Show #6648 - Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Ben Ingram game 8.

Contestants

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Beth Morgan, a marketing consultant from Palo Alto, California

Stacie Larson, a public librarian from Orlando, Florida

Ben Ingram, an IT consultant originally from Florence, South Carolina (whose 7-day cash winnings total $157,733)

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Jeopardy! Round

2013 POSTAGE STAMPS
(Alex: Fairly current.)
FLANDERS
LADIES IN DIS-TRESS
CROSSWORD CLUES "L"
(Alex: Each correct response beginning with that letter.)
NONFICTION
PARTS OF THE WHOLE
    $200 15
The "Yes, I Do" stamp in the series celebrating this life event is perfect for invitations
    $200 3
Present-day Flanders is basically the northern half of this country
    $200 16
Persis Khambatta was follicly challenged Lt. Ilia in this sci-fi franchise's first film
    $200 4
Sleepyheads' song
(7)
    $200 21
"Going Clear" is subtitled this religion, "Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief"
    $200 10
Bait pedal,
locking bar,
spring
    $400 24
An express mail stamp honors this train station that opened on February 2, 1913
    $400 6
These flowers growing on a WWI battlefield inspired their mention in the poem "In Flanders Fields"
    $400 17
She's back! This surviving member of the Nostromo must once again face off against aliens, this time without her hair
    $400 5
Rent collector
(8)
    $400 22
In her memoir "My Beloved World", this Supreme Court justice recalls growing up in a Bronx housing project
    $400 11
Cow catcher,
smokestack,
coupler
    $600 25
A spicebush swallowtail, one of these, graces a big stamp for use on large greeting card envelopes
    $600 1
Students from around the world come to Mechelen to learn to play these at carillon school
    $600 18
The shadowy totalitarian regime isn't responsible for this actress losing her hair in "V for Vendetta"--her friend "V" is
    $600 8
Acrobat's garb
(7)
    $600 23
"War Admiral" & "All Four of His Legs Are Broken" are chapters in this book by Laura Hillenbrand
    $600 12
Idea balloon,
panel,
signature
    $800 28
A commemorative stamp celebrating this 1863 document reads, "henceforward shall be free"
    DD: $1,000 2
Great painters from Flanders include this man, whose work is seen here
    $800 19
In 1955's "The Virgin Queen", this actress didn't lose her head but lost a lot off the top in the title role
    $800 9
RMN presidential predecessor
(3)
    $800 26
Time called this handbook by Strunk & White one of the 100 best & most influential books written in English since 1923
    $800 13
Hammers,
una corda pedal,
music desk
    $1000 30
A series featuring classic muscle cars included the GT500 Mustang designed by this man
    $1000 7
The year 1280 saw rioting in this industry of which Flanders was Europe's center
    $1000 20
This actress' character in "My Sister's Keeper" shaves her head in sympathy for her cancer-stricken child
    $1000 29
Sliced & packaged turkey, salami or pastrami
(9)
    $1000 27
This pastor has written the inspirational books "Become a Better You" and "Your Best Life Begins Each Morning"
    $1000 14
Prince of Wales handle,
runner,
rib

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Ben Stacie Beth
$4,400 $1,000 $1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ben Stacie Beth
$6,400 $3,000 $4,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

CITY PARKS
SUPERHERO ALTER EGOS
THIS & THAT
IT'S EXTINCT!
OCCUPATIONAL VERBS
"R" IS FOR RELIGION
    $400 28
New York City's Ralph Bunche Park is just across the street from the HQ of this organization that Bunche helped plan
    $400 15
Dr. Bruce Banner
    $400 25
The Union Jack superimposes the crosses of St. George, St. Andrew & this patron saint of Ireland
    $400 9
The 200-pound Kenai Peninsula subspecies of this canine predator didn't survive the 20th century
    $400 1
To sip a drink slowly, making it last longer
    $400 6
In Tibetan Buddhism the dead are believed to spend up to 49 days in bardo before this happens
    $800 29
A 1905 statue in Portland, Oregon's Washington Park was the USA's first of this Shoshone woman
    $800 27
It's all over the map--dotted Swiss is a type of this cotton fabric named for Mosul, Iraq
    $800 22
Solomon knows Gazella bilkis, or this biblical queen's gazelle, was declared extinct in 2003
    $800 2
To alter something in a tricky way; it may be done to a baseball or to a photo
    $800 7
Early Protestants rejected the cult of the saints & the veneration of these objects associated with them
    $1200 3
This 4,210-acre Los Angeles park features an observatory
    $1200 16
Oliver Queen
    $1200 5
This Poughkeepsie college was founded in 1861, but the Civil War delayed its opening until 1865
    $1200 23
A type of sea cow discovered by members of this Dane's expedition in 1741 was extinct just 27 years later
    $1200 13
TV cops get frustrated when a suspect in custody does this 2-word slang phrase meaning "get an attorney"
    $1200 10
This branch is also called liberal or progressive Judaism
    DD: $4,000 4
You can see the 1905 Wright Flyer III in a park in this Ohio city
    $1600 17
Barbara Gordon
    $1600 8
A traditional token of love, this Irish ring depicts 2 hands clasping a crowned heart
    DD: $2,000 24
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a fossil on the monitor.) From the shape of the protrusions on its molars, this prehistoric mammal had a name meaning "breast tooth"
    $1600 14
To steer, as a captain may steer a ship through rough waters
    $1600 11
The name of this anticipated event is derived from a word in the Latin Bible meaning "we will be caught up"
    $2000 19
This Chicago park's conservatory features 4 greenhouses, including the Orchid House with over 20,000 orchids
    $2000 18
Ben Grimm
    $2000 12
In 1887 she got herself committed to an insane asylum to write an expose for the New York World
    $2000 26
The last of this bird in the wild was said to have been shot in Ohio on March 24, 1900; one in captivity made it to 1914
    $2000 20
As a noun it means a clergyman; as a verb it's to attend to another's needs
    $2000 21
This Veda is the oldest & most important text of Vedic Hinduism

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ben Stacie Beth
$14,000 $5,000 $9,400

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Final Jeopardy! Round

AUTHORS
He quit pursuing a Ph.D. in 1926 to pursue drawing, but you might say he gave himself the degree anyway

Final scores:

Ben Stacie Beth
$18,801 $9,250 $18,799
8-day champion: $176,534 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Ben Stacie Beth
$13,400 $5,000 $9,400
20 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 12 R,
4 W		 14 R,
0 W

Combined Coryat: $27,800

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Game tape date: 2013-03-28
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