Show #7148 2015-10-14 (taped 2015-09-08) Regular

Matt Jackson game 14.

Contestants

Sally Hatfield — an English as a second language instructor originally from Lakeview, Michigan

Michael Baker — a travel media editor from New York, New York

Matt Jackson — a paralegal from Washington, D.C. (whose 13-day cash winnings total $411,612)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Matt $4,800 $4,400 $17,800 $399
2nd place: $2,000
$13,800
19 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Michael $1,600 $4,800 $17,600 $15,201
New champion: $15,201
$14,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Sally $1,200 $2,800 $7,600 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$7,600
10 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

I WANT CANDY! NAME THE CAPITAL RELIGIOUS LEADERS 2-LETTER WORDS THAT BEGIN WITH "A" MOVIE TAGLINES DC-3
$200 [9]
Invented in 1948, the first dispenser for this candy resembled a lighter, to encourage people to quit smoking
Pez
Michael
$200 [10]
Colombia
Bogotá
Michael
$200 [4]
An GeL Ministries is an organization founded by Anne G. Lotz, daughter of this evangelist & his wife Ruth
Billy Graham
Sally
$200 [19]
This symbol:@
at
Michael
$200 [20]
Him "Forever After":"It ain't ogre... til it's ogre"
Shrek
Michael
$200 [3]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta, GA.) The DC-3 cruised at just 10,000 feet so passengers could enjoy air vents & large rectangular windows because this conditioning of the cabin for high altitudes wasn't needed
pressurization (pressure accepted)
Michael Sally
$400 [15]
These "tiny, tangy crunchy" candies from Wonka have a geeky name
Nerds
Michael
$400 [11]
Taiwan
Taipei
Matt
$400 [5]
His daughter Fatimah married his cousin Ali, who is considered by Shiites to be the first imam
Muhammad
Sally
$400 [25]
A TV commercial
ad
Sally
$400 [21]
A 1998 remake:"Check in. Unpack. Relax. Take a shower"
Psycho
Matt
$400 [30]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta, GA.) The AM 24 on the fuselage commemorates Delta's early days, when the company flew Route 24from Fort Worth, Texas to Charleston, South Carolina to deliver this
air mail
Sally
$600 [16]
The streetlights in the town of Hershey are shaped like these candies that were introduced in 1907
kisses
Michael
$600 [12]
Serbia
Belgrade
Matt Sally
$600 [6]
Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople, is based in this city as leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church
Istanbul
Matt
$600 [26]
One of your 6-pack if you're in shape like me
ab
Sally
$600 [22]
"The dream is real" (& made around $800 million in 2010)
Inception
Michael
$600 [1]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta, GA.) The first really successful airliner, the DC-3 revolutionized air travel; the name signified the third commercial design from this company that would later merge with McDonnell Aircraft
Douglas
Matt
$800 [17]
It calls itself the "crispety, crunchety" candy bar
Butterfinger
Michael
$800 [13]
Bangladesh
Dhaka
Matt
$800 [7]
In Palmyra, N.Y. you can visit a reconstructed log cabin on his family's farm, where they settled around 1818
Joseph Smith
Matt
$800 [27]
French term meaning "with the"
au
Matt
$800 [23]
From 1980:"They'll never get caught. They're on a mission from God"
Blues Brothers
Michael
DD $1,000 [2]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta, GA.) In-flight service included cookies & a choice of coffee, tea, or this beverage that was appropriately used to christen Delta's first DC-3, the City of Atlanta
Coca-Cola
Matt
$1,000 [18]
This British chocolatier makes a dairy milk bar as well as a milk tray
Cadbury
Sally
$1,000 [14]
Azerbaijan
Baku
Michael
$1,000 [8]
A Tibetan monk named Gedun Drupa, who lived from 1391 to 1474, was the first in this series now in its 14th incarnation
the Dalai Lama
Sally
$1,000 [28]
Slow-moving Brazilian animal
ai
Matt
$1,000 [24]
Based on a TV show & starring Liam Neeson:"There is no plan B"
The A-Team
$1,000 [29]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta, GA.) Ship 41 rolled off the assembly line on December 23, 1940, so each carries a copy of that date's issue of this picture magazine; stories included the bombing of Coventry & the discovery of Lana Turner in a malt shop
Life
Matt

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION THE ROARING 1820s READING BY THE NUMBERS BUILDING THE COMPOUND WORD A "RUN" OF TOP 40 HITS CURSES
$400 [20]
The Emergency Operations Center, the CDC's control room for threats including quakes & anthrax, dates to Sept. of this year
2001
Matt
$400 [13]
In 1824 this 15-year-old blind student developed his raised dot reading system
(Louis) Braille
Matt
$400 [1]
In this sci-fi novel Guy Montag is a "fireman" with a burning desire to read
Fahrenheit 451
Matt
$400 [7]
Supporting rods in a bicycle wheel +any human =one who makes a statement for another
spokesperson
Matt
$1,200 [2]
Alt-rocker Ryan Adams doesn't like being mixed up with Bryan Adams, but has performed this hit of Bryan's in concert
"Run To You"
$1,200 [9]
After this actor's 1955 death driving his silver Porsche Spyder, parts of the car brought disaster to the owners
James Dean
Sally
$1,200 [5]
In 1977 CDC detectives tracked the source of this new fatal pneumonia that infected victims at a Phila. convention
Legionnaires' disease
Michael
$800 [14]
It wasn't "15 years on" the construction of this U.S. waterway--it was 8, ending in 1825
the Erie Canal
Matt
$800 [10]
Pooh on you if you don't know that "Now We Are Six" is a book of light verse by this author
A.A. Milne
Matt
$1,600 [23]
Short & abrupt +lawsuit =carrier for papers
briefcase
Sally
$1,600 [3]
"This here's a story about Billy Joe & Bobbie Sue"; really, this here's a clue about this song by the Steve Miller Band
"Take The Money And Run"
Matt
$2,000 [24]
Heis said to have cursed the Romanovs before he died; within 19 months, they were dead
Rasputin
Matt
$1,600 [6]
CDC researchers hit mosquitos with insecticide to test for this trait that makes antibiotics less effective on certain germs
resistance
$1,200 [15]
He became dictator of Peru in 1824
Simón Bolívar
$1,200 [11]
"Four Blind Mice" by this man is an Alex Cross thriller about a series of murders with strange links to the Vietnam War
(James) Patterson
Michael
$2,000 [22]
Ordinary +abundance of money =what Massachusetts officially is
commonwealth
Michael
$2,000 [4]
In 1993 Soul Asylum "bought a ticket for" this title transport, "like a madman laughin' at the rain"
"Runaway Train"
DD $4,400 [19]
This president broke Tecumseh's Curse, in which presidents elected every 20th year, beginning in 1840, died in office
Ronald Reagan
Michael
$2,000 [18]
In a response to a 2012 outbreak, the CDC in 2 days developed a new test for this fungal disease of the spine
meningitis
Michael
$1,600 [16]
In 1824 he got 30.9% of the popular vote for president, defeating Andrew Jackson, who got 41.3%--wait, what?!
John Quincy Adams
Matt
$1,600 [12]
1408 is a haunted room at NYC's Dolphin Hotel in a tale by this man
Stephen King
DD $5,000 [8]
Time teller +sagacious =a direction
clockwise
Matt
$2,000 [17]
In 1822 freed American slaves first settled in what's now this world capital at Cape Mesurado
Monrovia
Michael
$2,000 [21]
In a 1915 novel "it must be some place where there were several staircases, and one marked out from the others by having" this title
The 39 Steps
Sally

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. LANDMARKS

For its 50th anniversary in 2012, the roof of this landmark was temporarily repainted its original color, Galaxy Gold

the Space Needle (in Seattle)

Sally "What is Cape Canavereaal?" — wagered $7,600
Michael "What is Dodger stadium" — wagered $2,399
Matt "What is the Kennedy Center" — wagered $17,401

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