Show #7145 2015-10-09 (taped 2015-09-02) Regular

Matt Jackson game 11.

Contestants

Elicia Woerle — an interior architectural design student from Los Angeles, California

Emily Rollman — an attorney from Shawneetown, Illinois

Matt Jackson — a paralegal from Washington, D.C. (whose 10-day cash winnings total $289,411)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Matt $1,600 $6,200 $35,000 $50,000
11-day champion: $339,411
$28,200
28 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Emily $400 $1,200 $-1,200 $-1,200
3rd place: $1,000
$-1,200
4 R, 3 W
Elicia $2,200 $2,400 $3,600 $3,600
2nd place: $2,000
$3,600
13 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME 17th CENTURY AMERICA BUILDING TERMS THOSE WERE THE DAYS VWLLSS WRLD CPTLS A LITTLE ALLITERATION
$200 [6]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta, GA.) Before his days as a Dallas Cowboy, this Fox NFL commentator made some waves as a Bruin hurlerfor UCLA
(Troy) Aikman
Elicia
$200 [11]
Puritan minister Alexander Whitaker baptized this Indian princess to Christianity around 1613
Pocahontas
Matt
$200 [1]
A deadlight is one of these, designed not to open
a skylight
Elicia
$400 [26]
In Old Norse it was Odinsdagr
Wednesday
Matt
$400 [19]
It lies at the foot of mount Trebevic:SRJV
Sarajevo
Elicia
$600 [22]
Gregory Keller, a Catholic priest, invented a machine to automate the process for making these Christmas sweets
candy canes
Matt
$400 [7]
Mississippi Valley State produced this inductee who would dance away with an NFL record 208 touchdowns
Jerry Rice
$400 [12]
In 1652 Massachusetts defied English law & established this facility to produce the pine tree shilling
the mint
Elicia
$400 [2]
As seen here, it's a small tower that rises up from acastle wall
a turret
Emily
$600 [20]
If it's Tuesday & you say it's Ziestag, you must be speaking old high this
German
Elicia
$600 [18]
It's connected by highway with DMSCS & BGHDD:BRT
Beirut
Matt
$800 [21]
Proceeds from the sales of these seasonal drinks helped buy the first Ronald McDonald house
Shamrock Shakes
Emily
$600 [8]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta, GA.) The runner-up for the Heisman in 1937 forhisplay at Colorado perhaps will seehisjudicial robes honored someday in the Supreme Courthall of fame
Byron "Whizzer" White
$600 [13]
In 1680 Boston mathematician Thomas Brattle observed the orbit of one of these celestial wanderers
a comet
Matt
$600 [3]
From their ruddy facades, it's the colorful name for Eastern U.S. apartment houses built in the 19th century
a brownstone
Elicia
$800 [25]
Old Frenchies speaking Old French knew it as juesdi
Thursday
Elicia
$800 [17]
It's a bilingual city:TTW
Ottawa
$1,000 [23]
A May 2010 stock market collapse was initially blamed on this alliterative kind of typo
fat finger
$800 [10]
2015 members of the Hall include Jim Tressel, longtime coach of this team that won it all with a new guy this year
the Ohio State Buckeyes
$800 [14]
The first European settlement in Texas, Ysleta was founded on the site of this present-day city on the Rio Grande
El Paso
Matt
$800 [4]
Because its supports are called balusters, an elaborate railing is called this
a balustrade
Elicia
$1,000 [24]
Saturday was Sabbatodags in this language that had Ostro- & Visi-dialects
Gothic
Matt
$1,000 [16]
It's on the Han River:SL
Seoul
Matt
$1,000 [9]
Halfback Jim Crowley made it by being part of the 1920s Irish quartet nicknamed this
the Four Horsemen
Matt
$1,000 [15]
This founder of Providence, Rhode Island published the first Native American language dictionary in 1643
(Roger) Williams
Matt
$1,000 [5]
A horizontal beam that supports weight above a door, it sometimes follows "post &"
lintel
Matt

Double Jeopardy! Round

WAR NOVELS AROUND THE VATICAN SHOW BIZ JOBS "HOUSE" OF REPRESENTATIVES SCIENTISTS
$400 [26]
In 1777 a young loyalist questions his duty in this Bernard Cornwell novel titled with a slang term for a British soldier
Redcoat
Matt
$400 [27]
The Vatican bank is unique in allowing ATM transactions to be conducted in this language
Latin
Elicia
$400 [22]
For "All About Eve", Darryl F. Zanuck; for "Rubber Soul", George Martin
producer
Matt Emily
$400 [28]
Confinement to your own home as legal punishment
house arrest
Emily
$400 [29]
There are 6 non-voting representatives in the house, including one from this self-governing commonwealth
Puerto Rico
Elicia
$800 [23]
(I'm Neil de Grasse Tyson.) One of my heroes is unquestionablythis17th century man who at various times in his life was a member of Parliament, Warden of the Royal Mint & Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge
(Sir Isaac) Newton
Matt
$800 [25]
"The Short-Timers" by Gustav Hasford follows a member of this military branch, from basic training to war in Vietnam
the Marines
Matt Elicia
$800 [24]
This room with a ceiling fresco is where the Cardinals vote for a new pope
the Sistine Chapel
Matt
$800 [21]
They drive vans, carry amps, tune drums & generally keep a rock tour going
roadies
Elicia
$800 [19]
It means an unstable construction, though 25-foot versions have been created
a house of cards
Matt
$800 [20]
You must be 30 to be a U.S. senator & this minimum age to be a member of the House of Representatives
25
Matt
$1,200 [1]
In 1885 young Joseph Meister was the first person on whom this man used his rabies vaccine
Pasteur
Elicia
$1,200 [2]
In James Salter's "The Hunters", set during this war, USAF pilots face off against Mi Gs above the Yalu River
the Korean War
Matt
$1,200 [16]
The Vatican compiled a list of some 4,000 works in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, or "Index of" these
prohibited books
Matt
$1,200 [14]
Joe Satriani is an axeman, meaning he does this
play guitar
Matt
$1,200 [17]
A get-to-know-me party given by someone who's just moved in
a housewarming
Matt
$1,200 [18]
The states with only one representative are Wyoming, Vermont, the Dakotas, Montana, Delaware & this state
Alaska
Elicia
$2,000 [5]
Engineer & architect Buckminster Fuller developed this type of dome that replaces the arch principle
geodesic
Matt
$2,000 [6]
This novel by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim tells the harrowing tale of a captain & his crew aboard a WWII German sub
Das Boot
Emily
$1,600 [15]
In 1506 Pope Julius II founded this Vatican military group
the Swiss Guard
Elicia
$1,600 [13]
A cutter is aka this shaper of a film or TV show
an editor
Emily
$1,600 [12]
The AMA says, "Physicians making" these "may sound like fabled history", but they have a place in medicine today
house visits
Matt
$1,600 [11]
The only Speaker of the House to become president was this Tennessee representative & 11th president
(James) Polk
Matt Elicia
DD $5,000 [4]
In 1877 Asaph Hall discovered its 2 moons, for which he won the Lalande Prize
Mars
Matt
DD $5,000 [3]
Paul Baumer is an idealistic enlistee until he sees the horrors of war firsthand in this 1929 novel
All Quiet on the Western Front
Matt
$2,000 [7]
Believed to have wiped the face of Jesus, a cloth called the veil of this woman has been put on display during festivals
(Saint) Veronica
Matt
$2,000 [8]
On a film set this "grip" operates most moving camera platforms
the dolly grip
Elicia
$2,000 [9]
This European songbird takes its name from its habit of building nests in the eaves of homes
the house martin
Emily
$2,000 [10]
Formed in 1995, it's a "canine" coalition of fiscally conservative Democrats in the house
the Blue Dog Democrats
Matt

Final Jeopardy!

VIDEO GAMES

As part of its 30th anniversary celebration in 2014, this video game used the slogan "We all fit together"

Tetris

Elicia "What is Tetris?" — wagered $0
Matt "What is Tetris" — wagered $15,000

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