Show #6911 2014-10-06 (taped 2014-07-30) Regular

Contestants

Linda Fraley — a retired physician from Santa Rosa, California

Terri Pous — a social media editor from New York, New York

Shawn Choe — an attorney from New York, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $26,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Shawn $3,800 $6,200 $12,800 $4,000
2nd place: $2,000
$11,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Terri $3,800 $9,200 $13,600 $23,601
New champion: $23,601
$20,200
26 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Linda $600 $2,000 $10,800 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$10,800
11 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

VAMOS LA BRASIL 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 3 VOWELS AUTHORS' MUSEUMS LOOK CLOSER AT THE LOGO AN UNKNOWN NUMBER OF SONGS DRAWING THE "LINE"
$200 [26]
Brazil declared itself independent from this country in 1822 but said "sim" ("yes") to keeping its language
Portugal
Terri
$200 [1]
Height times width
area
Terri
$200 [15]
He has a House & Museum in Hartford & a Boyhood Home & Museum in Hannibal
Mark Twain
Terri
$200 [10]
Clear out your garage & see that happy half face is also a "G" in the logo of this charity
Goodwill
Terri
$200 [23]
A parched Alan Jackson:"It's only half past 12 but I don't care, it's ____ o'clock somewhere"
five
Terri
$200 [2]
In 1913 the Ford Motor Company used a moving one of these to mass produce the Model T
an assembly line
Shawn
$400 [19]
The Republic of Brazil consists of 26 states & 1 federal district, which consists of this capital
Brasília
Linda
$400 [3]
Continental currency
a euro
Shawn
$400 [20]
Once upon a time in 1908, his museum opened in Odense, Denmark, one of the first museums dedicated to a writer
Hans Christian Andersen
Terri
$400 [11]
See the "M" & "B" within the mitt in the logo of this Major League Baseball team
the Milwaukee Brewers
Shawn
$400 [25]
It took Sammy Hagar 16 hours to get to L.A.!"I Can't Drive ____"
55
$400 [4]
In the pre-Civil War period, the Ohio River & this line were considered the dividing line between free & slave states
the Mason-Dixon line
Shawn
$600 [16]
From the small town of Horizontina, she's been called "the most beautiful woman in the world"
Gisele Bundchen
Terri
$600 [8]
Pupu platters aplenty at this party
a luau
Shawn
$600 [21]
Appropriately, a tower in Ireland that was a setting in "Ulysses" houses a museum devoted to this author
(James) Joyce
Shawn
$600 [12]
The chocolates of this brand originated in a Swiss town, symbolized by the bear within the mountain
Toblerone
Terri
$600 [28]
The White Stripes, mobilizing:"____ Nation Army"
Seven
Terri
$600 [5]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) For much of its length, the 180th meridian of longitude is tracked by this line that varies where it diverges to avoid land
the International Date Line
Linda
$800 [17]
This venue of the 2014 World Cup final beat the previous most capacious stadium by 43,000 when it opened in 1950
the Maracana
$800 [9]
Individual invisible emanation sensed by psychics
an aura
Terri
$800 [24]
Items at her museum include Pa's fiddle, tools made by Almanzo & handwritten manuscripts for her novels
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Shawn
$800 [13]
No sweat--this company's logo kind of forms a "U" & an "A"
Under Armour
Terri
$800 [29]
A quick Fixx:"Saved By ____"
Zero
$800 [6]
On a classic Monopoly board, it's between Pennsylvania Ave. & Chance
the Short Line (Railroad)
Shawn
DD $4,400 [18]
Good luck getting across town! The metro area of this city west of Rio covers more than 3,000 square miles
São Paulo
Terri
$1,000 [22]
An orchestra player blows a 3-octave range on this
an oboe
Shawn Terri
$1,000 [27]
The actual camper he used in "Travels with Charley" is on display at his National Center in California
John Steinbeck
Linda
$1,000 [14]
Here's a partial view of the logo for this event; you'll see the rest after you respond
the Tour de France
Terri
$1,000 [30]
Proofreader's nightmare Lynyrd Skynyrd:"Gimme ____ Steps"
Three
$1,000 [7]
This fortification covered the French frontier with Germany but not Belgium, so once it was flanked in WWII, it was useless
the Maginot Line
Shawn

Double Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY POLITICIANS KITCHEN ABBREV. ARCTIC ANIMALS TIME FOR PLAN "B" WEARING LEATHER ATLAS CHAPS
$400 [1]
Taking office in 1809, he was the first U.S. president who had previously served in Congress
Madison
Terri
$400 [13]
The classic BLT becomes a BLAT when you add this, perhaps the Hass kind
an avocado
Terri
$400 [6]
A faked segment in a Disney documentary helped perpetuate the myth that these rodents commit suicide
lemmings
Shawn
$400 [7]
An unauthorized recording
a bootleg
Shawn
$400 [24]
This "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" singer wore leather ones as part of her performing ensemble
Nancy Sinatra
Terri
$400 [18]
Richard Bullington was project manager for the 9th & newest edition of this D.C. organization's renowned altas
the National Geographic
Linda
$800 [2]
Seen here, "Who Stole the People's Money?" was an 1871 Thomas Nast cartoon, depicting the corruption of this New York City politician
Boss Tweed
Linda
$800 [14]
Do you put anything in your coffee? Perhaps NDC, this milk substitute
non-dairy creamer
Linda
$800 [12]
The Arctic type of this canine is the only native land mammal in Iceland
a fox
Terri
$800 [8]
Super soaker for ink
a blotter
Linda
$800 [25]
The iconic leather motorcycle jacket he wore as Johnny in "The Wild One" is a Schott Perfecto
Marlon Brando
Linda
$800 [19]
William, not Ayn, was the senior partner of this duo who started making maps in 1870s Chicago
Rand McNally
Terri
$1,200 [3]
Before he became a U.S. senator, this stubby politician served on the Illinois Supreme Court from 1841 to 1843
Stephen Douglas
Terri
$1,200 [15]
Controversy surrounds HFCS, this sweetener
high-fructose corn syrup
Terri
$1,200 [23]
This "white whale" is known as the "canary of the sea" for the chirps & other sounds it makes
beluga
Terri
$1,200 [9]
An order of monks founded in 529, or their liqueur
a Benedictine
Linda
$1,200 [26]
This collective title of James Fenimore Cooper's 5 novels about frontier life includes a kind of legwear
The Leatherstocking Tales
Terri
$1,200 [20]
Arthur Norton's 1910 atlas of these charted more than 6,500 of them, some as faint as the 7th magnitude
stars
Shawn
$1,600 [4]
This 1830s Secretary of War has a popular Christmas flower named for him; his name doesn't end "IA"
Poinsett
Terri
$1,600 [16]
ACV, this kind of vinegar, has lots of uses
apple-cider vinegar
$2,000 [30]
The Eskimos of Alaska's North Slope call this beast an oomingmak, or "animal with skin like a beard"
the musk ox
$1,600 [10]
Doing this step to smooth Internet streaming: 63% complete
buffering
Terri
$1,600 [27]
He must have been delirious: he wore red leather for his 1983 comedy special "Delirious"
Eddie Murphy
Terri
$1,600 [21]
It takes several people to move the nearly 6-foot-tall Klencke Atlasgiven to this king on his 1660 restoration
Charles II
Shawn
$2,000 [5]
This Kentuckian known as the "Great Pacificator" served as Speaker of the House 3 times between 1811 & 1825
Henry Clay
Linda
$2,000 [17]
Often used for high-priced, seasonal items, the menu abbreviation "A.Q." is short for this
as quoted
DD $10,000 [29]
The fur of this largest weasel family land animal is used to trim parkas because it doesn't mat or freeze in the cold
a wolverine
Terri
$2,000 [11]
An exhortation to defenders is "man the" these structures
the barricades
Linda
$2,000 [28]
This brand of stretchy gloves with leather trim gets its name in part from the word "isometric"
Isotoner
Terri
DD $3,000 [22]
This 16th century cartographer wasn't projecting when he coined the term "atlas" to describe a large book of maps
(Gerardus) Mercator
Shawn

Final Jeopardy!

MUSIC

John Williams said his music for this event, not a film, tried to capture "the spirit of cooperation, of heroic achievement"

the (1984 Summer) Olympics (in Los Angeles)

Linda "What is the Bicentennial celebration" — wagered $10,800
Shawn "What is the bicentennial?" — wagered $8,800
Terri "What are the Olympics?" — wagered $10,001

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