Show #7189 2015-12-10 (taped 2015-10-20) Regular

Contestants

Shannon Lee — an architectural design associate from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania

Donnie Edgemon — a management consultant from Sterling Park, Virginia

Alex Maggio — a writer originally from Cincinnati, Ohio (whose 2-day cash winnings total $40,301)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Alex $4,000 $3,800 $22,000 $23,100
3-day champion: $63,401
$18,600
25 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Donnie $1,200 $1,800 $10,000 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$7,800
10 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Shannon $1,800 $6,800 $10,400 $1
2nd place: $2,000
$10,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

LATIN AMERICAN HODGEPODGE BESTSELLERS PIPES & PIPERS MOVIE LIFE HACKS CRAIGS LIST CLASSIFIED "AD"s
$200 [1]
World's poorest president Jose Mujicaof this country legalized & distributed pot to disrupt drug dealers' revenue
Uruguay
Alex
$200 [4]
This 1977 bestseller takes place at the spooky Overlook Hotel
The Shining
Shannon
$200 [26]
Shepherds are associated with this instrument whose name includes a Greek god
a pan flute (or pan pipe)
Alex
$200 [16]
Young boxers, consider sides of beef for your training needs, like Mr. Balboa in this 1976 movie
Rocky
Shannon
$200 [15]
Goaltender Jim Craig was part of the U.S. hockey team that won Olympic gold in this year
1980
Donnie
$200 [9]
Satisfactory or reasonably sufficient
adequate
Donnie
$400 [2]
Mexico City has a memorial to the San Patricios, men mostly from this European island who fought the U.S. in the 1840s
Ireland
Alex
$600 [6]
In 1961 after JFK listed "From Russia with Love" as a favorite, sales of this author's books rose
Ian Fleming
Alex
$400 [27]
Robert Browning wrote a poem about the Pied Piper of this German town
Hamelin
Alex
$400 [17]
Like real patients with Alzheimer's, in this movie Julianne Moore uses a highlighter when giving a speech to keep her place
Still Alice
Alex
$400 [18]
Stretching back to the Middle Ages, the Craigs of Aberdeenshire, Scotland are one of these family groups
a clan
Shannon
$400 [10]
Don't laugh--thisis a black one of these European creatures
an adder
Shannon
$600 [3]
Colombians sued Costa Ricans after they said this fictional character "drinks Costa Rican coffee"
Juan Valdez
Shannon
DD $800 [5]
It completes the title of Steve Harvey's "Act Like a Lady..."; it was also the entire title of the movie
Think Like a Man
Shannon
$600 [28]
"The pipes are calling from glen to glen" in this traditional song
"Danny Boy"
Shannon
$600 [19]
"War Games" demonstrates the underused roll-it-in-buttered-bread method of eating this
corn on the cob
Alex
$600 [20]
For 5 years he played family patriarch Zeek Braverman on "Parenthood"
Craig T. Nelson
Donnie
$600 [13]
A traditional saying or proverb
an adage
Shannon
$800 [7]
Within 3 days in 2002, this country saw a coup, the cancellation of its Constitution & Chavez' reinstatement
Venezuela
Alex
$800 [11]
Mackinlay Kantor had a spot on the bestseller list locked up in the '50s with this book about a notorious 19th century prison
Andersonville
Shannon
$800 [29]
His "Songs of Innocence" begins, "Piping down the valleys wild, piping songs of pleasant glee"
William Blake
Alex
$800 [21]
If stricken by anterograde amnesia, use tattoos to keep track of your life, like Guy Pearce in this film
Memento
Alex
$800 [22]
Giving it an amber color & a mellower taste, Rev. Elijah Craig is credited with being the first to age this liquor in charred barrels
bourbon
Shannon
$800 [14]
These, in the nasopharynx, get their name from the Greek for "gland"
adenoid
Donnie
$1,000 [8]
Oddly, each year Bolivia chooses a Miss Litoral beauty queen, symbolic of this, which it lost in 1884
a coastline
Alex
$1,000 [12]
Rachel is the narrator of Paula Hawkins' 6-months-plus bestseller "The Girl on" this mode of transport
the train
Alex
$1,000 [30]
This Belgian showed us "The Betrayal of Images"
(René) Magritte
Shannon
$1,000 [23]
In "Rear Window" one of the apartment dwellers he spies on lets her dog out with a nifty pulley system
Jimmy Stewart
Shannon
$1,000 [24]
He's the Craig who founded Craigslist
Craig Newmark
$1,000 [25]
Another name for fatty tissue
adipose
Alex Shannon

Double Jeopardy! Round

TERM OF ART AMERICAN HISTORY RELIGIOUS BELIEF ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS FRENCH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FRANK SINATRA
$400 [12]
This printing technique that has a fabric in its name is also called serigraphy
silkscreen
Shannon
$400 [16]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) On April 18, 1775, this man left Charlestown around 11:00 P.M. but was captured by the British after hitting Lexington, but before he got to Concord
(Paul) Revere
Donnie
$400 [19]
These Adventists formed out of the Millerite Adventists emphasize dietary laws as well as the Sabbath
the Seventh-day Adventists
Alex
$400 [10]
We hope there's room at this public lodging house
the inn
Donnie
$400 [7]
Its 10 million people all live on a third of a Caribbean island
Haiti
Alex
$400 [25]
Start spreading the news--this Big Apple anthem was Frank's last Top 40 pop hit
"New York, New York"
Alex
$800 [13]
This chilly-sounding term is used for horizontal sections ofsculptureon a wall
a frieze
Alex
$800 [17]
Head Start & Job Corps were programs in LBJ's "War on" this
poverty
Donnie
$800 [20]
Named in 1931, they believe in the imminent second coming of Christ & go door-to-door to proclaim their faith
Jehovah's Witnesses
Alex
$800 [9]
A long lock of hair
a tress
Alex Shannon
$800 [8]
In area it's the largest country with French as an official language
Canada
Shannon
$800 [26]
Though still a registered Democrat, Frank campaigned for this friend in 1980 & produced his inaugural gala
Reagan
Shannon
$1,200 [22]
The name of this type of art printing comes from the Greek for "stone" & "write"
lithography
Alex Shannon
$1,600 [4]
FDR touted this quartet in his 1941 State of the Union address
the Four Freedoms
Donnie
$1,200 [18]
This sacred text is said to be a translation of golden plates revealed by the angel Moroni
The Book of Mormon
Alex
$1,200 [1]
A mixture of liquid & solid food, such as table scraps fed to pigs
swill
$1,200 [6]
Fleur de Sel is a French restaurant in this "Democratic Republic", the second-largest country in Africa
the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Alex
$1,200 [27]
Married four times, Frank wed this glamorous actress in 1951
Ava Gardner
$1,600 [23]
In a painting it's the spot on the horizon where 2 receding parallel lines seem to converge
the vanishing point
Alex
$2,000 [3]
Signed in Belgium, this 1814 treaty ended the War of 1812
the Treaty of Ghent
Alex
$1,600 [21]
Originally radical Puritans, the Quakers are more formally known as this
the Society of Friends
Donnie
$1,600 [2]
This unit of power is equivalent to one joule per second
a watt
Alex
$2,000 [15]
In 1985 this African nation officially changed its name to the French version
Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Alex
$1,600 [29]
Here's a puzzler: he arranged some of Frank's classic songs, including "Love And Marriage" & "Young At Heart"
Nelson Riddle
Alex
$2,000 [24]
French term for paintings executed outdoors, rather than in a studio
en plein air
Alex
DD $3,400 [5]
This tycoon's Northern Securities company was dissolved in 1904 for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act
(J.P.) Morgan
Donnie
$2,000 [30]
The Fukko or Restoration School of this religion was used to ascribe divine origins to the imperial family
Shintoism
Alex
$2,000 [11]
In "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport", Blue is implored to play this instrument
a didgeridoo
Alex Shannon
DD $5,000 [14]
Its official languages include German, Italian & French; 20% of its people mainly speak French
Switzerland
Alex
$2,000 [28]
Frank got his first big break when he hooked up with the Three Flashes & they became this quartet named for Frank's hometown
the Hoboken Four

Final Jeopardy!

LITERARY BRITAIN

After her death in 1943, the farmland & cottages of this author & animal lover were bequeathed to the National Trust

Beatrix Potter

Donnie "Who is Agatha Christie?" — wagered $10,000
Shannon "Who is Agatha Christie?" — wagered $10,399
Alex "Who is Beatrix Potter?" — wagered $1,100

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