Show #7655 2017-12-15 (taped 2017-08-30) Regular

Contestants

Denise Littlejohn — a project manager from West Hollywood, California

Kiersten Brown — a writer and retail clerk from Champlain, New York

Craig Tollin — a professor from Roanoke, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Craig $1,400 $4,600 $10,800 $17,201
2nd place: $2,000
$13,800
18 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Kiersten $3,400 $3,400 $8,600 $16,599
3rd place: $1,000
$8,600
13 R, 3 W
Denise $2,600 $1,200 $13,600 $21,601
New champion: $21,601
$13,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

COKE SLOGANS THROUGH THE YEARS TREES VOTE-CABULARY TV NICKNAMES BEFORE THE EURO MAIN STREAM MEDIA
$200 [21]
1989:"The official soft drink of" this season
summer
Kiersten
$200 [26]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a tree on the monitor.) The tallest living tree, the coast redwood, loses its lower branches as it grows, revealing the slender trunk that distinguishes it from this giant tree with an immense trunk
a sequoia
Kiersten
$200 [6]
To express your opinion of a place by leaving it is to "vote with your" these body parts
your feet
Craig
$200 [1]
Mac on "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" has this for a real name, just like a fast food icon
Ronald McDonald
Craig
$200 [7]
Cyprus used a currency called this, as did Ireland
the pound
Denise
$200 [16]
Hercule Poirot is on vacation in Africa in this mystery mainstay
Death on the Nile
$400 [22]
1929:"The pause that" does this
refreshes
Kiersten
$400 [27]
In 2017 U2 celebrated the 30th anniversary of its album named for this plant by playing all of its songs on tour
Joshua tree
Craig
$400 [12]
Your support is a real "vote of" this belief in oneself or another
confidence
Denise
$400 [2]
On "Sex and the City", Chris Noth played Carrie's elusive flame known as this
Mr. Big
Craig
$400 [8]
Also the name of a silver coin in ancient times, this former Greek currency was broken down into lepta
the drachma
Denise
$400 [17]
This Strauss waltz, Opus 314, was originally a choral piece
the "Blue Danube"
Craig Denise
$600 [23]
1979:"Have a Coke and" one of these
a smile
Craig
$600 [28]
Theyellow poplaris also known as this flower tree, for obvious tree
the tulip tree
$600 [13]
It's the right to vote; add "tte" to describe a woman agitating for that right
suffrage
Kiersten
$600 [3]
On "Bonanza", Ben Cartwright was father to Adam, Little Joe & this big fella
Hoss
Denise
$800 [10]
Seen here is an example of the former currency of this European nation
Italy
Kiersten
$600 [18]
Mark Twain talks about his career as a steamboat pilot in this memoir
Life on the Mississippi
Kiersten
$800 [24]
2009:"Open" this
happiness
$800 [29]
Alaska's state tree is this alliterative spruce that shares its name with an Alaskan city
a Sitka spruce
Kiersten
$800 [14]
It's a vote cast on another's behalf at a shareholders' meeting
proxy
Denise
$800 [4]
In one episode of "South Park" this character goes south of the border & is referred to as Mantequilla
Butters
$1,000 [11]
Pre-Euro purchases in this nation required pesetas
Spain
Kiersten
$800 [19]
Mistakes in this painting of a 1776 event: wrong size boat, wrong flag, wrong time of day & the gen. probably wouldn't stand
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Craig
$1,000 [25]
1969:These 4 words, also heard in a jingle
"It's the real thing"
Kiersten Denise
$1,000 [30]
The bald type of this flourishes in swamps
cypress trees
$1,000 [15]
You'll find the common people of ancient Rome at the start of this word for a direct popular vote on an issue
a plebiscite
Craig Denise
$1,000 [5]
On "WKRP in Cincinnati", Tim Reidplayed the DJ with this nickname, also a certain plant
Venus Flytrap
Kiersten
DD $1,200 [9]
This former currency of Austria sounds like a coin once used in the United Kingdom
the schilling
Denise
$1,000 [20]
This 2001 Dennis LeHane mystery centers on the effects of a killing in a blue-collar Boston neighborhood
Mystic River
Craig

Double Jeopardy! Round

NON-AMERICAN GODS ONLY "U" ALL MY... EXODUS LIVE IN TEXAS HISTORICAL ODD PAIRS
$400 [10]
This Roman god of the forge lived long & prospered but his last words should've been "I'm smelting! I'm smelting!"
Vulcan
Craig
$400 [1]
With varying markings, there are more than 10 species of this mammal, including the hooded one seen here
a skunk
Kiersten
$400 [6]
In this 1967 film Dustin Hoffman says, "I think you're the most attractive of all my parents' friends"
The Graduate
Craig
$400 [21]
Boils are number 6 on this list
the (ten) plagues (of Egypt)
Craig
$400 [7]
Live in this city & you too will want to "keep" it "weird"; there's even a festival devoted to that goal
Austin
Craig
$1,200 [25]
This Oscar winner scored an interview with "El Chapo" months after the crime lord escaped from a Mexican jail
(Sean) Penn
Denise
$800 [13]
Truly a multi-tasker, this Norse trickster god took on the form of a mare & birthed Odin's horse Sleipnir
Loki
Denise
$800 [2]
Someone who deserves more fame than he gets is this kind of "hero"
unsung
Denise
$800 [17]
Paul McCartney said this 1963 song about what "I will send to you" was an oddity in that he wrote the lyrics first
"All My Loving"
Craig
$800 [22]
In Chapter 12, before the Israelites leave Egypt, they take "their dough before it was" this 8-letter word
leavened
Kiersten
$800 [8]
In this city near Dallas you can see your Cowboys & Rangers play home games
Arlington
Craig Kiersten
$1,600 [26]
The only time he left India after 1915 was to visit London, where Charlie Chaplin found his loin cloth incongruous
Gandhi
Denise
$1,200 [14]
Getting busy literally on day one, as an infant this Greek messenger of the gods stole his bro Apollo's cattle
Hermes
Craig
$1,200 [3]
For toddlers, they're also called training pants
pull-ups
Kiersten
DD $1,000 [20]
In 1947 Karl Malden & Ed Begley, Sr. stared in this playwright's first success, "All My Sons"
Arthur Miller
Craig
$1,200 [23]
In Chapter 3 Moses is "afraid to look upon God" in the form of this amazing sight
the burning bush
Craig
$1,200 [9]
Baytown & Sugar Land are in the metro area of this big city
Houston
Denise
$2,000 [27]
At a 1984 party at the Dakota, he taught Andy Warhol how to draw on a brand new Macintosh
Steve Jobs
Craig
$1,600 [15]
In the Bible Elijah got the better of prophets of this Canaanite fertility deity
Baal
$1,600 [4]
Introduced from Asia, this vine used to control erosion in the 1930s is now a menace in the southern U.S.
kudzu
Denise
$1,200 [18]
This ABC series started in 1970 & ran all the way until 2011
All My Children
Denise
$1,600 [28]
It was made of shittim wood, 2.5 cubits in length, 1.5 cubits in breadth & height
the Ark
Kiersten
DD $2,000 [11]
You'll fit in with all the friendly people living in this big city named for a man buried in Padua, Italy
San Antonio
Craig
$2,000 [16]
The son of Hyperion was this chariot-driving Greek sun god also with an "H" name
Helios
Denise
$2,000 [5]
Unkulunkulu is the creator god of this people of South Africa
the Zulu
Kiersten
$1,600 [19]
He adapted his song "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" for "Monday Night Football" in 1989
Hank Williams, Jr.
Craig
$2,000 [24]
Thepaintingshowing the celebrations after the crossing from Egypt is titled "The Song of" this sister of Moses
Miriam
Denise
$2,000 [12]
If you like the sound of living near the Trinity River, try this town that began as an Army outpost in 1849
Fort Worth

Final Jeopardy!

MOVIE SETTINGS

The setting for this 1994 Oscar-winning animated film was inspired by Kenya's Hell's Gate National Park

The Lion King

Kiersten "What is The Lion King?" — wagered $7,999
Craig "What is The Lion King" — wagered $6,401
Denise "What is The Lion King?" — wagered $8,001

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