Show #6964 2014-12-18 (taped 2014-10-28) Regular

Contestants

Kevin Hozey — a history teacher from Jacksonville, Florida

David Emery-Peck — a development officer from Oberlin, Ohio

Kurt Fritzsche — a medical device engineer from Loveland, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kurt $5,000 $9,800 $13,800 $5,200
2nd place: $2,000
$12,600
21 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
David $800 $800 $5,600 $600
3rd place: $1,000
$5,600
10 R, 3 W
Kevin $1,400 $4,200 $25,000 $27,601
New champion: $27,601
$22,200
21 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

U.S NEWS & WORLD REPORTBEST OF 2014 MOVIE STUDIO LOGOS THAT CAN MEAN 2 THINGS! DO THE MATH OFFICIAL STATE STUFF THE NATIVITY
$200 [26]
The best "elementary particles/fields/string theory" grad school? This New Jersey Ivy League school
Princeton
David
$200 [3]
Leo the lion
MGM
Kurt
$200 [1]
If we visit 3 or 4 ____, we should find a sweet dog who's less than 50 ____
pounds
Kurt
$200 [7]
If the meter says $16.00 & you tip 20%, you'll give the driver this total
$19.20
David
$200 [12]
Alabama has an official state one of these, which was used to swear in Jefferson Davis
Bible
David
$200 [17]
In the KJV, Joseph & Mary were in Bethlehem to pay these, according to "a decree from Caesar Augustus"
taxes
Kurt
$400 [27]
For part-time law programs, think D.C.; George Washington U. was No. 2 & this university topped the list
Georgetown
Kurt
$400 [22]
A shield bearing 2 letters that represent its founding siblings
Warner Brothers
Kurt
$400 [2]
I have a ____ to the problem of how to make a ____ of 2 substances without blowing us up
solution
Kevin
$400 [8]
If your friends say to meet them 130 minutes after 11:30 AM, you'll meet up at this time of day
1:40 PM
Kurt
$400 [13]
New Mexico has an official state question, "Red or green?"--it refers to these edibles
chili peppers
Kevin
$400 [18]
Among the gifts of the magi were these 2 gum resins
frankincense & myrrh
Kevin
$600 [28]
On 2014's hospital "Honor Roll", the Mayo Clinic was No. 3, Mass. General No. 2 & this Baltimore facility the leader
Johns Hopkins
Kurt
$600 [23]
Searchlights scanning the skies & lighting up its name
20th Century Fox
Kurt David
$600 [4]
Make sure you see the majestic ____ in flight even if you have to ____ your neck
crane
David
$600 [9]
The largest common factor of 84 & 105 is this
21
Kurt David
$600 [14]
The sailing ship Bowdoin is this state's state vessel
Maine
Kevin
$600 [19]
Soon after Jesus' birth, the family traveled to Jerusalem to offer a sacrifice & returned to this Galilee city
Nazareth
Kevin
$800 [29]
Let's get down to business--for undergrads, this City of Brotherly Love university was tops
the University of Pennsylvania
Kurt David Kevin
$800 [24]
A mountain peak surrounded by stars
Paramount
Kurt
$800 [5]
First put your fish on the ____ to make sure you win the contest, then go ahead & ____ it
scale
Kurt
$1,000 [11]
If 3x - 11 = 43, x = this
18
Kurt
$800 [15]
Accordion to 1993 Wisconsin Act 411, it's the state dance
a polka
David
$800 [20]
In Luke 2 an angel announced the birth of Jesus to shepherds, saying, "I bring you good tidings of" this (but no "comfort")
joy
Kurt
$1,000 [30]
When it comes to a computer science Ph.D. program, this university in Pittsburgh leads the field
Carnegie Mellon
Kurt
$1,000 [25]
Pegasus is a long-timesymbolof this division of Sony
Tristar (Columbia Tristar accepted)
Kurt
$1,000 [6]
Take your foot off the gas & ____ so you don't miss the beauties of a scenic drive down the ____
coast
Kurt
DD $2,000 [10]
The total surface area of a cube with each side 10 inches long is this
600 square inches
Kurt
$1,000 [16]
Bring your lance if you want to compete in this, Maryland's official state sport
jousting
Kevin
$1,000 [21]
Isaiah wrote, "Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name" this, meaning "God with us"
Immanuel
Kurt

Double Jeopardy! Round

A LITTLE T & A THE CIVIL WAR COUNTRIES BY WORLD HERITAGE SITES THAT WAS ON TV IAMB WOMAN HEAR ME ROAR
$400 [2]
Processing grates this starch into little grains, still visible in the eventualpudding
tapioca
Kevin
$400 [3]
By June 1862 the Union held this river as far south as Memphis
the Mississippi
David
$400 [14]
The Tokaj wine region &the Buda Castle Quarter
Hungary
Kurt Kevin
$400 [1]
Here's the story... this sitcom that premiered in 1969 left ambiguous the absence of the biological dad of the 3 girls
The Brady Bunch
Kurt
$400 [26]
George Eliot's poem "God Needs Antonio" praises this master maker of musical instruments
Antonio Stradivarius
$400 [22]
It's not just carnivores--the harts of the red type of this roar to drive rival males away
deer
Kevin
$800 [6]
The E-flat bass type of this instrument has a fourth valve so you can get extra low
a tuba
David
$800 [9]
After completing his "March to the Sea", this general led another march through the Carolinas
Sherman
Kevin
$800 [15]
The Neolithic flint mines near Mons &the Brugge Historic Center
Belgium
Kurt
$800 [4]
Addressing web commenters directly to write the govt. about net neutrality, this Brit began, "Good evening, monsters"
John Oliver
Kurt
$800 [27]
Lady Mary Chudleigh's "To the Ladies" warns fiancees that this "and servant are the same / But only differ in the name"
wife
David
$800 [18]
The Kalolo-Lozi people call the roar & mist that the Zambezi River makes as it forms this "the smoke that thunders"
Victoria Falls
Kevin
$1,200 [11]
Tegere, meaning "to cover", gives us this garment worn by the ancient Romans
a toga
Kevin
$1,200 [10]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animated map diagram on the monitor.) Although he was but 1 of 4 division commanders with Trimble, Pettigrew & Anderson in an attack at Gettysburg, the charge is named for this general
(George) Pickett
Kurt
$1,200 [19]
Tel Megiddo &the Old City of Acre
Israel
$1,200 [5]
Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2014, this animated holiday special finds Santa's sleigh fogged in on Christmas Eve
Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Kurt
$1,200 [28]
She loved her iambs, as in "Because I could not stop for Death"
Dickinson
David
$1,200 [23]
Written in 1792, this French song asks, "Do you hear in the countryside the roar of those savage soldiers?"
"The Marseillaise"
Kevin
$1,600 [16]
It's America's most popular farm-raised fish
tilapia
Kurt
$1,600 [12]
On Oct. 19, 1864 this Union general known as "Little Phil" made his ride to stop Jubal Early at Cedar Creek
(Philip) Sheridan
Kevin
$2,000 [21]
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump &L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site
Canada
Kevin
$1,600 [7]
In a TV movie based on a P.D. James mystery & Jane Austen's characters, "Death Comes to" this estate of Mr. Darcy
Pemberley
David
$1,600 [29]
The 44 sonnets in an 1850 volume by her are largely in iambic pentameter
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
$2,000 [25]
Alphabetically first in the Old Testament comes this prophet who says, "The Lord will roar from Zion"
Amos
$2,000 [17]
Silk can be woven into many fabrics, including this one whose name is from the Persian for "to spin"
taffeta
$2,000 [13]
In February 1865 Lincoln met with this Confederate vice president aboard the River Queen at Hampton Roads, Virginia
Alexander Stephens
Kevin
DD $3,000 [20]
The Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve& the Prehistoric Caves of Yagul
Mexico
Kevin
$2,000 [8]
Some thought this Jane Wyman & Lorenzo Lamas show about running a winery was for the birds
Falcon Crest
Kevin
$2,000 [30]
Her 1883 "1492" celebrates "A virgin world where doors of sunset part, / Saying, 'Ho, all who weary, enter here!'"
Emma Lazarus
Kevin
DD $3,000 [24]
Akira Ifukube used a leather glove coated in pine-tar resin & a double bass to create this character's roar in 1954
Godzilla
Kevin

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY SCULPTURE

Its sculptor asked for prayer that this work would "endure until the wind and the rain alone shall wear them away"

Mount Rushmore

David "What is the 9/11 memor" — wagered $5,000
Kurt "What is the Vietnam Memorial?" — wagered $8,600
Kevin "What is Mt. Rushmore?" — wagered $2,601

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