Show #6843 2014-05-21 (taped 2014-02-05) Regular

Julia Collins game 13.

Contestants

Lara Brenckle Malmont — a strategic communications lead from Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Sirena Terr — a business lawyer and consultant from Livingston, New Jersey

Julia Collins — a supply chain professional from Kenilworth, Illinois (whose 12-day cash winnings total $245,610)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Julia $4,600 $5,000 $17,800 $15,800
13-day champion: $261,410
$17,400
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Sirena $2,400 $4,400 $3,000 $3,000
3rd place: $1,000
$3,200
11 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Lara $1,000 $3,600 $6,800 $6,000
2nd place: $2,000
$6,800
8 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

LETTERS TO CANADA THE HAIR APPARENT SKYDIVING FAMOUS WOMEN THE HEISMAN WINNER'S SCHOOL "E" FOLLOWS "D"
$200 [16]
QC is the postal abbreviation for this Canadian province, the largest in area
Quebec
Julia
$200 [6]
In the '70s, Darnell "Dr. Dunk" Hillman of the ABA sported a monumental one of these
an afro
Julia
$200 [25]
This electric term is used for the sudden jolt felt by a jumper when the chuteopens
shock
Lara
$200 [1]
In 2013 N.Y. mag. reported, "Three years before November 8, 2016, she's working hard to be relaxed, calm, easy"
Hillary Clinton
Lara
$200 [26]
Tim Tebow(2007)
University of Florida
Julia
$200 [11]
From the Latin for "faithful", it's loyalty or faithfulness to one's spouse
fidelity
Julia
$400 [17]
Put MB on your letter & it'll go to this province that could be called the Land of 38,000 Lakes
Manitoba
Julia
$400 [7]
Joan on "Mad Men" sported this 'do that sounds like insects live on your head
a beehive
Julia
$400 [24]
The auxiliary parachute is also called this, a word found on bottles of fine wine
reserve
Julia
$400 [2]
Drinks definitely were not on this pro-Prohibition woman
Carrie Nation
Julia
$400 [27]
Johnny Manziel(2012)
Texas A&M
Lara
$400 [12]
Wine is often poured from the bottle into this decorative container
a decanter
Sirena
$600 [18]
One of the 4 original provinces, it's NB
New Brunswick
Sirena
$600 [8]
Hey, wise guy, time to dish & get this cut--nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!
a bowl cut
Sirena
$600 [20]
To exit & clear the plane & then activatethe chute right away is rhymingly called hop & this
pop
Sirena
DD $400 [3]
In 1896 this educator became the first woman in Italy to get a medical degree
Maria Montessori
Julia
$600 [28]
Vinny Testaverde(1986)
University of Miami
$600 [13]
This decorative art with needle & thread includes such stitches as flat, knotted & looped
embroidery
Sirena
$800 [22]
This province with lots of dinosaur bones is SK
Saskatchewan
Sirena
$800 [9]
In this braided look from Africa, narrow strips of hair are plaited tightly against the scalp
cornrows
Sirena
$800 [19]
It's the 2-word term for the fastest speed a body can reach falling through the air
terminal velocity
Lara
$800 [4]
After a trip "on the good ship Lollipop", this child star was later ambassador to Ghana & Czechoslovakia
Shirley Temple
Lara
$800 [14]
This term refers to a student at a military school such as West Point who is training to become an officer
cadet
Julia
$1,000 [23]
NU is new & stands for this territory created in 1999
Nunavut
Lara
$1,000 [10]
Yeah, baby! Let's do this 4-letter 'do, cut in slightly uneven, overlapping layers downward from the crown
a shag
Julia
$1,000 [21]
2-word specified area where skydivers plan toland, or a Gary Busey film about skydiving crooks
Drop Zone
Lara
$1,000 [5]
Freed from slavery in 1827, she went to court to get her son back from the South; "verify" her
Sojourner Truth
Julia
$1,000 [15]
From the Latin for "to shackle the feet", this verb means to hinder or obstruct progress
impede
Julia

Double Jeopardy! Round

TO THE EXOPLANETS! PHIL-IBUSTER SPY FICTION "KEY" WORDS & PHRASES THE SECRETARY OF WAR THAT USED TO BE A THING
DD $200 [26]
In 1992 the first exoplanets were found orbiting one of these rotating stars that emit regular bursts of radiation
a pulsar
Sirena
$400 [1]
This NBA coach once quipped, "If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball"
Phil Jackson
Julia
$400 [21]
This code name of a spy completes Ken Follett's title "Eye of..."
the Needle
$400 [2]
San Antonio mayor Julian Castro delivered this at the 2012 Democratic Convention
the keynote address
Sirena
$400 [12]
Last name of Secretary No. 3--the fort named for him played a "key" role in "The Star-Spangled Banner"
McHenry
Julia
$400 [7]
Clark Kent would have trouble today finding one of these to change in, as AT&T & other companies have abandoned them
phone booths
Julia
$400 [22]
NASA has found an Earthlike planet within a "habitable zone"--the area in a star system where this could exist in liquid form
water
Julia
$800 [17]
In 1991 this gray-haired daytime talk show host said, "The mammary gland has become the hallmark of our culture"
Phil Donahue
Sirena
$800 [25]
I spied "A Delicate Truth", a 2013 thriller by this British octogenarian
John Le Carré
$800 [3]
A thingamajig; its usage dates back 100 years
a doohickey
$800 [13]
Pierce's War Secretary, he soon ended up in a war, all right... with the United States
Jefferson Davis
Julia Sirena
$800 [8]
"A Feathered River Across the Sky" is a 2014 book about this creature that once made up over 1/4 of North America's birds
the passenger pigeon
Sirena
$800 [23]
In 2013 Caltech scientists announced there are more than 100 billion planets in this alone--about one per star
the Milky Way
$1,200 [18]
Name this athletic wear mogul--just do it
Phil Knight
Julia Sirena
$1,200 [28]
Aspects of his 1958 novel "Our Man in Havana" seemed to predict the Cuban Missile Crisis
Graham Greene
$1,200 [4]
This detachable men's shirt front started to become popular in the 19th century
a dickey
Julia
$1,600 [15]
Nice balancing act! This future prez was Madison's Secretary of State & War at the same time
James Monroe
$1,200 [9]
The landmark "Old Man of the Mountain" collapsed in 2003, but it's still on license plates of this state
New Hampshire
Sirena
$1,200 [24]
The first Earth-size exoplanets were found by the NASA satellite launched in 2009 & named for this 17th c. German astronomer
(Johannes) Kepler
Sirena
$1,600 [19]
In 2003 this Phil Keoghan-hosted reality show won its first Emmy--it would not be the last
The Amazing Race
$1,600 [5]
A tough way to get off a drug
cold turkey
Lara
DD $2,000 [14]
A son of this president worked for Garfield & later became a wealthy corporate lawyer
(Abraham) Lincoln
Julia
$1,600 [10]
On June 26, 2013 the Supreme Court said this act was "unconstitutional as a deprivation of the equal liberty of persons"
DOMA (the Defense of Marriage Act)
Lara
$2,000 [27]
In 1995 astronomers confirmed the first exoplanet orbiting a sunlike star, in this "equine" constellation
Pegasus
Julia Sirena
$2,000 [20]
This Texas senator teamed up with Rudman & Hollings for a 1985 balanced-budget law
Phil Gramm
$2,000 [6]
If a person purchases a business that is fully equipped & ready to open, it is said to be this
turnkey
Julia
$2,000 [16]
Secretary during the Civil War, he died 4 days after Grant appointed him to the Supreme Court
Edwin Stanton
$2,000 [11]
Formed in 1930, this 3-letter airline got absorbed by American in 2001
TWA
Julia

Final Jeopardy!

ORGANIZATIONS

The full name of this scholarly group founded after a lecture in 1660 includes "of London for Improving Natural Knowledge"

the Royal Society

Sirena "What is shout out to Eric + Daniel Neveloff [drawing of a heart]" — wagered $0
Lara "What is the National Geographic Society?" — wagered $800
Julia "What is the Royal Academy of Science?" — wagered $2,000

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