Show #7022 2015-03-10 (taped 2015-01-07) Regular

Contestants

Mikki Gibson — a learning architect from Austin, Texas

Penny Reid — a newspaper copy editor from Bloomington, Indiana

Jen Jabaily Blackburn — an academic assistant from Northampton, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,700)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Jen	$1,200	$1,400	$6,200	$10,401 2nd place: $2,000	$6,200 12 R, 3 W
Penny	$2,600	$6,600	$26,200	$22,400 New champion: $22,400	$23,200 27 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Mikki	$1,200	$1,600	$5,200	$10,398 3rd place: $1,000	$4,800 9 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

CELEBRITY NAME RECOGNITION	TIME FOR ART	ON THE NOSE	CALIFORNIA, HERE YOU COME!	CLASSIC VIDEO GAMES	WORDS ABOUT WORDS
$200 [23] Steve Buscemi (yes, "boo-SEH-mee") played Atlantic City as Nucky Thompson on this HBO show Boardwalk Empire Jen	$200 [1] The age of the great cathedrals, about 1150 to 1250, helped form this architectural style Gothic Penny	$200 [16] Though piercing wasn't common among them, the name of this Native American tribe means "pierced nose" Nez Perce Jen	$200 [21] In 1959 Pat Brown added a pool to the governor's mansion in this city; as governor his son refused to live in the house Sacramento Penny	$200 [3] Try explaining to your kids how this 1972 4-letter arcade game from Atari was the coolest thing ever for a while Pong Penny	$200 [11] Change the first syllable in "denotation" to get this, for implied meaning connotation Jen
$400 [24] Amanda Seyfried's last name rhymes with "my bread", which is a factor in this 2012 pic with Amanda as Cosette Les Misérables Mikki	$400 [2] This 4-letter art movement began in Zurich in 1916 Dada Mikki	$400 [17] This phrase means to forcefully remind someone of what they've done wrong, much like how a puppy might be trained rub their nose in it Penny	$400 [22] Do you know the way to this city once big in fruit, now high on tech? Head to the southern end of I-280 San Jose Jen	$400 [4] Introduced in 1982, this sequel had as big an appetite as her male predecessor Ms. Pac-Man Penny	$400 [12] If you say, "To slowly remember", you're doing this, leaving the verb all alone splitting an infinitive Penny
$600 [25] It's Groening as in "raining" if you meet Matt, who co-created this show with roots in both 1999 & 2999 Futurama Penny	$600 [6] Op art--the term & the movement--came about in this decade the '60s Jen	$600 [18] These are the 4 groups of air-filled chambers in the facial bones near the nose the sinuses Jen	—	$600 [5] He was a bouncing orange critter with a big nose & an asterisk in his name Q*bert Jen	$600 [13] When we say someone let out a stream of Anglo-Saxon words, we usually mean he used this type of word cursing Penny
$800 [26] We "sez" that the middle of Martin Scorsese's last name is not "sayz" & that he directed this 1973 Harvey Keitel "road" movie Mean Streets	$800 [7] This delicate style that evolved from the Baroque is linked in France with Louis XV (1710-1774) Rococo Jen	$800 [19] In the movie "Foxcatcher", Steve Carell donned a prosthetic nose to play John of this wealthy family du Pont Jen Penny	—	$800 [9] Appropriately, the highest lance won in this classic game; less appropriately, there were flying ostriches Joust Penny	$800 [14] If the heroine of your 18th century romance novel says, "Text me", you've used this -ism anachronism Mikki
—	$1,000 [8] When talking about great Trecento art, like the example seen here, Trecento means this period the 1300s (the 14th century) Jen Mikki	DD $2,000 [20] This creature seenherehas quite the nose the proboscis monkey Penny	—	$1,000 [10] You had left, middle & right fire buttons in this game, also the name of a U.S. Army unit known as MICOM Missile Command Penny	$1,000 [15] A group of words including a subject & a predicate constituting one unit of a compound sentence the clause Penny Mikki

Double Jeopardy! Round

ALL PRESIDENT NIXON'S MEN	TV SHOW SETTINGS	ARCHAEOLOGY	FICTION	WE "CU"	EUROPE TO NO GOOD
$400 [26] Nixon had 2 secretaries of state: William P. Rogers & this man, who kept the post after Ford took over Kissinger Penny	$400 [1] A federal penitentiary for women in Litchfield Orange is the New Black Jen	$400 [21] This collection of nearly 1,000 religious texts was discovered beginning in 1947 at Qumran the Dead Sea Scrolls Jen	$400 [6] This Aldous Huxley novel begins with a tour of the Fertilizing Room Brave New World Penny	$400 [11] Not always "Lean", it's a term for any style of cooking cuisine Mikki	$400 [16] Around 445 he killed his brother Bleda to become sole leader of the Huns Attila Penny
$800 [27] He wasn't a friendly ghost, but Nixon's head of Health, Education & Welfare & also Reagan's sec. of defense Caspar Weinberger Penny	$800 [2] Pawnee, Indiana Parks and Recreation Jen	$800 [22] An ancientstile, or large slab, depicts this man, who laid down the law way back when Hammurabi Penny	$800 [7] This 19th century author is known for rags to riches heroes such as Luke Larkin, ambitious boy janitor Horatio Alger Mikki	$800 [12] A toll or duty, or a term for any convention of society custom Penny	$800 [17] Certainly up to no good were Hitler&this Italian leader, pictured together in 1937 Mussolini Mikki
$1,200 [28] Robert Abplanalp, a buddy who lent Nixon the money for the "Western White House", made a fortune with this type of spray can aerosol Penny	$1,200 [3] Stalag 13 (which really existed, but wasn't as funny) Hogan's Heroes Penny	$1,200 [23] Art found in the Altamira cave in this country depicts wild animals from more than 20,000 years ago Spain	$1,200 [8] In 1960 Penguin Books took a risk & published the full text of this D.H. Lawrence novel in England Lady Chatterley's Lover Mikki	$1,200 [13] Adjective for a building superintendent's duties custodial Jen	$1,200 [18] For his preferred method of executing his enemies, Prince Vlad III of Walachia earned this nickname the Impaler Penny
$1,600 [29] This member of the administration was the first man of Greek descent to serve as governor of an American state Spiro Agnew Penny	$1,600 [4] On Showtime, the E.R. of New York's All Saints Hospital Nurse Jackie Mikki	$1,600 [24] The temple pyramid known as El Castillodominates the ruins of a city on this peninsula the Yucatán Penny	DD $2,000 [9] The novel that inspired "Field of Dreams" grew out of the story "Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to" this place Iowa Mikki	$1,600 [14] This word for an unusual object of artistic value comes from a word that lost its "-sity" curio Penny	$1,600 [19] His failure to blow up Parliament is celebrated in Great Britain on November 5 Guy Fawkes Penny
$2,000 [30] This man was a secretary of the treasury & also of labor for Nixon; he later was secretary of state for Reagan George Shultz	$2,000 [5] In the '90s the not-so-typical town of Rome, Wisconsin Picket Fences Penny	$2,000 [25] The mud of Novgorod has yielded hundreds of medieval letters on the bark of this tree, a Russian national symbol the birch tree	$2,000 [10] After the Archbishop of Canterbury told him a ghost story, Henry James was inspired to write this 1898 tale The Turn of the Screw	DD $4,000 [15] From the Latin, it means pertaining to the skin cutaneous Penny	$2,000 [20] This friar who headed the Spanish Inquisition also persuaded Ferdinand & Isabella to expel the Jews Torquemada Jen

Final Jeopardy!

NOBEL LAUREATES

He was the subject of a 2014 New York Times article headlined "A Pioneer as Elusive as His Particle"

Peter Higgs

Mikki "Who is Higgs?" — wagered $5,198

Jen "Who is Higgs" — wagered $4,201

Penny "Who is Biggs?" — wagered $3,800

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