Show #7415 2016-12-02 (taped 2016-08-24) Regular

Tim Aten game 1.

Contestants

Tim Aten — an editor from Vermilion, Ohio

Ryan O'Shea — an engineer from Hermosa Beach, California

Asim Modi — an attorney from San Francisco, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,399)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Asim $1,400 $3,000 $4,200 $8,399
3rd place: $1,000
$4,200
13 R, 4 W
Ryan $3,000 $5,200 $17,000 $18,515
2nd place: $2,000
$15,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Tim $2,600 $6,200 $18,000 $35,000
New champion: $35,000
$15,800
18 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE PACHEBEL CANON IN D THE MOVIE/TV STAR BREAK-UPS ANIMAL COLLECTIVE NOUNS REQUIRED READING "Y"s UP
$200 [26]
The Pachebel Canonis often played at this type of event & is heard in movies about its planner & crashers
a wedding
Asim
$200 [9]
"White Men Can't Jump", "True Detective"
Woody Harrelson
Ryan
$200 [1]
A No. 1 song by this duo said, "They say our love won't pay the rent"; after their 1975 divorce, it was "I Don't Got You, Babe"
Sonny & Cher
Tim
$200 [16]
Buffalo & other bovines gather in these
herds
Asim
$200 [21]
Mary Mapes Dodge penned this guy, "Or, The Silver skates"; within her lifetime, the book appeared in more than 100 editions
Hans Brinker
Asim
$200 [2]
It's the word usually seen on the sign here
yield
Tim
$400 [30]
The Canon was written for 3 violins & continuo, the 17th c. version of this instrument of Sting, Flea & Paul McCartney
the bass
Tim
$400 [4]
"The Imitation Game", "Sherlock"
(Benedict) Cumberbatch
Tim
$400 [11]
The hardships of the Civil War & the death of daughter Bonnie Blue finally took their toll on this iconic couple of page & screen
Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara
Ryan
$400 [17]
Just as you can have a this "of roses", you can also have one of oysters
a bed
Asim Ryan
$400 [22]
After leaving Rochester--the man, not the city--this Bronte title woman finds herself destitute & friendless
Jane Eyre
Ryan
$400 [3]
It was a popular abbreviation for the year 2000
Y2K
Ryan
$600 [28]
This 1980 film with Timothy Hutton as Mary Tyler Moore's troubled son was one of the first to make the Canon a soundtrack fave
Ordinary People
Asim
$600 [6]
"Limitless" (as Eddie Morra), "Limitless" (as Senator Eddie Morra)
Bradley Cooper
Ryan
$600 [12]
This plastic couple got together in 1961; they split in 2004, but in 2011 she welcomed him back to her dream house
Barbie and Ken
Asim
$600 [18]
A stench, sometimes used for a group of these mammals, may be appropriate but seems a bit unfair
skunks
Tim
$600 [23]
The daydreams of this James Thurber character include being a surgeon & the world's greatest pistol shot
Walter Mitty
Ryan
$600 [5]
George Bernard Shaw supposedly said, this "is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children"
youth
Ryan
$800 [27]
The tune was popularized by a 1968 recording from the Paillard this small-room type of orchestra
a chamber orchestra
Ryan
$800 [7]
"Knocked Up", "Grey's Anatomy"
(Katherine) Heigl
Asim
$800 [13]
These Mexican painters wed in 1929 & divorced after a volatile decade; remarried in 1940, they had a rocky 2nd marriage
(Diego) Rivera and (Frida) Kahlo
Tim
$1,000 [20]
Termites & penguins both get collective with this collective name
colony
$800 [24]
"T.S. Garp cried in the airplane that was bringing him home to be famous in his violent country", penned this novelist
(John) Irving
Ryan
$800 [10]
This website's stated purpose is "to connect people with great local businesses"
Yelp
Ryan
$1,000 [29]
The Canon shows expert use of this technique in which composers use multiple melodies together
counterpoint
$1,000 [8]
"9 to 5", "Grace and Frankie"--both women, please
Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin
Asim
$1,000 [15]
This couple fell in love while filming "Cleopatra"; they wed in '64, divorced after a decade, remarried in 1975--& split again in 1976
Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
Asim
DD $1,600 [19]
It's a cloud of grasshoppers & a plague of these relatives
locusts
Tim
$1,000 [25]
Though the play did not hit Broadway until 1946, "The Iceman Cometh" by him first cameth in 1939
(Eugene) O'Neill
Tim
$1,000 [14]
Add 1 letter to a device used to pair draft animals to get this term for a country bumpkin
a yokel
Tim

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE TACO BELL CANON IN "D" PERFECT! BROADWAY NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES HEALTH & MEDICINE A RIVER RUNS TO IT
$400 [1]
You can get these chips as a side or in your Locos Tacos
Doritos
Tim
$400 [7]
This synonym for perfect refers to how the Virgin Mary was conceived in her mother's womb
immaculate
Tim
$400 [30]
In July 2016, to a standing ovation, creator & star Lin-Manuel Miranda took his final bow in this smash musical
Hamilton
Ryan
$400 [13]
You'll find the Martin Luther King Jr. national historic site in this state capital
Atlanta
Asim
$400 [22]
One of the leading causes of school absenteeism is this respiratory disease that often arises from allergies
asthma
Ryan
$400 [27]
The Volga, to this so-called "sea"
the Caspian Sea
Asim
$800 [2]
@tacobell has tweeted that "It's okay to do" this double-"D" party foul "with rolled chicken tacos"
double-dip
Ryan
$800 [8]
When grading the clarity of a diamond, the best is FL, meaning this; I.F. means internally this
flawless
Asim Tim
$800 [28]
This current biographical musical ends with a rousing rendition of "I Feel The Earth Move"
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Asim Ryan
$800 [14]
A national historic site since 1964, the Allegheny Portage Railroad linked this state's canal system with the West
Pennsylvania
Ryan
$800 [23]
From the Greek for "half skull", it may progress through 4 stages: prodrome, aura, headache & postdrome
a migraine
$800 [26]
The Po, to this arm of the Mediterranean
the Adriatic
Asim Ryan
$1,200 [3]
The drink menu includes this "Always one of a kind" soda
Dr. Pepper
Tim
$1,600 [10]
This 6-syllable word means pure or not contaminated; it has nothing to do with the absence of grownups
unadulterated
Ryan
$1,200 [11]
This play that first came to Broadway in 1974 was inspired by a story about a boy who had blinded several horses
Equus
Tim
$1,600 [24]
Today a national historic site, Pu'ukohola Heiau, a stone temple in Hawaii, was built by this king in the 1790s
Kamehameha
Asim
$1,200 [15]
In this disease, proteins called beta-amyloid & tau damage nerve cells in the brain, causing memory loss
Alzheimer's disease
Asim
$1,200 [18]
The Gambia, to this ocean
the Atlantic Ocean
Ryan
$1,600 [4]
In 2015 Taco Bell partnered with this double "D" app, so tap your phone & a quesarito appears
DoorDash
Ryan
$2,000 [12]
If you have no equal, you're this, also the name of those sugar pellets used in cake decoration
nonpareil
$1,600 [5]
Robert Morse won a Tony in 1990 for this 3-letter play, a look at 2 nights in the life of writer Capote
Tru
Tim
$2,000 [25]
This site 90 miles east of Fresno was a WWII internment camp for Japanese Americans
Manzanar
$1,600 [16]
A tympanoplasty is a surgical procedure to repair a hole in this
the eardrum
Ryan
$1,600 [19]
The Indus, to this sea
the Arabian Sea
Asim Tim
$2,000 [6]
This plural word follows "Garden of Earthly" in a painting title & "Cinnabon" in a Taco Bell menu item
delights
Tim
DD $2,600 [9]
This adjective for perfection is meant to evoke a newly struck coin
mint
Tim
$2,000 [29]
This alliterative middle play in Neil Simon's trilogy comes between "Brighton Beach Memoirs" & "Broadway Bound"
Biloxi Blues
DD $3,000 [21]
The unusual windows seenhereare at the Maryland site named for this woman
Clara Barton
Ryan
$2,000 [17]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation of a vein on the monitor.) Healthy blood has plenty of red blood cells to carry oxygen to body tissues; if the number of cells isreduced, causing weakness and fatigue, it may an indication of this condition, from the Greek for "want of blood"
anemia
$2,000 [20]
The Loire, to this bay
the Bay of Biscay
Ryan

Final Jeopardy!

MODERN MYTHOLOGY

A purported image of this subject of legend was published in the Daily Mail newspaper on April 21, 1934

the Loch Ness monster

Asim "What is the Loch Ness Monster" — wagered $4,199
Ryan "What is the Loch Ness Monster?" — wagered $1,515
Tim "What is the Loch Ness monster?" — wagered $17,000

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