Show #6882 2014-07-15 (taped 2014-03-19) Regular

Contestants

Anna Lawrence — a commercial insurance broker from Duluth, Minnesota

Ed Patterson — an attorney from Washington, D.C.

Ben-Hur Flores — a customer service representative from Tampa, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ben-Hur $2,200 $4,200 $6,400 $12,400
3rd place: $1,000
$8,200
14 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Ed $2,200 $3,800 $17,800 $28,400
New champion: $28,400
$17,200
21 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Anna $2,000 $6,200 $14,200 $20,000
2nd place: $2,000
$14,200
18 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CAPITAL MUSEUMS YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK HODGEPODGE THAT NBC SHOW WAS FUNNY TO THE STARS & BEYOND SOUNDS LIKE A LANGUAGE
$200 [6]
The Guinness Storehouse
Dublin
Ed
$200 [11]
The cornerstone forthe archat the north entrance to the park was laid by this conservationist president
Teddy Roosevelt
Ben-Hur Ed
$200 [18]
A man sued this ex-Chicago Bull for $832 million for the discomfort the man felt over looking too much like the superstar
Michael Jordan
Ed
$200 [13]
"The sea was angry that day, my friends; like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli"
Seinfeld
Ben-Hur
$200 [24]
About every two years this planetcomes within 35 million miles of Earth, but at 54,000 miles per hour it doesn't stay in the neighborhood long
Mars
Ben-Hur
$200 [1]
This tool may be socket, allen or monkey
wrench
Ben-Hur Anna
$400 [7]
The Edvard Munch Museum
Oslo
Anna
$400 [12]
Yellowstone has the majority of the world's geysers, including this one that reliably erupts about 17 times a day
Old Faithful
Ed
$400 [19]
Because of events in this place, the Lord said, "Let us go down, and there confound their language"
Babel
Ben-Hur
$400 [14]
"I'm afraid the TV Guide comes to Chanandler Bong";"...Actually, it's Miss Chanandler Bong"
Friends
Anna
$400 [25]
If you drive your Ford Galaxie to Bode's Galaxy, you'll cover 71 quintillion miles, or 12 million of these units
light years
Ed
$400 [2]
We thank Sir Thomas More for this adjective describing the mythical perfect place
Utopian
Ed Anna
$600 [8]
The Corcoran Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C.
Ed
$600 [21]
Thisfeature of the park was carved out by the Yellowstone River; the one in Arizona is a little deeper
the Grand Canyon
Ed
$600 [20]
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union" begins this part of the Constitution
the Preamble
Anna
$600 [15]
"I hate lawyers!""...Me too; but they make wonderful patients. They have excellent health insurance & they never get better"
Frasier
$600 [28]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us two astronomical images on the monitor.) The antenna galaxies here are collapsing & merging into each other; in a few billion years the same fate awaits our own Milky Way &this galaxy
Andromeda
Ben-Hur
$600 [3]
We'll always have this type of Louisiana county
parish
Anna
$800 [9]
The Borghese Gallery
Rome
Anna
$1,000 [27]
About 80% of Yellowstone is forest, & 80% of that is the lodgepole type of this tree
pine
Anna
$800 [22]
Hospital size is often ranked by number of these items; New York-Presbyterian has about 2,600
beds
Ben-Hur
$800 [16]
"Did you bring that drink from the restaurant?... Look Karen...""Call me by my alias! Anastasia Beaverhausen!"
Will & Grace
Anna
$800 [29]
If we could peer down on the Milky Way galaxy from above, we'd see why it's classified as one of this shape
spiral
Anna
$800 [4]
One letter off from the language of the Philippines, it's a Girl Scout cookie or one following the lead of another
a Tagalong
Ed
$1,000 [10]
The Bauhaus Archives & Museum of Design
Berlin
Ben-Hur
DD $1,400 [26]
These largest North American land mammals seem mellow but cause more injuries to humans in the park than bears do
bison
Ed
$1,000 [23]
I'm laying things N to N with this thin-layered puff pastry with cream filling
a Napoleon
Ed Anna
$1,000 [17]
Station owner Jimmy James: "Free advertising for the station!... That's something you just can't buy"
NewsRadio
Ben-Hur Anna
$1,000 [30]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) Thousands of times as far away as the Earth from the Sun & potentially home to countless comets, the fuzzy edge of our solar system is this cloud
Oort (cloud)
Ben-Hur Anna
$1,000 [5]
This name for a type of well comes from a French province
artesian
Ben-Hur

Double Jeopardy! Round

WHO WON THE WAR ANYWAY? ON THE BOOKSHELF MOVIE TITLE REFERENCES FAMILIAR PHRASES THEY CAME FROM HAWAII LET'S GO TO ALASKA
$400 [15]
This empire was victorious in wars Gallic & Punic
the Roman Empire
Ed
$400 [1]
Winston Smith works at the Ministry of Truth in this novel
1984
Ben-Hur
$400 [10]
2011:Maids like Aibileen Clark & Minny Jackson
The Help
Ed
$400 [20]
Someone who looks ill or nauseated is said to be green around thse fish organs
gills
Ben-Hur
$400 [9]
In 2000, Miss Hawaii Angela Perez Baraquio was crowned this, becoming the first Asian-American to win the title
Miss America
Ed
$400 [8]
With around 300,000 people, it's the state's most populous city
Anchorage
Anna
$800 [16]
In 1949 this group won the Chinese Civil War
the Communists
Ben-Hur Ed
$800 [2]
A novel by Anne Rice begins, "I am the vampire" him. "I'm immortal. More or less"
Lestat
Anna
$800 [11]
1999:From the color of its floor tiles, a nickname for death row
The Green Mile
Ed
$800 [21]
"When all else fails, read" these
the instructions
$800 [24]
He graduated from the Punahou Prep School in 1979 before moving on to Occidental & Columbia
Barack Obama
Anna
$800 [7]
Alaska's longest river, it rises in Canada & then winds 1,200 miles cross the state, emptying into Norton Sound
the Yukon River
$1,200 [17]
In the 1930s Fascist forces led by this general won the Spanish Civil War
Franco
Anna
$1,200 [3]
In 3 weeks in 1960, Anthony Burgess wrote this ultraviolent book bout young psychopaths
A Clockwork Orange
Ed
$1,200 [12]
2010:Implanting an idea into someone's mind during a dream state
Inception
Ed
$1,200 [28]
The line about eating this & having it too was recorded in a 1546 book by John Heywood
cake
Anna
$1,200 [25]
In 2004, at age 14, she became the youngest female to play in a PGA tournament, the Sony Open in Hawaii
Michelle Wie
Ed
$1,200 [6]
This "Little" island lies in the Bering Strait less than a mile east of the International Date Line
Little Diomede Island
Ben-Hur
$1,600 [18]
The English Civil War was Parliament vs. this king, who surrendered in 1646
Charles I
Ben-Hur
$1,600 [4]
The title of this Dickens novel refers to a residence near St. Albans
Bleak House
Ben-Hur
$1,600 [13]
1987:Term for ammo fully encased in a copper alloy
Full Metal Jacket
Ed
$1,600 [29]
A 17th century prince reportedly said he'd fight until he died in this, now found before "effort"
(till he died in the) last ditch
$1,600 [26]
This Honolulu native's hits included "Pearly Shells" & his signature song "Tiny Bubbles"
Don Ho
Anna
DD $1,800 [22]
This western peninsula is home to the world's largest maar, or volcanic crater lake
the Seward peninsula
Ben-Hur
$2,000 [19]
South America's War of the Pacific ended in 1883 with this winning nation cutting off Bolivia from the sea
Chile
Ed
$2,000 [5]
This monster in "Beowulf" was said to be descended from Cain
Grendel
Ben-Hur
DD $2,000 [14]
1944:A clause in a life insurance policy
Double Indemnity
Ed
$2,000 [30]
This French phrase means "reason for being"
raison d'être
Anna
$2,000 [27]
In 1993 Akebono became the first non-Japanese to reach Grand Champion status in this activity
sumo wrestling
Ed
$2,000 [23]
The 1964 earthquake raised parts of this largest Alaskan island by 30 feet
Kodiak (Island)

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. GOVERNMENT PEOPLE

A committee chaired by the official in this job released the influential 1964 report "Smoking and Health"

the Surgeon General

Ben-Hur "What is Surgeon General?" — wagered $6,000
Anna "What is the Surgeon General" — wagered $5,800
Ed "What is the Surgeon General" — wagered $10,600

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