Show #6933 2014-11-05 (taped 2014-08-13) Regular

Contestants

Hillary Huttenhower — a materials engineer from Manchester, Connecticut

Aric Wiest — a curator from Kansas City, Missouri

Caitlin Malcuit — a writer and editor from North Reading, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Caitlin $1,200 $3,400 $1,400 $2,800
3rd place: $1,000
$1,400
7 R, 2 W
Aric $1,600 $4,500 $9,900 $16,201
2nd place: $2,000
$12,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 2 DDs)
Hillary $4,600 $5,000 $16,200 $19,801
New champion: $19,801
$16,200
21 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

EYEBROW-BEATING YOU TV "I" LAND HOPPING LITERARY TERMS RHYME TIME TASTY ITALIANS
$200 [19]
This Muppet loves pigeons & bottlecaps & shares a fashionable "Sesame Street" address
Bert
Caitlin
$200 [1]
Kevin Spacey plays a manipulative politician on this series from Netflix
House of Cards
Hillary
$200 [6]
Its ruling monarchy was chased out in 1979
Iran
Caitlin
$200 [8]
A trite or stereotyped phrase, it's literally French for "stereotype", a printing term
cliché
Caitlin
$200 [12]
A command to the Lone Ranger's companion to move quickly
"Pronto, Tonto"
Hillary
$200 [17]
First name of 20th c. cardinal Ottaviani, or a rich butter & cream sauce
Alfredo
Aric
$400 [20]
This'30s movie star said, "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it"
Groucho Marx
Caitlin
$400 [2]
Fans of this soapy series are called Gladiators
Scandal
Hillary
$400 [7]
It's about 650 miles west of Norway
Iceland
Hillary
$400 [22]
Using a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal meaning
irony
Aric
$400 [13]
An Athenian computer nerd
a Greek geek
Hillary
$400 [18]
Fittingly, Luca Spaghetti is one of the people Elizabeth Gilbert meets in the first section of this 3-word book
Eat, Pray, Love
Hillary
$600 [21]
Seen here are the brows of this sage of Sunday night television
Andy Rooney
$600 [3]
On "The Americans" she stars as Elizabeth Jennings, just your KGB spy next door
Keri Russell
Hillary
$600 [9]
About 6,000 of its more than 17,000 islands are inhabited
Indonesia
Hillary
$600 [26]
Dude, that was so this! A long narrative poem that tells of the deeds & adventures of a hero
epic
Aric
$600 [14]
Home for a king in the "Big D"
a Dallas palace
Aric
$600 [23]
Mario Cipollini ("Mario Wild Onions") is a famed sprinter in this beloved Euro-sport
cycling
$800 [24]
The Coyoacan house of this Mexican artist is now a museum bearing her name
Frida Kahlo
Caitlin
$800 [4]
Hugh Dancy is criminal profiler Will Graham, trying to track down serial killers on this drama
Hannibal
Hillary
$800 [10]
Some 250 million of its people are ethnically Dravidian
India
Aric
$1,000 [28]
It's the usual lit crit term for prefiguring or hinting what is to come later in a story
foreshadowing
Aric
$800 [15]
A pleasant-smelling tramp or rover
a fragrant vagrant
Caitlin Aric
$800 [29]
Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo, reputedly a gunman in this 1929 slaughter, died aged 86 in 1992
the Valentine's Day Massacre
Caitlin
$1,000 [25]
In 1976, hewas made Marshall of the U.S.S.R., the only party leader after Stalin to hold the highest military rank
Brezhnev
Aric
$1,000 [5]
"24: Live Another Day" was shot in & is set in this city
London
Hillary
$1,000 [11]
It was created from 3 Ottoman provinces shortly after World War I
Iraq
DD $1,300 [27]
Parody makes fun of a literary style; this other 6-letter term makes fun of human weaknesses
satire
Aric
$1,000 [16]
The sense that the science of plants is getting repetitive, day in & day out
botany monotony
Aric
$1,000 [30]
The last name of 18th century composer Pietro was the word for these dumplings
gnocchi
Aric

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORDS FROM THE TECH WORLD FILMS OF THE 1950s HISTORICAL QUOTATIONS BALLET THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM HEY, "DJ"
$400 [11]
The novel "Snow Crash" popularized this word from Hinduism to mean an online representation
an avatar
Aric
$400 [1]
In the 1950s Grace Kelly starred in 2 "High" films: "High Society" & this one
High Noon
$400 [10]
In a 1500 letter, he wrote, "I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people"
Columbus
Hillary
$400 [16]
Standing on the balls of the feet is being on demi-this
pointe
Hillary
$400 [8]
Arizona's Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site has over 170 woven Navajo ones
rugs
Aric
$400 [3]
Lying near, close or contiguous
adjoining (or adjacent)
Hillary
$800 [12]
Someone lacking in information may be described as being low this measure of data transmission
bandwidth
Hillary
$800 [2]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Mount Rushmore, South Dakota.) Alfred Hitchcock always wanted to do a chase scene across the faces of Mount Rushmore; that chase scene became theclimaxof this 1959 thriller
North by Northwest
Hillary
$800 [22]
At Fort Donelson, Tennessee, in 1862, heuttered his demand for unconditional & immediate surrender
(Ulysses) Grant
Aric
$800 [17]
Let's make Odile & stage this "avian" ballet
Swan Lake
Hillary
$800 [9]
Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park includes some of this desert in the northeastern part of the state
the Painted Desert
Caitlin Aric
$800 [4]
It's the "A" in the type of mortgage abbreviated "ARM"
adjustable
Aric
$1,200 [19]
There's a preposition in this word for a solution that circumvents a problem without fixing it
a workaround
Aric Hillary
$1,200 [13]
In order to play this big band leader in a 1954 biopic, Jimmy Stewart hired a trombone tutor
Glenn Miller
Hillary
$1,600 [24]
"The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for its force to be renewed", wrote this man in a 1920 editorial
Mussolini
Aric
$1,200 [18]
Thislate flamboyant defector from the U.S.S.R. sharedhislast name with a czar
Alexander Godunov
Caitlin
$2,000 [26]
The only national parks now in theoriginal 13 statesare one each in North & South Carolina, &this beautiful park in Virginia
Shenandoah
Hillary
$1,200 [5]
A large sailing ship often used for what's been described as a "seagoing dude ranch"
a windjammer
$1,600 [20]
Add 4 letters to a term for messing with a computer to get this word for streamlining your daily existence
life hacking
Aric
$1,600 [14]
"The Caddy" stars this duo as a golf pro & his caddy/manager; they duet on "That's Amore" & end up in show biz
Dean Martin and (Jerry) Lewis
Hillary
DD $2,000 [23]
In 1170 Henry II asked, "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?", the priest being this man
Thomas Becket
Aric
$1,600 [28]
This 1832 ballet may get its French title from the Latin silva, "forest"
La sylphide
$1,600 [6]
It's the small strategically located country seen here
Djibouti
Aric
DD $3,000 [21]
This verb for what a computer does when it networks with another is used in office jargon to mean "meet & talk"
interface
Aric
$2,000 [15]
Bob Hope & Bing Crosby had cameos in this 1952 Cecil B. Demille film as spectators munching popcorn under the big top
The Greatest Show on Earth
Hillary
$2,000 [25]
This Greek leader said, "Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial" (it also helps if you build the Parthenon)
Pericles
$2,000 [27]
Soloists are backed up by the ensemble known by this 3-word French term
the corps de ballet
Hillary
$2,000 [7]
It's the small strategically located city seen here
Bemidji

Final Jeopardy!

ARTISTS

Illustrationsby this man show why his name has become thestandardfor children's book artistry

(Randolph) Caldecott

Caitlin "Who is Caldicot?" — wagered $1,400
Aric "Who is Caldecott?" — wagered $6,301
Hillary "Who is Caldecott?" — wagered $3,601

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