Show #7368 2016-09-28 (taped 2016-07-26) Regular

Seth Wilson game 8.

Contestants

Harold Leff — a retired actuary from Bay Shore, New York

Erin Post — a statistician from Bettendorf, Iowa

Seth Wilson — a Ph.D. candidate from Chicago, Illinois (whose 7-day cash winnings total $166,500)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Seth	$3,600	$5,600	$17,600	$25,201 8-day champion: $191,701	$16,400 24 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Erin	$1,400	$6,600	$12,600	$1 3rd place: $1,000	$10,200 14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Harold	$2,400	$2,400	$4,400	$8,800 2nd place: $2,000	$6,400 9 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

LIECHTENSTEIN	COLLEGE FOOTBALL STADIUM NICKNAMES	AMERICA SINCE 1900	YE OLDE JOB FAIRE	A REAL BUSY BODY	THAT'S T-B-D
$200 [26] Gruyere can be used to make Käsknöpfle, the national dish, often compared to this Kraft comfort food macaroni and cheese Erin	$200 [1] The "House that Rockne Built" houses this team the Notre Dame Fighting Irish Seth	$200 [11] In 1961 these "Rides" across the Deep South protested segregation in interstate transportation Freedom Rides Seth	$200 [16] In the old days of law enforcement, people might say, "There's a new shrieve in town" instead of this job sheriff Seth	$200 [21] Men's Fitness says 4 sets of 25 reps of reverse crunches, with 2 minutes rest, will help you get some "ripped" these muscles, bro abdominal muscles Seth	$200 [6] A horse of pure stock a thoroughbred Harold
$400 [27] Sport of some Liechtenstein tourists & of Hanni Wenzel, who in 1980 brought her country its first Olympic gold skiing	$400 [2] Here's a white-out at Beaver Stadium, also known as Happy Valley, the home of this Keystone university Penn State Seth	$400 [12] FDR dedicated the 1,450-foot-wide Bonneville one of these in 1937, pushing a button to start the first generator a hydroelectric plant (or dam) Harold	$400 [17] This worker who prepared tanned hides is a homophone of a modern word for a documents messenger a currier Seth	$400 [22] The "big 3" exercises of powerlifting are the squat, the deadlift & this "press" a bench press Erin	$400 [7] A sensational 5-column-wide newspaper a tabloid Seth
$800 [29] This capital of Liechtenstein is home to about 5,000 people Vaduz	$600 [3] This Big Ten team's stadium is called "the Horseshoe" because, well, it looks like a horseshoe Ohio State Seth	$600 [13] On Sept. 26, 1971 Nixon greeted this man in Anchorage, the first meeting of a U.S. president & a Japanese monarch Hirohito	$600 [18] In this job similar to a bard, you sang, played instruments & might have also recorded heroic deeds in song a minstrel Erin	$600 [23] (Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates a stretch.) Support yourself on a wall, tighten your stomach muscles & gently lift your heel up & back to stretch these large muscles that cover the front & sides of the thigh quadriceps Seth	$600 [8] A Russian thistle, bouncing down an Old West street in the wind a tumbleweed Erin
$1,000 [30] In 1719 Liechtenstein was established within this empire that dissolved in 1806 the Holy Roman Empire	$800 [4] "Death Valley" is the home of the Tigers, this SEC team in "Red Stick" LSU Seth	$800 [14] In 1927, this lawyer wrote "The Prohibition Mania"--can you "Scopes out" who he is? (Clarence) Darrow Harold	$800 [19] In the court of Louis XIV, Monsieur Binet was the perruquier, making these accessories wigs Seth	$800 [24] Last name of German-American gymnast Joseph, whose "core" exercise philosophy was 1st called contrology Pilates Seth	$800 [9] All added up, it means arranged in a systematic form tabulated Erin
DD $3,000 [28] When Liechtenstin discovered that Haiti had an identical flag, it added a little one of these, as it's a principality a crown Erin	$1,000 [5] "Death Valley" is the home of the Tigers, this ACC team in South Carolina Clemson Harold	$1,000 [15] This 1920s scandal erupted when Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall leased govt. oil fields to private individuals Teapot Dome Seth	$1,000 [20] This word sounds like it applies to Noah, but it was a craftsman who made boxes or chests arkwright Seth	$1,000 [25] Tone your muscles with exercises where you're supported by this ballet class apparatus the barre Erin	$1,000 [10] This inn is found in "The Canterbury Tales" & today in Washington, D.C., where it's a favorite brunch spot the Tabard Inn

Double Jeopardy! Round

ROY LICHTENSTEIN	SPIDERS	THIS & THAT	SAY IT IN LATIN	CITY BOOKS	WHO'S THE BOSS?
$400 [28] Roy made obvious thedotsthat built upimagesin comic books, the '60s version of these dots making up today's videos pixels Seth	$400 [27] This country's Sydney funnel web spider is extremely venomous; its fangs can bite through a fingernail! Australia Harold	$400 [16] Load up a dart with azaperone & you've got one of these to put that charging rhino to sleep a tranquilizer Seth	$400 [2] Honestly or sincerely, this phrase means "in good faith" bona fide Seth Harold	$400 [11] The 1910 novel "The Phantom of the Opera" is set in this city Paris Harold	$400 [1] Agent Phil Coulson, who survived death on the big screen Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Seth
$1,200 [24] Roy created a 53-foot-long mural for the subway station named for this heart of the Theater District Times Square Seth Erin	$800 [26] A Mexican population of Bagheera kiplingi, named for a panther in this 1894 book, is mostly vegetarian The Jungle Book Erin	$800 [17] Of the 4 thrown objects in Olympic track & field events, this one weighs the least a javelin Harold	$800 [3] It means the period before any war, but in the U.S. is usually used for the period before the Civil War antebellum Erin	$800 [12] Not Yangon, but this city is where "The Road" leads to in the title of a 2015 Lucy Cruickshanks book Rangoon	$800 [7] Wehrmacht Colonel Wilhelm Klink Hogan's Heroes Seth
$1,600 [29] Roy often reprised other painters--a 1963 painting takes off from a work by this Spaniard that itself takes off from a Delacroix Pablo Picasso	$1,200 [21] Spider blood is this color because oxygen is carried by hemocyanin, not hemoglobin blue Erin	$1,200 [18] A favorite material of model airplane enthusiasts is this light wood from Central America balsa wood Seth	$1,200 [4] A university degree awarded with the highest of honors is signified with this 3-word phrase summa cum laude Erin	$1,200 [13] Andrei Bely's novel about socialist revolt in 1905 is named after this Russian city but the title drops the "St." Petersburg Harold	$1,200 [8] Miranda Bailey, Sloan Memorial's first chief of surgery Grey's Anatomy Erin
DD $2,000 [25] Lichtenstein said art since Cezanne looked inward; this movement Roy was part of "looks out into the world" Pop Art Seth	$1,600 [22] Humans do it using hot air; spiders do it to "fly" hundreds of miles when a strand of silk catches turbulent air ballooning	$1,600 [19] The historic Germanic people known as the Goths can be divided into the Ostrogoths & this western branch the Visigoths Seth	$1,600 [5] The title of this 1951 movie is a question from the gospel of John that means "whither goest thou?" Quo Vadis Seth	DD $2,000 [14] A trilogy by Yasmina Khadra includes "The Swallows of Kabul" & "The Sirens of" this other capital Baghdad Harold	$1,600 [9] Richie Finestra, founder & president of American Century Records Vinyl Harold
$2,000 [30] In 1966 this 4-letter London museum bought "Whaam!"; in 1968 it gave Roy its first show devoted to a living American Tate Erin	$2,000 [23] Type of spider seenherethat lives in a silk-lined burrow the trapdoor spider	$2,000 [20] In the first recording for his phonograph, Thomas Edison read a line from this nursery rhyme "Mary Had A Little Lamb" Erin	$2,000 [6] This most famous song from "Carmina Burana" is heard here "O Fortuna" Seth	$2,000 [15] City preceding "Alexanderplatz" in the title of an Alfred Doblin novel Berlin	$2,000 [10] Milwaukee restaurauteur Arnold Takahashi, succeeded later by Al Delvecchio Happy Days Erin

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC HOMES

Also known as the "House of His Majesty", Fairfield House in England was the home of this African leader from 1936 to 1941

Haile Selassie

Harold "Who is Haile Selassie?" — wagered $4,400

Erin "Who is ?" — wagered $12,599

Seth "Who is Salassie?" — wagered $7,601

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