Show #7211 2016-01-11 Regular

Contestants

Julia Cain — a graduate student from Haverford, Pennsylvania

Dom Tassoni — a product marketing manager from Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Adam Hoskins — an attorney from Columbia, Missouri (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Adam $800 $3,800 $13,000 $23,601
2-day champion: $42,402
$12,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Dom $2,600 $3,800 $3,400 $6,500
3rd place: $1,000
$3,400
10 R, 4 W
Julia $1,600 $3,000 $11,800 $23,600
2nd place: $2,000
$11,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

4 LEGS, 1 CLUE NOTORIOUS WHAT'S IN THE FRIDGE? NATIONAL PARKS CELEBRITY SPOKESPEOPLE WORDS OF NOTE
$200 [5]
This rodent can't throw any of ts 30,000 hollow quills but they detach easily & can stick in an attacker
the porcupine
Julia
$200 [1]
This young outlaw escaped from a New Mexico jail on April 28, 1881; a bullet ended his run on July 14 of that year
Billy the Kid
Julia
$200 [10]
A bag of these root vegetables from Bolthouse Farms that have been baby-cut (usually from a longer crooked one)
a carrot
Julia
$200 [14]
This national park lying along California's Pacific coast features the world's tallest trees
Redwood
Adam
$200 [16]
Waxing poetic for his homeland, Liam Neeson voiced a recent tourism ad urging us to "discover" this U.K. country
Northern Ireland
Adam Dom
$200 [24]
A marketing slogan says "it's what's for dinner"
beef
Dom
$400 [6]
Thisanimal can travel 20 miles a day while carrying 130 pounds
a llama
Dom
$400 [2]
Anna Sage, the "Lady in Red", was with this bank robber at the Biograph Theater in Chicago, where he was shot to death
(John) Dillinger
Adam
$400 [11]
This 3-letter brine-cured salmon; it's on the shelf next to the cream cheese
lox
Adam
$400 [21]
This park's main entrance is the Ernest F. Cole Visitor Center named for the park's creator, a Miami naturalist
Everglades
Adam
$400 [17]
This actor is "The Negotiator" arranging the best travel deals for customers of priceline.com
(William) Shatner
Adam
$400 [25]
Perfect serve that can't be touched
an ace
Dom
$600 [7]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew feeds an okapi leaves at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, IL.) Though you won't hear them, okapis can communicate via subsonic calls; scientists think they do it so mothers can talk to calves without alerting their major predator, this spotted cat
a leopard
Dom Julia
$800 [4]
Convinced she was wrongly accused, President Ford pardoned Iva Toguri D'Aquino, known by this name during WWII
Tokyo Rose
Dom
$600 [12]
This creamy dressing from Newman's Own; it contains anchovy, as it does classically
Caesar dressing
Julia
$600 [22]
Perhaps the most famous landmark in this Utah park is the Great White Throne
Zion
Julia
$600 [18]
This actor's oddly zenlike ads for Lincoln autos have been widely parodied
(Matthew) McConaughey
Adam
$600 [26]
The outward flow of the tide
ebb
Adam
$800 [8]
The Patagonian cavyis usually found in this country
Argentina
Adam
DD $1,000 [3]
This 1962 film made convicted murderer-turned-ornithologist Robert Stroud a household name
Birdman of Alcatraz
Adam
$800 [13]
A jar of this brand's kosher dill pickles; there's the stork on the label
Vlasic
Dom
$800 [29]
A rainforest & coral reef make up the national park of this U.S. territory on the islands of Tutuila, Ta'u & Ofu
American Samoa
Dom
$800 [19]
Slipping into a deal with these jeans has made Dale Earnhardt Jr. a well-paid celebrity endorser
Wrangler
Adam
$800 [27]
Early 20th centuryart style seen here
Dada
Julia
$1,000 [9]
Oh, deer! In the fall, bulls of this species aka the wapiti fight for harems that can number up to 60
the American elk
$1,000 [23]
In 1947, as this mobster was killed in California, pals of Meyer Lansky walked in & took over the Flamingo in Vegas--hmm
(Bugsy) Siegel
Dom Julia
$1,000 [15]
A quart of this Greek-named Greek yogurt from Dannon
Oikos
Julia
$1,000 [30]
Hawaii has 2 national parks, Hawaii Volcanoes on the Big Island & Haleakala on this "Valley Isle"
Maui
$1,000 [20]
Charlize Theron did a striking ad for the perfume "J'adore" this brand
Dior
Julia
$1,000 [28]
It's Kraut to the Germans
cabbage
Dom

Double Jeopardy! Round

AUTHORS' LESSER KNOWN WORKS SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES ART & ARTISTS THE "KING", SON TECH LOGOS LOUIS XIV
$400 [6]
This 14th century "Tales" teller & poet penned the prose work "A Treatise on the Astrolabe"
Chaucer
Julia
$400 [12]
In 1980 the U.S. & 64 other countries boycotted the Olympics held in this city
Moscow
Adam
$400 [1]
Franz Pforr wasoneof the 19th century Nazarenes, so called for their interest in the era of this book, as in Franz' work here
the Bible (the New Testamanet accepted)
Julia
$400 [11]
Built around 1703, this royal residence is fit for a "king"
Buckingham Palace
Adam
$1,200 [22]
Do you use this browser? If so, you should recognize its logo
Chrome
Adam
$800 [21]
From 1672 to 1678 Louis waged war against this small country on the North Sea then controlled by the Hapsburgs
the Netherlands
Adam Dom Julia
$800 [7]
This author's "The Diamond Smugglers" is nonfiction, but it's about a British secret agent who uses gadgets
(Ian) Fleming
Dom
$800 [13]
This city hosted the Summer Games in 1964, a first for Asia
Tokyo
Adam
$800 [2]
His 1863 "Luncheon on the Grass" caused scandal in France; hope you don't confuse him with another artist
(Édouard) Manet
Julia
$800 [17]
Three word legal term for forcible ingress into another's home
breaking and entering
Julia
$1,600 [23]
Now known as "Noface Chillah", the ghost logo of this social networking site lost its silly grin in 2013
Snapchat
Julia
$2,000 [26]
In 1674 Louis met, liked & ennobled this explorer who 8 years later put the king's name on Louisiana
(Sieur) de La Salle
Adam Dom Julia
$1,200 [8]
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote 17 "Pat Hobby" stories about a down-&-out one of these writers, a job Scott knew well
scriptwriter
Julia
$1,200 [14]
In 2006, 30 years late, the debt was paid off for the stadium called "The Big Owe" & the rest of this city's games
Montreal
Adam
$1,200 [3]
One ofhisfirst great works done after moving to Spain was "The Disrobing of Christ" from the late 1570s
El Greco
Julia
$1,200 [18]
Daredevil's enemy, or the chief person in an operation
Kingpin
Julia
DD $2,000 [25]
Larry the Bird was the original name of this site's logo
Twitter
Adam
$1,600 [9]
Along with his doggone novels, he wrote "That Spot", a short story about a faithful dog
Jack London
$1,600 [15]
This city between Lake Malaren & the Baltic Sea hosted the 1912 Olympics
Stockholm
DD $2,000 [4]
Bridget Riley made viewers eyes hurt as a major figure in the 1960s style of geometry & illusions called this "art"
op art
Julia
$1,600 [19]
Searching for & exposing scandal in politics
muckraking
Dom
$2,000 [24]
The logo of this tech company represents a digital signal that takes the form of the Golden Gate Bridge
Cisco
Adam
$2,000 [10]
"Dracula" author Bram Stoker also wrote about "The Lair of" this pale monster
the White Worm
$2,000 [16]
It took until 1956, but finally a Southern Hemisphere city hosted--this one
Melbourne, Australia
$2,000 [5]
Sometimes done to color wood, it's also Helen Frankenthaler's technique of pouring paint & letting it run
stain
Julia
$2,000 [20]
Equine term for anything that hides the real plan
stalking horse

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICANA

This poem includes the line “But Flynn let drive a single, to the wonderment of all”

"Casey at the Bat"

Dom "What is Casey at the Bat?" — wagered $3,100
Julia "What is Casey at the Bat" — wagered $11,800
Adam "What is Casey at the Bat?" — wagered $10,601

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