Show #6932 2014-11-04 (taped 2014-08-13) Regular

Contestants

Caitlin Malcuit — a writer and editor from North Reading, Massachusetts

Jason Newell — a quality analyst from Chicago, Illinois

Casey LaPlante — a high school media specialist from Enfield, Connecticut (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Casey $-800 $200 $8,000 $4,200
3rd place: $1,000
$9,800
16 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
Jason $2,600 $5,600 $10,800 $6,600
2nd place: $2,000
$10,800
16 R, 0 W
Caitlin $3,300 $3,500 $6,100 $12,200
New champion: $12,200
$7,600
11 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

NOT A SUCCESSFUL RAP MUSICIAN BRIDGES POETRY & THEE TRADEMARKS "PUMP" UP THE JAMES
$200 [1]
Ice Cube, Ice Berg, Ice T
Ice Berg
Casey
$200 [6]
A statue of engineer Joseph Strauss graces the visitor area on the San Francisco side of this bridge
the Golden Gate Bridge
Caitlin
$200 [26]
He explained, "The naming of cats is a difficult matter, it isn't just one of your holiday games"
(T.S.) Eliot
Casey
$200 [9]
This 3M brand dates to 1930; it became "Magic Tape" in 1961
Scotch
Jason
$200 [14]
"Peanuts" figure awaited on Halloween
the Great Pumpkin
Casey
$200 [16]
The third James to be president, he led the U.S. during the Mexican War
Polk
Casey Jason
$400 [2]
Corn Dogg, Nate Dogg, Snoop Dogg
Corn Dogg
Caitlin
$400 [7]
One pylon of this country's Millau Viaduct, the world's tallest road bridge, is higher than the Chrysler Building
France
Casey
$400 [27]
He penned, "Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred"
(Alfred, Lord) Tennyson
Casey
$400 [10]
Initially called "Chemgrass", it was first installed at a field house at a Rhode Island school
AstroTurf
Caitlin
$400 [15]
Loafing gone a rye
pumpernickel
Jason
$400 [17]
The James River flows through Virginia before entering this bay at Hampton Roads
Chesapeake Bay
Jason
$600 [3]
Lil Scrappy, Notorious B.I.G., MC Medium
MC Medium
Jason
$600 [8]
The Vasco da Gama bridge in this European Capital was built to provide easier access to the 1998 World's Fair
Lisbon
Jason
$600 [28]
Her: "Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise"
(Maya) Angelou
Casey
DD $500 [11]
This gum brand gets its name from a Spanish word for "gum"
Chiclets
Caitlin
$600 [21]
It's useful for when Mommy has to leave Baby for a period of time
a breast pump
Jason
$600 [18]
This Scottish engineer's improvements in the steam engine led to its widespread use in industry
(James) Watt
Caitlin
$800 [4]
Nipsey Hussle, Twista, Boogaloo B
Boogaloo B
Jason
$800 [24]
This country's Firth of Forth Bridgewas the world's longest span in the late 1800s
Scotland
Casey
$800 [29]
"To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells from the bells, bells, bells, bells" (He added 3 more bells there)
Poe
Caitlin
$800 [12]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.)Individual fibersare twisted to increase density in this "five times stronger than steel" DuPont material; bullets deform or mushroom on impact, dispersing & reducing energy
Kevlar
Casey Caitlin
$800 [22]
Type of shotgun that has a mechanism for ejecting a shell
pump action
Casey
$800 [19]
On an episode of "Star Trek", a malfunction in this machine causes Capt. James T. Kirk to split into evil & good Kirks
the transporter machine
Jason
$1,000 [5]
Xzibit, Xtremanator, DMX
Xtremanator
Caitlin
$1,000 [25]
In the 19th century this man designed both the Niagara & Brooklyn Bridges in New York
John Roebling
$1,000 [13]
It's Kawasaki's trademarked brand of 1- and 3-passenger boats that are ridden like motorcycles
Jet Skis
Caitlin
$1,000 [23]
To prevent basement flooding, this rhyming device sucks up water
sump pump
Jason
$1,000 [20]
Betty Grable married this popular bandleader in 1943
Harry James

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE BIG RED WON WORDS THAT START WITH CONJUNCTIONS MANAGEMENT UNUSUAL TV FIRST NAMES AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL CATEGORY ON PORPOISE
$400 [21]
Soviet troops captured this capital in December 1979 (things still didn't turn out well)
Kabul
Jason
$400 [1]
Dairy product term for someone who drops things a lot
butterfingers
$400 [8]
A meeting for everybody from CEO down to charlady is called this kind, a phrase heard before "on deck"
all hands
Casey
$400 [2]
This character was the matriarch of "The Addams Family"
Morticia Addams
Jason
$400 [7]
"Wave" by Sonali Deraniyagala is a recent personal account of surviving this horrendous Indian Ocean event
a tsunami
Jason
$400 [18]
Dall's porpoise resembles this other mammal, Orcinus orca, one of its primary predators
killer whale
Casey
$800 [22]
In the struggle for the nascent USSR, the Bolshevik Reds bested the anticommunists known as this color
Whites
$800 [14]
To wander in search of food or provisions
forage
$800 [11]
In the opposite of "delegate"; this prefix comes before "manage"
micro
Casey
$800 [3]
Named for our 37th president, he's Bart Simpson's schoolmate
Milhouse
Casey
$800 [9]
This comedian's autobiography is titled "Born Standing Up"; well, excuse me!
Steve Martin
Casey
$800 [19]
Porpoises hunt & navigate by this method using a series of reflected high-pitched clicks
echolocation (sonar accepted)
Jason
$1,200 [23]
At the end of this 1942-1943 siege, field marshal Paulus surrendered 2 German armies to the Soviets
(the Battle of) Stalingrad
Caitlin
$1,200 [15]
This word for any painful experience also refers to a medieval trial whose outcome showed God's will
ordeal
DD $1,000 [17]
Don't fire that old duffer yet--he knows stuff about the company that's not written down, this 13-letter type of "memory"
institutional
Caitlin
$1,200 [4]
First name of Mrs. Walter White (Anna Gunn) on "Breaking Bad"
Skyler
Casey Caitlin
$1,200 [10]
This leader's "My Life: A Spoken Autobiography" mentions his relations with Nikita Khrushchev & Hugo Chavez
(Fidel) Castro
Jason
$1,200 [25]
Among the differences between porpoises & dolphins, these are spade-shaped in porpoises, conical in dolphins
teeth
Casey Caitlin
$1,600 [24]
In February 1940 a Soviet barrage finally broke the Mannerheim Line of this plucky northeastern neighbor
Finland
Casey
$1,600 [28]
It's the range with the highest peaks in the Western Hemisphere
Andes
Casey
$1,200 [16]
Memo to the CEO: CYA if the SEC gets false data from your CFO, short for this
chief financial officer
Caitlin
$1,600 [5]
Kramer's on "Seinfeld"
Cosmo
Caitlin
$1,600 [12]
This cable talk show host penned the tell-all "My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands"
Chelsea Handler
Casey
$1,600 [26]
The word porpoise dates from medieval times & comes from the Latin porcus piscis, which means this
pig fish
Casey
$2,000 [20]
This type of review gets its name--er, number--because it sues feedback from all around the worker: bosses, peers & underlings
a 360 (review)
Jason
$2,000 [6]
Katey Sagal plays her on "Sons of Anarchy"
Gemma
Caitlin
DD $1,800 [13]
Marcus Luttrell wrote this memoir about being the only Navy SEAL to come home from Operation Redwing
Lone Survivor
Casey
$2,000 [27]
The endangered vaquita porpoise lives in the northern reaches of this gulf off Mexico's Baja peninsula
the Gulf of California

Final Jeopardy!

THE SUPREME COURT

After Washington & FDR, he is, perhaps fittingly, the president who appointed the most Supreme Court justices

(William Howard) Taft

Caitlin "Who is Taft" — wagered $6,100
Casey "Who is Reagan" — wagered $3,800
Jason "Who isTaftFDR" — wagered $4,200

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