Show #7080 2015-05-29 Regular

Dan Feitel game 4.

Contestants

Andrew Lasken — a royalties manager from Studio City, California

Autumn Swinford — a major in the U.S. Marine Corps originally from Fredericktown, Missouri

Dan Feitel — an attorney originally from Gillette, New Jersey (whose 3-day cash winnings total $85,598)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dan $2,200 $5,600 $11,200 $14,401
4-day champion: $99,999
$16,200
22 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs)
Autumn $1,000 $1,800 $5,400 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$5,400
12 R, 2 W
Andrew $2,400 $2,800 $7,200 $3,199
2nd place: $2,000
$8,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

EX-MEMBERS OF THE BAND TOOL TALK HISTORY WORLD CAPITAL"IA" PULL UP A CHAIR IT'S TIME TO EAT
$200 [2]
20 years after Jerry Garcia's 1995 death, 4 living members of this band announced 50th anniversary gigs in Chicago
The Grateful Dead
Dan
$200 [19]
In computer-speak, 404 is this "not found"
file
Andrew
$200 [1]
After a 34-hour siege in April of this year, confederate forces captured Fort Sumter
1861
Andrew
$200 [12]
In 447 the Huns destroyed this city, now the capital of Bulgaria
Sofia
Andrew
$200 [11]
Designed by Frank Gehry in the 1970s, thewiggle chairwas made from this common material
cardboard
Dan Andrew
$200 [24]
At this type of group dinner, folks bring food, usually one dish, to share with others
a pot-luck
Autumn
$400 [6]
In 1997 this Michael Stipe band said drummer Bill Berry was retiring to his farm (& replaced him with a drum machine)
R.E.M.
Dan
$400 [20]
It's the part of a gun that by its fall causes a discharge
hammer
Autumn
$400 [3]
The Normans invaded England in 1066, & the Anglo-Normans invaded this large nearby isle in 1169
Ireland
Dan
$400 [13]
Designed & built in the '50s, it is located in the "Distrito Federal"
Brasilia
Dan
$400 [17]
French for "long chair", it's a seat long enough to support its user's legs
chaise longue
Autumn
$600 [27]
Popular varieties of this vegetable include Bibb & butterhead
lettuce
Dan
$600 [8]
Thismulti-instrumentalist quit the Rolling Stones shortly before his 1969 death
Brian Jones
Andrew
$600 [21]
The name of this palindromic tool means horizontal
level
Dan
$800 [5]
In 1794 Napoleon was placed under arrest for ties to this incorruptible man, the force behind the Reign of Terror
Robespierre
Andrew
$600 [14]
It's named for a U.S. president
Monrovia
Dan
$600 [18]
This hyphenated company started with a reclining wood porch chair; in 1929 it added upholstery & moved indoors
La-Z-Boy
Andrew
$800 [25]
Also known as a turtle bean, this dried bean forms the base for a soup popular in Cuba
black bean
$800 [9]
From 1960 to 1962 he provided the backbeat for the Beatles but in their eyes, didn't live up to his last name
Pete Best
Andrew
$800 [22]
To swindle someone, perhaps out of the same-named wedgelike tool
chisel
Dan
DD $1,000 [4]
In 1950 & then again in 1951, this capital city fell to invading forces who were evicted each time by U.N. troops
Seoul
Dan
$800 [15]
Today one of its country's 3, it was once the capital of the Transvaal
Pretoria
Autumn
$1,000 [26]
Order up! At a diner, "nervous pudding" is slang for this offering
Jell-O
Dan
$1,000 [10]
In 2001 this band kicked Don Felder out of the aerie; in "the long run", the 2 sides settled out of court in 2007
The Eagles
Dan
$1,000 [23]
To force with a violent twist; you don't want to do it to your back
wrench
Dan Autumn
$1,000 [7]
Henri Christophe helped Toussaint L'Ouverture liberate this country, then tyrannically ruled its northern part
Haiti
Autumn
$1,000 [16]
You'll find it on an eastern Mediterranean isle
Nicosia
Dan

Double Jeopardy! Round

MR. SMITH NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES TV MOVIES GRAINS BEOWULF "YM", NO C-A
$400 [10]
Sgt. Paul Ray Smith posthumously received the Medal of Honor in 2005, the first for actions in this war
the Second (Persian) Gulf War
Dan Andrew
$400 [25]
In 1842 President Tyler ordered the end of military actions against this Florida tribe, but no peace treaty was signed
the Seminoles
Autumn
$400 [1]
In a 1992 TV biopic, Robert Duvall was this Soviet man of steel
Stalin
Autumn
$400 [4]
Basmati, an aromatic type of this grain, is grown in the foothills of the Himalayas & is especially popular in India
rice
Autumn
$400 [15]
The only existing "Beowulf" manuscript dates to around 1000 & resides in a library in this capital
London
Dan
$400 [20]
Rings & pommel horse are part of this Olympic sport
gymnastics
Autumn
$1,200 [12]
In 1838 Joseph Smith came up with a 10% solution & introduced this practice to the LDS church
tithing
Andrew
DD $400 [28]
Historically, the Mojave were known as the Pipa Aha Macav, "people by the river"--this river
the Colorado (River)
Andrew
$800 [2]
Judy Davis won an Emmy in 2001 for her portrayal of this show-biz Judy & her tumultuous life
Judy Garland
Autumn
$800 [7]
Samuel Johnson called it "a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people"
oats
Autumn
$800 [16]
Beowulf lives in Geatland in Sweden but travels to this other Scandinavian country to aid King Hrothgar
Denmark
Dan
$800 [21]
In Hodgkin's disease, these nodes become enlarged
lymph nodes
Dan
$1,600 [13]
William Smith, a Weymouth, Massachusetts minister, was this First Lady's father
Abigail Adams
Autumn
$800 [26]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) When established in 1851, the reservation for this Native American tribe covered much of present-day South Dakota; itshrankin 1868, & then againin 1889, the year of both Dakotas' statehood
the Sioux
Dan
$1,200 [3]
In 1997 Jack Lemmon & George C. Scott led a stellar cast in a remake of this jury drama
12 Angry Men
Dan
$1,200 [8]
It's the main grain for malt production
barley
Dan
$1,200 [17]
Heorot is a hall that functions as a seat of govt. as well as a place to down tankards of this fermented honey beverage
mead
Andrew
$1,200 [22]
Seen here, at 9,570 feet, it's Greece's highest mountain
Olympus
Andrew
$2,000 [14]
When he launched FedEx in 1973, it delivered 186 packages the first night; now it handles more than 10 mil. a day
Frederick Smith
$1,200 [27]
This Montana tribe that shares its name with a black bird calls itself Apsaalooke, or "children of the large-beaked bird"
Crow
Andrew
$1,600 [5]
In "Death of a Centerfold", Jamie Lee Curtis played this starry-eyed Canadian teenager who became a Playboy Playmate
Dorothy Stratten
Dan
$1,600 [9]
In the 1950s pollen grains of this were discovered in Mexico City & estimated to be 60,000 years old
corn (maize)
$1,600 [18]
When one of these creatures ravages his land, the elderly Beowulf slays it but is mortally wounded
a dragon
Andrew
$1,600 [23]
This type of punch is delivered with great force & can result in a knockout
a haymaker
Dan
DD $4,000 [11]
John Stafford Smith composed "To Anacreon In Heaven", later used as the tune for this song
"The Star Spangled Banner"
Dan
$2,000 [6]
Now starring on "Shameless", he played a traveling salesman with cerebral palsy in "Door to Door"
William H. Macy
Dan
$2,000 [29]
From the Latin for "hard", it's wheat used chiefly in making pasta
durum
Dan Andrew
$2,000 [19]
This evil monster who's terrorized King Hrothgar's land for 12 years is a demon descended from Cain
Grendel
Andrew
$2,000 [24]
It's a figure of speech like "cruel kindness" or, as some soldiers say, "military intelligence"
an oxymoron
Autumn Andrew

Final Jeopardy!

COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES

Mens et manus, "mind and hand", is the motto of this university whose alumni include I.M. Pei, Amar Bose & Richard Feynman

MIT

Autumn "What is NYU" — wagered $5,400
Andrew "What is Cal Tech?" — wagered $4,001
Dan "What isStanforMIT" — wagered $3,201

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