Show #7124 2015-07-30 Regular

Some of Alex Trebek's audio was re-recorded when his voice recovered.

Contestants

Andy King — a high school principal originally from Chatham Center, New York

Amanda Bruchs — an attorney from Silver Spring, Maryland

Colby Potter — a policy analyst originally from Denver, Colorado (whose 1-day cash winnings total $200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Colby $2,200 $5,000 $4,200 $8,397
2nd place: $2,000
$4,200
15 R, 3 W
Amanda $-200 $-200 $4,500 $6,500
3rd place: $1,000
$7,000
10 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Andy $2,600 $3,000 $16,200 $20,200
New champion: $20,200
$17,400
24 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

WHAT'S YOUR NAME? POTPOURRI BATTLES IN THE WAR Y BEFORE E COMEDIC TV PARTNERS MEDICAL HISTORY
$200 [25]
Just excellent:____-dandy
Jim
Amanda
$200 [6]
Ernie is one of the spokeselves for this snack brand
Keebler
Colby
$200 [1]
Cowpens &Trenton
the Revolutionary War
Andy
$200 [20]
Take a look at this term describing a flight taking off at 1 in the morning
the red-eye
Andy
$200 [11]
Conan O'Brien
Andy Richter
Colby
$200 [26]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Dittrick Medical History Center in Cleveland, OH.) At one time a piece of cutting-edge technology, theatomizersprayed carbolic acid to provide this type of surgical environment, pioneered by Joseph Lister
antiseptic (sterile accepted)
Colby
$400 [12]
Salute this flag, you scurvy dogs:Jolly ____
Roger
Andy
$400 [7]
Around 1880 John Milne invented a horizontal pendulum type of this instrument that records tremors
a seismograph
Andy
$400 [2]
Goose Green &Darwin, in 1982
the Falkland War
Colby
$400 [21]
It's Russian for "no"
nyet
Colby
$400 [13]
Carrie Brownstein
Fred Armisen
Colby
$400 [30]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Dittrick Medical History Center in Cleveland, OH.) An earlier version of the Travenol used a Maytag washing machine as its tank--fitting, as it cleansed waste from a patient's blood, acting as an artificial one of these organs
a kidney
Colby
$600 [14]
Used to rub out dirty rats & squealers:____ gun
Tommy
Colby
$600 [8]
This king of Ancient Egypt's 19th dynasty was known for his extensive building programs
Ramses
Colby
$600 [3]
Las Guasimas &San Juan Hill
the Spanish-American War
Andy
$600 [22]
Big, hairy Himalayan creature of legend
yeti
Andy
$600 [17]
(Keegan-Michael) Key
Peele
Amanda
$600 [27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Dittrick Medical History Center in Cleveland, OH.)Itlooks more like an old-fashioned sewing machine, but it's actually a 1920 model of this device that records the electrical activity of the heart
EKG (electrocardiogram)
Andy
$800 [15]
Used to determine perpendicularity:Plumb ____
Bob
$800 [9]
This alphanumeric group got its start in 1902 with either the Tomato Club or the Corn Growing Club
4-H
Colby
$800 [4]
Balaklava &Sevastopol
the Crimean War
Amanda
$800 [23]
One is an affirmative vote in British Parliament & the other, in our Congress; we need both
aye & yea
Colby Amanda Andy
$800 [18]
(Dan) Rowan
(Dick) Martin
Andy
$800 [28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Dittrick Medical History Center in Cleveland, OH.) 19th-century doctors thought that the brain shrank & grew with use, leaving corresponding contours on the skull, which were read to determine a person's abilities and traits, using the3-Dbustas a reference guide in this pseudo-science
phrenology
$1,000 [16]
A popular tropical aquarium fish:Black ____
Molly
$1,000 [10]
In the early 1800s Sequoyah created a syllabary of this Native American language
Cherokee
Andy
$1,000 [5]
St. Albans &Towton(near York)
the Wars of the Roses
Colby Amanda
$1,000 [24]
Hot type of pepper named after a region of French Guiana
cayenne
Colby
$1,000 [19]
Cindy Williams, from 1976 to 1982
Penny Marshall
Andy
DD $2,000 [29]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Dittrick Medical History Center in Cleveland, OH.) Sometimes during surgery, the heart convulses, loses rhythm & stops pumping blood; Cleveland surgeon Claude Beck used cardiac massage & applied electrical current directly to the heart to reverse the phenomenon using this device; those techniques led him to develop CPR
a defibrillator
Andy

Double Jeopardy! Round

CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS MOTOWN WORLD OF BOOKS MAYORS SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER CALIFORNIA COUNTIES
$400 [1]
Henry VIII's break with Rome caused the formation of this
the Anglican Church
Andy
$400 [2]
The first American group to have 5 consecutive No. 1 hits was this one, beginning with "Where Did Our Love Go"
The Supremes
Andy
$400 [20]
Called the father of Roman literature, Livius Andronicus translated this Homeric travel tale into Latin
the Odyssey
Amanda
$400 [7]
Carolyn Goodman took a gamble & succeeded her husband Oscar Goodman as mayor of this city
Las Vegas
Colby
$400 [21]
It's fact, not "fiction" that this is the inner part of the tooth
the pulp
Andy
$400 [26]
Fruity county that's home to the Angels
Orange
Amanda
$800 [16]
Originating in the mid-16th century, their faith is based on the Bible & the Augsburg Confession of 1530
Lutheran
Amanda
$800 [3]
This Jackson 5 hit begins, "You and I must make a pact, we must bring salvation back"
"I'll Be There"
Andy
$800 [8]
4 Nobel Prize literature winners were born on the Emerald Isle: Yeats, Beckett, Heaney & this playwright
(George Bernard) Shaw
Colby
$800 [12]
(Alex Trebek reports from the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York.)Hewas mayor during the decade the National September 11th Memorial Museum was built; he also served as the host for its official May 2014 opening
Mayor Mike Bloomberg
Andy
$800 [22]
A medical facility, such as the Menninger
clinic
Andy
$800 [27]
Take your designated driver & sample this county's Chimney Rock & Rutherford Hill wineries
Napa
Amanda Andy
$1,600 [18]
These Egyptian Christians have their own alphabet, basically the Greek one but with extra letters like horee
the Coptics
Amanda
$1,200 [4]
"Twistin' Postman" was the Marvelettes' Top 40 follow-up to this No. 1 recording
"Please Mr. Postman"
Amanda
$1,200 [9]
John Bunyan began writing this 1678 work while in an English prison for preaching without a license
Pilgrim's Progress
Andy
$1,600 [14]
Last name of Mitch, mayor of New Orleans, & his sister Mary, former U.S. senator from Louisiana
Landrieu
Andy
$1,200 [23]
Growing up in a tough area gave me this 2-word urban awareness that helps me survive
street smarts
Andy
$1,200 [28]
The Golden Gate Bridge connects this affluent county with San Francisco to the south
Marin
Andy
$2,000 [19]
The Mennonites, who baptize adults rather than infants, are these, meaning "rebaptizers"
Anabaptists
Colby
$1,600 [5]
In this hit Stevie Wonder sang, "pretty little one that I adore, you're the only girl my heart beats for"
"My Cherie Amour"
Amanda
$1,600 [10]
"The Queen of Spades" was dealt by this great Alexander & later inspired an opera by Tchaikovsky
Alexander Pushkin
DD $2,000 [13]
Mayor Dave Bing had the unhappy task of announcing that this city had declared bankruptcy
Detroit, Michigan
Andy
$1,600 [24]
The act of maintaining a cemetery or a baseball diamond
groundskeeping
Andy
$1,600 [29]
This county shares its name with a 14,000-foot volcano "Mount" that's found nearby
Shasta
DD $2,500 [17]
This church gets its name from the Greek for "fiftieth"
Pentecostal
Amanda
$2,000 [6]
4-word title of the first chart topper for the Four Tops; it's also known as "Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch"
"I Can't Help Myself"
Andy
$2,000 [11]
Attributed to the sage Valmiki, this epic of India tells the story of an avatar of Vishnu & his many adventures
Ramayana
Colby Andy
$2,000 [15]
He went from being White House Chief of Staff to 55th mayor of Chicago
(Rahm) Emanuel
Amanda
$2,000 [25]
A magnesium silicate tobacco pipe
meerschaum
Colby
$2,000 [30]
Leapin' amphibians! It takes its name from the Spanish for "skulls"
Calaveras

Final Jeopardy!

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

This major league team's official colors are Sedona red, Sonoran sand & black

the Arizona Diamondbacks

Colby "Who are the AZ Diamondbacks?" — wagered $4,197
Amanda "Who are the Diamondbacks?" — wagered $2,000
Andy "Who are the Arizona Diamondbacks?" — wagered $4,000

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