Show #7024 2015-03-12 (taped 2015-01-07) Regular

Kristin Sausville game 2.Single-player Final Jeopardy!

Contestants

Stephanie Hull — a graduate student of philosophy from Columbia, Missouri

Brad King — an automotive engineer from Hartland, Michigan

Kristin Sausville — a stay-at-home mom from Newark, Delaware (whose 1-day cash winnings total $24,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kristin $1,600 $4,400 $8,400 $6,800
2-day champion: $31,601
$12,200
21 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Brad $1,000 $2,600 $-200 $-200
2nd place: $2,000
$-600
9 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Stephanie $1,600 $3,200 $-6,800 $-6,800
3rd place: $1,000
$-6,800
11 R, 8 W

Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTIAL SECRETS TEAM OF THE WORLD SERIES MVP BRITISH AUTHORS COMPUTER ACTIONS POTENT POTABLES BOTTOMS "UP"!
$200 [1]
A stroke while fighting to get the Treaty of Versailles ratified disabled him for the last 17 months of his term
(Woodrow) Wilson
Kristin
$200 [13]
1999:We open with a closer, Mariano Rivera
the (New York) Yankees
Kristin
$200 [14]
After marrying an American, he moved to the U.S., where he wrote the 2 "Jungle Books"
(Rudyard) Kipling
Brad
$200 [24]
Giving a play-by-play of an event while on Twitter is called doing this
live tweeting
Kristin
$200 [7]
What's now this "Club" that many join happily was first distilled in Ontario in 1858
Canadian Club
Stephanie
$200 [6]
On season 2 of "American Idol", Clay Aiken wasn't the winner but this
the runner-up
Stephanie
$400 [2]
At his Texas ranch, this president would terrify passengers by driving 90 mph sipping scotch from a foam cup
LBJ
Kristin
$400 [22]
1988:Orel Hershiser, though one swing could've done it for Kirk Gibson, too
the Los Angeles Dodgers
$400 [15]
He wrote "The War in the Air" as well as "The War of the Worlds"
H.G. Wells
Kristin
$400 [25]
This 4-letter word is "warm" when the computer's power is already on, "cold" when it's off
boot
Brad
$400 [8]
During Prohibition this family of rum makers invited Americans to Cuba for weekend-long parties
Bacardi
Kristin
$400 [9]
It comes in cherry as well as the original lemon-lime
7-Up
Kristin
$600 [3]
Boxing in the White House in the early 20th century left him blind in one eye, a secret he kept for years
Teddy Roosevelt
Stephanie
$600 [23]
2001:Randy Johnson & Curt Schilling, southwestern brothers in arms
the (Arizona) Diamondbacks
Kristin
$600 [16]
John Fowles' best-known work is this 1969 novel that was made into a movie starring Meryl Streep
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Brad
$600 [26]
In Windows hitting Ctrl-C & then Ctrl-V performs these 2 artsy & crafty actions
copy & paste
Kristin Brad
$600 [17]
The letters "V.O.P." on the label of a bottle of cognac stand for this
very old pale
$600 [10]
Common exercise done in a prone position, or a type of bra
a push-up
Stephanie
$800 [4]
Orphaned by age 9, this 31st president was raised by Quaker relatives in Oregon
(Herbert) Hoover
Kristin
$800 [20]
Here's this beloved author giving a reading circa 1860
(Charles) Dickens
Stephanie
$800 [27]
This process that maximizes disk space is so named because it joins up pieces of files that were stored separately
defrag
Kristin
$800 [18]
The name of this honey-whisky liqueur is from a Scottish Gaelic phrase that means "the drink that satisfies"
Drambuie
Stephanie
$800 [11]
A thorough medical exam including lab tests & X-rays; your doctor might order one on you
a work-up
Kristin
DD $1,400 [5]
In the last year of his presidency in 1844, he secretly married a woman 30 years younger
John Tyler
Kristin
$1,000 [21]
Sharing the nickname "The Queen of Crime" are Agatha Christie & this author of the Adam Dalgliesh mysteries
P.D. James
Brad
$1,000 [28]
Releasing someone's personal info on the Internet is this word that can have 1 or 2 "X"s in the middle
doxing (or doxxing)
Stephanie
$1,000 [19]
This Italian liqueur is made from tonda gentile hazelnuts grown in the Piedmont region
Frangelico
Stephanie
$1,000 [12]
It's another name for an Apache wigwam
a wickiup
Brad

Double Jeopardy! Round

PHINEAS & FERBER INTERIOR DESIGN EAST ASIAN CITIES LYRICISTS ZODIAC CONSTELLATIONS 5-SYLLABLE WORDS
$400 [1]
Charles Stratton was almost 5 when Phineas T. Barnum gave him this name; he would remain 25'' tall & 15 lbs. until his teens
(General) Tom Thumb
Brad
$400 [3]
Although named for an Italian city, these window coverings with slats may have originated in Persia
Venetian blinds
Kristin
$400 [9]
In 2004 President Roh Moo Hyun tried to move South Korea's capital from this city to Gongju
Seoul
Kristin
$400 [23]
His lyrics after the death of his brother George include "The Man Who Got Away", music by Harold Arlen
Ira Gershwin
Stephanie
$400 [4]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue next to the monitor.) The brightest star in the constellation of this archeris Kaus Australis, from the Arabic for "bow" & Latin for "southern", respectively
Sagittarius
Kristin
$2,000 [25]
Speaking this way involves similes & metaphors
figuratively
Stephanie
$800 [2]
Edna Ferber's 1958 novel "Ice Palace" was so compelling that it helped this attain statehood the next year
Alaska
Stephanie
$800 [14]
Using urethane for this molding at the juncture of wall & ceiling will allow you to use adhesive instead of nails
crown molding
Stephanie
$800 [10]
One of this Japanese city's most popular tourist destinations is the atomic bomb Genbaku Dome
Hiroshima
Kristin
$800 [21]
Johnny Mercer came out here in 1935 & co-wrote the 1937 song "Hooray for" it
Hollywood
Brad
$1,200 [6]
His water jug is pouring a stream of about 30 faint stars toward the brighter star Fomalhaut
Aquarius
Kristin
$1,200 [22]
I cannot tell a lie, but Barnum sure could; in 1835 Phineas marketed Joice Heth as a 161-year-old ex-nurse to this man
George Washington
Kristin
$1,200 [15]
This home furnishings chain founded in 1962 "imports" more than 70% of its merchandise from China & India
Pier 1
Kristin
$1,200 [11]
This Mongolian city is often described as the world's coldest capital
Ulan Bator
Kristin
$1,200 [18]
A statue of this "Yankee Doodle Dandy" inscribed "Give My Regards to Broadway" stands opposite Times Square
(George M.) Cohan
Brad
$1,600 [7]
Spica, her brightest star, is held in her left hand
Virgo
Kristin Brad
$2,000 [24]
This 1924 Ferber novel about a widow managing a farm & a son was just huge, winning a Pulitzer
So Big
Kristin Brad Stephanie
$1,600 [16]
The most popular pattern for this geometric inlaid wood flooring is herringbone
parquet
Stephanie
$1,600 [12]
This country's 2nd-largest city, Mandalay, is known for a pagoda containing 729 stone Buddhist tablets
Myanmar (or Burma)
Brad Stephanie
DD $2,000 [19]
Oscar Hammerstein II & this other great partner of Richard Rodgers were classmates at Columbia
(Lorenz) Hart
Brad
$2,000 [8]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an image on the monitor.) Latin for "little king", Regulus is the brightest star of this constellation, & is said to be its "heart"
Leo
Brad Stephanie
$2,000 [17]
In 2013 this interior decorator & HGTV personality published her first book, "The Well-Traveled Home"
Sandra Espinet
Stephanie
$2,000 [13]
This Vietnamese city near the Gulf of Tonkin serves as the deepwater port for Hanoi
Haiphong
Stephanie
$2,000 [20]
This nickname of "Over the Rainbow" lyricist E.Y. Harburg was a shortening of Young People's Socialist League
"Yip"
Stephanie
DD $2,400 [5]
This constellation is where you'll find the Sun as spring begins in the Northern Hemisphere
Pisces
Kristin

Final Jeopardy!

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT

On August 15, 1994, 59 years & 1 day after FDR signed the original act, Bill Clinton made this an independent agency

the Social Security Administration

Kristin "What is the FDIC?" — wagered $1,600

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