Show #7181 2015-11-30 Regular

Contestants

Joyce Hshieh — an actress and writer from Chicago, Illinois

Elaine Baker — a home health caregiver from Garland, Texas

Rob Russell — a tutoring and testing director from Johnson City, Tennessee (whose 2-day cash winnings total $43,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Rob $-200 $1,800 $3,000 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$5,000
11 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Elaine $600 $2,900 $4,100 $3,399
2nd place: $2,000
$4,400
13 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Joyce $1,000 $2,800 $4,800 $8,201
New champion: $8,201
$6,800
15 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

NEW TOURIST SLOGANS FOR ISLANDS? PHOTOGRAPHY THAT ONE SONG MIDDLE "D" THE J. GUYS BAND KIDNAPPING
$200 [18]
"90 miles south of Key West, 90 trillion miles to the left of America"
Cuba
Elaine
$200 [11]
Flash photography can help in detecting retinoblastoma, a childhood cancer of this organ
the eye
Elaine
$200 [1]
"...Baby One More Time" was her first single
Britney Spears
Rob
$200 [3]
Only China has more people than this country
India
Elaine
$200 [9]
This J. man/G-Man was named acting director of what was then the Bureau of Investigation in 1924
J. Edgar Hoover
Elaine
$400 [23]
An heir to this Rocky Mountain brewing family was kidnapped in 1960
Coors
Joyce
$400 [19]
About 1/2 mile north of Liberty Island: "Come see where the Smazedkiewiczes became the Smiths"
Ellis Island
Rob
DD $300 [16]
There's a camera part in this brand that turns a smartphoneful of vacation photos into a keepsake book
Shutterfly
Elaine
$400 [2]
Queen gave us "Another One" does this
Bites The Dust
Elaine
$400 [4]
It's the sea creature seen here
a swordfish
Joyce
$400 [10]
The 150 years of ads from the J. Walter Thompson agency includeadsfor Lifebuoy, this type of home product
(a bar of) soap
Elaine Joyce
$600 [24]
In 1973 this oilman & founder of an L.A. art museum paid $2.2 million to get back a grandson--the most he could take off hs taxes
(Jean Paul) Getty
Rob
$600 [20]
"Come for the 250-mile swim across Mozambique channel--then stay for the lemurs"
Madagascar
Joyce
$400 [12]
In 1975, Steve Sasson created the world's firstdigital camerafor this Rochester, New York company
Kodak
Joyce
$600 [6]
"One Of These Nights" is on their "Greatest Hits"
the Eagles
Rob Elaine
$600 [5]
Traditional anti-moth advice is to keep clothing & blankets in a chest lined with this wood
cedar
Joyce
$800 [25]
The full title of this Solomon Northup memoir includes "Rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation... in Louisiana
12 Years a Slave
Joyce
$800 [21]
"The U.K. lost its 99-year lease on us! Opened under new management in 1997!"
Hong Kong
Elaine
$600 [15]
Paul Goresh took the last known photo of this rock star on Dec. 8, 1980 as he was signing his "Double Fantasy" album
John Lennon
Elaine
$800 [7]
1994 Top 10 hit for Melissa Etheridge
"I'm the Only One"
$800 [13]
Shelley wrote one "to the West Wind"
an ode
Elaine
$1,000 [26]
In the 3rd century Balbinus & Pupienus, joint emperors of Rome, were kidnapped & killed by this royal guard
the Praetorian Guard
Rob
$1,000 [22]
"See Mount Etna & feel the heat"
Sicily
Elaine
$1,000 [17]
Using his iPhone, Robert Clark created a visual diary of the West Bank for a 2013 issue of this magazine
National Geographic
$1,000 [8]
Pink sang "Blow Me" this
One Last Kiss
Rob Elaine Joyce
$1,000 [14]
Athens school founded by Plato
the Academy
Joyce

Double Jeopardy! Round

KID, NAPPING MOVIE ROMANCES PHYSICISTS WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME 2 FOR THE LITERARY TAKING THE NATIONAL STATUARY HALL COLLECTION
$400 [1]
Toulouse-Lautrec painted a different kind of nightlife in "The Bed", now seen at this city's Orsay Museum
Paris
Joyce
$400 [16]
Never has molding clay been more passionate than when Patrick Swayze & Demi Moore got dirty in this film
Ghost
Joyce
$400 [2]
Einstein wrote a book on this because "if I do not, the theory will not be understood, simple though it is"
the theory of relativity
Joyce
$400 [21]
A female deer & a sneaker
doe & shoe
Joyce
$400 [7]
Valentine & Proteus are the pair of fellows in this Shakespeare title
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Elaine
$400 [25]
Samuel Adams isseenhererepresenting this state
Massachusetts
Rob
$800 [12]
The lucky snoozershereare being watched by these, also a name for a volunteer group begun in 1979
guardian angels
Elaine
$800 [17]
Joseph Gordon-Levitt loses the title girl in "(500) Days of Summer" & naturally moves on to a girl named this
Autumn
Joyce
$800 [3]
The life work of Albert Michelson was sort of using a radar gun on this value & establishing it as a constant
the speed of light
Joyce
$800 [22]
An adjective describing the sun & a specialist on an academic subject
solar & scholar
Joyce
$800 [8]
Teen detectives join forces in "Double Crossing" when Nancy Drew teams up with these guys, Frank & Joe
the Hardy Boys
Rob
$1,200 [13]
A 19th century painting is titled after this Victor Hugo character--look, it'sbaby Cosette!
Fantine
Joyce
$1,200 [18]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Lincoln Center in New York.) Cher meets Nicolas Cage by the fountain at Lincoln Center, honoring a promise to go to the opera with him in this romantic comedy
Moonstruck
Elaine
$1,200 [4]
Ernest Rutherford found that the volume of an atom was made up mostly of this
empty space
Rob
$1,200 [23]
Money for finding something lost & a person who looks after passengers on a ship
reward & steward
Rob Elaine
$1,200 [9]
A chapter in this fantasy volume is titled "The Taming of Smeagol"
The Two Towers
Rob Joyce
$1,600 [14]
Visions of sugar plums are dancing in the heads of the Christmas hopefulsdrawnby this Harper's Weekly cartoonist
Thomas Nast
Rob
$1,600 [19]
This 2014 movie was a remake of the 1981 Brooke Shields movie of the same name
Endless Love
DD $2,000 [5]
In the 18th c., this physicist & instrument maker found that the boiling point of liquids varies with air pressure
Fahrenheit
Joyce
DD $2,000 [24]
A false vision in a desert & the leaves of a plant
mirage & foliage
Rob
$1,600 [10]
Nick & Nora Charles are the crime-solving duo in this 1934 novel by Dashiell Hammett
The Thin Man
Rob
$2,000 [15]
"King of Rome" was a title conferred on this man's only son, born in 1811
Napoléon
Rob
$2,000 [20]
Patrick Dempsey realizes Michelle Monaghan is his soulmate in this film whose title sounds like a wedding attendant
Made of Honor
Rob
$2,000 [6]
This quantum theorist has more than 80 institutes named for him in Germany
Max Planck
$2,000 [11]
First names of the fairy tale-collecting Grimm Brothers
Jacob & Wilhelm

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. HISTORY

It's the only odd-numbered year in which a U.S. presidential election has been held

1789

Rob "What is17971787" — wagered $2,999
Elaine "What is 1841" — wagered $701
Joyce "What is 1789" — wagered $3,401

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