Show #7165 2015-11-06 (taped 2015-09-16) Regular

WE ASKED: TV creator Vince Gilligan.

Contestants

Sadie Iverson — a graduate student from Ventura, California

Laura Ashby — an attorney from Marietta, Georgia

Mike Barrett — a cashier and writer from Medford, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,801)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Mike	$400	$1,600	$9,200	$15,801 2nd place: $2,000	$11,000 17 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Laura	$400	$2,800	$15,800	$18,401 New champion: $18,401	$14,800 18 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Sadie	$1,800	$2,600	$2,400	$4,800 3rd place: $1,000	$7,400 9 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK	ONE DIRECTION	IN SINK	BIG TIME RUSH	NEW EDITION	"BOY" BANDS
$200 [11] In 2013, Anthony Foxxgot this job in Obama's cabinet Secretary of Transportation	$200 [6] It's the one compass direction you can go from 90 degrees north latitude south Mike	$200 [13] Many thought John Hammes was a madman when he created the In Sink Erator, one of the first of these garbage disposal Sadie	$200 [18] In 1858 a discovery along the Fraser River in British Columbia led to a gold rush in this country Canada Mike	$200 [20] A "Definitive Edition" of her diary includes previously unknown entries that were discovered in 1998 Anne Frank Laura	$200 [1] The 2015 Brian Wilson biopic "Love & Mercy" depicts the making of this group's "Pet Sounds" The Beach Boys Mike
$400 [12] New kid name on the block:For 2013 this boat builder became the top U.S. baby boy name Noah Laura	$400 [7] It precedes "state" in a word for the direction from Chicago to Carbondale down Mike	$400 [14] Irwin Cox answered a distress call when he invented this brand of steel-wool pads, found in kitchen sinks since 1917 S.O.S. Mike	$400 [19] An oil boom using modern techniques in this prairie state has made it second in crude production in the U.S. behind Texas North Dakota Mike Laura	$400 [21] Christopher Buckley wrote the introduction for the 50th anniversary edition of this Joseph Heller novel Catch-22 Laura	$400 [2] In 1994 this group had back-II-back No. 1z with "I'll Make Love To You" & "On Bended Knee" Boyz II Men Mike
$600 [27] Ms. de Laurentiis is a new kid on the Las Vegas Strip with her first restaurant, simply called this name Giada Laura	$600 [8] Direction from St. Louis to Dallas, or airline that will take you on the trip southwest Mike	$600 [15] To the joy of dish washers, in 1960 DuPont introduced cookware coated with the nonstick polymer known by this trade name Teflon Sadie	$1,000 [28] Discovery of the "Eureka" diamond began the 1870s rush to this South African mining town bearing a feminine name the Kimberley diamond mine	$600 [22] Color photos of the title pond & woods were part of the 150th anniversary edition of this work by Thoreau Walden Mike	$600 [3] This British duo revived the career of Dusty Springfield when she joined them on "What Have I Done To Deserve This?" the Pet Shop Boys
$800 [26] In 2015 this African-American journalist became the anchor of the "NBC Nightly News" (Lester) Holt Laura	$800 [9] Direction on a map from Iran to Iraq, or proverbial direction to find the indie stations on the radio dial left Sadie	$800 [16] This cleanser with a star on its label was introduced as a gentler alternative to Ajax Comet Sadie	—	$800 [23] This scary book about 11-year-old Regan, who's possessed by a demon, was reincarnated for a 2011 edition The Exorcist Mike	$800 [4] When is a "boy" band not a boy band? We nominate this country group with the name of a Tennessee atomic research city the Oak Ridge Boys Sadie
$1,000 [25] In 2015 Christian Thielemann got the new job of music director at this festival, a shrine to Wagner the Bayreuth Festival	DD $1,800 [10] Willem Barents sailed in this direction from Amsterdam to the Barents Sea; he was looking for this passage Northeast Mike	$1,000 [17] Food residue in the enameled cast-iron cookware from this brand whose name is French for "cauldron"; it's okay to let it soak Le Creuset Mike	—	$1,000 [24] To celebrate this red-haired girl's 75th birthday, a 2014 edition of her kids' book included a pop-up panorama of Paris Madeline Mike	$1,000 [5] When is a "boy" band totally a boy band? We nominate this group who wanted us to "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)", baby the Backstreet Boys Sadie

Double Jeopardy! Round

WONDER WOMEN	EUROPEAN LANDMARKS	"UV" PROTECTION	THE FIRST 10 BIBLE BOOKS	GEMS & JEWELRY	A REAL CHARACTER
$400 [7] For her thesis, she wondered if elements other than uranium exhibited radioactivity; that won her a Nobel Marie Curie Mike	$400 [21] After his victory at Austerlitz in 1805, Napoleon began building this structure to honor the French army the Arc de Triomphe Laura	$400 [16] We always hear about this French word preceding "riche", but it also is found in front of "pauvre" for a newly poor person nouveau Laura	$400 [2] Referring to a line of charismatic leaders of Israel, it's the only book title in the first 10 that's an occupation Judges Laura	$400 [26] This clothing term refers to inexpensive mass-produced jewelry costume jewelry Mike Sadie	$400 [1] Here's Snoopy as a World War I flying ace in the new "Peanuts" movie, still pursuing this nemesis--"Curse you!" the Red Baron Laura
$800 [8] She asked Annie Sullivan, "What is love?" & wondered, "Is love the sweetness of flowers?" Helen Keller Sadie	$800 [22] This London landmark stands on the site of an old Benedictine monastery Westminster Abbey Laura	$800 [17] Infantile or immature juvenile Mike	$800 [3] This book of the Pentateuch has a Latin name & is mostly concerned with priests & their duties Leviticus Mike Laura	$1,600 [28] (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a dock on Rangiroa Atoll.) To cultureblack pearls, an irritant is inserted into a black-lipped oyster, & during the next two years, thousands of layers of this substance build over the irritant nacre Mike	$800 [12] Michelle Pfeiffer & Halle Berry have both played this transformed character with heightened powers Catwoman Laura
$1,200 [9] Paula Cole wondered, "Where is my John Wayne?" in the song that asks, "Where Have All" these "Gone?" the cowboys Laura	$1,200 [23] The Sagrada Familia built by Catalan architect Antonio Gaudi is this Spanish city's top tourist attraction Barcelona	$1,200 [20] A quilt comforter, from the French for "down" duvet Laura	$1,200 [4] "Now after the death of Moses", begins this, the first Bible book called by a man's name Joshua Mike	DD $5,000 [27] This blue-green variety of beryl is routinely heated to make it bluer by removing the yellow color aquamarine Sadie	$1,200 [13] (Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad, delivers the clue.) I said, "No matter what nuclear holocaust or plague may occur, this Bob Odenkirk character will "wind up scurrying out into the sunlight after everybody else is gone" Saul Goodman Mike
$1,600 [10] From her window Juliet asks, "O Romeo, Romeo!" this question "Wherefore art thou, Romeo?" Laura	$1,600 [24] 165 billion times actual size, the Atomiumin Brussels represents this type of solid made up of nine iron atoms a crystal	$1,600 [19] Babs could tell you this fleshy cone at the back of the throat keeps food from entering the nasal passages the uvula Mike	$1,600 [5] The Book of Numbers is this number book in the Bible the 4th	—	$1,600 [14] In the cartoon "Deduce, You Say", this character plays Dorlock Homes to Porky's Watkins Daffy Duck Sadie
$2,000 [11] Why should women wear corsets? This French designer said, "Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury" Coco Chanel	DD $3,000 [25] Zeitglockenturm means this kind of tower; one in Bern features a rooster, marching bears, a jester & a gilded knight a clock tower Laura	$2,000 [18] This "plain" is a level surface formed of sediments laid down by running water alluvial Mike	$2,000 [6] The ninth & tenth books are First & Second him Samuel Sadie	—	$2,000 [15] This boy, voiced by John Morris, owns most of the "Toy Story" toys Andy Laura

Final Jeopardy!

CHILDREN'S LIT

As she arrived at the house of her new employer, "the wind seemed to catch her up into the air and fling her" at the door

Mary Poppins

Sadie "Who is Mary Poppins?." — wagered $2,400

Mike "Who is Mary Poppins?" — wagered $6,601

Laura "Who is Mary Poppins?" — wagered $2,601

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