Show #7121 2015-07-27 Regular

Scott Lord game 6.Alex Trebek's audio was re-recorded when his voice recovered.

Contestants

Luke McQuage — an engineer originally from Austin, Texas

Suzanne Vito — a writer from Albany, California

Scott Lord — a construction attorney from Santa Monica, California (whose 5-day cash winnings total $108,002)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Scott $2,600 $4,400 $8,000 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$8,000
14 R, 1 W
Suzanne $5,200 $10,000 $12,800 $9,500
New champion: $9,500
$12,800
23 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Luke $1,200 $2,000 $4,000 $7,900
2nd place: $2,000
$10,000
14 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

STATE OF THE ESTATE MY LITTLE PONY NAMES FOOD & DRINK TECH SAVVY BIOGRAPHIES IN B__W
$200 [16]
Hearst Castle
California
Suzanne
$200 [21]
Nickname of Charles Luciano
Lucky
Suzanne
$200 [6]
Served as appetizers, usually with a dip, crudites are raw these
vegetables
Scott
$200 [26]
If this happens to your cell phone, try leaving the frame & battery in uncooked rice
it getting wet
Luke
$200 [1]
He was the subject of a 2013 biography called "A Curious Man"; believe it or not
(Robert) Ripley
Luke
$200 [15]
It's the sweet treat seen here
a bear claw
Scott
$400 [11]
George Washington's Mount Vernon
Virginia
Suzanne
$400 [22]
A player who hits the ball very hard, or the Louisville bat he uses
Slugger
Scott
$400 [8]
One story of how this fruit drink got its pink version involves a circus vendor & a pair of red tights soaking in water
lemonade
Scott
$400 [27]
If you'd prefer your buddy's Facebook photos not I.D. you as his wingman, turn off this feature
tagging (or auto-tagging)
Suzanne
$400 [2]
This artist "and the Pope's Ceiling" tells the drama behind the making of a masterpiece
Michelangelo
Luke
$400 [17]
Familial relationship of Stanley Kowalski to Blanche DuBois
brother-in-law
Scott
$600 [7]
Theodore Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill
New York
Suzanne
$600 [23]
In a fairy tale, she breaks into a house & sleeps on some beds
Goldilocks
Scott
$600 [12]
In this 2004 film Miles & Jack sip Pinot noir & wander the California wine country
Sideways
Suzanne
$600 [28]
This word also meaning "an equal" is the P in P2P file sharing
peer
Suzanne
$600 [3]
Chris Matthews chronicled the relationship between a Speaker of the House & Pres. Reagan in him "and the Gipper"
Tip O'Neill
Luke
$600 [18]
It's the architectural feature of the room seen here
bay window
Scott Luke
$800 [9]
Built by Alfred I. DuPont, Nemours Mansion
Delaware
Scott
$800 [24]
Sea creature that adheres firmly to rocks & to the bottom of ships
Barnacle
Suzanne
$800 [13]
By definition, in Italy it's what is served in a gelateria
ice cream (gelato accepted)
Suzanne
$800 [29]
National Park fans will know that Apple's 2015 operating system is known as "OS X" this
Yosemite
Suzanne
$800 [4]
"The Secret History of" this comics heroine is a bio of her creator William Marston, inventor of the lie detector
Wonder Woman
Suzanne
$800 [19]
To confer upon, as a gift
bestow
Suzanne
$1,000 [10]
The Vanderbilts' summer "cottage", The Breakers
Rhode Island
Scott
$1,000 [25]
Spinal Tap had several of these; one spontaneously combusted
Drummer
Scott
$1,000 [14]
During Hoover's 1928 presidential campaign, the Republicans promised one of these offerings
a chicken in every pot
Suzanne
$1,000 [30]
It can mean to parody in a goofy way, or to deceptively send an email from someone else's address
spoof
Suzanne
DD $1,000 [5]
A biography of this nobleman goes beyond the boxing rules he devised & his accusations against Oscar Wilde
the Marquess of Queensberry
Suzanne
$1,000 [20]
As a noun, it's a surge of the sea; as a verb it means to puff out
billow

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR COMPOUND WORDS GERMAN LIT GEOGRAPHER'S "D"ICTIONARY POP MUSIC IN COLOR
$400 [1]
The Templars were formed in this city around 1120 to protect pilgrims left defenseless after crusaders went home
Jerusalem
Suzanne
$400 [11]
On social media the abbreviation TBT means it's this kind of Thursday
throwback Thursday
Scott
$400 [16]
A 13th century Gottfried von Strassburg story retells a Celtic tale of the doomed lovers Tristan & her
Isolde
Suzanne
$400 [26]
To find this figure for Trebekistan, divide the population by the area
density
Suzanne Luke
$400 [2]
This first No. 1 hit by ABBA says "Young and sweet, only 17"
"Dancing Queen"
Scott
$400 [21]
Ignored for almost 150 years, this U.S. military award was reintroduced on February 22, 1932
the Purple Heart
Luke
$800 [3]
In the 1140s this was added to the Knights' white mantle as a symbol of Christian martyrdom
a (red) cross
Luke
$800 [12]
Chris Christie gave this kind of address at the 2012 Republican National Convention
keynote
Scott
$800 [17]
He was original in extolling "The Sorrows of Young Werther", a novel in the form of letters, in 1774
Goethe
Scott
$800 [30]
Down, down into this type of area in an ocean, like the 5,900-fathom Emden one near the Philippines
the deep
$800 [6]
"Everything Has Changed" is by Taylor Swift & this redheaded Brit
Ed Sheeran
Luke
$800 [22]
The Bible's "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them" is known as this
the Golden Rule
Luke
$1,200 [4]
Like an expert in chess, the highest authority in the Templars was called this; Jacques de Molay was the last
a Grand Master
Scott
$1,200 [13]
Dale Evans' horse was named this, like a dairy drink
Buttermilk
Suzanne Luke
$1,200 [18]
Oskar Matzerath is the musician who never grew up in this 1959 Gunter Grass book
The Tin Drum
Suzanne
$1,200 [29]
Yes, Chip, this term is used is used mainly in Northern England for a broad open valley
a dale
Suzanne
$1,200 [8]
Cat on "Sam & Cat", she had a Top 5 hit in 2014 with "Break Free"
Ariana Grande
Suzanne
$1,200 [23]
This animal was once thought to bear the Devil's mark in its wool, which is perhaps why it came to symbolize disgrace
the black sheep
Suzanne
$1,600 [5]
The Templars helped out 12th c. King Alfonso I against these invaders & he bequeathed them Aragon
the Moors
Suzanne
$1,600 [14]
Eisenhower said, "The search for" this animal of blame "is the easiest of all hunting expeditions"
a scapegoat
Luke
$1,600 [19]
We bring in 'da noise, we bring in 'da Cornelia Funke, whose novels include this"heart" & this"spell"
inkheart & inkspell
Suzanne
$2,000 [27]
Natural process by which arid lands become even less fertile; it happens a lot in Africa
desertification
Suzanne Luke
$1,600 [9]
In 1994 this trio had its second No. 1 album, "Ill Communication"
the Beastie Boys
Luke
$1,600 [24]
Notorious name of a herbicide mixture of 2,4-D & 2,4,5-T, used in Vietnam
Agent Orange
Luke
$2,000 [7]
After the fall of Acre in 1291, the Knights Templar moved their headquarters to this large island west of Syria
Cyprus
Luke
$2,000 [15]
Poet William Carlos Williams wrote that "so much depends on a red" one of these conveyances
a wheelbarrow
Suzanne
$2,000 [20]
1815 is the estimated time of arrival of "The Devil's Elixer" by this author
E.T.A. Hoffmann
Luke
DD $3,000 [28]
1/360th of the Earth's circumference
a degree
Luke
$2,000 [10]
Will you remember this Canadian woman who sang "I Will Remember You"
Sarah McLachlan
Suzanne
DD $3,000 [25]
These, now meaning "Credit for deeds done", may have come from a measure of young Girl Scouts' achievements
brownie points
Luke

Final Jeopardy!

CLASSICAL MUSIC

The first movement of the 1888 suite named for her is titled "The Sea and Sindbad's Ship"

Scheherazade

Luke "Who is Scheherezade?" — wagered $3,900
Scott "Who was Scherazade?" — wagered $8,000
Suzanne "Who is Circe?" — wagered $3,300

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