Show #6858 2014-06-11 (taped 2014-02-18) Regular

Contestants

Sari Laufer — a rabbi from New York, New York

Darren O'Connor — a police officer from Norfolk, Virginia

Molly Lalonde — a pediatric nurse practitioner student from Nashville, Tennessee (whose 4-day cash winnings total $53,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Molly $2,000 $4,800 $14,000 $14,000
2nd place: $2,000
$10,800
14 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Darren $1,600 $4,800 $22,400 $14,400
New champion: $14,400
$22,400
19 R, 0 W
Sari $3,200 $5,800 $15,400 $8,399
3rd place: $1,000
$15,000
19 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

YOUR HORROR-SCOPE A POTPOURRI OF HISTORY RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMYS SCANDINAVIAN FIRST NAMES THE NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET A "TON" OF CITIES
$200 [30]
A friend will get your goat if he buys your farm at a foreclosure; baah-d day for this December 22-January 19 sign
Capricorn
Darren
$200 [1]
After some changes were made, King John accepted this document on June 19, 1215
the Magna Carta
Sari
$200 [9]
2011:Her "Rolling In The Deep"
Adele
Sari
$200 [16]
"Gaslight" actress Bergman
Ingrid
Darren
$200 [7]
I'd like to thank the Motion Picture Academy for this letter
Oscar
$200 [2]
L'Enfant, but not L'Enfant Terrible, designed this U.S. city
Washington, D.C.
Darren
$400 [29]
Something's fishy about this Feb. 19-March 20 sign, & it's your future; mercury poisoning awaits!
Pisces
Molly
$400 [3]
Vlad III (that's the impaler) built the fortress of this Romanian city to try to hold back the Turks
Bucharest
$400 [10]
1984:Her "What's Love Got To Do With It"
Tina Turner
Darren
$400 [17]
Football coach Rockne
Knute
Sari
$400 [8]
May I have this letter? It's one of the 2 that are popular dances
foxtrot (or tango)
Molly
$400 [11]
You'll find Transylvania U. & Henry Clay's old home, now a museum, in this city
Lexington, Kentucky
$600 [24]
"This is the dawning of the age of" this sign but not for you--you'll fall ill after swimming in polluted water
Aquarius
Molly
$600 [4]
A great builder, this pharaoh of Egypt's 19th dynasty sealed peace by marrying a Hittite princess
Ramses (the Great)
Sari
$600 [13]
2000 & 2001:"Beautiful Day" & "Walk On", both by this group
U2
Sari
$600 [12]
Explorer Amundsen
Roald
Molly
$600 [21]
A nation of one billion can't hold back this letter, the only one that's a country
India
$600 [18]
We hope you're on the Wright track to identify this city
Dayton
$800 [27]
You'll get stung by a pal born under this sign; like one in a folktale, he will simply say, "it's my nature"
Scorpio
Molly
$800 [5]
After the British slave trade ended, this mammal product became the most important export from West Central Africa
ivory
Sari
$800 [14]
1996:This guitarist's "Change The World"
Eric Clapton
Sari
$800 [25]
"Pippi Longstocking" author Lindgren
Astrid
$800 [22]
There are more than 10 million members of the south African ethnic group that represents this letter
Zulu
Darren
$1,000 [20]
The Tibetan Cultural Center of this Indiana city was founded in 1979 by a brother of the 14th Dalai Lama
Bloomington
Sari
$1,000 [28]
Oh no! That can't be right! The item that's the symbol of this sign indicates you gained 15 pounds
Libra
Molly
$1,000 [6]
This European banking dynasty was founded by a man named Mayer Amschel
Rothschild
Darren
$1,000 [15]
2005:This trio's "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams"
Green Day
Molly
$1,000 [26]
Scientists Angstrom & Celsius
Anders
Darren
$1,000 [23]
Yentl asked this letter, "can you hear me?"
Papa
Darren
DD $1,200 [19]
This North Carolina city got its present name in 1913, & not for 2 brands of cigarette
Winston-Salem
Sari

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE HULK, SHAKESPEARE SCHOLAR TRANSPORTATION BIRD ORIGINS FAMOUS VOICES CZECHS MIX 2-"TO"-2
$400 [1]
Society expectations doom all in this play; when girl say, "this is thy sheath" & stabs self, Hulk bawl like baby!
Romeo and Juliet
Molly
$400 [15]
In 1832 the USA's first horse-drawn streetcar began driving up & down the Bowery in this city
New York
Molly
$400 [16]
Old French for "young dove" gave us the name of this urban dweller
pigeon
Molly
$400 [6]
Len Dresslar's baritone uttered these 3 syllables amid the lyrics "from the valley of the Jolly Green Giant"
"ho, ho, ho"
Sari
$400 [29]
Czechoslovakia was formed after WWI from what had been regions in this newly defunct empire
the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Sari
$400 [30]
Smokey Robinson & Stevie Wonder recorded on this label
Motown
Sari
$800 [2]
Hulk feel return trip to Milan perhaps imply world rebirth at end of this island play
The Tempest
Sari
$800 [20]
In 1997 Toyota introduced this model, the world's first mass-produced hybrid passenger car
the Prius
Sari
$800 [17]
You're in bad shape if you look up & see this type of vulture with a name from the Old French for "lesser hawk"
buzzard
Darren
$800 [10]
Thurl Ravenscroft sang "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch" &, starting in 1952, voiced this cereal mascot
Tony the Tiger
Molly
$800 [9]
In 1968 liberal thinker Alexander Dubcek became first secretary of this party; in 1970 he became a forest inspector
the Communist Party
$800 [7]
A way used temporarily when the main route is closed
detour
Sari
$1,200 [3]
Hulk disturbed by Hal's digs at this knight like "how long...since thou sawest thine own knee?" Hulk has own size issues!
Falstaff
Molly
$1,200 [23]
Cabs in trucks are of 2 types: conventional, in which the cab is behind the hood, & COE, which stands for cab-over-this
engine
Sari
$1,200 [14]
The name of this regal bird is from the Latin aquila
an eagle
Sari
$1,600 [12]
Thisgravel-voiced singer/actor released the albums "Closing Time", "Mule Variations" & "Rain Dogs"
Tom Waits
Darren
$1,200 [27]
Reformer Jan Hus was born in this region that makes up much of the Czech Republic
Bohemia
Darren
$1,200 [8]
To wring money from a person by violence or threat
extort
Darren
$2,000 [5]
Gloucester blindness symbolic in how he deal with Edgar; Hulk reflect on own family after this play
King Lear
$1,600 [22]
In 1866 this company purchased Ben Holladay's line, creating the world's largest stagecoach empire
Wells Fargo
Darren
$1,600 [18]
Better go buy some more seed for this flightless bird whose name is from the ancient Greek for "big sparrow"
ostrich
Darren
DD $2,000 [11]
In his 1988 autobiography, he dispelled the allergy rumor but said that he wasn't really fond of carrots
Mel Blanc
Molly
$1,600 [26]
A popular Prague souvenir is a figurine of this creature, brought to life to protect the Jews of the city's old ghetto
a golem
Sari
$1,600 [25]
Characteristic of affluent people, like Billy Joel's "Girl"
uptown
Darren
DD $4,000 [4]
Hulk relate to trust issues of this title guy, but calling his wife "a strumpet" over line for Hulk! Wife is angel figure!
Othello
Molly
$2,000 [21]
Able to carry 500 troops, Russia's Zubr-class is the largest of these air-cushioned vehicles
a hovercraft
Darren
$2,000 [19]
The name of this crested parrot may come from a Malay word meaning "older brother"
cockatoo
Darren
$2,000 [13]
Talk about range: veteran voice guy Peter Cullen has voiced Eeyore & this leader of the Autobots
Optimus Prime
Darren
$2,000 [28]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In September 1938, this land in Czechoslovakia, then containing a large population of German descent, was handed over to Germany to appease Hitler
the Sudetenland
Darren
$2,000 [24]
A severe, witty reply that counters a first speaker's argument
a retort
Sari

Final Jeopardy!

CAPITAL CITY WORDPLAY

Ending in the same 2 letters, these 2 are capitals of a nation that covers a continent & of a nation reaching onto 2 continents

Canberra & Ankara

Molly "What are Moscow + ?" — wagered $0
Sari "What are Istanbul &" — wagered $7,001
Darren "What" — wagered $8,000

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