Show #7059 2015-04-30 Regular

Greg Seroka game 6.

Contestants

Robert Sale — a government relations liaison from Washington, D.C.

Valerie Braun — a homemaker from Cincinnati, Ohio

Greg Seroka — a chef from Steamboat Springs, Colorado (whose 5-day cash winnings total $133,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Greg $4,400 $12,400 $18,800 $17,600
6-day champion: $150,800
$16,600
25 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Valerie $0 $400 $4,000 $6,500
2nd place: $2,000
$6,000
8 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Robert $1,400 $4,200 $6,200 $4,399
3rd place: $1,000
$12,200
17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THINGS TO DO ON A RAINY DAY STARTS & ENDS WITH T LONG-RUNNING MUSICALS IN SHORT ADVERTISING ICONS COUNTRIES BY HOTEL PRESENTED IN 2D
$200 [16]
Put together one of these; the 4,000-piece world map should take you a while
a jigsaw puzzle
Greg
$200 [1]
It's a 5-letter word meaning a distinguishing characteristic
trait
Greg
$200 [6]
It's set on an island during World War II:"S.P."
South Pacific
Robert
$200 [26]
Ho ho ho! Named after a variety of large peas, this character first appeared in ads in 1928
the Jolly Green Giant
Greg
$200 [7]
The Taj West End Hotel
India
Greg
$200 [17]
Type of graph using vertical rectangles to show the frequency of specific items in a set of data
a bar graph
Robert
$400 [22]
Assume the warrior pose, mountain pose or seated twist while practicing this
yoga
Valerie
$400 [2]
Varieties include Mead's 6" X 9" 100-sheet & Sony's Xperia Z2
tablet
$400 [8]
Reba McEntire starred in one of its revivals:"A.G.Y.G."
Annie Get Your Gun
Greg
$400 [27]
Some people get a giggle out of collecting figures of this advertising icon
the Pillsbury Doughboy
Greg
$400 [12]
The Victoria Falls Hotel, just south of the falls
Zimbabwe
Greg Robert
$400 [18]
In wiringschematics, the symbol shownhereis one of these, maybe on a wall to break the circuit
a switch
Greg
$600 [23]
Cook up this classic dish with ground lamb or beef & don't forget the mashed potato crust on top
shepherd's pie
Greg
$600 [3]
An area of land; you also have a digestive one
tract
Robert
$600 [9]
Ease on down the road with this musical:"T.W."
The Wiz
Greg
$600 [28]
A schoolkid won $5 for designing this top-hatted Planter's icon
Mr. Peanut
Greg
$600 [13]
The Yak & Yeti
Nepal
Greg
$600 [19]
An architect's face-on drawing of a building is an elevation; a top-down view is this simple 4-letter word
a plan
Robert
$800 [24]
Brush up your Shakespeare & read one of his comedies, like this one about twins Viola & Sebastian
Twelfth Night
Greg
$800 [4]
Proverbially, it's where you'll find a "tempest"
teapot
Greg
$800 [10]
Marvin Hamlisch composed the music for it:"A.C.L."
A Chorus Line
$1,000 [30]
This StarKist spokes-tuna looks as hip as ever in his signature glasses & beret
Charlie Tuna
Robert
$800 [14]
The Fairmont Chateau Laurier
Canada
$800 [20]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a globe and map on the monitor.) The curved surface of the Earth, represented on a flat sheet of paper, is called this; the Mercator onehereis from the 19th century
a projection
Greg
$1,000 [25]
Warm up with a cup of green tea while watching a double feature of this director's "Ran" & "Seven Samurai"
(Akira) Kurosawa
Greg
$1,000 [5]
It's a person with no fixed residence
transient
Greg
$1,000 [11]
It's a gay old time:"L.C.A.F."
La Cage aux Folles
Greg
DD $3,000 [29]
Appropriately, a brainstorming session produced the little girl under an umbrella for this brand
Morton's salt
Greg
$1,000 [15]
The Westin Chosun
South Korea
Robert
$1,000 [21]
Renaissance artists developed the linear type of this, using converging parallels to make 2D look like 3D
perspective
Robert

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE HUMAN BODY MILITARY TV 6-LETTER CROSSWORD CLUES 18th CENTURY AMERICA RANKS TITLES
$400 [16]
Tiny blood vessels; also, tiny channels that carry bile
capillaries
Greg
$400 [17]
This 1990 11-hour Ken Burns documentary made good use of photos & writings of soldiers
The Civil War
Valerie
$400 [1]
To this first name belong the spoils
Victor
Robert
$400 [22]
The Annapolis Convention met in 1786 & concluded that the document called these Articles wasn't going to cut it
the Articles of Confederation
Greg
$400 [11]
Yudansha is a term used to describe students who have acquired this rank in karate
a black belt
Valerie
$400 [6]
One of the first books in English, this chivalric work by Thomas Malory has a French title
Le Morte d'Arthur
Robert
$800 [18]
Orbicularis oculi palpebral muscles close this piece of tissue, palpebra in medical speak
an eyelid
Robert
$800 [23]
Sort of "Top Gun" meets "Law & Order", this 1995-2005 show mixed legal, military & personal stories
J.A.G.
Robert
$800 [2]
Croatia's capital
Zagreb
Robert
$800 [24]
In 1792 Robert Thomas first published this almanac about New England life &, of course, the weather
The Farmer's Almanac
Greg
$800 [12]
This rank in British peerage below a marquis & above a viscount is also a first name
earl
Valerie
$800 [7]
The socially alienated Meursault is the title character of this Camus novel
The Stranger
Robert
$1,200 [19]
The name of these heart valvesmean "half moon"
semilunar
Robert
$1,200 [25]
4 women & 1 man share the common bond of loving someone in the military on this Lifetime series
Army Wives
Greg
$1,200 [3]
Where to harbor your yacht
marina
Valerie
$1,200 [27]
It's Philadelphia in the 1750s & what has Ben Franklin foisted on us now? Street lamps powered by this animal product
whale oil
Robert
$1,200 [13]
It was the highest military rank held by both Erwin Rommel & Bernard Montgomery
field marshal
Greg
$1,200 [8]
In 2014 a friend said, I found your lost-since-the-50s novel "Go Set the Watchman"; age 88, she said, "It's Go Set a Watchman"
Harper Lee
Valerie
$2,000 [21]
This gland's main duct, the duct of Wirsung, collects its juices & empties into the duodenum
the pancreas
Robert
$1,600 [26]
The Vietnam War was seen through the eyes of nurses near the front lines on this Dana Delanyshow
China Beach
Valerie
DD $2,000 [4]
Tom Canty, at the start of a Twain novel
pauper
Valerie
$1,600 [28]
In the 1780s this "Gouverneur" proposed the decimal monetary system & devised the name "cent" for the basic coin
Gouverneur Morris
$1,600 [14]
In Eastern Orthodoxy an exarch, ranked below a patriarch, is the equivalent of this Catholic rank
bishop
Robert
$1,600 [9]
Liam O'Flaherty wrote this novel whose title refers to one who tells the authorities about a comrade
The Informer
Greg
DD $6,000 [20]
The endometrium is the tissue that lines this organ
the uterus
Robert
$2,000 [30]
Surprise! surprise! surprise! "Opie Joins the Marine Corps" was an episode of this classic sitcom
Gomer Pyle
Valerie
$2,000 [5]
Destiny, Turkish style
kismet
Greg
$2,000 [29]
Built as a NYC home early in the century, it later became a tavern where Washington said farewell to his officers
Fraunces Tavern
Valerie
$2,000 [15]
Not sure if they were nattering, but one of these was a provincial governor in the old Mogul Empire
a nabob
Robert
$2,000 [10]
This 1934 F. Scott Fitzgerald novel gets its nocturnal title from John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale"
Tender is the Night
Greg

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD CITIES

According to U.N. statistics, it's the most populous city in the Americas not attached to the mainland

Havana, Cuba

Valerie "What is Havana?" — wagered $2,500
Robert "What is NYC" — wagered $1,801
Greg "What is Victoria, B.C.?" — wagered $1,200

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