Show #6949 2014-11-27 Regular

Contestants

David Greisman — a communications manager and boxing writer from Columbia, Maryland

Michelle Chick — an administrative assistant from Livonia, Michigan

Aggie Lee — an attorney from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,800)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Aggie	$800	$3,400	$12,600	$3,199 3rd place: $1,000	$12,000 14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Michelle	$4,400	$4,400	$11,000	$7,000 2nd place: $2,000	$11,600 13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
David	$2,800	$6,000	$7,600	$11,600 New champion: $11,600	$7,600 19 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

ANAGRAMMED NEW YORK CITIES	KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL	NBA LAST NAME'S THE SAME	YOU, PRONOUNS & ME	WHICH CABINET DEPARTMENT?	THE DAWN OF THE ATOMIC AGE
$200 [6] Home to the Orange:RACY USES Syracuse David	$200 [11] Pomodoro, the Italian word for tomato, can be translated as "golden" this fruit apple David	$200 [1] Jermaine & Shaquille O'Neal Aggie	$200 [16] 4-letter word following "watch" or "now hear"; it's just about the most important word we use in "Jeopardy!" clues this Aggie	$200 [21] The Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs State David	$200 [26] (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Los Alamos, NM.) The project that produced the first atomic bombs got this name after a New York City district of the Army Corps of Engineers, but it came to completion across the country here in Los Alamos The Manhattan Project David
$400 [7] On the Hudson River:ANY LAB Albany David	$400 [12] Chanterelles are wild these, trumpet-shaped with a ruffled edge mushrooms Michelle	$400 [2] Reggie & Andre Miller David	$400 [17] Boze-dee boze-dee bop! In 1985 David Lee Roth double-negatived, "I ain't got" this nobody Michelle	$400 [22] The National Institute of Corrections Justice David	$400 [27] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Los Alamos, NM.) In 1945, the Quonset hut here was used to assemble the implosion type atomic device called "Fat Man" that would explode over this city days after Hiroshima was bombed Nagasaki Michelle
$600 [8] Great Lakes port:FLUB OAF Buffalo Michelle	$600 [13] Chicken of the Sea offers this solid white tuna canned in water albacore Aggie	$600 [3] Karl & Moses Malone David	$600 [18] As a pronoun, it's a form of the possessive case of "I"; as a noun, it's where you extract ore mine David	$600 [23] The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Labor David	$600 [28] (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Los Alamos NM.) The area called V-Site was where the device known as the "Gadget" was assembled. The first nuclear device in the world, it had a core of the 239 isotope of this element plutonium David
$800 [9] Very near Canada:ALL AFAR GAINS Niagara Falls Michelle	$800 [14] Types of this ingredient include cake, all-purpose & self-rising flour Michelle	$800 [4] DeAndre & Michael Jordan Michelle	$800 [19] Pronoun in a 1940 Hemingway novel title; ring in now! whom Michelle David	$800 [24] The Office of English Language Acquisition Education Aggie	$800 [29] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Los Alamos, NM.) The stress of running the administrative & scientific size of the project of producing the bomb wore this Los Alamos lab director down to 116 pounds by July 1945 Robert Oppenheimer
$1,000 [10] "Colorful" town possibly named for its abundant heavy fogs:WHISTLE PAIN White Plains	$1,000 [15] This Japanese dish, slices of fresh raw fish served with soy sauce & wasabi, is absolutely riceless sashimi Michelle	$1,000 [5] Dwight & Juwan Howard David	$1,000 [20] Pronoun in the title of the longest poem in "Leaves of Grass"; sing in now! myself David	DD $1,600 [25] The Office of Natural Resources Revenue the Department of the Interior Aggie	$1,000 [30] Surely you're joking! Not yet 28, hewas a group leader in the theoretical division of the A-bomb push Richard Feynman

Double Jeopardy! Round

SOUNDS LIKE MAD LIBS, BUT REAL!	YO, JOHANN!	POTPOURRI	FEMALE BOOK CHARACTERS	WORLD HISTORY	JUST BEYOND THE "H"ORIZON
$400 [22] Maximilian Schellwas thegodfatherof this actress who toted Billy Bob Thornton's blood Angelina Jolie David	$400 [21] In 1450 Johann Fust loaned this printer money; 5 years later, he sued for the money owed & set up his own printing firm Gutenberg David	$400 [15] This word meaning to raise anchor has nothing to do with how heavy it is; it's from Old Saxon for to lift or carry weigh Aggie	$400 [5] In "The Hunger Games" books, Primrose is her younger sister Katniss Everdeen David	$400 [1] In 1825 this revolutionary controlled an area from the Caribbean to Argentina Simón Bolívar Aggie	$400 [10] Insulin is one hormone Aggie
$800 [23] Before playing Brodyon this Showtime drama, Damian Lewiswas atelemarketersellingcar alarmsin London Homeland David	$800 [30] Among his more than 150 waltzes are "Tales from the Vienna Woods" & "Emperor Waltz" (Johann) Strauss Aggie	$800 [17] It's the Hebrew name for the prayer shawl seen here a tallit	$800 [6] Adele Varens is the pupil to whom this title Bronte character is a governess Jane Eyre David	$800 [2] In 1240 Batu Khan, leader of these people, sacked & burned Kiev the Mongols David	$800 [11] Suite! It's the friendly reception of guests hospitality David
$1,200 [24] In 2014 this"Sussudio"singer donated the vast collection of Alamo artifactsin his Swiss basementto the Texas site Phil Collins Aggie	$1,200 [29] Johann Fuhlrott identified a piece of skull from a cave near Dusseldorf in 1856 as an early human, this one Neanderthal Aggie	$1,200 [18] This doozy of a car won the 1924, '25 & '27 Indy 500s a Duesenberg Michelle	$1,200 [7] If a Judy Blume title were one word longer, it might include Simon, the last name of this 12-year-old girl Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Michelle	DD $1,000 [4] On Jan. 26, 1808 George Johnston of Australia's New South Wales Corps led a mutiny vs. this governor & arrested him William Bligh Michelle	$1,200 [12] Hyphenated term referring to the last few generations preceding the automobile horse-and-buggy Aggie David
$1,600 [25] Before"Inside the Actors Studio", hewrote a book aboutanimal group names& says he was apimpin France James Lipton Aggie	$1,600 [28] 19th century pastor Johann David Wyss & his son wrote this children's book about a shipwrecked clan Swiss Family Robinson Aggie	$1,600 [19] Travel guides dub the areaseen here this color coast; the name of the color comes from the country it's in turquoise	DD $2,000 [8] The first part of "Les Miserables" is called "Fantine"; the second part is named for her Cosette Michelle	$1,200 [3] In 622 Muhammad fled from Mecca to this city, from which Islam spread across the region Medina Michelle	$1,600 [13] The science of measuring time horology
$2,000 [26] Born in Goose Creek, he was Oscar-nominatedas Buddy Holly&, on a later film, had an on-setfighton howheavenlooked Gary Busey	$2,000 [27] From 1791 to 1817 this poet & playwright served as director of the Weimar court theater Johann Goethe	$2,000 [20] Item 1 in the Mayo Clinic's online instructions for dealing with a victim of this is "Look first. Don't touch" electrocution Aggie Michelle	$2,000 [9] This woman mentioned in the title of a controversial novel is the former Constance Reid Lady Chatterley Aggie	$2,000 [16] This early Germanic people in Gaul were split into 2 major branches, the Salians & the Ripuarians the Franks	$2,000 [14] Crostini are a popular choice for these hors d'oeuvres Aggie

Final Jeopardy!

BODIES OF WATER

First encountered in 1648 by a man born in Russia, it was eventually named after a man born in Denmark

the Bering Strait

David "What is the Bering Strait?" — wagered $4,000

Michelle "What is the Caspian Sea" — wagered $4,000

Aggie "What is the river?" — wagered $9,401

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