Show #7056 2015-04-27 Regular

Greg Seroka game 3.

Contestants

Tim Giauque — a mechanical design engineer from Waynesboro, Pennsylvania

Ann Marie Senter — a financial services officer from Raleigh, North Carolina

Greg Seroka — a chef from Steamboat Springs, Colorado (whose 2-day cash winnings total $60,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Greg $3,400 $7,200 $24,200 $19,199
3-day champion: $79,800
$22,600
27 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Ann Marie $1,000 $2,000 $800 $1,595
3rd place: $1,000
$800
7 R, 3 W
Tim $1,600 $4,600 $14,600 $9,599
2nd place: $2,000
$13,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE VIETNAM WAR POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS WHICH STATE? -ISMs BREAKFAST CEREALS FROM THE FRENCH
$200 [21]
The film "Last Days in Vietnam" details the fall of Saigon & the too-long-delayed evacuation of this facility
the American embassy
Tim
$200 [1]
This 2002 film was an adaptation of Susan Orlean's book "The Orchid Thief"
Adaptation
Ann Marie
$200 [22]
Grows the most potatoes
Idaho
Ann Marie
$200 [7]
Renoir & Monet were part of the 1874 exhibition of this artistic movement
Impressionism
Greg
$200 [15]
This cereal's flavors include Honey Nut & Honey Nut Medley Crunch
Cheerios
Greg
$200 [6]
This adjective for a certain Himalayan snowman comes from the French
abominable
Greg
$400 [27]
A key U.S. aim was winning Vietnamese "Hearts and" these, the title of an Oscar-winning documentary opposing the war
Minds
Greg
$400 [2]
In 1983 & again in 1999, Prince had a Top 40 hit with this song
"1999"
Ann Marie
$400 [23]
Is the only one with a one-syllable name
Maine
Tim
$600 [9]
To keep an industry safe from foreign competition, the government might impose quotas or tariffs, examples of this -ism
protectionism
Greg
$400 [16]
The mascot for this cereal lives on the S.S. Guppy
Cap'n Crunch
Greg
$400 [12]
The name of this weed means "lion's tooth", referring to its toothed leaves
dandelion
Greg
$600 [28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The 1968 assault shown here is called this, after its namesake holiday; attacks ranged from Khe Sanh down to Saigon & Vinh Loi
the Tet Offensive
Tim
$600 [3]
When he's rapping, Oscar winner Lonnie Lynn is more commonly known by this one-word name
Common
Tim
$600 [24]
Is nicknamed "Empire State of the South"
Georgia
Greg
$800 [10]
Novelist Israel Zangwill was an early leader of this back-to-Palestine movement
Zionism
Greg
$600 [17]
You don't have to make your own snack mix with this cereal; you can buy bags of its Bold Party Blend or Muddy Buddies
Chex
Greg
$600 [13]
Old French gives us this word for a winner of a competition, like certain show dogs
champion
Ann Marie
$800 [29]
This alphanumeric weapon became the standard U.S. infantry rifle in 1967
the M16
Tim
$800 [4]
"A Captain's Duty", a memoir by Richard Phillips, was the basis for this 2013 movie
Captain Phillips
Tim
$800 [25]
Is home to Foxwoods, one of the largest resort casinos in North America
Connecticut
Greg
DD $1,000 [8]
In the "Italian Encyclopedia", Mussolini defined it as repudiating pacifism
fascism
Greg
$800 [18]
This Kellogg's cereal encourages you to "Show your stripes"
Frosted Flakes
Ann Marie
$800 [14]
French for "song for dancing" gives us this word for a type of sentimental or romantic song
ballad
Tim
$1,000 [30]
The first two names inscribed on the Memorial were not combat soldiers but military these, helping the South Vietnamese
advisers
Greg
$1,000 [5]
Their country music hits include "My Home's In Alabama" & "Tennessee River"
Alabama
Tim
$1,000 [26]
Calls "Hang On Sloopy" its official rock song
Ohio
Greg
$1,000 [11]
Repeated or habitual relapse into crime
recidivism
Ann Marie
$1,000 [19]
In the name of a General Mills cereal introduced in 1984, this other breakfast food precedes "Crunch"
Cinnamon Toast
Tim
$1,000 [20]
This word for a sharp satire comes from the French, not from Harvard
lampoon
Greg

Double Jeopardy! Round

THRILLING MILLARD FILLMORE BOOKS & AUTHORS WHIP SMART ACTORS PLAYING ACTORS "O_U"! FROM THE GERMAN
$400 [26]
Millard was born in this state's Finger Lakes region in 1800; in 1830 he moved to Buffalo
New York
Ann Marie
$400 [3]
This Laura Hillenbrand bestseller is subtitled "A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption"
Unbroken
Greg Tim
$400 [11]
Britain's Army Act of 1881 banned the use of this numerical beast
the cat o' nine tails
Greg
$400 [2]
Enter the "Dragon", Jason Scott Lee (no relation) as this martial arts legend
Bruce Lee
Greg
$400 [1]
The Royal Hawaiian Hotel & the Turtle Bay Resort are on it
Oahu
Tim
$400 [21]
"I think that a woman as a chancellor can also serve as a good example", she said (aptly)
Angela Merkel
Tim
$800 [27]
He alienated the north with his insistence on enforcement of this 1850 act that required the return of escapees
the Fugitive Slave Act
Greg
$800 [6]
In 1994 she published a book for kiddies called "The Chinese Siamese Cat"
Amy Tan
$800 [13]
The crack of one of this country's long-handled stockwhips signaled the start of the 2000 Summer Olympics
Australia
Tim
$800 [17]
In 2014 Nicole Kidman played her opposite Tim Roth as Prince Rainier
Grace Kelly
Greg
$800 [4]
"And now" this 3-word phrase used by one reporter to hand a broadcast off to another
over to you
Ann Marie
$800 [22]
Around 1820 this towering composer said, "True art is selfish and perverse--it will not submit to the mold of flattery"
Beethoven
Ann Marie Tim
$1,200 [28]
In 1852 Fillmore sent a fleet of warships to this nation, forcing it to abandon its traditional isolationism
Japan
Greg
$1,200 [7]
In "Still Alice" by Lisa Genova, a 50-year-old college professor is diagnosed with this
Alzheimer's disease
Greg
$1,600 [15]
Used by equestrians, this short whip with apopperinstead of a lash will grow on you
a crop
Greg
$1,200 [18]
Look, up on the screen! it's a bird! it's a plane! it's "Argo" man, this actor, as George Reeves in "hollywoodland"
Ben Affleck
Greg
$1,200 [5]
These 3 initials are popular in Columbus & Corvallis
O.S.U.
Greg
$1,200 [23]
This TV "Runway" woman said, "I pretty much like everything that involves carbs... I like Big Macs, I like fries"
Heidi Klum
Greg
$2,000 [30]
Millard's wife died of pneumonia shortly after enduring the chilly inauguration of this man, his successor
Franklin Pierce
Tim
$1,600 [8]
A character known as Oliver Stone is the leader of the Camel Club in political thrillers by this former attorney
David Baldacci
Ann Marie
DD $2,000 [14]
In 1999 this film character's whip joined his fedora & brown leather jacket in the Smithosonian
Indiana Jones
Tim
$1,600 [19]
Swashbuckling Jude Law played swashbuckling Errol Flynn in this Howard Hughes biopic
The Aviator
Tim
$1,600 [9]
It's French for bird
oiseau
Tim
$1,600 [24]
From this writer's "Tin Drum": "Even bad books are books and therefore sacred"
(Gunter) Grass
Greg
DD $2,600 [29]
Millard's 2 Secs. of State were both famous orators: Edward Everett & this man who beat the devil in a popular story
Daniel Webster
Greg
$2,000 [12]
This Upton Sinclair novel with a 3-letter title was inspired by the Teapot Dome scandal
Oil
Tim
$2,000 [16]
Here's a "Q" for you: can you name this 5-letter whip with a short handle & braided lash?
a quirt
$2,000 [20]
Martin Landau won an Oscar for his "Ed Wood" portrayal of this movie actor
Bela Lugosi
Greg
$2,000 [10]
It's the capital of Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou
Tim
$2,000 [25]
This filmmaker who made Nazi propaganda said that when she met Hitler, "he seemed unexpectedly modest"
(Leni) Riefenstahl
Greg

Final Jeopardy!

WEDDINGS

In April 2011 he married an heiress to the fortune of a company called Party Pieces

Prince William

Ann Marie "Who is Prince William?" — wagered $795
Tim "Who is Brad Pitt?" — wagered $5,001
Greg "Who is Zuckerberg?" — wagered $5,001

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