Show #7434 2016-12-29 Regular

Contestants

Nathalie Szilagyi — a physician from Meriden, Connecticut

Mukund Marathe — a music teacher and singer from Montclair, New Jersey

Justin Scace — a writer and editor from East Lyme, Connecticut (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Justin $2,200 $5,000 $17,600 $3,600
3rd place: $1,000
$14,200
18 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Mukund $2,200 $4,800 $15,400 $21,400
New champion: $21,400
$16,400
19 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Nathalie $3,000 $5,700 $13,700 $12,700
2nd place: $2,000
$12,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE STATE GOVERNED BRANDS THE SOVIET UNION "H. H." MY EMMY-WINNING ROLE 4 YOUR CONSIDERATION
$200 [10]
Bill Clinton
Arkansas
Nathalie
$200 [1]
It's the line of paper towels that's the "quicker picker-upper"
Bounty
Mukund
$200 [15]
On March 11, 1990 this nation became the first Soviet republic to declare independence & tanks soon rolled into Vilnius
Lithuania
Mukund
$200 [3]
2-word interjection used by sailors when pulling a rope
heave ho
Justin
$200 [21]
2005:boldly going to the stage to accept for playing Denny Crane
William Shatner
Mukund
$200 [26]
The 4 standard divisions of singers in a choir are soprano, alto, tenor & this one
bass
Nathalie
$400 [11]
George Pataki
New York
Mukund
$400 [2]
A wood saw & a Phillips screwdriver are attachments on the Hercules model of this knife brand
a Swiss army knife
Nathalie
$600 [18]
In the 1980s Mikhail Gorbachev instituted this economic policy of "restructuring", but it couldn't save the USSR
perestroika
Mukund
$400 [4]
This period of day at the bar has reduced prices on booze
happy hour
Justin
$400 [22]
1993:Cheers-fully accepting for playing Sam Malone
Ted Danson
Justin
$400 [27]
Of the 4 seasons, the one when you'll most likely find an animal in his hibernaculum
winter
Mukund
$600 [12]
William McKinley
Ohio
Nathalie
$600 [8]
Campbell Soups owns this brand of pasta for kids & describes it as "spoonable"
SpaghettiOs
Mukund
$800 [19]
After the invasion of Afghanistan, Pres. Carter ended shipments of this specific foodstuff to the Soviets
wheat
Mukund
$600 [5]
You can see why this politician, shownherein the 1960s, was dubbed "The Happy Warrior"
Hubert Humphrey
Justin
$600 [23]
2002:Ray Barone, whom everybody loved, apparently
Ray Romano
Mukund
$600 [28]
For Christmas cards & bills alike, these got their new +4 format in 1983
ZIP codes
Justin
$800 [13]
Christine Todd Whitman
New Jersey
Mukund
$800 [9]
The Gatorade logo is a G with an orange one of these symbols in the center
a lightning bolt
Nathalie
$1,000 [20]
In the 1990s this news agency was renamed ITAR; it has its Soviet name back now
TASS
Nathalie
$800 [6]
This product that debuted in the U.S. in 1958 was inspired by a piece of Australian physical education equipment
the hula-hoop
$800 [24]
1997:We're putting the truth out there, Dana Scully was an unbeatable role that year
Gillian Anderson
Justin
$800 [29]
For UFO fans, a close encounter of the 3rd kind is meeting aliens; this is one of the 4th kind
being abducted by aliens
$1,000 [14]
Janet Napolitano
Arizona
Nathalie
$1,000 [16]
The name of this brand of cleanser means "good friend"
Bon Ami
Nathalie
DD $1,500 [17]
Following the revolution Lenin gave him a job as commissar of nationalities but might have come to regret it
Stalin
Nathalie
$1,000 [7]
This song asks what "makes that little ol' ant think he'll move that rubber tree plant"
"High Hopes"
Justin
$1,000 [25]
2014:Skyler White, a woman in a meth of a situation
Anna Gunn
Justin
$1,000 [30]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows some brainwaves on the monitor.) Four basic patterns of Greek letter-designated brain waves are beta, alpha, delta & this one from 4 to 8 Hertz that allows access to the unconscious
theta
Nathalie

Double Jeopardy! Round

NATURE STUDY IN THE DICTIONARY SAINTS BE PRAISED FILMS WITH SHORT TITLES THEIR ORIGINAL NAMES "L"ITERATURE
$400 [1]
The Old Farmer's Almanac says this bulb flower may "vary in shape from...cups, bowls & goblets to more complex forms"
tulip
Mukund
$400 [6]
It's what you should do twice a day with a dentifrice
brush
Mukund
$400 [11]
They had Billy Kilmer & Jim Taylor when they began play in 1967
the New Orleans Saints
Justin
$400 [21]
"Don't go in the water" was one of several taglines used for this 1975 film
Jaws
Nathalie
$400 [26]
Singer-songwriter Robert Zimmerman
Bob Dylan
Nathalie
$400 [16]
In the 1855 preface to this collection of poems, Whitman said, "A great poem is no finish to a man or woman but ...a beginning"
Leaves of Grass
Justin
$800 [2]
This creature with an equine name moves its dorsal fin back & forth 35 times a second for propulsion
a seahorse
Justin
$800 [7]
Specific term for the pine sap material used on violin bows to increase friction
rosin
Justin
$800 [12]
A Memphis hospital is named for this patron saint of desperate causes
Saint Jude
Nathalie
$800 [22]
In this 2009 animated film, Russell exclaims, "I've never been in a floating house before!"
Up
Justin
$800 [27]
Author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Lewis Carroll
Mukund
$800 [17]
This set of "Tales" by James Fenimore Cooper includes "The Deerslayer" & "The Last of the Mohicans"
the Leatherstocking Tales
Justin
$1,200 [3]
Thistree, whose name is derived from the Greek sycon, or "fig", is identifiable by its whitish bark that peels off in flakes
sycamore
Mukund
DD $1,000 [9]
Its definition as a burden is derived from a Coleridge poem
the albatross
Mukund
$1,200 [13]
She won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "On the Waterfront", her very first feature film
Eva Marie Saint
Nathalie
$1,200 [23]
The title character from this 1995 film was a composite of 48 real Yorkshire pigs & an animatronic double
Babe
Justin
$1,200 [28]
U.S. President Leslie Lynch King Jr.
Gerald Ford
Justin
$1,200 [18]
The first line of this D.H. Lawrence novel is "Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically"
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Justin
$1,600 [4]
Scientists believe the very long nose of this monkey of Borneo creates an echo chamber amplifying calls to attract mates
proboscis
Mukund
$1,200 [8]
It's a 7-letter word meaning a child with extraordinary ability
prodigy
Mukund
$1,600 [14]
If you're in Pinellas Point Park near where Tampa Bay meets the Gulf of Mexico, you're in this city
St. Petersburg
Nathalie
$2,000 [25]
This 1931 Fritz Lang classic starred Peter Lorre as a child murderer who's tracked down by the Berlin underworld
M
Mukund
$1,600 [29]
Controversial nightclub comedian Leonard Schneider
Lenny Bruce
Nathalie
$1,600 [19]
F. Scott Fitzgerald died with this fifth novel unfinished; he may have wanted the title to begin "The Love of..."
The Love of the Last Tycoon
$2,000 [5]
Seen soaringhereis the blue-winged type of this duck with another color in its name
the teal
$2,000 [10]
This one-ounce gold coin was named for an early South African president
a krugerrand
Nathalie
$2,000 [15]
December 26 is the feast day of this first Christian martyr
Saint Stephen
Mukund
DD $5,000 [24]
This 2004 Best Picture nominee featured such tunes as "What'd I Say" & "I Got A Woman"
Ray
Justin
$2,000 [30]
American choreographer & ballet company founder Abdullah Jaffa Bey Khan
Robert Joffrey
$2,000 [20]
Ever the optimist, Hobbes wrote in this work: "The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short"
Leviathan
Mukund

Final Jeopardy!

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD

Of the 5 countries with the lowest population density, this U.N. member is the only one named for a desert

Namibia

Nathalie "What isDjibSaudi Arabia" — wagered $1,000
Mukund "What is Namibia?" — wagered $6,000
Justin "What is Morocco?" — wagered $14,000

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