Show #7423 2016-12-14 (taped 2016-08-31) Regular

Cindy Stowell game 2.

Contestants

Edward Montiel — an astronomer from San Jose, California

Susanna Barron — a law student from Greenwich, Connecticut

Cindy Stowell — a science content developer from Austin, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Cindy! $4,000 $3,900 $13,500 $8,199
2-day champion: $31,000
$14,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Susanna $1,800 $3,600 $9,200 $1,200
3rd place: $1,000
$9,200
11 R, 2 W
Edward $0 $1,000 $9,400 $5,800
2nd place: $2,000
$9,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

MUCH BIGGER THAN A BREADBOX LITERARY LINES THE BROADWAY MUSICAL'S CHARACTERS REPRESENTIN' TREES A TIME FOR "US"
$200 [1]
Weighing up to 200 tons & growing to nearly 100 feet long, some spend their summers off the California coast
a blue whale
Edward
$200 [16]
"I beheld the wretch--the miserable monster whom I had created"
Frankenstein
Edward
$200 [7]
Max Bialystock, Franz Liebkind, Hold-Me Touch-Me
The Producers
Cindy!
$200 [2]
This Speaker of the House helped draft the "Contract with America"
Newt Gingrich
Cindy!
$400 [12]
The desert-dwelling smoke tree depends on the flash type of these to spread its seeds
flood
Cindy!
$600 [27]
Seen here in a museum is an ancient stone one of these
a sarcophagus
Cindy!
$400 [3]
The most powerful mobile artillery piece to that time, "Big Bertha" was a long-range German cannon first used in this conflict
World War I
Edward
$400 [17]
"If I make any mistakes, there'll be nothing left but the 'Mark Watney Memorial Crater'"
The Martian
Cindy!
$400 [8]
Kenickie, Frenchie, Betty Rizzo
Grease
Edward
$400 [14]
In 2014 John Conyers won his 26th term for this state & is the first black rep. to be the senior member of Congress
Michigan
Susanna Edward
$600 [13]
Pecans are the largest of these, a type of walnut tree, whose wood is popularly used in barbecues
hickory
Susanna
$800 [26]
The line "thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" first appears in this Biblical book
Leviticus
Cindy!
$600 [4]
In 1626 for 60 guilders you could have purchased all 23 square miles of this NYC borough
Manhattan
Cindy!
$600 [18]
A Pulitzer Prize-winning book: "You better not never tell nobody but God"
The Color Purple
$600 [9]
Nick Massi, Mary Delgado, Frankie Valli
Jersey Boys
Susanna
$600 [15]
In late 1880 he was a congressman, a senator-elect & president-elect, all at the same time
James Garfield
Edward
$800 [21]
The leaves of the Sydney peppermint, a type of this gum tree from New South Wales, are used in Aboriginal remedies
eucalyptus
Susanna
$1,000 [25]
What's black & white & furry all over?Thismonkey
the colobus monkey
Edward
$800 [5]
The largest known of these Greek sacrificial platforms was found at Syracuse & measures 650 by 74 feet
an altar
Cindy!
$1,000 [20]
"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered..."
The Lovely Bones
Cindy!
$800 [10]
Glinda, Fiyero, Nessarose
Wicked
Cindy!
$800 [23]
This state has 1 representative in Congress; it has also sent a grand total of 4 men to fill that seat
Alaska
Edward
$1,000 [22]
Native Americans used the inner bark of the sugar type of this tree to make a tea to treat coughs
maple
Susanna
$1,000 [6]
The addition of the palazzo made this Vegas hotel the world's largest under one roof, with more than 7,000 suites
the Venetian
Susanna
DD $1,300 [19]
"In the interior you will no doubt meet Mr. Kurtz"
Heart of Darkness
Cindy!
$1,000 [11]
Mungojerrie, Mistoffelees, Grizabella
Cats
Cindy!
$1,000 [24]
Herfour terms representing Minnesota in Congress included a presidential run
(Michele) Bachmann
Edward

Double Jeopardy! Round

DON'T HATE THE PLAYA STICK WITH ME WHAT A TV DRAMA KING HISTORIC AGREEMENT WORDS BELOW ZERO FRANCO FILE
$400 [2]
Playa is Spanish for beach & also means a dry lake bed, like the one where Burning Man is held in this Western state
Nevada
Cindy!
$400 [21]
After a rugby scrum, you might require what the Brits call a sticking plaster, one of these
a Band-Aid
Susanna
$400 [7]
It seemed like Jack Bauer, played by him, always had the absolute worst day at work
(Kiefer) Sutherland
Edward
$400 [1]
The 1939 Nazi-Soviet deal is usually called a nonaggression this 4-letter word
pact
Cindy!
$400 [26]
Oops! I just wrote a check for $1,100 & my balance is only $522--I'm this far in the red
$578
$400 [13]
From 2009 to 2012 this Franco played "Franco" on General Hospital
James Franco
Cindy!
$800 [3]
Racetrack Playa in this very hot California valley is home to 700-pound rocks that mysteriously move
Death Valley
Cindy!
$800 [22]
This brand was invented in the 1940s by a Swiss engineer after he examined sticky burrs on his dog
Velcro
Cindy!
$800 [9]
Hugh Bonneville's Lord Grantham had a bloody awful supper & a brush with death on this PBS period piece
Downton Abbey
Cindy!
$800 [8]
The USA bonded with Latin America through 1961's AFP, this for Progress
Alliance
Susanna
$800 [27]
An anion has negative this
charge
Edward
$800 [14]
This dictator was nicknamed El Caudillo, "The Leader"
Francisco Franco
Edward
$1,200 [4]
Playa del Carmen, a luxury resort in this country, offers tours of nearby Chichen Itza
Mexico
Cindy! Edward
$1,600 [24]
Cyanoacrylates are a family of fast-acting adhesives commonly known by this "demented" name
Krazy Glue
Cindy!
$1,200 [10]
Jeff Daniels shared a few thoughts on America being the greatest country in the world in the very first scene of this HBO show
The Newsroom
Susanna
$1,200 [18]
In a 1941 U.S.-U.K. deal, it follows "Atlantic"; it's also found before "school"
charter
Susanna Edward
DD $2,000 [28]
From sea level, it's 400 meters down to the shore of this landlocked Middle Eastern body of water
the Dead Sea
Edward
$1,200 [15]
Franco Nero met Vanessa Redgrave in 1966 when he played Lancelot in this movie musical; in 2006, they wed
Camelot
Cindy!
$1,600 [5]
300 miles off the mainland of this country are muchas playas that are muy lindas en las Islas Malvinas
Argentina
DD $2,000 [23]
More than 1 million fossil bones have been recovered at this sticky but popular L.A. tourist attraction
the La Brea Tar Pits
Cindy!
$1,600 [11]
Time is a flat circle?! Ex-cop Matthew McConaughey blew our minds with the concept on this drama
True Detective
Edward
$1,600 [19]
In 1907 Britain, France & Russia formed the Triple this French word
Entente
Edward
$1,600 [16]
He was still playing Major League Baseball in 2007 at age 49 & was still playing pro ball in Japan in 2015 at 57
Julio Franco
Edward
$2,000 [6]
Beautiful Playa de la Concha brings crowds to San Sebastian in this cultural "country" of northern Spain
Basque
Susanna
$2,000 [25]
The silicone type of this window-sealing material makes an excellent adhesive
caulk
$2,000 [12]
In 2016 Kyle Chandler picked up an Emmy nomination for murdering his black sheep brother in this Netflix series
Bloodline
Susanna
$2,000 [20]
Concord is agreement; add 2 letters to get this agreement by a state & a pope
concordat
Edward
$2,000 [17]
The star clients of irreverent '80s designer Franco Moschino included this princess, Grace & Rainier's oldest
(Princess) Caroline (of Monaco)
Susanna

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN AUTHORS

Nominated 8 previous times, he finally won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, 6 years before his death

John Steinbeck

Susanna "Who is Hemingway" — wagered $8,000
Edward "Who is Faulkner?" — wagered $3,600
Cindy! "Who is Hemingway?" — wagered $5,301

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