]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Valley Forge Nat'l Historical Park in Pennsylvania.) After British victories at Brandywine & Germantown, the British went on to a comfy winter in Philadelphia; Washington retreated with 10,000 troops to camp at Valley Forgealong this river that could be used as a defensive boundary
the Schuylkill
Michelle Miriam Matthew
$800 [4]
This capital of Bosnia was once ruled by the Ottoman Empire, & its name is from a Turkish word for a palace
Sarajevo
Michelle
$800 [12]
This singer plays the Mrs. in "The People vs. Larry Flynt"
Courtney Love
Michelle
$800 [20]
The ill-fated Cimarron, a 1980s "economy model", was the first Cadillac since 1914 with only this many engine cylinders
4
Michelle
DD $600 [26]
Selenophobia
the Moon
Michelle
$800 [22]
.bw(an Internet country code in Africa)
Botswana
Michelle
$800 [29]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Valley Forge Nat'l Historical Park in Pennsylvania.) One of the great feats in military history was the training at Valley Forge, turning a ragtag army into a professional fighting force; the architect of the training was this Prussian who didn't even speak English
von Steuben
$1,000 [5]
This Mediterranean island's capital Valletta was planned by the Knights of St. John in the 16th century
Malta
Michelle Miriam
$1,000 [13]
In "Malcolm X" she was Mrs. X, Betty Shabazz
Angela Bassett
$1,000 [21]
This top-of-the-line Caddie convertible was designed for the company's 1952 "golden" anniversary--si?
the Eldorado
$800 [25]
Philophobia
love
Michelle Miriam
$1,000 [23]
BAFO(an ultimatum in real estate)
best and final offer

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE MOOR YOU KNOW FROM PAGE TO STAGE CHEMISTRY RELIGIOUS MATTERS TV DAVIDS TO "EACH" HIS "OWN"
$400 [2]
According to the Shakespeare title, Othello is "The Moor of" this place
Venice
Matthew
$400 [1]
Seeing the Artful Dodger sing on stage made lyricist Alain Boublil think of turning this Victor Hugo novel into a musical
Les Misérables
Michelle
$400 [3]
On this scale, battery acid is listed as a 1, lye as a 14
pH
Michelle
$400 [12]
From the Aramaic for "my father", it's the title of the superior of a monastery
an abbot
Miriam
$400 [17]
He was nominated for a supporting actor Emmy for each of the 11 years that he played Frasier's brother Niles
David Hyde Pierce
Michelle Matthew
$400 [21]
To accuse an official of misconduct before an appropriate tribunal
impeach
Michelle
$1,600 [28]
This Spanish word for Moor is used of a Muslim people of the Philippines with a separatist National Liberation Front
the Moros
$800 [8]
Bizet based this opera about a tempestuous gypsy girl on a novella by Prosper Merimee
Carmen
Matthew
$800 [4]
This 2nd-lightest gas is the only element that can't be solidified by cooling at normal atmospheric pressure
helium
Michelle
$800 [13]
Muslims believe that this angel revealed the Koran to the prophet Muhammad over a 22-year period
Gabriel
Miriam
$800 [18]
He played a DEA agent on "Twin Peaks" & later had a good time on "Californication"
David Duchovny
Michelle
$800 [22]
To make whiter chemically
to bleach
Michelle
$2,000 [27]
It's said that in 1492 deposed ruler Boabdil glanced at Granada one final time, known as "the Moor's last" this
sigh
DD $1,000 [9]
Gosh darn it! Douglass Wallop's "The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant" hit a home run as this musical
Damn Yankees
Matthew
$1,200 [5]
Increasing the percentage of U-235 in a sample of uranium is called this process; Iran says it has the right to do it
enrichment
DD $1,000 [15]
In 1536 this French reformer moved to Geneva, which became the center for his form of Protestantism
Calvin
Matthew
$1,200 [19]
ThisTV host is anything but wooden; in fact, he's depicted in Legos
David Letterman
Matthew
$1,200 [23]
Deny connection with, as with an heir
disown
Michelle
$1,600 [10]
If "Memory" serves me, this Broadway musical was based on a 1939 book of humorous verse
Cats
Miriam
$1,600 [6]
Creating modern electronics depended largely on doping, adding impurities to pure silicon to increase this quality
conductivity
Michelle
$1,200 [14]
The name of Kung Fu Tzu, founder of a way of thought often termed a religion, was westernized to this
Confucius
Michelle Matthew
$1,600 [20]
He has a lot of practice creating TV shows, like "Ally McBeal" & "The Practice"
David Kelley
$1,600 [24]
Blackbeard's real last name
(Edward) Teach
$2,000 [11]
Massenet's tragic opera "Werther" was based on this longer-titled 18th century coming-of-age novel by Goethe
The Sorrows of Young Werther
$2,000 [7]
The buckyball, a stable, spherical molecule of this element, occurs naturally in soot
carbon
Miriam
$2,000 [16]
This 71-member religious council of ancient Judea could name political leaders & even declare war
the Great Sanhedrin
$2,000 [26]
Seen here, he's really sunk his teeth into the role of an FBI agent
David Boreanaz
Michelle
$2,000 [25]
Covered by adjacent tissues, especially referring to the toe
ingrown

Final Jeopardy!

ASIAN NATIONS

Since 1991, it's the only former Communist nation to restore its monarchy, which it still has

Cambodia

Miriam "What is Vietnam?" — wagered $3,900
Matthew "What is South Korea?" — wagered $3,601
Michelle "What is Lithuania?" — wagered $0

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