Show #7663 2017-12-27 (taped 2017-09-06) Regular

Contestants

Sarah Walsh — a children’s librarian from Rockville, Maryland

Kevin Foley — a police captain from Mount Sinai, New York

Ami Li — a freelance writer from Lyme, Connecticut (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ami $4,000 $7,600 $4,400 $8,799
2nd place: $2,000
$4,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Kevin $1,800 $4,400 $15,200 $16,000
New champion: $16,000
$12,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Sarah! $1,400 $5,000 $800 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$5,800
15 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

KILLING GARY OLDMAN RHYME TIME FASHION HISTORIC DATES I GOT 3 I'S ON YOU HODGEPODGE IF THE BEES WENT AWAY...
$200 [9]
This title character doesn't eat Gary's disfigured villain in a "Silence of the Lambs" sequel--boars do
Hannibal Lecter
Kevin
$200 [1]
A superior knitted pullover
better sweater
Kevin
$200 [2]
On July 14, 1789 a French mob demanded arms & munitions from this prison; the guards resisted & the rest is history
the Bastille
Kevin
$200 [3]
Any law that forbids, especially the sale of alcohol
prohibition
Sarah!
$200 [8]
Flat feet are also referred to as fallen these
arches
Ami
$200 [24]
If colony collapse or other factors make bees extinct, there will be no more guac, as this fatty fruit is 90% dependent on them
avocado
Kevin
$400 [10]
Harrison Ford really means it when he tells Gary, "Get off my plane!" in this movie
Air Force One
Kevin
$400 [4]
A fancy coffee-colored full-length dress
a brown gown
Sarah!
$400 [14]
The Mexican Army under Santa Anna began a siege of this mission on February 23, 1836
the Alamo
Ami
$400 [22]
Crude & unrefined, or characteristic of early ages of human development
primitive
Sarah!
$400 [18]
There's a word for a Central European monarch in the name of this type of roll
kaiser
Sarah!
$400 [25]
Bees increase the quality of the fibers taken from this "Fabric of Our Lives" plant
cotton
Sarah!
$600 [11]
It is far from a spoiler to say this man played by Gary Oldman in "JFK" does not live to see the end of the film
Lee Harvey Oswald
Ami
$600 [5]
A small handheld evening bag from Holland
a Dutch clutch
Sarah!
$800 [16]
This passenger ship sank in less than 20 minutes after being hit by torpedoes on May 7, 1915
the Lusitania
Sarah!
$600 [23]
Adjective for something surrendered in return for a gain, like this "lamb"
sacrificial
Ami
$600 [19]
It was the "conservative" starting position played by the NHL's Brett Hull & Gordie Howe
right wing
Ami Kevin
$600 [26]
The seeds of this big yellow flower of the Helianthus genus are much fewer if it self-pollinates
the sunflower
Sarah!
$800 [12]
In 1992 Winona Ryder took a big bite out of Gary, who got stabbed in the heart & then beheaded as this title guy
Dracula
Kevin
$800 [6]
A wrapped headdress for Muslim men, designed to be worn in the city
an urban turban
Ami
DD $1,000 [15]
American patriots dressed as Mohawks for this festive event on December 16, 1773
the Boston Tea Party
Ami
$800 [29]
A written order for supplies, or the form used to do it
requisition
Kevin
$800 [20]
Reed instruments like the clarinet & English horn belong to this family of orchestral instruments
woodwinds
Ami
$800 [27]
No bees means no more natural honey, and perhaps no more this Middle Eastern pastry
baklava
Ami
$1,000 [13]
To protect Mathilda, played by this actress in her 1994 film debut, "The Professional" blows up Gary's crooked cop
Natalie Portman
Ami
$1,000 [7]
A detachable shirt front once worn with tuxedos that was perplexing & difficult to deal with
a picky dickie (or tricky dickie)
Sarah!
$1,000 [17]
Abraham Lincoln was shot on this date, Good Friday of that year
April 14, 1865
Ami
$1,000 [30]
Ananias Dare's daughter
Virginia (Dare)
Ami
$1,000 [21]
In 2017 Changi airport in this southeast Asian city-state was named the world's best airport for a 5th straight year
Singapore
Sarah!
$1,000 [28]
Beef & dairy shortages? Bees are crucial for plants like alfalfa, used as this 6-letter type of food for cattle
fodder (or forage)
Kevin

Double Jeopardy! Round

HIP-HOP & R&B 2017 SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK AROUND THE PACIFIC TRANSLATE THE LANGUAGE TIME FOR SECONDS THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST
$400 [20]
A lot of people liked "That's What I Like", a chart-topper for this "Planetary" singer
Bruno Mars
Sarah!
$400 [7]
Naturally, Act V, Scene ii of this play is set in Windsor Park
Merry Wives of Windsor
Sarah!
$400 [16]
Mount Wilhelm, named for the son of Otto von Bismarck, is the highest peak in this country on New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
$400 [6]
Deutsch
German
Ami
$400 [1]
"On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep", begins the second verse of this patriotic song
"The Star-Spangled Banner"
Ami Sarah!
$400 [22]
Before they met, Fitzgerald read this writer's "In Our Time" & praised him as "the real thing"
Hemingway
Ami
$800 [23]
"To The Max" was a hit for DJ Khaled & this "Degrassi"-starring Canadian
Drake
Kevin
$800 [8]
The princess of France must be admitted into the king of Navarre's park in this comedy where romance is actually found
Love's Labour's Lost
Sarah!
$800 [17]
The flag of Norfolk Island features the Norfolk this, a conifer that's native to the island
pine
Kevin
$800 [12]
Dansk
Danish
Sarah!
$800 [2]
This element with a nucleus containing 2 protons is the second-most abundant in the universe & the second-lightest
helium
Ami Kevin Sarah!
$800 [24]
Ernest Borgnine voiced Mermaid Man, a semi-retired superhero living in Bikini Bottom, on this series
Spongebob Squarepants
Sarah!
$1,600 [10]
Dunsinane Castle is a few miles away from this wood, the royal forest in the witches' prediction
Birnam Wood
Kevin
$1,200 [18]
If Lennon played the second-largest Japanese city, it'd be the ballad of John & this
Yokohama
Ami Sarah!
$1,200 [13]
Erse, aka Gaeilge
Gaelic (or Irish)
Ami Kevin
$1,200 [3]
When the first transcontinental RR was completed in 1869, so was the second transcontinental one of these lines
telegraph
Kevin
$1,200 [25]
Ernest Shackleton led the expedition in which this ship drifted for 10 months before being crushed in pack ice
the Endurance
$2,000 [11]
In this revenge play, Marcus says he found Lavinia "straying in the park, seeking to hide herself, as doth the deer"
Titus Andronicus
Ami Sarah!
$1,600 [19]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The belt stretching 25,000 miles from New Zealand through Japan and the Aleutian islands to South America is actually horseshoe-shaped, but best-known by this three-word description
the Ring of Fire
Ami
$2,000 [15]
Diné Bizaad
Navajo
$1,600 [4]
Larger than Alaska, the second-largest rainforest is this one, named for the river that runs through it
the Congo
Kevin
$1,600 [26]
This country singer of "Sixteen Tons" & "The Ballad Of Davy Crockett" was indeed born in the 16th state
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Kevin
DD $5,000 [9]
This pastoral place is the setting for most of "As You Like It"
the Forest of Arden
Sarah!
$2,000 [21]
Almost all of this country's imports flow through the Gulf of Guayaquil to its largest port
Ecuador
Sarah!
DD $4,000 [14]
Islenska
Icelandic
Kevin
$2,000 [5]
In 1900 it became the second city to host the modern Olympics & the first games with female competitors
Paris
Kevin
$2,000 [27]
This New Zealand-born physicist is seenherearound the time he established the nuclear model of the atom
Sir Ernest Rutherford

Final Jeopardy!

PRESIDENTIAL HOMES

Originally called Rural Retreat, this 19th century presidential home has a name that's a synonym for "retreat"

Hermitage

Sarah! "What is Peacefield?" — wagered $800
Ami "What is Hermitage" — wagered $4,399
Kevin "What is the Hermitage" — wagered $800

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