Show #6959 2014-12-11 (taped 2014-10-27) Regular

Contestants

Ryan Pensyl — an Army officer originally from Shamokin, Pennsylvania

Jennifer Gilmore — a yoga teacher and fitness instructor from Menifee, California

Peter McGillicuddy — a human resources director from Holliston, Massachusetts (whose 2-day cash winnings total $18,799)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Peter $1,800 $1,800 $9,000 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$8,200
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Jennifer $1,200 $1,800 $10,800 $6,800
2nd place: $2,000
$12,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Ryan $3,000 $4,600 $14,600 $7,599
New champion: $7,599
$14,600
18 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

IT'S U.N. ANIMUS STOCK SYMBOLS THERE WILL BE "BLOOD" 4 LEGS FOR YOU TV: WHO PLAYED 'EM? OH, THE HUMANITIES!
$200 [7]
Criticism from a Filipino delegate prompted this Soviet premier to bare his sole to the General Assembly in 1960
Khrushchev
Peter
$200 [26]
It went public in 2012 as FB
Facebook
Jennifer
$200 [6]
A vein or an artery, functionally
a blood vessel
Ryan
$200 [16]
Laugh if you want, but I'd stay away from this carnivore seenhereif I were you
a hyena
Peter
$200 [1]
Carmela Soprano &Nurse Jackie Peyton
Edie Falco
Ryan
$200 [12]
Last name of Lucian, a certain psychoanalyst's grandson; his '50s paintings keyed on realistic nudes, for some reason
Freud
Peter
$400 [8]
In 2009, in his first speech to the U.N. after 40 years in power, this North African threatened to tear the U.N. Charter
Gaddafi
Ryan
$600 [28]
Kids & adults like to create their own stuffed animals at this retailer, symbol BBW
Build-a-Bear
Ryan
$400 [21]
Abbreviated BAL, it's a legal measurement of intoxication
blood alcohol level
Peter
$400 [17]
The South American variety of this 4-legged cat can weigh 350 lbs.; some 2-legged Jacksonville ones can go 350, too
a jaguar
Peter
$400 [2]
Bret Maverick &Jim Rockford
Jim Garner
Jennifer
$400 [13]
He's hosted the Tony Awards & in 2014 won one for "Hedwig and the Angry Inch"
Neil Patrick Harris
Peter
$600 [9]
In a 2008 U.N. speech, this Iranian called the U.S. a "bullying power"
Ahmadinejad
Peter
DD $1,000 [27]
LVB, the former symbol for Steinway Musical Instruments, honored this man
Ludwig van Beethoven
Jennifer
$600 [22]
(Dr. Oz delivers the clue.) A layer called the omentum causes lots of problems when it stores fat; one is that your kidneys, deprived of space, raise this, measured in mm of mercury
your blood pressure
$600 [18]
A transparent inner eyelid helps this animal see underwater & protects it from wood chips when it cuts trees
a beaver
Jennifer
$600 [3]
Veronica Mars &Jeannie Van Der Hooven
Kristen Bell
Ryan
$600 [14]
For decades this alliterative anthropologist was a curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History
Margaret Mead
Peter
$800 [10]
At the U.N. podium where George W. Bush had spoken the day before, Hugo Chavez said, "It still smells of" this element
sulfur
Ryan
$800 [23]
This word means the dynastic descendants of one individual
the bloodline
Jennifer
$800 [19]
Forest musk is one species of this smelly insectivore whose body & name are the same length as a mouse
a shrew
$800 [4]
Michael Knight &Mitch Buchannon
David Hasselhoff
Ryan
$800 [15]
Keep incredibly calm & carry on; Britannica says "tranquillity of mind" is key to this ancient Greek philosophy
Stoicism
Jennifer
$1,000 [11]
"President Reagan, Rambo only exists in movies", said Daniel Ortega, warning the U.S. against invading this country
Nicaragua
Peter Jennifer
$1,000 [24]
Green chalcedony with red spots
bloodstone
$1,000 [20]
Likely domesticated in Tibet, this oxlike mammal aka "hairy cattle" can check in at around 1,800 pounds
a yak
Ryan
$1,000 [5]
Illya Kuryakin &Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard
David McCallum
Jennifer
$1,000 [25]
1874's "The Moldau" by this composer depicts his beloved Czech landscape
Bedrich Smetana
Peter

Double Jeopardy! Round

TURN, TURN, TURN OH, HI, OHIO! TO LIFE FRENCH LIT NAME THAT SONG MIDDLE "K"
$400 [18]
A wheel & a rope are all you need to make this one of the 6 simple machines
a pulley
Jennifer
$400 [8]
Holy this city! Located on both banks of the Maumee River, it's named for a city in Spain
Toledo
Jennifer
$400 [20]
For nearly a quarter century, this company used the advertising slogan "We bring good things to life"
G.E.
Ryan
$400 [16]
In 1845 this pere continued the story of a certain trio in "Twenty Years After"
Alexandre Dumas, père
Ryan
$400 [1]
This No. 1 song was originally called "Kitty" but Toni Basil changed the title after coming up with the cheerleader theme
"Mickey"
Jennifer
$400 [2]
During Prohibition, it was a place where alcohol was illegally sold & consumed
a speakeasy
Ryan
$800 [19]
In a lock, it's the central part that contains the tumblers; in a car engine, it contains a piston
a cylinder
Ryan
$800 [12]
Benjamin Harrison went to this university--in Oxford, Ohio, not Florida
Miami University
Peter
$800 [21]
A song from this musical begins, "To life, to life, L'chaim!"
Fiddler on the Roof
Ryan
$800 [17]
"Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours" is the French title of this 1873 book
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jennifer
$800 [3]
This song by Boston says, "I'm gonna take you by surprise and make you realize"
"Amanda"
Ryan
$800 [7]
As of May 4, 2003 this small metal item no longer admitted riders to the Manhattan subway
a token
Ryan
$1,200 [22]
A heavy wheel on a revolving shaft that helps regulate an engine's power has this insect name
the flywheel
$1,600 [14]
The first rubber company in Akron was founded by this man who was named for Benjamin Franklin
B.F. Goodrich
Ryan
$1,200 [23]
He's the subject of the novel & movie "Lust for Life"
van Gogh
Peter
$1,200 [28]
Hereis Amantine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, known by this pen name; she loved Chopin in more ways than one
George Sand
$1,200 [4]
Chuck Berry's first Top 40 hit was this one about a girl in a Coupe de Ville
"Maybellene"
Ryan
$1,200 [9]
It can precede box, dive or scraper
sky
Peter
$1,600 [26]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates a tabletop engine with a hairdryer.) The force of wind rotates a central shaft to generate power in this type of engine that appropriately gets its name from Latin for "tornado"
turbine
DD $2,000 [13]
Courtesy of Genoa, Italy, a 20-foot statue stands in in City Hall Plaza in this city
Columbus
Peter
$1,600 [24]
A popular phrase since World War I to lead a comfortable life is to "live the life of" him
Riley
Jennifer
$1,600 [29]
"120 Days of Sodom" by this man was published in 1904, nearly 100 years after his death
the Marquis de Sade
Ryan
$1,600 [5]
Rats! Michael Jackson had a No. 1 hit in 1972 with this movie theme
"Ben"
Jennifer
$1,600 [10]
With outerwear or without, it's a private lounge next to a legislative chamber
cloakroom
$2,000 [27]
A machine that turns energy from a natural source into mechanical energy is this kind of "mover", an old term for God
a prime mover
$2,000 [15]
The 665-foot Great American Tower, this city's tallest building, stands at Queen City Square near Fourth & Sycamore Streets
Cincinnati
Peter
$2,000 [25]
The movie "Life of Pi" was based on a novel by this author
Yann Martel
$2,000 [30]
2 siblings create a sinister, unreal world of their own in Cocteau's tale of these "enfants"
terribles
Jennifer
DD $1,800 [6]
Buddy Holly named this song for his drummer's girlfriend
"Peggy Sue"
Jennifer
$2,000 [11]
In the title of a 1967 work, Desmond Morris called humans this type of ape
The Naked Ape
Ryan

Final Jeopardy!

THE BIBLE

The first birthday celebration mentioned in the Bible takes place in Genesis 40 & is in honor of this ruler

the Pharaoh in Egypt

Peter "Who is Pharoah Ramses?" — wagered $9,000
Jennifer "Who is King David" — wagered $4,000
Ryan "Who was Joseph" — wagered $7,001

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