Show #7196 2015-12-21 (taped 2015-12-01) Regular

Second game in which reigning champion did not return.Alex returns from a full knee replacement, stays at his lectern during the contestant interviews, and uses acaneduring the closing credits chat.

Contestants

Shoshana Gordon Ginsburg — a children's librarian from Washington, D.C.

Jay O'Brien — a physics instructor from Waterford, New York

Liz Quesnelle — a retail store owner from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Liz $2,200 $5,800 $15,000 $20,001
New champion: $20,001
$14,400
23 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Jay $600 $3,000 $3,800 $7,599
3rd place: $1,000
$1,800
11 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Shoshana $-600 $4,000 $10,000 $17,500
2nd place: $2,000
$8,000
10 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

COMMON BOND CUISINE NOVELISTS MEASURED WORDS NOPE, NOT BORN IN AUSTRALIA OUR BODIES OUR ELVES
$200 [1]
Corn, fish, Manhattan clam
chowder
Liz
$200 [17]
Once in hiding, he began a book tour in 2015 for his novel "Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights"
(Salman) Rushdie
Shoshana
$200 [6]
This word of measure can precede "bird" "-of-ale" & "stick"
yard
Liz Jay
$200 [12]
This actress who played Satine in "Moulin Rouge!" was actually born in Honolulu
Nicole Kidman
Liz
$200 [7]
To talk a lot, especially in order to persuade someone, isn't "to mandible" but this synonym
to jaw
Liz
$200 [24]
Winky tells this boy wizard, "House-elves is not supposed to have fun...house-elves does what they is told"
Harry Potter
Liz
$400 [2]
Jasmine, Arborio, Texmati
rice
Liz
$400 [21]
On December 7, 1941 this Tarzan creator was playing tennis with his son in Honolulu when Pearl Harbor was attacked
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Jay
$400 [30]
A 4-inch tall horse would measure one of these, & be very hard to ride
a hand
Liz
$400 [13]
A surprise about this original "Mad Max": He was born in Peekskill, New York
Mel Gibson
Jay
$600 [9]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an X-ray illustration on the monitor.) Falling on an outstretched arm is the most common cause of a broken wrist, & it's often this forearm bone, which is closer to the thumb, that is fractured
radius
Liz Jay
$400 [25]
In TV commercials, Buckets the elf is in charge of splashing fudge on this brand's cookies
Keebler
Jay
$600 [3]
Spanish, pearl, Maui
onions
Liz Shoshana
$600 [20]
Thomas Hardy set most of his books in rural areas, as suggested in the title "Far From" this throng
the madding crowd
Liz
$600 [29]
This word found before "of women Voters" is also a distance of about 3 miles
league
Jay
$600 [14]
At my signal unleash your response of this Wellington, New Zealand-born actor & Oscar winner
Russell Crowe
Jay
$800 [10]
This area behind the brain stem is involved in the coordination of voluntary motor movement
the cerebellum
$600 [28]
Azari is a fire elf & Naida a water elf in this Danish company's toy line & accompanying media franchise
Lego
Liz
$800 [4]
Tamale, pumpkin, black bottom
pies
Jay
$800 [19]
In 1992, this "Hotel New Hampshire" author, once a college wrestler, was inducted into the Natl. Wrestling Hall of Fame
John Irving
Shoshana
$800 [23]
Someone drunk is "in his" these, though in his pints is more like it
cups
Shoshana
$800 [15]
"You're the One That I Want" hit No. 1 in 1978 for John Travolta & this Cambridge, England-born woman
Olivia Newton-John
Liz
DD $1,000 [8]
The first cervical vertebra is called this after a Greek god because it supports the head
Atlas
Liz
$800 [27]
Tolkien would have said "Who the heck is Tauriel?", the wood elf played by this actress--she was created for the "Hobbit" films
Evangeline Lilly
Shoshana
$1,000 [5]
Dosa, blini, palacsinta
pancakes
Liz
$1,000 [18]
She says that "Mama" & "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" are her most autobiographical novels
Terry McMillan
Shoshana
$1,000 [22]
After you land at the airport, pick up your car at this unit of frequency counter
Hertz
Jay
$1,000 [16]
The British Isles was the birthplace of the Disco kings of the '70s, this band of brothers
the Bee Gees
Liz
$1,000 [11]
The thyroid gland has 2 lobes, one on each side of this tube
the trachea
Liz
$1,000 [26]
In a Grimm tale, the wife of this artisan made clothes for the elves to show her gratitude for making them rich
the shoemaker
Shoshana

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD WAR I I HATE QUOTES A FABRIC-ATED CATEGORY REMEMBER THE '80s? DOUBLE F WORDS COLORFUL U.S. CITIES
$400 [9]
The Russian people suffered greatly during the war & blamed this czar who was forced off the throne in early 1917
Nicholas II
Liz Shoshana
$400 [5]
This first gospel contains Jesus' words, "Bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you"
Matthew
Shoshana
$400 [19]
This fabric used in coats usually comes from the Bactrian type
camel's hair
Jay
$400 [27]
How square! In the mid-'80s this "amazing" puzzle showed off its colors on its own cartoon series
the Rubik's Cube
Liz
$800 [7]
This word means operating disconnected from an associated computer
offline
Liz
$1,200 [16]
You can visit the city of Bowling Green & the state university of the same name; they're both in this state
Ohio
Shoshana
$800 [10]
The May 8, 1915 headline in the N.Y. Times blared this ship "sunk by a submarine... twice torpedoed off Irish coast"
the Lusitania
Jay
$800 [6]
In a preface to this book, Walt Whitman urged people to "despise riches" & "hate tyrants"
Leaves of Grass
Liz
$800 [20]
A fabric made from this tall grass is all the rage in part due to its antibacterial properties
bamboo
Liz
$800 [4]
This video game was based on a Japanese folk hero known for his voracious appetite
Pac-Man
Shoshana
$1,200 [8]
Hey, dummy! The healthiest way to be hanged is "in" this way
in effigy
$1,600 [17]
For more than 40 years, Edison worked in this town with both a direction & a color
West Orange
$1,600 [12]
On July 4, 1917 this AEF leader marched his troops through Paris to lay a wreath on the tomb of Lafayette
(John J.) Pershing
Jay
$1,200 [21]
In a 1981 movie this actor declares, "I hate snakes"
Harrison Ford
Jay
$1,200 [24]
This lace named for a town in France was paired in song with "a pretty face and a ponytail hanging down"
Chantilly
Liz
$1,200 [1]
He's seenherein a current photo, but he remembers the '80s when he was a TV & music heartthrob
Rick Springfield
Liz
$1,600 [14]
It's a written declaration upon oath made before an official
an affidavit
Jay
DD $4,000 [18]
This Alabama college town's name was inspired by a line from Oliver Goldsmith's poem "The Deserted Village"
Auburn
Shoshana
$2,000 [13]
The Allies suffered around 250,000 casualties trying unsuccessfully to reopen this strait also known as the Hellespont
the Dardanelles
Jay
$1,600 [22]
Congress says this 2-word phrase is an "offense involving actual or perceived race, color, religion", etc.
a hate crime
Liz
$1,600 [25]
This woven fabric used for suits sounds like a poetic contraction referencing the future
twill
$1,600 [3]
As this "Wall Street" corporate raider, Michael Douglas taught us that greed is good
Gordon Gekko
Liz
$2,000 [15]
It's an iron hook with a handle for landing big fish
a gaff
DD $3,200 [11]
The Zimmerman Note encouraged this nation to ally with Germany, which promised to let it annex lost land in the U.S.
Mexico
Jay
$2,000 [23]
In this Shakespeare play, Viola says "I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness", etc.
Twelfth Night
$2,000 [26]
Sails & beach umbrella are 2 items traditionally made of this hempen or flaxen cloth
canvas
Jay
$2,000 [2]
Miles Davis so loved the melody of her hit "Time After Time", he recorded an instrumental version
Cyndi Lauper
Liz

Final Jeopardy!

PUBLISHING

In 1927 the publishers of the Modern Library widened its scope and took this name, meant as a joke about how it would select titles

Random House

Jay "What is Random House?" — wagered $3,799
Shoshana "What is Random House?" — wagered $7,500
Liz "What is Random House?" — wagered $5,001

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