Show #7583 2017-07-26 (taped 2017-04-05) Regular

Justin Vossler game 5.

Contestants

Kellie Packwood — a software engineer from Austin, Texas

Seth Cope — a purchasing manager from Savannah, Georgia

Justin Vossler — a high school history teacher from Homer, New York (whose 4-day cash winnings total $92,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Justin $3,800 $9,300 $22,200 $17,200
5-day champion: $110,000
$20,200
24 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Seth $2,400 $5,600 $13,400 $400
3rd place: $1,000
$14,800
19 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Kellie $800 $1,200 $4,400 $4,400
2nd place: $2,000
$4,400
7 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE DIRECTOR'S CUT ELECTRICITY WHO WROTE IT? N*P*R ENGLISH MUFFINS CROOKS & NANNIES
$200 [2]
In 2009 Steven Soderbergh was off the team & Bennett Miller was up to bat as director of this Brad Pitt drama
Moneyball
Justin
$200 [5]
The whiskers don't do the shocking on the electric type of this fish; it has specialized bio-electric organs
a catfish
Seth
$200 [17]
"Prince Lestat"
Anne Rice
Seth
$200 [1]
This adjective meaning see-through can also mean open to public scrutiny
transparent
Kellie
$200 [10]
Lean Canadian bacon & English muffins are key ingredients of this McDonald's staple
an Egg McMuffin
Justin
$200 [23]
Elin Nordegren went from nannydom into marriage & then a $750 million divorce settlement from him
Tiger Woods
Justin
$400 [3]
For this 1939 fantasy classic, Victor Fleming replaced George Cukor
The Wizard of Oz
Seth
$400 [6]
Current in fluids has these charged atoms going in opposite directions depending on if they're positive or negative
ions
Justin
$400 [19]
"Naked Lunch"
William S. Burroughs
Justin
$400 [18]
Good news may make you "turn" these with joy
handsprings
$400 [11]
foodandwine.com suggests a Caesar salad employing the English muffins' crunchiness in this role
crouton
Justin
$400 [24]
Unscrupulous 19th century financiers like James Fisk were known as "robber" these
barons
Kellie
$600 [4]
The original director of this 1977 classic about weekends at the disco was forced to boogie away
Saturday Night Fever
$600 [7]
Luigi Galvani got a dead frog to twitch by touching metal to these during an electrical storm
nerves
$600 [20]
"The Screwtape Letters"
C.S. Lewis
Seth
$600 [28]
It's another name for a movie's director of photography
cinematographer
Seth
$600 [12]
This morning dish made with English muffins isn't named for an American traitor, but rather a Delmonico's patron
Eggs Benedict
Kellie
$600 [25]
"Supernanny" Jo Frost has a "naughty step" where your little one sits for this period, one minute for each year old
time-out
Justin
$800 [13]
Kirk Douglas got Anthony Mann cut from this 1960 gladiator epic & found young Stanley Kubrick to replace him
Spartacus
Seth
$800 [8]
Many car batteries use a solution of sulfuric acid & water called this, also what Gatorade tries to replenish
electrolytes
Justin
$800 [21]
"Breakfast at Tiffany's"
Truman Capote
Justin
$800 [29]
This small island nation is the largest port in southeast Asia
Singapore
Seth
$800 [14]
"Nooks & crannies" is a trademark of this brand of English muffin
Thomas
Justin
$1,000 [27]
Maria Borrallo is nanny to these 2 royals who live in a big palace
George and Charlotte
Justin
$1,000 [16]
Original director Philip Kaufman had creative differences with this final director of "The Outlaw Josey Wales"
Clint Eastwood
Justin
$1,000 [9]
Rubber casings around copper wiring act as one of these retardants of electricity
an insulator
Seth
$1,000 [22]
"Rumble Fish" & "That Was Then, This Is Now"
S.E. Hinton
$1,000 [30]
This naval vessel's purpose is to seek out & destroy floating enemy bombs
a minesweeper
Seth
$1,000 [15]
This teatime treat with a 7-letter name is basically an English muffin, though often served whole, not split
a crumpet
Justin
DD $1,500 [26]
Ironically, a lawman is carrying theweaponthat gave this gangster his nickname
Machine Gun Kelly
Justin

Double Jeopardy! Round

LUCKY 13th CENTURY BEE WORDS ELECTIONS IN CANADA A TALE OF "NEW" CITIES BRITANNICABYLINES LYRICS FROM BROADWAY
$400 [6]
After the destruction of Baghdad in 1258, the Mamluks based their caliphate in this Egyptian city
Cairo
Kellie
$400 [11]
Weals of urticaria are this itchy skin condition
hives
Kellie
$400 [1]
The leader of the majority party in Canadian federal elections gets this job, natch
prime minister
Seth
$400 [16]
The Puritans found safety when they settled this Connecticut city in 1638
New Haven
Seth
$400 [21]
He conjured up the entry on conjuring for the 1926 edition, the same year as his untimely death
Harry Houdini
$400 [26]
"Nobody knows in America Puerto Rico's in America!"
West Side Story
Seth
$800 [7]
Obviously in no need of fertile land, Haakon IV of this country gained sovereignty over Greenland & Iceland
Norway
Justin Seth
$800 [12]
Quadcopters being all the rage, ESPN now airs the DRL, or this Racing League
drone
Seth
$800 [2]
The party that wins the second-most seats is termed the "official" this other "O" word
opposition
Justin
$800 [17]
Founded in 1718, it was ceded to Spain in 1763, ceded to France in 1800 & sold to the U.S. in 1803
New Orleans
Justin
$800 [22]
Noted anarchist Prince Peter Alexeivitch Kropotkin wrote a 19th century entry on this capital
Moscow (or Saint Petersburg)
Justin Kellie
$800 [27]
"Sad to say your dream is not the kind of dream I'd like to get, Pharaoh has it in for you"
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Justin
$1,200 [8]
The Louvre sees a new sense of humanity in aworkby Cimabue, who it credits with the rebirth of painting in this country
Italy
Seth
$1,200 [13]
Zeus & friends ate ambrosia & drank this
nectar
Justin
$1,200 [3]
Unlike in the U.S., you can vote in Canada even while living in these, like the Saskatchewan federal one
a prison
Justin Seth
$1,600 [19]
An annual "Moby Dick" marathon takes place at this Massachusetts city's whaling museum
New Bedford
Seth
$1,200 [23]
No poser, Tony Hawk busted out the rad entry on this
skateboarding
Justin
DD $1,400 [28]
"And God said, 'Joe, people really need to know that the Bible isn't two parts, there's a part three'"
The Book of Mormon
Seth
$1,600 [9]
By the 1270s this Dominican saint was summing up the religious thought of his time in the "Summa Theologica"
Thomas Aquinas
Seth
$1,600 [14]
These "words" by definition are in vogue & culturally trendy
buzzwords
Kellie
$1,600 [4]
In a 2014 provincial election, Philippe Couillard & the Liberals beat Pauline Marois & the PQ, or Parti this
Quebecois
Seth
$2,000 [20]
Founded in 1639, this Rhode Island town flourished thanks to its excellent harbor
Newport
Justin
$1,600 [24]
This naturalist's 1902 article on Yosemite stated that Vernal Falls was "famous for its afternoon rainbows"
(John) Muir
Seth
$1,600 [29]
"Kiss today goodbye, the sweetness & the sorrow"
A Chorus Line
$2,000 [10]
In 1258 an Anglo-French treaty ended decades of conflict between the Plantagenets & this dynasty
the Capetian
Justin
$2,000 [15]
A rani is one of these
a queen
$2,000 [5]
Gallop to this term for federal election districts; they don't have numbers but names like Madawaska-Restigouche
the ridings
DD $2,500 [18]
Situated on the west bank of the Yamuna River, it was formally dedicated in 1931
New Delhi
Justin
$2,000 [25]
Who better than this holy man to write the entry on South Africa's 1995 Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
Desmond Tutu
Justin
$2,000 [30]
"High in her tower, she sits by the hour, maintaining her hair"
Into the Woods

Final Jeopardy!

NOVELS

"A man can be destroyed but not defeated" is a line from this 1952 book, later a Spencer Tracy film

The Old Man and the Sea

Kellie "What is The Talented Mr. Ripley??" — wagered $0
Seth "What is Man in the Grey Flannel Suit" — wagered $13,000
Justin "What is Bridgeson theof Toko-Ri" — wagered $5,000

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