Show #7091 2015-06-15 Regular

Brennan Bushee game 1.

Contestants

Brennan Bushee — an operations analyst from Malden, Massachusetts

Amy Merrick — a university instructor from Chicago, Illinois

Darren Harris-Fain — an English professor from Prattville, Alabama (whose 3-day cash winnings total $63,000)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Darren	$1,200	$4,200	$13,000	$25,500 3rd place: $1,000	$10,800 16 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Amy	$2,400	$3,200	$13,600	$26,001 2nd place: $2,000	$13,600 13 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Brennan	$3,800	$8,600	$19,000	$27,201 New champion: $27,201	$19,000 25 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

A VISIT WITH KATIE COURIC	3-LETTER WORDS	THEY DON'T MAKE THESE CARS ANYMORE	LUCKY 13	NOVELS BY COUPLE	NEW MUSICAL SUPERGROUPS
$200 [12] (Katie Couric delivers the clue.) The world's richest couple, Bill & Melinda Gates, told me that one way to deal with global income inequality was to practice this, from the Greek for "love mankind" philanthropy Darren	$200 [1] In this informal session, musicians gather to play improvised music jam Amy	$200 [11] After 2013 its Altima Coupe got the coup de grace Nissan Amy	$200 [20] In April 1970, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert & Jim Lovell embarked on this mission Apollo 13 Brennan	$200 [13] Elizabeth Bennet &Mr. Darcy (the novel that started it all) Pride and Prejudice Brennan	$200 [6] The Blue Oyster Peas Blue Öyster Cult & The Black Eyed Peas Brennan
$400 [24] (Katie Couric delivers the clue.) In January 2015 my associates at Yahoo! & I delivered real time analysis of this presidential speech that's mandated by Article II of the Constitution the State of the Union address Brennan	$400 [2] It's the egg of a louse; add "wit" to it & you get a stupid person a nit Brennan	$400 [14] Its H2 went to an oversize grave Hummer Amy	$400 [21] There were 13 original colonies, of course, including this last one alphabetically Virginia Darren	$400 [15] Tom &Daisy Buchanan The Great Gatsby Darren	$400 [7] Rage Against the Direction Rage Against the Machine & One Direction Brennan
$600 [28] (Katie Couric delivers the clue.) When we talked about her dissenting opinion in the Hobby Lobby case, sheagreed that some male justices have a blind eye when it comes to women's issues (Ruth Bader) Ginsburg Darren	$600 [3] This popular music of Jamaica originated in the 1950s & has elements of R&B, jazz & calypso ska Darren	$600 [19] Apparently, people wouldn't really rather have its Skylark Buick Darren	$600 [22] When England, New Zealand or Fiji fields a team in the league version of this sport, it has 13 players rugby Brennan	$600 [16] Wesley &Buttercup The Princess Bride Darren	$600 [8] Radio Kast Radiohead & OutKast Brennan
$800 [29] (Katie Couric delivers the clue.) Prior to the 2004 Olympics, I conducted a fascinating interview with King Constantine II, the exiled ruler of this country who was back home to watch the games Greece Brennan	$800 [4] As a noun, it's something you chew; as a verb, it means to chew without teeth gum Amy	$800 [25] Its Avalanche went under Chevy Brennan	$800 [23] In Wicca, these basic groupings of members ideally have 13 participants a coven Amy	$1,000 [18] Charles &the former Emma Roulault, in an 1857 novel Madame Bovary Brennan	$800 [9] Maroon Blind Maroon 5 & Third Eye Blind Amy
$1,000 [30] (Katie Couric delivers the clue.) In 2008 I was honored to accept this journalism award named for this legend whose life was recounted in the film "Good Night, and Good Luck" Edward R. Murrow Brennan	$1,000 [5] It's a baglike structure in an animal or plant, sometimes filled with fluid a sac Brennan	$1,000 [26] Its TSX is an ex-model; the TLX is the next thing Acura Brennan	$1,000 [27] The apparitions of the Virgin in this town in 1917 were said to occur on the 13th of each month for 6 months Fátima Darren Brennan	DD $1,800 [17] Hazel Grace &Augustus Waters The Fault in Our Stars Darren	$1,000 [10] Linkin Stripes Linkin Park & The White Stripes Brennan

Double Jeopardy! Round

STATE AMPHIBIANS & REPTILES	LIVES OF THE SCIENTISTS	MOVIE TITLE POSSESIVES	THIS AMERICAN STRIFE	A PLACE TO STAY	3 "HOT"s & 2 "COT"s
$400 [26] Almost hunted to extinction but now upgraded to threatened, the alligator became its state reptile in 1987 Florida Brennan	$400 [3] He tipped his scale in 1848, setting absolute zero at a brisk -460 degrees Fahrenheit Kelvin Darren	$400 [2] Paul Lynde voiced Templeton the rat in this 1973 animated film based on an E.B. White book Charlotte's Web Brennan	$400 [14] More than half of the 400,000 people in this city lost their homes shortly after an event on April 18, 1906 San Francisco Brennan	$400 [12] Generally, prisons are run by the state or feds & hold felons; these are local lockups for misdemeanants jails Darren	$400 [1] Tender plants & flowers are cultivated in one a hothouse Darren
$800 [27] The resolution making this largest North American frog Oklahoma's state amphibian says it makes a "jug-o-rum" sound the bullfrog	$800 [8] This Russian physiologist went to the dogs & termed salivation the "unconditioned reflex" (Ivan) Pavlov Amy	$1,200 [5] A failed hit on Irish crime boss Albert Finney leads to an all-out mob war in this 1990 Coen Brothers film Miller's Crossing	$800 [15] One who supported George III against the American revolutionaries was called this; get the tar & feathers Tories (or Loyalists) Darren	$800 [22] This service lets you "rent unique places to stay from local hosts in 190+ countries" Airbnb Brennan	$800 [13] Proverbial food item you want no part of & get rid of quickly a hot potato Brennan
$1,200 [28] New Hampshire elevated the red-spotted newt to publicize its declining numbers due to this type of precipitation acid rain Amy	$1,200 [9] The dad of this physicist was professor of physiology at the U. of Copenhagen & his bro, a big-time mathematician (Niels) Bohr Brennan	$1,600 [6] "Hired killers by day... lovers by night. Until they found their next assignment was each other" was this film's tagline Prizzi's Honor	$1,200 [19] Here is this segregationist governor on June 11, 1963, defying federal Justice Department orders at the University of Alabama (George) Wallace Brennan	$1,200 [23] MHP stands for this typeof community a mobile home park Darren	$1,200 [16] It's the old gag of putting a lighted match in someone's shoe a hot foot Amy
$1,600 [29] Shh... What was that? The timber species of this snake, West Virginia's state reptile rattlesnake Brennan	$1,600 [10] It's a chemist, Charlie Brown! In 1931 this American published his classic text "The Nature of the Chemical Bond" Linus Pauling Amy	DD $2,000 [4] This 1993 film set during WWII was nominated for 12 Oscars Schindler's List Darren	$1,600 [20] On Dec. 2, 1954 this Wisconsin man was condemned in a 67-22 vote for conduct "contrary to Senate traditions" Joe McCarthy Amy	$1,600 [24] Around 1900 the organization Volunteers of America pioneered these houses for those leaving incarceration halfway houses Brennan	$1,600 [17] If you've done this fabric "to" someone, you've come to gradually like him take a cotton to Darren
$2,000 [30] This turtle, the state reptile of New York, is said to have "jaws that can cut through flesh like butter" a snapping turtle Brennan	DD $2,000 [11] From 1947 to 1952 he was chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission Robert Oppenheimer Amy	$2,000 [7] 15 is middle-aged in this 1976 Michael York sci-fi flick; folks turning 30 don't turn 31 Logan's Run	$2,000 [21] On Jan. 22, 1944 the U.S. Fifth Army charged ashore at this Italian town, taking the Axis by surprise Anzio	$2,000 [25] Mi amigo, some hotels in Mexico & the Southwest offer these comfy cottages, Spanish for "little houses" casitas Amy	$2,000 [18] Thishilly region in the Midlands is one of the most peaceful &picturesqueareas of England the Cotswolds Darren

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY POETRY

He rhymed the title character of one of his best-known poems with "drew on", "threw on" & "ruin"

Lord Byron

Darren "Who is Lord Byron?" — wagered $12,500

Amy "Whoaris Lord Byron" — wagered $12,401

Brennan "Who is Lord Byron?" — wagered $8,201

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