Show #7184 2015-12-03 Regular

Contestants

Kelly Wright — a cataloging specialist from Rocky Ridge, Maryland

Jarrett Cabell — an actuary from Schaumberg, Illinois

Joyce Hshieh — an actress and writer from Chicago, Illinois (whose 3-day cash winnings total $39,403)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joyce $800 $600 $800 $1,600
3rd place: $1,000
$2,600
9 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
Jarrett! $-600 $0 $3,000 $1,799
2nd place: $2,000
$5,200
12 R, 6 W (including 2 DDs)
Kelly $2,000 $3,000 $4,200 $6,700
New champion: $6,700
$4,200
11 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

OLD '97s SOUNDS MEDICAL STATES' LOWEST POINTS THE NEW YORK TIMES: OBITUARIES POTPOURRI
$200 [11]
New York's legislature first met in Kingston & did convene in NYC, but in 1797 the capital was moved to this city
Albany
Jarrett!
$200 [6]
Time to get you going again & "back on" these extremities
your feet
Kelly
$200 [12]
In this state it's 95 feet above sea level on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain
Vermont
Jarrett!
$200 [1]
Obituary subjects are real people, but this Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie merited a Page 1 obit in 1975
(Hercule) Poirot
Joyce
$200 [16]
An electric device, the hydrostat detects the presence of this
water
Joyce
$400 [20]
Well, that's just great! In 1697 this czar began a tour of Western Europe seeking allies against the Ottoman Empire
Peter the Great
Jarrett!
$400 [7]
To test the reception to our approach, let's do this & hope for 98.6
take a temperature
Kelly
$400 [13]
Minnesota:On the western shore of this lake
Lake Superior
Joyce Jarrett!
$400 [2]
The Times writes advance obits for some stars, but, like us, was caught off-guard by the suicide of this comic actor in 2014
Robin Williams
Kelly
$400 [17]
One of Aesop's fables is about "the dog in" this hay holder
a manger
$600 [21]
In July 1497 this explorer left Lisbon for India; in September 1499 he returned
Vasco da Gama
Joyce
$600 [8]
What a nurse may do if you need a test, or a first strike proving that a battle has been joined
draw blood
Kelly
$600 [14]
Pennsylvania:In the borough of Marcus Hook, at sea level, on this river indicated here
the Delaware (River)
Joyce Kelly
$600 [3]
As it happened, the day before Thanksgiving 2005 the Times honored Ruth Siems, an inventor of this stuffing brand
Stove Top Stuffing
Jarrett!
$600 [18]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) Studies suggest that you can gain confidence before a job interview or be more successful at a work task by striking a pose for two minutes beforehand in imitation of Superman or this heroine, also known as Diana Prince
Wonder Woman
Jarrett!
$800 [24]
In 1697 this Genoa-born astronomer had no idea that in 1997 a craft named for him would set off to study Saturn's rings
(Giovanni) Cassini
Jarrett! Kelly
$800 [9]
A sudden reappearance of an injury, it sounds like holding a tiki torch aloft
a flare-up
Kelly
$800 [15]
This state: 2,842 feet above sea level at Red Bluff Reservoir just east of Carlsbad Caverns
New Mexico
Joyce
$800 [4]
Memorializing this comedian in 2014, the Times quoted her line "A Peeping Tom looked in my window & pulled down the shade"
Joan Rivers
Joyce
$800 [22]
One species of this fish is Hippocampus abdominalis
seahorse
Kelly
DD $1,200 [25]
In 1297 he was knighted upon his return to Scotland & proclaimed Guardian of the Kingdom
William Wallace
Jarrett!
$1,000 [10]
I pretty much know it all now so I'll just put up a sign--I'll hang out one of these & go pro
a shingle
$1,000 [19]
This state: 2,178 feet above sea level in Beaver Dam Wash, around 23 miles from the city of St. George
Utah
Kelly
$1,000 [5]
The unsung may be hailed, like NASA's Jack Kinzler, who designed a parasol that saved this imperiled space station in 1973
Skylab
Kelly
$1,000 [23]
Collective name for several Philadelphia suburbs, for their former position along the Pennsylvania RR
Main Line
Joyce

Double Jeopardy! Round

CHEMISTRY MEDALS & DECORATIONS SONG BOOKS THEY OWN IT & YOU'RE "NOT" HE'S CHEVY CHASE
$400 [2]
In 2012 scientists actually achieved a temperature lower than -459.67 degrees Fahrenheit, better known by this term
absolute zero
Jarrett!
$400 [5]
In 1898 Congress authorized the Dewey medal for officers & those who participated in the battle of this bay
Manila Bay
Jarrett! Kelly
$400 [12]
The HBO series "Game of Thrones" is based on the book series "A Song Of" these two things
Ice & Fire
Joyce
$400 [8]
The trademark "Home of the Whopper"
Burger King
Jarrett!
$400 [18]
Tediously unvarying; tediously unvarying; tediously unvarying
monotonous
$800 [25]
(Chevy Chase delivers the clue from the set of Community.)In 2010 I played the repairman for this title object that sends Rob Corddry & his friends back to the 1980s
the Hot Tub Time Machine
Joyce
$800 [1]
A redox reaction is one in which this, a gain of electrons, & oxidation, a loss of electrons, go on simultaneously
reduction
$800 [6]
The Victoria Cross features this animal, a symbol of the Royal Family
lion
$800 [13]
Milkman Dead is the protagonist of this Toni Morrison novel
Song of Solomon
Jarrett!
$800 [9]
The trademark "Big Brown"
UPS
Jarrett!
$800 [19]
Remember--the light blue flower of this plant is an emblem of friendship
forget-me-not
Kelly
$1,200 [26]
Steve Martin was Lucky, Martin Short was Ned, Chevy was Dusty Bottoms, & together they were this title trio
the Three Amigos
Kelly
DD $1,000 [4]
This device is used to separate solids from liquids & Iran's thousands of them are part of the 2015 nuclear deal
centrifuges
Jarrett!
$1,200 [7]
Contact! Tell us this airplane part that's part of the design of the Distinguished Flying Cross
propeller
$1,200 [14]
"The Last Song", a romantic novel by this man, was made into a movie starring Miley Cyrus & Liam Hemsworth
Nicholas Sparks
Kelly
$1,200 [10]
Crunch bars
Nestlé
Jarrett!
$1,200 [20]
A 16th century Calvinist of France
Huguenot
Jarrett!
$1,600 [27]
(Chevy Chase delivers the clue from the set of Community.) In "Foul Play", I said to this co-star, "It's Gloria, right? You're really a nice girl & I'm a nice guy... whaddya say? Would you like to take a shower?"
Goldie Hawn
$1,200 [3]
The name of this group of elements that includes fluorine means "salt-producing"
halogens
Joyce Jarrett!
$1,600 [21]
The oldest U.S. military decoration still in use; its reverse says, "For Military Merit"
a Purple Heart
Kelly
$1,600 [15]
Franz Werfel wrote "The Song of" this girl from Lourdes who had visions of the Virgin Mary
(St.) Bernadette
Joyce Jarrett!
$1,600 [11]
Old Navy
Gap
Joyce
$1,600 [23]
4-word saying that means if you don't toss stuff away, you won't be hurting for it later
waste not, want not
$2,000 [28]
(Chevy Chase delivers the clue from the set of Community.) I said, "The Zen philosopher Basho once wrote that a flute with no holes is not a flute, & a donut with no hole is a danish" as Ty Webb in this comedy
Caddyshack
$2,000 [24]
When placed in the flame of a Bunsen burner, copper produces a blue flame; sodium, this color
yellow
$2,000 [22]
One recipient of this African country's Queen of Sheba Medal was Dwight Eisenhower
Ethiopia
DD $1,800 [17]
In "The Song of the Lark", part of her Prairie Trilogy, Thea Kronborg leaves home & becomes a soprano at the Met
Willa Cather
Joyce
$2,000 [16]
Instagram
Facebook
Joyce

Final Jeopardy!

SONGS FROM MUSICALS

This song from a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical was once simply titled "First Singing Lesson"

"Do-Re-Mi"

Joyce "What is Do Re Mi" — wagered $800
Jarrett! "What is A Spoonful of Sugar?" — wagered $1,201
Kelly "What is Do-Re-Mi?" — wagered $2,500

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