Show #7611 2017-10-16 (taped 2017-08-03) Regular

Contestants

Jayanthi Martins — a finance manager from Austin, Texas

Emily Wilson — a nonprofit fundraising operations manager from Brooklyn, New York

Manny Abell — a naval officer from Lacey, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,199)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Manny!! $3,800 $4,200 $19,000 $25,599
2-day champion: $42,798
$16,400
23 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Emily $200 $3,400 $11,400 $19,400
2nd place: $2,000
$10,600
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Jayanthi $2,600 $3,600 $12,400 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$12,400
14 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

ALSO AFRIENDSCHARACTER NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS AT THE "M"PORIUM CAUGHT WITH YOUR HAND IN THE COOKIE JAR
$200 [3]
On a map of Los Angeles County, it follows "Santa"
Monica
Manny!!
$200 [16]
In 2017 winner "The Girl Who Drank the Moon", a village leaves babies as offerings to one of these, but not a wicked one
a witch
Manny!!
$200 [17]
The stereo type of this doesn't need slides & we can supply one with 16x magnification
a microscope
Jayanthi
$200 [11]
This abolitionist leader & raider was captured by Robert E. Lee & hanged in 1859
John Brown
Manny!!
$200 [26]
When you crack a whip, you should know that reaching the speed of this is creating the loud crack
sound
Manny!!
$200 [6]
In addition to Trefoils & Tagalongs, this youthful squad now offers S'mores cookies
the Girl Scouts
Emily
$400 [4]
A young kangaroo
joey
Emily
$400 [18]
A boy who tends llamas learns about his ancestors in Ann Nolan Clark's "Secret of" these mountains
the Andes
Manny!!
$400 [19]
Congratulations, college grad! We've got your traditional outfit here, a robe & one of these caps
a mortarboard
Emily
$400 [12]
He was watching the movie "War is Hell" at a Dallas theater before being nabbed by the police in 1963
(Lee Harvey) Oswald
Manny!!
$400 [27]
When doing this with one hand, try using a cascade, shower or column pattern & try not to drop anything
juggling
$400 [7]
A European tour with this brand includes Milano, Brussels & Geneva cookies
Pepperidge Farm
Emily
$600 [1]
In the Bible one of Jacob's 2 wives
Rachel
Manny!!
$600 [23]
"Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" tells the tale of a young 18th c. sailor who masters & improves this science of guiding a ship
navigation
Jayanthi
$600 [20]
Got a lovely shrubbery for you--this evergreen, whose name is on a famous beach
the myrtle
Jayanthi
$600 [13]
Jessica Lynch received a Bronze Star, Purple Heart & P.O.W. medal after being captured in this country
Iraq
Manny!!
$600 [28]
When Puck says, "Give me your hands" in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", he's asking for this
applause
Manny!!
$600 [8]
One claim says these cookies made their U.S. debut at Golden Gate Park's Japanese tea garden over 100 years ago
fortune cookies
Manny!!
$800 [2]
Name of an ice shelf near the South Pole
Ross
Emily Jayanthi
$800 [24]
Cornelia Meigs' 1934 winning bio "Invincible Louisa" is subtitled "The Story of the Author of" this other book
Little Women
Jayanthi
$800 [21]
A 12-pack to go of this Schlitz product with a higher-than-beer alcohol content? Excellent choice
malt liquor
Manny!!
DD $1,000 [14]
She was captured in 1430 while protecting her rear guard as they crossed the Oise River
Joan of Arc
Manny!!
$800 [30]
If you don't have a canine, you can still walk the dog using this toy
a yo-yo
Manny!! Emily
$800 [9]
Would you care for this, with a spice in its name? It's great for dunking
a gingersnap
Manny!! Jayanthi
$1,000 [5]
A moon of Saturn
Phoebe
$1,000 [25]
1977's winner was the classic "Roll of Thunder," these 3 words
Hear My Cry
Manny!! Emily
$1,000 [22]
Lovely rings for your every finger, all with diamonds in this noble cut
marquise
Jayanthi
$1,000 [15]
Eli Cohen, who infiltrated the top ranks of Syria's military for this spy agency, was caught & hanged in 1965
Mossad
Jayanthi
$1,000 [29]
If you're going to use jazz hands so often, at least credit this "Pippin" choreographer who helped popularize them
Bob Fosse
Emily Jayanthi
$1,000 [10]
These Nabisco marshmallow cookies are made only from October to March so the chocolate won't melt
Mallomars
Manny!!

Double Jeopardy! Round

PAINT BY NUMBERS TECHNOLOGY BIOPICS OF BRITS NON -IA COUNTRIES THE HISTORY BOOKSHELF PHRASES LITERALLY TRANSLATED
$400 [20]
Astill lifeby Van Gogh is often called "Vase with 15" these, though Vincent himself wrote there were 14
sunflowers
Jayanthi
$400 [1]
In 1865 the pantelegraph was the first commercial service for this document-sending technology
facsimile
Emily
$400 [13]
"Nowhere Boy" recounts the early life of this man whose new friend Paul wants to form a band with him
John Lennon
Emily
$400 [15]
Pusan & Inchon are major cities in this country
South Korea
Emily
$400 [27]
Charles C. Mann's work entitled this year, subtitled "New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus"
1491
Emily
$400 [6]
I was just walking down the street & I had a sudden sense of "already seen"
déja vu
Emily
$800 [21]
An 1850masterpieceby Ivan Aivazovsky is entitled "The Ninth" this
wave
Manny!!
$800 [2]
In 1977 Dennis Hayes & Dale Heatherington invented this, enabling a PC to transmit data via phone lines
a modem
Manny!! Jayanthi
$800 [14]
Renee Zellweger played "Miss" her, looking for a publisher for her & Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter
$800 [16]
It shares a long border on its northwest with Honduras
Nicaragua
Manny!!
$800 [26]
Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and" this
steel
Manny!!
$800 [7]
I see you've positioned the bed according to the principles of "wind water"
feng shui
Emily
$1,200 [28]
Here's his "Number 16, 1949"
Jackson Pollock
Emily
$1,200 [3]
Founded in Israel in 2006, this Google app to map the fastest route for drivers often takes you down side streets
Waze
Jayanthi
$1,200 [11]
Played by Tom Hardy in 2008, Britain's "most violent prisoner" renamed himself this after the star of "Death Wish"
(Charles) Bronson
Manny!!
$1,200 [17]
This Pacific island group lost the "Western" from its name in 1997
Samoa
Jayanthi
$1,200 [25]
Barbara Tuchman's "The Guns of" this month, 1914
August
Manny!!
$1,600 [9]
Step outside, pal--it's you & me, "hand to hand"
mano a mano
Manny!!
$1,600 [29]
Here's this French master's "Napoleon Crossing the Alps at Great St. Bernard Pass, the 20th of May, 1800"
(Jacques-Louis) David
Jayanthi
$1,600 [4]
The "brain" behind Amazon Echo, she can turn on your thermostat or tell you who won a medieval battle
Alexa
Jayanthi
$1,600 [12]
A tagline for "The Imitation Game", about this man, was "Behind every code is an enigma"
(Alan) Turing
Jayanthi
$1,600 [18]
Part of Borneo, it's an independent sultanate
Brunei
Manny!!
$2,000 [24]
The best-selling "A People's History of the United States" by this activist and Boston University professor
(Howard) Zinn
Manny!!
DD $2,000 [8]
Don't overcook the pasta--I like it "to the tooth"
al dente
Emily
$2,000 [30]
"Two Girls Dressing a Kitten by Candlelight"is a masterpiece of this Italian-named contrast of light and dark
chiaroscuro
Emily
$2,000 [5]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.) Seen here in a 2002 replica that's 7 feet high, 11 feet long & 5 tons, Difference Engine Number 2was designed to remove human error from scientific tables; it was a groundbreaking computer concept by this British inventor back in the 1840s
(Charles) Babbage
Emily
$2,000 [22]
This word for a hedonistic rake is the title of a film with Johnny Depp as hedonistic rake John Wilmot
the libertine
$2,000 [19]
Once known as Portuguese East Africa, it was settled by the Bantu almost 2,000 years ago
Mozambique
Emily Jayanthi
DD $4,000 [23]
William Shirer's "The Rise and Fall of" this numerical abomination
the Third Reich
Manny!!
$2,000 [10]
Gerry Adams is the leader of "Ourselves Alone"
Sinn Fein

Final Jeopardy!

BIG BUSINESS

In 2000 this company reported revenues of more than $100 billion; in 2001 it was bankrupt

Enron

Emily "What isDiapers.com?Enron?" — wagered $8,000
Jayanthi "What is General Motors?" — wagered $12,400
Manny!! "What is Enron?" — wagered $6,599

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