Show #6885 2014-07-18 (taped 2014-03-19) Regular

Last regular-play game of Season 30.

Contestants

Winston Nguyen — a health aide from New York, New York

Jeff Filippini — an astrophysicist from Pasadena, California

Katie Wroblewski — a graduate student in history from Ypsilanti, Michigan (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Katie $1,000 $800 $4,800 $9,500
2nd place: $2,000
$4,800
12 R, 4 W
Jeff $3,400 $4,400 $10,300 $8,199
3rd place: $1,000
$12,800
17 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Winston $2,800 $3,200 $13,400 $10,067
New champion: $10,067
$14,200
15 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

MADONNA VIDEOS STATELY LITERATURE MEDICAL TALK PROHIBITED AIRLINE CARRY‑ONS DOUBLE STUFF "V"OCABULARY
$200 [1]
Madonna restages Marilyn Monroe's "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" number
"Material Girl"
Winston
$200 [24]
"A ____ Yankee In King Arthur's Court"
Connecticut
Katie
$200 [5]
Ephelides is the technical term for these marks on the skin of kids & Howdy Doody
freckles
Jeff
$200 [3]
The butter type is okay, but most of these utensils are prohibited, even religious ones
knives
Katie
$200 [19]
On "Seinfeld", at a wake, Timmy asked George Costanza if he had just done this with a chip; George had & did it again
double-dip
Katie
$200 [13]
They're seenhereon a trumpet
valves
Katie
$400 [2]
Madonna dances in a wedding dress & on a gondola in Venice
"Like A Virgin"
Katie
$400 [25]
"The Hotel ____ ____"
New Hampshire
$400 [6]
You might want to stay out of the meadow today if you've got allergic rhinitis, this affliction
hay fever
Jeff
$400 [4]
Axes & hatchets? No; Dynamite? No; These electrified lances used to control Bossy? Still no!
cattle prods
Katie Jeff
$400 [20]
In this jumping game, 2 ropes are used, often with 2 people jumping in a synchronized way
double dutch
Jeff
$400 [15]
This vivid color is also called Chinese red
vermillion
Winston
$600 [14]
Danny Aiello is dad to pregnant teen Madonna
"Papa Don't Preach"
Katie
$600 [28]
The play "Abe Lincoln in ____"
Illinois
Jeff
$600 [7]
Scratch your head & figure out how to treat your pityriasis capitis, this
dandruff
Winston
$600 [10]
One of these metal levers with an avian name? Put it in your checked bags
a crowbar
Jeff
$600 [21]
"The Deuce" is a double-decker bus that mostly runs down this iconic Nevada road
the Las Vegas Strip
Katie
$600 [16]
From the Latin for "to devour", it can mean ravenous or greedy
voracious
Winston
$800 [26]
1990 black-&-white classic in which you see Madonna "strike a pose" & give good face
"Vogue"
Winston
$800 [29]
"____ville"
Texasville
DD $1,000 [8]
Epistaxis is this condition, & I think I'm getting one from sitting in the highest seats in the arena
a nosebleed
Winston
$800 [11]
Sorry, Rembrandt, none of that flammable turpentine, used by artists as this type of diluting agent
solvent (or paint thinner)
Jeff
$800 [22]
Spite & malice is a form of the oxymoronic-sounding card game double this
double solitaire
$800 [17]
This ornamental drapery is hung across the top edge of a bed, table or canopy
valance
$1,000 [27]
A matador dresses for a bullfight; Madonna dresses & undresses for the matador
"Take A Bow"
$1,000 [30]
"Winesburg, ____"
Ohio
Katie
$1,000 [9]
After childbirth, a woman may complain about these, striae gravidarum; you're still beautiful, honey
stretch marks
Jeff
$1,000 [12]
No realistic replicas of these, & no to the starting type, too
a gun or a pistol
Winston
$1,000 [23]
For his technique, Giovanni Bottesini got the nickname "Paganini of" this large instrument
double bass
Jeff
$1,000 [18]
This room in a church is used to store sacred objects & clerical robes
vestry
Katie Jeff Winston

Double Jeopardy! Round

MADONNA VIDEOS MOUNTAIN BIKING EXPLORERS SERIOUS TV WEATHER REPORT WE GOT "AINT" FUN
$400 [15]
Michelangelo delivered on the promise to carve the most beautiful work of marble in Rome with this sculpture
the Pietà
Katie
$400 [30]
To "bring home" this yuletide item is to ride through plant life so dense you carry off some of it with you
a Christmas tree
$400 [29]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads the clue from Antarctica.) The U.S. maintains 3 year-round research stations in Antarctica--Palmer, McMurdo, & 1 named forthese2 men, whose race to the pole made them legends
Amundsen & Scott
Jeff
$400 [9]
In 2013 PBS' Frontline won an Emmy for coverage "inside" this country's "nuclear meltdown"
Japan
Winston
$400 [10]
humanesociety.org has a page called "Fear of" this "and Other Loud Noises"
thunder
Jeff
$400 [23]
Barely a friend
an acquaintance
Winston
$800 [16]
"Mystic Nativity" from around 1500 shows a Madonnaby this man, known for painting the goddess Venus
Botticelli
Winston
$800 [28]
Ray's MTB in Cleveland is a venue to practice in this kind of environment, year-round
indoors
$800 [20]
A bay that's the southern arm of the Hudson Bay is named for this explorer with 2 first names
Thomas James
$800 [8]
In 1991 Glenn Close made the Hallmark Hall Of Fame as this woman, "Plain And Tall"
Sarah
Jeff
$800 [11]
Santa Anas are dry ones
winds
Jeff
$800 [24]
Beatification is a step toward this distinction
sainthood
Katie
$1,200 [17]
(Alex Trebek reads the clue from the Norton Simon Museum.) This Renaissance artist displayed a mastery far beyond his years when he painted "Madonna and Child with Book"; he was only 19 at the time, which may explain why his Madonnas came to be in such high demand
Raphael
Winston
$1,200 [1]
Pirelliology is the art of identifying different ones of these from the tracks they've left in dirt or mud
tire treads
Katie
$1,600 [3]
In the 1520s, this future discoverer of the Mississippi River was one of the chief slave traders in Nicaragua
Hernando de Soto
DD $1,000 [7]
This man began seeing the news from every angle on his CNN evening show in 2003
Anderson Cooper
Winston
$1,200 [12]
In 5 letters, "unpleasantly moist & humid"
muggy
Jeff
$1,200 [25]
We discovered "Portnoy's" in 1969
complaint
Winston
$1,600 [18]
Parmigianino's most famousworkis called "Madonna with"this swan-like feature
a long neck
Katie Jeff
$1,600 [2]
When this item that presses against a disc squeals from wear or bad adjustment, it's called a "wild pig"
brake pad
Jeff
$2,000 [19]
After his partner Richard Burton fell ill in 1858, he went on alone to discover the source of the Nile
John Speke
$1,200 [5]
This Sunday morning news show now hosted by Bob Schieffer premiered on CBS on Nov. 7, 1954
Face the Nation
Katie
$1,600 [13]
Jesucristo, o un episodio calido
El Niño
Winston
$1,600 [26]
Fetters & straitjackets
restraints
Jeff
$2,000 [21]
That's the angel Gabriel visiting Mary, so Fra Angelico'sworkhas this title
The Annunciation
Katie
$2,000 [22]
Named the USA's top trail, the 26-mile McKenzie River Trail not far from Bend in this state has many a bend itself
Oregon
Winston
DD $2,500 [4]
Fewer than a third of his crew members survived the 1497-99 roundtrip voyage from Lisbon to Calicut, India
Vasco da Gama
Jeff
$1,600 [6]
In 2014 this astrophysicist showed that science is cool as he led us into "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey"
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Winston
$2,000 [14]
Remember "The Great" one of March 1888?
blizzard
$2,000 [27]
Mournful or melancholy
plaintive

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS HOMES

Purchased in 1957 & called "the second most famous home in America", it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006

Graceland

Katie "What is Graceland?" — wagered $4,700
Jeff "What is the Waterfall House" — wagered $2,101
Winston "What is South Fork?" — wagered $3,333

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