Show #7707 2018-02-27 (taped 2017-12-05) Regular

Contestants

Paul Mitchell Kelleher — a physician from Millington, New Jersey

Amy Finkelstein — an editor from Chicago, Illinois

Maryann Penzvalto — a librarian from Cleveland, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Maryann $5,200 $7,000 $9,600 $12,801
2-day champion: $28,602
$12,600
18 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Amy $600 $4,000 $6,400 $100
3rd place: $1,000
$7,400
16 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Paul $0 $2,600 $4,400 $8,700
2nd place: $2,000
$5,000
9 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

OTHER WONDER WOMEN A FRENCH PREPOSITION FUEL FOSSILS "X" IN THE CITY ZERO TOLERANCE
$200 [7]
Back on the doomed planet of Krypton, she was known as Kara Zor-El
Supergirl
Maryann
$200 [12]
Often used in restaurant titles, it means "in the house of"
chez
Maryann
$200 [26]
In the United States, Esso stations like the onehereare a thing of the past; in 1972, Esso became this 5-letter brand
Exxon
Amy
$200 [1]
It's home to Britain's oldest university
Oxford
Maryann
$200 [17]
It circles the Earth at zero degrees latitude
the equator
Amy
$200 [6]
In 1649 this colony led by Cecilius, Lord Baron of Baltimore, passed a law of religious toleration
Maryland
Amy
$400 [8]
As mom & member of the Incredibles, Helen Parr is sometimes stretched thin as this non-caped crusader
Elastigirl
Amy
$400 [13]
Meaning "without", this word is pronounced with an "S" sound at the end in the U.S., but not in France
sans
Maryann
$400 [27]
Atlantic Refining & Richfield Petroleum are no more; in 1966 they merged to create the company known by this acronym
ARCO
$400 [2]
This Nova Scotia capital is actually closer to Dublin, Ireland than it is to Victoria, British Columbia
Halifax
Amy
$400 [18]
In 2011 Mayor Bloomberg said though "we will never forget the devastation of the area", it's time to stop calling it this
Ground Zero
Amy
$400 [22]
"Let there be no compulsion in religion", says this book's second surah
the Quran
Amy
$600 [9]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents an acronym on the monitor.) Saying "Shazam!" gave Mary Batson godly powers; "S" for Selena, "H" for Hippolyta, "A" for Ariadne, "Z" for Zephyrus, "A" for Aurora & "M" for this wise Roman goddess
Minerva
Amy
$600 [14]
This short phrase means "in the style of" in English & French
à la
Maryann
$600 [28]
What was formerly a Gilmore oil field in this city is now the Farmers' Market, a tourist attraction at 3rd & Fairfax
Los Angeles
$800 [4]
It's the state capital whose official flag is seen here
Phoenix
Maryann
$600 [19]
He played Max Bialystock in the original film version of "The Producers"
Zero Mostel
Amy
$600 [23]
Karl Popper's paradox of tolerance says the tolerant should claim the right not to tolerate these people
the intolerant
Amy
$800 [10]
This colorful sorceress sided with the Captain in "Captain America: Civil War"
the Scarlet Witch
$800 [15]
In French, it's a preposition meaning "behind"; in English, it's a noun for the behind
derrière
Maryann
$800 [29]
Rudolf Diesel's first engine was designed to run on the dust of this solid fuel
coal
Paul
DD $1,000 [3]
Antony & Cleopatra died there in 30 B.C.
Alexandria
Amy
$800 [20]
A good time for a raid, it's 3-word military slang for an unspecified time between midnight & dawn
zero dark thirty
Maryann
$800 [24]
"Never in our full life could we hope to do such work for tolerance... as now we do by accident", said this partner of Sacco
Vanzetti
Paul
$1,000 [11]
In the "X-Men" film universe, Sophie Turner played young Jean Grey, while sheplays the grown-up
Famke Janssen
Maryann
$1,000 [16]
This 3-word term for "face to face" is generally used in English for comparisons
vis-a-vis
$1,000 [30]
Here's a gas station in the '20s, when they were called this kind of station, from what attendantsdid at the pump
a filling station
Maryann
$1,000 [5]
It's the largest city in South Dakota & its X is silent
Sioux Falls
Maryann
$1,000 [21]
Published in 1986 "Count Zero" is a sequel to his "Neuromancer"
William Gibson
Amy
$1,000 [25]
This Frenchman's 1734 "Lettres Philosophiques" argues in favor of religious tolerance
Voltaire
Paul

Double Jeopardy! Round

RATING SYSTEMS THE FEDERALIST PAPERS TV SPIN-OFFS LITERARY HOMES HOW ARE "THINGS"? GIVING YOU THE EARTH & THE MOON
$400 [16]
Shown here is this number of the Wong-Baker faces scale for pain, the worst one
10
Maryann
$400 [4]
The Federalist Papers were published in 1787 & 1788 to persuade New Yorkers to ratify this
the Constitution
Paul
$400 [1]
"The Flash"
Arrow
Amy Paul
$400 [15]
"Rebecca" begins, "Last night I dreamt I went to" this home "again"
Manderley
Amy Paul
$800 [24]
I.O.T. stands for this, when all your devices are connected
the Internet of Things
Maryann
DD $600 [27]
Latin name for the large, dark lunar plains that early observers thought were seas
maria
Paul
$800 [17]
The first person to have 2 restaurants earn this top Michelin rating was Eugenie Brazier
three stars
Maryann Amy Paul
$800 [6]
Federalist 56 argued that one member for every 30,000 people in a state would work for this body
the House of Representatives
Amy Paul
$800 [2]
"Lou Grant"
Mary Tyler Moore
Paul
$800 [14]
This employer of Jane Eyre owns Thornfield Hall
Rochester
Paul
$1,200 [21]
In the King James version of Matthew 19, Jesus tells his disciples, "With God..." these 4 words
all things are possible
Maryann
$1,600 [26]
On the moon, Schroter's this is more than a hundred miles long, like the fertile Shenandoah on Earth
a valley
Paul
$1,200 [18]
In 2016, this brand changed its product ratingiconsto make them more colorful & easier to read
Consumer Reports
Maryann
$1,200 [7]
The papers were the product of Alexander Hamilton, John Jay & him
James Madison
Maryann
$1,200 [3]
"Trapper John, M.D."
M*A*S*H
Amy
$1,200 [11]
The title of this E.M. Forster novel refers to a country house, & there's no apostrophe
Howards End
Paul
$1,600 [22]
Deliver us "from ghoulies & ghosties & long-leggedy beasties, &" these 7-word noisy creepies
things that go bump in the night
Maryann
$2,000 [25]
Mons Huygens, the moon's tallest peak, is in this lunar range; Monte Corno is the tallest in the earthly one
the Apennines
$1,600 [19]
AAA rates hotels with these items--5 of them signifies ultimate luxury
diamonds
$2,000 [9]
Each of the papers was signed with this Roman name, perhaps derived from a word meaning "people"
Publius
Maryann
$1,600 [5]
Daytime's "Port Charles"
General Hospital
Amy
$1,600 [12]
This novel kicks off with news that Netherfield Park has been let
Pride and Prejudice
Amy
$2,000 [23]
Yeats used this 3-word phrase before "the center cannot hold"; Chinua Achebe used it as a title
things fall apart
Amy Paul
$2,000 [20]
The Little Man systemfor reviewing movies has been used by this Bay Area paper for years
the San Francisco Chronicle
DD $3,000 [8]
Federalist 74 said, "The dread of being accused of... connivance" would keep presidents from abusing this power
pardon
Maryann
$2,000 [10]
"Vanderpump Rules", on Bravo
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
Maryann Paul
$2,000 [13]
In a Henry James novel, Catherine Sloper's fictional home is on this real Manhattan square
Washington Square

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICANA

A 1931 story in The New Yorker said this "weighs 600,000,000 pounds (&)... contains 37,000,000 cubic feet"

the Empire State Building

Paul "What is the Empire State Building" — wagered $4,300
Amy "What is the Statue of Liberty?" — wagered $6,300
Maryann "What is the Empire State Building" — wagered $3,201

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