Show #7490 2017-03-17 (taped 2016-12-06) Regular

Contestants

Holly Stewart — a tax attorney from Atlanta, Georgia

Rebecca Wald — a psychologist from Baltimore, Maryland

Grant McSheffrey — a software developer from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (whose 3-day cash winnings total $69,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Grant $2,000 $4,000 $7,200 $4,799
3rd place: $1,000
$5,600
11 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Rebecca $5,200 $6,600 $20,200 $31,200
New champion: $31,200
$20,200
22 R, 1 W
Holly $1,800 $1,800 $15,400 $5,799
2nd place: $2,000
$11,400
16 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

YOUR IDIOM IS FOREIGN TO ME WOMEN IN HISTORY COLLEGE COLLAGE "I" TUNES ALSO A ROMAN DEITY 'TIS IRISH LITERATURE
$200 [1]
A German idiom for "a pig in a poke" is "buying" this animal "in a sack"; time to let it "out of the bag"
a cat
Holly
$200 [11]
In 1970 Britain's prime minister Edward Heath appointed her secretary for education
Margaret Thatcher
Grant
$200 [16]
2 big phrases at this state school: "Til Gabriel blows his horn" & "Hook 'em"
(University of) Texas
Grant
$200 [19]
In 1962 Tony Bennett hit the Top 40 with this tune; he's sung it a few times since
"I Left My Heart In San Francisco"
$200 [6]
Spock's planet
Vulcan
Grant
$200 [18]
In "Lady Windermere's Fan", he wrote, "I can resist everything except temptation"
(Oscar) Wilde
Grant
$400 [3]
In Spanish, poner las manos en el fuego, or "to put" these "in the fire", means to have 100% faith in someone
your hands
Holly
$400 [12]
Before becoming prime minister in 1966, she served as India's minister of information & broadcasting
Indira Gandhi
Rebecca
$400 [17]
In 1858 this university went co-ed when it took on the Tallahassee Female Academy
Florida State University
Grant Holly
$1,000 [24]
The Beach Boys were "gettin' bugged drivin' up & down the same old strip" in this 1964 song
"I Get Around"
Rebecca
$400 [7]
Rigg, Vreeland or Nyad
Diana
Rebecca
$600 [21]
In "Arms and the Man", by him, a fugitive soldier exposes some villagers' romantic ideas about war
George Bernard Shaw
Rebecca
$600 [2]
You're probably familiar with carpe diem, but the less-used carpe noctem translates to this
seize the night
Grant
$600 [13]
In 1770, at age 14, she married Louis XVI by proxy in Vienna; the 2 had never met
Marie Antoinette
Holly
$600 [25]
The Walsh School of Foreign Service is part of this D.C. university
Georgetown
Rebecca Holly
$600 [8]
Created in 1932, the U.K. version of this candy bar has chocolate, caramel & nougat
Mars
Holly
$800 [22]
In the satiric 1729 "A Modest Proposal", this author suggested dining on poor Irish children to control poverty
Jonathan Swift
Grant
$800 [4]
Vai a fava, Portuguese for "go to the fava bean", is like our slang "get" this 4-letter word, meaning "go away"
get lost
Rebecca
$800 [14]
Dolores Ibárurri, a heroine of the losing side in this 1930s war, remained honorary president of the Communist Party until 1989
the Spanish Civil War
Rebecca
$800 [26]
Home to the William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive, this university is known as the "Harvard of the South"
Tulane
Grant Rebecca Holly
$800 [9]
If you say this is rising, that means it's getting hotter
mercury
Rebecca
$1,000 [23]
'Tis this 3-named Irish poet & Nobel laureate seen here
William Butler Yeats
Holly
$1,000 [5]
For us, this animal's "years" means a long time; in France, "to jump from the cock to" it is a non-logical conversation
a donkey
Rebecca
$1,000 [15]
In 1903 she starred in the play "Hatchetation" & got the chance to smash a saloon in one scene
Carry Nation
Grant
$1,000 [27]
This U. is home to its state Writers Hall of Fame; honorees include Joel Chandler Harris & Alice Walker
the University of Georgia
$1,000 [10]
The third-stage engine of this type of rocket used for Apollo flights to the moon kicked things to 25,000 MPH
Saturn
Rebecca
DD $2,000 [20]
Spoiler alert: the title character of this absurd 1950s play sends word that he will arrive, but never does
Waiting for Godot
Grant

Double Jeopardy! Round

MOVIE STUDIOS COLUMBIA PARAMOUNT WARNER BROS UNIVERSAL PICTURES "M_G_M"
$400 [12]
Before the Weinstein Company, Bob & Harvey founded this film corporation named after their parents--Mom was Miriam
Miramax
Grant Rebecca
$400 [13]
Columbia, Penn. got its name in the hope that Congress would make it this, an effort that missed in 1790 by a few votes
the capital
Holly
$400 [18]
The head honchos of the NFL & Major League Baseball share this title
Commissioner
Holly
$400 [23]
Glenn Warner, Cornell's 1894 football team captain, go this nickname because he was older than most students
Pop Warner
Rebecca
$400 [11]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an image of the Milky Way on the monitor.) In a view of the Milky Way's core, the blue haze is light from gas that has been heated to millions of degrees by the super-massive one of these regions at our galaxy's center
a black hole
Holly
$400 [2]
Charisma or personal charm
magnetism
Rebecca
$800 [27]
United Artists was formed in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks and this acting sweetheart
Mary Pickford
$1,200 [15]
Columbia Heights is a city on the Mississippi River in this state where the river begins
Minnesota
Grant
$800 [19]
The chief administrative officer of the United Nations gets this hyphenated title
Secretary-General
Rebecca
$800 [24]
This Vermont regiment led by Seth Warner was crucial in the 1777 Battle of Bennington
the Green Mountain Boys
Grant
$800 [10]
A dramatic Hubblephotoshows gigantic columns of dust and gas known as the pillars of this Biblical event
the pillars of creation
$800 [1]
It's no. 12 on your periodic table
magnesium
Rebecca
$1,200 [28]
This man once controlled 1/3 of the world's cinemas; his co. later merged with 20th Century Pictures
(William) Fox
Holly
$1,600 [16]
Columbia University in New York City is affiliated with this women's school, one of the Seven Sisters
Barnard
Rebecca
$1,200 [20]
Apart from world champion, it's the highest title given by the World Chess Federation
Grandmaster
Rebecca
$1,200 [25]
In "The People v. O.J. Simpson", this former "Cosby Show" actor got behind the wheel as Al Cowlings
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Rebecca
$1,600 [8]
Seen here are two galaxies merging, forming new groups called star these, with thousands of twinklers in each
clusters
Holly
$1,200 [3]
A very, very, very small life form
microorganism
Rebecca
$1,600 [29]
Artist Robert Hunt used his son as the model for the boy-fishing-from-the-moon logo used by this studio
DreamWorks
Holly
DD $2,000 [14]
You can find the 32-mile-long Columbia glacier just west of Valdez in this state
Alaska
Holly
$1,600 [21]
The highest order of angels, they're described in Isaiah as each having 6 wings
seraphim
Rebecca
$1,600 [26]
This Virginia politician gave the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in 2008
Mark Warner
$2,000 [6]
You can't refuse our offer to come up with this animal nickname for anebulain the constellation Orion
the Horsehead Nebula
Holly
$1,600 [4]
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a master of this literary genre
magical realism
Grant
$2,000 [30]
Walt Disney's son-in-law launched this subsidiary that shares a name with the jester in "As You Like It"
Touchstone Productions
$2,000 [17]
Fear not, the Columbia River is unafraid to receive this winding, coiling river, its biggest tributary
the Snake River
Rebecca
$2,000 [22]
Once the highest active rank in the U.S. Navy, this type of admiral wore 5 stars
fleet admiral
Holly
$2,000 [7]
In a line of succession, husband-wise, this Virginia politician followed Richard Burton & Richard Burton
John Warner
Rebecca
DD $4,000 [9]
Hubble images have helped scientists produce a3-D mapof this unseen stuff that makes up most of the universe's mass
dark matter
Holly
$2,000 [5]
Women with the BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation should get this every year
a mammogram
Holly

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY BOOKS

William Goldman asked his daughters what he should write about; they said these 2 things, which he combined

The Princess Bride

Grant "What are Lord and Flies?" — wagered $2,401
Holly "What are rabbits + mice" — wagered $9,601
Rebecca "What isThe Princess Bride?" — wagered $11,000

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