Show #6979 2015-01-08 (taped 2014-11-18) Regular

Elliot Yates game 5.John Schultz game 1.

Contestants

John Schultz — a computer programmer from Ann Arbor, Michigan

Elizabeth Scott-Jones — a budget analyst from Riverside, California

Elliot Yates — an opera producer from New York, New York (whose 4-day cash winnings total $65,000)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Elliot	$1,200	$2,800	$13,200	$20,601 2nd place: $2,000	$13,200 22 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Elizabeth	$1,000	$1,200	$4,000	$100 3rd place: $1,000	$4,000 8 R, 3 W
John	$4,400	$6,000	$20,600	$27,600 New champion: $27,600	$16,800 18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD OF WATER	SOLAR SYSTEM RHYME TIME	KIDDY LIT	"POP" STARS	THAT'S NO LADY	THAT'S MY WIFE
$200 [21] The capitals of Brazzaville & Kinshasa sit across from each other on this river the Congo Elliot	$200 [8] Blemishes on the red planet Mars scars John	$200 [16] "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" was a follow-up to this 1964 book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Elliot	$200 [1] Oatmeal Delights & Gone Nutty are varieties of these breakfast items Pop Tarts Elizabeth	$200 [30] Joyce Kilmer has 2 entries in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", both from this poem "Trees" John	$200 [2] Tom Brady:This supermodel Gisele Bundchen Elliot
$400 [25] As Turkey's Lake Van is this kind of lake, only one kind of fish lives in it; surprisingly, it's quite edible a salt lake (salt water accepted) John	$400 [12] An undignified jokester on our biggest satellite a moon buffoon Elliot	$400 [17] In this book, a small train hauling toys chugs up a hill, puffing, "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can" The Little Engine That Could Elliot	$400 [4] Ru Paul & Dockers are among those who have had temporary retail outlets known as these shops pop-up Elliot	$400 [29] In 1968 football player Rosey Grier wrestled the gun from this man's assassin RFK (Robert Kennedy) Elliot	$400 [3] Andy Roddick:This supermodel Brooklyn Decker
$800 [23] (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows water on the monitor.) Two distinct colors occur in the Alaskan waters when the sea water meets melting snows from glacial valleys, which are rich with this fine, 8-letter detritus sediment Elliot	$600 [9] Taxonomic classification of the second planet Venus genus Elliot	$600 [20] This beloved Eric Carle book begins, "In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf" The Very Hungry Caterpillar Elliot Elizabeth	$600 [5] This coach known for kids' football leagues retired with more than 300 wins Pop Warner John	$600 [28] Tracy Letts wrote this play whose title tells you it takes place in summer somewhere in Oklahoma August: Osage County Elliot	$600 [13] Javier Bardem:This Spanish enchantress Penélope Cruz Elliot
$1,000 [22] The Maelstrom ride was in this country's pavilion at EPCOT Norway	$800 [11] Second-biggest planet's designs Saturn's patterns John	$800 [19] She's the blindly optimistic title character in books by Eleanor H. Porter Pollyanna Elizabeth	$800 [6] A blogger named Bakerella helped popularize these treats cake pops John	$800 [27] Marion Morrison's first screen appearance using this name was in the 1930 Western "The Big Trail" John Wayne Elliot	$800 [14] Freddie Prinze Jr.:This 3-named actress Sarah Michelle Gellar Elizabeth
DD $2,400 [24] Arkansas' Hot Springs average 143 degrees; presumably these Oklahoma springs are 69 degrees hotter Boiling Springs Elliot	$1,000 [10] The thawing of the area filled with asteroids belt melt John	$1,000 [18] Writer & artist James Gurney created this series of books, the first of which was subtitled "A Land Apart from Time" Dinotopia	$1,000 [7] He started out as a minor character in a comic strip called Thimble Theatre Popeye John	$1,000 [26] Evelyn Waugh created the Marchmain family for this novel Brideshead Revisited John	$1,000 [15] Adam Brody of "The O.C.":This "Gossip Girl" girl Leighton Meester Elliot

Double Jeopardy! Round

BODY CHECK	DISNEY SONGS	SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS	FASHION	COLORFUL ANAGRAMS	RESISTANCE IS UTILE
$400 [16] This reddish-brown gland weighs 3 pounds & sits in the upper right part of the abdomen the liver John	$400 [1] "A Spoonful of Sugar" is from this movie Mary Poppins Elizabeth	$400 [6] For a brief period in the early 19th century, it was the capital of the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata Buenos Aires Elliot Elizabeth John	$400 [26] (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows off her shirt.) Named after a French town, chambray fabric has been called a lightweight cousin to this fabric, also named for a French town denim	$400 [11] A gem of a color turns into what a dog will do to a bone ruby & bury Elliot	$400 [19] In 1945 Italian partisans caught this man as he tried to cross into Austria disguised as a German soldier Mussolini Elliot Elizabeth
$800 [17] 2 prominences on either side of its lower end form the upper half of the knee joint; you give me this bone the femur Elliot John	$800 [2] The song titled "Some Day" he "Will Come" is from "Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs" My Prince Elliot	$800 [7] It's the Andean capital city shown here Bogotá (Colombia) Elliot	$800 [27] This straight, narrow, fitted dress shares its name with a case for a knife or blade a sheath John	$800 [12] Robert Smith's band changes its name to a light brownish hue Cure & ecru	$800 [20] Fidel Castro needed just 800 fighters to beat the 30,000-man Cuban army & topple this man's regime Batista Elizabeth
$1,600 [24] Hey, muscles, should erthe burden of naming the right & left type of this muscle the trapezius muscles Elliot	$1,200 [3] A "Beauty and the Beast" song, or a hospitable Disney World restaurant "Be Our Guest" Elliot	$1,200 [10] High up & deep inland, it was isolated until the railway to Guayaquil on the coast opened in 1908 Quito John	$1,200 [28] Quarrelsome or not, men used to wear these shoe coverings that buttoned at the sides & secured under the foot spats John	$1,200 [15] A "ducky" blue anagrams to a story teal & tale Elizabeth	$1,200 [21] This simian-sounding word for a resistance fighter entered English during the Peninsular War against Napoleon a guerrilla Elliot
$2,000 [18] A treatment for atrial fibrillation is PVI, short for this vein isolation pulmonary John	$2,000 [5] Randy Newman's Oscar-nominated song from "Toy Story" "You've Got A Friend In Me" John	$1,600 [9] Sucre is Bolivia's judicial capital; this city, the legislative capital La Paz Elliot	—	$1,600 [14] A vivid, unchaste red becomes multiple international syndicates scarlet & cartels Elizabeth John	$1,600 [23] Josip Broz, aka Marshal this, & his resistance fighters wrested control of much of Yugoslavia from the Nazis Tito John
DD $5,000 [25] These in women are also called oviducts the Fallopian tubes John	DD $4,000 [4] Simba & Nala sing it on realizing they've found romance "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" Elliot	$2,000 [8] This Guyanan capital received its name in 1781, when it was named for the British monarch then on the throne Georgetown Elliot	—	$2,000 [13] A yellow-brown color named for a Tuscan city becomes a crazy word sienna & insane	$2,000 [22] The name of this ill-fated WWI ocean liner comes from an Iberian people who bitterly resisted their Roman invaders Lusitania Elizabeth

Final Jeopardy!

ARTISTS

He said a 2009 exhibit was the 1st time taxpayers' money was used "to hang my pictures up rather than scrape them off"

Banksy

Elizabeth "Who is Pollock?" — wagered $3,900

Elliot "Who is Banksy?" — wagered $7,401

John "Who is Banksy" — wagered $7,000

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