Show #7286 2016-04-25 (taped 2016-03-07) Regular

Andrew Pau game 7.Buzzy Cohen game 1.

Contestants

Buzzy Cohen — a music executive from Los Angeles, California

Jeanne Roper — a garden designer from Blacksburg, Virginia

Andrew Pau — an assistant professor from Amherst, Ohio (whose 6-day cash winnings total $170,202)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Andrew $4,200 $6,000 $16,800 $28,001
2nd place: $2,000
$16,800
19 R, 0 W
Jeanne $800 $4,000 $14,000 $27,995
3rd place: $1,000
$14,000
16 R, 0 W
Buzzy $3,200 $8,600 $28,000 $33,601
New champion: $33,601
$20,600
23 R (including 3 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE UPDATE I'M INNOCENT DESCRIBING THE NOVEL THE DAVEY O'BRIEN QUARTERBACK AWARD CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOLE
$200 [6]
A 2016 report says the world's food supply is in trouble with the decline of bees & others who do this important job
pollinators
Buzzy
$200 [11]
If you're on trial, you want to hear these 2 words follow "We the jury find the defendant..."
not guilty
Andrew
$200 [21]
A page, after page after page turner by Tolstoy; Paul Dano went Bezukhov on TV; the title covers a lot of ground
War and Peace
Jeanne
$200 [26]
1986:Vinny Testaverde of the Hurricanes
the University of Miami
Buzzy
$200 [1]
Chickenfoot is a multi-pronged variation of this game that uses white game tiles with pips
dominoes
Andrew
$200 [16]
The Kyrie 2 & the Kobe XI are basketball shoes from this company
Nike
Buzzy
$400 [7]
Boo! The 2012 Chem. Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery of how cells respond to this "emergency hormone" & others
adrenaline
Andrew
$400 [12]
The word "legit" has lost these 5 letters
I-M-A-T-E
Buzzy
$400 [22]
An unequal sequel; geez, Atticus, 2 decades can really change a man
Go Set a Watchman
Jeanne
$400 [27]
2014:The Duck Marcus Mariota
Oregon
Buzzy
$400 [2]
Enjoy some jerk chicken in this Caribbean country where it originated
Jamaica
Andrew
$400 [17]
"Digital" name for a ballerina's slippers that can take her to the ends of her feet
toe shoes
Jeanne
$600 [8]
A 62-mile crater discovered in Greenland in 2012, was created by a 3-billion-year-old one of these
a meteorite
Andrew
$600 [13]
Latin peccare, "to sin" gives us this word meaning without sin or otherwise perfect, like one who's ths type of "dresser"
impeccable
Andrew
$600 [23]
Get up on Updike; the 4th & last novel; Mr. Angstrom takes a load off, permanently
Rabbit at Rest
Jeanne
$600 [28]
2001:Eric Crouch, flingin' in Lincoln
Nebraska
Jeanne
$600 [3]
A true chick-flick, this stop motion film from Aardman Animations concerns a band of barnyard fowl making an escape
Chicken Run
Buzzy
$600 [18]
Part of this online retailer's logo looks like a shoe with a "Z" in the sole
Zappos
Buzzy
$800 [9]
In 2015 a team of Harvard scientists announced a breakthrough using anti-malarial drugs to treat this neuron disease
Parkinson's
$800 [14]
Jesus said, "Blessed are the" this "in heart: for they shall see God"
pure
Andrew
$800 [24]
1936, 1936! Compson, Compson! Faulkner! Faulkner!
Absalom, Absalom!
Andrew
$800 [29]
2015:The Tiger Deshaun Watson
Clemson
$800 [4]
One of this state's official symbols is seen here
Rhode Island
Jeanne
$1,000 [20]
In 1989 Reebok introduced this hot-selling inflatable sports shoe
Pumps
Buzzy
$1,000 [10]
Kennewick Man, an 8,500-year-old discovery in this western state, is indeed related to Native Americans, who claim him
Washington
Andrew
$1,000 [15]
In Scientology-speak, it describes one who is free of his reactive mind
clear
Buzzy
$1,000 [25]
Cormac McCarthy bums us out (again); a boy & his dad's super-depressing journey through a post-apocalyptic U.S.A.
The Road
Jeanne
$1,000 [30]
2006:Troy Smith, perfect against arch-rival Michigan
Ohio State
Andrew Buzzy
$1,000 [5]
During the 16th c. Wojina Kokosza, or "Poultry War" in this country, rebels ate nearly all of the region's chickens
Poland
Buzzy
DD $4,000 [19]
The name of these soft leather loafers comes from an Algonquin word for "shoes"
moccasins
Buzzy

Double Jeopardy! Round

RALPH WALDO EMERSON ASIAN FOOD MY ROBOT PAL MUSIC CITIES, USA A ROYAL BRITISH LOCKUP THE J-V SQUAD
$400 [12]
A staunch abolitionist, Emerson joined this political party, supporting & voting for Abraham Lincoln
the Republican Party
Buzzy
$400 [7]
Similar to an egg roll, it is so named because it's traditionally served on the first day of the new year
a spring roll
Jeanne
$400 [18]
Though originally the enemy, the T-800 became a bodyguard in this film series
Terminator
Andrew
$400 [6]
This city is synonymous with grunges
Seattle
Andrew
$400 [1]
Henry VI was twice imprisoned in this fortress by his rivals, eventually dying there in 1471
the Tower of London
Jeanne
$400 [19]
In 2010 Kara Patterson set a U.S. record by throwing one of these 218 feet, 9 inches
a javelin
Buzzy
$800 [14]
Emerson's nickname was "the sage of" this small town near Boston that helped launch the Revolutionary War
Concord
Jeanne
$800 [8]
The larvae of these fiber producers may put you in a spin: they're a delicacy in Thailand
silkworms
Andrew
$800 [24]
Fry is the meatbag buddy for Bender, the boozing kleptomaniac robot in this TV series
Futurama
Buzzy
$800 [13]
Often called "the birthplace of jazz", it's also the birthplace of Harry Connick Jr.
New Orleans
Jeanne
$800 [2]
This doomed king tried to break out of Carisbrooke Castle in 1648 but got stuck in the bars on his window
Charles I
Andrew
$800 [20]
This 8-letter word can precede diabetes or delinquent
juvenile
Buzzy
$1,200 [15]
Emerson's first wife died of this common lung disease of the time, sending him into grief & intellectual doubt
tuberculosis
Jeanne
$1,200 [9]
Of the Chinese dish seen here, a comedian playing a waiter said, "It's not egg, it's not young, it's just" this
foo
Andrew
$1,600 [26]
Mel Blanc was the voice of Twiki, the ambuquad sidekick for this man in the 25th century
Buck Rogers
Andrew
$1,200 [27]
Stevie Ray Vaughan was one of this city's music legends, & astatueof him stands on the shores of its Lady Bird Lake
Austin
Buzzy
$1,200 [3]
In 1554 she spent 2 months in captivity after her sister Queen Mary suspected her of complicity in the Wyatt rebellion
Elizabeth I
Jeanne
$1,200 [21]
This 3- word French term literally means "joy of living"
joie de vivre
Buzzy
$1,600 [16]
Raised in this "single-minded" Christian denomination & one of its preachers, Emerson left it in 1832
Unitarianism
Buzzy
$1,600 [10]
In the Philippines, a lechon is an entire one of these animals slowly spit-roasted over coals
a pig
Jeanne
$2,000 [30]
Ripley finds Bishop a trustworthy android in the film sequel with this title
Aliens
Andrew
$2,000 [29]
In the '70s The O'Jays & Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes helped give this city its distinctive soul "sound"
Philadelphia
Buzzy
$1,600 [4]
After attempting to help her rebellious sons in 1173, she was imprisoned by her husband Henry II
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Andrew
$1,600 [22]
Pertaining to a Roman god, or endowed with a hearty humor
jovial
Jeanne
$2,000 [17]
After the Civil War, Emerson traveled out west, meeting & befriending this naturalist in Yosemite Valley
(John) Muir
Buzzy
$2,000 [11]
These Japanese noodles made from buckwheat can be served cold with wasabi or hot with toppings like tempura & mochi
soba
Jeanne
DD $3,000 [25]
The name for this robot came about during the slating of the second reel of dialogue for the film "American Graffiti"
R2-D2
Buzzy
DD $4,000 [28]
As host of the i Heart Radio Music Festival, this city hit the jackpot
Las Vegas
Buzzy
$2,000 [5]
Captured by barons, Henry III was freed in 1265 by his son, the future first king of this name
Edward
Buzzy
$2,000 [23]
2-word term for a business enterprise in which 2 or more companies enter a partnership
a joint venture
Andrew

Final Jeopardy!

METAPHORICAL PHRASES

In the late 1800s Clark Stanley was a notorious seller of this 2-word product, which he advertised as a curative liniment

snake oil

Jeanne "What is snake oil?" — wagered $13,995
Andrew "What is snake oil?" — wagered $11,201
Buzzy "What is snake oil?" — wagered $5,601

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