Show #6989 2015-01-22 (taped 2014-12-02) Regular

Contestants

Todd Coleman — a physics professor from River Falls, Wisconsin

Maggie Schreiter — an artist and stay-at-home mom from Ewing, New Jersey

Will Anderson — a senior legislative aide originally from Atlanta, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Will $-800 $-1,000 $1,800 $3,599
2-day champion: $23,199
$1,800
10 R, 7 W
Maggie $1,400 $4,000 $7,400 $0
2nd place: $2,000
$8,400
12 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Todd $1,200 $1,400 $7,400 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$9,000
16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE BIG PICTURE SPORTS SHORTS 2014 JUST FOR THE ELEPHANT ALL THINGS CONSIDERED NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO THIS IS N-P-R
$200 [18]
More than 130 feasters feast in "Wedding Feast at Cana"; no wonder it takes up 22 X 82 1/2' in this Paris museum
the Louvre
Todd
$200 [15]
This nation took home the most golds at the Sochi Olympics & didn't have to carry them far
Russia
Todd
$200 [4]
Elephants are poached for the ivory of these enlarged incisors
tusks
Todd
$200 [14]
In 1984 this delivery company "absolutely, positively" began service outside North America
FedEx
Will
$200 [3]
Terry Gross has been a breath of this hosting the same-named show since 1975
Fresh Air
Will
$200 [2]
Directional term for a drenching bit of weather; don't get caught in a heavy one
downpour
Will
$400 [19]
This 1495-98 work is 29 feet wide--that's more than 2 feet of elbow room for Jesus & each disciple
The Last Supper
Maggie
$400 [26]
They won the World Series
(San Francisco) Giants
Maggie
$400 [9]
An elephant's cry has this name, also a brass instrument
trumpet
Maggie
$400 [22]
"Much ado" about this Shakespeare woman whose name means "she who blesses" & she blesses Benedick with her presence
Beatrice
Will
$400 [8]
Let's discuss this show: No. 1429 was "Click and Clack vs. electric brakes"
Car Talk
Maggie
$400 [5]
Boldness in undertaking, or how Jim Kirk boldly got around
enterprise
Will
$600 [20]
3 is blue, 7,100 is Etruscan puce: the largest painting of this type, 40,000 square feet, was done at a 2013 youth festival
paint by number
Will Todd
$600 [10]
"Pink Elephants on Parade" is a song from this classic film
Dumbo
Maggie
$600 [23]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 2011, an Arabic-speaking country lost part of its territory, & this nation, with Dinka as a dominant language, was born
South Sudan
Todd
$600 [13]
In 2014 "All Things Considered" considered the primary loss of this house majority leader from Virginia
Eric Cantor
Will
$600 [6]
Your digit-al I.D.
fingerprint
Will
$800 [21]
This Picasso work is 11 1/2 X 25 1/2', big enough to make viewers feel the horrors of war
Guernica
Maggie
$800 [11]
One of the first times an elephant symbolized this group was in Harper's weekly Nov. 7, 1874, election time
the Republican Party
Todd
$800 [24]
In the Bible, Satan tells the Lord, "touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face"
Job
$1,000 [17]
This is NPR's weekly hour-long quiz program, or what you say when the answer's on the tip of your tongue
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
Maggie
$800 [7]
It's an oil-resistant synthetic rubber used as a coating
neoprene
$1,000 [1]
This17th century work originally 13x16 feet has been cut downto a much more manageable 12x15
The Night Watch
$1,000 [12]
Hey, partner, it's the canopied seat in which yourideon an elephant
howdah
Will
$1,000 [25]
Quaff this drink, 2 oz. gin &1/2 oz. triple sec, & try to sail around the Cape of Good Hope on the ghost ship of the same name
Flying Dutchman
DD $1,200 [16]
Steve Inskeep and David Greene host this show in the A.M. in D.C.; Renee Montagne, not far from us here in Culver City
Morning Edition
Todd

Double Jeopardy! Round

SPECIAL ED COUNTRIES SMALLER THAN PUERTO RICO NOVELS WRITTEN FAST SUN RECORDS ARTISTS ANCIENT GREECE IN THE ATMOSPHERE
$400 [3]
This TV variety show host was also a gossip columnist for the N.Y. Daily News from 1932 to 1974
Ed Sullivan
Todd
$400 [8]
In area this city-state is the largest port in southeast Asia
Singapore
Todd
$400 [13]
Written in 3 weeks in 1886, "A Study in Scarlet" introduced this character who was later killed off but returned
Sherlock Holmes
Will Maggie
$400 [2]
His 5 Sun singles were released in a 13-month period, the last being "Mystery Train" in August 1955
Elvis Presley
$400 [20]
In 399 B.C. this philosopher was convicted by a jury vote of 280-221 of corrupting the youth
Socrates
Will
$400 [18]
The prefix geo- is from the Greek for this
earth
Will Maggie
$800 [4]
Hewon three terms as New York City mayor
Ed Koch
Todd
$800 [9]
The highest peak of this mountainous land is 9,600-foot Coma Pedrosa near the frontier with Catalonia
Andorra
Todd
$800 [14]
Jack Kerouac claimed he banged out the first draft of this novel in 3 weeks in April 1951
On the Road
Todd
$800 [27]
"Whole lotta" this in Jerry Lee Lewis' Sun release that was the first song played on the national "American Bandstand"
Shakin' Goin' On
Todd
$800 [21]
Infantrymen carried a 3'-diameter one of these made of wood or stiff leather faced with bronze
shield
Maggie
$800 [19]
If you're a baseball exec, don't do this, negotiate with a player who's under contract to another team
tamper
$1,200 [5]
I admit it all! Descended from Alfred the Great, this Anglo-Saxon was crowned king in 1042!
Edward the Confessor
$1,200 [10]
The strategic importance of this country, located 60 miles south of Sicily, has guaranteed it a turbulent history
Malta
Will Todd
$1,200 [15]
You do not talk about how Chuck Palahniuk drafted his first novel in 3 months
Fight Club
Todd
$1,200 [28]
The first artist to release an album with Sun Records; his 1957 release included "Cry, Cry, Cry" & "Folsom Prison Blues"
Johnny Cash
Will
DD $1,000 [22]
In the 350s B.C. Demosthenes started warning Greeks about aggression by this Macedonian dad
Philip
Maggie
$1,200 [1]
Seraglio is another word for this group of women
harem
Will
$1,600 [6]
Works by this Pulitzer prize-winning playwright include "Three Tall Women" & "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
Edward Albee
Maggie
$1,600 [11]
The more than 1,200 "islands" of this Pacific nation only add up to about 70 square miles
the Marshall Islands
Maggie Todd
DD $1,200 [16]
As William Faulkner sat writing, it took him six weeks to come up with this 1930 classic
As I Lay Dying
Todd
$1,600 [23]
The thirty tyrants was a Sparta-imposed oligarchy that ruled Athens for a year after this war ended in 404 B.C.
Peloponnesian War
Will
$1,600 [24]
A type of high-ranking angel
seraph
Maggie Todd
$2,000 [7]
"Silent Theater" is a book of art by this American painter
Edward Hopper
Maggie
$2,000 [12]
The Al-Khalifah royal family reigns in this island nation
Bahrain
Will
$2,000 [17]
Not knowing when to hold 'em or when to fold 'em, a big-in-debt Dostoevsky began & ended this novel in October 1866
The Gambler
Todd
$2,000 [26]
The group will shun you if you don't know this punishment, banishment without losing property
ostracism
$2,000 [25]
These 2 units measure electrical current & electrical resistance
amp & ohm
Todd

Final Jeopardy!

CANDY

An early TV ad for this candy bar featured a fleur-de-lis flag & a song with the lyrics "fun for all"

3 Musketeers

Will "What is 3 musketeers" — wagered $1,799
Maggie "What is Cadbury" — wagered $7,400
Todd "What is Almond Joy?" — wagered $7,400

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