Show #6800 2014-03-21 (taped 2013-12-03) Regular

Contestants

Joe Morse — a Coast Guard helicopter mechanic originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Lindsay Wilson — a graduate student of social work from Severn, Maryland

Diane Levinson — a book publicist from Astoria, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Diane $3,600 $8,000 $14,000 $3,599
3rd place: $1,000
$14,000
22 R, 3 W
Lindsay $2,800 $1,800 $9,800 $19,500
2nd place: $2,000
$9,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Joe $800 $5,400 $12,200 $24,400
New champion: $24,400
$12,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

VAMPIRE FLICKS THEY DRINK BLOOD SAFE WORDS INSTRUMENT-AL TO MY CAREER ABBREV-"E"-ATIONS FLYING INTO HISTORY
$200 [8]
In the U.S., this second movie in the "Twilight" saga is the highest-grossing vampire film of all time
Eclipse
Lindsay
$200 [17]
Hirudin is an anticoagulant obtained from the secretions of these medicinal worms
leeches
Joe
$200 [6]
Alexander Pope wrote about "The Rape of" one
lock
Diane
$200 [14]
Don't rag on Scott Joplin's playing
the piano
Diane
$200 [1]
It's what the "E" stands for in OPEC
Exporting
$200 [26]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) Used in every theater of World War II, theB-25 Mitchellis best known as the plane used by Doolittle's Raiders in the dramatic 1942 attack immortalized on film as "Thirty Seconds Over" this city
Tokyo
Diane
$400 [9]
In 1992 on film Kristy Swanson originated the role of this "Vampire Slayer"
Buffy
Joe
$400 [18]
The candiru, a tiny parasitic catfish of the Amazon, attacks other fish by swimming into these breathing organs to feast
gills
Lindsay Joe
$400 [7]
Jab-jab-cross in boxing
combination
Lindsay
$400 [20]
The Sex Pistols' Sid Vicious (as much as Sid could)
bass (bass guitar)
Diane
$400 [2]
It's the "E" in BET, a cable network
Entertainment
Joe
$400 [27]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) The F4U Corsair's unusual bent wings helped reducethe aircraft's drag; the wings also folded to save storage space when it operated from these, as it did in the Pacific in both World War II & the Korean War
an aircraft carrier
Joe
$600 [10]
Ironically, since he loves the sun & vampires shun it, this actor camped it up as Dracula in 1979's "Love at First Bite"
George Hamilton
Diane
$600 [19]
Georgia Southern University houses the world's largest collection of these tiny arachnids that can irritate your dog
ticks
Diane Lindsay
$600 [13]
Gymnasts spring off a Reuther board in this event
vault
Lindsay
$600 [21]
Herb Alpert, tooting (& toting) his own horn
the trumpet
Diane
$600 [3]
Butterfield, I need that report on my desk by EOD Friday--tell me you know "EOD" is short for this
end-of-day
Diane
$600 [28]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) C-54 Skymasters carried most of the 2.3 million tons ofcargodelivered between June 1948 & October 1949 as part of this Cold War program, nicknamed "Operation Vittles"
the Berlin Airlift
Diane
$800 [11]
Before he was "Masters of Sex", Michael Sheen played Lucian in the "Rise of the Lycans", part of this series
Underworld
Lindsay
$800 [24]
The head type of this insect, Pediculus capitis, cannot survive apart from humans for more than 24 hours
lice
Joe
$800 [15]
A fissure, or to tell a joke
crack
Diane Lindsay
$800 [22]
It's time for Mick Fleetwood, Mac
the drums
Joe
$800 [4]
In a classified ad, "EOE" stands for this type of employer
Equal Opportunity
Diane
$800 [29]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) In the P-51 Mustang, the Allies finally had a fighter with therangeto fly from England into the heart of Germany & back; when he saw mustangs over Berlin, this Luftwaffe chief reportedly said he knew that World War II was lost
Hermann Goering
$1,000 [12]
In 2000 "Shadow of the Vampire" gave a fictional account of the making of this classic 1922 German film
Nosferatu
Diane
DD $3,000 [25]
An estimated 55,000 Africans die each year from being bitten by this fly whose name means "fly" in the Tswana language
the tsetse fly
Joe
$1,000 [16]
Somersaulting circus performers
tumblers
$1,000 [23]
Itzhak Perlman
the violin
Diane
$1,000 [5]
(Alex Trebek delivers the clue from Ramstein Air Base in Germany.) Ramstein Air Base is home to a squadron that coordinates bringing wounded warriors home; from counting oxygen tanks to configuring the aircraft for non-ambulatory patients, it's the 86thAES, which is short for "aeromedical" this kind of "squadron"
evacuation
Diane
$1,000 [30]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) Most of the more than 3,000 Bell P-63 Kingcobra fighters built during World War II were delivered as part of the lend-lease program to this country for use in what was called the Great Patriotic War
the Soviet Union
Diane Joe

Double Jeopardy! Round

WELCOME TO T.G.I. FRIDA'S FEDERAL AGENCIES THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE AFRICAN HISTORY SPORTS SUPERSTARS "WORD" WORDS
$400 [21]
We recommend the Diegordo buritto, named for this man who married Frida Kahlo twice
Diego Rivera
Diane
$400 [1]
The AOA, or Administration on this, has such programs as long-term care planning & elder abuse prevention
Aging
Lindsay
$400 [14]
British poet Robert Graves called love a universal one of these headaches, "a bright stain on the vision blotting out reason"
a migraine
Diane
$400 [23]
On Sept. 1, 1969 this young military captain deposed Libya's King Idris I
(Mu'ammar) Gadhafi
Joe
$400 [8]
100+ assists in an NHL season has been accomplished only 13 times, 11 times by this player
Wayne Gretzky
Diane Joe
$400 [4]
"Newspaper puzzle",9 letters, fourth & fifth are "S"; hmmm...
crossword
Lindsay
$800 [22]
The MOMA tomato salad recalls a museum in this city, where Frida first showed in 1942 & where her work still hangs
New York City
Joe
$800 [2]
Customs & Border Protection secures 329 ports of entry, including Luis Muñoz Marin Airport on this Caribbean island
Puerto Rico
Lindsay
$800 [15]
This character says, "I have told you, reader, that I had learnt to love Mr. Rochester; I could not unlove him now"
Jane Eyre
Lindsay
$800 [24]
From April to July 1994, around 800,000 people, mostly Tutsi, were killed by Hutu militias in this country
Rwanda
Joe
$800 [10]
In 2001 this Swede scored a 59 for 18 holes, the lowest score in LPGA history
(Annika) Sorenstam
Lindsay
$800 [7]
A secret word to gain access, or a classic TV game show
password
Joe
$1,600 [28]
The caviar enchilada is our tribute to Frida's affair with this revolutionary
(Leon) Trotsky
Joe
$1,200 [3]
America looked to the skies July 29, 1958 with the creation of this new government body
NASA
Diane
$1,200 [16]
This American's "Death in the Afternoon" says, "If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it"
Hemingway
Diane
DD $2,000 [27]
In June 2013 this Islamic group governed Egypt; in September it was banned
the Muslim Brotherhood
Joe
$1,200 [11]
36 points is a great night, but in a March 1962 NBA game he had 36 baskets from the field
Wilt Chamberlain
Joe
$1,200 [9]
In a book it's like an introduction but usually by someone other than the author
the foreword
Lindsay
$2,000 [26]
Sip a Noguchi-chi, named for Frida's lover Isamu Noguchi, best known as this type of 3-dimensional artist
a sculptor
Joe
DD $2,000 [5]
In 2003 the word "Explosives" was added to the name of this agency
the ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms)
Lindsay
$1,600 [17]
This Brit's poem "La Belle Dame sans Merci" says, "She looked at me as she did love, And made sweet moan"
John Keats
Diane
$2,000 [25]
In 1931, a year after taking the throne, he gave Ethiopia its first written constitution
(Haile) Selassie
Diane
$1,600 [12]
He's the multiple NFL record holder seen here
Jerry Rice
Lindsay
$1,600 [19]
If I said "insane", & you replied "spouse", we'd be doing this 2-"word" test, & your marriage might be in trouble
word association
Joe
$2,000 [6]
The Rural Housing Service is not a part of HUD but of this other Cabinet department
Agriculture
Diane
$2,000 [18]
One of his "Songs of Innocence" says, "we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love"
William Blake
$2,000 [13]
Born in this world capital, Novak Djokovic became No. 1 in men's tennis in 2011
Belgrade
Diane
$2,000 [20]
The opening of the book of Genesis is echoed in this 6-word opening of the Gospel according to John
"In the beginning was the word"
Diane

Final Jeopardy!

CURRENT REALITY TV

On learning what his series would be called, the star of this reality show said, "That sounds like a Chinese food place!"

Duck Dynasty

Lindsay "What is Duck Dynasty?" — wagered $9,700
Joe "What is Duck Dynasty" — wagered $12,200
Diane "What is talk soup?" — wagered $10,401

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