Show #6929 2014-10-30 (taped 2014-08-12) Regular

Last show with tying co-champions.

Contestants

Allison Solomon — a management consultant originally from Brooksville, Florida

Eileen Dreyer — an author from St. Louis, Missouri

Ryan Alley — a patent attorney from Alexandria, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ryan $2,400 $3,400 $10,200 $20,200
2-day co-champion: $39,800
$10,200
17 R, 3 W
Eileen $2,600 $2,800 $6,400 $12,600
2nd place: $2,000
$6,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Allison $800 $1,600 $12,600 $20,200
New co-champion: $20,200
$13,200
13 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

1984 LET ME BE PERFECTLY FRANK THE SMITHSONIAN FROM A TO Z DEEP CUTS FISHY WORDS ADORABLE ANDORRA
$200 [19]
On January 1, this telephone giant was broken up into 7 smaller regional companies
AT&T
Eileen
$200 [14]
This Rat Packer gained prominence in the singing group The Hoboken Four
Frank Sinatra
Eileen
$200 [1]
H:This blue stone, the Smithsonian Natural History Museum's premier attraction
the Hope Diamond
Allison
$200 [3]
Off "Nevermind":"Breed","Stay Away"
Nirvana
Ryan
$200 [7]
Exclusive, or the one & only
sole
Allison
$200 [24]
Andorra is nestled among the peaks of this mountain range
the Pyrenees
Ryan
$400 [20]
Lace up your skates! This Andrew Lloyd Webber musical rolled into London's Apollo Victoria Theatre on March 27
Starlight Express
Ryan
$400 [15]
Unlike his brother, he surrendered to Missouri authorities in 1882
Frank James
Eileen
$400 [2]
P:A chunk of this piece of American history, chipped off by a descendant of William Bradford
Plymouth Rock
Allison
$400 [8]
Off "Piano Man":"Stop In Nevada","Ain't No Crime"
Billy Joel
Eileen
$400 [10]
It's a person unusually skilled in a particular activity such as cards or pool
shark
Eileen
$400 [28]
September 8 is Our Lady of Meritxell Day, a national holiday commemorating a 1278 apparition of this woman
the Virgin Mary
Eileen
$600 [21]
This "doctor" struck out 11 batters on September 7, giving him a MLB rookie record for a season
"Doc" Gooden
Eileen
$600 [16]
He was the subject of a book subtitled "The Story of America's Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman"
Barney Frank
Eileen
$600 [4]
C:Nickname of this building, home to the Smithsonian Information Center
the Castle
Ryan
$600 [9]
Off "Oops!... I Did It Again":"Dear Diary","What U See (Is What U Get)"
Britney Spears
Ryan
$600 [11]
It's the fish seen here; elsewhere in the animal world, it's the sound made by a hog
grunt
Eileen
$800 [26]
The capital is Andorra la Vella, "Andorra the old" in this official language also spoken in northeast Spain
Catalan
Ryan Eileen
$800 [22]
In a first in Communist Poland, state agents were tried for killing Jerzy Popieluszko, a beloved man in this job
Catholic priest
$800 [17]
You can see the preliminary sketches for the Panama Puente de Vida Museo on this architect's website
Frank Gehry
Eileen Allison
$800 [5]
Z:10-letter adjective for the park that exhibits Bao Bao
zoological
Eileen
$800 [27]
Off "Beauty and the Beat":"Skidmarks On My Heart","Can't Stop The World"
the Go-Go's
Ryan
DD $1,000 [12]
In this mid-air position, a diver will bend at the waist while keeping her legs together & straight
pike (jackknife accepted)
Eileen
$1,000 [25]
Britannica dates the end of this European "system" to the 12th c. but in Andorra to 1993 & a new constitution
the feudal system
Ryan
$1,000 [23]
In a fateful move on June 5, she ordered an attack on Amritsar's Golden Temple
(Indira) Gandhi
Ryan
$1,000 [18]
Among this graphic novelist's revisions to the Batman story was making Robin a teenage girl
Frank Miller
$1,000 [6]
A:At the American Art Museum, 34 of his photos, including several of Yosemite
Ansel Adams
Ryan
$1,000 [13]
From the Old Norse for "brag", it means to complain or find fault in a petty way
carp

Double Jeopardy! Round

GEORGE ORWELL'S1984 ASTRONOMY TV SHOWS' OPENING LYRICS LEGO ART BIRTH OF A VICE PRESIDENT CAPITONYMS
$400 [27]
This personification of the government "is watching you"
Big Brother
Ryan
$400 [4]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a photograph on the monitor.) Photographer Thierry Legault traveled to Oman to get a photo of a partial solar eclipse; an added bonus was capturing this craft in the image
the International Space Station
Eileen
$400 [16]
"Come and knock on our door, we've been waiting for you"--Jack & the girls, that is
Three's Company
Ryan
$400 [26]
Thiscinematic master began his career as a designer of film titles during the silent era
Hitchcock
Allison
$400 [1]
November 20, 1942in Scranton, Pennsylvania
Joe Biden
Allison
$400 [9]
A substance that makes shoes shiny, or a Slavic language
polish ["PAHL-ish"] & Polish ["POLE-ish"]
Allison
$1,200 [23]
These cops are the enforcers of mental & political correctness
the Thought Police
Eileen
$800 [5]
The only permanent feature on a comet is this central part, also part of an atom
a nucleus
Ryan
$800 [24]
"Baby, if you've ever wondered, wondered whatever became of me", I became a DJ here
WKRP in Cincinnati
Eileen
$800 [20]
ALego versionof this kind of book was built to commemorate Waldo Hunt, a maker of them
a pop-up book
Ryan
$800 [2]
May 8, 1884in Lamar, Missouri
Harry Truman
Eileen
$800 [11]
Pleasing & agreeable, or a French resort
nice ["NYSE"] & Nice ["NEESE"]
Ryan
$1,200 [6]
Asteroid 1998 QE2, which buzzed by the Earth in 2013, surprised scientists who discovered it had one of these in tow
a moon
Allison
$1,200 [21]
"I can't count the reasons I should stay, one by one they all just fade away" (it should be the Greendale fight song)
Community
Eileen
$1,200 [17]
Feel the salt spray of "Breaking Wave" by Hokusai, a 19th-century artist in this country
Japan
Ryan
$1,200 [3]
January 5, 1928in Ceylon, Minnesota
(Walter) Mondale
Ryan Eileen
$1,200 [12]
Easily capable of moving from place to place, or an Alabama port city
mobile ["MO-byle"] & Mobile ["mo-BEEL"]
Ryan
$1,600 [7]
Our closestgalactic neighborsaretwo little satellite galaxiesknown as "the Clouds of" him
Magellan
$1,600 [22]
"Until I'm one with you my heart shall not pass through"--a reference to the U.S./Mexico border?
The Bridge
$1,600 [19]
A prominent skateboarder commissioned this bird
hawk
Allison
$1,600 [10]
February 4, 1947in Indianapolis, Indiana
Dan Quayle
Eileen
$1,600 [13]
A public recitation of a will, or a Pennsylvania city named for the ancestral home of the Penn family
reading ["REED-ing"] & Reading ["REDD-ing"]
Allison
$2,000 [8]
In 1992 astronomers Luu & Jewitt found the first of these "objects", KBOs for short
Kuiper belt objects
Ryan
$2,000 [25]
These Comedy Central cubicle guys insist, "You gotta, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta be fresh"
Workaholics
Allison
$2,000 [18]
The creationseenherewas made as part of this location's 100th-anniversary celebrations in 2011
the New York City Library
Ryan Eileen
DD $1,800 [14]
November 9, 1918in Baltimore, Maryland
(Spiro) Agnew
Allison
DD $1,600 [15]
Having sharper flavor, or a Moroccan seaport on the Strait of Gibraltar
tangier ["TANG-ee-er"] & Tangier ["tan-JEER"]
Allison

Final Jeopardy!

MONARCHS OF ENGLAND

The fifth king & the eighth king of this name share the distinction of both having been proclaimed king but never crowned

Edward

Eileen "What is Edward?" — wagered $6,200
Ryan "What is Edward?" — wagered $10,000
Allison "What is Edward" — wagered $7,600

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