Show #7493 2017-03-22 (taped 2016-12-07) Regular

Contestants

Emlen Smith — a college professor from Lafayette, Indiana

Madeline Wilson — a writer from Akron, Ohio

Kevin Shrum — a retired adjunct professor from Fort Collins, Colorado (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kevin $3,800 $7,400 $12,400 $16,300
2-day champion: $33,500
$14,200
21 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Madeline $1,400 $2,600 $4,200 $1,600
3rd place: $1,000
$4,200
7 R, 2 W
Emlen $1,600 $5,600 $15,800 $6,799
2nd place: $2,000
$14,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

PROFILE PICTURES THE "ANTI"-CATEGORY THE HUMAN BODY CLASSIC TV CHARACTERS LE RESTAURANT SPLENDIDE JACKET REQUIRED
$200 [15]
Botticelli painted theprofile pictureof this poet, last name Alighieri
Dante
Kevin
$200 [1]
A letdown or a disappointing conclusion
an anticlimax
Kevin
$200 [4]
The radius, ulna & humerus all converge at this joint
the elbow
Kevin
$200 [7]
Sabrina, Jill & Kelly solved crimes as this title trio of private investigators
Charlie's Angels
Kevin
$200 [8]
For your entree, Madame, water-simmered chiens chauds, these--avec de la moutarde, bien sur
hot dogs
Emlen
$200 [22]
6-letter word for a men's jacket or Damian Lillard, who plays point guard in Portland
a blazer
Emlen
$400 [18]
This Shakespeare character is seenherebefore her watery end
Ophelia
Madeline
$400 [2]
The polar opposite & ultimate enemy of Jesus
the Antichrist
Kevin
$400 [13]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows some optical diagrams on the monitor.) Most people have threetypes of this color receptor in their eyes, but some people, called tetrochromats, have four, allowing them to see millions more hues than the rest of us
cones
Madeline
$400 [25]
Drs. Greene, Weaver & Carter saved Windy City lives on this 15-season drama
ER
Kevin
$400 [9]
For dessert we have le gateau éponge avec garniture a la crème, this Hostess treat introduced in 1930
a Twinkie
Kevin
$400 [23]
A dust jacket is something regularly used to protect these
books
Emlen
$600 [19]
Here's an 1890s black & white profile pic of this French artist; one of his Tahitian paintings is in the background
(Paul) Gauguin
Emlen
$600 [3]
It's the "AB" in ABM, a type of weapon
antiballistic
Emlen
$600 [14]
The strongest tendon in the body, it's named for the king of the Myrmidons
the Achilles tendon
Kevin
$600 [26]
Who could forget undercover cop Pepper Anderson played by this actress on "Police Woman"?
Angie Dickinson
Kevin
$600 [10]
Delicate slivers of Idaho's best, fried in oil to a perfect crisp--may I present these, les croustilles?
potato chips
Kevin
$600 [24]
Mae West was a nickname WWII sailors gave to these helpful items
a life jacket
Kevin
$800 [20]
Herprofile includes membership in the Bloomsbury Group
Virginia Woolf
$800 [5]
Ms. Magazine wrote, "What hypocrisy to call such...people 'pro-life.' Call them what they are--" this
anti-choice
Madeline
$1,000 [17]
The meninges are membranous envelopes whose job is to protect both the brain & this
the spinal cord
Emlen
$800 [27]
Jaleel White played this annoying neighbor on "Family Matters"
Urkel
Madeline
$800 [11]
May I suggest le beurre de cacahuètes avec confiture sur pain blanc, this classique, for dejeuner?
a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
Emlen
$800 [29]
The movie title "Full Metal Jacket" refers to one of these, usually covered with copper
a bullet
Emlen
$1,000 [21]
This Impressionist created theprofile pictureof Marie-Thérèse Durand-Ruel sewing
Renoir
$1,000 [6]
Warfarin is an oral one of these blood-thinning drugs
an anticoagulant
Kevin
DD $2,000 [16]
The principal muscle of respiration, it's the proud owner of a silent "G"
the diaphragm
Kevin
$1,000 [28]
Tyra Collette was more than just the bad girl of Dillon, Texas on this drama
Friday Night Lights
$1,000 [12]
This comfort food, les pâtes alimentaires avec fromage, will be most agreeable with your insides
macaroni & cheese
Madeline
$1,000 [30]
The American Mustache Institute once interviewed Jim James, founder of this Louisville-based alt-country band
My Morning Jacket
Emlen

Double Jeopardy! Round

POSTHUMOUS PUBLISHING BOLD GOERS RHYMES WITH SQUAT TELECOMMUNICATIONS JAZZ HIDDEN U.K. CITIES
$400 [1]
Posthumous works from this Brit include "Mr. Bliss" & "The History of Middle-earth"
Tolkien
Emlen
$400 [6]
Fridtjof Nansen was the first European to cross this land; a Danish official met him at the end in Godthaab in 1888
Greenland
Emlen
$400 [8]
This gait can follow "dog" as well as "fox"
trot
Emlen
$400 [7]
It's the ability to connect; it can follow "internet" or, in Wayne's World, "cable"
access
$400 [26]
She's the "First Lady of Song" seen here
(Ella) Fitzgerald
Kevin
$400 [13]
When you're moving, a box for dolls comes in handy
Oxford (in b ox for d olls)
Madeline
$800 [2]
A posthumous collection of this astronomer's writings is titled "Billions and Billions"
(Carl) Sagan
Kevin
$800 [22]
In 1952, a year before he reached the top of the world, he failed to reach the summit of 27,000-foot Cho Oyu in a rehearsal
Hillary
Madeline
$800 [9]
A secondary story within a literary work
a subplot
Kevin
$800 [18]
For analog transmission, bandwidth comes in cycles per second; for digital, in these per second
bytes (or bits)
Kevin
$800 [27]
Later musical director of "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", in 1985 he scandalized the jazz world by playing with Sting
Branford Marsalis
Madeline
$800 [14]
Before her beau arrived, Isabel fastidiously adjusted her bonnet
Belfast (in Isa bel fast idiously)
Kevin
$1,200 [3]
Here's the catch: this author's "Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man" was published after his 1999 death
(Joseph) Heller
Emlen
$1,200 [23]
In 1897 Sweden's Salomon Andree tried to drift over the North Pole in one of these but crash-landed & later perished
a balloon
Kevin
$1,200 [10]
This fruit, Fortunella margarita, can be used in an exotic margarita
a kumquat
Madeline
$1,600 [20]
In July 2016 Turkey's president used this Apple app to tell his people he was all right & to rally them against a coup
FaceTime
$1,200 [28]
The Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band features Woody Allen on this instrument
the clarinet
Kevin
$1,200 [15]
How proud Pa Isley would have been if only he had lived to see "Shout" become a classic song
Paisley (in Pa Isley )
$1,600 [4]
Bond, James Bond, appeared by Ian Fleming's own hand in one last novel, the posthumously published "The Man with" this weapon
the golden gun
Emlen
$1,600 [24]
While exploring the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 1534, this Frenchman discovered Prince Edward Island
Jacques Cartier
$1,600 [11]
Wide-ranging & indiscriminate, perhaps like a blast from a 12-gauge
scattershot
Emlen
$2,000 [21]
A help to the harassed, on Verizon *57 is this feature that tells you where your latest incoming call came from
trace
Emlen
$1,600 [16]
That's what happens when you treat Oscar differently from the other kids
Cardiff (in Os car diff erently)
Emlen
$2,000 [5]
A collection of this German's thoughts was published soon after his death in 1900 as "The Will to Power"
Nietzsche
Kevin
$2,000 [25]
In 57 days in 1930, 3 men crossed this "Quarter" in the Arabian desert; a TV ad shows a Range Rover doing it in 10 hours
the "Empty Quarter" (or the Rub' al Khali)
DD $3,000 [12]
The son of Uther & Igraine lived here
Camelot
Emlen
DD $3,000 [19]
A kids' book, "The Lonely" this convenience tells the story of one of NYC's last ones, at West End Ave. & 100th Street
a phone booth
Kevin
$2,000 [17]
At the library you'll find love poems & more filed under Byron
Derby (in un der By ron)
Emlen

Final Jeopardy!

BUSINESS

This company founded in 1945 offers a special deal on the last day of January, March, May, July, August, October & December

Baskin-Robbins

Madeline "What is Thirty One?" — wagered $2,600
Kevin "What is Baskin Robbins?" — wagered $3,900
Emlen "What is 31 Club" — wagered $9,001

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