Show #6782 2014-02-25 (taped 2013-11-19) Regular

Arthur Chu game 6.

Contestants

Myfanwy Davies — a retired china shop manager and volunteer from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Padraic Connelly — an actor from Chicago, Illinois

Arthur Chu — a compliance analyst and voiceover artist from Broadview Heights, Ohio (whose 5-day cash winnings total $123,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Arthur $5,600 $15,000 $29,400 $34,400
6-day champion: $158,000
$26,200
29 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Padraic $-800 $200 $3,400 $4,519
3rd place: $1,000
$3,400
8 R, 2 W
Myfanwy $3,800 $3,800 $9,800 $18,800
2nd place: $2,000
$9,800
12 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

STARTS WITH A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT WOLF POTPOURRI U.N. COUNTRY ABBREVIATIONS LADIES WHO LUNGE OUT IN THE BACKYARD HISTORIC CARS
$200 [27]
Meaty chicken leg
a drumstick
Arthur
$200 [28]
In mythology, a she-wolf suckled these 2 brothers, the founders of Rome
Romulus & Remus
Arthur
$200 [4]
TUR
Turkey
Arthur
$200 [30]
Hereshe is, lunging down the course in 2010, on the way to becoming the first American woman to win gold in an Olympic downhill
Lindsey Vonn
Myfanwy
$200 [29]
This type of fence named for its thin posts is a symbol of suburbia
a picket fence
Myfanwy
$200 [15]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a car at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.) On a fateful day in 1968, this presidential candidate took this Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud to address campaigners at Los Angeles's Ambassador Hotel after his primary win
Robert Kennedy
Myfanwy
$400 [23]
Whale spear on a rope
harpoon
Arthur
$400 [25]
Irish-American Denis Leary loves these huge Irish dogs, though one "scarfed down the headlights on an ATV"
a wolfhound
Padraic
$400 [8]
THA
Thailand
Arthur
$400 [26]
Goalie Briana Scurry lunged to her left to make a diving save when the U.S. women's team won this title in Pasadena in 1999
the FIFA Women's World Cup
$400 [24]
This glass-enclosed building for growing plants gives a nice effect
greenhouse
Arthur
$400 [16]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a car at Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.) This specially made armored limousine was made for Franklin Delano Roosevelt & used as he hammered out issues at this Crimean conference in 1945
Yalta
Arthur
$600 [19]
When Yosemite Sam is swindled or hoodwinked by a no-good varmint, he's been this
hornswoggled
Arthur
$600 [21]
This "junior" actor played the title role in 1941's "The Wolf Man"
Lon Chaney Jr.
Padraic
$600 [13]
TJK
Tajikistan
Arthur
$600 [17]
Seen here with both diving for the ball, this golden pair were pretty much unbeatable
Misty May-Treanor & Kerri Walsh Jennings
$600 [20]
It has 6 letters, a roof & no walls, or maybe latticed ones
a gazebo
Arthur
$600 [22]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a car's engine at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.) Featuring a single cylinder engine dubbed "Little Hercules", the first ever one of these cars, named for the founder of the city of Detroit, rolled onto streets in 1902
a Cadillac
Arthur
$800 [2]
To make this Scandinavian dish, start by soaking cod in lye
lutefisk
Arthur
$800 [11]
The Russian title of this Prokofiev composition is "Petya i Volk"
Peter and the Wolf
Arthur
$800 [3]
TGO
Togo
Padraic Myfanwy
$800 [14]
This track star of the 1980s lunged for the finish line in flashy one-legged running outfits of her own design
Flo Jo (Florence Joyner)
Myfanwy
$800 [1]
Kids love to get on these; Fragonard painted a slightly older girl on one
a swing
Arthur
$1,000 [7]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a smooth car at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.) Containing no sharp edges, the aesthetic & technical achievements of the 1947Cisitalia 202 GTwere enough for this progressive New York City museum to consider it a work of art & put it on display
MOMA (the Museum of Modern Art)
Myfanwy
$1,000 [10]
The national monument named for this cactus is seen here
an organ pipe cactus
$1,000 [5]
Like their mammal counterparts, wolf species of this arthropod often live in burrows & hunt prey
spiders
Arthur
$1,000 [12]
TKM
Turkmenistan
Myfanwy
$1,000 [6]
Mariel Zagunis won Olympic gold in 2004 & 2008 using this fencing sword that goes back to a curved military weapon
a saber
Arthur
$1,000 [9]
A small outbuilding for storing fuel; as a verb it means to practice music
woodshed
DD $6,000 [18]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us another car at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.) Inspired by the '56 Packard, the 1962 Chaika was a favorite of Nikita Khrushchev, who owned one himself & gave one as a present to this first cosmonaut
Yuri Gagarin
Arthur

Double Jeopardy! Round

2013 BESTSELLERS OBSERVATORIES MOVIE MUSICALS BY SONGS NET ADVERTISING LIFE OF RILEY BACK IN THE 6-"T"s
$400 [4]
The "Fifty Shades" movement goes on with Maya Banks' "Burn", in which the dominant is named Ash & Josie is this counterpart
submissive
Padraic
$400 [27]
Astaircasecasts the shadow of the world's largest sundial at this country's Jaipur Observatory
India
Myfanwy
$400 [1]
1977:"More Than A Woman" &"You Should Be Dancing"
Saturday Night Fever
Padraic
$400 [30]
In computer marketing, "above the fold" refers to the part of a web page seen without doing this
scrolling (down)
Arthur Padraic
$400 [28]
In 1988 Lakers coach Pat Riley trademarked this term denoting a trio of consecutive title wins
a three-peat
Myfanwy
$400 [8]
A stool; a nursery rhyme miss sat on one
a tuffet
Padraic
$800 [5]
Full of greed, ego & backstabbing, this is the town covered in Mark Leibovich's "This Town"
Washington, D.C.
$800 [25]
The twin telescopes at the Keck Observatory on this dormant Hawaiian volcano are each 8 stories tall
Mauna Kea
Arthur
$800 [2]
2007:"Good Morning Baltimore" &"Welcome To The '60s"
Hairspray
Myfanwy
$800 [26]
Typically, full banner ads measure 468 of these wide, 60 tall
pixels
Arthur
$800 [29]
Fort Riley is named for General Bennett Riley, who led the first military escort along this trail to New Mexico
the Santa Fe Trail
Myfanwy
$800 [9]
Surface seen here
a tarmac
Arthur
$1,200 [21]
Take a large swallow, as you may do with some of Mary Roach's digestive tract descriptions in her book of this title
Gulp
$1,200 [22]
The University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory has the world's largest telescope of this type with a convex lens, not a mirror
refracting
Arthur
$1,200 [3]
1984 & 2011:"Almost Paradise" &"Let's Hear It For The Boy"
Footloose
$1,200 [17]
Forcing users to do a certain Facebook action before getting more product info is called this "-gating"
like
Arthur
$1,200 [23]
The thrill isn't gone for this blues great born with the first name Riley in Itta Bena, Mississippi in 1925
B.B. King
$1,200 [24]
Fishing gear
tackle
Arthur
$1,600 [18]
Her book "My Story" suggests that her Mormon faith helped her through her 9-month kidnap ordeal
Elizabeth Smart
Arthur
$1,600 [14]
Kitt Peak National Observatory, on land of the Tohono O'odham tribe in this state, operates 22 optical telescopes
Arizona
Padraic Myfanwy
$1,600 [6]
1956:"I Whistle A Happy Tune" &"Shall We Dance?"
The King and I
Padraic
$1,600 [16]
One online ad payment model is PPS, pay per sale; PPC stands for "pay per" this, meaning only a view is needed
click
Padraic
$1,600 [19]
In 1878 pioneering bug scholar Charles Riley was appointed chief entomologist of this Cabinet department
Agriculture
Arthur
$1,600 [20]
From the Greek for "wound", it's a shock to the body
trauma
Arthur
DD $5,000 [13]
The nonfiction book about these title men tells how art historians & museum curators saved art from Nazi looting
the Monuments Men
Arthur
DD $5,000 [10]
Since 1999 a green laser has been beamed into the sky from this observatory to mark the prime meridian
Greenwich
Arthur
$2,000 [7]
1944:"Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" &"The Boy Next Door"
Meet Me in St. Louis
Myfanwy
$2,000 [12]
There's nobody like you--you're this type of "visitor" counted only once even if you visit a website 10 times
a unique
Arthur
$2,000 [11]
This "Poet of the Common People" wrote "When the Frost is on the Punkin"
James Whitcomb Riley
$2,000 [15]
As a noun, it's the reeds or palm fronds that cover a roof; as a verb, it's the act of covering the roof
thatch
Arthur

Final Jeopardy!

BUSINESS

"The Everything Store" is a book about this company that in 2012 was home to 1% of all North American Internet traffic

Amazon.com

Padraic "What is Amazon.com" — wagered $1,119
Myfanwy "What is Amazon.com?" — wagered $9,000
Arthur "What is Amazon" — wagered $5,000

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