Show #6753 2014-01-15 (taped 2013-11-06) Regular

Sarah McNitt game 2.

Contestants

Danny Jacobs — a journalist from Laurel, Maryland

Emily Goodlander — an attorney from Baltimore, Maryland

Sarah McNitt — a study-abroad advisor originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sarah $4,800 $8,600 $16,600 $12,600
2-day champion: $28,400
$16,600
23 R, 1 W
Emily $-200 $2,000 $7,000 $88
3rd place: $1,000
$6,600
12 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Danny $1,400 $2,800 $13,900 $2,900
2nd place: $2,000
$14,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

FLOWERS AROUND THE WORLD I'D LIKE A SOFT DRINK STATE THE SENATOR 6-LETTER ANAGRAMS REALITY TV THAT LITERARY TITLE GUY IS UP TO SOMETHING
$200 [8]
Take a guess & name this country where these tulips were photographed
the Netherlands
Emily
$200 [13]
This "medical" soda is advertised as being made from 23 different flavors
Dr Pepper
Danny
$200 [2]
In 1803:John Quincy Adams
Massachusetts
Sarah
$200 [21]
Mick Jagger, &what he becomes when he gives an autograph
singer & signer
Danny
$200 [22]
Trace Adkins defeated Penn Jillette in the finale of the All-Star edition of this Trump-tastic show
Celebrity Apprentice
Danny
$200 [1]
"He had had a nice, good, idle time all the while... and the fence had three coats of whitewash on it!"
Tom Sawyer
Danny
$400 [9]
China is the home of this beautiful red flower, seen resting on its pad
a (water) lily
Sarah Danny
$400 [17]
This bean is the distinctive flavoring that makes a cream soda
vanilla
Emily
$400 [3]
In 1995:Rick Santorum
Pennsylvania
Sarah
$400 [24]
A maiden of noble birth, perhaps "in distress" &the flat, metal commemorative items you get if you rescue her
damsel & medals
Danny
$400 [23]
(I'm Chuck Todd of NBC News.) I'm obsessed with the A&E reality series in which Barry & Dave bid on repossessed goods found in lockers or units that's called these "Wars"
Storage Wars
Sarah
$400 [4]
This boy "wondered what picking the old gentleman's pocket in play, had to do with his chances of being a great man"
Oliver Twist
Sarah
$600 [10]
In "East of Eden" he wrote that the Salinas Valley was carpeted with poppies, like the ones seenherein Big Sur
(John) Steinbeck
Sarah
$600 [18]
Barq's is an "old tyme" variety of this soft drink
root beer
Sarah
$600 [14]
In 1953:Al Gore Sr.
Tennessee
Danny
$600 [28]
A 3-D piece of art, perhaps in marble, &the cunning or shrewd word you are when you respond
statue & astute
$600 [25]
Dawg, in 2013, after 12 seasons, he left the "American Idol" judging table
Randy Jackson
Emily
$600 [5]
This man, "seeing that Sancho was mocking him, became so... angry that he raised his lance and struck him twice"
Don Quixote
Emily
$800 [11]
The snowbell starts itsgrowthbefore the snow melts on this range that includes Julian & Bernese sections
the Alps
Sarah
$800 [19]
Yee-haw! This cowboy cocktail for kids is made with Coca-Cola, grenadine syrup & a cherry
a Roy Rogers
Sarah
$800 [15]
In 1970:Birch Bayh
Indiana
Danny
$800 [29]
A country or territory, &to make sacred by applying oil
anoint & nation
Emily Danny
$800 [26]
This "Project Runway" host joined the judges table for Season 8 of "America's Got Talent"
Heidi Klum
Danny
DD $1,000 [6]
"Further and further back he cowered, as we, lifting our crucifixes, advanced"
Dracula
Emily
$1,000 [12]
Thesehibiscuses are used to taking on water in this state, where you'll find the U.S.A.'s wettest weather station
Hawaii
Sarah
$1,000 [20]
A Detroit pharmacist created the Vernors brand of this soft drink in 1866
ginger ale
Sarah Danny
$1,000 [16]
In 1975:John Glenn
Ohio
Sarah
$1,000 [30]
A choice, &a magical elixir
potion & option
Emily
$1,000 [27]
Instructor Abby Lee Miller often clashes with the title mothers on this Lifetime series
Dance Moms
Emily
$1,000 [7]
"By conversing with the Houyhnhnms" this guy "fell to imitate their gait and gesture"
Gulliver
Sarah

Double Jeopardy! Round

ASTRONOMY LESSER-KNOWN NAMES SINGERS IN TOON LANDLOCKED COUNTRY FUN 30 YEARS I'M READY FOR "MOR"
$400 [26]
In September 2011 astronomers announced that just like Tatooine, Kepler-16b orbits 2 of these
suns (or stars)
Sarah
$400 [12]
The toy design co. of Marvin Glass filled Baby Boom childhoods with creations like Lite-Brite, Inchworm & this surgical game
Operation
Emily
$400 [17]
After portraying Selena, she was the voice of Azteca in "Antz"
Jennifer Lopez
Emily
$400 [4]
Among landlocked countries, this war-torn Asian land is alphabetically first
Afghanistan
Sarah
$400 [1]
U.S. Treasury bonds reach this, the point at which they come due, after 30 years; some people take a lot longer
maturity
Sarah
$400 [2]
Where the departed are kept until identified & claimed
the morgue
Sarah
$800 [27]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.) The Moon's phase occurring between the first quarter & the full moon is described as gibbous & this, meaning growing, as the illuminated area is increasing
a waxing gibbous
Danny
$800 [13]
Doughboy Frank Buckles, who passed away in 2011 at age 110, was the last surviving U.S. vet of this war
World War I
Emily Danny
$800 [20]
This Black Eyed Pea dropped it low as Pedro in "Rio"
will.i.am
Sarah
$800 [8]
Its name ends with the same 4 letters as another South American country
Paraguay
Emily
$800 [18]
Having failed to protect JFK, Clint Eastwood tries to thwart a new assassin 30 years later in this 1993 film
In the Line of Fire
$800 [3]
An official suspension of an ongoing activity
a moratorium
Danny
$1,200 [28]
In 2010 Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft brought back dust samples from Itokawa, one of these objects
an asteroid
Danny
$1,200 [14]
Poggio Bracciolini was renowned in this period of "rebirth" for finding lost manuscripts
the Renaissance
Emily
$1,200 [21]
This rapper/actress/talk show host is the voice of Ellie the woolly mammoth in the "Ice Age" movies
Queen Latifah
Emily Danny
$1,200 [9]
Found in Africa, it's the southernmost landlocked country
Lesotho
Emily
$1,200 [19]
The sugar type of this popular shade tree takes 30 years to begin to produce seeds
a maple
Sarah
$1,200 [5]
Habit-forming opiate alkaloid
morphine
Sarah
DD $1,500 [29]
This planet's lowest point is Diana Chasma, a 1.8-mile-deep rift valley
Venus
Danny
$1,600 [15]
Prof. Liviu Librescu gave his life so that his students could escape from a gunman at this Blacksburg campus in 2007
Virginia Tech
Sarah
$1,600 [22]
In 2011 & 2013 she was Smurfette
Katy Perry
Danny
$2,000 [11]
Its name ends with the same 3 letters that begin the name of a huge neighbor
Belarus
$1,600 [24]
In 2012 he stated that Feb. 1, 2014, the day he marks 30 years as NBA commissioner, would be his last day on the job
David Stern
Danny
$1,600 [6]
Smoked Italian sausage originally seasoned with berries
mortadella
Sarah
$2,000 [30]
The comet discovered by Alan Hale & this Arizona astronomer in 1995 was visible to the naked eye for a record 19 months
(Thomas) Bopp
Danny
$2,000 [16]
In 1897 Ronald Ross found that the parasite causing malaria gets into the blood via this mosquito genus
the Anopheles
$2,000 [23]
This former teen idol sang for Shang in "Mulan"
Donny Osmond
Sarah
DD $3,000 [10]
This large landlocked Asian country starts with the same 3 letters as a day of the week
Mongolia
Emily
$2,000 [25]
50% down & a 5-year loan was common before the FHA, short for this, began backing 30-year mortgages
the Federal Housing Administration
Danny
$2,000 [7]
An accumulation of boulders & other debris carried along & deposited by a glacier
a moraine
Sarah

Final Jeopardy!

16th CENTURY PEOPLE

This non-Brit said in 1532, "I advised (Henry VIII) that it would be better for him to take a concubine than to ruin his people"

Martin Luther

Emily "Who is Pope Alexandep" — wagered $6,912
Danny "Who is The Pope" — wagered $11,000
Sarah "Who is Pope Leo?" — wagered $4,000

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