Show #7539 2017-05-25 (taped 2017-02-21) Regular

Contestants

Jon Groubert — a former attorney from Denver, Colorado

Melanie Tannenbaum Hepler — a fitness instructor from Newark, California

Mackenzie Vogt — a systems analyst from Point Pleasant, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,600)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Mackenzie	$3,200	$3,800	$11,200	$22,400 2nd place: $2,000	$11,800 16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Melanie	$800	$1,800	$1,800	$0 3rd place: $1,000	$1,800 13 R, 4 W
Jon	$600	$4,600	$13,400	$22,401 New champion: $22,401	$12,800 17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

OTHER THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN 1776	SCI-FI MOVIES	THE MAIN VEGETABLE	WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS	MORTAL MATTERS	ISLE BE SEEING YOU
$200 [7] In Salzburg that summer, he composed his "Serenade No. 7" for a wedding Mozart Melanie	$200 [1] In this film, the first in a series, Shailene Woodley stars as Tris, who discovers that she's not like the others Divergent Melanie	$200 [20] Pommes frites potato Melanie Jon	$200 [6] Before it referred to 2 baseball games played on the same day, it was a train pulled by 2 locomotives a double-header Jon	$200 [25] It's the elected medical official whose job it is to investigate deaths not due to natural causes a coroner	$200 [16] Yes, you can stay at a Hilton resort on this island on South Carolina's Port Royal Sound Hilton Head Jon
$400 [8] In 1776 he captained the Resolution in search of the NW Passage but later should not have taken a Hawaiian vacation Captain Cook Mackenzie	$400 [2] In "Her", Joaquin Phoenix falls in love & has a relationship with a computer operating system voiced by her Scarlett Johansson Melanie	$400 [21] Falafel chickpeas Mackenzie	$400 [12] "Keeping up with" this family dates back to a 1913 comic strip the Joneses Mackenzie	$400 [29] This emblem of death is used as a warning sign on poisons, ya scalawag! skull and crossbones Melanie	$400 [17] With a Celtic heritage, the "Isle of" this off the northwest coast of England has its own kilt with a national tartan Man Melanie Jon
$600 [9] In a work by Edward Gibbon from 1776, this pair of problems precedes "of the Roman Empire" The Decline and Fall Mackenzie	$600 [3] This 1995 film with Kevin Costner as The Mariner became a Universal Studios "tidal wave of explosive action" Waterworld Jon	$600 [22] The 2 main vegetables in succotash corn and lima beans Mackenzie	$600 [13] This word comes from the Latin for "little book"; when a Roman wanted to defame another, he issued a book of his foe's misdeeds libel Jon	$600 [28] Someone who dies intestate does so without one of these at the time of death a will Jon	$800 [19] In 2009 Boggy Peak on this companion isle to Barbuda was renamed Mount Obama Antigua Melanie
$800 [10] The Treaty of Purandar was signed by the Maratha & the "Supreme Government" of this U.K. company the (British) East India Company Mackenzie	$800 [4] NTIs, or non-terrestrial intelligences, live very, very deep in the ocean in this 1989 James Cameron film The Abyss Mackenzie	$800 [23] Moussaka eggplant Jon	$800 [14] One of the 2 blacksmith tools used in an expression that means to fight with all one's resources hammer or tongs Mackenzie Jon	$800 [26] One kind of muscle stiffness you don't want is this 2-word Latin type that happens soon after death rigor mortis Mackenzie	$1,000 [24] It's the largest permanently populated Mexican island Cozumel Jon
$1,000 [11] Founded in 1775 but soon abandoned, this mission north of San Diego named for St. John was re-founded for good in 1776 San Juan Capistrano	$1,000 [5] The name of this title substance combines the 2 legumes that it's said to contain Soylent Green Mackenzie	—	$1,000 [15] This word for a gin cocktail comes from a tool used for boring holes a gimlet	$1,000 [27] This ultimate accounting of souls is a common subject in European art; here's Hans Memling's take the Last Judgment	DD $1,200 [18] Gomera in this Spanish group was the last stop for Columbus before he headed across the Atlantic to the New World the Canary Islands Jon

Double Jeopardy! Round

BARBRA STREISAND DUETS	OCEANOGRAPHY	THE LITERATURE OF ISRAEL	U.S. SENATORS	COMPLETE THE NONPROFIT	GET YOUR "PHIL"
$400 [3] Who better to duet with Barbra on "New York State Of Mind" than this piano man Billy Joel Melanie	$400 [13] There are 3 main types of coral reefs: fringing, atolls & this, like the one off Australia a barrier reef Mackenzie	$400 [20] Holocaust survivor Aharon Appelfeld wrote of the impending horror in "Badenheim" this year 1939 Melanie	$400 [7] Fred Thompson supplemented his Senate salary by joining the cast of this TV procedural in 2002 Law & Order Melanie	$400 [15] American ____ Liberties Union Civil Melanie	$400 [1] If you think culture is a waste of time, you may be one of these, mentioned in 1 Samuel a Philistine Mackenzie
$800 [4] Barbra & Michael Crawford recorded a rendition of "The Music Of The Night" from this musical Phantom of the Opera Mackenzie	$800 [14] The Virginia Institute of Marine Science's tidewatch program studies the tides of this huge bay the Chesapeake Bay Melanie	$800 [21] The title of a 1958 Leon Uris novel about Israel's birth isn't "Genesis", but this Exodus Jon	$800 [9] For 24 years as a popular surgeon in this "ghostly" city, Sen. John Barrasso was "Wyoming's Doctor" Casper Melanie	$800 [16] Wounded ____ Project Warrior Mackenzie	$800 [2] To fool around with someone not your spouse philanderer Jon
$1,200 [25] Barbra & this "Miami Vice" star had a thing going when they recorded "Till I Loved You" Don Johnson Jon	$1,200 [28] Parts of the Agulhas current flow southward past Mozambique & curve around this cape to the Atlantic Ocean the Cape of Good Hope Jon	$1,200 [22] In Amos Oz' novel "The Hill of Evil Counsel", 2 boys grow up in Jerusalem under this country's post-WWI mandate the United Kingdom	$1,200 [10] In 1978 this retired NBA star was elected U.S. senator for New Jersey Bill Bradley Mackenzie Melanie	$1,200 [17] Medecins ____ Frontieres Sans Mackenzie	$1,600 [6] In 1948 this TV manufacturer launched a "Television Playhouse" Philco Jon
$1,600 [26] This Bee Gee not only co-produced Barbra's "Guilty" album--the title duet also earned them a Grammy Barry Gibb Jon	—	$1,600 [23] This "Tales of the South Pacific" author's novel "The Source" is a tale of Israel from ancient times up to the 20th century (James) Michener Mackenzie	$2,000 [12] Born in Chicago, shebecame Illinois' first female senator and later served as ambassador to New Zealand Moseley Braun Jon	$1,600 [18] Council on ____ Relations Foreign Jon	DD $2,000 [5] This tree-climbing plant is adapted to the relative darkness of the rain forest, so it thrives indoors a philodendron Mackenzie
$2,000 [27] Sung with Jamie Foxx, the last duet on Barbra's 2016 "Encore" album is this song that concludes "The Sound of Music" "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" Melanie	—	$2,000 [24] Aharon Megged's "Foiglman" looks at the conflicts between fathers & sons, Israel & the Diaspora & these 2 languages Hebrew and Yiddish Melanie Jon	DD $3,000 [11] 3 states have 2 female senators: California, Washington & this one with Jeanne Shaheen & Maggie Hassan New Hampshire Mackenzie	$2,000 [19] Southern ____ Law Center Poverty Melanie	$2,000 [8] Demosthenes delivered several of these bitter orations, named for a king of Macedonia a philippic

Final Jeopardy!

ART & POP CULTURE

The Brooklyn mural seenhereis an homage to this fictional group whose first appearance came in 1984

the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Melanie "Who are thePower Rangers?teen muta" — wagered $1,800

Mackenzie "Who are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?" — wagered $11,200

Jon "Who are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?" — wagered $9,001

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