Show #6897 2014-09-16 (taped 2014-07-15) Regular

Contestants

Tessa Fleming — a high school history teacher from Mission Viejo, California

Bill Cossen — a Ph.D. candidate in history originally from Lexington, South Carolina

Elizabeth Williams — a business research librarian from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Elizabeth $1,600 $3,200 $1,400 $2,600
3rd place: $1,000
$8,000
14 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs)
Bill $1,600 $5,800 $15,000 $15,000
New champion: $15,000
$14,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Tessa $1,000 $800 $2,800 $2,800
2nd place: $2,000
$2,800
9 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

BRAND NAMES "B" + 3 GHOSTBUSTERS ANAGRAMMED BODIES OF WATER PLASTIC SURGERY SHE'S HAD SOME WORK DONE
$200 [4]
This company offers crop insurance as well as it signature green & yellow tractors
John Deere
Elizabeth
$200 [9]
A slang term for a party, it can also mean to criticize harshly
bash
Elizabeth
$200 [1]
Dan Aykroyd called Slimerthe ghost of this friend of his who was supposed to be in the first film but died in 1982
(John) Belushi
Tessa
$200 [26]
A big lake:Prior use
Superior
Bill
$200 [14]
Karl Ferdinand von Grafe described reconstructing these in his 1818 work "Rhinoplastik"
noses
Tessa
$200 [2]
The house is toastier since she had the Batt type of this installed in the attic
insulation
$400 [6]
This candy brand invites you to "taste the rainbow"
Skittles
Bill
$400 [10]
A source of fiber, it's the outer layer of a grain
bran
Bill
$400 [3]
When Sigourney Weaver says it's time to do this to her baby, Bill Murray starts with "You're short"
put him down
$400 [27]
A sea:RABBI CANE
the Caribbean
Elizabeth
$400 [15]
A building or website can also get this, an operation to reduce sagging of the jowls & neck
a facelift
Elizabeth
$400 [19]
She made her living room less noisy with these ceiling tiles, from the Greek for "hear"
acoustic tiles
Bill
$600 [16]
This brand of cleaning product is represented by the cute little guy seen here
Scrubbing Bubbles
Elizabeth
$600 [11]
This rope with weights attached is used in South America to catch cattle by entangling their legs
a bola
$600 [5]
When asked to choose the form of the Traveler, Ray chooses the Stay Puft Man, who's made of this foodstuff
marshmallow
Tessa
$600 [28]
An Italian River:COIN RUB
the Rubicon
Elizabeth
$600 [22]
widesmiles.org is a resource for people who may be looking to have plastic surgery for this type of "palate" or "lip"
cleft
Bill
$600 [20]
Grandma can now shower with ease since the bathroom became compliant with this act, the ADA
the Americans with Disabilities Act
Bill
$800 [17]
Treat your itchy eyes with this brand of antihistamine first marketed back in 1946
Benadryl
Bill
$800 [12]
In a 1916 interview, Henry Ford said, "History is more or less" this
bunk
Elizabeth
$800 [7]
This man who passed away in 2014 directed "Groundhog Day" after acting in & writing "Ghostbusters"
Harold Ramis
Bill
$800 [29]
A big bay:FAN FIB
Baffin
Bill
DD $1,000 [23]
This alliterative procedure is also called abdominoplasty
tummy tuck
Bill
$800 [21]
This "troubling" technique of fabricating nicks & scratches on her furniture gives the lounge a homey feel
distressing
Tessa
$1,000 [18]
A military parachute duffle inspired this brand of nylon totes with a French-sounding name
LeSportsac
Tessa
$1,000 [13]
A Scottish hillside
brae
$1,000 [8]
(Here's Sarah to wrap up the category.) Dan Aykroyd wanted it to be black, but because of all the night scenes, the 1959 Cadillac known as this-1 was painted white instead & the rest is history
Ecto
$1,000 [30]
A gulf:SPIN EAR
Persian
$1,000 [24]
Trichloroacetic acid, phenol & alphahydroxy acids are used to improve your skin in a "chemical" this
a peel
Bill
$1,000 [25]
For illumination inside & out, she added arc lamps & this other type of light that Noah would know well
a floodlight

Double Jeopardy! Round

WHAT ARE YOU READING? BETTER KNOWN BY ONE NAME AFRICAN HISTORY WORD ORIGINS POP MUSIC WHO LET THE GODS OUT?
$400 [15]
Susan Orlean's biography of this movie star dog
Rin Tin Tin
Elizabeth
$400 [23]
Nigeria actually called a cease-fire in its civil war in 1967 to see this soccer star play
Pelé
Elizabeth
$400 [19]
Egypt's president throughout the 1970's he tried to open up the economy & and reached out in foreign affairs
(Anwar) Sadat
Bill
$400 [10]
This profession is from the Greek for "star sailor"
astronaut
$400 [1]
"I'm in trouble deep", Madonna tells her dad in this 1986 hit
"Papa Don't Preach"
Tessa
$400 [4]
Su-En, the Mesopotamian god of this celestial body, was represented by a crescent
the moon
Bill
$800 [16]
This Cormac McCarthy novel with the cattle gun-wielding Chigurh
No Country for Old Men
Bill
$800 [24]
The Academy, one of Greece's first schools that met regularly in a set place, was founded by him
Plato
Bill Tessa
$800 [20]
In the 1820's Hugh Clapperton crossed the Sahara from the shores of this Libyan port to Lake Chad
Tripoli
Tessa
$800 [11]
This light brown candy may take its name from the Arabic kurat al milh, meaning "ball of sweet salt"
caramel
Elizabeth
$800 [2]
This group's 1972 no. 1 hit "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" isn't about Mick or Keith
the Temptations
Tessa
$800 [5]
Like his Norse counterpart Thor, Perun was the Slavic god of this weather phenomenon
thunder and lightning
Tessa
$1,200 [17]
"Duty", the 2014 memoir of this former Secretary of Defense
(Robert) Gates
Bill
$1,200 [25]
This young Kiwi singer put an "E" at the end of her stage name to make it more feminine
Lorde
Bill
DD $1,000 [30]
This capital of South Africa's Northern Cape was founded after an 1871 diamond find; today it's a name for baby girls
Kimberley
Elizabeth
$1,600 [13]
Partly from the Greek for "all", it once meant a complete set of arms & armor but now refers to a striking array
panoply
Elizabeth Tessa
$1,200 [3]
In 1965 we learned from him that Papa had acquired a "Brand New Bag"; in 1974, that he "Don't Take No Mess"
James Brown
Elizabeth
$1,200 [7]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Cambodia.) Now called Ta Reach, or "royal ancestor", & found in the main entrance shrine, a statue of this god to whom Angkor Wat was originally dedicated may have once been located in the central shrine at the very top
Vishnu
Bill
$1,600 [18]
"Dark Places", by this author of "Gone Girl"
Gillian Flynn
$1,600 [26]
One half of this duo has the last name Jilette; the other has the (silent) first name Raymond
Penn & Teller
Tessa
$1,200 [28]
In 2014, 5 African nations made an alliance against this Islamist group notorious for kidnapping girls in Nigeria
Boko Haram
Elizabeth
$2,000 [14]
This word for an autocratic leader is from the Greek for "lord, master"
tyrant
$1,600 [6]
"I'm gonna be like you, Dad / You know I'm gonna be like you", he sang in the 1974 hit "Cat's In The Cradle"
Harry Chapin
Bill
$1,600 [8]
Itzli was this culture's god of stone knives associated with sacrifices; he was a busy guy
the Aztec
Elizabeth Bill
$2,000 [22]
"The Mermaid Chair", by this 3-named author
Sue Monk Kidd
$2,000 [27]
This Pulitizer-winning editorial cartoonist drew up indictments of some powerful people
Herblock
$1,600 [29]
In the 15th century the Mossi people established their capital at Ouagadougou on the upper reaches of this river
the Volta
DD $5,600 [12]
It was coined by George Orwell & means the capacity to accept 2 contradictory ideas at the same time
doublethink
Elizabeth
$2,000 [21]
This group had some words for absentee dads:"Father of mine, tell me where have you been/You know I just close my eyes, my whole world disappeared..."
Everclear
Elizabeth
$2,000 [9]
The Inuit god of the bear shares his name with this "of the North" documentary title character
Nanook
Elizabeth

Final Jeopardy!

EUROPEAN CAPITALS

At 200 miles, this capital of just over a million people is the continental capital closest to London

Brussels

Elizabeth "What is Brussels" — wagered $1,200
Tessa "What is Brussells?" — wagered $0
Bill "What is Amsterdam?" — wagered $0

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