Show #7280 2016-04-15 (taped 2016-03-01) Regular

Andrew Pau game 1.

Contestants

McKinnie Lee Sizemore — a DJ and music journalist from Orlando, Florida

Andrew Pau — an assistant professor from Amherst, Ohio

Margaret Miles — a librarian from Wilmington, North Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $40,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Margaret $2,400 $10,000 $16,000 $31,999
3rd place: $1,000
$17,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Andrew $0 $400 $16,600 $32,401
New champion: $32,401
$15,600
13 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
McKinnie $6,200 $7,000 $16,200 $32,400
2nd place: $2,000
$16,200
24 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

SPEAKER'S CORNER COUNTRY MUSIC IN MY DESK DRAWER WRITERS BY INITIALS "KNOCK", KNOCK WHO'S THERE?
$200 [27]
Nancy Pelosi was a mother of 5 when she moved to this state in 1969, just missing the Summer of Love
California
Andrew
$200 [19]
In 2015 this mother-daughter duo reunited for "Girls Night Out", a series of shows in Las Vegas
the Judds (Naomi & Wynonna)
Margaret
$200 [24]
Aha! A glue stick from this brand whose mascot is seen here
Elmer's
McKinnie
$200 [1]
A play-full Dublin native:GBS
George Bernard Shaw
McKinnie
$200 [16]
A fake Rolex, for one
a knockoff
Andrew
$200 [17]
Charles Ogle, who in 1910 became the first actor to play this reanimated monster on film
Frankenstein
Margaret
$400 [28]
Speaker Macon didn't represent this state, but Speaker Gingrich did
Georgia
McKinnie
$400 [13]
Thissinger who goes by his first & middle names is known for his rousing country anthems
Toby Keith
McKinnie
$400 [26]
Scotch brand tape is a product of this alphanumeric company
3M
McKinnie
$400 [4]
Bestselling author of Jurassic proportions:MC
Michael Crichton
Margaret
$400 [15]
Compounds like tetraethyl lead added to gasoline to inhibit preignition
antiknock compounds
Margaret
$400 [18]
This American frontiersman who blazed a trail through the Cumberland Gap
Boone
McKinnie
$600 [29]
Thomas was the real name of this man who in 1936 graduated Boston College & joined the Mass. State House
Tip O'Neill
Margaret McKinnie
$600 [11]
At the 2015 CMA awards, their "Girl Crush" won for Single of the Year, &they won for Vocal Group
Little Big Town
McKinnie
$600 [23]
Tax time--need my calculator from this company whose logo is seen here
Texas Instruments
Margaret
$600 [5]
Content with little:HDT
Henry David Thoreau
Margaret
$600 [12]
It's the seasoned meat product seen here
knockwurst
McKinnie
$600 [20]
Eva Gonzales, a lesser known member of this artistic movement whose 1876 work is seen here
the Impressionists
Margaret
$800 [7]
Paul Ryan & actress Heather Graham were both born in this state Jan. 29, 1970
Wisconsin
$800 [9]
This man's band has been inperfect harmonysince coming on the scene"You're such beautiful drug /I can't get enough /Addicted and I'm dying /For a hit of your love..."
Zac Brown
$800 [14]
A red Swingline one of these was prized in the movie "Office Space"
a stapler
McKinnie
$800 [6]
Portrayed in the 1990s-set movie "The End of the Tour":DFW
David Foster Wallace
McKinnie
$800 [8]
2-word way to lose a boxing match though you're still on your feet
a technical knockout
McKinnie
$1,000 [22]
This British scientist, who in the 1820s designed a computerlike machine dubbed a "difference engine"
(Charles) Babbage
McKinnie
$1,000 [30]
A clapboard home west of Bonham, Texas was the little corner of the world of this longtime speaker, "Mr. Sam"
(Sam) Rayburn
Margaret McKinnie
$1,000 [3]
Completes the lyric in the Johnny Cash classic, "I tell ya, life ain't easy for a..."
Boy named Sue
Margaret
$1,000 [25]
Dixon makes these yellow & green pencils that are named for a township in New York
Ticonderoga
Margaret
$1,000 [2]
A Peruvian Nobelist:MVL
Mario Vargas Llosa
McKinnie
$1,000 [10]
The setbacks & lessons of real life are sometimes called this educational institution
the school of hard knocks
McKinnie
DD $3,400 [21]
This dashing young soldier, who married Mary Anna Custis at Arlington House in Virginia on June 30, 1831
Robert E. Lee
Margaret

Double Jeopardy! Round

ALMOST RHYMES WITH ORANGE RUSSIAN CITIES DESCRIBING THE ANIMAL 17th CENTURY PEOPLE TV SHOWS BASED ON MOVIES ODDS & "N"s
$400 [30]
It's the form of rock most closely associated with Kurt Cobain & Nirvana
grunge
McKinnie
$400 [1]
Museums in this most-populous Russian city include one housed in Stalin's WWII bunker
Moscow
Margaret
$400 [25]
Simian
ape
McKinnie
$400 [6]
Painting Dr. Tulp, which means "Dr. Tulip", was one of this artist's first big jobs in Amsterdam
Rembrandt
Andrew
$400 [24]
Billy Bob Thornton played a high school football coach in this 2004 film; Kyle Chandler in the TV series
Friday Night Lights
Margaret
$400 [16]
Fitting one inside the other, they're the type of dolls seen here
nesting dolls
McKinnie
$800 [29]
In a popular saying, this "is a dish best served cold"
revenge
McKinnie
$800 [2]
With a population of about 300,000, the port city of Murmansk is the world's largest city north of this geographic line
the Arctic Circle
Andrew McKinnie
$800 [23]
Taurine
a bull
McKinnie
$800 [7]
A Japanese woman named Okuni began this theater for the common people in 1603
kabuki
Margaret
$800 [18]
Norman & his mom Norma run the title establishment in this prequel to "Psycho"
Bates Motel
McKinnie
$800 [13]
Australia also has a region called this, but theirs doesn't include Vermont & Connecticut
New England
McKinnie
$1,200 [28]
To scorch, or to burn the ends of hair or cloth
singe
Andrew
$1,200 [3]
Russia not only has a city named Marx, it has one named this for his co-writer
Engels
Andrew
$1,600 [20]
Cervine
a deer
Margaret
$1,200 [8]
Catholic ruler Ferdinand II's persecution of Protestants in Bohemia in 1618 sparked this long European war
the Thirty Years' War
Andrew
$1,200 [17]
The short-lived "Delta House" was based on this movie set at Faber College
Animal House
Andrew
$1,200 [12]
This dried seaweed that's sold in sheets can go on the inside or the outside of your sushi
nori
Margaret
$1,600 [26]
It's the carrying of boats & supplies overland between 2 navigable bodies of water
portage
Margaret
$1,600 [4]
Grozny is the capital of this republic in the Caucasus that's been fighting for independence since 1991
Chechnya
Andrew
$2,000 [22]
Pavonine
a peacock
Andrew
$1,600 [9]
With a nose for science, around 1650 this French author wrote tales about imaginary journeys to the Moon & Sun
(Cyrano) de Bergerac
Margaret
$1,600 [14]
Precogs can see murders before they happen in this Tom Cruise film that inspired a Fox TV show
Minority Report
McKinnie
$1,600 [11]
Irish composer John Field is considered the originator of these romantic compositions evocative of night
nocturnes
Andrew
$2,000 [27]
It's French for a mixture or medley of things
mélange
Andrew
DD $3,000 [5]
In the 1930s a ballet company as well as the city of Vyatka were renamed this for slain Communist Sergei
Kirov
Andrew
DD $3,600 [21]
Vespine
a wasp
Margaret
$2,000 [10]
Made famous in a Longfellow poem, in 1621 this man was named military leader of Plymouth Colony
Myles Standish
McKinnie
$2,000 [19]
A man can use all of his brain due to a drug called NZT in this series based on the Bradley Cooper film of the same name
Limitless
McKinnie
$2,000 [15]
Note the family resemblance between King George V of England on the right &this first cousin on the left
Nicholas II (of Russia)
Margaret

Final Jeopardy!

CONTEMPORARY WOMEN AUTHORS

A critic said that this bestselling author "makes me wish there were more than 26 letters"

Sue Grafton

Margaret "Who is Grafton?" — wagered $15,999
McKinnie "Who is Grafton?" — wagered $16,200
Andrew "Who is Grafton?" — wagered $15,801

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