Show #7073 2015-05-20 (taped 2015-03-03) Regular

Andrew Haringer game 5."7000thJeopardy!program".

Contestants

Ben Hom — a defense consultant and Navy Reserve officer from Arlington, Virginia

Becky Schiavo — a college administrator from Warwick, New York

Andrew Haringer — a college instructor from Squamish, British Columbia, Canada (whose 4-day cash winnings total $72,399)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Andrew $3,000 $3,600 $21,200 $24,200
5-day champion: $96,599
$19,200
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Becky $800 $1,400 $9,000 $8,399
3rd place: $1,000
$9,000
10 R, 0 W
Ben $1,200 $3,400 $4,800 $9,600
2nd place: $2,000
$10,000
15 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

SALUTE TO 7000 DEBUTING IN 1984 BACK THEN NO ONE KNEW THROUGH THE YEARS ALWAYS IN FASHION NEW TWISTS ONJEOPARDY!FAVORITES
$200 [7]
Nothing runs like this company's 7000 series tractors, up to 19 mph when loaded up
John Deere
Ben
$200 [1]
The left shark at the Super Bowl danced a few steps behind this singer born on Oct. 25, 1984
Katy Perry
Becky
$200 [14]
...the dismissive phrase "talk to" this body part
the hand
Ben
$200 [11]
In 1938 a final bid to avert war saw British PM Neville Chamberlain head to this city to meet Hitler
Munich
Ben
$200 [4]
In 2005 a collector paid $60,000 for a 115-year-old pair of this company's 501 jeans; I guess they never do go out of style
Levi's
Andrew
$200 [20]
In more than 500 clues about this Shakespeare play, it's never come up that one of its sources was "Gesta Danorum"
Hamlet
Andrew
$600 [22]
55 is where I set my 7000 model of this customizable bed
Sleep Number
Becky
$400 [2]
"V" is for victory & this skier is no stranger to that, with her record 63rd Women's World Cup win in 2015
(Lindsey) Vonn
Andrew
$600 [18]
...this word for a certain men's hairstyle; an early use was in a 1994 Beastie Boys tune
mullet
$600 [17]
In the tumultuous vote in this year, John Adams lost his bid for reelection
1800
Ben
$400 [25]
Most women can look smart, regardless of size, in one of these narrow skirts named for a writing implement
a pencil skirt
Ben
$400 [21]
250+ clues on this German-American physicist, but none mentioned that he didn't wear socks (the big toe always makes a hole)
Einstein
Ben
$800 [8]
This tech company that sounds like a reservoir of sweetness makes the Lynx Touch 7000 security system
Honeywell
$600 [3]
One possible thing Bill Murray whispered to her at the end of "Lost in Translation" was "You were born on Nov. 22, 1984"
Scarlett Johansson
Becky
$800 [13]
...that this is a roll of flesh that hangs over a waistband, not just part of a baked good
a muffin top
Andrew
$800 [10]
The first Oscars ceremony was held at the end of this decade
the 1920s
Andrew
$600 [19]
A man can feel quite at home in a tropical setting by wearing one of these, also called a toquilla straw hat
a Panama hat
Andrew
$800 [26]
The first mention of him: Season 16; some 170 clues later, we'll tell you Prof. Binns taught him the history of magic
Harry Potter
Andrew
$1,000 [9]
This company that pioneered mini-rotary tools offers the cordless 7000-N/5 for the handyman
Dremel
Ben
$800 [5]
This '84-born little sister, singer & actress had a baby named Bronx Mowgli with rock star Pete Wentz
Ashlee Simpson
Andrew
$1,000 [15]
...the term "peace" this, the expected savings in military spending due to the end of the Cold War
dividend
Ben
$1,000 [16]
Centered in Italy 1909-1916, this art movement emphasized the dynamism of modern life & technology
Futurism
$800 [24]
This formal accessory was once a sash worn by British military personnel at dinner in India
a cummerbund
Ben
DD $1,400 [12]
Nearly 500 clues about this English king, & yet none said that one of his favorite horses was named Canicida
Henry VIII
Ben
$1,000 [6]
Justin Bieber was born in 1994; this "SNL" woman who plays Justin Bieber better than Justin Bieber was born in '84
Kate McKinnon
$1,000 [23]
Steve Madden's toppazz is a stylish example of this versatile low-cut slip-on shoe with a heel
a pump
Andrew

Double Jeopardy! Round

THAT MOVIE TITLE IS LEGAL CAVES THE ALLITERATI "EBB" & "FLO" GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
$400 [7]
Pauly Shore actually wants to get sequestered & gets himself assigned to this, the title of a 1995 comedy
Jury Duty
Andrew
$400 [22]
Bracken Cave in Texas is home to the world's largest colony of Mexican free-tailed these
bats
Ben
$400 [4]
When he was born in Dublin in 1882, this writer got a double dose of alliteration--his middle names are Augustine Aloysius
James Joyce
Becky
$400 [21]
A Flintstone family member
Pebbles
Andrew
$400 [15]
U.S. Coast Guard units based in Cleveland, Ohio are known as the "Guardians of" these bodies of water
the Great Lakes
Becky
$400 [1]
One theory says our sun came from a dwarf galaxy in this constellation of the archer, not the Milky Way
Sagittarius
Ben
$800 [8]
Ashley Judd learns the meaning of a 5th Amendment protection in this thriller whose title is near & dear to me
Double Jeopardy
Andrew
$800 [25]
In Lebanon's Jeita Grotto, one of these hangs 27 feet from a cave ceiling
stalactite
Becky
$800 [6]
He went bankrupt insuring British ships in 1692; in 1719 he made a bundle writing about a shipwrecked sailor
(Daniel) Defoe
Andrew
$800 [29]
It's the diagramseen here
a flow chart
Andrew
$800 [16]
4-letter term for a person, usually a minor, legally placed in the charge of a guardian
a ward
Ben
$800 [30]
The farthest galaxy from Earth ever detected is about 77 sextillion miles away, or a mere 13.1 billion of these
light years
Becky
$1,200 [9]
Rather than take a settlement, attorney Paul Newman goes to trial in this legal drama
The Verdict
Andrew Ben
$1,200 [26]
To be legally called this blue cheese, it has to be aged in the Combalou Caves of southern France
Roquefort
Andrew
$1,200 [12]
She scandalized Atlanta with a flapper dance at a 1921 debutante ball; 15 years later, she really burned the town up
(Margaret) Mitchell
Andrew
$1,200 [28]
To step hard on the gas
to floor it
Andrew
$1,200 [19]
"Keeping it safe" is the motto of this red-bereted group founded by Curtis Sliwa
the Guardian Angels
Ben
$1,200 [5]
Seen here is the Sunflower Galaxy, a perfect example of this major type, named for its shape
spiral
Becky
$2,000 [11]
Marlene Dietrich is called as this, the title of a film based on a play by Agatha Christie
Witness for the Prosecution
$1,600 [27]
The 5-mile perimeter of this sandstone rock in Australia is dotted with numerous shallow caves
Ayers Rock
Ben
$1,600 [13]
Let's play "The Glass Bead Game" & see if you can name this German 1946 Nobelist
(Hermann) Hesse
Andrew
$1,600 [24]
It's from the Yiddish for a luckless sap
a nebbish
$1,600 [18]
The scarlet & gold dress uniforms of these guardians of the Tower of London date back to 1552
the Beefeaters (or Yeoman Warders)
Andrew
$2,000 [3]
The Milky Way is surrounded by a cloud of hot gas known by this angelic term
the halo
Andrew
DD $3,600 [10]
Harrison Ford played Jack Ryan in this film whose title comes from a legal test devised by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
Clear and Present Danger
Andrew
$2,000 [23]
The waves in Fingal's Cave in these inner Scottish islands inspired Felix Mendelssohn to write anoverture
the (Inner) Hebrides
Andrew
$2,000 [14]
Name this 1985 winner of the National Book Award for fiction--& speak up so I can hear you over the "White Noise"
Don DeLillo
Becky
$2,000 [20]
These awards honor "excellence on the Internet"
the Webbies
Becky
$2,000 [17]
In Arthurian legend this wounded monarch is the guardian of the Holy Grail
the Fisher King
Andrew Ben
DD $3,800 [2]
Galaxies are organized into hierarchical structures called these, containing 100s to 1,000s of galaxies each
clusters
Ben

Final Jeopardy!

RELIGION

The "N" in the I.N.R.I. written on the Christian cross refers to this place

Nazareth

Ben "What is Nazarath?" — wagered $4,800
Becky "What is Nazarene?" — wagered $601
Andrew "What is Nazareth?" — wagered $3,000

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