Show #6867 2014-06-24 (taped 2014-03-11) Regular

Contestants

Jennifer Blanton — an attorney from San Diego, California

Chris Gullo — a poet from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Alison Meermans — a fundraising project manager from Lakewood, Ohio (whose 2-day cash winnings total $33,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Alison $3,200 $6,300 $12,700 $14,900
3rd place: $1,000
$15,000
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Chris $800 $3,400 $14,800 $26,800
2nd place: $2,000
$9,800
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Jennifer $4,200 $4,800 $15,200 $29,601
New champion: $29,601
$15,200
17 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

ECON 101 COLORFUL SPORTS EUROPEAN COUNTRY BY REGIONS POTPOURRI WILL YOU STILL FEED ME? WHEN? IN '64
$200 [26]
Neither gaseous or solid but this term, meaning "in cash" or readily convertible into cash without a big loss of principal
liquid
Jennifer
$200 [6]
The area surrounding a golf hole; the average size on the pro tours is about 6,000 square feet
the green
Jennifer
$200 [1]
Arcadia, Corinth, Samos
Greece
Alison
$200 [11]
Running back Jackson or actress Derek
Bo
Alison
$200 [16]
Och aye! Haggamuggie is a simplified version of this, but with fish liver--sounds even better
haggis
Chris
$200 [21]
In Feb. 1964 Italy said it was reviewing ideas from the world over to help save this landmark from collapse
the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Alison
$400 [27]
In 2008 prices in Zimbabwe doubled every 24.7 hours due to hyper-this
inflation
Chris
$400 [7]
Notorious nickname of the Chicago team that threw the 1919 World Series
the Black Sox
Alison
$400 [2]
Zug, Lucerne, Valais
Switzerland
Alison
$400 [12]
When functioning properly, "all systems are" this, meaning ready
go
Alison
$400 [17]
Rachael Ray has a 22-minute recipe for burgers of this "cordon bleu"; 10 minutes of prep & 12 to cook
chicken
Jennifer
$400 [22]
Ford was feeling frisky on March 9 when this now-classic car rolled off the assembly line for the first time
the Mustang
DD $500 [29]
In 1778, after detailing the "invisible hand" guiding commerce, he became a commissioner of customs
Adam Smith
Alison
$600 [8]
Sun Life Stadium in Florida is home to the Miami Dolphins & this college bowl game
the Orange Bowl
Jennifer
$600 [3]
Nordland, Oppland, Telemark
Norway
Alison
$600 [13]
It flows 405 miles to the Adriatic
the Po
Jennifer
$600 [18]
From the Dutch for "to curl", this doughnut-style dough is fried & brushed with a sweet glaze
a cruller
Chris
$600 [23]
Thisauthor gained notice--how could he not--leading a group called "The Merry Pranksters" on a wild cross-countrybustrip
Ken Kesey
Chris
$600 [28]
The IMF, this U.N. agency, was founded in 1944 in part to stabilize currency exchange rates
the International Monetary Fund
Alison
$800 [9]
This cup awarded to the Canadian Football League champion was named for a governor general of Canada
the Grey Cup
$800 [4]
Algarve, Alentejo, Beira
Portugal
Chris
$800 [14]
In a Kipling work, it comes between "Just" & "Stories"
So
Jennifer
$800 [19]
"Why don't you dance with me? I'm not no" this cheese described as "devastatingly odorous"
limburger
Chris
$800 [24]
In an October 14 surprise, he quit after a coup as head of the USSR due to--ahem--"advanced age and poor health"
Khrushchev
Alison
$1,000 [30]
A theory of the trade-off between tax rates & what the government collects in tax revenues is seen in hiscurve
Arthur Laffer
$1,000 [10]
The only coach to win both an NCAA title & an NBA title, he took over the SMU basketball team in 2012
(Larry) Brown
Alison
$1,000 [5]
Slavonia, Istria, Dalmatia
Croatia
Jennifer
$1,000 [15]
The innermost of Jupiter's 4 Galilean moons
Io
Jennifer
$1,000 [20]
"Polska" precedes the name of this sausage in a Hillshire Farm product
kielbasa
Chris
$1,000 [25]
A June 2014 "American Experience" covers young people working for civil rights in this state in what was called Freedom Summer
Mississippi
Alison Chris

Double Jeopardy! Round

VICTOR/VICTORIA NONFICTION A "KN"ICE CATEGORY CLASSICAL MUSIC THE MOVIE'S CHARACTERS PROPERTIES WITH NO ADDRESS
$400 [14]
This 1818 novel character is a Swiss student of natural sciences who starts doing some peculiar experiments
Victor Frankenstein
Jennifer
$400 [9]
In "My Spiritual Journey", this exiled leader says, "I am no one special...I am just a human being"
the Dalai Lama
Chris
$400 [19]
A jack in a deck of cards can also be called this
the knave
Jennifer
$400 [2]
Andres Segovia helped establish it as a serious classical instrument
a guitar
Alison
$400 [4]
Bubba Blue, Lieutenant Dan, Abbie Hoffman
Forrest Gump
Jennifer
$400 [24]
All matter has 2 properties: mass & this, meaning it takes up space
volume
Alison
$800 [15]
She used the pseudonym Victoria Lucas for her novel "The Bell Jar"
Sylvia Plath
Alison
$800 [10]
Shelby Foote is best known for his 3-volume history of this conflict
the Civil War
Chris
$800 [20]
This reflex extension of the leg also describes a type of unthinking reaction
a knee-jerk
Jennifer
$800 [1]
1842's "Nabucco" launched this composer as a giant of Italian opera
Verdi
Alison
$800 [5]
Eduardo Saverin, Erica Albright, the Winklevoss twins
The Social Network
Jennifer
$800 [25]
It can mean the property of shininess, or a person who hungers after something
luster
Alison
$1,200 [16]
Victor Emmanuel I ruled over this fishy-sounding kingdom, also the name of an Italian island
Sardinia
Alison
$1,200 [11]
(I'm New York Timesreporter James Risen.) In my book "State of War" I examined secret & controversial efforts made by the CIA to delay this country's nuclear arms program
Iran
Chris
$1,200 [21]
Technically it's the prominence of the dorsal aspect of a joint of a finger
knuckle
Alison
$1,200 [3]
In 1965 Jacqueline du Pre sat down & made great recording of Elgar's Concerto for this instrument
the cello
Alison
$1,200 [6]
As listed on IMDB:Brody, Hooper, Estuary Victim
Jaws
Alison
$1,200 [26]
Also found before "engineering" or "weapons", this type of property is only observed by changing a substance
chemical
Alison
DD $2,000 [17]
Queen Victoria succeeded this king, her uncle, on the throne in 1837
William IV
Alison
$1,600 [12]
This author and historian was researching a book about the 1958 NFL championship when he was killed in a 2007 car crash
David Halberstam
Chris
$1,600 [22]
This part of a baseball field was where kids once watched a game by peering through the outfield fences
a knothole
$1,600 [29]
This Austrian's symphonies are numbered through 104 but--surprise--he probably wrote about 108
Haydn
Chris
$1,600 [7]
Henry Hill, Tommy DeVito, Frankie Carbone
Goodfellas
Alison
$1,600 [27]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates by dropping marbles into two graduated cylinders filled with clear liquids.) When marbles are dropped into water & glycerin, the marble in the glycerin takes longer to fall because this property, the resistance to flow, is greater
viscosity
Jennifer
$2,000 [18]
This woman who championed causes like free love & mystical socialism ran for president in 1872
Victoria Woodhull
$2,000 [13]
Chapter 1 of this classic book by Norman Vincent Peale is "Believe in Yourself"
The Power of Positive Thinking
Jennifer
$2,000 [23]
As a noun it's a small rounded hill; as a verb, it means to ring mournfully
a knoll
Jennifer
DD $7,000 [30]
This Gustav Holst suite: "An HD Odyssey" is a multimedia work with images from space probes
The Planets
Chris
$2,000 [8]
Honey Bunny, Butch, The Gimp
Pulp Fiction
Jennifer
$2,000 [28]
The property of a metal that can be shaped by hammers of rollers, or of a person who's easily controlled
malleability
Chris

Final Jeopardy!

2004

Watching the Super Bowl halftime show, the head of this government agency kept saying, "My day is going to" be lousy "tomorrow"

the FCC

Alison "What is the FCC?" — wagered $2,200
Chris "What is the FCC?" — wagered $12,000
Jennifer "What is the FCC?" — wagered $14,401

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