Show #6856 2014-06-09 (taped 2014-02-18) Regular

Contestants

Jack Barry — a chief financial officer from Raleigh, North Carolina

Heather Heffner — an attorney from St. Louis, Missouri

Molly Lalonde — a pediatric nurse practitioner student from Nashville, Tennessee (whose 2-day cash winnings total $26,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Molly $0 $2,000 $14,200 $11,900
3-day champion: $38,500
$18,600
23 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs)
Heather $2,000 $3,600 $8,200 $200
3rd place: $1,000
$9,200
14 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Jack $600 $5,200 $7,600 $2,600
2nd place: $2,000
$7,600
12 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN CITIES YOU CAN QUOTE ME SPORTS TALK STUPID ANSWERS STOP! HEY, WHAT'S THAT SOUND? EVERYBODY LOOK WHAT'S GOING "DOWN"
$200 [1]
Once part of New Sweden, this Pennsylvania city is found where the Schuylkill River meets the Delaware River
Philadelphia
Molly Heather
$200 [4]
FDR declared, "The only thing we have to fear is" this
fear itself
Molly
$200 [20]
In a racquet sport, you whack this object seen here
a shuttlecock
Jack
$200 [21]
You must be at least 21 to play at Luxor Las Vegas' 38 tables for this game
21
Molly
$200 [26]
Thishuge mammal sounds like it's enjoying a bath in an African river
a hippopotamus
Heather
$200 [12]
...3, 2, 1 is an example of this; so is "American Top 40"
a countdown
Heather
$400 [2]
The Bisons are a Triple-A minor league baseball team from this New York city
Buffalo
Molly
$400 [8]
About his upcoming opponent Billy Conn, this boxing champ remarked, "He can run, but he can't hide"
Joe Louis
Molly
$400 [19]
In 1996 MLB expanded this area, moving one boundary from the top to the bottom of the batter's knees
the strike zone
Jack
$400 [22]
"Red Carpet" & "Just Like Us" are weekly features of this magazine
Us ( Weekly )
Heather
$400 [27]
Ever wanted to know how to ask, "Where is the train station?" in this language?
(Mandarin) Chinese
Jack
$400 [13]
A division into parts or categories; you don't want a "nervous" one
a breakdown
Molly
$600 [3]
Thiscityof 2 million people--we have no problem
Houston
Heather
$600 [11]
Martin Luther King reached a peak with "Free at last! Free at last!" These 3 words, "we are free at last"
Thank God Almighty
Heather
$600 [6]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a racetrack diagram on a monitor.) At the start of a NASCAR race, the top cars line up according to their qualifying times; best time getsthis2-word spot, a term said to have originated in horse racing
pole position
Molly
$600 [23]
The Rhine River flows north from Switzerland into Germany & through the Netherlands before emptying into this sea
the North Sea
Molly
$600 [28]
Buckeyes, cover your ears--here's the fight song of this Big 10 school
the University of Michigan
Molly
$600 [14]
A "pickle" in baseball, or a brief summary of main points
a rundown
Jack
$800 [5]
Joplin in this state was not named for a musician but for a Methodist missionary
Missouri
Jack
$800 [9]
On March 4, 1966 John Lennon made the scandalous remark, "We're more popular than" him "now"
Jesus
Heather Jack
$800 [15]
Fouls in the NBA include technical, personal & these, for unnecessary &/or excessive contact against an opponent
flagrant
Jack
$800 [24]
Tragedy befalls Roberta Alden when she ends up pregnant & dead in this novel, an American classic
An American Tragedy
Molly
$800 [29]
G'day!Thisinstrument can be 5 feet long
a didgeridoo
Molly
$800 [17]
A community party featuring square dancing
a hoedown
Jack
DD $1,400 [7]
The southernmost major city on the U.S. mainland, it had a population of only 343 when the railroad arrived in 1896
Miami
Molly
$1,000 [10]
Lord Acton famously said, this "tends to corrupt"
power
$1,000 [16]
This 5-letter rugby play also means "hubbub" or "confusion"
scrum
Jack
$1,000 [25]
This son of Gutzon Borglum put the finishing touches on Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln & Teddy Roosevelt on Mt. Rushmore
Lincoln Borglum
Molly
$1,000 [30]
Oops! Is "Malpractice Lawsuit" the sequel to this Hasbro game?
Operation
Heather
$1,000 [18]
The confining of prisoners to their cells after a riot
lockdown
Jack

Double Jeopardy! Round

NOVELS & NOVELISTS THE CENTURY'S FIRST YEAR CARIBBEAN CUISINE GLANDS & ORGANS ACTORS' ROLES BEFORE & AFTER
$400 [6]
Thomas Paine wrote "The Age of Reason"; Edith Wharton wrote this 1920 satire of social life in 1870s New York City
The Age of Innocence
Molly
$400 [21]
In 901 Edward the Elder took the title "King of the Angles &" these people
Saxons
Heather
$400 [26]
Gizzada is a popular Jamaican tart made with a filling of brown sugar, nutmeg, butter & this grated palm fruit
coconut
Jack
$400 [1]
Claude Bernard found that juices of this insulin-secreting gland help digest fats
the pancreas
Molly
$400 [9]
Bridget Jones, Dorothy Boyd
Renee Zellweger
Molly
$400 [16]
The 3 colors of the U.S. flag that are a sure bet for market investors
red, white & blue chip
Jack
$800 [7]
Selecting her for 1938, the Nobel committee cited her "rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China"
(Pearl) Buck
Molly
$800 [22]
In 1501 Rodrigo de Bastidas sailed west from Colombia & became the first European to reach this isthmus
Panama
$800 [27]
Basically a freshwater lobster, it's not only big in Louisiana but is said to be on every menu in St. Vincent
a crawfish
Heather
$800 [2]
Apocrine glands are an important type of this gland whose jobs include helping form ear wax as well as cooling the skin
a sweat gland
Molly
$800 [12]
Captain Billy Tyne, Michael Clayton
George Clooney
Heather
$800 [17]
Contact sport that allows striking, kicking, grappling, pottery & needlework
martial arts & crafts
Heather
$1,200 [8]
David Herbert were the given names of this author whose 1915 "The Rainbow" was banned as obscene
(D.H.) Lawrence
Heather
DD $1,000 [23]
On July 3, 1801 this U.S. inventor's Nautilus submarine descended to a depth of 25 feet in a test in France
Robert Fulton
Heather
$1,200 [28]
Puerto Ricans enjoy mofongo, made with this cooking banana, mashed, & crushed pork rinds
plantains
Molly
$1,200 [3]
Birds have 2 chambers in this internal organ, including the gizzard
the stomach
Molly
$1,200 [13]
The Waco Kid, Willy Wonka
Gene Wilder
Molly
$1,200 [18]
Pro-free market movement that emerged in 2009 as a hit with the line "The Jay-Z song was on"
Tea Party in the USA
$1,600 [10]
Lassiter is the hero of the Zane Grey Western "Riders of" this
the Purple Sage
Molly
$1,600 [24]
According to tradition, it was founded on Sept. 3, 301; it's still a republic on the Italian peninsula
San Marino
$1,600 [29]
This 4-letter term refers to the process of rubbing spices & hot peppers onto strips of meat to tenderize them
jerk
Molly
$1,600 [4]
The ileum is the end portion of this, extending from the jejunum to the cecum
the small intestine
Molly
$1,600 [14]
Detective Alonzo Harris, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Denzel Washington
Heather
$1,600 [19]
Alaska fishing TV show that tries to create popular expressions like "it's not rocket science"
Deadliest Catch Phrase
Jack
DD $3,000 [11]
This 1906 novel was partly inspired by an article in the San Francisco Chronicle called "The Call of the Tame"
White Fang
Molly
$2,000 [25]
Australia's first parliament opened on May 9, 1901 in this city in the state of Victoria
Melbourne
Heather
$2,000 [30]
In Haiti this spiral-shelled marine snail is cut up into small pieces & cooked in a stew called lambi
conch
Molly
$2,000 [5]
These 2-inch-long glands sit on top of the kidneys & produce steroids
the adrenal glands
Molly
$2,000 [15]
Padme, Nina Sayers
Natalie Portman
Heather
$2,000 [20]
Piscine term for someone not in his element, that being beneath the Verrazano-Narrows
fish out of water under the bridge

Final Jeopardy!

THE MEDITERRANEAN

It's the only U.N. member country in the Mediterranean where English is an official national language

Malta

Jack "What is Vatican City?" — wagered $5,000
Heather "What is Cyprus?" — wagered $8,000
Molly "What is Morocco?" — wagered $2,300

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