Show #7437 2017-01-03 Regular

J!Buzz: Jeopardy Team Lego Minifigures.

Contestants

Amanda Berofsky — a quality assurance analyst from Waterford, Michigan

Rebecca Glass — an administrator from New York, New York

Gavin Mulligan — a software engineer from Parker, Colorado (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Gavin $1,000 $1,800 $4,600 $2
3rd place: $1,000
$4,600
12 R, 6 W
Rebecca =) $400 $4,000 $4,800 $300
2nd place: $2,000
$6,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Amanda $1,400 $2,600 $7,800 $5,999
New champion: $5,999
$7,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

AFTER THE CABINET MOVIE NUMBERS LITERATURE IN ACTION HOMONYMS CAPITAL CITY HOTELS LEGO
$200 [19]
After his fifth heart attack, he co-wrote a book with his doctor called "Heart: An American Medical Odyssey"
Dick Cheney
Rebecca =)
$200 [1]
A sequel:"____ Jump Street"
22
Amanda
$200 [8]
The action-packed Book 7 of this ancient poem features the duel of Hector & Ajax
the Iliad
Rebecca =)
$200 [10]
An oceangoing vacation, or a type of low-altitude guided missile
a cruise
Rebecca =)
$200 [3]
Hotel Neos Olympos, Electra Hotel
Athens
Amanda
$200 [26]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Lego Systems in Enfield, CT.) A carpenter, Ole Kirk Christiansen, founded Lego in the 1930s to make wooden toys; he coined the company name from the words "leg godt", "play well" in this, his native language
Danish
Gavin
$400 [20]
In 1945 ex-Attorney General Robert Jackson served as chief U.S. prosecutor in this German city
Nuremberg
Rebecca =)
$400 [2]
James Franco on the cutting edge:"____ Hours"
127
Rebecca =) Amanda
$400 [9]
This Vietnam vet & action hero sprang form the pages of "First Blood" by David Morrell
Rambo
Amanda
$400 [14]
To move clumsily through water, or the type of flatfishes that includes the halibut
to flounder
$400 [4]
Isis Hotel, Ramses Hilton
Cairo
Amanda
$400 [27]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Lego Systems in Enfield, CT.) Popular sets from the building series include such landmarks as Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower &this World Heritage Site & masterpiece of Indian architecture
the Taj Mahal
Amanda
$600 [21]
Ex-Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers had a stormy tenure as president of this university
Harvard
Rebecca =)
$600 [16]
Gerard Depardieu is Italian?:"____: Conquest of Paradise"
1492
Rebecca =)
$600 [11]
Like Michael Crichton, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a thriller with this title about a land inhabited by dinosaurs
The Lost World
Gavin Rebecca =)
$600 [15]
One who takes care of horses, or to prepare an employee for advancement
a groom
Gavin
$600 [5]
Hotel Peter I, Hotel Soyuz
Moscow
Amanda
$600 [28]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Lego Systems in Enfield, CT.) In 2016 NASA's Juno probe completed its 5-year voyage to Jupiter; on board is aminifigureof this 17th-century Italian, telescope in hand
Galileo
Gavin
$800 [22]
(Presidential daughter Jenna Bush Hager delivers the clue.) Secretary of War under Garfield & Arthur, this son of Abraham Lincoln was also minister to Britain & ran the Pullman Company after the founder's death
Robert Todd Lincoln
$800 [17]
Hai, Keanu plays Kai:"____ Ronin"
47
Rebecca =)
$800 [12]
"The Last of the Mohicans" takes place against the backdrop of this 18th century war
the French and Indian War
Gavin
$800 [24]
Track a pray or quarry, or the petiole of a leaf
stalk
$800 [6]
Hotel Adlon Kempinski, Hotel California am Kurfurstendamm
Berlin
Amanda
$800 [29]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Lego Systems in Enfield, CT.) In 2015, Lego Group inaugurated its own off-shore wind farm & every employee was given amodel wind farm kit, symbolizing the company's stated goal of being 100% based on this type of energy by 2020
renewable energy
Amanda
DD $1,000 [23]
Her 2012 memoir details her family's experiences in Europe during World War II & the Holocaust
Madeleine Albright
Rebecca =)
$1,000 [18]
That's a lot of nail polish:"The ____ Fingers of Dr. T"
5000
$1,000 [13]
Brian Garfield's wife had her purse stolen, so Brian wrote this novel about a vigilante whose wife has been murdered
Death Wish
Gavin
$1,000 [25]
A flock of geese in flight, or a length of thread or yarn wound in a loose coil
a skein
Gavin
$1,000 [7]
The Balmoral, Nira Caledonia
Edinburgh
Rebecca =)
$1,000 [30]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Lego Systems in Enfield, CT.) The Mindstorms construction kit, which allows children to build & program their own robotic devices, grew out of the company's longstanding partnership with the famous Media Lab of this Cambridge, Massachusetts school
MIT
Gavin

Double Jeopardy! Round

AFTER THE CABERNET ANCIENT BABYLON ART & ARTISTS ALL THE SINGLES LADIES 16th CENTURY BOOKSHELF IT'S "TWIN"s!
$400 [26]
The Stag's Leap cab was awesome; now it's time for this course--I'll start with the Roncal & then some chevre
the cheese course
Gavin
$400 [17]
This Babylonian king laid down the law & go things going for the empire around 1792 B.C.
Hammurabi
Rebecca =)
$400 [5]
If this ancient statue was a real woman, her measurements would be 51-38-47
the Venus de Milo
Rebecca =)
$400 [10]
She performed her hits "Rise" & "Roar" at the 2016 Democratic National Convention
Katy Perry
Amanda
$400 [2]
Look that up in your Calepino? In 1502 Ambrogio Calepino compiled "Cornucopiae", a Latin one of these
a dictionary
Gavin Amanda
$400 [1]
They shared one zygote
identical twins
Rebecca =)
$800 [27]
Like our cultured European brethren, we choose to have this roughage course after the entree & red wines
salad
Gavin
$1,200 [19]
An Oxford researcher says this terraced marvel that helped make Babylon famous was actually in Assyria
the Hanging Gardens
Gavin Rebecca =)
$800 [6]
In 2001 Artist Alma Lopez caused protest with her depiction of this woman in a swimsuit
the Virgin Mary
Amanda
$800 [11]
This No. 1 single by Madonna namechecks Greta Garbo & Marilyn Monroe, among others
"Vogue"
Gavin
$800 [3]
A story of revenge, Thomas Kyd's play "The Spanish Tragedy" influenced this Shakespeare play from 1600
Hamlet
Gavin Rebecca =)
$800 [22]
Ervin Santana was their 2016 opening day starter
the Minnesota Twins
Amanda
$1,600 [28]
To cleanse the palate after the filet & silver oak, it's this black currant sorbet, also found after "Creme de"
cassis
Gavin
$1,600 [20]
Thisoverworked Babyloniangoddessof war & fertility was also the goddess of rain & thunderstorms
Ishtar
$1,200 [7]
Winslow Homer often depicted the coast of Maine in this type of painting, also the title of an Edward Albee play
seascape
$1,200 [12]
Leskanich is the last name of this woman who fronted the Waves & was "Walking On Sunshine"
Katrina
Amanda
$1,200 [4]
Before "The Faerie Queene", he wrote a series of poems called "The Shepheardes Calender"
(Edmund) Spenser
Rebecca =)
$1,200 [23]
You go on ahead--I'll just sit a minute, got this momentary pain in my knee
a twinge
Gavin
DD $2,000 [18]
A trading hub and cultural center, the city of Babylon was located on the banks of this river
the Euphrates
Rebecca =)
DD $2,000 [8]
Andre Breton called the art of this fellow 20th c. artist "the most hallucinatory known until now"
(Salvador) Dali
Amanda
$1,600 [13]
"Cheap Thrills" was a No. 1 hit for this woman not seen here
Sia (Furler)
Gavin
$1,600 [16]
This author became a monk but broke his vows to study medicine & pen his masterpiece "Gargantua and Pantagruel"
Rabelais
$1,600 [24]
T Magazine said one risks looking like an elderly aunt when wearing this, a cardigan with a matching short-sleeve sweater
a twinset
Amanda
$2,000 [21]
Some scholars identify etemenanki, one of these Babylonian structures, as the Tower of Babel
a ziggurat
Rebecca =)
$2,000 [9]
Not sure if it's ready for Playboy, but one of this painter's "Nude"s is seen here
Marcel Duchamp
Rebecca =)
$2,000 [14]
She had 3 singles in Billboard's Top 10 during one week in 2014: "Problem", "Break Free" & "Bang Bang"
Ariana Grande
Rebecca =) Amanda
$2,000 [15]
This author of "Lives of the Artists" has been credited with introducing the term "Renaissance" around 1550
Vasari
Rebecca =)
$2,000 [25]
The 1904 book that introduced them says "There were four... now that sounds funny, doesn't it?"
the Bobbsey Twins
Gavin

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD CITIES

Named for a saint & built in 1348, Vaclavske Namesti is the main square & center of cultural life in this capital city

Prague

Gavin "What is St Petersburg" — wagered $4,598
Rebecca =) "What is Moscow" — wagered $4,500
Amanda "What is Budapest?" — wagered $1,801

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