Show #7255 2016-03-11 (taped 2016-01-26) Regular

Contestants

Gordon Moffat — an e-discovery professional from Nashville, Tennessee

Victor Ferreira — a transplant immunologist from Cambridge, Ontario, Canada

Katrina Mundinger — a musician from Minneapolis, Minnesota (whose 2-day cash winnings total $22,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Katrina $1,600 $3,800 $15,400 $10,400
2nd place: $2,000
$10,600
16 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W
Victor $3,400 $3,600 $5,200 $5,200
3rd place: $1,000
$5,200
11 R, 2 W
Gordon $1,600 $8,200 $20,200 $24,700
New champion: $24,700
$20,200
26 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

BUSTED! THE ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS? IT'S THE WURST WEAPONS IN THE BOARD GAME CLUE U.S. GEOGRAPHY FROM "C" TO SHINING "C"
$200 [5]
Seen here is a bust by Rodin of this "Les Miserables" author
Victor Hugo
Victor
$200 [7]
Clampett Oil paid the bills for Jed, Jethro, Granny & Elly May on this sitcom
The Beverly Hillbillies
Katrina
$200 [4]
Thank you, but I'll pass on the Blutwurst, German for this sausage
blood sausage
Gordon
$200 [1]
If you're at "the end of" this, you're out of resources & options
a rope
Gordon
$200 [2]
The Niagara Riveris the only natural outlet of this Great Lake
Lake Erie
Gordon
$200 [21]
Our clue is written in this alphabet
Cyrillic
Victor
$400 [19]
A giganticbustof his head tops hismonumentat Highgate Cemetery in London
Karl Marx
Gordon
$400 [11]
On film & TV, the 2-word name of the fictional company owned by the alter ego of Batman
Wayne Industries (or Wayne Enterprises)
Victor
$400 [6]
Jagdwurstis also known as hunter's this sausage, named for an Italian city
bologna (baloney accepted)
Victor Gordon
$600 [28]
Name of the former park for football's 49ers
Candlestick Park
Gordon
$400 [20]
About 140 miles east of San Francisco, you'll find this national park
Yosemite
Katrina
$400 [3]
Type of unit used to measure 3-dimensional volume
cubic
Gordon
$800 [27]
At the Louvre, you can see Bernini's bust of this French cardinal & statesman
Richelieu
Gordon
$600 [12]
Scavo Pizzeria was opened by Tom & Lynette on this Sunday night series
Desperate Housewives
Victor
$600 [8]
Craving a spicy all-pork Mettwurst? Head to this Ohio "Queen City" once known as "Porkopolis"
Cincinnati
Katrina
$800 [25]
If you do this to your ankle, you've given it a heavy strain
wrench
Gordon
$600 [15]
The highest state capital in the U.S. at about 7,000 feet, it lies in the northern Rio Grande Valley
Santa Fe
Gordon
$600 [17]
Mark Twain said this type of book is one that people praise but don't read
a classic
Gordon
$1,000 [26]
The bust of this Egyptian queen has been called the ultimate symbol of female beauty
Nefertiti
Katrina
$800 [13]
To try & catch the road runner, Wile E. Coyote buys rocket skates & a few other things from this company
Acme
Victor
DD $800 [9]
It's no surprise that Bierwurst is a specialty of this German state that's home to the original Oktoberfest
Bavaria
Katrina
$1,000 [24]
When preceding "cinch", it means a virtual certainty
lead pipe
$800 [16]
This mountain system stretches about 1,500 miles from Maine to Alabama
the Appalachians
Katrina
$800 [22]
Last name of Antoine, the Colonial governor who founded Detroit in 1701
Cadillac
Gordon
$1,000 [14]
Rachel would be there for you, serving up java at this coffeehouse on "Friends"
Central Perk
Gordon
$1,000 [10]
A 2013 Google doodle celebrated the 100th birthday of Herta Heuwer, inventor of this Indian-spiced Berlin specialty
Currywurst
Victor
$1,000 [18]
Ponce de Leon named these "Dry" Florida islands for the abundance of sea turtles in the surrounding waters
the Dry Tortugas
Gordon
$1,000 [23]
A person skeptical of others' motives, or a member of an ancient Greek sect founded by Antis thenes
a cynic
Gordon

Double Jeopardy! Round

A BILLION VIEWS ON YOUTUBE EXPLORATION BUGGY WORDS & PHRASES U.S. FIRSTS THE MIDDLE LITERARY CHARACTERS' LAST WORDS
$400 [1]
More than 1.1 billion heard this singer "Roar"
Katy Perry
Katrina
$400 [21]
Roald Amundsen reached this point in December 1911 & told the world 3 months later in a telegram from Australia
the South Pole
Victor
$400 [6]
This adjective means timeworn as well as destroyed by certain lepidopterans
moth-eaten
Gordon
$400 [29]
Launched in 1965 as the USA's first commercial satellite, it caught TV signals, not "the worm"
the Early Bird
Katrina Victor
$400 [8]
This non-metric race is the glamor event in middle distance running; a "sub-four" one is still notable
a mile
Katrina
$400 [9]
"Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day"
Scarlett O'Hara
Katrina
$800 [2]
1.1 billion saw her sing, "break break break break break" & "fake fake fake fake fake"
Taylor Swift
Gordon
$800 [7]
In the 1850s this Scot wrote the bestseller "Missionary Travels", an account of his explorations
(Dr. David) Livingstone
Katrina
$800 [23]
This high hairstyle created a "buzz" in the 1960s
a beehive
Gordon
$800 [24]
In the 1810 case Fletcher v. Peck, the Supreme Court declared for the first time ever that a state law was this
unconstitutional
Victor
$800 [10]
About the size of Africa, Aphrodite Terrais aplateau regionstretching across the middle of this planet
Venus
Gordon
$800 [15]
In a 1902 novella:"The horror! The horror!"
Kurtz
Gordon
$1,200 [3]
The son of a singing superstar from Spain, he got into the billion club with "Bailando"
Enrique Iglesias
Katrina Victor
$1,200 [13]
While searching for a rich land named El Dorado in 1531, Diego de Ordaz explored this Venezuelan river
the Orinoco
Gordon
$1,200 [22]
The ball is handed off, tossed back to the quarterback, then thrown downfield in this football play
the flea flicker
Gordon
$1,200 [11]
The first accurate date for a volcanic eruption in the U.S. was when this Washington State volcano erupted in 1842
Mount St. Helens
Katrina
$1,200 [12]
A documentary on music for the "Lord of the Rings" films told of "A Composer's Journey Through" this land
Middle-earth
Gordon
$1,600 [27]
In an 1851 novel:"Thus, I give up the spear!"
Ahab
Gordon
$1,600 [4]
"Baby, baby, baby, oh", Justin Bieber & this rapper aka Chris Bridges got views a-plenty with "Baby"
Ludacris
Victor
$1,600 [14]
To prove that pre-Inca voyagers could have settled Polynesia, in 1947 Thor Heyerdahl set sail from Peru on this balsa raft
the Kon-Tiki
Katrina
$1,600 [25]
A nice housewarming gift, itgrows easily in baskets
a spider plant
Katrina
$1,600 [16]
On Sept. 6, 1870 Louisa Swain became the USA's first recorded female voter when she cast a ballot in this future state
Wyoming
Gordon
$1,600 [20]
This leg of the Triangular Trade route took African slaves across the Atlantic to the New World
the Middle Passage
Gordon
$2,000 [28]
Tessie Hutchinson, in this 1948 short story:"It isn't fair, it isn't right"
"The Lottery"
$2,000 [5]
Count the views on "Counting Stars" by this group & it's north of a billion
OneRepublic
$2,000 [18]
In January 1643 this Dutchman left New Zealand & a month later became the first European to reach Fiji
(Abel) Tasman
Katrina Gordon
DD $4,000 [26]
This phrase for a flaw that spoils something good has its origin in Ecclesiastes 10:1
a fly in the ointment
Katrina
$2,000 [17]
Depicting the 5,400 stars visible to man, the USA's first planetarium was this one in Chicago that opened in 1930
the Adler Planetarium
$2,000 [19]
This 3-word Latin phrase means "in the middle of things"
in medias res
Victor Gordon
DD $4,000 [30]
"Bob! Make up the fires, and buy another coal-scuttle before you dot another I, Bob Cratchit!"
(Ebenezer) Scrooge
Katrina

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY DOCUMENTS

Its preamble substituted the words "a permanent federal government" for "a more perfect union"

the Confederate Constitution

Victor "What is the Gettysburg Address?" — wagered $0
Katrina "What is the Constitution?" — wagered $5,000
Gordon "What is the Confederate Const." — wagered $4,500

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