Show #7878 2018-12-05 (taped 2018-10-30) Regular

Contestants

Brian Panulla — a software engineer from Portland, Oregon

Amy David — a professor of management from Lafayette, Indiana

Dave Leffler — a retired police officer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (whose 2-day cash winnings total $53,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dave $2,500 $5,900 $21,500 $27,601
3-day champion: $81,202
$19,000
24 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Amy $2,800 $3,000 $2,600 $2,600
3rd place: $1,000
$2,600
7 R, 3 W
Brian $3,200 $7,600 $13,800 $21,501
2nd place: $2,000
$20,800
22 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

REIGN, DEAR DANCER VIXEN COMET "Q"-PID RUDOLPH
$200 [14]
Part of the full title of this man: Duke of Edinburgh, Baron Greenwich & Knight of the Garter; not part? "QEII's hubby"
Prince Philip
Dave
$200 [16]
He & Ginger Rogers tripped the light fantastic in 10 films together, including "The Gay Divorcee"
Fred Astaire
Amy
$200 [5]
Vixens are female foxes; like cats, they have vertical eye pupils & some have this type of claws that can be pulled back in
retractable
Dave
$200 [9]
In 1847 Maria Mitchell became the first American to discover a comet using this, a 2 3/4-inch model
a refractor telescope
Dave
$200 [7]
The skills or experience proving someone is ready for a particular job
qualification
Brian
$400 [29]
She was among the first group of inductees to the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1983
Wilma Rudolph
Dave
$400 [20]
India's Shah Jahan had this landmark built to honor his favorite wife, Mumtaz, after her 1631 death
the Taj Mahal
Dave
DD $500 [10]
Praise be to Rudolf Nureyev & more recently Michael Flatley, who both had this noble nickname
Lord of the Dance
Dave
$400 [21]
A mother vixen bears young called pups, cubs or these
kits
Brian
$400 [1]
In 2014 this spacecraft named for an ancient multi-lingual stone became the first to orbit a comet
Rosetta
Dave
$400 [8]
Adjective meaning gallant but ultimately futile or unrealistic
quixotic
Brian
$600 [26]
This president took his stepdad's name while still an infant, including the middle name Rudolph
Ford
Brian
$600 [15]
In 1956 she played a princess in "The Swan" & also stepped into the real role of princess after wedding Rainier III
Princess Grace
Amy
$600 [17]
He co-wrote & directed "All That Jazz", a movie based on his life
Bob Fosse
Dave
$600 [6]
In preparation for giving birth, a vixen will enlarge an abandoned burrow of another animal to make one of these
a den
Amy Brian
$600 [2]
Most comets round the sun via this odd, elliptical orbit, a term that could apply to your unusual grandfather
eccentric
Brian
$600 [12]
The metal mercury, to an old English mind
quicksilver
Amy
$800 [27]
Minnie Riperton's song "Lovin' You" began as a lullaby to her daughter, this future "SNL" comic actress
Maya Rudolph
Brian
$800 [22]
In the 1960s this nation's future Queen Beatrix & her husband welcomed the first male heirs in the house of Orange since 1851
the Netherlands
Brian
$800 [24]
He's often credited as the man who saved tap dancing
Savion Glover
$800 [19]
That vixen may look pettable but be careful--some foxes are carriers of this disease, AKA hydrophobia
rabies
Brian
$800 [3]
In 2005 NASA launched a comet mission named this, like the title of a film in which Morgan Freeman was the president
Deep Impact
Brian
$800 [13]
To put down or suppress forcibly, such as a rebellion
quell (or quash)
Brian
$1,000 [28]
Rudolph Dirks vuz der author of der comic strip about these 2 brothers, Hans und Fritz
the Katzenjammers
Dave
$1,000 [23]
In 1479 it was Ferdinand II & Isabella I as the duo began co-ruling the kingdoms of Aragon & this
Castile
Brian
$1,000 [25]
In 1948 dancer & choreographer Alicia Alonso founded the national ballet of this island country of her birth
Cuba
$1,000 [18]
The smallest vixens belong to the smallest fox species, the fennec, usually found in these ecosystems
the desert
Dave
$1,000 [4]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an image of a comet on the monitor.) A comet often has two tails--one made of dust & one that glows blue & is made up of these electrically charged gas molecules
ions (or plasma)
Dave Brian
$1,000 [11]
I don't want to argue, but it's a minor argument over something small
a quibble
Amy

Double Jeopardy! Round

OLYMPIC CITY ATTRACTIONS 3-LETTER BIZ ARCHAEOLOGY IT'S JUST A FLESH WOUND MY ROLE ON TV FERRY TALES
$400 [30]
Ebenezer Baptist Church on Jackson St. NE
Atlanta
Amy
$400 [1]
Sending a parcel? You've got some 3-letter choices, including DHL & this shipper with its brown "package cars"
UPS
Dave
$400 [9]
In submarines these devices usually stick up, but Carlo Lerici used one that looked down to view Italian tombs
a periscope
Amy
$400 [14]
To sink the cue ball in a game of pool
to scratch
Dave
$400 [20]
On this NBC drama Megan Boone plays FBI agent Liz Keen, who may be Red Reddington's daughter
Blacklist
Dave
$400 [17]
During this Twain character's "Adventures", he implores a ferryman to save Miss Hooker
Huckleberry Finn
Dave Brian
$800 [29]
Museo Frida Kahlo
Mexico City
Dave
$1,200 [8]
Back in the day this 3-letter brand manufactured women's bustles, but now it's mostly known for men's undies
BVD
Dave
$800 [3]
In 1922 Leonard Woolley began unearthing this Sumerian city, enhancing our knowledge of Mesopotamia
Ur
Brian
$800 [5]
Perforation is a synonym for this word also starting with "p" that's bad news for a car tire
a puncture
Brian
$800 [18]
Mike Colter gave a bulletproof performance as this Marvel hero
Luke Cage
Brian
$800 [7]
In "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry", Whitman finds this island "stately and admirable"
Manhattan
Amy
$1,200 [28]
The Christ the Redeemer statue on Mount Corcovado
Rio de Janeiro
Dave
$1,600 [11]
3 gentlemen started this brand in 1954 with a motor oil treatment
STP
Dave
$1,200 [4]
Danish archaeologist C.J. Thomsen split prehistory into these 3 ages named for tool materials
Stone, Bronze, and Iron
Dave
$1,200 [13]
May I do this 2-word term & dance with your partner, mid-song?
to cut in
Dave
$1,200 [19]
Percy Hynes White has a telekinetic presence as young mutant Andy Strucker on this Fox show
The Gifted
Dave
$1,200 [21]
The Bucklebury ferry was used by a quartet of these creatures to escape the Nazgul in a 1954 tale
hobbits
Brian
$1,600 [27]
Bondi Beach
Sydney
Brian
$2,000 [10]
In 2018 the U.S. replaced crippling sanctions on this Chinese telecom firm with a fine
ZTE
$1,600 [6]
In 2018, a plaster cast was made of ahorsejust found in the volcanic ruins of this Roman city
Pompeii
Dave
$1,600 [15]
British slang meaning to steal, perhaps something from British author Mr. Hornby
nick
Dave
$1,600 [24]
Anna Chlumsky is busy as Amy on this show: "I don't have time to ignore you, Jonah. Gary, could you please ignore Jonah for me?"
Veep
Amy Brian
$2,000 [23]
This title Hesse character meets a ferryman who says, "I have learned from the river: everything is coming back!"
Siddhartha
Brian
$2,000 [26]
The Naval Museum of Alberta
Calgary
Brian
DD $3,200 [2]
In 1924 the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company got this name
IBM
Dave
$2,000 [12]
Notoriously bad, these British body parts are giving University of York researchers knowledge about the Victorian diet
teeth
Brian
$2,000 [16]
This "rate" is a measure of negative cash flow
the burn rate
$2,000 [25]
Jimmy Tatro's Dylan Maxwell is accused of drawing some very unappreciated art on this 2017 true crime satire
American Vandal
Amy
DD $7,000 [22]
This author's "The Sea-Wolf" opens with a ferry accident in San Francisco Bay
Jack London
Brian

Final Jeopardy!

NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY

In 1999 the U.S. government was ordered to pay his family $16 million for less than 30 seconds of film

Abraham Zapruder

Amy "Who is Katze Ball" — wagered $0
Brian "Who is Zapruder?" — wagered $7,701
Dave "Who is Zapruder?" — wagered $6,101

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