Show #7458 2017-02-01 (taped 2016-11-08) Regular

Lisa Schlitt game 4.

Contestants

Amanda Harvey — an arts administrator from Newton, Massachusetts

Julie Bradlow — a corporate tax attorney from Charlotte, North Carolina

Lisa Schlitt — a microbiologist from Berwyn, Pennsylvania (whose 3-day cash winnings total $64,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lisa $4,400 $8,800 $14,200 $20,800
4-day champion: $85,000
$15,200
23 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Julie $1,800 $4,200 $1,400 $2,798
3rd place: $1,000
$1,400
11 R, 3 W
Amanda $2,800 $4,200 $10,300 $2,801
2nd place: $2,000
$9,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

PULITZER PRIZE JOURNALISM COUNTRY MUSIC ALBUMS ANIMALS IN FRENCH WRITING ANNUAL EVENTS "BOO"!
$200 [21]
Local Reporting, 2012: the Patriot-News of this state capital for coverage of Penn State
Harrisburg
Julie
$200 [26]
His "Ropin' The Wind" was 1991's top album, remaining at No. 1 for 18 weeks
Garth Brooks
Amanda
$200 [1]
Raining or not, the French names of these 2 animals are chat et chien
cat and dog
Amanda
$200 [16]
Directionally speaking, Hebrew, Arabic & most other Semitic languages are written this way
right-to-left
Lisa
$200 [11]
It was created in 1970 as a "national teach-in on the environment"
Earth Day
Amanda
$200 [6]
Don't be this rude & unrefined person
a boor
Julie
$400 [22]
Intl. Reporting, 2015: The New York Times staff, for "courageous front-line reporting" on this African epidemic
Ebola
Lisa
$400 [27]
In 1978 this "Red-Headed Stranger" released "Stardust", an album of pop standards
Willie Nelson
Amanda
$400 [2]
Le loup is this carnivore
the wolf
Julie
$400 [17]
The Latin "currere", meaning "to run", gives us the name of this type of handwriting
cursive
Lisa
$400 [12]
To promote heart health for women, National Wear Red Day, whose logo is seen here, is the first Friday of this month
February
Julie
$400 [7]
Shake shake shake these spoils of war
booty
Amanda
$600 [23]
Photography, 1945: Joe Rosenthal, for this image of Marines doing this on Mount Suribachi
the flag raising of Iwo Jima
Lisa
$600 [28]
In 1975 a double album was released combining 2 previous LPs featuring Johnny Cash at these 2 penitentiaries
San Quentin and Folsom
Julie
$600 [3]
Le canard is this; someone pass the orange sauce
duck
Amanda
$600 [18]
Majuscule is an uppercase letter; this is the term for a lowercase one
minuscule
Julie
$600 [13]
The inedible one is celebrated March 14; the edible one is January 23, as in "1-2-3, as easy as..."
pie
Amanda
$600 [8]
The NCAA calls them "representatives of the institution's athletic interests"
boosters
Lisa
$800 [24]
Editorial, 1929: The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot for "An Unspeakable Act of Savagery", about this form of race-based murder
lynching
Amanda
$800 [29]
In May 2005 she won "American Idol"; 6 months later, her debut album "Some Hearts" was released
Carrie Underwood
Amanda
$800 [4]
Down on a French farm, this is le mouton
a sheep
Lisa
$800 [19]
Perhaps to thwart those who would steal his ideas, Leonardo da Vinci used a backwards shorthand named for this object
a mirror
Lisa
$800 [14]
First Night, an arts festival in Boston, is held on this celebratory night
New Year's Eve
Julie
$800 [9]
Grant me this gift or favor
a boon
Amanda
$1,000 [25]
Feature, 2016: The New Yorker's Kathryn Schulz, making Oregonians quake with a piece on the Cascadia this earth feature
the subduction earthquake fault
Lisa
$1,000 [30]
This 2000 movie soundtrack album featured Alison Krauss on 3 tracks including "Down To The River To Pray"
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Julie
$1,000 [5]
This subject of songs, seen here, is le merle
a blackbird
Lisa
DD $1,000 [20]
Created by Daniel Britton, the font seenheretries to emulate what people with this condition see when trying to read
dyslexia
Lisa
$1,000 [15]
The story of the Jewish holiday Purim is told in the Biblical book of her
Esther
Lisa
$1,000 [10]
Named for a mathematician, it's the type of internet search using "and", "or" & "not"
Boolean
Lisa

Double Jeopardy! Round

GOOD FELLERS CAPE FEAR THE KING OF COMEDY HEAT CASINO DE NERO
$400 [18]
The engraving of this young man and his father is entitled "Father, I Can Not Tell a Lie: I Cut the Tree"
George Washington
Lisa
$400 [11]
This notoriously deadly cape at the bottom of South America juts into the Drake Passage
Cape Horn
Lisa Amanda
$400 [16]
He "Report"-ed, "There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good"
Colbert
Amanda
$400 [3]
Guys who can't wait to start firing idiomatically go in "with guns" this hot way
guns blazing
Lisa
$400 [1]
One of the oldest casinos in the world was opened in 1863 in this principality
Monaco
Julie
$400 [9]
After Rome burned, Nero shifted the blame from himself to this sect, making sport of them in the circus
Christians
Lisa
$800 [19]
This legendary logger dug Lake Michigan as a watering hole for his blue ox Babe
Paul Bunyan
Amanda
$800 [12]
Jutting into the "Graveyard of the Atlantic", Cape Fear is a dangerous cape on the coast of this U.S. state
North Carolina
Lisa
$800 [17]
"Lunacy packaged in pathos" was one description used of this late "Willy Wonka" comic actor
Gene Wilder
Lisa
$800 [4]
One hot summer day in 2016, the Boston Globe punningly wrote, "Gimme" this, a likely homage to the Stones
gimme swelter
Lisa
$800 [2]
This "boss" is in charge of a group of casino table games
the pit boss
Lisa
$800 [15]
Around 60 A.D. Nero gave his first public performance with this harp-like instrument
a lyre
Lisa
$1,600 [21]
This poor woodcutter of fable watches 40 thieves hide their plunder in a cave
Ali Baba
Lisa
$1,200 [13]
The name of Africa's Cape Agulhas, dominated by sharp rocks that have wrecked many a ship, means these sewing tools
needles
Amanda
$1,200 [23]
In "Coming to America", this actor has a simple request: "From this moment on, I command you not to obey me"
Eddie Murphy
Lisa
DD $1,000 [5]
Meaning "caused by heat", it's found before "spring" or "underwear"
thermal
Lisa
$1,200 [8]
Quad Cities is a Midwestern gaming hub with casinos in Bettendorf & this other trisyllabic Iowa city
Davenport
$1,200 [27]
Having had enough of Nero's antics, this august political body decreed his death; he fled
the Senate
Julie
$2,000 [22]
In "The Green Hills of Africa" from 1935, he engages in tree removal while on safari with second wife Pauline Pfeiffer
Ernest Hemingway
$1,600 [14]
Known to natives as an owl hunting spot, this Alaskan point was where Wiley Post & Will Rogers died in a 1935 crash
Point Barrow
$1,600 [24]
This standup who passed away in 2008: "No one can ever know for sure what a deserted area looks like"
George Carlin
Lisa Julie
$1,600 [6]
One of Dan Patrick's catchphrases at ESPN was this, Spanish for "on fire"
en fuego
Amanda
$1,600 [10]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew lays out cards in Texas Hold 'Em.) Texas Hold 'Em dealers discard a single card before the flop comes; that card gets this hot term and is used to deter cheaters
the burn
$1,600 [28]
At 16, Nero was proclaimed emperor by this military group, the household guard of the emperors
the Praetorians
Lisa
DD $2,500 [20]
In a 1900 work his tree cutting is stuck mid-chop & he asks for someone to "oil my joints"
the Tin Man
Amanda
$2,000 [29]
Meaning "father of danger" in Arabic, Cape Abu Khatar is a reef-lined stretch of coast of this western territory
the Western Sahara
Lisa
$2,000 [25]
His zany antics from movies like "The Bellboy" weren't on view when he co-starred with De Niro in "The King of Comedy"
Jerry Lewis
$2,000 [7]
7-letter medical adjective that means "running a temperature"
fevered (or febrile)
Julie Amanda
$2,000 [26]
Table on which you'd find horn & field options; some casinos even offer 5x or 10x odds too!
the craps tables
Julie
$2,000 [30]
This statesman, tragedian & tutor to Nero was later forced by Nero to commit suicide
Seneca
Julie Amanda

Final Jeopardy!

DUAL-USE TERMS

In 1812 the U.S. endured a literal one of these 2-word terms & beginning in 1964 enjoyed a musical one

a British invasion

Julie "What is a British Invasion" — wagered $1,398
Amanda "What is" — wagered $7,499
Lisa "What is a British invasion?" — wagered $6,600

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