Show #7455 2017-01-27 (taped 2016-09-28) Regular

Lisa Schlitt game 1.

Contestants

Paul Cox — a portfolio manager from Austin, Texas

Lisa Schlitt — a microbiologist from Berwyn, Pennsylvania

Christy Karras — a writer and editor from Seattle, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $30,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Christy $3,000 $7,000 $11,400 $7,899
2nd place: $2,000
$9,200
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Lisa $2,800 $4,600 $13,800 $27,600
New champion: $27,600
$9,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Paul $1,400 $3,800 $14,900 $2,199
3rd place: $1,000
$15,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

WHAT COUNTRY ARE YOU FROM? LITERATURE 1960s POP LYRICS BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT GERMAN FOOD & DRINK JUST "ASP" ME
$200 [1]
A Muscovite
Russia
Christy
$200 [16]
Kobayashi Issa mastered this form; Robert Hass translated one as "Don't worry, spiders / I keep house / casually"
haiku
Christy
$200 [26]
In 1965 Petula Clark told us that "when you're alone and life is making lonely, you can always go" here
downtown
Christy
$200 [21]
He was president of Princeton when the photo seenherewas taken
Woodrow Wilson
Lisa
$200 [6]
It's the main vegetable in Krautsuppe
cabbage
Christy
$200 [7]
To comprehend, or take hold firmly with the hand
grasp
Paul
$400 [2]
A Cornishman
England
Paul
$400 [17]
"Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause", the title of a 1961 novel
Catch-22
Lisa
$400 [27]
Elvis' girl sent his letter back, writing on it this, "address unknown, no such number, no such zone"
return to sender
Lisa
$400 [22]
This Californian was the last president who had previously been elected to both the House & the Senate
Nixon
Christy
$400 [8]
Sheboygan, Wisconsin is the self-proclaimed world capital of this German sausage
bratwurst
Lisa
$400 [12]
One shouldn't cast these damaging remarks on another's character
aspersions
Christy
$600 [3]
A Medinan or a Khobari
Saudi Arabia
Christy
$600 [18]
This 1922 Hermann Hesse novel about a young Brahmin in India parallels the life of Buddha
Siddhartha
Christy
$600 [28]
"Every other day of the week is fine, yeah, but whenever" this day "comes, you can find me cryin' all of the time"
Monday, Monday
Paul
$600 [23]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Chicago.) Thousands of the USA's aircraft carrier pilots of World War II were trained at Chicago's Navy Pier; one was this future U.S. president who said, "Flying off Lake Michigan was the coldest I ever was in my life"
George H.W. Bush
Christy
$600 [9]
In 2015 a U.S. court ruled drinkers of this 1-syllable beer brand were deceived, as it's now made in the U.S., not in Bremen
Beck's
Lisa
$600 [13]
It's the width-to-height ratio of a film or television image
the aspect ratio
Christy
$800 [4]
A Carioca
Brazil
Lisa
$800 [19]
In this Huxley novel, a major character is said to have "been the first to reveal the appalling dangers of family life"
Brave New World
Paul
$800 [29]
On this Liverpool street, "there is a barber showing photographs of every head he's had the pleasure to know"
Penny Lane
Lisa
$1,000 [25]
In 1862 he was elected to his first office--ward supervisor in Buffalo, New York
Grover Cleveland
Lisa
$800 [10]
Christmas tradition, this fruit & nut-filled sweet bread sounds like it was pilfered
Stollen
$800 [14]
Inhalation
aspiration
Paul
$1,000 [5]
A Pinoy
the Philippines
$1,000 [20]
In 1904 James Joyce wrote "The Sisters" for the Irish homestead newspaper; the story later became part of this work
the Dubliners
Paul
$1,000 [30]
It's the question the Doors asked after saying, "Hello, I love you"
"Won't you tell me your name?"
Christy Lisa
DD $3,000 [24]
After graduating from high school, he worked as a mailroom clerk at the Kansas City Star & made $7 his first week
(Harry) Truman
Christy
$1,000 [11]
Ranging from dry to very sweet, this white wine is produced from what's been called the most noble of German grapes
Riesling
Lisa
$1,000 [15]
This clear jelly made of stock & gelatin is used as a glaze or garnish
aspic
Christy

Double Jeopardy! Round

"A" FOR ART PUTTIN' OUT THE WELCOME MUTT TEXTURES GOVERNMENT & TV AN INVENTIVE CATEGORY THE NAME ON THE AIRPORT
$400 [1]
Thisgenre of art does not attempt to represent external reality, but communicates instead using shapes & colors
abstract
Christy
$400 [4]
A likeness of this "fast as a bus" breed was found on an Egyptian tomb dating from about 3000 B.C.
a greyhound
Paul
$400 [5]
A merino living free & untamed would literally be "wild &" this
woolly
Lisa
$400 [9]
Mulder & Scully returned to the X-Files in 2016, still agents of this organization
the FBI
Christy
$400 [22]
In 1855 the Lundstrom brothers used red phosphorus in these hot items to make them "safe"
matches
Christy
$400 [17]
The airport code for Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport is SPI, which stands for this state capital
Springfield
Christy
$800 [2]
The Tuscan town of Volterra is a center of carving this fine-grained gypsum that is often white
alabaster
Paul
$800 [6]
Faith & begorrah! It's the huge Irish pooch seen here, boyo
a wolfhound
Paul
$800 [26]
This texture is a homophone of one division of a meal
coarse
$800 [10]
On "The West Wing", John Spencerhad this top advisory position in President Bartlet's administration
Chief of Staff
Lisa
$800 [23]
In 1853 David Smith patented one of these to keep your undies hanging on a line by using a spring clamp & 2 wooden levers
a clothespin
Lisa
$800 [18]
Tributes to this woman of Albanian heritage include renaming Tirana International for her & in 2016, sainthood
Mother Teresa
Christy
$1,200 [3]
These served as a backdrop for the elevation of the Eucharist during Mass; the one at Ghent's cathedral is by Van Eyck
an altarpiece
Lisa
$1,200 [11]
Crossed with the bulldog by German breeders in the 1800s, this dog with a short, square-shaped muzzle packs a punch
a boxer
Lisa
$1,200 [27]
Those Haribo bears sold in bags are named for this texture, though spelled with a final "I"
gummy
Paul
$1,200 [14]
In the first season of "The Walking Dead", Rick leads survivors through Atlanta to try to get help from this organization
the Centers for Disease Control (or CDC)
Paul
$1,600 [25]
He left Morse in his dust with his 1876 patent titled "Improvement in Telegraphy"
Alexander Graham Bell
$1,200 [19]
The Red Baron Flyer is a publication of the Sonoma County, California airport named for this cartoonist
Charles Schulz
Lisa
DD $1,500 [7]
Botticelli was among those who painted a version of this, showing a trio paying homage to the baby Jesus
adoration (of the Magi)
Paul
$1,600 [12]
The Beatles' song "Martha My Dear" was written about this British breed that the AKC says "requires diligent grooming"
an Old English Sheepdog
$1,600 [28]
This 6-letter anatomical word describes fabric like corduroy
ribbed
Lisa
$1,600 [15]
Seen here, Yvonne Strahovski played a CIA agent helping a nerdy newbie on this show
Chuck
Paul
$2,000 [30]
This navigating instrument that helps find latitude & longitude was first developed in the 1750s
a sextant
Lisa
$1,600 [20]
The airport of this Mideast city was renamed after Prime Minister Rafik Hariri following his 2005 assassination
Beirut
Paul
$2,000 [8]
The group of painters known as "The Eight" established this "sooty" school of art
the Ashcan School
Christy
$2,000 [13]
The Norfolk & Norwich types of these differ mainly in the ears: the former has drop ears, the latter, prick ears
a terrier
Paul
$2,000 [29]
Ads for the hair product Vitalis gave us the catchphrase this "kid stuff"
greasy
$2,000 [16]
Raj on "The Big Bang Theory" was once tapped by this government entity to work on a unique message
NASA
Lisa
DD $6,000 [24]
Need to replace the fender on your Corvette? Thank Dale Kleist, who pioneered this material in the 1930s
fiberglass
Lisa
$2,000 [21]
The Milwaukee International Airport is named for this air power advocate who was later court-martialed
General Billy Mitchell

Final Jeopardy!

AFRICAN CITIES

The coat of arms of this South African city shows 2 cornucopias, pouring out flowers & water

Bloemfontein

Christy "What is Pretoria" — wagered $3,501
Lisa "What is Bloemfontain?" — wagered $13,800
Paul "What is Cape Town?" — wagered $12,701

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