Show #7612 2017-10-17 (taped 2017-08-03) Regular

Manny Abell wins with $1.

Contestants

Fran Fried — a writer, editor and DJ from Prospect, Connecticut

Carlos Nobleza Posas — an actor from Salt Lake City, Utah

Manny Abell — a naval officer from Lacey, Washington (whose 2-day cash winnings total $42,798)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Manny!! $1,000 $2,200 $1,000 $1
3-day champion: $42,799
$1,000
12 R, 5 W
Carlos $2,400 $400 $12,300 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$13,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Fran $3,800 $2,800 $12,300 $0
2nd place: $2,000
$12,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

I'M A HUGE FAN THE MIDWEST LETTER PERFECT LET'S SAVE THE PLANET LET'S REMODEL THE KITCHEN A NOVEL IDEA
$200 [10]
Exuberant chapeaux give Green Bay Packers fans this nickname
Cheeseheads
Carlos
$200 [6]
Population about 70,000, it's where to go to see the Hawkeyes play in Kinnick Stadium
Iowa City
Carlos
$200 [2]
A 3.0 GPA
a B
Manny!! Carlos Fran
$200 [25]
The 350 in 350.org refers to this gas, which the org. wants to keep at less than 400 parts per million in our skies
CO 2 (carbon dioxide)
Manny!!
$200 [16]
We'd like to supersize this 6-letter closet in which groceries or dishes are kept
a pantry
Fran
$400 [23]
There's a lot more to Mr. Wednesday than meets the eye in this 2001 Neil Gaiman novel
American Gods
Manny!! Carlos
$400 [11]
al-oholicsanonymous.com is devoted to helping you become a more rabid fan of this rock satirist
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Carlos
$400 [7]
State where you can visit the American Swedish Institute, in the mansion built by immigrant Swan Turnblad
Minnesota
Manny!!
$400 [3]
500, in Roman numerals
D
Manny!! Fran
$400 [26]
This society named for an ornithologist is responsible for dozens of sanctuaries nationwide
the Audubon Society
Fran
$400 [17]
Hmm... a vented or duct-free one of these covers over the range? & how powerful is the fan in CFMs, cubic feet per minute?
a hood
Manny!!
$800 [21]
Pendleton Work Farm & an "institute of psychology" are settings in this 1962 novel
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Carlos
$600 [12]
The "flies" at tarflies.com like to post about "TAR", this CBS reality competition
The Amazing Race
$600 [1]
Bigfoot, the original 4x4 one of these, lives in Pacific, Missouri
a monster truck
Carlos
$600 [4]
It's the current MPAA rating adjacent to NC-17
R
Carlos
$600 [27]
npca.org aims to protect these, like Acadia in Maine & Kings Canyon in California
national parks
Manny!! Fran
$600 [18]
To keep the pinot grigio chilled, a built-in one of these, also the name of a beverage trendy in the 1980s
a wine cooler
Manny!!
$1,000 [20]
His 1903 novel "The Ambassadors" is about a Yank in Europe convincing a wayward son to come home
Henry James
$800 [13]
Change one of the vowels in a Zodiac sign & you get this .org devoted to the director of "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"
Capracorn (.org)
Fran
$800 [8]
Grosse Ile, part of Wayne County, is in this river that shares its name with a Midwest metropolis
Detroit
Fran
$800 [5]
It's found in the universal blood donor type
O
Manny!!
$800 [28]
An org. founded in 1881 & including over 3,900 utilities aims to preserve this, "the world's most important resource"
water
Carlos
$800 [19]
Instead of an island, we'll be installing this item seen here, also named for a type of landmass
a peninsula
Carlos
DD $4,000 [22]
Chapters in this classic include "5 June 1832" & "Marius Enters the Darkness"
Les Miserables
Carlos
$1,000 [14]
Bellarinas are fans of this young performer seen here
Bella Thorne
Carlos
$1,000 [9]
Founded in 1873, North Dakota's oldest newspaper still in publication is this city's Tribune
Bismarck
Fran
$1,000 [15]
Pronounced differently, it's a Burmese title of respect, like for Mr. Thant
U
Fran
$1,000 [24]
Kitchen counter-tops? How 'bout this mineral, the 2nd-most abundant in Earth's crust, & cheaper than granite
quartz
Manny!! Fran

Double Jeopardy! Round

SUPREME COURT JUSTICE BEFORE & AFTER IT'S A BATTLE INVENTION & DISCOVERY OCTOBER: SPORTS FANS' HEAVEN A SUFFIX WILL SUFFICE ANCIENT WISDOM
$400 [1]
First chief justice ever who, despite "99 Problems", was always "Big Pimpin"
John Jay-Z
Carlos
$400 [20]
It is said that this 1815 battle "was won on the playing fields of Eton"
Waterloo
Manny!!
$400 [29]
On October 13, 1983 David Meilahn & Bob Barnett made the first calls on a commercial one of these, talking to Bell's grandkid
a cellular telephone
Manny!! Carlos Fran
$400 [19]
The NHL's new Golden Knights franchise of this city starts its regular season next to New York-New York
Vegas
Fran
$400 [10]
We'd love for you to come up with this loving suffix that follows "cine" or "techno"
-phile
Fran
$800 [22]
In his "Natural History", Pliny the Elder wrote that "there's always something new out of" this continent
Africa
Manny!!
$800 [2]
He replaced Thurgood Marshall & chugged his way around the island of Sodor
Clarence Thomas the Tank Engine
$800 [7]
The footage seenherewas shot during this World War II battle that would go on for another month
Iwo Jima
Carlos
$800 [28]
Element 113 on the periodic table is named nihonium due to its discovery in this country
Japan
$800 [18]
It's World Series time, with this team that lost to the Cubs now having gone the longest without a fall classic title
Cleveland
Fran
$800 [11]
Cut out this suffix & you could be left with "append" or "tonsill"
-ectomy
Manny!! Carlos
$1,200 [21]
In this classic tome, Sun Tzu claimed that "a military operation involves deception"
The Art of War
Fran
$1,200 [3]
This Heisman runner-up jurist, now the home of "The Original Slider"
Byron White Castle
Fran
DD $1,500 [4]
On Sept. 17, 1862 in Maryland, over 3,000 men were killed & 17,000 wounded in this blood battle
Antietam
Fran
$1,200 [25]
A 2010 discovery about the protein ovocleidin-17 may hold the key to this age-old question (it's the bird)
Who came first, the chicken or the egg?
Carlos
$1,200 [13]
This bearded Houston Rocket starts NBA play with a $170 million extension & a new teammate, Chris Paul
James Harden
Fran
$1,200 [12]
It comes after "theo" & "pluto" to denote forms of government
-crat (or -cracy)
Manny!!
$1,600 [23]
In the 4th century B.C., Aristotle said that "man is by nature" this type of "animal"
a political animal
Manny!!
$1,600 [8]
HBO's "Last Week Tonight" host who went on to become "The Great Dissenter"
John Oliver Wendell Holmes
Carlos
$1,600 [5]
The second battle of this French river in 1918 was the last major German offensive in World War I
the Marne
Manny!!
$1,600 [26]
A blood test for cancer is called a "liquid" this test; one developed in Sweden finds it with 96% accuracy from 1 drop
a liquid biopsy
$1,600 [14]
It's the heart of the NFL season, with rivalries like the Jets vs. this division rival they accused of 2007's "Spygate"
the Patriots
Fran
$1,600 [16]
You'll find this little suffix after "disk" & "kitchen"
-ette
Fran
$2,000 [24]
This Roman poet's "Georgics" tells us, "Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things"
Virgil
$2,000 [9]
Current justice who's been known to launch a rocket or 2
Anthony Kennedy Space Center
$2,000 [6]
Texas secured its independence from Mexico following this April 1836 battle that crushed Santa Anna's army
San Jacinto
Fran
DD $5,100 [27]
William Shockley shared a Nobel Prize for creating this device that supplanted vacuum tubes in electronics
a transistor
Carlos
$2,000 [15]
This California city's Earthquakes & Major League Soccer's other squads wrap up the regular season
San Jose
Carlos
$2,000 [17]
Add it to "my" or "neur" & you've got a real pain
-algia (or -opathy)
Carlos Fran

Final Jeopardy!

ASIAN GEOGRAPHY

It's the only country that borders both the Caspian Sea & the Persian Gulf

Iran

Manny!! "What is Iraq?" — wagered $999
Carlos "What is Azerbaijan?" — wagered $12,300
Fran "What is Tibet?" — wagered $12,300

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