Show #7044 2015-04-09 Regular

Kerry Greene game 7.

Contestants

Chris Hurt — an actor and grants analyst from New York, New York

Lindsey Love — an academic program coordinator from Eden, New York

Kerry Greene — a volunteer guardian ad litem from Manchester, New Hampshire (whose 6-day cash winnings total $146,598)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kerry $4,600 $8,200 $15,400 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$15,000
21 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Lindsey $400 $1,800 $10,200 $18,701
2nd place: $2,000
$10,200
12 R, 0 W
Chris $3,400 $6,800 $18,500 $30,801
New champion: $30,801
$15,200
18 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

"L"ITERATURE BARTENDING GLOSSARY WHERE THE DEVIL?! LIFESTYLES DOUBLE TALK THEIR TV ROLES THEN & NOW
$200 [6]
The title girl is the first word & also the last word of this Nabokov novel
Lolita
Lindsey
$200 [1]
This 6-letter word is used of a milder beverage that's consumed immediately after a shot of hard liquor
chaser
Kerry
$200 [11]
Creepy water, y'all! Devil's Swamp Lake & Hell Hole Bayou are in this state
Louisiana
Lindsey
$200 [21]
The New York Times calls Williamsburg in this borough "the granddaddy of neighborhoods with hipster cachet"
Brooklyn
Kerry
$200 [16]
Another name for miniature golf
putt-putt
Lindsey
$200 [26]
Tim Taylor on "Home Improvement" &Mike Baxter on "Last Man Standing"
Tim Allen
Kerry
$400 [7]
The first & longest poem in this collection was given the title "Song of Myself"
Leaves of Grass
Chris
$400 [2]
To make this kind of martini, add olive juice
dirty
Kerry
$400 [12]
Just wow, this state: Devil's Playground, Hell's Half Acre, Devils Tooth Quadrangle & of course, the big one--Devils Tower
Wyoming
Kerry
$400 [22]
This food movement considers baking & broiling to be vitamin-destroying madness
the raw food movement
Lindsey
$400 [17]
Type of "situation" in which everyone involved benefits
win-win
Kerry
$400 [27]
Then, Louie De Palma; now, Frank Reynolds on "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"
Danny DeVito
Kerry
$600 [8]
This great Arthurian knight was dad to the pure Galahad
Lancelot
Chris
$800 [4]
This bartending tool looks like a little baseball bat & is used to crush fruit & herbs, not confuse patrons
a muddler
Kerry
$600 [13]
We'll "volunteer" that Devil's Backbone & Devils Tater Patch are in this state, as well as Mount Evil!
Tennessee
Chris
$600 [23]
The Anabaptists include Mennonites, Hutterites & these even more conservative buggy riders
the Amish
Kerry
$600 [18]
It was The Mamas & The Papas' only No. 1 hit
"Monday, Monday"
Chris
$600 [28]
Alan Shore &Red Reddington
James Spader
$800 [9]
Garcia Lorca wrote one of these "for the Death of a Bullfighter"
a lament
Kerry
DD $1,000 [3]
Neapolitan for "a measure of liquids" gives us the name of this glass container that holds 2-4 glasses of wine
a carafe
Kerry
$800 [14]
Hellgate Canyon & Devil's Pocket are way under the big sky in this state
Montana
Chris
$800 [24]
Retirees enjoy free time, aka this word before "world" in a retirement community empire founded in 1961
leisure
Lindsey
$800 [19]
Nickname of former lightweight boxing champ Ray Mancini
"Boom Boom"
Chris
$800 [29]
Dr. Sam Beckett on "Quantum Leap" &Dwayne Pride on "NCIS: New Orleans"
Scott Bakula
Kerry
$1,000 [10]
Joe Christmas has an affair with Joanna Burden, kills her & sets her house on fire in this novel by Faulkner
Light in August
$1,000 [5]
On a champagne label, brut equals this wine term, as the grapes used to make it contained little or no sugar
dry
Kerry
$1,000 [15]
Cross Arizona's northern border into this state & you're not far from Hell's Backbone
Utah
Chris
$1,000 [25]
Term for long-soloing bands like Widespread Panic whose cult of fans are often literally followers
jam bands
Chris
$1,000 [20]
Done around 1640, the paintingheremay be one of the last illustrations made of a live one of these
a dodo
Chris
$1,000 [30]
Grace Adler &working mom/homicide detective Laura Diamond
Debra Messing
Kerry

Double Jeopardy! Round

13th CENTURY HIGHLIGHTS HELENA BONHAM CARTER ROLES AMERICAN ARTISTS RHYMES WITH A GREAT LAKE WHAT A COOL GADGET JUST A FEW LITTLE BUGS
$400 [1]
In 1215 Beijing was captured by this nomadic warrior-ruler
Genghis Khan
Chris
$400 [14]
As Madame Thenardier in this big-screen musical, Helena was partnered with Sacha Baron Cohen
Les Misérables
Lindsey
$400 [2]
This modern American artist was known as the "Father of the Mobile"
(Alexander) Calder
Chris
$400 [7]
Dismal & bleak
dreary
Chris
$400 [9]
Feel like a sorcerer as you change TV channels by waving the Kymera Magic this
Wand
Kerry
$400 [19]
For more than 2,000 years, the Chinese have used the Bombyx mori moth to produce this from its cocoons
silk
Chris
$800 [13]
1276 is known as the "year of the four" these, & only one of them was Innocent
popes
Chris
$800 [15]
Helena fell in love with director Tim Burton while playing Ari, member of another species, in this 2001 film
Planet of the Apes
Lindsey
$800 [3]
In his "Nighthawks", he modeled the 2 male diners on himself & the female diner on his wife
(Edward) Hopper
Chris
$800 [8]
Happy
cheery
$800 [27]
Its Aquabeat 2 MP3 player for swimmers has a stopwatch, too; making amends for those skimpy men's swim bottoms?
Speedo
Kerry
$800 [20]
This "pious" predator has been known to eat small frogs, mice & hummingbirds, as well as its own
a praying mantis
Lindsey
$1,600 [25]
This patron saint of Italy died in 1226 & was swiftly canonized in 1228
Francis of Assisi
Lindsey
$1,200 [16]
In a truly royal performance, Helena played the wife of George VI in this 2010 Oscar winner
The King's Speech
Kerry
$1,200 [4]
Born Robert Kahn in 1915, he took a new professional name as the creator of Batman
Bob Kane
$1,200 [10]
Suspicious or distrustful
leery
Chris
$1,200 [28]
The Socialmatic camera from this company has a built-in inkless printer & you won't have to shake the photos
Polaroid
Lindsey
$1,200 [21]
Nagana, an infectious disease of cattle & horses, is transmitted by the bite of this African fly
the tsetse fly
Kerry
$2,000 [26]
In the 1250s a court chaplain founded the Paris School of Theology, which was later named this for him
the Sorbonne
$1,600 [17]
Helena said her bossy toddler inspired her performance as this creepy monarch in "Alice in Wonderland"
the Red Queen
Kerry
$1,600 [5]
A critic accused this American of "flinging a pot of paint in the public's face" with his 1875 "Nocturne in Black and Gold"
Whistler
$1,600 [11]
Introductory letter to a potential publisher
query
Kerry Lindsey
$1,600 [29]
The Surge from this rhyming company counts your steps, calories & floors climbed & includes GPS
Fitbit
Kerry
$1,600 [22]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) African termite mounds, which can be as high as 40 feet, contain intricate systems of ventilation shafts to regulate this, no matter what the weather outside
temperature
Chris
DD $2,500 [24]
In 1296 the Scottish coronation stone was moved to Westminster from here
Scone
Chris
$2,000 [18]
Helena was devilishly evil as this character in the "Harry Potter" films
Bellatrix Lestrange
Kerry
DD $4,000 [6]
His 1885 work "The Fog Warning" shows a lone New England fisherman rowing a dory
Winslow Homer
Chris
$2,000 [12]
6-letter adjective for blurred & unfocused eyes
bleary
Lindsey
$2,000 [30]
A virtual-reality demo for this "Rift" device let the user explore the bridge of Voyager from "Star Trek"
Oculus
$2,000 [23]
In the 1920s the tiphia wasp was introduced into the U.S. to control this Asian beetle that was found on our shores in 1916
the Japanese beetle

Final Jeopardy!

REFERENCE WORKS

Now in its fourth edition, the book with this title first appeared in 1918 as a 43-page guide for Cornell English students

The Elements of Style

Lindsey "What istheElements of Style?" — wagered $8,501
Kerry "What is The Style Guide?" — wagered $15,399
Chris "What is The Elements of Style?" — wagered $12,301

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