Show #7501 2017-04-03 Regular

Contestants

Billy Wong — an adjunct professor from Hacienda Heights, California

Abigail Myers — an education administrator from Brooklyn, New York

Eric Vernon — a retired government relations specialist from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (whose 2-day cash winnings total $50,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Eric $2,400 $3,200 $-800 $-800
3rd place: $1,000
$8,800
14 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Abigail $3,000 $9,200 $22,000 $29,000
New champion: $29,000
$21,600
24 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Billy $3,000 $3,200 $5,600 $11,200
2nd place: $2,000
$5,000
9 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

TIME SPANS THE ROCK & ROLL QUINTET "O" BROTHER WHERE ART THOU? NEW WAYS TO SAY CORRECT KING ME
$200 [11]
The Mesolithic Period is part of the Stone this
the Stone Age
Billy
$200 [8]
At a 2016 show by this band, Eddie Vedder paid tribute to terminally ill singer Gord Downie of The Tragically Hip
Pearl Jam
Abigail
$200 [1]
Luke & Andrew are famous brothers of this man seen here
Owen Wilson
Abigail
$200 [6]
In Murphy, N.C., climbing a hillside where these Old Testament injunctions are written in 4'-by-5' letters
the Ten Commandments
Abigail
$400 [21]
How about this first name of Maris or Ebert?
Roger
Billy
$600 [24]
In a standard international deck of cards, this sword-wielding king is the only one with no mustache
the king of hearts
Abigail
$400 [12]
Number of days in half a fortnight
seven
Abigail
$400 [15]
This Dave Grohl band, in 2016: "For the millionth time, we're not breaking up. And nobody's going (bleeping) solo!"
The Foo Fighters
Eric
$400 [2]
Born in 1810, Bernhard von Bismarck sank in 1893, 5 years before this younger brother did
Otto
Eric
$400 [7]
At therock with this 5-letter name in Joshua Tree National Park--centuries of rain hollowed out the eye sockets
Skull
Eric
$600 [27]
I'll put together 2 4-letter words & add the English accent for this Austin Powers catchphrase
"Yeah, baby"
Abigail
$800 [23]
In a competition in 1815, this 4-letter cheese was crowned le roi des from ages, "the king of cheeses"
brie
Abigail
$600 [14]
In ancient Greece this was the 4-year span between athletic games
the Olympiad
Eric
$600 [16]
"If you try sometimes, you just might find" this Stones song that played after many of Donald Trump's speeches
"You Can't Always Get What You Want"
Abigail
$600 [3]
Aubrey Nash was this poet's brother / of which there were 2, & Ted was the other
Ogden
Eric
$600 [9]
At Bladensbug, Md.'s "dark and bloody grounds", where dozens of D.C. gents once came to settle scores via this
by duel
Billy
$800 [26]
On "The Big Bang Theory", Sheldon uses it to indicate a joke; I think it'll work for me to mean "correct"
bazinga
Abigail
$1,000 [22]
This ineffectual 15th century king still got his name on not 1, not 2, but 3 Shakespeare plays
Henry VI
Abigail Billy
$800 [18]
It sounds like a heroic poem; Paleocene is one
epoch
Eric
$800 [17]
In 1979 500,000 people in Central Park decided this Ric Ocasek band was "Just What I Needed"
The Cars
Billy
$800 [4]
On the morning of December 17, 1903, he flew 120 feet in 12 seconds
Orville Wright
Billy
$1,000 [13]
At Austin, Minnesota's Museum of this Hormel product, featuring a wall of more than 3,000 cans
Spam
Abigail
$1,000 [25]
"This is how we roll!", claims this Milton Bradley dice game, & using it to say you're right could be how I roll
Yahtzee
Abigail
$1,000 [20]
A period of about 30 years, whether it's "the greatest" one or not
generation
Abigail
$1,000 [19]
This quintet became a temporary quartet on "MTV Unplugged" in 1996 when singer Liam Gallagher had laryngitis
Oasis
Abigail
$1,000 [5]
On his brother Magnus' death in 1069, the III Haraldsson of this name became the sole king of Norway
Olaf
Abigail
DD $1,400 [10]
In Queenston, Ontario, at the 185-foot monument to Isaac Brock, who repelled a U.S. invasion during this war
the War of 1812
Billy

Double Jeopardy! Round

ON THE LISZT CONSTELLATIONS AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS PHOTOGRAPHY KILLER CARS AT THE "END"
$400 [1]
In 1870 if you wanted to visit Franz Liszt, you could drop by 20 Palatine Street in this city across from Buda
Pest
Eric
$400 [23]
The "arrow" about to be launched by this constellation points to the center of the Milky Way
Sagittarius
Eric
$400 [10]
This "White Fang" author's "The Mutiny of the Elsinore" was based in part on his 1912 voyage around Cape Horn
Jack London
Eric
$400 [12]
Eadweard Muybridge's 1878 photos proved that when this animal runs, all 4 feet are off the ground at 1 point
a horse
Billy
$400 [26]
In a 1979 George Miller film, this title road warrior uses his V8 Interceptor to run down some bad bikers
Mad Max
Eric
$400 [16]
Money paid to a shareholder
a dividend
Abigail
$800 [2]
Liszt, the 19th c. equivalent of a rock star, was played by this frontman of The Who in the movie "Lisztomania"
(Roger) Daltrey
Eric Abigail
$800 [6]
Capella is the brightest star in Auriga, the driver of a horse-drawn one of these vehicles
chariot
Abigail
$800 [9]
In old age Colette wrote this 1944 novella of a girl raised to be a courtesan, adapted as a movie musical
Gigi
$800 [13]
Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" is an iconic photo of Florence Thompson from this period in U.S. history
the Dust Bowl
Billy
$800 [27]
The end of this 1978 comedy saw a car named the "Deathmobile" emerge from a giant cake that said "Eat me"
National Lampoon's Animal House
$800 [17]
To understand, or to take into police custody
apprehend
Eric
$1,200 [3]
Liszt wrote books, too, on subjects like "Tannhauser", Chopin & the music of these itinerant peoples of Europe
the Romany (or the Gypsy)
Abigail
$1,200 [24]
Vela, once part of the constellation Argo Navis, represents these, which kept the Argo moving
the sails
$1,200 [4]
In 1867 he took a 5-month cruise to the Mediterranean; his newspaper articles sent back home became "The Innocents Abroad"
Mark Twain
Billy
$1,200 [14]
Lewis Hine's 1932 book "Men at Work" documented in photographs the construction of this NYC building in 1930
the Empire State Building
Abigail
$1,200 [28]
In this movie, Clark Griswold must explain to an officer why there is a dogless leash tied to the back of the family car
National Lampoon's Vacation
Eric
$1,200 [18]
After Kanye West signed him, singer & pianist John Stephens adopted this last name
Legend
Abigail
$1,600 [11]
To get the title of this Liszt waltz, take the first 3 syllables of a "Faust" character
"Mephisto"
Abigail
$1,600 [5]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents an astronomical diagram on the monitor.) Though it reaches into the zodiac, the constellation Ophiuchus is not one of the traditional zodiac signs; with a name meaning "serpent holder", it represents this son of Apollo, the Greek god of medicine, who is often depicted holding a serpent
Asclepius
Abigail
$1,600 [7]
The curator of the Lahore Museum in the first chapter of "Kim" is based on this author's father, who once held the position
Kipling
Abigail
DD $2,000 [15]
In 1927 this photographer published his first portfolio, "Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras"
Ansel Adams
Abigail
$1,600 [19]
The official form of address for an archbishop is "most" this
reverend
Eric
$2,000 [21]
Marie, Countess d'Agoult bore Franz 3 illegitimate children: Daniel, Blandine & this one named for St. Cosmas
Cosima
DD $9,600 [25]
Zeus placed Callisto in the night sky as one of these animals; her son Arcturus was her "keeper" in the stars
a bear
Eric
$2,000 [8]
W. Somerset Maugham's childhood was material for the life of orphan Philip Carey in this 1915 novel
Of Human Bondage
$2,000 [22]
A 2016 film about this controversial photographer who died of AIDS in 1989 is subtitled "Look at the Pictures"
Mapplethorpe
Abigail
$2,000 [20]
To haughtily deign to do something
condescend
Eric

Final Jeopardy!

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD

In 1947 these 2 nations became the first new members of the British Commonwealth since the original group in 1931

India and Pakistan

Billy "What are India + Pakistan?" — wagered $5,600
Abigail "What are India + Pakistan?" — wagered $7,000

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