Show #5966 2010-07-19 (taped 2010-03-13) Regular

John Krizel game 2.

Contestants

Susan Neuffer — an actor and census clerk from New York, New York

Michael Muller — a seventh grade history teacher originally from Springfield, Illinois

John Krizel — a green community program coordinator from Beckley, West Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $26,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
John $2,200 $6,800 $13,400 $20,801
2-day champion: $46,802
$14,400
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Michael $3,600 $3,600 $9,200 $18,205
2nd place: $2,000
$10,200
17 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Susan $400 $2,600 $10,400 $9,201
3rd place: $1,000
$9,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE QUOTABLE EINSTEIN BILLBOARD'S TOP ARTISTS ESTONIA OLD LUNCH COUNTER LINGO DOUBLE CONSONANTS HERE'S ANDERSON COOPER
$200 [7]
"Life is like riding" one of these; "to keep your balance you must keep moving"
a bicycle
Michael
$200 [1]
Billboard ranked him the No. 1 artist of the '50s, No. 2 for the '60s & No. 11 for the '70s
Elvis
Michael
$200 [13]
Sailing is a popular Estonian sport; for the 1980 Moscow Olympics, races were held off the coast in this sea
the Baltic
John
$200 [6]
If a server yells, "put out the lights & cry", someone's ordered liver & these
onions
John
$200 [19]
A soft song for a child going to sleep
a lullaby
John
$200 [24]
(Anderson Cooper reads the clue.) As a reporter, I joined numerous heads of state & as many as 2 million people in Rome in 2005 for this man's funeral
Pope John Paul II
Michael
$400 [12]
This "is more important than knowledge"
imagination
Michael
$400 [2]
They were tops for the '60s, by a fab margin
The Beatles
Susan
$400 [14]
Once ruled by Germans, Danes, Swedes & Russians, it first gained independence the year this war ended
World War I
Michael
$400 [8]
"Bossy in a bowl" is this hearty dish containing chunks of meat & vegetables
beef stew
Michael
$400 [20]
It's another name for a mongrel dog, Jeff
a mutt
Susan
$400 [25]
(Anderson Cooper reads the clue.) In 2008 I moderated a Republican debate appropriately held at the presidential library of this man whose political heir the candidates claimed to be
Ronald Reagan
Michael
$600 [18]
"I never think of" this period of time. "It comes soon enough"
the future
John Michael
$600 [3]
This flamboyant sir was the top artist of the '70s by a single point
Elton John
John
$600 [15]
In the 1550s this awful Russian invaded & devastated much of Estonia
Ivan the Terrible
John Michael
$600 [9]
"Hold the hail" means you'll get a soft drink without this
ice
Michael
$600 [21]
It's found in the sky between Scorpio & Capricorn
Sagittarius
John
$600 [26]
(Anderson Cooper reads the clue.) On election night 2008, I did my first ever interview with this type of 3D image; I was in Washington & will.i.am was beamed in from Chicago
a hologram
John
$800 [29]
This "cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding"
peace
Susan
$800 [4]
The competition was stiff but he "Beat It" to claim top artist of the '80s
Michael Jackson
Michael
$800 [16]
It's Estonia's capital & largest city
Tallinn
$800 [10]
Order a "crowd" & you'll get this many of whatever you ordered
three
John
$800 [22]
Proverbially, to perform a futile act is to do this to the deck chairs on the Titanic
rearrange
John
$800 [27]
(Anderson Cooper reads the clue.) For CNN's "Planet in Peril" series, I reported from Africa on the spread of viruses that could be the next of these, a word literally meaning a disease affecting everyone
a pandemic
John
$1,000 [30]
"As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power," this "is inevitable"
war
Michael
$1,000 [5]
The 1999 Billboard Music Awards were "One Sweet Day" for her; she was named top artist of the '90s
Mariah Carey
DD $1,000 [17]
Ethnically about 25% of Estonians are Russian; about 2% trace heritage to this 2nd-most populous ex-Soviet republic
Ukraine
Michael
$1,000 [11]
Oh, look, Little Johnny is chowing down on a "bow wow with red lead", this favorite
a hot dog with ketchup
John
$1,000 [23]
A 1992 film was titled "Dr." these small laughs
giggles
John
$1,000 [28]
(Anderson Cooper reads the clue.) In 2005 I reported on the anti-Syrian demonstrations that came to be known as the Cedar Revolution in this country
Lebanon
Susan

Double Jeopardy! Round

ART & ARTISTS PICK A PART NAME THAT ELEMENT NUMBER, PLEASE MEGA-EVENTS "STANDING" ROOM ONLY
$400 [7]
This Russian-born French painter served as art director of the Moscow Jewish State Theater from 1919 to 1922
Chagall
Susan
$400 [1]
1961:Holly Golightly
Audrey Hepburn
Susan
$400 [3]
The symbol for this nasty gas is Cl
chlorine
John
$400 [12]
Its what you get when you multiply the number of Rhode Island's senators by the number of California's
4
John
$400 [24]
The Cold War was effectively over on Nov. 9, 1989 when large jubilant crowds tore down this symbol of world division
the Berlin Wall
John
$400 [17]
Enthusiastic applause by an audience on its feet
a standing ovation
Susan
$800 [8]
In 1926 this Belgian artist produced his first surrealist work, "Le Jockey Perdu"
René Magritte
$800 [2]
2008:Harvey Milk
Sean Penn
Michael
$800 [16]
It makes up about 80% of the Earth's atmosphere
nitrogen
John Michael
$800 [13]
A soldier's "about face" involves a turn of this many degrees
180
John
$800 [25]
62,000 crowded L.A.'s Memorial Coliseum on January 15, 1967 for the first of these
Super Bowl
$800 [18]
The permanent professional infantry force of a nation
a standing army
Michael
$1,200 [9]
In 1976 this sports artist was presented with an award of merit from the American Athletic Union
LeRoy Neiman
$1,200 [4]
1984:Antonio Salieri
F. Murray Abraham
Susan
DD $1,000 [30]
Its symbol is the same 2 letters as Minnesota's postal abbreviation
manganese
John
$1,200 [14]
Number of days in Maxwell Anderson's 1948 play about Anne Boleyn
1,000
Susan
$1,200 [26]
In 1896 more than 2,000 were trampled in the stampede for free beer at the coronation of this doomed czar
Nicholas II
Susan
$1,200 [19]
A permanent legislative group in Congress that meets regularly
a standing committee
John
$1,600 [10]
His only figure portrait accepted for the salon was of his mistress Camille Doncieux, who in 1870 became his wife
Monet
Susan
$2,000 [6]
2001:Iris Murdoch (1 of the 2)
Judi Dench (or Kate Winslet)
Susan
$1,200 [23]
Alphabetically, it's right after radium
radon
Michael
$1,600 [15]
We just got a call from the authorities to evacuate, in the system known as "reverse" this
9-1-1
Michael
$1,600 [27]
Over 42 days in early 2007, an estimated 70 million gathered for the Ardh Kumbh festival in this country
India
Michael
$1,600 [20]
Performing ostentatiously in order to impress or gain attention
grandstanding
Michael
$2,000 [11]
Bertoldo di Giovanni was a student of this great Florentine sculptor & a teacher of Michelangelo
Donatello
DD $3,000 [5]
1967:Luke Jackson
Paul Newman
Susan
$1,600 [29]
This synthetic element created in 1976 was named for a Danish pioneer of quantum physics
bohrium
John Susan
$2,000 [22]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew uses an abacus.) On an abacus, beads above the bar represent units of 5; each bead below has a value of 1; only the beads touching the bar are counted, so the configurationherestands for this 3-digit number
828
John
$2,000 [28]
On Feb. 4, 2008 1 million gathered in this South American capital to protest against the FARC terrorist group & its actions
Bogotá
Michael
$2,000 [21]
When the British want you to rise, as for a judge, they say, "be" this, also referring to an honorable citizen
upstanding
John Susan

Final Jeopardy!

MEN OF PARIS

When the body of this man who died in 1870 was moved in 2002, a cloth with the motto "Un pour tous, tous pour un" was used

Alexandre Dumas

Michael "Who is Dumas" — wagered $9,005
Susan "Who was Hugo" — wagered $1,199
John "Who is Dumas" — wagered $7,401

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