Show #6975 2015-01-02 (taped 2014-11-12) Regular

Vaughn Winchell game 6.Elliot Yates game 1.

Contestants

Elliot Yates — an opera producer from New York, New York

Mike Blaha — an attorney originally from Homestead, Florida

Vaughn Winchell — a stay-at-home dad and graduate student from Columbia, Maryland (whose 5-day cash winnings total $103,103)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Vaughn $3,800 $7,200 $18,200 $4,399
3rd place: $1,000
$14,600
20 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Mike $0 $3,200 $2,400 $4,799
2nd place: $2,000
$2,400
7 R, 3 W
Elliot $2,800 $5,000 $16,000 $18,201
New champion: $18,201
$14,600
20 R (including 1 DD), 6 W

Jeopardy! Round

IN MY CABINET 5-LETTER WORDS PLACES THAT END IN "IA" POLICE LINGO LATIN IN PLANT NAMES & THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON!
$200 [11]
Hilda Solis, Tom Vilsack, Chuck Hagel
(Barack) Obama
Vaughn Elliot
$200 [13]
The name of this yellowish white color is from a word for "elephant"
ivory
Elliot
$200 [6]
This country is bordered by Turkey to the north & Iraq to the east
Syria
Elliot
$200 [20]
I need this, assistance from other cops that sounds like an additional vocalist
backup
Elliot
$200 [1]
Australis is from this general direction
south
Vaughn
$200 [26]
This talking title horse had his own CBS sitcom from 1961 to 1966, but work slowed down for him after that
Mr. Ed
Vaughn
$400 [12]
Al Haig, Ed Meese, James Watt
Reagan
Elliot
$400 [14]
In the song "American Pie", it was dry
the levee
Vaughn
$400 [7]
This capital of British Columbia has a regal name
Victoria
Vaughn
$400 [22]
The LAPD defines this type of "force" as causing a risk of serious bodily injury or, of course, worse
deadly
Mike Elliot
$400 [2]
Somnifera means inducing this
sleep
Vaughn
$400 [27]
In 1994 Alan Cumming was the voice of this "colorful" Anna Sewell horse
Black Beauty
Mike
$600 [15]
Gale Norton, John Snow, Alberto Gonzales
George W. Bush
Elliot
$600 [16]
This steel rod is used to strengthen concrete pourings
rebar
Mike
$600 [8]
One of the 2 U.S. state capitals that fit the category
Olympia (or Columbia)
Vaughn
$600 [23]
When trying to locate a suspect, cops will often check this, his "L.K.A."
last known address
Vaughn
$600 [3]
Muralis means growing on this part of a building
the wall
Vaughn
$600 [28]
This 2011 Spielberg film is about a man named Albert & a loyal equine named Joey
War Horse
Elliot
$1,000 [19]
William Jennings Bryan, Thomas R. Marshall
Woodrow Wilson
$800 [17]
In the Catholic Church, it's a small vessel for holy water; in the kitchen, it holds a condiment such as vinegar or oil
a cruet
Vaughn
$800 [9]
Hungary regained about 2/5 of this region in WWII, but the entirety was ceded to Romania in 1947
Transylvania
Elliot
$800 [24]
This word can also refer to high-ranking monks, but in cop-speak they're previous convictions
priors
Elliot
$800 [4]
Fetidus means it offends this
the nose (your sense of smell)
Elliot
$800 [29]
Roy Rogers' original horse named this was foaled in 1934 on a ranch co-owned by Bing Crosby
Trigger
Mike
DD $1,800 [18]
George Romney, John Connally, John Mitchell
Richard Nixon
Vaughn
$1,000 [21]
Collect bit by bit, such as grain left by reapers
glean
$1,000 [10]
This Virginia city is politically not part of a county but is within the boundaries of Arlington & Fairfax
Alexandria
Vaughn
$1,000 [25]
4-letter word for crimes like prostitution & gambling without any obvious complaining parties
vice
Mike
$1,000 [5]
"Pumila" means this 5-letter term in the name of the 4-inch iris seen here
dwarf (small)
$1,000 [30]
When it comes to 1943 Roddy McDowall films about a boy & his horse, let me introduce you to "My Friend" this
Flicka
Elliot

Double Jeopardy! Round

IN MY CABINET A NOVEL CATEGORY PENN. PALS PARENTHETICAL SONG TITLES SORRY THE PLACE IS A MESS CROSSWORD CLUES "D"
$400 [21]
I have an owie, & I hear this adhesive brand "Heals the wound fast, heals the hurt faster"
Band-Aid
Vaughn
$400 [7]
He spent a lot more time in Kansas than he would have otherwise to prepare "In Cold Blood"
Truman Capote
Vaughn
$400 [8]
This country singer from Wyomissing sang the national anthem at a 76ers game at 11 & had her 1st single, "Tim McGraw", at age 16
Taylor Swift
Mike Elliot
$400 [6]
The Rolling Stones:"(But I Like It)"
"It's Only Rock 'N' Roll"
Vaughn Elliot
$400 [19]
I'm King Minos--welcome to mypalaceon this Greek island; haven't picked up much in the last 3,500 years
Crete
Elliot
$400 [1]
A song for 2(4)
a duet
Elliot
$800 [25]
Oral-B's Complete Deep Clean Ultra this hits those hard-to-reach spots
dental floss
Mike
$800 [9]
At last count there were 16 books in this apocalyptic series that began with "A Novel of the Earth's Last Days"
Left Behind
$1,200 [12]
NFL quarterbacks from Pennsylvania include Dan Marino & this man, "Broadway Joe"
Joe Namath
Elliot
$800 [13]
Blue Oyster Cult:"(Don't Fear)"
"The Reaper"
Mike
$800 [20]
The temple at Tollan, Mexico was once the religious center of thousands of these"Tol" people
Toltec
Mike
$800 [2]
Surplus opposite(7)
a deficit
Elliot
$1,200 [26]
This indigestion relief product from Novartis gets an "AA" for effort
Maalox
Vaughn
$1,200 [10]
Nicholas Sparks has set many novels, including "Safe Haven" & "Nights in Rodanthe", in this, his home state
North Carolina
$1,600 [28]
This author's early novels, including one about Harry Angstrom, were set in his native Pennsylvania
John Updike
Elliot
$1,200 [16]
Rihanna:"(In The World)"
"Only Girl"
Elliot
$1,200 [22]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows ruins and a map on the monitor.) 13th-century Whitby Abbey has been left a ruin by storms, neglect, the suppression of the monasteries &, of course, the German navy's shelling of this historic British county in 1914
Yorkshire
Mike Elliot
$1,200 [3]
A backless sofa(5)
a divan
Elliot
$1,600 [27]
It's the ultra strength pain relieving cream by this brand, not the Browns running back of the same name
Bengay
$1,600 [14]
Tom Wolfe wrote about the fall of Wall Street master of the universe Sherman McCoy in this, his first novel
Bonfire of the Vanities
Vaughn
$2,000 [29]
This 19th century educator known for his "Readers" began teaching at age 14 with little formal education
(William) McGuffey
Vaughn
$1,600 [17]
Sheena Easton:"(Nine To Five)"
"Morning Train"
Elliot
$1,600 [23]
Add two letters to a Roman title to get the name of this Israeli city of Roman ruins
Caesarea
Vaughn
$2,000 [5]
Checkers, in Cheshire(8)
draughts
Elliot
$2,000 [30]
Swabpoules of this 7-letter brand stop bleeding of minor abrasions within 10 to 20 seconds
StipTik
$2,000 [15]
A little birdie told us Donna Tartt won a 2014 Pulitzer prize for this novel that deals with a small, mysterious painting
Goldfinch
Elliot
DD $3,400 [11]
This general from Uniontown won the 1953 Nobel Peace Prize for his plan helping European recovery
(George) Marshall
Vaughn
$2,000 [18]
Tina Turner:"(Thunderdome)"
"We Don't Need Another Hero"
$2,000 [24]
Pueblo Bonitois one of the ruins of the ancestral Pueblo culture also known by this Navajo word
Anasazi
DD $3,000 [4]
The usually wealthy widow of a king(7)
a dowager
Elliot

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY AMERICA

In 1923 Fanny Brice made news by having this procedure, later rejected by a woman portraying her

a nose job

Mike "What is a nose job?" — wagered $2,399
Elliot "What is a nose job?" — wagered $2,201
Vaughn "What is a face lift?" — wagered $13,801

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