Show #5616 2009-01-26 (taped 2008-11-18) Regular

Matt Kohlstedt game 6.

Contestants

Melinda Hautala — an arts administrator from Lexington, Kentucky

Keith Costigan — a teacher from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania

Matt Kohlstedt — a graduate student originally from La Grange, Illinois (whose 5-day cash winnings total $77,803)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Matt $1,200 $2,800 $6,800 $9,201
2nd place: $2,000
$6,800
20 R, 6 W
Keith $4,600 $5,600 $14,400 $14,800
New champion: $14,800
$14,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Melinda $2,600 $7,000 $4,600 $9,199
3rd place: $1,000
$6,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC AMERICA NOT SO LIL' WAYNES IT'S A GROUP THING THE RED, WHITE & BREW "EE" FICTION SCIENCE
$200 [6]
The reconstructed birthplace of this pres., known as "Teedie" when he lived there, is on E. 20th St. in NYC
Teddy Roosevelt
Matt
$200 [1]
He's the NHL's all-time leader in goals with 894; No. 2 checks in with 801
Wayne Gretzky
Melinda
$200 [16]
It's okay to use this 4-letter word for a group of people or relatives, even if they aren't Scottish
a clan
Keith
$200 [26]
This beer company was started in 1984 by Jim Koch, not the patriot-brewer of the Revolutionary War
Sam Adams
Matt
$200 [11]
There are 360 in a circle
degrees
Matt
$200 [21]
2-word literary term for when a character gets his just deserts in an especially appropriate way
poetic justice
$400 [7]
A fine collection of Haida & Tlingit totem poles was toted to Sitka National Historic Park in this state
Alaska
Keith
$400 [2]
In 2003 he won an Emmy for his work on "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"
Wayne Brady
Matt
$400 [17]
That's right, good buddy--it's a group of ships or vehicles traveling together with a protective escort
a convoy
Keith
$400 [27]
This beer company was one of the first to use pasteurization & the first to make Lite beer
Miller
Matt Keith Melinda
$400 [12]
Your professional life, hopefully a distinguished one
career
Matt
$400 [22]
Chekhov said a story shouldn't include unnecessary stuff--if one of these appears, it better go off
a gun
Matt Melinda
$600 [8]
Make a "pilgrim"age to this New England town to visit the 1627 English village re-created there
Plymouth
Matt Melinda
$600 [3]
He billed himself as Duke Morrison for the 1929 film "Words and Music"
John Wayne
Matt
$600 [18]
This term for a small group of musicians like a jazz band sounds like a fast food meal
a combo
Matt
$600 [28]
During prohibition this Golden, Colorado company switched to selling malted milk
Coors
Melinda
$600 [13]
A Cretan or a Spartan
a Greek
Keith
$600 [23]
It's the fancy Frenchified name for the resolution of a story's plot following the climax
the denouement
Matt
$800 [9]
(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Governor's Palace in Williamsburg, VA.) Residents of Williamsburg's lavish Governor's Palace included this famous orator, the first governor of Virginia after independence
Patrick Henry
Keith
$800 [4]
As Wayne Campbell, this actor said, "Garth, marriage is punishment for shoplifting in some countries"
Mike Myers
Melinda
$800 [19]
Like the legislature of Great Britain, a group of owls is called this
a parliament
Melinda
DD $1,000 [29]
Adolphus sold brewing supplies & Eberhard was his best customer; their last names became this beer company's name
Anheuser-Busch
Melinda
$800 [14]
Type of birth where the baby's feet come out first
breech
Keith
$800 [24]
When the audience knows something that one of the characters doesn't, it's dramatic this, isn't it?
irony
$1,000 [10]
Splendors of the Gilded Age adorn the Lightner Museum, once a Gilded Age hotel in this oldest Florida city
St. Augustine
Keith
$1,000 [5]
This author of self-help books like "Change Your Thoughts--Change Your Life" is a regular guest of Ellen DeGeneres
Wayne Dyer
Melinda
$1,000 [20]
It's the 12-letter word for an assembly of people who worship together at a temple or church
a congregation
Melinda
$1,000 [30]
Produced in California & made without ice, steam beer has become a trademark of this San Francisco brewery
Anchor
Matt
$1,000 [15]
Winnie-the-Pooh's buddy with a gloomy view of life
Eeyore
Keith
$1,000 [25]
It was Hitchcock's term for a plot element (like stolen microfilm) whose sole purpose is to advance the story
a MacGuffin
Melinda

Double Jeopardy! Round

OPERA WOMEN SPECIAL OPS MOVIES THE CALL OF THE ROMAN UMPIRE MIDDLE NAMES WORDS FROM PLACES FICTION SCIENCE
$400 [26]
This title character is actually the daughter of King Amonasro of Ethiopia
Aida
Melinda
$400 [6]
The hijackers in "The Delta Force" didn't reckon with this man as Major McCoy--Mike Huckabee could have warned them
Chuck Norris
Matt
$400 [1]
Securus
safe
Matt
$400 [11]
Scotland's largest city, it was also the middle name of Admiral David Farragut
Glasgow
Matt
$400 [16]
The name of this Saudi Arabian city has come to mean any place to which people of a common interest are drawn
Mecca
Matt
$400 [21]
In 1989 Fleischmann & Pons claimed they'd found a "cold" way to start this process--nope
cold fusion
Keith
$800 [27]
Donizetti's this woman "di Lammermoor" was based on Walter Scott's "The Bride of Lammermoor"
Lucia
$800 [7]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Navy Amphibious Base in Coronado, CA.) The SEALs remain all male, despite this movie in which Demi Moore makes it through SEAL training & a Libyan rescue mission
G.I. Jane
Matt
$800 [2]
Tempus
time (or time out)
Melinda
$800 [12]
Colin Powell & a slain civil rights leader share this middle name
Luther
Matt
$800 [17]
In France a woman from Utrecht or Delft is called this, like a classic sauce
hollandaise
Keith Melinda
$800 [22]
A Berkeley physicist claimed he'd discovered no. 118 of these--nope again
element
Matt
$1,200 [28]
The title of this opera refers to Minnie, keeper of the Polka Saloon in 1850 California
The Girl of the Golden West
$1,200 [8]
Army Rangers' struggles in this country are depicted in "Black Hawk Down"
Somalia
Matt
$1,600 [4]
Impedimentum
obstruction (or interference)
Matt
$1,200 [13]
Born November 27, 1957, she was given the middle name Bouvier
Caroline Kennedy
Matt
$1,200 [18]
Finishing an object with glossy black lacquer isn't called Iranning or Sudanning, but this
Japanning
Melinda
$1,200 [23]
Korea's Woo-Suk Hwang faked a 2004 breakthrough in getting these mighty medical things from cloned embryos
stem cells
$1,600 [29]
How convenient--the title character of this Puccini opera is an opera singer
Tosca
$1,600 [9]
In "Tears of the Sun", special ops tough guy Bruce Willis tries to help a physician from this organization
Doctors Without Borders or Médecins Sans Frontières
DD $2,000 [3]
Pila quarta
ball four
Melinda
$1,600 [14]
Appropriately, this vitamin C advocate had the middle initial C, which stood for Carl
Linus Pauling
Matt
$1,600 [19]
The fabric muslin gets its name from this third-largest city in Iraq
Mosul
Keith
$1,600 [24]
In 2001 Hendrik Schön claimed to have created a molecule-sized one of these semiconductors--bad Hendrik!
a transistor
Matt
$2,000 [30]
In this Verdi opera Violetta Valery is a fallen woman who has a touch of consumption
La traviata
Keith Melinda
$2,000 [10]
In "Navy SEALs" Charlie Sheen & Michael Biehn try to get these SAMs back from the wrong hands
Stingers
Matt Keith
$2,000 [5]
Extra ludum es!
"You're out of the game!" or "You're ejected!"
$2,000 [15]
Charles Lindbergh's parents could have chosen Octavian but gave him this exalted middle name
Augustus
Keith
DD $2,000 [20]
Named for where Yugoslavia used to be, it's the process of fragmenting into smaller political units
balkanization
Keith
$2,000 [25]
No one knows who planted this fossilized "man" in an English dig, setting the study of evolution back decades
Piltdown Man
Matt Keith

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY POETS

He wrote, "The mason singing... the boatman... the hatter... singing what belongs to him or her and to none else"

Walt Whitman

Melinda "Who is Walt Whitman" — wagered $4,599
Matt "Who is Whitman?" — wagered $2,401
Keith "Who is Walt Whitman" — wagered $400

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