Show #6802 2014-03-25 (taped 2013-12-04) Regular

Contestants

Nathan Chadwick — a public librarian from Germantown, Maryland

Matt Prasse — an attorney from Needham, Massachusetts

Nancy Akerman — a science policy fellow from Arlington, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $2,799)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Nancy $-600 $2,400 $7,600 $11,201
2-day champion: $14,000
$9,600
12 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Matt $3,200 $3,800 $1,400 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$1,400
15 R, 7 W
Nathan $400 $3,400 $5,600 $3,601
2nd place: $2,000
$5,200
11 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

GIVE ME A SIGN ALL ALLITERATION IT'S AT THE SMITHSONIAN 20th CENTURY PEOPLE POULTRY IN MOTION IT'S WHERE I WANT TO "B"
$200 [22]
Check it out--the signhereindicates one of these is nearby
a library
Matt
$200 [2]
I will be your this, a man functioning emotionally as your male parent
your father figure
Matt
$200 [1]
This famous footwear from "The Wizard of Oz"
Dorothy's red shoes (or the slippers)
Matt
$200 [6]
Before becoming royalty, she was a kindergarten teacher at the Young England School in Pimlico
Princess Diana
Matt Nathan
$200 [16]
It's fitting that this matronly character who dates back to the 1600s is often depicted riding a flying gander
Mother Goose
Nancy
$200 [11]
This second-most populous Chinese city
Beijing
Matt
$400 [23]
The sign seenherehelps those journeying in this capital city
Tokyo
Matt
$400 [3]
Urging by a teen's set of pals to conform to be socially accepted
peer pressure
Matt
$400 [5]
Logically, one of these weapons from "Star Trek"
a phaser
Nancy Nathan
$400 [7]
Hewas arrested in February of 1956 for organizing a bus boycott; his $500 fine was suspended on appeal
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Matt
$400 [17]
A real trumpet is used by E.B. White's title fowl in the story called "The Trumpet of" this bird
the swan
Nancy
$400 [12]
Thiscity that in 1900 had about 6,000 people
Boise
Nancy
$600 [24]
It's the 3-word instruction that often accompanies this sign
do not enter
Nathan
$600 [4]
At Petoskey United Methodist Church, it starts for kids at 10 A.M. on the Lord's day
Sunday school
Nathan
$600 [19]
Vince & Larry, 2 of these developed to save drivers' lives
crash test dummies
Nancy
$600 [10]
North Korea's press said this leader played his very 1st round of golf in 1994 & did okay--a nifty 38 under, with 5 aces
Kim Jong-il
Matt
$600 [18]
This doctor asks his duck friend Dab Dab "to fly up and tell the swallows that pirates were coming after them"
Doctor Dolittle
Nathan
$600 [13]
This country, a neighbor of Latvia & Ukraine
Belarus
Nancy
$800 [25]
Yes, Pumbaa, the South Africansignis warning of the presence of this animal
a warthog
Nancy
$800 [20]
Say, kids! It's this title puppet from Bob Smith's 1950s TV show
Howdy Doody
Nathan
$800 [8]
In 1964 this Russian-Jewish painter made a stained-glass window for New York's U.N. building
Marc Chagall
DD $1,000 [27]
When Babe the pig can't find Farmer Hogget's "mechanical rooster", one of these, Ferdinand the duck helps
an alarm clock
Nathan
$800 [14]
Thislandlocked kingdom of the Himalayas
Bhutan
Matt
$1,000 [26]
The sign seenherein Washington State is a tribute to this late musician
Kurt Cobain
Nathan
$1,000 [21]
Julie Newmar's costume as this character on the 1960s TV series "Batman"
Catwoman
Nathan
$1,000 [9]
After her 1978 death, it was revealed that this ex-prime minister of Israel had leukemia for 12 years
Golda Meir
Matt
$1,000 [28]
This Marvel Comics hero is a stranger in a strange land, but he did manage to fall in love with human model Beverly Switzler
Howard the Duck
$1,000 [15]
This unincorporated area, home to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
Bethesda
Nancy

Double Jeopardy! Round

MOVIE SOURCE MATERIAL EUROPEAN LANGUAGES 11-LETTER WORDS HISTORICAL TITLES CON MEN "SNOW" JOB
$400 [6]
"The Fifth Estate", with Benedict Cumberbatch as this man, is partly based on "Inside Wiki Leaks"
Julian Assange
Nathan
$400 [1]
Some believe that Cretan, spoken mainly on an island of this country, is Europe's oldest living language
Greece
Matt
$400 [23]
In the early 1980s, Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim attained this status
billionaire
Matt
$400 [19]
Wilhelm I,1871-1888
Kaiser
Nancy
$400 [12]
In 2009 this hedge-fund manager pleaded guilty to 11 felonies in one of the biggest swindles in Wall Street history
Bernie Madoff
Nathan
$400 [11]
This line follows "Mary had a little lamb"
its fleece was white as snow
Matt
$1,200 [8]
Gustav Hasford's Vietnam War novel "The Short Timers" shot up the silver screen as this Stanley Kubrick film
Full Metal Jacket
Matt
$800 [2]
Still spoken by 10,000 in Spain, Aragonese developed in these mountains of the northeast
the Pyrenees
$800 [20]
Boutros Boutros-Ghali,1992-1996
Secretary-General (of the UN)
Matt
$800 [13]
Oh, so close--the ball was under the middle this, a "game" that was a specialty of Old West con man Soapy Smith
the shell
Nancy Matt
$800 [15]
This large-footed mammal, Lepus americanus, has white fur in the winter & brown fur in the summer
the snowshoe hare
Nancy Matt Nathan
$1,600 [9]
This Shakespeare play was updated to a high school in 1999 & hit cinemas as "10 Things I Hate About You"
Taming of the Shrew
Matt Nathan
$1,200 [3]
Romansh is an official language of the Canton of Graubunden in this country
Switzerland
Matt
$1,200 [21]
Pontius Pilate in Judea,26-36
Governor
$1,200 [14]
Working in France after WWI, Victor Lustig was known as "the man who sold" this landmark to a scrap metal dealer
the Eiffel Tower
Nancy
$1,600 [17]
This Maine senator is only the fourth woman in history to serve in both houses of Congress
Olympia Snowe
Nancy Matt
$2,000 [10]
1990 & 2012 films with this title were based on the Philip K. Dick story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale"
Total Recall
$1,600 [4]
Corsican is related to the dialect of this Italian region, birthplace of Galileo, Leonardo & the Renaissance
Tuscany
Nathan
$1,600 [22]
Book of Common Prayerauthor Thomas Cranmer,1533-1556
Archbishop of Canterbury
Nancy
$2,000 [25]
Often preying on seniors, this type of phone-sales scam operation shares its name with part of a ship
a boilerroom scam
DD $2,000 [16]
This Robert Frost poem says, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep"
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Nancy
DD $2,200 [7]
Nicholas Pileggi's "Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family" got this title on the big screen in 1990
Goodfellas
Nathan
$2,000 [5]
Sail north from Estonia & you'll soon find people speaking this, one of the few close linguistic relatives of Estonian
Finnish
Nancy Matt
$2,000 [24]
In the cabinet, Alphonso Taft,1876-1877
Attorney-General
$2,000 [18]
After he married Princess Margaret in 1960, Antony Armstrong-Jones became Earl of this
Snowdon
Nancy

Final Jeopardy!

MEDICAL ETYMOLOGY

Because of where in the body it is produced, this hormone's name comes from the Latin for "island"

insulin

Matt "What is adrenaline?" — wagered $1,400
Nathan "What is adreneline?" — wagered $1,999
Nancy "What is insulin?" — wagered $3,601

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