Show #6872 2014-07-01 (taped 2014-03-12) Regular

Contestants

Howard Ray — a laser applications engineer from East Longmeadow, Massachusetts

Shloka Ananthanarayanan — a compliance analyst from New York, New York

Jill Rowley — a flight attendant from Baltimore, Maryland (whose 2-day cash winnings total $43,802)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Jill	$800	$5,600	$8,800	$6,800 2nd place: $2,000	$7,000 10 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Shloka	$2,000	$2,200	$20,400	$400 3rd place: $1,000	$17,000 19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Howard	$2,600	$8,600	$19,600	$30,200 New champion: $30,200	$17,800 25 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD HERSTORY	BAND OF BROTHERS	CHARLESTON CHOOSY	DOGGING THE "WAG"	SUGAR LAND	INCREDIBLE MACHINE
$200 [1] In 1953 this country's Vijaya Pandit became the first woman president of the U.N. General Assembly India Shloka	$200 [11] Boy banders: Drew & Nick Lachey 98 Degrees Shloka	$200 [17] Charleston lies on a peninsula between the Ashley & Cooper rivers on the coastline of this state South Carolina Jill	$200 [6] "Jump on" this conveyance to join with what is currently popular or fashionable a bandwagon Jill	$200 [22] Amount of sugar in a 1964 movie song title; tell us "in a most delightful way" a spoonful Shloka	$200 [15] Now retired, this first passenger-carrying supersonic transport could cruise at 1,354 mph the Concorde Shloka
$400 [2] In 1774 her troops crushed a peasant revolt led by Yemelyan Pugachev, a cossack Catherine the Great Howard	$400 [3] MMMBoppers Isaac, Taylor & Zac, who released a new album, "Anthem", in 2013 Hanson Howard	$400 [18] I cannot tell a lie: you can see this founding father's christening cup at the Charleston Museum, the USA's oldest museum George Washington Howard	$400 [7] Partner of Funk in the dictionary biz Wagnalls Howard	$400 [23] The Big Gulp got a pass in 2012 when this NYC Mayor proposed a ban on sugary drinks over 16 ounces Mayor Bloomberg Howard	$400 [16] In 1997 Antares Technology developed this program to correct singers with imperfect pitch Auto-Tune Jill
$600 [12] An early advocate for women's rights, Mary Wollstonecraft was also the mother of this author (Mary) Shelley Shloka	$600 [4] In the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Dave & Ray Davies The Kinks Howard	$600 [28] Charleston ceased to be the state capital in 1790, when the legislature moved to this city Columbia Jill Howard	$600 [8] A strip of drapery that lays over the curtain rod is called this, like promotional goodies given away swag Jill	$600 [24] Don't be intolerant of this carb AKA milk sugar that makes up about 5% of cow's milk lactose Howard	$600 [19] Examples of this 3-letter device are Dish Network's Hopper & DirecTV's Genie a DVR Howard
$800 [13] Elizabeth Griscom was the birth name of this woman who made flags for the Pennsylvania navy Betsy Ross Howard	$800 [5] Grammy-winning indie rockers out of Canada: Win & William Butler Arcade Fire	$800 [29] The April 1861 Confederate capture of this site precipitated the Civil War Fort Sumter Jill	$800 [9] The Dasher & the Fox were cars from this manufacturer Volkswagen Shloka	$800 [25] In 1975 the Sugar Bowl moved from Tulane Stadium to this other local venue the Superdome Howard	$800 [20] After seeing a video about removing a stuck wine cork, Jorge Odon invented a medical device to ease this process birth Howard
$1,000 [14] In 1919 this lady became the first woman in the British Parliament Nancy Astor (Lady Astor)	$1,000 [27] Big in the '60s & early '70s: John & Tom Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival Howard	DD $2,800 [30] (Take a look.) Duckett Hall isn’t very fortress-like; it’s in the Moorish style of much of the campus of this college. The Citadel Jill	$1,000 [10] Disdainful term for a white southerner who help reconstruction after the Civil War a scalawag	$1,000 [26] 007, do be careful riding the cable cars at this peak overlooking Rio! Sugarloaf Howard	$1,000 [21] The Model S from this car company named for an inventor has 0 emissions & goes from 0 to 60 in 4.2 seconds Tesla Howard

Double Jeopardy! Round

3-NAMED AUTHORS	BEASTLY VOCABULARY	"P"LACES	THAT'S SPOOKY	ANCIENT SCIENCE	CANYUCKS
$400 [1] On February 7, 1867 she was born in a little house in the big woods in Lake Pepin, Wisconsin Laura Ingalls Wilder Howard	$400 [25] A protective spine of a porcupine, or a stiff tail feather of a bird used as a pen a quill Howard	$400 [24] This Haitian capital was founded by French planters in 1749 Port-au-Prince Howard	$400 [30] truTV claimed Abigail Adams is still hanging her laundry & Andrew Jackson "swears up a storm" in this building the White House Howard	$400 [12] Chinese general Huang-ti used a lodestone as one of these around 300 B.C., perhaps by floating it in a bowl a compass Howard	$400 [7] This cable repairman/pet detective/grinch was born in Newmarket, Ontario in 1962 Jim Carrey Shloka
$800 [3] In 1966 Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of this defense lawyer, appeared as a judge in the final episode of the TV series Perry Mason Shloka	$800 [2] "Lupine" means similar to this animal a wolf Shloka	$800 [20] A Pakistani province and an Indian state share this name Punjab Shloka	$800 [26] Hereis Caravaggio's late 16th century painting of this creature of myth Medusa Shloka	$800 [13] Around 270 B.C. Aristarchus calculated that its distance was 60 times the radius of the earth--he was pretty darn close (distance to) the moon Howard	$800 [8] This Blues Brother/Joe Friday/Bass-o-matic operator was born in Ottawa in 1952 Dan Aykroyd Howard
$1,200 [4] In 1936 he published an autobiography titled "Across Spoon River" Edgar Lee Masters	$1,200 [17] Jump into this one-piece outfit like those worn by Michelle Pfeiffer & Una Thurman on film a catsuit Shloka	$1,200 [21] The Swann valley outside this Western Australian city is home to dozens of vineyards Perth Shloka	$1,200 [27] Haley Joel Osment had a nice conversation with his dead grandma in this 1999 film The Sixth Sense Howard	$1,600 [15] This pupil of Plato observed that dolphins bear live young attached by an umbilical cord Aristotle Jill Shloka	$1,200 [9] Nathan Fielder got attention in 2014 by opening a store of this coffee chain but putting "Dumb" before the name Starbucks Shloka
$1,600 [5] In 2014 she celebrated her 50th year as a novelist with the release of "Carthage" Joyce Carol Oates Jill	$1,600 [18] Cows described by this adjective have had their horns removed, not their opinions recorded they have been polled Howard	$2,000 [23] Thisteensy nation is part of the Caroline Islands group Palau Shloka	$1,600 [28] (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 2013, a declassified CIA document showed a map with the name of this land parcel in the Mojave desert for the first time publicly; it was once used to test the U-2 spy plane (& who knows what else) Area 51 Howard	$2,000 [16] Why not take this guy, who around 140 A.D. developed a model of the solar system with earth as its center Ptolemy	$1,600 [10] As Gob Bluth on this sitcom, Will Arnett said of a DNA test, "The jury's still out on science" Arrested Development Shloka
$2,000 [6] This Yiddish writer's short story "Gimpel the Fool" was translated into English in 1953 Isaac Bashevis Singer	$2,000 [19] A snood is the fleshy appendage hanging above the beak of one of these birds a turkey Jill	DD $5,000 [22] North America's largest oil field lies in the area surrounding this Alaskan bay Prudhoe Bay Shloka	$2,000 [29] Maybe you'll encounter a ghost in the haunted bedroom of this lord protector's home in Ely, England Cromwell Shloka	DD $3,000 [14] Around 400 B.C. Democritus proposed that all matter is composed of these tiny units atoms Howard	$2,000 [11] He came into this world (& Wayne's) in Scarborough, Ontario in 1963 Mike Myers Jill Shloka

Final Jeopardy!

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

The first official use of this 4-word term is at The Declaration's beginning, immediately after "The thirteen"

"United States of America"

Jill "What are to be s...?" — wagered $2,000

Howard "What is 'United States of America'?" — wagered $10,600

Shloka "What is the bill of rights?" — wagered $20,000

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