Show #7265 2016-03-25 (taped 2016-02-02) Regular

WE ASKED: Actress Audra McDonald.

Contestants

Sam Gale — a test reader and evaluator from Kernersville, North Carolina

Doug Behrend — a college professor from Fayetteville, Arkansas

Sarah Thompson — an art history professor from Rochester, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,999)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Sarah	$0	$1,000	$8,200	$14,200 2nd place: $2,000	$8,200 10 R, 3 W
Doug	$5,800	$6,400	$9,200	$16,401 New champion: $16,401	$11,400 24 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Sam	$3,000	$4,000	$7,000	$9,900 3rd place: $1,000	$9,200 14 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME	PLAYTIME WITH SHAKESPEARE	SPOT THE CANADIAN	CONTAINERS	U.S. GEOGRAPHY	AUDRA McDONALD ON BROADWAY
$200 [15] To push someone violently & to take something away shove & remove Sam	$200 [1] "The M of V" The Merchant of Venice Doug	$200 [16] Neil Diamond, Neil Sedaka, Neil Young Neil Young Doug	$200 [25] 20 cubic yards of capacity is a common size for this now-generic term for a large mobile trash receptacle a dumpster Sam	$200 [2] John Tyler, James Monroe, & Jefferson Davis are all buried in this Virginia city's Hollywood Cemetery Richmond	$200 [26] (Audra McDonald presents the clue.) A new storm was brewing on Catfish Row when "Porgy and Bess", with music & lyrics by these brothers, was revived on Broadway in 2012 the Gershwins Doug
$400 [7] The highest singing voice & a fissure in the earth's crust soprano & volcano Doug	$400 [11] "M for M" Measure for Measure Doug	$400 [17] James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel Seth Rogen Sarah Sam	$400 [24] It's the part of a bovine that was once used as a gunpowder container the horn Sam	$400 [3] Name shared by the state where St. Joseph is located & the river it's on Missouri Doug	$400 [27] (Audra McDonald presents the clue.) "Master Class" by Terrence Mc Na Mc Na Mc Na Mc Na Mc Na Mc Na Mc NaMcNallypiredaiesclassesenJuilliard by this Greek-American opera diva Maria Callas Sarah
$600 [8] To send someone away forever & a breakfast pastry banish & Danish Doug	$600 [12] With action at Agincourt, "H the F" Henry V Doug	$600 [18] Pavel Bure, Dino Ciccarelli, Jari Kurri Dino Ciccarelli Doug	$600 [21] The amphora was a container used to hold this; in the "Odyssey", Telemachus asks for 12 amphorae full of it wine Sarah	$600 [4] If you want to cross this California range, the best way is to use the Donner Pass over 7,000 feet up the Sierra Nevada Doug	$600 [28] (Audra McDonald presents the clue.) My performance in "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill" was challenging for me because I was portraying not only the unique vocal style, but also the physical deterioration of this legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday Sarah
$800 [9] A watercraft & a person such as Prime Minister Tihomir Oreskovic a boat & a Croat Doug	$800 [13] "A Y L I" As You Like It Sam	$800 [19] Kelly Ayotte, Kim Campbell, Kirsten Gillibrand Kim Campbell	$1,000 [23] Ladle me out some soup from this serving container tureen Sarah	$800 [5] In WWII 28,000 aviators trained in & around this Florida Panhandle city Pensacola Doug	$800 [29] (Audra McDonald presents the clue.) In 1994 this Rodgers & Hammerstein musical about carnival barker Billy Bigelow had a new go-round on Broadway Carousel Doug
$1,000 [10] Full-grown & the physical world including all living things mature & nature Sam	$1,000 [14] "T of A" Timon of Athens Sam	$1,000 [20] Milton Friedman, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Maynard Keynes John Kenneth Galbraith	DD $2,200 [22] This 4-letter term refers to a coffin as people are bearing it to the grave pall Doug	$1,000 [6] Billings, Montana is found on this "colorful" river that shares its name with a major attraction Yellowstone Doug	$1,000 [30] (Audra McDonald presents the clue.) I shared the stage with Sean Combs & Phylicia Rashad in a 2004 revival of this Lorraine Hansberry drama A Raisin in the Sun Doug

Double Jeopardy! Round

A CATEGORY FULL OF COR(E)YS	PHILOSOPHY	GANG GREEN	STARTS WITH ONE LETTER, ENDS WITH THE NEXT	HALT!	WHO GOES THERE
$400 [1] President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992, she used the nickname Cory Corazon Aquino Doug	$400 [17] The wise ruler seen as ideal in Plato's "Republic" is known as the philosopher-this a philosopher-king Sarah	$400 [3] He pitches peas & other veggies from a valley the Green Giant Sam	$400 [8] To snooze past the appointed time of waking oversleep Doug	$400 [13] The armistice bringing this to a halt was signed July 27, 1953 Korean War Doug	$400 [24] "We have to be everywhere, behind the lines", said a WHO rep for this country discussing its recent conflict with Russia Ukraine Sarah
$800 [2] In 1953 Robert Corey & Linus Pauling said its structure was 3 strands twisted around each other like a rope (wrong) DNA Sam	$800 [18] Polytheism says there are many gods in the universe; this -ism says the whole universe is God pantheism	$800 [4] Luke he helps & Darth Vader he once taught Yoda Sam	$800 [9] A grumbler or a killjoy, like Oscar grouch Sam	$800 [14] An 1894 strike named for this railroad car manufacturer paralyzed trains all across the United States Pullman Doug	$800 [25] In Malawi, WHO helps vaccinate dogs against this transmissible disease that kills more than 500 people there a year rabies Sam
$1,200 [22] Corey Hawkins played Dr. Dre in this hip-hop biopic Straight Outta Compton Doug	$1,200 [19] This 19th-century German philosopher asked "Is man only a blunder of God, or is God only a blunder of man?" (Friedrich) Nietzsche Sarah Doug	$1,200 [5] When angered, this doctor becomes the incredible green guy known as The Hulk Bruce Banner Doug	$1,200 [10] If you "go" this, a term describing some weapons, you become overwrought ballistic	$1,200 [15] U.N. Resolution 338 called for an immediate halt to this October 1973 war the Yom Kippur War	$1,200 [26] In 2014 WHO went to the C.A.R., this country, & vaccinated more than 100,000 children against measles Central African Republic Doug
$1,600 [23] He's the first African American from New Jersey to serve in the U.S. Senate Cory Booker Doug	$1,600 [20] 1789's "Principles of Morals" by this man defined utilitarianism as the greatest good for the greatest number (Jeremy) Bentham Sarah Doug	$1,600 [6] Kato becomes this TV hero's assistant the Green Hornet Sarah	$2,000 [12] Also called Guanhua, it's spoken by hundreds of millions of people Mandarin Doug	DD $1,600 [16] This transit-based historic event began December 5, 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott Doug	$1,600 [27] "We know the risks", said WHO's Alaa Abu-Zaid of the dangers of providing immunizations in this Somali capital Mogadishu Sam
$2,000 [30] Edwin Arlington Robinson wrote a poem about this rich, enviable gentleman who yet kills himself Richard Cory Sarah	$2,000 [21] The fundamental question of philosophy is whether life is worth living, he wrote in "The Myth of Sisyphus" (Albert) Camus Sarah	$2,000 [7] He's appointed the conscience of a wooden boy Jiminy Cricket Sam	DD $2,200 [11] This cooking item is Japanese for "fire bowl" hibachi Sam	$2,000 [29] This Napoleonic system tried to stop trade between mainland Europe & Great Britain the Continental System Sarah	$2,000 [28] A 2015 WHO meeting in New Delhi promoted alternatives to this crop implicated in 6 mil. annual deaths tobacco Doug Sam

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY INVENTIONS

In the 1950s physicist Louis Essen built the 1st practical one of these, noting that it wouldn't give you the time of day

an atomic clock

Sam "What is the atomic clock?" — wagered $2,900

Sarah "What isa nuclearan atomic clock" — wagered $6,000

Doug "What is an atomic clock?" — wagered $7,201

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