Show #6847 2014-05-27 (taped 2014-02-11) Regular

Julia Collins game 17.

Contestants

Dylan Gaillard — a dentist from Omaha, Nebraska

Jeanne Kaiser — a law professor from Springfield, Massachusetts

Julia Collins — a supply chain professional from Kenilworth, Illinois (whose 16-day cash winnings total $337,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Julia $10,200 $13,600 $28,400 $35,000
17-day champion: $372,700
$22,800
29 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Jeanne $0 $1,200 $-2,000 $-2,000
3rd place: $1,000
$-2,000
5 R, 5 W
Dylan $1,000 $1,400 $4,400 $4,390
2nd place: $2,000
$7,800
14 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

BARBARA WALTERS MOVIES INSPIRED BY LITERATURE LUCKY 13 THOSE ARE MY INITIALS, TOO THE PENTAGON "STR"8 TALK
$200 [16]
In 2010 President Obama visited with Barbara & her cohorts on this show's most-watched episode
The View
Julia
$200 [6]
"A Knight's Tale", starring Heath Ledger, was inspired by this Chaucer classic
The Canterbury Tales
Julia
$200 [11]
Signifying his new manhood, a 13-year-old male reads from the Torah at this occasion
a bar mitzvah
Julia
$200 [1]
Skinner, Goodrich
B.F.
Julia
$200 [23]
The Pentagon was built in less than 16 months during this war
World War II
Dylan
$200 [19]
This baby transport may have a canopy & storage for diapers
a stroller
Jeanne
$400 [17]
Interviewing him in 1980, Barbara asked, "Are you sorry you didn't burn the tapes?"
Nixon
Jeanne
$600 [8]
You Goethe go back to this 2-part 19th century work to see the origins of "Damn Yankees"
Faust
Jeanne
$400 [12]
In 2013 it was lucky 13 for tennis' Mike & Bob Bryan, winners of their 13th doubles title at this type of event, a record
Grand Slam (a major accepted)
Dylan
$400 [2]
Milne, TV's Ron Balakay
A.A.
Julia
$400 [24]
Though it has a D.C. ZIP code, the Pentagon is located in Virginia across this river
the Potomac
Jeanne
$400 [20]
Sit astride, such as on a horse
to straddle
Dylan
$600 [18]
In the 1970s Barbara broke new ground for women co-anchoring the evening news & co-hosting this morning staple
(the) Today (show)
Jeanne Dylan
$800 [9]
Be "Clueless" in remembering that 1995 comedy had its roots in this Austen tale
Emma
Julia
$600 [13]
No. 13 in R.L. Stine's "Classic" this kids' book series is "Welcome to Dead House"
Goosebumps
Dylan
$600 [3]
Griffin, Du Bois
W.E.B.
Julia Jeanne
$600 [26]
You can send a fan letter to the Pentagon to Martin Dempsey, chairman of this 7-member body
the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Julia
$600 [21]
Frederick Douglass claimed, "If there is no" this, "there is no progress"
struggle
$800 [29]
After a rare 1977 interview with this leader of a Communist island, he made Barbara grilled cheese sandwiches
Castro
Jeanne
$1,000 [10]
The 1675 play "The Country Wife" inspired this 1975 movie with Warren Beatty as a lusty hairdresser
Shampoo
Julia
$800 [14]
Colgate University in this state was said to be founded by 13 men "with 13 dollars, 13 prayers & 13 articles"
New York
Julia
$800 [4]
Woolworth, De Klerk
F.W.
Julia
$800 [27]
The9/11 Memorialincludes a wall rising from 3" to 71", representing these of the 184 who died at the Pentagon that day
ages
Julia Dylan
$800 [22]
A part-time correspondent for a newspaper
stringer
Julia
$1,000 [30]
In 1977 Barbara made journalismhistoryby arranging the first joint interview with these twoleaders
Anwar Sadat & Menachem Begin
DD $3,200 [7]
2010's "Easy A"re-imagined this decidedly unfunny 1850 novel as a comedy
The Scarlet Letter
Julia
$1,000 [15]
In 1781 the original 13 states established a federal government under this agreement
the Articles of Confederation
Julia
$1,000 [5]
Hunley, Mencken
H.L.
Julia
$1,000 [28]
The outer & largest concentric "ring" of the Pentagon is designated this letter
the "E" ring
$1,000 [25]
This crumb topping seenhereis sprinkled atop baked goods
streusel
Julia

Double Jeopardy! Round

PLASTIC VISA MASTER CARD AMERICAN EXPRESS DISCOVER DINERS CLUB
$400 [26]
That tyke building a droid tri-fighter out of these doesn't know the bricks are acrylonitrile butadiene styrene
Legos
Dylan
$400 [1]
A passport & visa are all you need to get into Vietnam, but you're advised to tell the U.S. embassy in this city
Hanoi
Julia Jeanne
$400 [21]
In "Tropic Thunder", this dude playing another dude is a "5-time Academy Award winner"
Robert Downey, Jr.
Dylan
$400 [16]
In 1868 George Pullman launched the Delmonico, a sleeping car transformed into one of these cars
a dining car
Julia
$400 [6]
Also called Ilium, this city from the "Iliad" was rediscovered by Heinrich Schliemann in the 1870s
Troy
Julia
$400 [11]
Sweet potatoes are packed with this red-orange pigment, a powerful antioxidant
beta -carotene
Dylan
$800 [27]
In 1999 Baxter International said it would stop using vinyl in these 2-letter medical bags
I.V. bags
Dylan
$800 [2]
You'll need a tourist visa & maybe some oxygen when arriving at the 13,000-foot elevation of La Paz in this country
Bolivia
Dylan
$800 [22]
In "Groundhog Day" Bill Murray has this job; that's why he comes to see the groundhog
a weatherman
Dylan
$800 [17]
Known as the "Train of the Stars", the Super Chief ran from Los Angeles to this city's Dearborn station
Chicago
Julia
$800 [7]
While studying the sun with a spectroscope, Pierre Janssen & Sir Norman Lockyer discovered this element in 1868
helium
Julia
$800 [12]
(Jimmy of the clue crew shows us some palm tree parts in Cambodia.) Botanically palm trees are dioecious, meaningmaleandfemaleflowers grow from different trees; they can also be delicious, as the meat of the fruit is used to make the green type of this South Asian sauce
curry
$1,200 [28]
The hard plastic now called HDPE was introduced to consumers by this swiveling 1950s fad
the Hula Hoop
Julia
$1,200 [3]
A visa is required to travel to this country & its districts such as Bagram, but the State Dept. warns against going
Afghanistan
Jeanne Dylan
$1,200 [23]
In a 1956 classic this redheaded comic rattled off, "The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle"
Danny Kaye
$1,200 [18]
Going up to 150 mph, this Amtrak train running between Boston & D.C. lives up to its speedy name
the Acela
Julia
$1,600 [9]
Biochemist Henrik Dam shared a Nobel Prize for discovering this vitamin vital to blood clotting
vitamin K
Jeanne
$1,200 [13]
Both baklava & spanakopita are made with tissue-thin layers of this type of Greek dough
phyllo dough
Julia
$1,600 [29]
The J.M. Eagle company flies high making pipes of this 3-letter material that was first produced in 1838
PVC
Dylan
$2,000 [5]
You'll need a visa if you want to practice your French in this 920,000-square-mile North African country
Algeria
$1,600 [24]
Comedy in which John Candy plays Del, a master shower curtain ring salesman
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Julia
$1,600 [19]
In 1934 the Burlington R.R. introduced the first of these streamliners named for a god of the west wind
a zephyr
Julia
$2,000 [10]
In 1958, using data from a satellite, this physicist discovered 2 radiation belts encircling the Earth
Van Allen
Julia Dylan
$1,600 [14]
Chipotles are the dried form of these dark green chile peppers
jalapeños
DD $3,400 [4]
A visa to Saudi Arabia for this purpose only covers travel in the vicinities of Mecca, Medina & Jiddah
the Hajj
Dylan
$2,000 [25]
In a 1998 film, Trey Parker & Matt Stone are virtuosos at this sports hybrid
BASEketball
Julia
$2,000 [20]
At this "summit" on May 10, 1869, the ceremonial golden spike was later removed & 3 iron ones driven in
Promontory
Dylan
DD $4,000 [8]
The first fossil recognized as a human ancestor was a skull found near Dusseldorf belonging to this prehistoric man
a Neanderthal
Julia
$2,000 [15]
Gumbo gets its name from an African word for this gumbo ingredient
okra
Julia

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY PLAY TITLES

This play's title comes from the name of a Greek king said to have carved a statue of a woman & fallen in love with it

Pygmalion

Dylan "What is Broccoli" — wagered $10
Julia "What is Pygmalion?" — wagered $6,600

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