Show #7213 2016-01-13 Regular

Contestants

Megan Metcalf — a public interest attorney from Nashville, Tennessee

Len Mucci — an investment associate originally from Washington Township, New Jersey

Amelia Hershberger — a management analyst from Albany, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Amelia $3,400 $6,200 $9,400 $15,800
2-day champion: $37,000
$9,400
14 R, 1 W
Len $-1,000 $-1,600 $2,400 $4,799
3rd place: $1,000
$5,600
12 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
Megan $-600 $1,000 $12,800 $6,799
2nd place: $2,000
$13,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

BACK IN 2006 FILL IN THE BODY PART THAT'S FRAGRANT! "M" IS FOR SHAKESPEARE CUTS LIKE A KNIFE STARS IN THE SKY
$200 [6]
Yep, it's been a while--he became NFL commissioner on September 1
(Roger) Goodell
Megan
$200 [11]
Pleasant music:____ candy
ear
Megan
$200 [16]
Tory Burch's first fragrance has notes of this genus, whether tangerine or lime we're not sure
Citrus
Megan
$200 [3]
The full title calls Othello one of these people "of Venice"
a Moor
Megan
$200 [21]
A heavy steel blade with a 45-degree edge ran in grooves in the posts of this execution device
a guillotine
Len
$400 [26]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a hanger at the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta, GA.) Stars who've flown on Atlanta-based Delta over the years include these two, who had a big premiere just up the road in 1939
Clark Gable & Vivien Leigh
Amelia Megan
$400 [7]
A kidnapping by this Gaza Strip organization began the 5-year captivity of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit
Hamas
Amelia
$400 [12]
A total babe:____ candy
arm (or eye)
Amelia
$400 [17]
This "Modern Family" star loves her "Love" scent so much, she let Ryan Seacrest give her wrist a whiff at the 2015 Emmys
Sofía Vergara
Megan
$400 [2]
Portia disguises herself as a lawyer in this play
The Merchant of Venice
Amelia
$400 [22]
From the Latin for "saw-shaped", it's an adjective for a knife designed to cut soft foods like tomatoes & bread
serrated
Len
$800 [28]
Margot Robbie played one of the glamorous stewardesses on this '60s-set TV show named for a defunct airline
Pan Am
Amelia
$600 [8]
This Edvard Munch painting stolen 2 years before & said to be worth $100 million was recovered
The Scream
Amelia
$600 [13]
Hard effort:____ grease
elbow
Amelia
$600 [18]
If you ever said, "I wanna smell like this 'Marley & Me' actress", then you're in luck with her same-named perfume
Jennifer Aniston
Megan
$600 [1]
She's seen here with her father Prospero in a 19th-century production
Miranda
$600 [23]
In the 1640s the French army became the first to use this long blade attached to the barrel of a musket
a bayonet
Amelia
$1,000 [27]
This co-star of "On Golden Pond" got flying lessons from Howard Hughes
Katharine Hepburn
Amelia Len
$800 [9]
Thisman was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice
(Samuel) Alito
Len Megan
$800 [14]
A type of party:____dig
shin
Len
$800 [19]
A longtime "Project Runway" judge, this American man offered both White Luminous Gold & Rose Radiant Gold
Michael Kors
Megan
DD $1,000 [4]
Frank Ford is a jealous husband while George Page is a trusting one in this play
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Megan
$800 [24]
On this nation's flag, a scimitar appears above a declaration called the Shahada
Saudi Arabia
Len
$1,000 [10]
This president of Iran announced the nation had "joined the nuclear countries of the world"
Ahmadinejad
Megan
$1,000 [15]
A little device to transfer data:____ drive
thumb
Amelia Megan
$1,000 [20]
Known for its expensive Italian handbags, this brand wants you to try its expensive Italian fragrance Bamboo
Gucci
Len
$1,000 [5]
This son of Duncan gets the last word in "Macbeth"
Malcolm
Len Megan
$1,000 [25]
The name of these people who invaded England in the 5th century may come from a dagger traditionally worn by them
the Saxons

Double Jeopardy! Round

THAT'S THE THEORY CHANNEL SURFING WHAT "RU"? POTPOURRI IT'S SHOWTIME THE APOLLO
$400 [30]
Gravitation is an effect of distortion of time & space by matter, according to the theory of general this
relativity
Len
$400 [1]
In 2012 Trent Grimsey swam it in a record 6 hours, 55 minutes
the English Channel
Megan
$400 [4]
That fun, intense time of year when college fraternities & sororities recruit new students
rush (week)
Megan
$400 [7]
The Romans considered the sun a god & gave him this 3-letter name
Sol
Len
$400 [13]
"Masters of Sex" stars Michael Sheen as Dr. William Masters & Lizzy Caplan as this research partner
(Virginia) Johnson
Megan
$400 [29]
A statue of Apollo was one of the first large bronzes excavated from this city destroyed in 79 A.D.
Pompeii
Megan
$800 [25]
In Jungian theory primordial images of stories or characters aren't just regular "types" but these
archetypes
Len
$1,200 [3]
Ushuaia, Argentina is the largest city on this channel named for a ship that surveyed the area in 1833 & 1834
the Beagle Channel
Amelia
$800 [9]
What the couple seenhereis doing
the rumba
Len
$800 [8]
Apple's website says you can ask this entity to find the best sushi place or show you the constellation Orion
Siri
Amelia
$800 [14]
This former TV "Friend" stars as a version of himself on the Showtime series "Episodes"
Matt LeBlanc
Len
$800 [18]
Because of their proximity to us, Apollo asteroids are on NASA's table of NEOs, short for these
near-Earth objects
Megan
$1,600 [27]
A branch of math, this 11-letter theory uses dice & card games but may be best known for examining coin flip outcomes
probability
Amelia
DD $1,400 [2]
The Corsica Channel separates Corsica from this other island where Napoleon lived
Elba
Megan
$1,200 [10]
4-word expression meaning ordinary
run of the mill
Len
$1,200 [22]
With his daughter Lucy, this British physicist authored a kids' book called "George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt"
Stephen Hawking
$1,200 [15]
On a Showtime series, Jeremy Irons was the head of this 15th century Italian family
the Borgias
Amelia
$1,200 [19]
Bratislava's Apollo Bridge spans this lengthy European river
the Danube
Len Megan
$2,000 [28]
On "Big Bang Theory" Sheldon debated loop quantum gravity ("balderdash") vs. this advanced physics theory
string theory
Len
$1,600 [5]
A channel called Rich Passage separates relatively rich Bainbridge Island from this state's Kitsap Peninsula
Washington
Megan
$1,600 [11]
Thisspecies of hummingbird
ruby-throated
$1,600 [23]
A long work by Ezra Pound is titled "The" these; he completed 117 of them
Cantos
$1,600 [16]
This series starring Don Cheadle & Kristen Bell is based on a book about management consultants
House of Lies
Megan
$1,600 [20]
This choreographer's 1928 ballet "Apollo" was the first work of his neoclassical style
(George) Balanchine
Amelia Megan
DD $3,200 [26]
On April 7, 1954 Pres. Eisenhower spoke about this theory regarding the effects of the fall of French Indochina
the domino theory
Len
$2,000 [6]
This channel seenhereis one of the few places home to the coelacanth, a prehistoric fish
the Mozambique Channel
$2,000 [12]
It's also called a Swedish turnip
a rutabaga
Megan
$2,000 [24]
He may not look like it here, but the surname of this four-time British prime minister begins with a happy word
William Gladstone
$2,000 [17]
On a documentary series, this comedy legend takes viewers "Inside Comedy"
David Steinberg
$2,000 [21]
In 1975 an Apollo spacecraft docked with this in the first joint U.S.-Soviet space mission
Soyuz
Len

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY LITERATURE

For factual details, the author of this 1972 tale drew on a book called "The Private Life of the Rabbit"

Watership Down

Len "What is Watership Down?" — wagered $2,399
Amelia "What is Watership Down?" — wagered $6,400
Megan "What is Rabbit is Rich?" — wagered $6,001

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