Show #6852 2014-06-03 (taped 2014-02-12) Regular

Contestants

Peter Dyakowski — a professional football player from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Sarah Fremgen — a microbiologist from Carrollton, Texas

Brian Loughnane — an investment operations manager from Scituate, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Brian $4,800 $7,600 $13,200 $4,200
2nd place: $2,000
$17,200
21 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Sarah $1,600 $1,400 $11,000 $21,000
New champion: $21,000
$12,000
17 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Peter $600 $-1,400 $1,200 $1,200
3rd place: $1,000
$4,200
7 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

FOUNDERS DAY FIRE PLACE NICE "RUG" WORD PROBLEM PROBLEMS TV DRAMA SERIES ALASKA'S GLACIERS
$200 [26]
In 2013, when asked to name his greatest achievement, he said "CNN"
Ted Turner
Brian
$200 [1]
586 B.C.:Nebuchadnezzar burns this city's first temple
Jerusalem
Brian Sarah
$200 [21]
Of sturdy build or strong constitution
rugged
Brian
$200 [6]
If Tom's tuition costs $43,000 at this school near Palo Alto, how can his parents afford it?
Stanford
Brian
$200 [16]
Anthony Edwards & Julianna Margulies were in the cast when this medical drama debuted in 1994
ER
Brian
$200 [11]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew comes to us from a boat near Margerie Glacier in Alaska.) The shorelines were completely covered by ice just 200 years ago; today's glaciers in Glacier Bay are remnants of the "LIA", or Little this, which started in the early 14th century
the Little Ice Age
Sarah
$400 [27]
This church founder was born in Sharon, Vermont in 1805
Joseph Smith
Sarah
$400 [2]
1871:The "Great Fire" of this city starts in a barn on De Koven Street
Chicago
Sarah
$400 [22]
It's played with 15 players on a team in "Union" play & 13 players on a team in "League" play
rugby
Brian
$400 [7]
If the new football field at FedEx field is 47 yards long & 24 yards wide, Dan Snyder, the owner of this NFL team, will not be pleased
the Redskins
Sarah
$400 [17]
Freddie Highmore is Norman & Vera Farmiga is his mother on this A&E show
Bates Motel
Sarah
$400 [12]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew talks to us from a boat in Glacier Bay, Alaska.)Thisfamous Baltimore medical school sponsored early expeditions to Glacier Bay, which is why there's a glacier and an inlet that share their name with the philanthropist the University is named for.
Johns Hopkins
Sarah
DD $1,000 [28]
He didn't have the nicest things to say about Bill Gates in "Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft"
Paul Allen
Sarah
$600 [3]
1613:It's fire burn & cauldron bubble for this city's Globe Theatre
London
Brian
$600 [23]
Get updates & information for staying safe & healthy from fda.gov, this federal entity's website
the Food and Drug Administration
Sarah
$600 [8]
If Joe has 6 dozen eggs & buys 3 dozen more, he'll have plenty to beat into this egg white confection for a type of lemon pie
meringue
Peter
$600 [18]
Can you handle the truth? This man created "The Newsroom" for HBO
Aaron Sorkin
$600 [13]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew comes to us from a boat near Margerie Glacier in Alaska.) Ice fields in glaciers affect climate in various ways; white snow's high albedo means the snow is particularly good at doing this to solar radiation, causing the globe to cool.
reflecting
Brian
$1,000 [25]
In 1968 this Kennedy sister founded the Special Olympics
Eunice
Brian
$800 [4]
Circa 50 B.C.:This city's library is torched (by Julius Caesar, some say)
Alexandria
Brian
$1,000 [24]
Lester Flatt & this banjo virtuoso performed the theme song for "The Beverly Hillbillies"
Earl Scruggs
Peter
$800 [9]
Sue reads 22 pages an hour; how many pages of "Merry Christmas, Alex Cross" by this man can Sue read until the movie opens?
(James) Patterson
Brian
$800 [19]
Basically one long chase, it won the 1966 drama series Emmy
The Fugitive
Brian
$800 [14]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us some seals from the Margerie Glacier in Alaska.)Wildlifeflocks to the Glacier Bay inlet named for this Scottish-born naturalist, founder of the Sierra Club
John Muir
Sarah
$1,000 [5]
1871:The Hotel de Ville in this city is burned during the commune
Paris
Brian
$1,000 [10]
If you have 3 100-real notes, it helps to know the real is the currency of this South American country
Brazil
Brian
$1,000 [20]
"Trust-no1 " is a fitting email address that was used in this drama
The X-Files
Sarah
$1,000 [15]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us the ice at Margerie Glacier in Alaska.) Today, glaciers cover 11% of the world's surface; 2.6 million years ago during this epoch, they covered 30%.
the Pleistocene
Peter

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE BRITS ADD U TO IT HOSPITALS GRAB BAG SUN OF A BOOK RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN THE LEADER WHO...
$400 [1]
The Brits have a sense of this amusing word & insert "u" to make it 6 letters
humor
Peter
$400 [16]
The Maryland military medical center named for this man says it's "where the nation heals its heroes"
Walter Reed
Brian
$400 [6]
From 2007 to 2010 he gave away nearly $1 billion to charity; thanks, Mr. Mayor!
Bloomberg
Peter
$400 [29]
In "Sun Signs", a classic book in this field, Linda Goodman thanked her friend & teacher Lloyd Cope, a Virgo
astrology
Brian
$400 [23]
When this musical premiered on Broadway in 1959, captain Georg Von Trapp was played by Theodore Bikel
The Sound of Music
Sarah
$400 [11]
Spent 16 years in the KGB, retiring as a Lt. Colonel
Putin
Peter
$800 [2]
It means gossip or hearsay, but you didn't hear it from me
rumor
Sarah
$800 [17]
In the 1940s GM executives Alfred Sloan & this man joined forces to found a cancer institute in Manhattan
(Charles) Kettering
Sarah
$800 [7]
Central America is bordered by Mexico to the Northwest and by this country to the Southeast
Colombia
Sarah
$800 [30]
In the short story "Nightfall" by this prolific sci-fi writer, a planet with 6 suns goes dark
Isaac Asimov
Sarah
$800 [22]
This show about Laurey & Curly was the first R&H collaboration
Oklahoma!
Sarah
$800 [12]
...whois seen here& became "the Elder" on May 28, 1759
William Pitt
Brian
$1,200 [3]
It's a beautiful day in this, a district or locality
the neighborhood
Sarah
$1,200 [18]
Medical highlights of this Boston hospital include the first public demonstration of anesthesia in 1846
Mass. General Hospital
Brian
$1,200 [8]
Barry & Garry (Goldwater & Shandling, respectively) are alums of the University of this state
Arizona
$1,200 [28]
Khaled Hosseini's "A Thousand Splendid Suns" explores the last 30 years in this Asian nation
Afghanistan
Brian
$1,600 [20]
This Rodgers & Hammerstein musical was based on 2 short "Tales" by James Michener
South Pacific
Brian
$1,200 [13]
Became co-president of the French Committee of National Liberation in 1943
De Gaulle
Peter
$1,600 [4]
To bettors, Arsenal would probably be this in a match against Aston Villa
the favorite
Peter
$1,600 [24]
A mural in the Harvey Morse auditorium of this L.A. medical center honors Jewish contributions to medicine
Cedars-Sinai
Sarah
$1,600 [9]
This muscle group lets you bend the knee; it's also a word meaning "to cripple"
hamstring
Peter
$1,600 [27]
"A Raisin in the Sun" was this woman's first produced play
Lorraine Hansberry
$2,000 [21]
Completes the title of Linda Low's song from "Flower Drum Song", "I enjoy..."
"being a girl"
$2,000 [15]
As Vietnam's first president, is featured on the 500,000-dong note
Ho Chi Minh
Sarah
$2,000 [5]
To perceive by taste or smell, with relish
to savor
Sarah
$2,000 [25]
Groote Schuur hospital in this country was the site of the first human heart transplant
South Africa
Brian
$2,000 [10]
In 1926 artist Walter Sickert won a Carnegie prize (yay); in 2002 Patricia Cornwell said Walt was this serial killer (boo)
Jack the Ripper
$2,000 [26]
In this "royal" H. Rider Haggard adventure novel, a character uses his knowledge of a solar eclipse to fool tribesmen
King Solomon's Mines
Brian
DD $4,000 [19]
Seen here are two of the original Broadway cast of this show, including Bonnie Raitt's dad, John; note the set
Carousel
Brian
DD $3,000 [14]
Fled Cuba for the Dominican Republic on Jan. 1, 1959
Fulgencio Batista
Peter

Final Jeopardy!

COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES

Team nicknames of the 8 Ivy League schools include 4 animals, 3 colors & this Christian denomination

the Quakers (of the University of Pennsylvania)

Peter "What is the Orangemen?" — wagered $0
Sarah "What are the Quakers?" — wagered $10,000
Brian "What is" — wagered $9,000

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