Show #7269 2016-03-31 (taped 2016-02-03) Regular

Contestants

Laura Mogul — an executive director from Port Washington, New York

Fariha Ali — an attorney from Wellesley, Massachusetts

Todd Giese — a hotel front desk manager from New Orleans, Louisiana (whose 2-day cash winnings total $52,402)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Todd $1,200 $2,600 $11,000 $22,000
3-day champion: $74,402
$11,000
16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Fariha $1,400 $3,200 $10,400 $602
2nd place: $2,000
$10,400
15 R, 2 W
Laura $5,200 $8,600 $11,000 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$12,200
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

FIRST NAMES HYDROLOGY COUNTRY RHYME TIME MIDDLE S NATIONAL STATUARY HALL THE COLLEGE/ATHLETE
$200 [5]
This Italian form of Louis is the first name of a Super Mario brother
Luigi
Todd
$200 [16]
This term for the surface flow of excess rainwater sounds like an additional contest after a tie
runoff
Todd
$200 [1]
A large extended family in Yokohama
a Japan clan
Laura
$200 [21]
You have a cavity--this one pertaining to the nose
nasal
Fariha
$200 [11]
Representing Florida is inventor John Gorrie, who pioneered this technology vital to life there in the summer
air conditioning
Todd
$200 [26]
John Elway, Kerri Strug & Tiger Woods had fun out west on the Farm
Stanford
Fariha Laura
$400 [6]
2010's most popular names for girls included Ella, Bella & this No. 1 name that included both of those names
Isabella
Fariha
$400 [17]
A structure such as the Pont du Gard, designed to transport water from a remote source, usually by gravity
aqueduct
Todd
$400 [2]
Single footwear in Lima
a Peru shoe
Laura
$400 [22]
Type of tree, or powdery burn residue
ash
Todd
$400 [12]
John McLoughlin represents this state from which he managed the region between Spanish California & Russian Alaska
Oregon
Todd Laura
$400 [27]
Jim Harbaugh, Chris Webber & Jim Abbott looked a-maize-ing in blue
the University of Michigan
Laura
$600 [7]
This first name of the leader of the Argonauts is perfect for a doctor--it's from the Greek for "healer"
Jason
Todd
$600 [18]
The gradual movement of water through porous openings in rock or soil, it's also a way to make coffee
percolation
Todd
$600 [3]
A father in a landlocked central African country
a Chad dad
Todd
$600 [23]
On the gridiron, this type of "conduct" costs you 15 yards
unsportsmanlike
Laura
$800 [14]
One a priest & one a monarch, they're the 2 men whose statues represent Hawaii in the Hall
Father Damien and King Kamehameha
$600 [28]
Ru-dy! Ru-dy! Rudy Ruettiger, Carl Yastrzemski & Bill Laimbeer
Notre Dame
Laura
$800 [8]
This Old Testament name, that of the youngest of Jacob's 12 sons, means "son of the right hand"
Benjamin
Fariha Laura
$800 [19]
Effluent is wastewater that flows from one of these facilities, like NYC's Bowery Bay
a water treatment facility
Laura
$800 [4]
A home rental agreement in Athens
a Greece lease
Fariha
$800 [24]
This pop style of dancing will never be dead
disco
Laura
$1,000 [15]
One of the statues representing California is of this mission builder canonized in 2015
(Father Junipero) Serra
Laura
$800 [29]
The real "Crash" Davis, Sonny Jurgensen & Christian Laettner had Carolina in their minds
Duke
Fariha
$1,000 [9]
Think of the French for "born", used before a woman's maiden name, & you'll know this female name means "born again"
Renée
Laura
$1,000 [20]
In the Americas this hydrological line stretches from Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska down to Southern Patagonia
the Continental Divide
Todd
$1,000 [10]
A song's chorus in Kiev
a Ukraine refrain
Fariha
$1,000 [25]
Direct pecuniary aid given by government to a private business
subsidy
DD $1,400 [13]
A statue of this governor & assassination victim stands solid for Louisiana
Huey Long
Laura
$1,000 [30]
Mark McGwire, Reggie Bush & O.J. (We mean Mayo!)
USC
Fariha

Double Jeopardy! Round

I LOVE A SYMPHONY PUP QUIZ THE WINE CELLAR ODD WORDS VICTOR HUGO AWARD-WINNING NOVELS
$400 [24]
The melody of the third movement of Gustav Mahler's "Titan" symphony is based on this French children's song
"Frère Jacques"
Laura
$400 [1]
Despite being a total chicken, this animated Great Dane stumbles on clues to help Fred & the gang solve mysteries
Scooby-Doo
Fariha
$400 [13]
A fruity pink wine is white zin, short for this
Zinfandel
Todd
$400 [7]
If your celebrating your octingentenary in 2016, you were born in this year
1216
Laura
$400 [2]
The 48 B.C. Battle of Pharsalus: This comer, seer & conqueror
Julius Caesar
Fariha
$400 [9]
J.K. Rowling won in 2001 for this novel partly about an object full of flames
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Fariha
$800 [25]
"Merrymaking of the Country Folk" is the third movement of his "Pastoral" symphony
Beethoven
Laura
$800 [16]
Mickey Mouse's companion, he had his own cartoon shorts including 1945's "Canine Casanova"
Pluto
Fariha
$800 [17]
The CMS, the Court of Master these, has guidelines for its professionals, including what to do if wine is spilled on a guest
a sommelier
Fariha
$800 [8]
Buffy Summers knows that sanguivorous means subsisting on this
blood
Fariha
$800 [3]
The Wars of the Roses: This noble house
Tudor or Lancaster
Fariha
$800 [10]
This author's 5 Hugo-winning novels include "Farmer in the Sky" & "Starship Troopers"
Robert Heinlein
$1,600 [27]
"Lamentation" is one movement of Leonard Bernstein's symphony named for this Biblical prophet
Jeremiah
Todd
$1,200 [21]
Lucky dog! Legend has it that this Warner Bros. German Shepherd died in the arms of Jean Harlow
Rin Tin Tin
Todd
$1,200 [18]
In the U.S., if a wine label says "contains" these, SO2was used, probably as a preservative
sulfites
Todd
$1,200 [12]
Decorticate a birch & you are peeling this from it
bark
Fariha
$1,200 [4]
In 2 Samuel: This King of Israel over the Philistines, whom he smote from Gera to Gazer
David
$1,200 [11]
Frederik Pohl's 1978 winner "Gateway" is about an abandoned alien base "formed around" one of these space rocks
an asteroid
Todd
DD $2,000 [26]
Fitting 4-word subtitle of the Dvorak symphony Neil Armstrong listened to on his trip to the moon
"From the New World"
Laura
$1,600 [22]
This boy reporter & adventurer created by Herge has a dog named Snowy
Tintin
Laura
$1,600 [19]
This adjective means that wine has been made stronger by the addition of a spirit; sherry is one type
fortified
Todd
$1,600 [14]
A zapata, inspired by Emiliano Zapata's, is one of these that curves down on each side
a mustache
Todd Laura
$1,600 [5]
The Battle of Antietam: The Army of this river
the Potomac
Laura
$1,600 [29]
This author won twice in a row in the 1980s, for "Speaker for the Dead" & "Ender's Game"
Orson Scott Card
Fariha
$2,000 [28]
An 1829 visit to Holyrood Palace inspired Felix Mendelssohn to write this "national" symphony
"The Scottish Symphony"
Laura
$2,000 [23]
Brad Anderson created this comic strip canine back in 1954
Marmaduke
DD $2,000 [20]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Viticulture & Enology Department at UC Davis.) A treasure of the special collections room is a 1934 vintage from Chateau Latour, one of the four chateaux that in 1855 received first growth status in this French region
Bordeaux
Todd
$2,000 [15]
Mafficking, which means boisterous celebrating, was inspired by the end of the Siege of Mafeking in this war
the Boer War
Todd
$2,000 [6]
The 431-404 B.C. Peloponnesian War: The alliance headed by this city-state
Sparta
Todd
$2,000 [30]
A new planet's appearance wreaks havoc on Earth in this 1965 winner named for what "planet" means in Greek
The Wanderer

Final Jeopardy!

THE OSCARS

Since 1998 this actress has received 7 Oscar nominations, the most earned after age 60 by any performer

Dame Judi Dench

Fariha "Who Meryl Streep?" — wagered $9,798
Laura "Who is Katherine Hepburn?" — wagered $11,000
Todd "Who is Judi Dench?" — wagered $11,000

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