Show #6985 2015-01-16 (taped 2014-11-19) Regular

Contestants

Nicholas Bérubé — an architect originally from State College, Pennsylvania

Mehmet Berker — a graphic designer and program manager from Los Angeles, California

Amanda Boitano — a 10th grade English teacher originally from Smithtown, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $30,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Amanda $4,000 $4,600 $1,200 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$4,400
11 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 2 DDs)
Mehmet $-400 $2,600 $7,000 $4,601
2nd place: $2,000
$7,000
11 R, 4 W
Nicholas $3,600 $6,000 $10,800 $6,800
New champion: $6,800
$10,800
15 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

MORE THAN ONE MEANING DESCRIBING THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY EUROPEAN PAINTERS ACTORS & THEIR OSCAR-WINNING ROLES "DOWN" & "OUT" IN BEVERLY HILLS
$200 [2]
A rasp or a Rolodex
a file
$200 [1]
3 gals predict big things for the title guy; he's iffy but his wife has big plans; both learn to be careful what you wish for
Macbeth
Nicholas
$200 [13]
Shortly after his 1609 marriage, this artist known for his voluptuous women painted himself & his young wife Isabella
(Peter Paul) Rubens
Amanda
$200 [18]
Alright, alright, alright, for 2013, these 2 guys for their roles as Ron & Rayon in "Dallas Buyers Club"
Jared Leto & Matthew McConaughey
Amanda
$200 [4]
Hyphenated term used to describe someone practical & realistic
down-to-earth
Amanda
$600 [27]
A 1920s mayor, he said "Congress--every time they make a joke, it's a law, & every time they make a law it's a joke"
Will Rogers
$400 [3]
A heart or a Hammond
an organ
Nicholas
$400 [10]
Title guy denies a promotion to his aide; aide gets revenge-y; title guy gives new meaning to the term "death bed"
Othello
Nicholas
$400 [14]
In the 1770s he painted cartoons, or preliminary paintings, for tapestries for the Spanish crown
Goya
Mehmet
$400 [19]
1993:Tom Hanks as Andrew Beckett, a lawyer with AIDS, in this movie
Philadelphia
Amanda Mehmet
$400 [5]
A temporary loss of consciousness, or utter darkness caused by a massive power outage
a blackout
Amanda
$800 [26]
You may recognize the Beverly Hills hotel known as "The Pink Palace" from the cover of a 1976 album from this band
the Eagles
Amanda
$600 [9]
A type of fastener, or a community's basic food
staple
Amanda
$800 [16]
Buckingham gets the boot from the palace, as does a wife; title guy is not a cardinal fan; on to wife 2!
Henry VIII
Nicholas
$600 [23]
A wagon is the subject of "The Hay Wain", an 1821 work by this English landscape painter
(John) Constable
Nicholas
$600 [20]
2005:This actor as Truman Capote
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Mehmet
$600 [6]
One of Syfy's most watched shows is the WWE's Friday Night this
SmackDown
Amanda
$1,000 [25]
In Asia, Laos, Burma & Thailand form this geometric area; in Beverly Hills, it's Canon Dr., Wilshire & Santa Monica Blvd.
the Golden Triangle
Mehmet
$800 [11]
A deep red color, or what a pirate might do to a captive instead of giving him the deep six
maroon
Nicholas
$1,000 [17]
It's totally goth; act I, scene 1 sees the title Roman kill his son & the deaths don't stop; ends with the worst dinner ever
Titus Andronicus
Mehmet
$800 [24]
"The Cardinal" by this master, who was born 31 years after Leonardo but died just one year after him, isbasedon the "Mona Lisa"
Raphael
$800 [21]
1969:John Wayne as this grumpy U.S. marshal in "True Grit"
Rooster Cogburn
$800 [7]
For Butch Cassidy, Hole in the Wall in Wyoming was one of these
a hideout
Nicholas
$1,000 [12]
A lively country dance, or a projectionist's spool
a reel
Nicholas
DD $2,000 [15]
The plot? Potters plot; mid-March gets dangerous; main plotter ends up committing Strato-cide
Julius Caesar
Amanda
$1,000 [28]
In 1912 he went to Paris to learn Cubism; in 1914 he returned to the Netherlands & showed his 16 new works
Piet Mondrian
$1,000 [22]
1983:This actor as a country singer in "Tender Mercies"
Robert Duvall
Nicholas
$1,000 [8]
In 1920 H.G. Wells turned to nonfiction & published one of these "of History"
an outline

Double Jeopardy! Round

ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD THE 17th CENTURY OPPOSITES SUPER BOWLERS M.I.A.
$400 [8]
In the 1870s Francois Hennebique pioneered the use of reinforced this in building construction
concrete
Amanda Nicholas
$400 [11]
What was Rhodesia on a 1975 map is called this now
Zimbabwe
Mehmet
$400 [24]
In 1647 astronomer Johannes Hevelius published "Selenographia", an atlas of the surface of this
the Moon
Amanda
$400 [21]
The opposite of straighten, as a noun it's found in a river
bend (crook accepted)
Mehmet Nicholas
$800 [5]
This 16th century reformer is said to have built a bowling lane for his kids when he wasn't busy nailing theses
Martin Luther
Nicholas
$1,200 [15]
The first child born to English parents in the New World, she disappeared along with the rest of Roanoke Colony
Virginia Dare
$800 [9]
Music students are among the users of the exhibition hall seenherein this country's Anhui Province
China
Nicholas
$800 [1]
Linguistically & geographically, it's closer to Finland than are the other 2 Baltic republics
Estonia
Mehmet
$800 [13]
In the Kalmar War these 2 countries fought over a region that is now part of northern Norway
Denmark & Sweden
Amanda Mehmet Nicholas
$800 [25]
The opposite of scarce, it starts with the first 2 letters of the alphabet
abundant
Amanda Mehmet
$1,200 [6]
Earl Anthony & Johnny Petraglia were this kind of bowler that, despite what some say, doesn't have a natural hook
left-handed
$1,600 [16]
This "Devil's Dictionary" wit went down Mexico way in 1913 & vanished without an adios
Ambrose Bierce
$1,200 [10]
An alteration of a French word for "frame", it's the frame holding the panes of a window or door
a sash
Mehmet
$1,200 [3]
You don't need to brush up your Spanish to visit this northernmost Central American country
Belize
Mehmet
$1,200 [14]
The peasants uprising led by Li Zicheng ended this Chinese dynasty in 1644
the Ming
Amanda
DD $2,600 [20]
This 11-letter compound word sounds like it means miser, but it's the opposite
spendthrift
Amanda
$1,600 [7]
This term for a bowler derives not from the beer container by the lane but from an old German word for "club"
keglers
$2,000 [19]
He & climbing partner Sandy Irvine disappeared on Mt. Everest in June 1924; his body was found 75 years later
George Mallory
$1,600 [22]
This simplest form of vault consists of a single continuous arch
a barrel vault
Nicholas
$1,600 [2]
"Western" was attached to the name of this Pacific island nation when it gained independence in 1962
Samoa
Nicholas
DD $2,000 [17]
Under the Treaty of Karlowitz of 1699, most of Hungary was ceded to this country by the Ottoman Empire
Austria
Amanda
$2,000 [12]
It's easy as 1-2-3: this ABC was organized September 9, 1895 in New York City
the American Bowling Congress
$2,000 [23]
In the early 1500s, this country's Manueline architectureusednautical motifslike chains & ropes
Portugal
Mehmet
$2,000 [4]
In area this European coastal principality is about 3 times the size of the Mall in Washington, D.C.
Monaco
Mehmet
$2,000 [18]
After coming down from Canada, in 1605 he & his party became the first Frenchmen to visit the site of Boston
Samuel de Champlain
Mehmet

Final Jeopardy!

EPITAPHS

His headstone in Rome reads in part: "This grave contains all that was mortal, of a young English poet"

John Keats

Amanda "Who is Rupert Brooke" — wagered $1,200
Mehmet "Who is Byron" — wagered $2,399
Nicholas "Who is Lord Byron" — wagered $4,000

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