Show #8113 2019-12-11 (taped 2019-10-02) Regular

Jennifer Quail game 6.

Contestants

Denise Page — an office manager and literary agency assistant from Maspeth, New York

Doug Beckner — a scientific illustrator from San Francisco, California

Jennifer Quail — a wine tasting consultant from Dowagiac, Michigan (whose 5-day cash winnings total $149,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jennifer $4,800 $6,200 $19,400 $21,900
6-day champion: $171,400
$19,200
24 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Doug $1,200 $1,000 $4,200 $100
2nd place: $2,000
$10,200
11 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Denise $800 $4,600 $6,600 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$8,600
14 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE SECOND-LARGEST CITY IN THE STATE IN FULL A HAT TIP TO YOU TAKING A VOWEL OF SILENCE THERE ONCE WAS THIS MAN FROM... TV MOMS
$200 [26]
Yale University helped this city take second behind Bridgeport
New Haven
Denise
$200 [13]
The full Latin name for this 1215 document translates to "the great charter of freedoms"
the Magna Carta
Denise
$200 [1]
Still popular, this flat, soft cap is named for the bygone professional who said, "Paper, mister?"
a newsboy
Doug
$200 [22]
O:In this spotted cat
leopard
Denise
$200 [6]
...Brazil / Who kicked a ball with some skill / Finding the holes / Scored 1,200-plus goals / & gave us 2 decades of thrill
Pelé
Jennifer
$400 [19]
This character was mom to Marcia, Jan, Cindy, Greg, Peter & Bobby
Carol (Brady)
Jennifer
$400 [25]
For those of y'all keepin' score: it's New Orleans, 344,000; this capital city, 230,000
Baton Rouge
Jennifer
$400 [14]
Despite being part of the name, "and explosives" did not make it into the initials for this government bureau
the ATF
Jennifer
$400 [2]
A survivor at this site "recognized Col. Crockett lying dead & mutilated" & remembered seeing his coonskin cap "lying by his side"
the Alamo
Jennifer
$400 [11]
U:In this basketball backcourt position
guard
$400 [7]
...Chicago / His Sen. seat, "golden" said Blago / Won a Nobel for Peace / His term did cease / Don't think he'll stay at Mar-A-Lago
Obama
Jennifer
$600 [16]
Tovah Feldshuh had a recurring role as Rachel Bloom's mom, Naomi Bunch, on this musical comedy
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Jennifer Denise
$800 [28]
Miami is half the size of this seaport city further north
Jacksonville
Jennifer
$600 [15]
"Borat" is subtitled "Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of" this
Kazakhstan
Denise
$600 [3]
Here's Teddy Roosevelt on November 16th, 1906, inspecting a massive feat of engineering wearing what would be named this kind of hat
a Panama hat
Jennifer
$600 [12]
A:In this 12-letter word that precedes "involved" to describe lovers
romantically
Jennifer
$600 [8]
...Maine / Who made shoes to fight off the rain / His catalog mailed / & clothing detailed / Outdoors would be his domain
L.L. Bean
Jennifer
$800 [17]
Seen here, Wendi McLendon-Covey plays mom Beverly on this sitcom set in 1980-something
The Goldbergs
Denise
$1,000 [27]
Boston has a 400,000-plus edge on this city whose pronunciation doesn't match up so well with its spelling
Worcester
Denise
DD $1,000 [20]
"'The Military College of South Carolina" is in the full name of this school
the Citadel
Jennifer
$800 [4]
Abe Lincoln kept papers & speeches in this type of top hat he wore to Ford's Theatre the night he was shot
stovepipe
Jennifer
$800 [23]
E:In this chance occurrence, which your hole-in-one was, you lucky so-&-so
a fluke
Doug
$800 [9]
...Iran / Who ruled with too firm a hand / According to text / Khomeini was next / He was no longer the king of his land
the Shah
Jennifer
$1,000 [18]
During the run of this comedy, actress Debra Jo Rupp & her character Kitty Forman both quit smoking
That '70s Show
Denise
$1,000 [21]
This Mideast country is known as the "Hashemite Kingdom"
Jordan
Jennifer
$1,000 [5]
In the U.S., we call one hat a derby; the Brits stay in their lane & get sportier by calling it this
a bowler
$1,000 [24]
I:In this type of school, like UC Berkeley's Haas
business
Doug
$1,000 [10]
...St. Louis / The ragtime king, I can prove this / Wrote "Maple Leaf Rag" / With hardly a snag / Now say his name, c'mon, do this!
Scott Joplin
Doug

Double Jeopardy! Round

NAVAL HISTORY VOCABULARY A CINDERELLA STORY ITALIAN AUTHORS COMING OUT OF YOUR SHELL SCIENCE
$400 [10]
Launched in 1959, the USS Long Beach was the world's first surface warship powered by this
nuclear power
Doug
$400 [15]
It's the structure over the entrance of a theater advertising the upcoming show & its performers
a marquee
Denise
$400 [29]
In the version compiled by these brothers in the 1800s, bird friends of Cinderella blind her 2 evil stepsisters
Grimm
Denise
$400 [28]
"Divino Poeta" was a title given to this 14th century Italian writer
Dante
Jennifer
$400 [22]
In 2010 a 718-carat one of these was found inside an abalone shell
a pearl
Doug
$800 [7]
It's the splitting of the nucleus of an atom into 2 or more nuclei
fission
Jennifer Denise
$800 [11]
Congress presentedhima gold medal in 1787 for his naval leadership during the American Revolution
John Paul Jones
Jennifer
$800 [20]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates using a long pole.) I'm holding a pole that's 7'9" to illustrate the distance between Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert's outstretched fingertips, also known by this bird term
wingspan
Jennifer
$800 [17]
In the 1998 film "Ever After", Dougray Scott plays this key role in the tale
the Prince
Denise
$800 [27]
Giovanni Verga turned his own story "Cavalleria rusticana" into a play & it was famously turned into this in 1890
an opera
Jennifer
$800 [26]
Super-hard shell paste is one product from this protective brand for your car
Turtle Wax
Doug Denise
$1,200 [3]
As adults, some of these bloodsucking arthropods believed to cause Lyme disease & Q fever can go over a year without feeding
ticks
Denise
$1,200 [12]
Code name Husky, a massive Allied amphibious landing operation was launched on July 10, 1943 against this Mediterranean island
Sicily
Jennifer
$1,200 [19]
The Latin for "fruit" gives us this term for the knob on the hilt of a sword or the front part of a saddle
pommel
Jennifer
$1,200 [8]
Stephen Sondheim wove the story into the wider action of this fairy tale musical in 1987
Into the Woods
Denise
$1,200 [5]
"It is safer to be feared than loved", opines Machiavelli in "The Prince", dedicated to this man
(Lorenzo de') Medici
Doug
$1,200 [25]
These 2 words precede "Shell" in the name of the European parent company of Shell Oil
Royal Dutch
Doug
$1,600 [2]
Symbolized Hf, this element gets its name from a Latin name for Copenhagen, where it was discovered in 1923
hafnium
Doug
$1,600 [13]
After the Civil War began, this "Damn the torpedoes!" naval hero gave up his Virginia home to fight for the Union
(David) Farragut
Jennifer
$1,600 [18]
A short metal-tipped "stick" carried by military officers, or to walk with an arrogant air
swagger
Jennifer
$1,600 [9]
Known for another children's lit reboot, this author sent up Cinderella with "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister"
(Gregory) Maguire
Jennifer
DD $2,000 [4]
Chapter one of this Umberto Eco novel begins as a sphere "swayed back and forth with isochronal majesty"
Foucault's Pendulum
Denise
$1,600 [24]
This Los Angeles amphitheater's first 2 bandshells were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright's son Lloyd
the Hollywood Bowl
Doug
$2,000 [1]
Scientists have achieved science fiction-style teleportation, though only with this elementary particle of light
a photon
Doug
$2,000 [14]
One of the first clashes of modern armored warships was 1905's Battle of the Tsushima Strait during this war in Asia
Russo-Japanese War
Jennifer
$2,000 [21]
This plain-woven lightweight cotton fabric is named for an Iraqi city
muslin
$2,000 [16]
The best-known versions of the rags-to-royalty story are based on the one by this French fairy tale author in the 1600s
Charles Perrault
Jennifer
$2,000 [6]
With works like 1877's "Studies of Women", Luigi Capuana was a leader of this movement, Italian for "realism"
verismo
DD $6,000 [23]
Last name of British officer Henry, who invented a very destructive artillery shell at the beginning of the 19th century
Shrapnel
Doug

Final Jeopardy!

NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARKS

Established in 2015, the Manhattan Project National Historical Park has sites in Hanford, Washington; Los Alamos, N.M. & this Tennessee city

Oak Ridge

Doug "What is Tennesse Valley" — wagered $4,100
Denise "What is Nashville?" — wagered $6,599
Jennifer "What is Oak Ridge?" — wagered $2,500

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