Show #6991 2015-01-26 (taped 2014-12-03) Regular

Contestants

Eric Park — a public accountant from Dallas, Texas

Christine Kim — a retired homemaker from Greenwich, Connecticut

Brad Nehring — a copywriter from Federal Way, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Brad $0 $3,000 $13,700 $27,400
2nd place: $2,000
$14,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Christine $2,000 $10,600 $14,600 $27,401
New champion: $27,401
$10,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Eric $1,000 $1,200 $7,200 $1,800
3rd place: $1,000
$7,200
13 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS THAT WOMAN CAN SING! BAD WORDS FROMWORLD BOOK: "U" LET'S EXERCISE! GIVING YOU THE TIME OF DAY
$200 [25]
In 2014 this branch of the Treasury Department issued a half-dollar Baseball Hall of Fame coin depicting a glove on one side
the (U.S.) Mint
Brad
$200 [26]
In 2010 this Detroit legend said she'd prefer Halle Berry to play her in a film bio; R-E-S-P-E-C-T her wishes!
Aretha Franklin
Brad
$200 [9]
Paired with "nice" in seasonal song, it means mischievous
naughty
Christine
$200 [1]
It "was the first planet discovered since ancient times"
Uranus
Christine
$200 [3]
Dude, I'm getting totally ripped doing alternate hammer curls! These 6-letter arm muscles are goinna be sick!
biceps
Eric
$200 [10]
7:55 A.M. December 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor
Christine
$400 [27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows three U.S. maps on the monitor.) On maps from 1920, 1976 & 2012 representing this 2-word system laid out in the Constitution, you can see the nation's political landscape change
the Electoral College
Brad
$400 [24]
She won Video of the Year at the 2010 VMAs, & we'll take that meat dress of hers to go
Lady Gaga
Eric
$400 [5]
Diminished the quality of, or pampered a child to excess
spoiled
Brad
$400 [2]
He "won the Indianapolis 500 race four times", his brother Bobby won it 3 times
Unser
Christine
$400 [4]
bodybuilding.com says push down with your lower back, cap'n, as you contract your abs & exhale to do these
crunches
Christine
$400 [11]
10:15 P.M. April 14, 1865: The shooting of this man
Abraham Lincoln
Eric
$600 [28]
Flora of the mid-Atlantic region are highlighted in the National one, part of the U.S. Botanic one
Garden
Christine
$600 [23]
"All I wanna do" is tell you she worked as a backup singer for Michael Jackson & George Harrison; now have some fun
Sheryl Crow
Brad Christine
$600 [6]
The movie "Bad Words" got a 65% from the website with this bad word in its name
Rotten
Christine
$600 [15]
At 4,406 feet above sea level, its highest elevation is Ben Nevis
the United Kingdom
Brad
$600 [18]
Muscle & Fitness says, "Try to touch your hamstrings on your calves" in this dipping exercise
squats
Brad
$600 [12]
8:01 P.M. ET Sunday, February 9, 1964
The Beatles on Ed Sullivan
Eric
$1,000 [30]
This Democrat retired in 2015 as Michigan's longest-serving ever U.S. senator
Carl Levin
$800 [22]
Those women can sing! The mom of this "Vision of Love" '90s superstar performed with the NYC Opera
Mariah Carey
Christine
$800 [7]
This noun for gross immorality comes from the Latin for "equal"--see the "qu" in the middle?
iniquity
$800 [17]
Some stores sell models of these "with seats as high as 6 feet above the ground"
a unicycle
Christine
$800 [19]
Your body is in slow constant motion doing this 2-word ancient Chinese exercise that can reduce stress
tai chi
Eric
$800 [13]
11:00 A.M. November 11, 1918
the armistice of World War I
Brad Eric
DD $5,000 [29]
G.O.P. Congressman Steve Scalise from Louisiana has this post in the House working to persuade others to vote with the party
the whip
Christine
$1,000 [21]
Her first two words in the movie "Funny Girl" were "Hello, gorgeous"; she can sing a little, too
Barbra Streisand
Christine
$1,000 [8]
In 2012 the State Department put out an APB--a new "Prevention Board" for these terrible crimes
atrocities
Eric
$1,000 [16]
It is "any mammal whose toes end in hoofs"
ungulate
Christine
$1,000 [20]
Here's your "K" ration for today: this is the study of the mechanics & anatomy of movement
kinesiology
Brad Eric
$1,000 [14]
10:22 P.M. Paris time, May 21, 1927
the Lindbergh landing
Brad

Double Jeopardy! Round

CNN WORLD LANGUAGES PHYSICAL SCIENCE HOSPITALS O..............K, THEN ALISON WONDERLAND THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS
$400 [1]
(Will Ripley delivers the clue.) Years before a 2011 disaster, a scientist here in Japan coined the term genpatsu-shinsai, genpatsu meaning nuclear plant & shinsai being this type of disaster sometimes accompanied by a tsunami
an earthquake
Christine Eric
$400 [23]
Narcissus Marsh's 1684 paper on acoustics introduced this word for an object our contestants wear
a microphone
Eric
$400 [16]
This Minnesota facility serves more than 1 million patients a year
the Mayo Clinic
Eric
$400 [6]
Porcine grunt
oink
Brad
$400 [11]
Alison Sweeney hosts this NBC reality show where contestants take it off
The Biggest Loser
Eric
$400 [19]
The Tiger-Lily says these talk because the ground is hard: "In most gardens... they make the beds too soft" & they sleep
flowers
Brad
$800 [2]
(Max Foster delivers the clue.) To keep up on events in London, it helps to have a bit o'knowledge of Cockney rhyming slang, like knowing that the "Baked Bean" is this local personage
the Queen
DD $400 [26]
The exosphere, the edge of the atmosphere, is primarily made of particles of hydrogen & this element
helium
Brad
$800 [17]
Since this pediatric hospital opened in Memphis in 1962, childhood cancer survival rates have improved from 20% to 80%
St. Jude's
Brad
$800 [7]
To sell 100 airplane seats when only 70 are available
overbook
Brad
$800 [12]
On this drama Alison Brie plays Trudy Campbell, whose dad helped her husband, Pete, get the Clearasil account
Mad Men
Brad
$800 [20]
When Alice first meets this character, he's sitting on top of a high wall "with his legs crossed, like a Turk"
Humpty Dumpty
Brad Eric
$1,200 [3]
Tomas Mosciattiof CNN Chile is known as the Chilean this long-time interviewer
Larry King
Brad
$800 [25]
Examples of this 2-word sloping simple machine include a parking garage ramp
an inclined plane
Brad
$1,200 [18]
Founded in 1973, this center at the Florida Hospital is for people with diseased organs, not those newly come to the state
the Transplant Center
$1,200 [8]
Occurring away from Churchill Downs
off-track
Brad
$1,200 [14]
The lyrics of his song "Alison" provided the title for his debut album, "My Aim Is True"
Elvis Costello
Brad
$1,200 [21]
The original illustrations depict the messengers Haigha & Hatta as this tea party pair from the first book
the Mad Hatter & the March Hare
Brad Christine
$1,600 [4]
CNN Arabic says ahlan wa sahlan ("welcome") from its base in this wealthy emirate's Media City
Dubai
Christine
$1,600 [24]
McLean Psychiatric in Massachusetts is the setting of Susanna Kaysen's memoir "Girl," this
Interrupted
Christine
$1,600 [9]
A sergeant can always say to a corporal, "Because I" this word "you"
outrank
Eric
$1,600 [15]
Alison Doody was the Jones girl in this third Indiana Jones film
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Christine Eric
DD $1,500 [22]
In a preface, Lewis Carroll gives the pronunciation of some new words found in this poem
"Jabberwocky"
Brad
$2,000 [5]
(Jim Bittermann delivers the clue.) Here in Paris this simple phrase, 2 rhyming 2-letter words, is very useful for saying "How's it going?", "I'm good", "Does that work for you?" & more
ça va
Christine
$2,000 [27]
For 2014-15 U.S. News & World Report ranked this Ohio facility as the nation's top cardiology & heart surgery hospital
the Cleveland Clinic
$2,000 [10]
A tapering, 4-sided shaft of stone with a pyramidal apex
obelisk
Christine
$2,000 [13]
She & her band Union Station have helped lead a bluegrass revival
Alison Krauss
Eric
$2,000 [28]
Alice begins & ends the story by talking with Kitty, the offspring of this old cat
Dinah

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. CITIES

In 1846 it had 200 people; 14 years later, thanks to a discovery, it had over 50,000, making it No. 15 in the country

San Francisco

Eric "What isSan FrSan FrLA?" — wagered $5,400
Brad "What is San Francisco?" — wagered $13,700
Christine "What is San Francisco?" — wagered $12,801

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