Show #7217 2016-01-19 (taped 2015-12-14) Regular

WE ASKED: News anchor John Berman.

Contestants

Kyle Webb — a veterinary clinical pathologist originally from Boyertown, Pennsylvania

Matt Egbert — a marketing specialist from New York, New York

Hans Kamm — a supply chain analyst from Fayetteville, Arkansas

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Hans $3,400 $3,600 $5,600 $4,199
2nd place: $2,000
$5,600
8 R, 2 W
Matt $-2,000 $-1,200 $9,200 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$7,800
13 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Kyle $0 $2,600 $11,400 $4,399
New champion: $4,399
$11,400
19 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE BRIDGES OF OTHER COUNTIES LITERATURE INTERNATIONAL ACRONYMS NFL NICKNAMES STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPOST I NEED MY "SPACE"
$200 [15]
Part of this bridge built in the 19th century is in Kings County
the Brooklyn Bridge
Kyle
$200 [17]
In "Oliver Twist" Fagin teaches his young followers this type of theft
pickpocketing
Kyle
$200 [18]
CACM:Central American Common this
Market
$200 [1]
Pittsburgh QB Roethlisberger is aka this, like the bell of a famous clock
Big Ben
Hans
$200 [11]
When it comes to composting, used grounds or paper filters for this beverage are welcome
coffee
Kyle
$200 [6]
It's the formatof the clue, as you cansee
double-space
Kyle
$600 [27]
Take me home, Fayette County roads in this state, but not on Bridge Day, when New River Gorgecloses & BASE jumpers have at it
West Virginia
Matt
$400 [16]
In Michel Faber's sci-fi novel "Under the Skin", these are captured & then fatted up for consumption
people (or humans)
Kyle
$400 [23]
UNSC:This 15-member body
the United Nations Security Council
Kyle
$400 [2]
The Bears' jumbo-sized William Perry was aka this appliance
Refrigerator
Matt
$400 [19]
Done with that Hubba Bubba or Nicorette? Yes, you can go ahead & compost this
chewing gum
Matt
$400 [7]
It's the key to making text on your computer go away in one click
backspace
$800 [26]
Seen here being built, the Golden Gate Bridge links San Francisco to this county that includes cities like Mill Valley & Sausalito
Marin
Matt
$600 [12]
Her poem "I heard a Fly buzz--when I died" was suggested by a chapter in a Hawthorne novel
Emily Dickinson
Hans
$800 [28]
ASEAN:Association of these Nations
Southeast Asian
Hans Kyle
$600 [3]
Jets QB Namath was called this, after Manhattan's Great White Way
Broadway Joe
Matt
$600 [20]
OK, you hollowed it out, cut it up & stuck it on your front step but it's Nov. 1--compost this hyphenated holiday item
a jack-o-lantern
Kyle
$600 [8]
Area in a building containing wiring or plumbing but with limited upright access
crawlspace
Kyle
$1,000 [25]
Cook County, Illinois is where you find thefirstbridgedesigned by this architect in 2004; note the biomorphic curves
(Frank) Gehry
Hans
$800 [13]
Born in Bombay in 1865, in 1907 he became the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
Rudyard Kipling
Matt
$1,000 [24]
OPCW:Organization for the Prohibition of these
Chemical Weapons
Matt
$800 [4]
This other nickname for "Neon" Deion Sanders was especially appropriate when he played on "MNF"
Prime Time
Hans Matt
$800 [21]
After finishing a $15,000 bottle of 1985 Richebourg Grand Cru, you can put this in your heap, as long as it's natural
cork
$800 [9]
It's the one-word realm of electronic communication
cyberspace
Hans
DD $1,000 [14]
On the "fifth day", as recounted in this 14th century collection by Boccaccio, the storytellers must tell tales of love
The Decameron
Matt
$1,000 [5]
...& the award for least-intimidating nickname goes to: graceful Lance Alworth, aka this animated movie orphan
Bambi
Matt Kyle
$1,000 [22]
Big into discipline, Gen. Winfield Scott earned the nickname "Old Fuss &" these, which the General could then compost
feathers
$1,000 [10]
In 1948 it was a novel about Matt Dodson's adventures on Venus; today it's someone out of touch with reality
a space cadet
Hans Matt

Double Jeopardy! Round

EARLY START MOVIE ROLE, TV ROLE CROSSWORD PUNS THE ANNALS OF FASHION I NEED MY SPACE JAPANESE HISTORY
$400 [25]
By age 8, future grandmaster Sammy Reshevsky was giving this kind of chess exhibition, a word meaning "at the same time"
simultaneous
$400 [1]
Ren in the original "Footloose"; Ryan Hardy on "The Following"
Kevin Bacon
Kyle
$400 [6]
Leaves around 4 P.M. in England:_ _ A
tea
Matt
$400 [9]
A fob pocket near the waistband of men's pants was originally designed to hold this item
a watch
Kyle
$400 [8]
The Eagle Nebulais 56 trillion miles high, or 9.5 of these units; that's about twice the distance of our Sun to the nearest star
light-years
Kyle
$2,000 [26]
Holding power for the majority of time since 1955, the dominant political party in Japan is this one, the LDP
the Liberal Democratic Party
$800 [24]
In 1935 she received a special miniature Academy Award
Shirley Temple
Kyle
$800 [2]
Jovie in "Elf"; Jess on "New Girl"
Zooey Deschanel
Kyle
$800 [7]
A fun way to hold hands:P _ K _ _
poker
$800 [10]
Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham once played the talking leaf in commercials for this underwear company
Fruit of the Loom
Matt
$800 [14]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical diagram on the monitor.) nasa.gov has a running chart that shows the distance from Earth of both this 1 & this 2; as of January 2016, 1 was 12,500 million miles from us, & 2 was 10,300 million miles
Voyager
Hans Matt
$1,200 [21]
(Hi, I'm John Berman, co-anchor of CNN's Early Start.) In 1762 at the age of 5, this early starter performed at the Bavarian court
Mozart
Matt
$1,200 [3]
Clare in "The Time Traveler's Wife"; Detective Ani Bezzerides on Season 2 of "True Detective"
Rachel McAdams
Kyle
$1,200 [16]
Affirmative action:_ _ D
nod
Kyle
$1,200 [11]
A 20-teens trend is away from those boring identical earrings & toward this alliterative way of choosing a pair
mix and match (or mis match)
Hans
$1,200 [15]
It's theconstellationrepresented here
Libra
Kyle
$2,000 [23]
We'll "wager" you can name this 17th century French philosopher who published an important math essay at age 16
Pascal
Kyle
$1,600 [4]
Ike Turner in "What's Love Got to Do with It"; Pops on "Black-ish"
Laurence Fishburne
Matt
$1,600 [17]
A long way to travel:_ IM _ _ SIN _
limousine
Hans
$1,600 [12]
Geoffrey Beene designed thedressforher1967 White House wedding
Lynda Bird Johnson
Kyle
$1,600 [18]
The Heaven's Gate religious cult believed an alien spacecraft was trailing behind the Hale-Bopp one of these
comet
Matt
DD $4,000 [22]
In 1895 at age 13 he had his first exhibition in a furniture store on Calle Real in the town of La Coruña
Picasso
Matt
$2,000 [5]
Nick, a young professor & guest in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"; Pops on "The Goldbergs"
George Segal
$2,000 [20]
A green activity:_ _ TT _ _ _
putting
$2,000 [13]
19th century crinolines were made of cotton & this animal's hair, which is what "crine" means in Italian
horse
$2,000 [19]
Bearing a mythical princess' name, this nearby-ish spiral galaxy is a bad driver, having collided with other galaxies
Andromeda
Kyle

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. STATES

In 1721 explorer Charlevoix called a point at the border of these 2 states "the finest confluence in the world"

Missouri & Illinois

Hans "What is New York and New Jersey" — wagered $1,401
Matt "What are New York + New Jersey" — wagered $9,200
Kyle "What are Louisiana + Texas?" — wagered $7,001

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