Show #7275 2016-04-08 (taped 2016-02-23) Regular

Contestants

Ricky Young — a tax accountant originally from Canyonville, Oregon

Kim Rohrer — a web production manager from Ossining, New York

Ken Sansone — an assistant attorney general from Bedford, New Hampshire (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ken $2,600 $2,200 $1,000 $1,999
3rd place: $1,000
$1,000
11 R, 5 W
Kim $1,200 $4,400 $12,400 $22,799
2nd place: $2,000
$13,200
17 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Ricky $4,200 $6,600 $25,200 $25,599
New champion: $25,599
$21,800
23 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

BIRD WORDS & PHRASES U.S. STATES THEY SING, THEY ACT THERE'S CHEMISTRY BETWEEN US 7 UP BRING YOUR "B" GAME
$200 [26]
The most direct route is straight as this bird flies
the crow
Kim
$200 [14]
The coldest on average
Alaska
Ken
$200 [2]
"Evergreen","Yentl"
Barbra Streisand
Ken
$200 [18]
Chemically, this stimulant is the principal alkaloid of coca leaves
cocaine
Ken
$200 [24]
In the 100s B.C. Antipater of Sidon made one of the earliest known references to this group of sites
the Seven Wonders of the World
Kim
$200 [10]
Here's the specialized board for this game
backgammon
Ken
$400 [27]
You might be "happy as" this bird whose name also means a merry, carefree adventure
a lark
Ricky
$400 [15]
The northernmost
Alaska
Ricky
$400 [6]
"Pump Ya Brakes" (featuring Snoop Dogg),"After Earth"
Will Smith
Ricky
$400 [19]
The EPA says it's a problem if water has more of this element than 15 parts per billion; in 2015 Flint, Mich. tested at 27
lead
Kim
$400 [23]
At about 3 million square miles, it's the smallest of the world's 7 continents
Australia
Ricky
$400 [5]
Each player's fleet includes a submarine & a destroyer in this classic board game
Battleship
Ricky
$600 [28]
Something that serves as a warning to others is this bird "in a coal mine"
a canary
Kim
$600 [13]
The westernmost
Alaska
Kim
$600 [7]
"Edge of the Earth","Dallas Buyers Club"
Jared Leto
Ken Ricky
$600 [20]
From 1947 to 1951, after graduating from Oxford, she worked as a research chemist before becoming a world leader
Thatcher
Kim
$600 [11]
Play well at "Lucky Seven" on this TV show & you can buy a car for a dollar
The Price Is Right
Ken
$600 [1]
Appropriately, the 2015 world championships in this Italian bowling game were held in Rome, Italy
bocce
Kim
$800 [29]
It's the avian name for the type of compartment seen here
pigeonholes
Ricky
$800 [16]
The one with the most coastline
Alaska
Ken
$800 [8]
"Dance Again" (featuring Pitbull),"The Wedding Planner"
Jennifer Lopez
Ken
$800 [21]
Less than 7 represents acidity on this scale that mostly ranges from 0 to 14
pH
Ricky
$800 [12]
The 7 classification groups of these include herding, sporting & working
dogs
Ricky
$800 [3]
In the book "Casino Royale", 007's mission is to ruin a Russian operative at this royal casino game
baccarat
Ricky
$1,000 [30]
In carpentry, it's a type of joint, leading to its other meaning of "fit together harmoniously"
dovetail
Kim
$1,000 [17]
The first alphabetically
Alabama
Kim
$1,000 [9]
"Naughty Girl","Austin Powers in Goldmember"
Beyoncé
Ricky
$1,000 [22]
A boiling dilute acid breaks down starch into a simple sugar called this
glucose
Ken
DD $800 [25]
When the G7 economic group was formed in 1976, this was its only Asian country
Japan
Kim
$1,000 [4]
In the movie "Atlantic City", Susan Sarandon played an aspiring dealer of this game
blackjack
Ricky

Double Jeopardy! Round

A SWEDISH KING NAMED GUS ME & MY LITERARY ARROW VILLAINS IN THE COMICS WORLD LANDMARKS 19th CENTURY TRANSPORTATION "GET" GOING
$400 [26]
Carl XVI Gustaf, current king of Sweden, is the great-great-grandson of this British monarch
Queen Victoria
$400 [5]
In Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe", the mysterious archer called Locksley turns out to be this legendary bowman
Robin Hood
Kim
$400 [8]
Otto Octavius is the real name of this heavily armed Spider-Man villain
Doctor Octopus
Ricky
$400 [17]
Worshippers at this Jerusalem holy site insert bits of paper containing written prayers into its cracks
the Wailing Wall
Kim
$400 [20]
This author wrote about traveling from Missouri to Nevada on a stagecoach he called a "cradle on wheels"
Mark Twain
Ken
$400 [2]
A lump of something, perhaps gold
a nugget
Ken
$800 [27]
At the 1912 Olympic games, Gustav V told this American, "Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world"
Jim Thorpe
Kim
$800 [6]
The son of King Thranduil, this skilled archer is the elven member of Tolkien's "Fellowship of the Ring"
Legolas
Ricky
$800 [9]
No 3-strikes law in Metropolis--Superman first fought this alliterative arch-foe in 1940
Lex Luthor
Ricky
$800 [15]
Around 1400 B.C. Thutmose IV ordered a team to dig out the buried front paws of this landmark
the Sphinx
Ricky
$800 [19]
This city's Market Street cable railway began running in 1883
San Francisco
Kim
$800 [4]
Old-timey word meaning to procreate
to beget
Kim
$1,200 [28]
Deposed in 1809, Gustav IV Adolf went into exile using this last name, which makes sense as his father was Gustav III
Gustafsson
Ken
$1,200 [18]
In "The Inheritors" by William Golding, Lok is one of these humanoids, doomed after meeting bow-&-arrow-toting modern man
a Neanderthal
Ken Ricky
$1,200 [10]
Marvel says this Fantastic Four foe is 6'2", 225 in civvies; 6'7", 415 in armor
Dr. Doom
Ricky
$1,200 [13]
The pediment of his memorial contains a sculpture of the 5 members of the Declaration of Independence Drafting Committee
Jefferson
Ricky
$1,200 [21]
By 1886 you didn't have to ferry across the Mersey from this city to Birkenhead; you could take a train tunnel
Liverpool
Ricky
$1,200 [3]
It's about 40 miles southwest of Harrisburg
Gettysburg
Kim
$1,600 [29]
An amateur botanist, Gustav VI Adolf was an expert on this flower whose name is Greek for "rose tree"
the Rhododendron
$1,600 [24]
The story of a band of outlaws during the Wars of the Roses, "The Black Arrow" is an 1888 novel by this Scotsman
Robert Louis Stevenson
Ken
$1,600 [11]
This dick sent Benny the Grip to prison in 1955
Dick Tracy
Ken
$1,600 [12]
Sainte-Chappelle, with fabulousstained glass windows, stands near the more famous Notre-Dame Cathedral on this island
the Île de la Cité (in Paris)
$2,000 [23]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows photos of transports on the monitor.) The disparity in wheel sizes of a tricycle duplicates the differentiated wheel sizes of this adult transport that first rolled upon the world stage in the 1870s
a penny-farthing
Ricky
$1,600 [1]
The L.A. art center named for this tycoon opened in 1997
(Paul) Getty
Kim
$2,000 [30]
A patron of the arts, Gustav III reigned over an intellectual & cultural period of the 18th c. called Sweden's this
Enlightenment
Ken
$2,000 [25]
In the "Odyssey", for a chance to marry this woman, you will have to first string her husband Odysseus' bow
Penelope
Kim
$2,000 [14]
The Red Skull debuted as Hitler's henchman in the March 1941 first issue of this comic
Captain America
Ricky
DD $3,000 [16]
The El Caracol structure at the ruins of this ancient Mayan city in Mexico served as a 10th century observatory
Chichen Itza
Ricky
DD $4,000 [22]
The first production one of these in the U.S. was 1898's Orient-Aster, preceding the Indian brand by 3 years
motorcycle
Ricky
$2,000 [7]
Figuratively, to sip of nepenthe
forget

Final Jeopardy!

SPORTS MASCOTS

This Major League team has no mascot today, but from 1979 to 1981 used a mustachioed fella named Dandy

the Yankees

Ken "What are the Yankees?" — wagered $999
Kim "What are the Yankees?" — wagered $10,399
Ricky "What are the NY Yankees?" — wagered $399

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