Show #6764 2014-01-30 (taped 2013-11-13) Regular

Arthur Chu game 3.

Contestants

Maura McKenna — a legal technology consultant from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Carolyn Collins — an education program manager from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $26,800)

Arthur Chu — a compliance analyst and voiceover artist from Broadview Heights, Ohio (whose 2-day cash winnings total $64,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Arthur $2,800 $6,000 $20,800 $18,800
3-day champion: $82,800
$20,600
26 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Carolyn $400 $2,400 $2,800 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$2,800
8 R, 4 W
Maura $3,000 $5,600 $7,200 $8,799
2nd place: $2,000
$7,200
17 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE TOP 40 A TO Z HEALTH & NUTRITION MISSING LINKS NEWSPAPERS BLACK & WHITE & READ ALL OVER
$200 [3]
A:This magic word, the title of a No. 1 hit by the Steve Miller band
"Abracadabra"
Maura
$200 [14]
Apples & carrots are good sources of the soluble type of this, aka bulk or roughage
fiber
Maura
$200 [18]
Smiley____value
face
Arthur
$200 [7]
Clam up & keep typing; we're nearing this "fatal" time by which all stories & photos must be turned in
the deadline
Maura
$200 [28]
Dostoyevsky's short story "White Nights" is a romance set in this capital under the czars
St. Petersburg
Arthur Carolyn
$200 [30]
Baghdad lies on both sides of this river
the Tigris
Carolyn
$400 [4]
F:You "gotta have" this, as George Michael sang
"Faith"
Arthur
$400 [15]
(I'm New York food writer Mark Bittman.) You can eat steak & good cheese, but you have to save them for the evening with the program I call VB6, short for this "before 6:00"
vegan
Maura
$400 [24]
Golden____of thumb
rule
Carolyn
$400 [8]
R.O.P., or "run of paper", refers to these running within the body of a paper, not as inserts or supplements
ads
Carolyn
$400 [29]
"At liftoff, Matt Eversmann said a Hail Mary", begins this Somalia-set nonfiction book
Black Hawk Down
Maura
$400 [27]
Devils Tower National Monument & Medicine Bow National Forest are in this state
Wyoming
$600 [21]
H:This hit by Train that gives '80s band Mr. Mister its due
"Hey, Soul Sister"
Maura
$600 [16]
The Mayo Clinic says a level of 190 mg/dL & above for this "bad" type of cholesterol is very high
LDL
Arthur
$600 [25]
Family____hugger
tree
Arthur
$600 [9]
Originally a type of condensed newspaper, today it's one that concentrates on sensational & lurid stories
a tabloid
Arthur
$600 [26]
Erik Larson's "The Devil in the White City" tells of "Murder, Magic, and Madness" at this city's 1893 World's Fair
Chicago
Arthur
$600 [20]
You'll find Lungshan Temple in this capital city that's on an island
Taipei
Carolyn
$800 [22]
X:This song on which ELO & Olivia Newton-John collaborated
"Xanadu"
Maura
$800 [1]
Near the back of the dictionary, this mineral is necessary to produce collagen, tissue that helps wounds heal
zinc
Arthur
$800 [17]
Surrogate____tongue
mother
Maura
$800 [12]
Publishers watch sales figures via AAM, the Alliance for Audited Media, formerly ABC, the Audit Bureau of these
Circulations
Carolyn
DD $1,000 [11]
This author's 1936 novel "Black Spring", a bawdy tale of Paris, came between 2 more famous books
Henry Miller
Arthur
$800 [2]
Islamic extremistsand French troops have recently battled in this country
Mali
Carolyn
$1,000 [23]
Z:This song by The Cranberries that protested violence by the IRA, not the undead
"Zombie"
Carolyn
$1,000 [13]
Hailed as a supergrain, quinoa is considered a complete protein because it contains all 9 of the essential these
amino acids
Maura
$1,000 [5]
Flower____lifting
power
Arthur
$1,000 [6]
When this word precedes "up", it doesn't mean to make the paper stupider but to lay out a mock page to make adjustments
dummy
Maura
$1,000 [10]
A National Book Award winner, this Don DeLillo novel covers a year in the life of a Midwestern college professor
White Noise
Arthur
$1,000 [19]
Tradition says this sea whose islands include Corfu & Ithaca was named for a Greek nymph
the Ionian Sea
Arthur

Double Jeopardy! Round

KINGS OF ENGLAND NOT BORN IN ENGLAND NFL STADIUMS INVENTORS & INVENTIONS HEY, "PAL" MATH PROBLEMS CAN'T STOP MESSIN' WITH TEXAS
$400 [16]
He was born in Falaise, Normandy circa 1028 & won a big battle on English soil 38 years later
William the Conqueror
Arthur
$400 [27]
The Steelers play on this field named for a hometown company
Heinz Field
Maura
$400 [17]
Leo Gerstenzang was inspired to invent this after seeing his wife use a toothpick with cotton to clean their baby's ears
a Q-tip
Arthur
$400 [1]
From the Latin for "leader", it's the leader of a school
principal
Arthur
$400 [13]
John bought 60 bottles of beer, gave away a third of them, then bought 8 more, giving him this many total
48
Maura
$400 [6]
Offering 360-degree views, the 50-story Reunion Tower is south of Dealey Plaza in this city
Dallas
Carolyn Maura
$800 [21]
Dunfermline, Scotland was his birthplace in 1600; a chopping block was his final destination in 1649
Charles I
Arthur
$800 [28]
These 2 NFL teams play home games at Met Life Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey
the Jets & the Giants
Maura
$800 [18]
In 1932 3M employee John Borden invented the first dispenser with a cutting edge for this adhesive product
(Scotch) tape
Carolyn
$800 [15]
A sports term for an incompetent or easily defeated athlete, it usually refers to a prizefighter
palooka
Arthur
$800 [22]
Jogging at 6 miles an hour, it takes Steve this long to travel 1.5 miles
15 minutes
Arthur
$800 [7]
On Nov. 4, 1946 she was born Laura Lane Welch in Midland; you may know her better by this name
Laura Bush
Arthur
DD $1,000 [24]
Born in Hanover, Germany in 1660, he was 54 when he took the English throne in 1714
George I
Arthur
$1,200 [29]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the stands.)Raymond James Stadiumis the home of this team that started out with a winless season in 1976, but won the Super Bowl held in 2003
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Maura
$1,200 [19]
In the 1960s, this firm introduced the first word processor, the MT/ST, based on its Selectric typewriter
IBM
Maura
$1,200 [20]
This type of tax-exempt bond is issued by a city to finance public projects
municipal
Arthur
$1,200 [23]
Matt served the calendar years 2009 through 2013 in prison, so he marked off this many first days of the month
60
Carolyn Maura
$1,200 [14]
The Cherokees called this man, Texas' governor in 1859, "Big Drunk"
Sam Houston
Carolyn
$1,600 [2]
Uncork a bottle of claret for King Richard II, born in this French wine region in 1367
Bordeaux
Arthur
$1,600 [9]
The gymnastics events for the 1996 Olympics were held in this stadium, also home to the Atlanta Falcons
the Georgia Dome
$1,600 [3]
William Painter invented a leak-proof bottle cap in 1891 lined with a disc of this; today, plastic is typically used
cork
Arthur
$2,000 [11]
A potter uses this wooden shovel-like tool to mix & shape clay
a pallet
$1,600 [4]
After spending $200 at the store, Eric has 20% of his money left, meaning he started with this total
$250
Arthur Maura
$1,600 [25]
Dude, you're gettin' an XPS laptop from this Texas-based company
Dell
Arthur
$2,000 [10]
Born in Rouen in 1442, the fourth king of this name was a prominent figure in the Wars of the Roses
Edward
Arthur
$2,000 [30]
Naturally, the Lions play at this Detroit field
Ford Field
$2,000 [8]
Dean Kamen, creator of this human transporter, was named America's best inventor by Reader's Digest
a Segway
Arthur
DD $3,000 [12]
This U.S. church is in communion with the See of Canterbury
the Episcopal Church
Arthur
$2,000 [26]
The office measures 10 feet by 18 feet; to carpet the whole thing will cost this much at $10 a square yard
$200
Arthur Maura
$2,000 [5]
This Wichita Falls author took us to the "Streets of Laredo" 8 years after creating Texas Ranger Woodrow Call
Larry McMurtry
Maura

Final Jeopardy!

COMEDIC ACTRESSES

She's won Emmys for 3 different TV shows & in 2013 she broke Lucille Ball's record for most nominations by a comedic actress

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Carolyn "Who is Tina Fey?" — wagered $2,800
Maura "Who is Julia Louis Dreyfus" — wagered $1,599
Arthur "Who is Mary Tyler Moore" — wagered $2,000

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