Show #6861 2014-06-16 (taped 2014-02-19) Regular

Contestants

Andrew Winner — a learning and development consultant originally from Spokane, Washington

Andrea West — a college composition instructor from Columbia, South Carolina

Katie Frank — a graduate student in communications studies from Poway, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $38,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Katie $2,800 $7,200 $13,000 $18,000
2nd place: $2,000
$12,400
19 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Andrea $400 $1,400 $11,800 $21,800
New champion: $21,800
$13,800
15 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Andrew $1,800 $2,000 $5,600 $8,600
3rd place: $1,000
$5,600
15 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

FINISH THE TERRIBLE RHYME THE 1950s HEADLINES FROMTHE ONION ALAN RICKMAN ROLES HONG KONG PHOOEY
$200 [26]
"Diplomacy in action", which really does sound great / Is on the website of the cabinet department that we call...
State
Katie
$200 [16]
In 1959 Daniel Inouye became this state's first representative in the U.S. House
Hawaii
Katie
$200 [6]
"It's Not Too Late To Reverse The Alarming Trend Of" this "Change, Scientists Who Know It's Too Late Announce"
climate change
Katie
$200 [1]
As this potions professor, Alan Rickman's not wild about Harry (Potter)
Snape
Katie
$200 [11]
Hong Kong was the site for the equestrian events in the 2008 Olympics hosted by this city
Beijing
Andrea
$200 [21]
It's the contemptuous first word Scrooge says in "A Christmas Carol"
Bah
Andrea
$400 [27]
Killing a dragon named python at Delphi, is that too much to swallow? / It wasn't odd for this Greek god, the one known as...
Apollo
Andrew
$400 [17]
On December 5, 1955 a bus boycott began in this Alabama city
Montgomery
Katie Andrew
$400 [7]
This NBA star "Unable To Enjoy MVP Knowing Boston Globe's Gary Washburn Didn't Vote For Him"
LeBron James
Andrew
$400 [2]
Alan Rickman was Col. Brandon, who wooed Kate Winslet's Marianne Dashwood, in this film based on a beloved novel
Sense and Sensibility
Andrea
$400 [12]
In names of skyscrapers, this word has preceded "of China" & followed "Hongkong and Shanghai"
Bank
Katie
$400 [22]
A built-in bed on a ship, or a word meaning "nonsense"
bunk
Katie
$600 [28]
To gather, rouse or summon / You better believe it, buster / It's this word that will be heard / This is the word you'll...
muster
Katie
$800 [19]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Titan Missile Museum in Tuscon, AZ.) As a 9-megaton ICBM could devastate 900 square miles, it seems less than adequate that a 1950s Civil Defense film had a turtle teaching schoolchildren this 3-word defense maneuver against a nuclear attack
duck and cover
Katie
$600 [8]
"Obama Orders Reinvasion Of" this country "After Illuminating Trip Through Bush Presidential Library"
Iraq
Andrew
$600 [3]
As Judge Turpin, Alan Rickman has a close shave with Johnny Depp in this 2007 film
Sweeney Todd
Katie
$600 [13]
Hong Kong is surrounded by this sea to the east, west &, of course, "south"
the South China Sea
Katie Andrea
$600 [23]
"What a" this word, followed by "pot" in the brand name of a slow electric cooker
crock
Andrea
$800 [29]
"Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel" was not writ just to shame us / It is, however, right here now, from the Bible's book of...
Amos
Andrea Andrew
DD $1,000 [18]
One guest said of their 1953 wedding in Newport, Rhode Island, it was "just like a coronation"
JFK & Jacqueline Kennedy
Katie
$800 [9]
This government agency established in 1970 "Warns Americans Not To Breathe"
the EPA
Andrew
$800 [4]
Bruce Willis said, "Yippee-ki-yay" to Rickman's Hans Gruber in this flick
Die Hard
Andrew
$800 [14]
You might say this royal yacht, Prince Charles' home base during the Hong Kong handover, "ruled the waves"
the Britannia
Andrea Andrew
$800 [24]
This compound nonsense word sounds like suds for your sow
hogwash
Katie
$1,000 [30]
"The best is the enemy of the good"--no dolt, there / It must be the enlightened author, Monsieur...
Voltaire
Andrew
$1,000 [20]
Surprisingly, Dr. Joyce Brothers' knowledge of this sport earned her the top prize on "The $64,000 Question"
boxing
$1,000 [10]
This "Blood Meridian" author "Flaunts Sexy New Beach Body"
Cormac McCarthy
Katie
$1,000 [5]
But of course Alan Rickman played this baddie in "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves"
the Sheriff of Nottingham
Katie
$1,000 [15]
Some spending their whole lives on boats, Hong Kong's Tanka are called "sea"these, from the word "Egyptian"
gypsies
$1,000 [25]
Eaten by people, it's part of a ruminant's stomach; it also means "rubbish!"
tripe
Andrea

Double Jeopardy! Round

NOOSE MEN BENS & JERRYS CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD BEAUTIFUL QUOTATIONS DIALECTS THE SECRET LIFE OF B's
$400 [30]
Accused by his in-laws of this, John Willard was found guilty & hanged in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts
witchcraft
Andrew
$400 [17]
He & the Soup Nazi reunited in an ad for the Acura NSX
Jerry Seinfeld
Andrew
$400 [11]
Omaha(1867)
Nebraska
Andrew
$400 [12]
As the last line of "Casablanca", Humphrey Bogart says, "Louis, I think this is the beginning of" one of these
"a beautiful friendship"
Katie
$400 [5]
In 1976, this country standardized its language, basing it primarily on the Peloponnesian dialect
Greece
Andrew
$400 [6]
An unsuccessful movie
a bomb
Andrea
DD $1,000 [29]
Just before he was hanged on December 30, 2006, he mocked Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadar
Saddam Hussein
Katie
$800 [18]
In 2006 this Steeler became the youngest starting quarterback to win a Super Bowl
Ben Roethlisberger
Andrew
$800 [25]
Knoxville(1796)
Tennessee
Andrew
$800 [13]
In this 1678 British work, you'll find mention of a stately palace, "the name of which was beautiful"
The Pilgrim's Progress
$800 [4]
Half the people of Afghanistan speak Dari, a dialect of this Iranian language
Farsi
Andrew
$800 [7]
A classic symptom of frostbite
numbness
Andrew
$1,200 [27]
The 15th century got gentler--in 1498 reform preacher Savonarola was hanged before this was done to him
burnt
Andrew
$1,200 [19]
An opera based on his TV talk show debuted in London in 2003
Jerry Springer
Katie
$1,200 [22]
Portland(1820)
Maine
Andrea Andrew
$1,200 [14]
In a 19th century song, it precedes "Wake unto me, starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee"
"Beautiful Dreamer"
Katie
$1,200 [1]
Llanito is a dialect that combines Andalusian Spanish & British English in this British overseas territory
Gibraltar
Andrea
$1,200 [8]
It can precede "‑struck" or "‑waiter"--or you, if you don't respond
dumb
Andrew
$1,600 [26]
His May 31, 1962 execution in Ramleh, Israel is the only time that Israel has carried out a death sentence
Adolf Eichmann
$1,600 [20]
His state's youngest governor of the 20th century, he was elected its oldest in 2010
Jerry Brown
$1,600 [23]
Chillicothe(1803)
Ohio
Andrea
$1,600 [15]
Victorian poet Matthew Arnold called this "Adonais" poet a "beautiful and ineffectual angel"
Shelley
Andrea
DD $2,000 [2]
Rioplatense is a dialect of Spanish found in a small geographic area that includes these 2 South American capitals
Buenos Aires & Montevideo
Andrea
$1,600 [9]
This occupation gets its name from the Latin for "lead"
a plumber
Andrea
$2,000 [28]
This commander of the Japanese military attempted suicide after WWII; he was nursed back to health & then hanged
(Hideki) Tojo
Katie
$2,000 [21]
This editor was a character in "All the President's Men"
Ben Bradlee
Andrea
$2,000 [24]
Guthrie(1907)
Oklahoma
Andrea
$2,000 [16]
In 1880 this French novelist sometimes accused of immoral writing stated, "What is beautiful is moral"
Gustave Flaubert
$2,000 [3]
Angevin is a dialect of this language
French
Andrea
$2,000 [10]
Rhyming synonym for "cradle-to-grave" that fits the category twice
"womb-to-tomb"
Andrea

Final Jeopardy!

WORD ORIGINS

This noun meaning a secret plan comes from the Latin for "to breathe together"

conspiracy

Andrew "What is conspiracy?" — wagered $3,000
Andrea "What is conspiracy?" — wagered $10,000
Katie "What is conspiracy?" — wagered $5,000

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