Show #7009 2015-02-19 Regular

Contestants

Diana Zinser — a lawyer from Berwyn, Pennsylvania

Sam Osborne — a graphic design student from Lake City, Florida

Christina McTighe — a library associate from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Christina $0 $4,800 $7,600 $15,200
2-day champion: $36,800
$7,600
13 R, 3 W
Sam $3,200 $4,200 $13,200 $10,700
3rd place: $1,000
$14,800
20 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Diana $3,200 $4,400 $7,200 $14,400
2nd place: $2,000
$7,200
13 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

NICE BEARD "DOUBLE" OR NOTHING SCIENCE FICTION BABIES ARE BORING JUST KIDDING PLEASE, NO LETTERS
$200 [3]
The evolution of this naturalist began on February 12, 1809, probably without the beard, though
Charles Darwin
Sam
$200 [1]
To peruse once more to make absolutely sure
double-check
Diana
$200 [26]
In this Ira Levin novel, a community's women are turned into perfect, loving beautiful... robots!
The Stepford Wives
Sam
$200 [6]
They do a lot of this, due to an inability to swallow & having no teeth to dam up the saliva
drool
Christina
$200 [21]
Mitch Hedberg: "I like" this grain. It "is great when you're hungry & you want 2,000 of something"
rice
Christina
$200 [15]
Number of people on a grand jury, or number associated with "skidoo"
23
Christina Sam Diana
$400 [4]
Workers of the world, unite in your admiration of this German's whiskers
(Karl) Marx
Sam
$400 [2]
To do it in blackjack, place an equal bet alongside your original bet
to double down
Sam
$400 [27]
(I'm Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX.) My belief in the importance of space travel & planetary colonization for the survival of the human species was influenced in part by the epic depiction of the rise & fall of civilizations in this author's "Foundation" series
Isaac Asimov
$400 [7]
Parents get no appreciation for investing in chlorine-free these & even using a warmer for them at diapering time
baby wipes
Diana
$400 [22]
This "Price is Right" host: "Hate your job? There's a support group for that--it's called everybody. They meet at a bar"
Drew Carey
Sam
$400 [17]
There are this many lines in a Shakespearean sonnet
14
Christina Diana
$600 [12]
It's the blues-rock trio seen here, because the category demanded them
ZZ Top
Christina
$600 [11]
A studio couch converts into one of these
a double bed
Sam
$600 [28]
This TV series about a former NASA astronaut was based on Martin Caidin's novel "Cyborg"
The Six Million Dollar Man
Sam
$600 [8]
Baby is no help when you take her temperature, even using the easy axillary method with the thermometer here
the armpit
Christina Diana
$600 [23]
A. Whitney Brown: "I'm a" this "not because I love animals, but because I hate plants"
a vegetarian
Christina
$600 [18]
Number of seats said to be at King Arthur's round table, or years in a sesquicentennial
150
Diana
DD $1,000 [5]
Thisplaywright would have needed a major barbering to get rid of that beard
Shaw
Sam
$800 [13]
A bus with 2 seating levels
a double-decker
Sam
$800 [29]
"American Gods" is a Hugo Award-winning novel by this creator of the "Sandman" comics
Neil Gaiman
Christina
$800 [9]
Baby's big move is spreading & re-closing the arms on being startled, called the "moro" this action
reflex
Diana
$800 [24]
On "Between Two Ferns", this actor asked Ben Stiller, "Do you wish... you had ever followed your parents into comedy?"
Zach Galifianakis
Sam
$800 [19]
I got fourscore & 19 problems, this many, but your response ain't one
99
Christina
$1,000 [14]
Virginia Woolf saidthis19th century Russian was the greatest of all novelists
(Leo) Tolstoy
Christina
$1,000 [16]
Common term for a mobile home made of 2 traditional sections joined together
a double-wide
Christina
$1,000 [30]
A flying penguin shows up in "Zero History", a cyberpunk opus from this author of "Mona Lisa Overdrive"
William Gibson
$1,000 [10]
Junior's deepest relationship is with his pacifier, & his first word will probably be this Playtex trademark for it
a binky
Christina Diana
$1,000 [25]
The irreplaceable Robin Williams said, "To a 3-year old" this guy "is a 6-foot rat"
Mickey Mouse
Sam Diana
$1,000 [20]
Restaurant-speak for "There's no more of that"
86
Christina

Double Jeopardy! Round

REVOLUTIONARY WAR FIGURES MOVIE TITLE OVERLAPS TRANSLATE THE AUSTRALIAN, MATE LAMB-POURRI "W"ORLD CITIES COMPUTER HISTORY
$400 [2]
On April 18, 1775, Massachusetts Governor Gage ordered British troops to destroy military stores in this town near Lexington
Concord
Christina
$400 [3]
"My Big Fat Greek ____ Crashers"
Wedding
Diana
$400 [18]
Order me the "amber fluid"
beer
Diana
$400 [8]
This nursery rhyme about a little girl & her unusual pet served as a lesson in the 19th century McGuffey's Readers
"Mary Had a Little Lamb"
Sam
$400 [13]
In 1611 the Polish king & court were moved here from Krakow
Warsaw
Sam
$1,200 [27]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.) Ushering in the era of big iron was UNIVAC, which, in 1952, became a star during CBS election coverage; polls said the race would go to Adlai Stevenson, but UNIVAC predicted this man would win in a landslide; UNIVAC was right
Eisenhower
Christina
$800 [1]
A plaque to him at West Point shows his birth year & rank, his name & date of death were removed long ago
Benedict Arnold
Diana
$800 [4]
The Best Exotic Marigold ____ for Dogs"
Hotel
Sam
$800 [19]
No need for a "barney"; we're all friends here
an argument
$800 [9]
The L.A.M.B. shoe line, created by this "Hollaback Girl" singer, is an acronym for Love Angel Music Baby
(Gwen) Stefani
Sam
$800 [15]
This hyphenated North Carolina city is home to Wake Forest University & Piedmont Baptist College
Winston-Salem
Sam
$1,600 [26]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.) Punch-card tabulators vastly reduced the time needed to conduct the 1890 census & saved taxpayers millions; they were created by Herman Hollerith, the father of modern automatic computation, who founded what is today this 3-letter business giant
IBM
Sam
$1,200 [23]
This heroine of the Battle of Monmouth began receiving a $40 annual pension in 1822 for her war efforts
Molly Pitcher
Sam
$1,200 [5]
"Before ____ Boulevard"
Sunset
Christina
$1,200 [20]
Dave can't pick a job; first he was a "postie", now a "garbo", these 2 jobs
a postman and a garbage man
Diana
$1,200 [10]
A cut of lamb consisting of both sides of the loin still joined by bone has this equestrian name
a saddle of lamb
$1,200 [14]
The first permanent settlement (1812) on the Red River grew into this Manitoba city
Winnipeg
Sam
$1,600 [24]
After the revolution this "Swamp Fox" became a state senator in South Carolina
(Francis) Marion
Sam
$1,600 [6]
"It Happened ____ ____" in the Tropics"
One Night
Sam
$1,600 [21]
He owns a big "station" 100 miles from no where
a farm
$1,600 [11]
In 2012, hestepped down as C.E.O. of C-SPAN but continues to host the "Q&A" series
Brian Lamb
DD $2,000 [16]
This Irish city on the Suir River is an export center for fruit, meat &' of course, fine crystal
Waterford
Sam
DD $2,200 [25]
In March 1775 he told the Second Virginia Convention, "We have done everything that could be done to avert the storm"
Patrick Henry
Sam
$2,000 [7]
"Into the ____ Strawberries"
Wild
Diana
$2,000 [22]
A "Top Ender" is a resident of this territory
the Northern Territory
$2,000 [12]
This phrase for a victim is the title of a Roald Dahl story in which a husband is killed with a frozen leg of lamb
lamb to the slaughter
Diana
$2,000 [17]
The Yangtze River runs through this capital of Hubei Province that's lent its name to a deadly flu virus
Wuhan

Final Jeopardy!

POETS

On completing the "Deathbed" edition of his great work, he wrote, "L. of G. at last complete--after 33 y'rs of hackling at it"

Walt Whitman

Diana "Who was Walt Whitman" — wagered $7,200
Christina "Who is Walt Whitman?" — wagered $7,600
Sam "Who Life of" — wagered $2,500

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