Show #7579 2017-07-20 Regular

Justin Vossler game 1.

Contestants

Doug Groshart — a mechanical engineer and musician from San Luis Obispo, California

Justin Vossler — a high school history teacher from Homer, New York

Deborah Elliott — an educator from Cleveland, Ohio (whose 3-day cash winnings total $76,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Deborah $2,400 $6,200 $13,400 $25,400
2nd place: $2,000
$13,400
19 R, 3 W
Justin $2,200 $5,800 $13,600 $27,100
New champion: $27,100
$13,800
20 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Doug $-800 $-200 $3,400 $3,400
3rd place: $1,000
$3,400
6 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

PARTS OF SPEECH... IN SONG! AN ECO-CATEGORY FURNITURE A PSYCHOTIC EPISODE GETTING GEOGRAPHICA"L" HISTORICAL CHESS PIECES
$200 [6]
"I believe in miracles, where you from? You sexy thing":believe
verb
Deborah
$200 [21]
Adjective used officially to describe a species that is more than threatened with going extinct
endangered
Justin
$200 [11]
A duchesse bed is a canopy bed that doesn't have these--not 4, not any
posts
Deborah
$200 [26]
Jerome Valeska's laugh in the "Blind Fortune Teller" episode had many wonder if this villain had arrived in "Gotham"
the Joker
Justin
$200 [1]
This British port on the River Mersey was founded in 1207 when King John granted a charter
Liverpool
Deborah
$200 [16]
14th c. knight Sir John Hawkwood served England, Florence, Pisa & Milan as this type of paid soldier
a mercenary
Justin
$400 [7]
"Drop kick me, Jesus, through the goalposts of life, end over end, neither left nor to right":through
a preposition
Deborah
$400 [22]
Old-growth types of these are typically older than 200 years & have dense canopies
trees (or forests)
Justin
$400 [12]
This type of sofa includes a piece such as a chaise completing an "L" shape
a sectional
Deborah
$400 [27]
"The clown was put on Earth... to introduce me to the sweet language of murder"--Dandy, on this: "Freak Show"
American Horror Story
Justin
$400 [2]
This Asian country on the Mediterranean is 40% Christian
Lebanon
Justin
$400 [17]
A 2007 biography of this young French warrior & saint calls her a pawn, ultimately sacrificed
Joan of Arc
Deborah
$600 [8]
"Baby baby baby oh, like baby baby baby no, like baby baby baby oh, thought you'd always be mine":mine
a pronoun
$600 [23]
This term used of settlers in the Old West is also used for members of the first species to populate a new area
pioneers
Doug
$600 [13]
The office chair evolved in the mid-19th century, as seen here, when this British scientist fastened wheels to his chair
Charles Darwin
$600 [28]
Maybe the Governor on this AMC show was a big "Futurama" fan, what with keeping all those human heads in tanks
The Walking Dead
Justin
$800 [4]
This Swiss lake is also known as the "Lake of the Four Cantons"
Lucerne
Deborah
$600 [18]
Don Juan Enguera, Bishop of Vich, was a "grand" this, holding the line against heresy in Spain
inquisitor
Justin
$800 [9]
"Hi! My name is (what?), my name is (who?), my name is Slim Shady":hi
an interjection
Deborah
$800 [24]
These "feminine" beetles come inside for winter & excrete a yellow residue when scared, so leave them be till spring
ladybugs
Deborah
$800 [14]
When painting this "knotty" wood, knots won't show if you putty creases--use 2 coats of primer & 2 coats of latex
pine
Justin Doug
$800 [29]
"I was following my path... God led you to me", said the Trinity killer to this fellow title serial killer
Dexter
Deborah
DD $1,000 [3]
This island whose name means "Big Light" represents around 35% of the area of the Philippines
Luzon
Justin
$800 [19]
This learned 17th century Swedish queen was known as "The Minerva of the North"
Christina
Deborah
$1,000 [10]
"If you really need me, just reach out & touch me, come on sugar, let me know": just
an adverb
Deborah
$1,000 [25]
This trout species named for a small body similar to a stream has battled back from acid rain deposition in U.S. streams
brook trout
Justin
$1,000 [15]
Taking its name from a Turkish architectural feature, this 5-letter couch often has 1 arm & a partial back
a divan
$1,000 [30]
On HBO's "Oz", this Oscar winner found his tempo as a neo-Nazi who oh-so-casually threatened his cellmate's family
J.K. Simmons
$1,000 [5]
The ridge crest of this tallest Canadian mountain is about 10 miles across
Mount Logan
$1,000 [20]
This English king's greatest achievement was Westminster Abbey, consecrated in 1065 just days before his death
Edward the Confessor
Deborah

Double Jeopardy! Round

OUR ANCIENT RELATIVES THE COMPOSER PORTRAYED STAMP COLLECTING "MENT" GARNISH THE 21st CENTURY STRAIGHT FROM THE KING JAMES BIBLE
$400 [6]
From the Latin for "two footed", this term is used to describe & distinguish early humanoids from 4-6 million years ago
biped
Doug
$400 [21]
Robert Alda in "Rhapsody in Blue"(1945)
Gershwin
Doug
$400 [26]
You need 3 "M"s to spell this kind of stamp issued to honor something special
commemorative
Deborah
$400 [1]
The ninth one says people retain rights that aren't enumerated in the U.S. constitution
amendment
Justin
$400 [11]
He died on April 2, 2005 & was canonized a little more than 9 years later
Pope John Paul II
Justin
$400 [16]
Exodus 1:1:"Now these are the names of the children of ____, which came into Egypt"
Israel
Doug
$800 [7]
A gorilla is a hominid; change the last letter in "hominid" to get this specific term applying to our ancestors
hominin
Deborah Justin
$800 [22]
Bill Shirley in "I Dream of Jeannie"(1952)
Stephen Foster
$800 [27]
It's the postmark that indicates a stamp has been used
the cancellation
$800 [2]
The anointing of the sick is one of these
a sacrament
Deborah
$800 [12]
After 13 years & $2.7 billion, in 2003 scientists finished the project of fully mapping this
the human genome
Justin
$800 [17]
Song of Solomon 2:1:"I am the ____ of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys"
rose
Justin
$1,200 [8]
Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa has evidence of human use of this 1 million years ago, perhaps the earliest use found
fire
Deborah
$1,200 [23]
Hugh Grant in "Impromptu"(1991)(Judy Davis as George Sand)
Frederic Chopin
DD $1,000 [29]
Every collection knows the French identify their airmail labels with this 2-word phrase
par avion
Justin
$1,200 [3]
In the photo here, it's the residue that stays behind in the bottle
sediment
Doug
$1,200 [13]
This Wikileaks founder avoided extradition to Sweden by staying in the Ecuadorian embassy in London beginning in 2012
(Julian) Assange
Doug
$1,200 [18]
Revelation 17:3:"I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast... having seven heads and ten ____"
horns
Deborah Justin
$1,600 [9]
The oldest Homo sapiens fossils date from 195,000 years ago & were found in this Horn of Africa nation
Ethiopia
Justin
$1,600 [24]
Fernand Gravet in "The Great Waltz"(1938)
Strauss
Deborah
$1,200 [28]
The Philatelic Beacon is a newsletter for those who like to collect stamps that depict these structures
lighthouses
Justin
$1,600 [4]
An obstacle
impairment (or impediment)
Deborah
$1,600 [14]
Colloquial name for the Massachusetts health system signed into law in 2006
Romneycare
Deborah
DD $2,000 [19]
Lamentations 4:9:"They that be slain with the ____ are better than they that be slain with hunger"
sword
Justin
$2,000 [10]
This early "upright man" pioneered the use of tools & hunted game 2 million years ago
Homo erectus
Deborah
$2,000 [25]
Kevin Kline in "De-Lovely"(2004)
Cole Porter
$2,000 [30]
An FDI stamp is one of these, a term commonly associated with new stamps
first day of issue
$2,000 [5]
A wall to hold back water; you can walk along the famous London one seen here
embankment
$2,000 [15]
A 2011 tsunami caused a disaster at this Japanese nuclear power plant
Fukushima
Justin
$2,000 [20]
Daniel 3:23:"And these three men...fell down bound into the midst of the burning ____ ____"
fiery furnace

Final Jeopardy!

STATE CAPITALS

In 1932 a 4,700-pound piece of the object that gave this capital its "small" name was moved to city hall

Little Rock

Doug "What is Little Rock Arkansas" — wagered $0
Deborah "What is Little Rock?" — wagered $12,000
Justin "What is Little Rock" — wagered $13,500

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