Show #7408 2016-11-23 (taped 2016-08-23) Regular

Contestants

Andrew Lee — an aspiring TV writer from West Hollywood, California

Christina Boyadjian — a writer from Boston, Massachusetts

Stephanie Hubley — an executive assistant from Burien, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $4,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Stephanie $4,600 $7,400 $13,000 $19,201
2nd place: $2,000
$14,400
21 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Christina $-1,000 $800 $6,000 $7,000
3rd place: $1,000
$6,000
8 R, 4 W
Andrew $3,400 $4,000 $19,200 $26,001
New champion: $26,001
$19,200
22 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

POTENT POISONABLES CONTINENTS OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS CAPTAIN FAMILIAR PHRASES NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES SEASONAL SONGS
$200 [26]
Its leaves look like parsley, but parsley didn't kill Socrates like this herb did so be careful!
hemlock
Andrew
$200 [10]
For Peace, Mohamed El Baradei
Africa
Stephanie
$200 [7]
In 1770 he sailed through a body of water Tasman thought was a bay & showed that New Zealand is made up of 2 large islands
(Captain) Cook
Stephanie Christina Andrew
$200 [15]
Take it from me, this duo "Don't make a right"
two wrongs
Stephanie
$200 [16]
This magazine's annual special issues include the Oscars Double Issue &, of course, Sexiest Man Alive
People magazine
Stephanie
$200 [21]
Kanye wrote is a eulogy for his mom:"Coldest ____"
Winter
Andrew
$400 [27]
Weakness, nausea & cramping may result from the bite of this spider, or, you may not notice anything at all
a black widow
Stephanie
$400 [11]
For Literature, Pablo Neruda
South America
Stephanie
$400 [5]
(Sarah gives the clue from Tahiti.) Charles Nordhoff & James Hall moved to Tahiti, found local brides & collaborated on the "Bounty" trilogy, the second book of which tells the tale of this captain's escape to Dutch Timor
Captain Bligh
Stephanie Andrew
$400 [22]
This beastly phrase of suspicion alludes to a feline's ability to sniff out a rodent that it can't see
I smell a rat
Christina
$400 [1]
You can read the Times-Picayune in print or online at nola.com; NOLA is short for this city
New Orleans
Stephanie
$400 [20]
From the movie "Grease":"____ Nights"
Summer
Christina
$1,000 [28]
O, the poisons I know; don't eat any part of this plant; it's really toxic
oleander
$600 [12]
For Peace, Lester B. Pearson
North America
$600 [6]
Brothers Martin & Vicente Pinzon captained these 2 ships for Columbus in 1492
the Niña and the Pinta
Stephanie
$600 [23]
Set Emeril, Wolfgang Puck & Alton Brown all to making vichyssoise & you'll sadly see the truth of this
too many cooks spoil the broth
Stephanie Andrew
$600 [2]
Slugger Eddie Mathews of the Braves was on the cover of its first issue, August 16, 1954
Sports Illustrated
Stephanie
$600 [19]
Composed by Mel Brooks:"____time For Hitler"
Springtime
Stephanie
$800 [13]
For Medicine, Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Australia
Stephanie Christina
$800 [8]
In September 1608 he became president of the Jamestown Council
John Smith
Andrew
$800 [24]
Found in "Macbeth", "at one" this refers to the action of a bird of prey
at one fell swoop
DD $1,000 [3]
From 1889 until early in the Great Depression, this newspaper rarely reported beyond business & economic news
The Wall Street Journal
Stephanie
$800 [17]
A top 20 hit for Bananarama:"Cruel ____"
Summer
Andrew
$1,000 [14]
For Peace, Tenzin Gyatso
Asia
Andrew
$1,000 [9]
Here's the Milwaukee mansion of this captain, a beer baron
(Frederick) Pabst
Stephanie
$1,000 [25]
The placement of men's wigs to block their vision might be the literal origin of this cliche about deception
to pull the wool over your eyes
Christina
$1,000 [4]
In 2013 a go-to paper for expats in Europe changed its name from International this to International New York Times
International Herald-Tribune
Andrew
$1,000 [18]
Fall Out Boy played on the name of a video game:"Grand Theft ____"
Autumn
Stephanie

Double Jeopardy! Round

SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES SCI-FI TV NONFICTION THE “MM”EES ARTS CRAFTS
$400 [12]
For a stunning view of this Venezuelan capital, take the cable car up to the top of Pico el Ávila
Caracas
Stephanie
$400 [26]
This 1994 Kurt Russell film spawned several TV spinoffs, including "SG-1" & "Atlantis"
Stargate
Andrew
$400 [13]
This series of 85 essays said that the Articles of Confederation were garbage
the Federalist Papers
Andrew
$400 [1]
Mr. Fallon knows it's a male Chesapeake Bay blue crab
a Jimmy
Christina
$400 [25]
This architect fell in love with the Arizona desert & built Taliesin West, his winter home, in Scottsdale
Frank Lloyd Wright
Andrew
$400 [6]
It can refer to an open-air freight car, a cable car conveyance for skiers or a craft on the Canale Grande
a gondola
Andrew
$800 [11]
Known to locals as Sampa, this Brazilian city is the most populous in the Southern Hemisphere
São Paulo
Andrew
$800 [27]
Sam Beckett, not to be confused with the playwright, was the hero of this 1990s time travel show
Quantum Leap
Andrew
$800 [14]
"Money, or the Circulation of Commodities" is a chapter in this tome by Karl Marx
Das Kapital
Andrew
$800 [2]
In gymnastics you hop on this horse
a pommel horse
Stephanie
$800 [24]
Mozart's Serenade No. 13 in G Major has this nickname that includes the time of day it was intended for
"A Little Night Music" ( Eine kleine Nachtmusik )
Christina
$800 [8]
Before powered airplanes, the Wright brothers built a successful type of this 6-letter flying craft in 1902
a glider
Andrew
$1,200 [7]
From 1952 to 1955 Argentina's city of La Plata was named after this late beloved first lady
Evita Perón
Christina
$1,200 [28]
Winona Ryder hit the small screen in this '80s-set Netflix series
Stranger Things
Stephanie
$1,200 [15]
"The Lion of the West" is the subtitle of a biography of him, given a raccoon hat by Hollywood
Davy Crockett
Stephanie
$1,200 [3]
The board for this dice game has 24 spear-shaped divisions called points
backgammon
Andrew
$1,200 [21]
As in Louis Comfort Tiffany'swork, an undulating line, often in the form ofvine tendrils, is characteristic of this style
Art Nouveau
Christina
$1,600 [19]
With "craft" in their name, these craft such as the PACV were used by the U.S. in Vietnam to cross marshes & paddies
a hovercraft
Christina
$1,600 [9]
It's Chile's chief seaport & home to the Chilean Naval Academy
Valparaíso
Stephanie Andrew
$1,600 [29]
On Syfy's "The Expanse", Thomas Jane plays a detective on this asteroid, largest in our main asteroid belt
Ceres
$2,000 [17]
This man known for his predictions wrote "The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--But Some Don't"
Nate Silver
Stephanie
$1,600 [4]
When you are served with a this "and complaint", a lawsuit against you has commenced
a summons
Stephanie
$1,600 [22]
The full title of this modernist Stravinsky ballet includes "Pictures from Pagan Russia in Two Parts"
The Rite of Spring
Andrew
$2,000 [20]
Athena furnished this seacraft with a talking timber from the Forest of Dodona
the Argo
Andrew
$2,000 [10]
The inner city of this Incan capital was laid out in the shape of a puma whose head was the fort of Sacsayhuaman
Cusco
Andrew
$2,000 [30]
"Exterminate!" is the cry of this "Doctor Who" race from the planet Skaro
the Daleks
Christina
DD $3,000 [16]
The subtitle of this memoir by Elizabeth Wurtzel is "Young and Depressed in America"
Prozac Nation
Stephanie
$2,000 [5]
To exclude from the sacraments of a church by ecclesiastical sentence
excommunicate
Christina
$2,000 [23]
Have a seat in this chair, named for American designer Charles
Eames
Andrew
DD $3,000 [18]
In 1976, with Gene Roddenberry looking on, this space shuttle was rolled out of an Air Force hangar
the Enterprise
Stephanie

Final Jeopardy!

NAMES IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

A newspaper announcing his death in 1801 said he died in England & was "notorious throughout the world"

Benedict Arnold

Christina "Who is Benedict Arnold?" — wagered $1,000
Stephanie "Who is Benedict Arnold?" — wagered $6,201
Andrew "Who is Arnold" — wagered $6,801

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