Show #7460 2017-02-03 (taped 2016-11-08) Regular

Lisa Schlitt game 6.

Contestants

Marion Montgomery — a library assistant from Huntsville, Alabama

Tyler Johnson — a political science professor from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Lisa Schlitt — a microbiologist from Berwyn, Pennsylvania (whose 5-day cash winnings total $112,300)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Lisa	$2,600	$6,000	$13,400	$26,800 6-day champion: $139,100	$13,200 19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Tyler	$1,800	$5,600	$18,400	$9,999 2nd place: $2,000	$17,200 22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Marion	$3,200	$4,000	$4,000	$7,900 3rd place: $1,000	$3,200 7 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

THEJEOPARDY!SORTING HAT	AMERICAN HISTORY	NUMERICAL PHRASES	TELEVISION CITY	Q PEOPLE	THE END OF THE STORY
$200 [1] Well done! You've been selected to this major branch of the U.S. government whose top members are appointed for life the judicial branch Tyler Marion	$200 [11] The U.S. put down $11.25 million for this 1803 land deal, though the treaty didn't clearly describe the boundaries the Louisiana Purchase Lisa	$200 [16] Kyle Field, where the Aggies play football, "is the home of" this numerical symbolic fella the 12th man Tyler	$200 [2] "Cheers" to "Ally McBeal" Boston Lisa	$200 [21] Later executed as a traitor, he took power in Norway in 1940 Vidkun Quisling Marion	$200 [26] Hester Prynne dies in the last chapter of this novel & is buried next to Arthur Dimmesdale The Scarlet Letter Lisa
$400 [7] You are now welcome to join us in this group, the highest USDA grade for beef Prime Marion	$400 [12] This disaster began on October 8, 1871 in a barn on DeKoven Street & left nearly 100,000 people homeless the Chicago fire Tyler	$400 [17] "I wouldn't touch that with" this item which, set on the ground, will just touch a basketball rim a 10-foot pole Lisa	$400 [3] "Breaking Bad" was "In Plain Sight" Albuquerque Tyler	$400 [23] It's the year the "Q" man seenherewas elected vice-president of the United States 1988 Tyler	$400 [27] Major spoiler! This thriller ends with Amy Dunne returning to her husband Nick after staging her own disappearance Gone Girl Lisa
$600 [8] You're in the high dollar club now, the one named for this largest currency U.S. bill being issued today the $100 Lisa	$600 [13] The unexplained sinking of the USS Maine led the U.S. to declare war on this country on April 25, 1898 Spain Marion	$600 [18] As a farewell to Martha Karolyi, this alliterative nickname was used for the 2016 U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics team the Final Five Tyler	$600 [4] "i Carly" & "Grey's Anatomy" Seattle Lisa	$600 [22] In 2009 Mary Quant helped launch a Royal Mail stamp series that included this revealing 1960s item she designed the miniskirt	$600 [28] As this novel ends, Humbert Humbert kills Quilty & realizes that he has robbed the title character of her childhood Lolita Lisa
$800 [9] The balls have spoken--welcome to this group, the last position to have a member in the Pro Football Hall of Fame punter Tyler	$1,000 [15] A tax on spirits caused this U.S. rebellion in 1794 the Whiskey Rebellion Lisa	$800 [19] This expression refers to the promise made to freed slaves; the land was in Sherman's Special Field Order No. 15 forty acres and a mule Tyler	$800 [5] For a "Thirty something", it's where "American Bandstand" started Philadelphia Marion	$800 [24] In 1956 director Jose Quintero staged the first Broadway production of this "Long" Eugene O'Neill play Long Day's Journey Into Night Tyler	$800 [29] This Donna Tartt novel ends with a reward for Theo & his friend Boris for returning the stolen title painting The Goldfinch Lisa
$1,000 [10] The hat is all abuzz; you are now a member of this tiniest insect variety of hummingbirds bee hummingbirds	DD $1,600 [14] This 4-word motto saying watch your step was on many early American flags don't tread on me Marion	$1,000 [20] It's a long necktie that's been tied in a slipknot & has the ends hanging down a four in hand Tyler	$1,000 [6] "Burn Notice" & "Austin & Ally"; what a crossover episode that would've been Miami Lisa	$1,000 [25] In the 1st century Roman teacher Quintilian wrote a key work on this art of persuasive speaking rhetoric Marion	—

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE TITLE OF THE MOVIE ESCAPES ME	SCIENTIFIC MILESTONES	THE NEXT U.N. MEMBER, ALPHABETICALLY	20th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS	SILENT N	THE OCCIDENT EXPRESS
$400 [6] In 1971's "Escape from" here, 3 intelligent simians travel back in time to present-day America the Planet of the Apes Tyler	$400 [1] 9 years before Watson & Crick made news, Avery, MacLeod & McCMcCMcCMcCMcCMcCMcCMcCartyowedcterialnesedeis DNA Lisa	$400 [17] After Jamaica Japan Tyler	$400 [16] A true Fauvist artists often didn't do this usual 3-letter word to his paints, but applied them vividly from the tube mix Tyler	$400 [11] For us, it's from the September equinox to the December solstice autumn Lisa	$400 [22] This country's Tequila Express takes you to a distillery in Amatitan; tastings are included Mexico Marion
$800 [7] James Clavell co-scripted this 1963 WWII drama in which Steve McQueen performed his own motorcycle stunts The Great Escape Tyler	$800 [2] Heavy, man: Antoine Lavoisier made the Law of Conservation of this one of the foundations of modern chemistry mass Tyler Marion	$800 [18] After Belarus Belgium Tyler	$800 [27] Lawren Harris's "Above Lake Superior" is a work by this country's Group of Seven Canada	$800 [12] A city might do this to an old building that is deemed unsafe condemn Lisa	$800 [23] Starting in the 1920s, the Orange Blossom Special took folks south for the winter to this state of its last stop Florida Tyler
$1,200 [8] The 2008 sequel to this 2005 animated feature about Central Park Zoo animals is subtitled "Escape 2 Africa" Madagascar Tyler	DD $1,400 [3] Henri Becquerel was all aglow when he won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering this property of matter radioactivity Lisa	$1,600 [20] After Ecuador Egypt	$1,200 [28] The New Mexico landscape inspired some of her best-known paintings, including "Black Cross" Georgia O'Keeffe Lisa	$1,200 [13] An upright support, or a newspaper feature a column Lisa	$1,200 [24] The Flying Scotsman, which ran from Edinburgh to King's Cross in this city, had a cinema car & a hair salon London Tyler
$1,600 [9] In 2004 these 2 pals "Go to White Castle"; in 2008 they "Escape from Guantanamo Bay" Harold and Kumar Tyler Marion	$1,600 [4] (Jimmy of the Clue Crewshows an animation of the Breakthrough Starshot project on the monitor.) Promoted by Stephen Hawking, the Breakthrough Starshot project seeks to accelerate tiny spacecraft to one-fifth lightspeed, using focused beams from an array of lasers, sending them on a 20-year journey to this nearby star system Alpha Centauri Lisa	$2,000 [21] After Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Lisa	$1,600 [29] Magritte said, "To be" this type of artist means "being always on the lookout for what has never been" a surrealist	$1,600 [14] Grave in tone, as in a type of oath solemn Lisa	$1,600 [25] Switzerland's Glacier Express travels between Zermatt & this saintly resort twice home to the Winter Olympics St. Moritz Tyler
$2,000 [10] Clint Eastwood played imprisoned bank robber Frank Morris in this 1979 film that was based on a true story Escape from Alcatraz Tyler	$2,000 [5] In 1927 this German physicist enunciated his indeterminacy principle Heisenberg Marion	DD $2,400 [19] After Fiji Finland Tyler	—	$2,000 [15] To represent in drawing of painting; it's 4 letters & you know the last 2 are "mn"--don't let us down! limn	$2,000 [26] This "mighty good" line's passenger trains were known as rockets; it was "the road to ride" Rock Island Line

Final Jeopardy!

CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS

His official website says, "It is forty years since I hung up my cloak and dagger"

John le Carré

Marion "Who is Le Carre" — wagered $3,900

Lisa "Who is John Le Carré?" — wagered $13,400

Tyler "Who is Rushdie" — wagered $8,401

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