Show #6973 2014-12-31 (taped 2014-11-12) Regular

Vaughn Winchell game 4.

Contestants

Jennifer Harris — a Ph.D. student originally from Houston, Texas

Zamir Ahmed — a manager of media relations from Washington, D.C.

Vaughn Winchell — a stay-at-home dad and graduate student from Columbia, Maryland (whose 3-day cash winnings total $66,502)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Vaughn $2,200 $4,800 $14,800 $11,800
4-day champion: $78,302
$13,400
17 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Zamir $1,400 $3,400 $5,800 $400
3rd place: $1,000
$5,800
12 R, 3 W
Jennifer $2,400 $2,800 $5,600 $7,000
2nd place: $2,000
$7,600
13 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THUMP! THE 50 STATES BIBLICAL ZOO NAME YOUR POISON CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES "IPO"s
$200 [11]
Slump to the floor "like a bag of wet" this, a mix of clay & limestone, & you're not likely getting up soon
cement
Vaughn
$200 [6]
Its state song includes the words "From hill to hill, from creek to creek, Potomac calls to Chesapeake"
Maryland
Zamir
$200 [1]
The book of Amos says this animal "hath roared, who will not fear?"
the lion
Jennifer
$200 [12]
Jose Cuervo, Herradura
tequila
Zamir
$200 [15]
(I'm New York Timescolumnist Thomas Friedman.) My favorite movie is this 1985 Meryl Streep film set in Nairobi that won 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture
Out of Africa
Zamir
$200 [24]
It's a 3-legged camera support
a tripod
Jennifer
$400 [17]
You "hit" these when you walk the streets; if something hits you like a ton of 'em, you're shocked
bricks
Vaughn
$400 [7]
This state leads the U.S. in the production of burley tobacco & bourbon whiskey
Kentucky
Vaughn
$400 [2]
The second plague in Exodus happened when Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt & these hopped out
frogs
Vaughn
$400 [13]
Hendrick's, Boodles
gin
$400 [16]
(Warren Buffett delivers the clue.) One of my favorites is this 1973 movie in which Paul Newman invests a little time to con a large sum of out evil mobster Doyle Lonnegan
The Sting
Vaughn
$400 [25]
Limitless in power, as god
omnipotent
Jennifer
$600 [18]
Jimmy Page got this band name from Keith Moon's description of bad gigs going down like one
Led Zeppelin
Zamir
$600 [8]
Its state university system is based in Las Cruces
New Mexico
Jennifer
$600 [3]
Jesus said, "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening" these
wolves
Jennifer
$600 [14]
E&J XO, Pisco
brandies
$600 [20]
(I'm Dr. Jane Goodall.) When I really want to laugh, I watch this 1983 film with Dan Aykroyd & Eddie Murphy whose plot has a lot in common with "The Prince and the Pauper"
Trading Places
Zamir
$600 [26]
Fat removal via a small incision & vacuuming
liposuction
Zamir
$800 [19]
In 1964 a researcher wanted to count the rings of a bristlecone type of this tree, so he felled it & oops, it was 4,900
a pine tree
Zamir Jennifer
$800 [9]
Native daughter Helen Kelleris on the reverse of thequarterthat represents this Southern state
Alabama
Zamir
$800 [4]
Once every 3 years King Solomon imported apes & these "proud" birds from Tharshish
peacocks
Vaughn
$1,000 [28]
(Real poison this time)the weed killer MSMA
arsenic
$800 [21]
(Hi. I'm Dr. Oz.) One of my favorite films is this 1967 movie with Sidney Poitier, who takes a teaching job in tough East End London
To Sir, with Love
Vaughn
$1,000 [23]
The eastern gray species of this thumps the ground with its big feet to signal others of danger
a kangaroo
Jennifer
$1,000 [10]
According to statute, the outer circle of its state seal is a color called golden poppy
California
$1,000 [5]
While wandering in the wilderness, John the Baptist "did eat" these insects "and wild honey"
locusts
Jennifer
DD $1,400 [22]
Angry Orchard, Adam's Revenge
(hard apple) cider
Vaughn
$1,000 [27]
(I'm columnist Clarence Page.) As real-life TV has proven the movie prophetic to me, my favorite film is this 1976 drama about newscaster Howard Beale
Network
Zamir

Double Jeopardy! Round

PLACES OF FABLE 1980s MUSIC MILITARY MISTAKES WORD ORIGINS POETIC LAST LINES IPOs
$400 [13]
French writer Thierry Jamin is planning a search for the lost Incan city of Paititi in this country
Peru
Zamir
$400 [23]
This 1984 Madonna album spawned 4 Top 5 hits, including "Material Girl"
Like a Virgin
$400 [5]
In 1896 an Ethiopian army defeated a force from this nation that had launched an ill-advised night attack
Italy
Zamir Jennifer
$400 [1]
This metal more valuable than gold has a name that means "little silver" due to its appearance
platinum
Jennifer
$400 [8]
"Noble six hundred!" ends this poem
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
Vaughn
$400 [17]
A little birdie told me that this social media company raised $2.1 billion in its Nov. 2013 initial public offering
Twitter
Jennifer
$800 [14]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an aerial photograph on the monitor.) In 2004, a physicist claimed that a rectangular anomaly in Spain's Doñana mudflats matched Plato's dimensions of Poseidon's temple in this lost land
Atlantis
Zamir
$800 [24]
Eric Bazilian & Rob Hyman of The Hooters played on her "Girls Just Want To Have Fun"
Cyndi Lauper
Vaughn
$800 [6]
European hubris at this mountain outpost in 1954 helped a peasant army surround & defeat 16,000 elite troops
Dien Bien Phu
$800 [2]
This term for an amateur photographer comes from the device that opens & closes the aperture of a lens
a shutterbug
Jennifer
$800 [9]
This poem's title has 7 words, like its last line "and miles to go before I sleep"
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Vaughn Zamir
$800 [18]
In 2013 this theme park company made a splash with its IPO; it jumped 24% on the first day
SeaWorld
Jennifer
$1,200 [15]
The name of this mythic Tibetan Buddhist kingdom inspired a Three Dog Night hit song
Shambala
Vaughn Jennifer
$1,200 [25]
This group's album "5150" was its first with Sammy Hagar as its lead vocalist
Van Halen
Zamir
$1,200 [7]
This cheek-haired general's attack on Fredericksburg in 1862 saw 12,000 Union losses with little change in the rebel lines
(General Ambrose) Burnside
Vaughn
$1,200 [3]
Named for a region in Norway, a Telemark is a type of turn used in this sport
skiing
Zamir
$1,600 [11]
"In her sepulchre there by the sea, in her tomb by the sounding sea" ends this poem
"Annabel Lee"
Vaughn
$1,200 [19]
Stock symbol VG, this telecom company had a disastrous IPO in 2006
Vonage
DD $2,000 [20]
This island was said to be ruled by Morgan le Fay & her 8 healing sisters
Avalon
Jennifer
$1,600 [4]
The name of this water-soluble carbohydrate found in ripe fruit is derived from the Greek for "coagulate"
pectin
Vaughn
DD $2,000 [10]
A poem by him ends, "and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils"
(William) Wordsworth
Vaughn
$1,600 [21]
In 2011 this online discounter raised $700 million in the largest Internet IPO since Google in 2004
Groupon
Jennifer
$2,000 [26]
Sailors say this "colorful" afterlife place is "9 miles beyond the dwelling of his Satanic majesty"
Fiddler's Green
$2,000 [16]
The name of this form of therapeutic massage using the thumbs & palms is Japanese for "finger pressure"
shiatsu
Vaughn
$2,000 [12]
His poem about a "dream deferred" ends, "maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?"
(Langston) Hughes
Vaughn
$2,000 [22]
Not named for a Vermont city, the stock for this clothing "factory" rose 40% after its 2013 offering
Burlington
Vaughn

Final Jeopardy!

ISLANDS

Present name of an island settled by Europeans in the 1490s, today the most populous island in the Americas

Hispaniola

Jennifer "What is Hispañiola?" — wagered $1,400
Zamir "What is Cuba?" — wagered $5,400
Vaughn "What is Cuba?" — wagered $3,000

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