Show #5579 2008-12-04 (taped 2008-10-14) Regular

Ben Bishop game 3.Ask Alex #6: Memory.

Contestants

Michele Frankl — a volunteer from Hendersonville, North Carolina

Ian Gould — an actor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Ben Bishop — a student originally from Seattle, Washington (whose 2-day cash winnings total $48,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ben $2,800 $6,400 $20,400 $40,800
3-day champion: $88,800
$20,200
23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Ian $3,600 $6,400 $2,400 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$6,400
16 R, 7 W (including 1 DD)
Michele $1,600 $4,000 $16,800 $12,300
2nd place: $2,000
$16,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS THE "GLASS" MENAGERIE STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE STELLAR!
$200 [6]
In Tennessee Williams' play, streetcars named Desire & Cemetery run on a single track in this southern city
New Orleans
Ben
$200 [11]
Go figure--sand usually flows through this shapely instrument for measuring time
an hourglass
Michele
$200 [26]
Rent a streetcar for your birthday party at the Shore Line Trolley Museum in this state's East Haven
Connecticut
Ian
$200 [21]
He honored his grandfather as he & Angelina Jolie named their boy twin Knox
Brad Pitt
Ben Ian
$200 [16]
I'd like a 1970 magnum of this champagne named for a 17th c. monk, please. $892?! I'd like a soda
Dom Perignon
Michele
$200 [1]
If a star larger than 3 solar masses completely burns its nuclear fuel, theory says it'll collapse into this
a black hole
Ben
$400 [7]
In "The Glass Menagerie", Jim accidentally breaks the horn off this animal, the prize of Laura's collection
a unicorn
Michele
$400 [12]
The 12th & 13th c. Notre Dame de la Belle Verriere in the Chartres Cathedral is a fine example of this
stained glass
Ian Michele
$400 [27]
Rio de Janeiro's streetcars were once pulled by these animals, called asnos or burros
donkeys
Michele
$400 [22]
This English rocker rhymingly named his son Zowie (he's now Joey)
David Bowie
Ian
$400 [17]
Winning $276 million in this 29-state lottery like 8 West Virginians did in 2008 wouldn't be so bad
Powerball
Ian
$400 [2]
This constellation represents a youth pouring water from a jar
Aquarius
Ian
$600 [8]
The Pollitt Plantation in Mississippi is the setting of this Williams work
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Michele
$600 [13]
Aka spun glass, this is used in insulation & boat hulls
fiberglass
Ben
$600 [28]
Beginning service in 1832, this city's first streetcar ran along Bowery Street
New York
Ben
$600 [23]
Moxie Crimefighter is the daughter of this taller half of a magical duo
Penn
Ian
$600 [18]
I wish I had a few "A" shares of this stock, BRK-A; in September 2008 they were going for $131,000 a pop
Berkshire Hathaway
Ben
$600 [3]
Sagittarius is the archer & Sagitta is, appropriately, one of these with its brightest star at the point
an arrow
Ben
$800 [9]
1950 Williams play in which a truck driver has the title body art on his chest
The Rose Tattoo
Ian
$800 [14]
From looking atP.P.G. Placein Pittsburgh, you won't be surprised that the "P.G." stands for this material
plate glass
Ben Ian
$800 [29]
The first complete electric streetcar system was installed in this former Confederate capital in 1888
Richmond, Virginia
Ben
$800 [24]
Lark Song Previn is one of this actress' 14 children
Mia Farrow
Michele
$800 [19]
I want my kids to get scholarships to this California school near Palo Alto, as undergrad tuition is $36,030 a year
Stanford
Ben
DD $1,000 [4]
Although Castor in Gemini is designated Alpha Geminorum, this star, Beta Geminorum, is actually brighter
Pollux
Ben
$1,000 [10]
A defrocked priest is one of the characters at a seedy Mexican hotel in this 1961 play
Night of the Iguana
Ian
$1,000 [15]
One of his best-known compositions is the score for the 1982 film "Koyaanisqatsi"
Philip Glass
Ian
$1,000 [30]
This passionate Pasternak protagonist suffers a heart attack on a streetcar & dies
Dr. Zhivago
Ian
$1,000 [25]
Rachel Griffiths' son Banjo is named for the man who wrote this song of her native Australia
"Waltzing Matilda"
Ben
$1,000 [20]
Gimme gimme gimme one of these items from China; an underglaze copper-red one sold for $10 million in 2006
a Ming vase
Michele
$1,000 [5]
The veil one of these in Cygnus is the remnant of a star that may have exploded 50,000 years ago
a nebula
Ben

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT ROME OLYMPIC HEROES ON YOUR NERVES CAKE DECORATING YOU GO, GIRL! CATCH THE "FLU"
$400 [9]
In the first Punic War, Rome conquered this island to the south, making it the first Roman province
Sicily
Ben
$400 [4]
In 2004 Ryoko Tani's inside leg technique brought her a second straight gold in this martial art
judo
Ben
$400 [12]
The median nerve in your arm controls your pollex, better known as this digit
your thumb
Ben Ian
$400 [24]
Marzipan, used to cover or decorate cakes, is a paste made from this nut
almonds
Ian
$400 [1]
After the death of Peter the Great, this former consort took up the job of empress & wasn't great
Catherine
Michele
$400 [14]
Financially well off
affluent
Michele
$800 [10]
A quarter of a million people crowded into this largest hippodrome to watch the chariot races
the Circus Maximus
Ben Ian
$800 [5]
This decathlete from Mount Kisco, N.Y. lit up Montreal's Olympic Stadium at the 1976 games
(Bruce) Jenner
Ben
$800 [13]
The vagus nerve, from the Latin for "wandering", is the longest of these 12 sets of nerves arising in the brainstem
cranial nerves
Ian
$800 [25]
To make edible flowers & ribbons, sugar can be pulled, spun or this, as in making glass
blown
Michele
$800 [2]
Fined $100 for voting in an 1873 Rochester election, she said, "I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty"
Susan B. Anthony
Ian
$800 [17]
The power to affect persons or events
influence
Ben
$1,200 [11]
The Curia was the meeting place of this most powerful political body in the Republic
the Senate
Ian
$1,200 [6]
This Pittsburgh Penguins great was the captain of Canada's 2002 gold-medal hockey team
(Mario) Lemieux
Ben
$1,200 [23]
When you're talking about the C8 spinal nerves, the C stands for this
cervical
Michele
$1,200 [26]
Good modeling chocolate has a high content of this fatty solid that comes from the seeds of the bean
cocoa butter
Ian
$1,200 [3]
This witty woman who helped found the Screen Writers Guild left her estate to Martin Luther King Jr.
(Dorothy) Parker
Ben
$1,200 [18]
A series of decorative grooves on an architectural column
flutes (fluting)
Michele
$1,600 [21]
He was the first Roman emperor, & his 40-year reign marked the beginning of the Pax Romana
Augustus
Ian Michele
$1,600 [7]
In both '84 & '88, Greg Louganis doubled up in diving, winning gold in platform & this
springboard
Michele
$2,000 [30]
This cluster of nerves behind the stomach controls vital functions; a punch that penetrates there slows you down
the solar plexus
Michele
$1,600 [27]
This decorative flourish on a cake shares its name with the ornamental band on upholstery
piping
DD $2,000 [15]
After hearing a song by this poetess, the Athenian ruler Solon wanted to "learn it and die"
Sappho
Michele
$1,600 [19]
Noisemaker seen here
a flugelhorn
Michele
$2,000 [22]
In 330 A.D. the capital of the Roman Empire moved from Rome to this city much farther east
Byzantium
Ben
$2,000 [8]
On a sweltering July 10, 1924 this Finn set Olympic records in the 1,500 & 5,000 meters
(Paavo) Nurmi
Ben
DD $4,000 [29]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.) Neurons receive impulses with these structures that branch out, giving them this name from the Greek for tree
dendrites
Ian
$2,000 [28]
French for "melting", this pliable sugar mixture is rolled & used as an icing to cover cakes of any shape & size
fondant
Ian
$2,000 [16]
Female name given to the fossil found by Donald Johanson in Hadar, Ethiopia in 1974
Lucy
Ben Ian
$2,000 [20]
Adjective meaning serving no purpose, or more than is required
superfluous
Ben

Final Jeopardy!

COUNTRY NAMES

Some people in this Asian country named for a European king now want to call it by an indigenous name, Maharlika

the Philippines

Ian "What is Burma" — wagered $2,400
Michele "What is [something that looks like a crossed-out V]?" — wagered $4,500
Ben "What is Phillipines" — wagered $20,400

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