Show #7498 2017-03-29 (taped 2016-12-13) Regular

Contestants

Tricia Riley — a nurse practitioner from Quincy, Massachusetts

Rachel Levinson-Emley — a literature Ph.D. student from Goleta, California

Julie Brannon — a professor of English from Jacksonville, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Julie $3,000 $6,200 $12,800 $18,800
2-day champion: $47,200
$11,400
23 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Rachel $1,000 $2,400 $8,800 $13,000
3rd place: $1,000
$8,800
9 R, 0 W
Tricia $0 $2,800 $9,200 $18,399
2nd place: $2,000
$10,200
15 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

IT COMES ONCE A YEAR FOOTWEAR 1967 WHAT'S THEIR SPORT? ROCKS & "AWAY" THEY GO
$200 [8]
An autumn harvest celebration in 1621 gave way to this holiday, for which we're most grateful
Thanksgiving
Julie
$200 [7]
Minnetonka has been making these soft leather Native American shoes since 1946
moccasins
Tricia
$200 [1]
The Constitution left the order of this unclear; it wasn't until 1967 that the 25th Amendment cleared it up
succession to the presidency
Tricia
$200 [14]
The Indiana Fever, whose star Tamika Catchings retired in 2016
basketball
Julie
$200 [15]
This limestone mass on the southern coast of Iberia is 1,398 feet at its highest point
(the Rock of) Gibraltar
Julie
$200 [2]
Type of car idling outside a bank that's being robbed
a getaway car
Julie
$400 [19]
Lucky lottery winners get to attend this annual spring event on the South Lawn of the White House
the Easter Egg Roll
Julie Tricia
$400 [10]
"Off the wall" is the slogan of this brand known for its skate shoes
Vans
Julie
$400 [9]
This Arab-Israeli conflict that broke out June 5 ended less than a week later
the Six Days War
Rachel Tricia
$400 [23]
The New York Empire, coached by Patrick McEnroe
tennis
Julie
$400 [27]
This "colorful" stone was used to make (& describes) 19th century Eastern U.S. row houses
brownstone
Julie
$400 [3]
A segment between curved sections on a racetrack
a straightaway
Tricia
$600 [20]
Closer than Munich, Columbus, Ohio hosts its own version of this event with plenty of beer, polkas & music
Oktoberfest
Julie
$600 [16]
A backless closed-toe shoe isn't a hinny but this
a mule
Rachel
$600 [11]
This seasonal term was first used in the name of an org. set up to deal with young people flocking to San Francisco
the Summer of Love
Tricia
$600 [24]
The Durham Bulls
baseball
Julie
$600 [28]
It's the piece of history seen here
Plymouth Rock
Tricia
$600 [4]
Actress who was feline fine in "The Dark Knight Rises"
Anne Hathaway
Rachel
$800 [21]
Thisspring festival involves a different kind of pole dancing with ribbons
May Day
Julie Tricia
$800 [17]
This type of religious man precedes "strap" in the name of the shoe seen here
a monk
Rachel
DD $1,000 [12]
On October 26 this future politician was shot down over North Vietnam
John McCain
Tricia
$800 [25]
The Portland Timbers
soccer
$800 [29]
Sounding like it gets you clean, it's almost synonymous with Inuit carvings
soapstone
Julie
$800 [5]
"Seedy"-sounding narrator of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel
Nick Carraway
Julie
$1,000 [22]
In England fireworks & the burning of effigies are part of the festivities for this November 5 holiday
Guy Fawkes Day
Tricia
$1,000 [18]
A kiltie is a shoe that has this decorative type of tongue over the instep
a fringe
Julie
$1,000 [13]
First name of Joseph Stalin'sdaughter, who caused a sensation by defecting to the West; in the United States she went by "Lana"
Svetlana
$1,000 [26]
Hoosier Team Pineapple, 2016 men's champs of the PVL, the "Premier" this "League"
volleyball
Tricia
$1,000 [30]
This word for a light-colored rock used in building comes from an old Roman name for Tivoli, Italy
travertine
Julie Tricia
$1,000 [6]
General MacArthur famously said this is the eventual end for old soldiers like himself
(they just) fade away
Julie

Double Jeopardy! Round

"A" CAST OF THOUSANDS IT'S EPIC ASIAN FLAGS 4-LETTER WORDS JACQUES COUSTEAU
$400 [12]
1999:Alyson Hannigan, Jason Biggs
American Pie
Rachel
$400 [11]
In the Book of Revelation, an angel "laid hold on the dragon... which is" him "and bound him a thousand years"
the devil
Rachel
$400 [1]
"The Lusiads" is an epic poem in this language about explorer Vasco da Gama
Portuguese
Julie
$400 [26]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a flag on the monitor.) The design of the national flag of Malaysia was based on the Stars & Stripes of the United States combined with thesymbolism of this religion on the blue canton
Islam
Julie
$400 [6]
It's the bottom of a sleeve
a cuff
Tricia
$400 [21]
(Céline Cousteau presents.) Learning in 1960 that France was going to dump nuclear waste into the Mediterranean, my grandfather quickly organized opposition to it; after he confronted this French president, the idea was scrapped
(Charles) de Gaulle
Julie
$800 [13]
2013:Amy Adams, Christian Bale
American Hustle
Julie
$800 [17]
A 46.17 400m run & an 18.40m shot put each earn you 1,000 points in this Olympic track & field event
the decathlon
Julie
$1,200 [3]
All the epic events of the "Iliad" & the "Odyssey" keep Odysseus away from Penelope & Ithaca for this many years
20
Julie
$800 [27]
Traditional name for the hexagram at the center of Israel's flag
the Star of David
Tricia
$800 [7]
Unemployed Brits are said to be "on" it
the dole
Tricia
$800 [22]
(Céline Cousteau presents.) In 1950 Cousteau took an old British minesweeper & outfitted it as an oceanographic research vessel with an undersea observation chamber; in November 1951thisship sailed on its first scientific journey to the Red Sea to study coral
the Calypso
Tricia
$1,200 [14]
1998:Edward Furlong, Edward Norton
American History X
Julie
$1,600 [19]
The Thousand Islandslie in this river between Canada & New York State
the Saint Lawrence
Julie Tricia
DD $1,400 [2]
This Roman poet wrote his own epic around 19 B.C. & in 1321 A.D. appeared as a character in one
Virgil
Julie
$1,200 [8]
The sound when a bell or laughter rings out
a peal
Julie
$1,200 [23]
(Céline Cousteau presents.) During World War II, Jacques Cousteau joined the French Resistance spying on Italian troops & documenting their movements; for his espionage work, Cousteau was made a chevalier in this, the premier order of the French Republic
the Legion of Honour ( la Légion d'honneur )
$1,600 [15]
2016:Shailene Woodley, Naomi Watts
Allegiant
DD $2,000 [18]
One thousand of these make up a micrometer
a nanometer
Julie
$1,600 [4]
Perhaps the first ever written, "The Epic of" this king of Uruk includes a Sumerian account of a great flood
Gilgamesh
Rachel
$1,600 [9]
A pillowcase with a tricky flap
a sham
$1,600 [24]
(Céline Cousteau presents.) In 1943 my grandfather & the engineer Emile Gagnan revolutionized diving by creating a valve to automatically regulate a diver's air pressure & supply; the valve was the main component in this Cousteau scuba system
the Aqua-Lung system
$2,000 [16]
1997:Harrison Ford, Glenn Close
Air Force One
Rachel
$2,000 [20]
Maxwell Anderson's play about a monarch of England was titled her "of the Thousand Days"
Anne
Tricia
$2,000 [5]
Come blow your horn at the Battle of Roncesvalles, the climax of this Old French epic "Song"
The Song of Roland
Rachel
$2,000 [10]
A magical charm, or skill or flair you don't want to lose
your mojo
$2,000 [25]
(Céline Cousteau presents.) The famous yellow submarine my grandfather used for photography & filmmaking ison displayin front of the Oceanographic Museum of this principality where is served as director from 1957 to 1988
Monaco

Final Jeopardy!

WORDS IN THE NEWS 2016

NASA wished John Glenn this 8-letter word when he made the 1st U.S. manned orbital flight in 1962 & again upon his passing in 2016

godspeed

Rachel "What is Godspeed?" — wagered $4,200
Tricia "What is Godspeed?" — wagered $9,199
Julie "What is godspeed?" — wagered $6,000

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