Show #7090 2015-06-12 Regular

Contestants

Daniel Lee — an officer manager from Valley Village, California

Mike Luca — a sales coordinator from Westbrook, Maine

Darren Harris-Fain — an English professor from Prattville, Alabama (whose 2-day cash winnings total $47,800)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Darren	$3,600	$4,800	$17,600	$15,200 3-day champion: $63,000	$17,600 21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Mike	$-2,600	$-800	$3,200	$1,226 3rd place: $1,000	$3,200 11 R, 7 W
Daniel	$200	$5,400	$5,200	$3,800 2nd place: $2,000	$12,800 18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

KNOW YOUR PRODUCE	MORE THAN ONE MEANING	EASY SCIENCE	THE STATE OF THINGS	MY TV TITLE CHARACTER	DIPLOMA"C"
$200 [8] (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows off some potatoes.) Unlike thewhite-flesh potatoes, thepurple onesare rich in anthocyanins, a pigment that gives them their color & also acts as this type compound, which fights free radicals antioxidants Darren	$200 [6] Travel to work, or change a prison sentence to a less severe one commute Daniel	$200 [26] The name of this class of vertebrates is from the Greek for "double life", referring to life in water & on land amphibian Mike	$200 [7] The Grand Ole Opry, Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Tennessee Mike	$200 [20] Chuck Norris, ranger-ing around Walker, Texas Ranger Daniel	$200 [1] This term is an agreement of less importance or formality than a treaty; the 1864 Geneva one is famous a convention Darren
$400 [14] More popular in Europe, this two-word veggie is cultivated under soil, blocking the light that produces chlorophyll white asparagus Mike	$400 [9] Come together for a common cause, or keep a ping-pong ball in play rally Daniel	$400 [30] The N.Y. Times' 1945 Hiroshima story mentioned "scientists' long-held dream of" doing this to "the atom" splitting Darren	$400 [24] The National Constitution Center, Betsy Ross House Pennsylvania Darren Daniel	$400 [19] On a sitcom, Frankie Muniz Malcolm in the Middle Darren	$400 [2] Everybody stop shooting! It's high time we had one of these suspensions of armed conflict a cease-fire Daniel
$600 [15] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is a fun guy with fungi.) When left to mature, cremini mushroomsdevelopcapsthat are large, flat, & dense & they were mostly unsellable, until the 1980s, when growers gave them this new name portobellos	$600 [12] A fine mist from an atomizer, or the flower arrangement seen here a spray Darren	$600 [29] CH4, it's the chief constituent of natural gas methane Daniel	$600 [25] The World of Coca-Cola, Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest Georgia Mike	$600 [10] Edward Woodward (before Denzel) The Equalizer Mike	$600 [3] It's an office established by one country inside another to support & protect its citizens & aid commerce a consulate Mike
$800 [17] Cleared of their spines & used as a vegetable, nopalescome from this type of cactus that also bears edible fruit prickly pear Daniel	$800 [13] One's disposition, or to strengthen glass by heating & then cooling temper Mike	$800 [28] mR are milli-these units of radiation named for a scientist who saw through you roentgen Darren	$1,000 [22] The Exhibition Coal Mine, Appalachian Lake Dam West Virginia Mike	$800 [11] On the CW, Stephen Amell Arrow Darren Mike Daniel	$800 [4] Letters given to an ambassador to certify his authority to another country; let me see me your... credentials Darren Mike
$1,000 [23] (Kelly puts an avocado in a brown paper bag.) You probably know that placing an avocado in a brown paper bag makes it ripen quicker; that's because the bag traps this gas, C2H4, that helps fruits to ripen ethylene Mike	$1,000 [16] A sleeveless cloak, or the part of the Earth between the crust & the core mantle Mike	$1,000 [27] A focus of Mayan astronomy was these points when the sun is farthest from the equator the solstices	DD $2,200 [21] Lake Bonneville, George S. Eccles Dinosaur Park Utah Daniel	$1,000 [18] The spun-off Robert Guillaume Benson Daniel	$1,000 [5] I get a jolt out of this French term for a diplomat just below the rank of ambassador chargé d'affaires Darren

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED	EXPLORATION	ALONG CAME JONES	YOU'VE BEEN "HACK"ED!	A VIRGIN CATEGORY	A RIVER RUNS THROUGH THE BOOK
$400 [1] Her death on July 23, 2011 in London was attributed to alcohol poisoning Amy Winehouse Darren	$400 [30] In 1888 Fridtjof Nansen crossed the big ice cap in the interior of this big island Greenland Mike	$400 [14] In 1773 this future revolutionary killed a would-be mutineer aboard his ship the Betsy John Paul Jones Darren	$400 [10] This activity popular at jam band shows is aka footbag Hacky Sack Daniel	$400 [29] In addition to the title track, one of the 3 songs from Madonna's album "Like a Virgin" to hit the Top 40 "Material Girl" (or "Angel" or "Dress You Up") Mike Daniel	$400 [2] It's "over" or "on" in the title of this Pierre Boulle WWII novel about a Japanese attempt to get a train route in Burma Bridge over the River Kwai (or Bridge on the River Kwai ) Daniel
$800 [3] We hope this gravel-voiced Brit had "a little help from" his friends before his death December 22, 2014 Joe Cocker Mike	$800 [24] In 1853 Sir Richard Burton became one of the few non-Muslim men of the time to visit these 2 "M" cities Mecca & Medina Mike	$800 [19] In 1999 Brian Jones & Captain Bertrand Piccard became the first to circle the globe nonstop in this a (hot air) balloon Darren	$800 [15] They're the long neck feathers of a rooster that get erect when he's angry hackles Darren	$800 [28] Dozens of islands including Tortola & Anegada make up this former crown colony in the Lesser Antilles the British Virgin Islands Daniel	$800 [6] Years after Isaac Bashevis Singer's death came the first English translation of "Shadows on" this urban river the Hudson River
$1,200 [4] This singer who wrote "Leaving On A Jet Plane" died when his experimental plane went down October 12, 1997 John Denver Mike	$1,200 [23] Kind of an African wagon train; in 1798 Friedrich Hornemann followed the route of one to explore the Sahara a caravan Mike	$1,200 [20] Psychoanalyst Ernest Jones wrote a famous essay explaining the character of Hamlet in terms of this complex Oedipus complex Daniel	$1,200 [16] You're unforgiven if you don't make a connection with this 1972 Best Actor Oscar winner Gene Hackman Darren	$1,200 [27] This "Virgin"-al entrepreneur has set a record for crossing the Atlantic by powerboat Richard Branson Darren	DD $1,200 [7] Aggressive gorillas figure in this Crichton thriller Congo Darren
$1,600 [5] Thiscountry legend was only 29 when he was pronounced dead on New Year's Day 1953 Hank Williams Darren	$2,000 [22] An expedition by this Brit famous for getting stuck in ice claimed the first reaching of the south magnetic pole in 1909 Shackleton Darren Daniel	$1,600 [12] Then in her 60s, she got her nickname in 1897 when she spoke out on behalf of railroad & coal mine unionists Mother Jones Daniel	$1,600 [17] You can buy a house out in this seat of New Jersey's Bergen County Hackensack Darren	$1,600 [26] Parthenogenesis, from the Greek for "virgin", is birth without male help in these reptiles, like the whiptail or racerunner lizards	$1,600 [8] This poetic "Anthology" from Edgar Lee Masters became a Broadway play in 1963 Spoon River Anthology Darren
$2,000 [11] This Motown legend met a tragic end April 1, 1984 when he was shot dead by his own father Marvin Gaye Daniel	DD $9,000 [21] Working for Russia, in 1696 the Cossack Vladimir Atlasov explored this peninsula the Kamchatka Peninsula Daniel	$2,000 [13] Unusual first name of the Jones who founded the English Classical School of Architecture Inigo Darren Daniel	$2,000 [18] It's Brit-speak for a carriage for hire a hackney Darren	$2,000 [25] Thesubjectof a divine apparition, she's been linked with the Aztec fertility goddess Tonantzin the Lady of Guadalupe (or the Virgin of Guadalupe) Daniel	$2,000 [9] Australian poet A.B. Paterson is known for this ballad about a guy from an icy stream The Man from Snowy River

Final Jeopardy!

SHIPS IN THE NEWS

In 2012 Nature magazine ran an obituary for this ship, which "died after a long struggle with bad publicity"

the Exxon Valdez

Mike "What is S.S. Minnow" — wagered $1,974

Daniel "What is the Concordia?" — wagered $1,400

Darren "What is the Google barge?" — wagered $2,400

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