Show #6902 2014-09-23 (taped 2014-07-16) Regular

Catherine Hardee game 1.

Contestants

Christian Burks — a history student from Austin, Texas

Catherine Hardee — a hotel front desk clerk and recent college graduate from Kinston, North Carolina

Heather Jarvis — an editor at the United Nations from Trinidad and Tobago and now in New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Heather $1,200 $2,600 $2,200 $200
2nd place: $2,000
$2,200
8 R, 2 W
Catherine $2,400 $4,600 $7,200 $12,401
New champion: $12,401
$8,200
19 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Christian $2,400 $6,000 $6,200 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$7,600
15 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

LITTLE RHODY CELEBRITY ORIGINS DOUBLE-LETTER ENDINGS BOOZE HOUNDS THE MOVIE AVENGER WHO... THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER
$200 [18]
Rhode Island's official symbol of American folk art is one of these that features 56 hand-carved jumping horses
a carousel
Heather
$200 [6]
(Hi, I'm Kyra Sedgwick.) My ancestor Robert Sedgwick came to America in 1636 & was an early settler of Charlestown, now part of this New England city
Boston
Heather
$200 [1]
Peculiar; or, a number like 17 or 23
odd
Heather
$200 [7]
Naturally, a booze hound likes the classic cocktail of gin & grapefruit juice named for this speedy dog
a greyhound
Christian
$200 [10]
Has a day of the week named for him
Thor
Catherine
$200 [9]
There are actually 4 verses to the song, each ending with the line "O'er the land of the free and" this
"the home of the brave"
Heather
$400 [24]
In 2011 this Ivy League school sold Jerimoth Hill, the state's highest point at 812 feet, to the state
Brown University
Christian
$400 [19]
(I'm Anderson Cooper.) Around 1650 my family began its American adventure when Jan Aertsen Van der Bilt emigrated to America from this country
the Netherlands
Catherine
$400 [2]
To effervesce
to fizz
Catherine
$400 [8]
Tequila & grapefruit juice go into this cocktail that honors a little Mexican dog
a chihuahua
Catherine
$400 [15]
Shares his name with a triathlon
Iron Man
Catherine
$400 [11]
Francis Scott Key wrote the words after the 1814 bombardment of this fort
Fort McHenry
Christian
$600 [25]
Rhode Island the island, as opposed to the state, is in this bay
Narragansett Bay
Christian
$600 [21]
(Hi, I'm Dr. Oz.) I was born in Cleveland, but my father was born in Konya, an ancient city in the Anatolia region of this country
Turkey
Heather
$600 [3]
This supernatural Irish "woman of the fairies" was just a scream
a banshee
Heather
$600 [29]
Mentioned in "The Pickwick Papers", warm ale & gin is called a dog's this, which is wet & black, just like the drink
a nose
Heather
$600 [16]
Shares his name with a character on "M*A*S*H"
Hawkeye
DD $400 [13]
After adecade-long preservation process, the flag is back on display in anew exhibition spaceat this Smithsonian Museum
the Smithsonian Museum of American History
Christian
$800 [26]
In 1636 this minister founded Providence as a "shelter for persons distressed for conscience"
Roger Williams
Catherine
$800 [22]
(I'm Cesar Millan.) My teachers in canine psychology were dogs on my grandfather's farm in Sinaloa, a state in western Mexico, bordering this sea
the Sea of Cortez
Christian
$800 [4]
Court officer similar to a sheriff who can execute writs
a bailiff
Christian
$1,000 [28]
Pomegranate vodka is key to the cocktail named for this fluffy toy breed originally from a Baltic duchy
Pomeranian
Christian
$800 [17]
Sounds like a deadly spider
Black Widow
Christian
$600 [12]
Created under the Second Flag Act, the 1814 flag had this many stars, 2 more than the first U.S. flag
15
Christian
$1,000 [27]
This man with a Presidential first name succeeded his father, John Chafee, as a U.S. senator & is now state governor
Lincoln Chafee
Catherine
$1,000 [23]
(I'm George Stephanopoulos.) Like many Greek-Americans before them, my parents settled in Massachusetts & I was born in this city, site of an infamous double murder in 1892
Fall River
$1,000 [5]
To sing with a vibratory or quavering effect
to trill
$1,000 [20]
Was a role in "Easy Rider"
Captain America
$1,000 [14]
In 2014 "The Star-Spangled Banner" was sung for the first time by an opera singer, this soprano
Renée Fleming
Catherine

Double Jeopardy! Round

BIG ROADIES PHYSICS THE 700 CLUB COMMON PONDS ALL 5 VOWELS IN ONE WORD THE ALL-WRITERS BASKETBALL TEAM
$400 [18]
In 1993 bass tech Stuart Morgan played a gig for this Irish band when Adam Clayton couldn't make it
U2
Christian
$400 [23]
It's the property of some unstable atoms that causes them to give off ionizing radiation
radioactivity
$400 [5]
In the Dewey Decimal System, books filed under the 720s cover this subject, including buildings & public structures
architecture
Catherine
$400 [7]
Michgan & Ohio share this Great Lake
Lake Erie
Christian
$400 [1]
It's a conversation between 2 people, or the talky part of movies
dialogue
Catherine
$400 [16]
6'4'' from the University of Maine, this "Dead Zone" author
Stephen King
Catherine
$800 [19]
Shock G of Digital Underground said, "Of all the roadies we ever had", this rapper killed in Vegas in '96 "was the best"
Tupac (Shakur)
Catherine
$800 [24]
This branch of physics deals with the structure & nature of cosmic bodies
cosmology (or astrophysics)
Catherine
$800 [12]
Take a Big Gulp before telling us that DCCXI is this year in Roman numerals
711
Catherine
DD $600 [10]
Germany, Switzerland & this neighbor share the Bodensee, aka Lake Constance
Austria
Christian
$800 [2]
To give a person official power to do something
to authorize
Catherine
$800 [17]
6'9'' from Harvard, this man who wrote thrillers under the name John Lange (Lange is "tall" in German)
Michael Crichton
Heather
DD $1,000 [27]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew is in the lab.) You can see the arrows are pointing in the same way, right? Well, watch what happens when water is added, & this direction-changing physics property takes place
refraction
Catherine
$1,200 [13]
Hank Aaron ended his career with this record number of regular-season home runs
755
Catherine
$800 [8]
Like the bigger Lake Titicaca, Lake Suches is on the border of Peru & this southern neighbor
Bolivia
Catherine Christian
$1,200 [3]
You'd do well to learn about this Cabinet department
Education
Catherine
$1,200 [20]
6'6'' from the Repton School in Derbyshire, this children's author seen with wife Patricia Neal
Roald Dahl
$1,200 [25]
Condensed-matter physics deals with superfluidity, in which certain liquids flow without this
friction
Catherine
$1,600 [14]
Its cube root is 9
729
$1,200 [9]
Manitoba shares Reindeer Lake with this neighbor to the west
Saskatchewan
Catherine Christian
$1,600 [4]
This veggie describes an ear deformed by repeated injury
a cauliflower
Christian
$1,600 [21]
6'3'' from Fairfax High, this author of crime books like "L.A. Confidential"
James Ellroy
Heather Catherine Christian
$1,600 [26]
The smallest discrete amount of radiant energy is called this, also a name for a branch of physics
quantum physics
Christian
$2,000 [15]
702 & 775 are area codes in this state
Nevada
$2,000 [11]
Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia & Tanzania have this long lake in common
Lake Tanganyika
Catherine
$2,000 [6]
You qualify as this if your bank balance has a 2 followed by 6 zeroes
a multi-millionaire
Heather Catherine
$2,000 [22]
6'8'' from Ontario Agricultural College, this economist who wrote "The New Industrial State"
John Kenneth Galbraith

Final Jeopardy!

ENGLISH MONARCHS

She was born near London; her mother, near Madrid

"Bloody" Mary Tudor

Heather "Who was Mary, Queen of Scots?" — wagered $2,000
Christian "Who is Queen Elizabeth I" — wagered $6,200
Catherine "Who wasCatherine ofMary Tudor" — wagered $5,201

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