Show #7463 2017-02-08 (taped 2016-11-09) Regular

Contestants

Kirstin Cutts — a graduate student from Austin, Texas

Carl Falstrom — an immigration attorney from New Orleans, Louisiana

Jody Jabbora — a retired postal clerk from Las Vegas, Nevada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $25,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jody $1,800 $3,000 $9,400 $6,200
2nd place: $2,000
$9,400
15 R, 1 W
Carl $1,000 $6,200 $12,800 $3,999
3rd place: $1,000
$15,000
23 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Kirstin $3,600 $2,400 $10,800 $11,001
New champion: $11,001
$10,600
12 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

IT'S DEBATABLE THE BOOK OF PROVERBS HISTORIC AUTOMOBILES NBA GREATS ABBREVIATED K DROPPIN' MAD BEETS
$200 [14]
(I'm Anderson Cooper.) I was a moderator of several 2016 presidential debates; one of the hot topics at the Kennedy-Nixon debates in 1960 was the global threat of this political ideology
Communism
Jody
$200 [9]
Chapter 1 tells you you're reading "the proverbs of" this man, "king of Israel"
Solomon
Jody Carl
$200 [22]
The 1897 Panhard Levassor was one of the first autos to put the engine in the "French style" here on the car
the front
Jody Kirstin
$200 [21]
Alphabetically first on the NBA's list of its 50 greatest players is this Bucks, Lakers & Celebrity "Jeopardy!" star
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Jody Kirstin
$200 [1]
As a unit of computer memory
a kilobyte
Carl
$200 [4]
A good source of iron, beets are said to improve this condition, a deficiency of hemoglobin
anemia
Jody
$400 [15]
When asked if at the age of 73 he was too old to be pres., he quipped he wouldn't exploit Mondale's youth & inexperience
Reagan
Jody
$400 [10]
"Go to" this hardworking insect, "thou sluggard; consider her ways"
an ant
Jody
$400 [23]
This 1960s TV superhero vehicle was a modified version of a concept car called the Lincoln Futura
the Batmobile
Carl
$400 [24]
(Dan Patrick delivers the clue.) In the 1998-99 season, this center led the Knicks as the team became the first ever to reach the finals as an 8th seed
Patrick Ewing
Carl
$400 [2]
In the NFL, K is a position; in MLB, it's this stat
a strikeout
Carl
$400 [5]
Like turnips & parsnips, beets are this hearty type of vegetable named for a botanical part
root vegetables
Jody
$600 [16]
Beforehewas a presence in the 2016 GOP debates, he was a star debater for Princeton in the '90s
(Ted) Cruz
Carl
$600 [11]
Proverbs 13 warns that "He that spareth" this "hateth his son"
the rod
Kirstin
$600 [28]
In the 1977 movie "Smokey & the Bandit", Burt Reynolds drove a classic Trans Am from this brand
Pontiac
Carl
$600 [25]
OKC fans were thunderstruck in 2016 when this star announced he was leaving for Golden State
Kevin Durant
Carl
$600 [3]
On the periodic table, it's elementary, my dear chemist
potassium
Kirstin
$600 [6]
Because of the concentric rings of red & white, the beets seen here also have this alliterative name
candy cane beets
Carl Kirstin
$800 [19]
In 1993 Al Gore & Ross Perot appeared on Larry King's show to debate this pact
NAFTA
Carl
DD $1,000 [12]
The house of wisdom, says the 9th chapter, hath this many pillars
seven
Kirstin
$800 [26]
At the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese called this Laker Xiao Fei Xia or Peter Pan, due to his "flying" ability
Kobe Bryant
Carl Kirstin
$800 [17]
A Michigan food company on the New York Stock Exchange
Kellogg's
Jody
$800 [7]
This classic Russian beet soup can be served hot or cold; top it with a dollop of sour cream
borscht
Kirstin
$1,000 [20]
In a 1976 presidential debate, he said, "There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe"
Ford
Carl
$1,000 [13]
"The fruit of the righteous is" this, which also grows in the garden of Eden
the Tree of Life
$1,000 [27]
This Houston "Dream" added an "H" to his first name midway through his pro career
(Hakeem) Olajuwon
Carl
$1,000 [18]
In a catalog of Mozart's works
Kochel
Carl
$1,000 [8]
This specific sugar is the most prevalent in sugar beets, making up about 20% of their weight
sucrose

Double Jeopardy! Round

AND SO IT BEGINS... AN "F" IN GEOGRAPHY 19th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN TV MOVIES WOMEN AUTHORS FINE FEATHERED IDIOMS
$400 [20]
"John, by the grace of God, king of England... to the archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, barons..."
the Magna Carta
Kirstin
$400 [3]
The New England Patriots are based in this Massachusetts town
Foxborough
Carl
$400 [12]
In 1873 this Prussian-American founded a brewery on the banks of Clear Creek in Colorado
Coors
Carl
$400 [26]
Lifetime's movie with the same title as this feature film had Julie Benz, not Liam Neeson, tracking down a daughter
Taken
Kirstin
$400 [2]
Sink your teeth into this author's other novels like "The Witching Hour" & "The Vampire Armand"
Anne Rice
Carl
$400 [11]
Someone who likes to stay up late
a night owl
Carl
$800 [22]
"Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt"
the book of Exodus
Carl
$800 [4]
It left the Union 16 years after joining it
Florida
Carl
$800 [13]
He incorporated his San Francisco company in 1890, the same year his XX waist overalls were given the lot number 501
Levi Strauss
Carl
$800 [27]
This Oscar-winning actor brought the man & the music to life as Liberace in "Behind the Candelabra"
Michael Douglas
Jody
$800 [1]
In "Little Women", Louisa May Alcott portrayed herself as this second-oldest March girl, who naturally becomes a writer
Jo
Jody
$800 [17]
The world of hunting gave us this term for a ridiculously easy target
a sitting duck
Kirstin
$1,200 [23]
"An act to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of federal old-age benefits..."
the Social Security Act
Jody
$1,600 [6]
Take U.S. Hwy 50 to find the path to this Colorado county named for an explorer who mapped the area in 1843
Fremont
Jody
$1,200 [14]
This banker preferred to be called by his middle name, Pierpont, which was his mother's maiden name
J.P. Morgan
Carl
$1,200 [28]
The 2000 presidential election was the basis for this HBO TV movie with Kevin Spacey
Recount
$1,200 [8]
Thisbest-selling author's works, in part, explore mother-daughter relationships and the immigrant experience
Amy Tan
Carl
$1,200 [18]
A final performance before retirement
a swan song
Kirstin
$1,600 [24]
"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed..."
the 8th Amendment
$2,000 [7]
Vanua Levu is its second-largest island
Fiji
Jody
$2,000 [16]
When cigarette makers formed the American Tobacco Company in 1890, this North Carolinian became its first president
James Buchanan Duke
Jody
$1,600 [29]
This 1937 novel by Zora Neale Hurston was turned into a TV movie starring Halle Berry
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Kirstin
$1,600 [9]
Much of this Maeve Binchy novel covers the teen years of Irish gal pals Benny Hogan & Eve Malone
Circle of Friends
$1,600 [19]
A fast, risky detox method
cold turkey
Carl
$2,000 [25]
"Homage to thee, Osiris, lord of eternity, king of the gods..."
the Egyptian Book of the Dead
Kirstin
DD $3,000 [5]
Now a region in Belgium, it once referred to an are a in France and the Netherlands, too
Flanders
Carl
DD $4,000 [15]
After selling his fur business in 1834, he devoted himself to real estate, building the world's biggest hotel in NYC
John Jacob Astor
Carl
$2,000 [30]
In "The Deliberate Stranger", Mark Harmon eerily played this handsome serial killer executed in 1989
Ted Bundy
Jody
$2,000 [10]
This 18th century feminist author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" died after giving birth to Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft
Kirstin
$2,000 [21]
Dr. Dre said watching "Straight Outta Compton" gave his skin this reaction
goosebumps
Carl

Final Jeopardy!

NATIONAL ANTHEMS

In her memoirs Queen Liliuokalani tells us that before Hawaii had its own national anthem, it used this one

"God Save The Queen"

Jody "What is Aloha Oy?" — wagered $3,200
Kirstin "What is God Save the Queen?" — wagered $201
Carl "What is Aloha Oe?" — wagered $8,801

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