Show #7193 2015-12-16 (taped 2015-10-21) Regular

Contestants

Lynsey McMullen — a bartender from Parker, Colorado

Ben Parker — a student from Northbrook, Illinois

Tiombi Prince — an advocation support specialist from East Point, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tiombi $-200 $1,400 $11,800 $18,900
2-day champion: $33,100
$11,800
14 R, 1 W
Ben $1,600 $2,200 $7,000 $9,200
2nd place: $2,000
$7,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Lynsey $2,200 $5,400 $9,400 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$11,400
19 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

A LOT OF BUZZ ALLITERATION STATION RECENT CINEMA WHAT'S IN YOUR SUPERMARKET CART? THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO MARKS & ANGLES
$200 [1]
One reason the military gives buzz cuts to its inductees is to prevent the spread of these parasites
lice
Tiombi
$200 [19]
Penne or rigatoni topped with a whole mess of cooked vegetables
pasta primavera
Tiombi
$200 [27]
The jacket worn by Tom Hardy to play this title role is a replica of the one worn by Mel Gibson in 3 earlier films
Mad Max
Lynsey
$200 [22]
Red Baron Brick Oven
frozen pizza
Tiombi
$200 [30]
The pamphlet ends, "Workers of the world," do this!
unite
Ben
$200 [9]
It's the term for the side opposite the right angle in a right-angled triangle
a hypotenuse
Ben
$400 [2]
Do-it-yourselfers know a buzz one is also known as a circular one
a saw
Tiombi
$400 [20]
"Rubber baby buggy bumpers" is a classic example of one of these
a tongue twister
Lynsey
$400 [18]
As a tiny superhero, Paul Rudd enlists the aid of his insect allies to defeat Yellow Jacket in this film
Ant-Man
Ben
$400 [23]
Wish-Bone Deluxe French
salad dressing
Tiombi
$400 [29]
Marx & Engels used this French word to refer to the capitalists who owned the means of production
bourgeoisie
Ben
$400 [10]
It's the 5-letter word for an angle that is less than 90 degrees
acute
Lynsey
$600 [3]
On this website, you can vote on articles with yellow buttons such as "LOL", "cute" & "OMG"
BuzzFeed
Ben
$600 [21]
It's a massive upload of information & documents, sometimes to swamp the recipient
a data dump
$600 [17]
This actress of some repute had the title role in "Ricki and the Flash" (she was not the Flash)
Meryl Streep
Lynsey
$600 [24]
An 8-pack of Brawny
paper towels
Ben
DD $800 [6]
"The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: abolition of" this, an alliterative phrase
private property
Ben
$600 [12]
A mark called a vinculum is a horizontal line placed over a decimal to show that the decimal does this
repeat
Ben
$800 [4]
In this movie Corey Allen plays Buzz, who fatally races James Dean at the edge of a cliff
Rebel Without a Cause
Lynsey
$800 [16]
Not flashy but often effective, it's the part of a football coach's strategy that features the running back
the ground game
$800 [11]
This film opens with its 2 heroes, Napoleon Solo & Illya Kuryakin, on opposite sides in the Cold War
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Ben
$800 [25]
Rayovac Fusion
batteries
Tiombi
$800 [7]
Marx & Engels wrote the manifesto for a society of German emigrants that met in this capital
London
Tiombi Ben Lynsey
$800 [13]
Omega is the symbol of this unit of electrical resistance
an ohm
Lynsey
$1,000 [5]
A 1980s court proceeding legally changed his first name from Edwin to Buzz
(Buzz) Aldrin
Ben
$1,000 [15]
This phrase was popularized by RAND methodology for identifying the bad guys who make a life of it
career criminal
Lynsey
$1,000 [14]
Seismologist Lucy Jones found fault with this film, saying you can't predict quakes as Paul Giamatti's character does
San Andreas
Lynsey
$1,000 [26]
Beech-Nut Stage 2
baby food
Lynsey
$1,000 [8]
"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of" these
class struggles
$1,000 [28]
It's the name of the mark seenhereindicating a square root
a radical sign
Ben

Double Jeopardy! Round

MEL ON EARTH PARROT CULTURE SO VERY BRITISH FABRICS & TEXTILES ON THE GLOBE NO VOWELS BUT Y
$400 [11]
1908-1989:Voice artist
Mel Blanc
Lynsey
$400 [27]
This wisecracking title parrot of a 1998 movie has a traditional parrot name, but spelled with an "AU" & an "IE"
Paulie
Tiombi
$400 [1]
On "Downton Abbey", after Lady Mary tells Matthew his WWI wounds will paralyze him, she next offers him this beverage
tea
Tiombi
$400 [30]
The British board of trade defines the Harris type of this as a handwoven woolen fabric from the Hebrides
tweed
$400 [14]
These 2 countries basically divide the bottom quarter of South America
Argentina & Chile
Lynsey
$400 [28]
To force open with a lever or bar
pry
Lynsey
$800 [10]
1975-present:Scary Spice
Mel B.
Lynsey
$800 [25]
Arr! In this novel Long John Silver has a parrot called Cap'n Flint, named for a famous pirate
Treasure Island
Tiombi
$800 [2]
(I'm Andy Murray.) I was honored to be part of the first investiture conducted by Prince William; I received an OBE, which stands for this
the Order of the British Empire
Ben
$800 [29]
200 pounds of mulberry leaves fed to worms can be used to produce one pound of this fabric
silk
Tiombi
$800 [15]
Of Dublin, Paris or Madrid, the capital city farthest west
Dublin
Ben Lynsey
$800 [19]
Before "up", it's what a coach does to his team; before "out", to the other team
psych
$1,200 [6]
1925-1999:Singer who also co-wrote the Christmas tune heard here
Mel Tormé
Lynsey
$1,200 [9]
Fred was the cockatoo of this Robert Blake TV detective
Baretta
$1,200 [3]
This London neighborhood lent its name to a group that included Virginia Woolf & friends
Bloomsbury
Lynsey
$1,200 [23]
Cotton is a traditional fabric for this activity of making blankets into colorful art
quilting
Lynsey
$1,200 [16]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) From Nunavut to North Dakota, the 100th meridian runs through this Canadian province on its way to Texas
Manitoba
Ben
$1,200 [20]
In this maneuver, a spacecraft comes close enough to an object to make a detailed observation
flyby
$1,600 [4]
Born 1926:"The Producers" producer
Mel Brooks
Lynsey
$1,600 [7]
In a 1920 children's book, a parrot teaches this man how to talk to the furry & 4-footed
Dr. Dolittle
Lynsey
$1,600 [8]
Hecommanded the British army during the Napoleonic Wars & was prime minister of England from 1828 to 1830
the Duke of Wellington
DD $2,000 [24]
This tall reed-like plant has long fibers, making it easy to spin into linen yarn
flax
Lynsey
$1,600 [17]
Golfe de Gascogne is what the French call this large bay of the Atlantic bordered by France & Spain
the Bay of Biscay
Ben Lynsey
DD $2,000 [21]
A clear, yellowish fluid containing white blood cells
lymph
Ben
$2,000 [5]
1960-present:"Junior" NFL draft guru
Mel Kiper
Tiombi
$2,000 [12]
Benedick calls Beatrice a "rare parrot" for the way she teases & mocks him in this Shakespeare play
Much Ado About Nothing
Tiombi
$2,000 [13]
Ozzy Osbourne has a Brummie accent because he was born in this second-largest English city
Birmingham
Tiombi Lynsey
$2,000 [26]
This sheer net fabric with hexagonal holes is named for a French city that began producing it in the early 1800s
tulle
$2,000 [18]
An old song rhymes this capital city on the Mediterranean with "souvenirs"
Algiers
$2,000 [22]
Among imaginary creatures, a nymph lives in trees, while this, also a word for a slender woman, inhabits the air
sylph
Tiombi

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE

The theft alluded to in the title of this 1844 Poe story is committed by a government minister

"The Purloined Letter"

Ben "What is the Purloined letter?" — wagered $2,200
Lynsey "What is a cask of Amontillado" — wagered $9,400
Tiombi "What is The Purloined Letter?" — wagered $7,100

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