Show #7258 2016-03-16 (taped 2016-01-27) Regular

Contestants

Elena Gray-Blanc — an editor originally from Santa Barbara, California

Geoff Mitelman — a rabbi from Westchester County, New York

Philip Tiu — an educator from Atlanta, Georgia (whose 2-day cash winnings total $71,098)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Philip $0 $2,800 $23,800 $25,500
3-day champion: $96,598
$16,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Geoff $4,400 $7,400 $11,000 $11,000
2nd place: $2,000
$11,000
18 R, 2 W
Elena $1,600 $1,200 $1,200 $2,399
3rd place: $1,000
$1,200
5 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY NOVELS BY QUOTE I HAVE A PREPOSITION FOR YOU BEHAVIOR & PSYCHOLOGY GET A GRIP ON IT THE NATIONAL ROAD
$200 [15]
"I shall fix some things she like not--garlic and a crucifix--and so seal up the door of the tomb"
Dracula
Philip
$200 [9]
These 2 prepositions are absolutely critical in a crossword puzzle
across & down
Geoff Elena
$400 [2]
A treatment called exposure & response prevention tries to ease this type of behavior, the "C" in OCD
compulsive
Philip
$400 [20]
Get a Nokia 6350, this type of old-school item named for how it opens
a flip phone
Geoff
$400 [10]
The chance to be chief construction grip on 1990's Part III of this was an offer Louis Petraglia couldn't refuse
The Godfather
Geoff
$600 [5]
In 1838 the section in this state from Centerville to Terre Haute was completed at a cost of $1,136,000
Indiana
Philip
$600 [4]
"...fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom!"
The Scarlet Letter
Geoff
$400 [18]
As a noun, it's your rear; as a preposition, it means toward the rear
behind
Geoff
$600 [12]
Sleepwalking is also called this -ism
somnambulism
Geoff
$600 [17]
Try the fettuccine with this butter, cream & cheese sauce named for an Italian restaurateur
Alfredo sauce
Elena
$600 [25]
As key grip on this AMC series from 2007 to 2015, Pat O'Mara helped light up 1960s Manhattan
Mad Men
Geoff
$800 [11]
The road first spanned the Ohio River in 1849 when a bridge at Wheeling was built in what's now this state; it is still in use
West Virginia
Geoff
$800 [3]
"She was only beginning to realize... she was... on her way home to grandfather, and would see the mountains"
Heidi
Philip
$600 [19]
It means against, whether in a legal action or a sports contest
versus
Geoff
$800 [13]
From the Greek for "self law", it's the ability of an individual to be have independently of others' control
autonomy
Geoff
$800 [21]
Pick up a pair of Jack Purcell Signature sneakers from this All Star brand
Converse
Philip
$800 [24]
Filming this Selznick classic, grip Fred Williams turned on a radio & the crew learned Britain & Germany were at war
Gone with the Wind
Philip
$1,000 [23]
Much of the National Road was built using small stones & a method developed by this Scottish engineer
Macadam
Philip
$1,000 [1]
"'Jarndyce of'" this residence, "said Mr. Kenge. 'A dreary name', said the Lord Chancellor"
Bleak House
Geoff
$800 [8]
Meaning "more distant than", it also follows "the great" to denote the afterlife
beyond
Elena
$1,000 [14]
Dr. Abraham Maslow worked to understand human behavior by relating it to his "hierarchy of" these
needs
Elena
$1,000 [22]
Get a 500 sport model with alloy wheels & red brake calipers from this brand founded in Turin in 1899
Fiat
Elena
$1,000 [16]
As key grip on this 1998 blockbuster, Jim Kwiatkowski helped make Ireland's coast look like Omaha Beach
Saving Private Ryan
Geoff
DD $1,800 [6]
"'That's a fine death!' said Napoleon as he gazed at Bolkonsky"
War and Peace
Philip
$1,000 [7]
You "go" this "to get" this to make a social situation go smoothly
along

Double Jeopardy! Round

THIS IS MY PEOPLE WORLD CITIES TULIP MANIA 9-LETTER WORDS THE WRIGHT BROTHERS MUSICIANS' AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
$400 [15]
Nanook, real name Allakariallak
the Inuit
Elena
$400 [16]
This capital on the Vltava River was once the capital of the kingdom of Bohemia
Prague
Philip
$400 [25]
A white tulip is said to represent forgiveness; this color stands for perfect love
red
Geoff
$400 [1]
This canvas or polyethylene item is used to cover athletic fields as protection from the rain
tarpaulin
Philip
$400 [19]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Wright Brothers Nat'l Memorial.) Seeking a place for test flights with strong winds, privacy & sand for soft landings, the Wrights wrote a letter to the U.S. weather bureau & received a list of possible locations; this small fishing village on North Carolina's Outer Banks was just perfect
Kitty Hawk
Philip
$2,000 [21]
"Out of Sync"(2007)
Lance Bass
Geoff
$800 [11]
WWII code talker John Brown Jr.
the Navajo
Geoff
$800 [17]
This most populous city of India was built on what were originally 7 islands, including Colaba & Parel
Mumbai
Philip Geoff
$800 [3]
Since 1980 the tulip has served as the symbol of this disease also known as shaking palsy
Parkinson's
Geoff
$800 [2]
To render beautiful or add fictitious details to a story
embellish
Geoff
$800 [22]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Wright Brothers Nat'l Memorial in Kill Devil Hills, NC.) Frustrated with the data then available concerning wing & propeller designs, the Wrights built their own wind tunnel & tested dozens of models to see what shapes produced the most lift & the least of this force--the resistance to forward motion
drag
Philip
$1,200 [12]
Crazy Horse
the Sioux
Philip
$1,200 [10]
An 18th century tobacco factory made famous in "Carmen" is now home to this city's university
Seville
Philip
$1,200 [4]
The tulip's name is derived from a Turkish word for this, a headdress consisting of one long piece of cloth
turban
Philip
$1,200 [7]
In 2015 Denis Mikhaylov set a world record by running 80.53 miles in 12 hours on this
treadmill
Philip
$1,200 [23]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Wright Brothers Nat'l Memorial in Kill Devil Hills, NC.) To provide more thrust, the Wrights used two propellers driven by a bicycle chain & sprocket; the laminated spruce propellers were carved by hand & mounted so they'd rotate in opposite directions, canceling out this twisting force
torque
Philip
$2,000 [13]
33 high-steel workers killed in the 1907 Quebec Bridge collapse
Mohawk
$1,600 [9]
This city is the center of Nigeria's thriving motion picture industry, often called Nollywood
Lagos
Geoff
$1,600 [20]
The tulip tree, named for its tulip-like flowers, is also known by this "widely liked" name
poplar
$1,600 [6]
From the Greek for "2 sounds", it's the name of the transition sound like that made by the "O-I" in "boil"
diphthong
Philip
$1,600 [24]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Wright Brothers Nat'l Memorial in Kill Devil Hills, NC.) A device called an elevator was placed on the front of the Wrights' plane for more efficiency & to protect the pilot in case of a crash; operated by a lever, it adjusted this upward and downward motion of the plane's nose
pitch
Elena
DD $11,000 [14]
Cochise & Geronimo
the Apache
Philip
$2,000 [8]
The Confederation Chamber in Province House in this capital of P.E.I. is called the "Birthplace of Canada"
Charlottetown
Philip
$2,000 [18]
The tulip is the national flower of this country where it originated in the Pamir & Hindukush Mountains
Afghanistan
Philip Geoff Elena
$2,000 [5]
A punny riddle
conundrum
Philip

Final Jeopardy!

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

The last prisoner moved before the Bastille was stormed, this nobleman left behind the manuscript for his most infamous work

the Marquis de Sade

Elena "Who was de Sade" — wagered $1,199
Geoff "Who is Voltaire?" — wagered $0
Philip "Who was the Marquis de Sade?" — wagered $1,700

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