Show #7266 2016-03-28 (taped 2016-02-03) Regular

Contestants

Erin Bowers — a patent examiner from Washington, D.C.

Kent Buxton — a medical student from Kansas City, Missouri

Doug Behrend — a college professor from Fayetteville, Arkansas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Doug $1,600 $1,200 $15,000 $22,900
2nd place: $2,000
$14,600
15 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Kent $6,200 $7,000 $11,400 $22,798
3rd place: $1,000
$11,400
16 R, 1 W
Erin $1,000 $3,200 $18,000 $30,001
New champion: $30,001
$18,000
20 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

TARZAN REVIEW BOOKS IT'S BROWN LET'S GO ONLINE REPUBLICANS GRAND OLD PARTY WAYS TO REACH FIRST BASE
$200 [5]
Title guy abandoned, alone for part of 28 years. On island, not jungle, but Tarzan relate
Robinson Crusoe
Kent Erin
$200 [16]
Also a type of pants, this brown shade gets its name from the Urdu word for "dusty"
khaki
Kent
$200 [10]
On May 15, 2007 Shawn Cotter used this site to prank friends, creating the rickroll
YouTube
Kent
$200 [15]
After the Civil War the "Radical Republicans" were committed to the enfranchisement of these people
slaves (African-Americans accepted)
Erin
$200 [21]
A crazy party, a car tire explosion or a sporting event whose score is not close
a blowout
Doug
$400 [1]
4 wide ones
walk (or base on balls)
Doug
$400 [6]
This "happy" 1989 Amy Tan novel give Tarzan interesting take on Asian-American women. Tarzan world view expanded
The Joy Luck Club
Erin
$400 [17]
Heat sugar or syrup until it turns brown & you get this flavoring & color
caramel
Erin
$400 [11]
Time to get down to business on wsj.com, this publication's website
The Wall Street Journal
Doug
$600 [26]
In 1884 Thomas Nast referred to an image he created for the Republican party as "the sacred" this
elephant
Kent
$400 [25]
Take 3 letters off the end of one of Snow White's dwarfs & you get this kind of lively celebration
bash
Doug
$600 [2]
Craig Biggio had it happen 285 times; ouch!
being hit by a pitch
Kent
$600 [7]
Tarzan enjoy dark humor but ponder insanity of war after read bombardier snared in Air Force bureaucracy
Catch-22
Kent
$600 [18]
Named for its cigar-like color, the Havana Brown is a breed of this animal
a cat
$600 [12]
An online "Phase II" of "Star Trek" had this George Takei character travel through time & again help save the Enterprise
Sulu
Erin
$800 [27]
The Tea Party's first major rallies on April 15, 2009 had some claiming its name meant this "enough already"
taxed
$800 [23]
Wunderland is this type of festive 'hall for all occasions"
a banquet hall
Doug
$800 [3]
A defensive player handles a grounder but throws to another base to get the force out
a fielder's choice
Doug
$800 [8]
1st E.L. James book in series. That one messed-up couple! Tarzan eyes wide as Tarzan read but Tarzan adult! Can handle!
Fifty Shades of Grey
Kent
$800 [19]
Lending his name to a reddish-brown glaze, 16th century artist Piccolpasso "threw" together the earliest book on this craft
pottery
Erin
$800 [13]
knowyourmeme.com has a listing for this service "and chill"
Netflix
Kent
$1,000 [28]
In 2009hebecame the first African-American chairman of the Republican National Committee
Michael Steele
Erin
$1,000 [24]
4-letter French word for a day of celebration
fête
Erin
$1,000 [4]
The catcher makes contact with a batter, impeding or hindering him
interference
Kent
$1,000 [9]
Tarzan see what Huxley doing! Take title from line in "Tempest"! Irony noted in Tarzan Tuesday book group
Brave New World
Kent
$1,000 [20]
The tree & the resulting sideboard seenheregive us the name of this reddish brown
mahogany
Erin
$1,000 [14]
"Get to all your files from anywhere, on any device, and share them with anyone", says this .com
Dropbox
Kent
DD $1,800 [22]
Hemingway said his Paris days were like one of these, a phrase for a religious celebration that's not a fixed date
a moveable feast
Doug

Double Jeopardy! Round

WOMEN IN SCIENCE 5 QUESTIONS CHICAGO TV THE 1880s SWAMPED MAY I HAVE A WORD WITH "U"?
$400 [2]
In 1702 Maria Winckelmann Kirch became the first woman to discover one of these heavenly travelers
a comet
Erin
$400 [6]
This author's novels include 1863's "Five Weeks in a Balloon"
(Jules) Verne
Erin
$400 [26]
In 2015 this drama about Windy City doctors joined the "Chicago P.D." & "Chicago Fire" franchise
Chicago Med
$400 [12]
On Aug. 5, 1884, William A. Brodie, Grand Master of Masons in New York, laid the cornerstone for this monument
the Statue of Liberty
Kent
$400 [20]
The Al-Sudd swamp of South Sudan is formed by this branch of the Nile
the White Nile
Doug Kent
$400 [1]
Specific word meaning "not found in the phone book"
unlisted
Kent
$800 [3]
In 1929 President Herbert Hoover presented her with a $50,000 check to buy a gram of radium for a Warsaw lab
Marie Curie
Erin
$800 [8]
On the Saffir-Simpson scale, the most destructive of these are classified as category 5
hurricanes
Erin
$800 [27]
On one show named for this comic, he played a Chicago shrink who shared his secretary with a dentist
Bob Newhart
Doug
$800 [13]
This organization founded in 1888 promised it wouldn't be "confined to professional geographers"
the National Geographic Society
Erin
$800 [24]
In the Pantanal Floodplains of central Brazil, you might encounter anacondas &these rodents
capybaras
Erin
$800 [16]
As an adjective, it can simply mean "under the navel"
umbilical
Kent
$1,200 [4]
Leona Woods was the only woman on Enrico Fermi's team, which produced the first controlled one of these in 1942
nuclear reaction, or nuclear explosion
Doug
$1,200 [9]
A Naval training center in Illinois is named for this geographic quintet
the Great Lakes
Erin
$1,200 [28]
If this sitcom was titled with the characters' last names instead of their first, it would be "Mr. Biggs & Ms. Flynn"
Mike & Molly
Erin
$1,200 [14]
The 1883 eruption of this Indonesian volcano was heard as far away as Perth, Australia
Krakatoa
Kent
$1,200 [21]
This state's Atchafalaya Basin is the USA's largest river swamp
Louisiana
Doug
$1,200 [17]
From the Latin for "further", these "motives" are purposely left hidden
ulterior
Erin
$2,000 [7]
In 1929 this anthropologist traveled to New Guinea to study children there
Margaret Mead
Erin
$1,600 [10]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a biology diagram on the monitor.) Metaphase is the third stage of five stages of the production of two cells from an existing one, a process known by this term
mitosis
Doug
$1,600 [29]
The 1950s drama "The Untouchables" was based on a memoir of the same name written by this Chicago g-man
Elliot Ness
Doug
$1,600 [15]
In 1886, this 4-letter German patented his 3-wheeled motorwagen, which many consider the first automobile
(Karl) Benz
Doug
$2,000 [23]
Home to groves of black gum, juniper & water ash, the Great Dismal Swamp straddles Virginia & this state
North Carolina
$1,600 [18]
A direction begins this word for a youngster who has risen annoyingly quickly through the ranks
an upstart
Erin
DD $2,400 [5]
In June 1960 she began studying Vervet monkeys on an island in Lake Victoria, as a trial run for her later chimp studies
Jane Goodall
Doug
$2,000 [11]
In the late 1500s the "Five Nations" of this confederacy were the Onodaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Cayuga & Seneca
the Iroquois Confederacy
Erin
$2,000 [30]
Subtitle of the 1970s show that starred Darren McGavin as Carl Kolchak, a reporter covering the supernatural
The Night Stalker
Erin
$2,000 [25]
Charles Martin Hall invented a cheap process for extracting aluminum from this ore
bauxite
Kent
DD $3,000 [22]
Sundari, a type of mangrove tree, is prominent in the Sundarbans Swamp, located in these two nations
India and Bangladesh
Doug
$2,000 [19]
"I take" this with your remark, sir, meaning my annoyance is throttingly high
umbrage
Erin

Final Jeopardy!

TEXTILES

In 1939 this new product was touted as being strong as steel, fine as a spider's web & more elastic than natural fibers

nylon

Kent "What is nylon" — wagered $11,398
Doug "What is nylon?" — wagered $7,900
Erin "What is nylon?" — wagered $12,001

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