Show #7283 2016-04-20 (taped 2016-03-02) Regular

Andrew Pau game 4.

Contestants

Amanda Richards — a music teacher from Macon, Georgia

Nikhil Damle — an attorney from Torrance, California

Andrew Pau — an assistant professor from Amherst, Ohio (whose 3-day cash winnings total $105,202)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Andrew $6,000 $9,000 $18,600 $18,600
4-day champion: $123,802
$17,600
24 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Nikhil $-400 $2,400 $400 $799
3rd place: $1,000
$400
6 R, 5 W
Amanda $2,200 $3,800 $7,100 $800
2nd place: $2,000
$12,600
16 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

ALABAMA HISTORY WHAT'S YOUR SIGN? THE THIRD WORD SPACECRAFT TYPES MY WIFE! THE WALT DISNEY ARCHIVES
$200 [21]
Rosa Parks changed history in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in this city
Montgomery (Alabama)
Andrew Amanda
$200 [6]
This sign of the zodiac shares its name with 13 popes
Leo
Andrew
$200 [11]
...of "The Star-Spangled Banner"
can
Andrew
$200 [26]
Mir was a third generation Russian one of these spacecraft & it lasted for 15 years
a space station
Amanda
$200 [1]
Mary, who was "highly favoured" according to Gabriel
Joseph
Andrew
$200 [16]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Walt Disney Archives in Burbank, CA.) It was tiaras all around in this Anne Hathaway sequel--onefor Mia &onefor her cat, Fat Louie; they ellow gemsresemble pears because the fictional country of Genovia is famous for them
Princess Diaries 2 ( The Princess Diaries accepted)
Amanda
$400 [22]
Alabama claims the USA's oldest of these pre-Lenten celebrations, & moon pies are more typical than beads on the floats
Mardi Gras
Andrew
$400 [7]
Add an "N" to the end of this sign & you get a type of animal
Scorpio
$400 [12]
...of the nursery rhyme about Jack Sprat
could
Amanda
$400 [27]
This term for vehicles like those used in the Mercury program sounds like a small dose of medicine
a capsule
Amanda
$400 [2]
Fellow athlete Steffi Graf
Andre Agassi
Nikhil
$400 [17]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Walt Disney Archives in Burbank, CA.) The 11-foot long miniature of this submarine from "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" had a working motor & weighed 1,000 pounds when rigged for filming
the Nautilus
Amanda
$600 [23]
Past KKK membership didn't stop Alabama's Hugo Black when he was appointed to this body in 1937
the Supreme Court
Andrew
$600 [8]
This sign anagrams to what pepper & cinnamon are
Pisces (for spices)
Andrew
$600 [13]
...of the hymn "Amazing Grace"
how
Andrew
$600 [28]
The first stage of a rocket
the booster
$600 [3]
Playboy Playmate Crystal Harris
Hugh Hefner
Andrew
$600 [18]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Walt Disney Archives in Burbank, CA.) "Pirates of the Caribbean" props include thedead man's chest, Jack's compass, & amedallion of stolen Aztec goldcursed due to the greed of this Spanish conquistador
Cortés
Andrew
$800 [24]
The August 1864 Battle of this body of water helped the Union enforce the blockade of the Confederacy
Mobile Bay
Nikhil
$800 [9]
If your mother was in labor on Labor Day, this is your sign
Virgo
Andrew
$1,000 [15]
...of the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution
People
Amanda
$800 [29]
This 2-word term for possibly alien spacecraft was 1st used after a pilot reported seeing 9 of them near Mt. Rainier in 1947
a flying saucer
Andrew
$800 [4]
Mavis Nicholson, who got used to late nights
Jay Leno
Nikhil Amanda
$800 [19]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Walt Disney Archives in Burbank, CA.) There areopeningsin the side of the overcoat worn by Mary Poppins so that thin cables could be inserted tomagically lift this actress, giving her the illusion of flight
Julie Andrews
Andrew
$1,000 [25]
In 1812 this Shawnee leader came to Alabama to convince the Creek tribes to join the British against the Americans
Tecumseh
Nikhil
$1,000 [10]
The name of this sign begins with the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet
Taurus
DD $1,800 [14]
...of "A Tale of Two Cities"
the
Andrew
$1,000 [30]
Like the Cassini around Saturn, this type of spacecraft by definition doesn't land, but circles a planet instead
an orbital probe
Nikhil
$1,000 [5]
The former Edith Bolling, a First Lady
Woodrow Wilson
Andrew
$1,000 [20]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Walt Disney Archives in Burbank, CA.) A fictionalringonce owned by Lucrezia Borgia that bore the inscription "in canis corpore transmuto" turns Tommy Kirk into this title canine
the Shaggy Dog
Amanda

Double Jeopardy! Round

EURO-MONARCHY CLEANING OUT MY ATTIC ALL THE LYRICS IN THE SONG ELECTRICITY PULP FICTION ZED'S DEAD, BABY
$400 [5]
It's Europe's largest monarchy in area & stretches the farthest south
Spain
Andrew
$400 [16]
My old favorite one of these, like the classic model from Red Ryder! I bet it still shoots
a BB gun
Nikhil Amanda
$400 [11]
Na na na's aside, it's the sole lyric in the TV them ehere
"Batman"
Andrew
$400 [21]
It's the 2-letter abbreviation for a flow of electric charge that doesn't change direction
DC
Andrew
$400 [26]
Raymond Chandler wrote, "You were dead, you were sleeping" this, the title of a detective classic
The Big Sleep
Amanda
$400 [6]
A clown loses his "Z" & becomes a shout of disapproval
Bozo & boo
Andrew
$800 [4]
Prince Willem-Alexander of this country beat Britain's Prince William to kingship
Netherlands
Nikhil
$800 [17]
This Hamilton Beach device with big mouth extractor; I never did buy all those oranges & carrots
a juicer
$800 [12]
This "Punk" electronic group had nothing to say in a 1997 song except "Around the world"
Daft Punk
Andrew Nikhil
$800 [22]
Rheostats & potentiometers are types of these devices that oppose the flow of current in electrical circuits
resistors
Amanda
$800 [27]
This lawyer first appeared in Erle Stanley Gardner's "The Case of the Velvet Claws" & you bet he won that case
Perry Mason
Amanda
$800 [7]
Lose the "Z" from an Eastern European ruling title & you get a mode of transport
czar & car
Andrew
$1,200 [3]
This country no longer crowns its king; the royal regalia is on display in Trondheim
Norway
Andrew
$1,600 [19]
I wrote my own songs for about an hour on my Martin X series this instrument
a guitar
$1,200 [13]
Take a shot at the lone lyric in this song
"Tequila"
Amanda
$1,200 [23]
The 2012 merger of Duke & Progress created the USA's largest of these "useful" entities providing electric power
utilities
Andrew
DD $1,000 [29]
James M. Cain really delivered with this first novel of his, which actually isn't about the mail
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Amanda
$1,200 [8]
Take the "Z" from several ciphers & you get a Greek god
zeros & Eros
Nikhil
$1,600 [2]
Philippe, seen here, took over as this country's king in 2013
Belgium
Nikhil
$2,000 [20]
I loved this scientist'scradle; I used to spend hours just watching it go back & forth
Newton
Andrew
$1,600 [14]
In 1975 Van McCoy topped the charts demanding, "Do it! Do" this "quick" dance (repeatedly)
the hustle
Amanda
$1,600 [24]
This electromagnetic force that drives a current around a circuit is abbreviated emf
the electromotive force
$1,200 [28]
Chapter 4 of this classic of detective fiction is "The Black Bird"
The Maltese Falcon
$1,600 [9]
Oy, I could just take the "Z" off the end of a word from Yiddish meaning "to burst" & get the story of a book or movie
plotz & plot
Amanda
$2,000 [1]
This current monarchy's Bernadotte Dynasty derives from one of Napoleon's top military men
Sweden
Andrew
DD $4,500 [18]
Wow! I remember this year of the headline seenhereas if it were yesterday
1974
Amanda
$2,000 [15]
We remember this Minnesota trio whose name means "do you remember" & their song whose full lyrics are "New day rising"
Hüsker Dü
Amanda
$2,000 [25]
The law named for this 18th century French physicist is the electrical analogue to the law of gravity
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
Nikhil
$2,000 [10]
Take the "Z" out of a word meaning "to stun" or "to take aback" & you get a magical word used in fantasy books
faze & fae

Final Jeopardy!

AT THE OLD BALLGAME

This word dates back to the 19th century & referred to what the Sun did to roofless seating

bleachers

Nikhil "What is bleachers" — wagered $399
Amanda "What isthe n?" — wagered $6,300
Andrew "What is scorch??" — wagered $0

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