Show #5986 2010-09-27 (taped 2010-08-03) Regular

Kara Spak game 3.

Contestants

Robert Villarreal — an online music teacher from Pepper Pike, Ohio

Beth Eckerd — a psychology professor from McKinleyville, California

Kara Spak — a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $39,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kara $5,400 $6,600 $7,000 $13,601
3-day champion: $52,802
$9,800
22 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Beth $2,600 $3,200 $6,800 $12,401
2nd place: $2,000
$6,800
8 R, 0 W
Robert $800 $3,000 $6,200 $6,200
3rd place: $1,000
$8,200
13 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

SCULPTORS RECENT MOVIES GOOD OLD SOUTHERN EATS U.S. BODIES OF WATER "B" IN FASHION WORDS FROM THE PERSIAN
$200 [26]
Dustin Shuler was best known for "Spindle", in which he impaled 8 of these on a giant spike--literally a pile-up
cars
Kara
$200 [12]
He's the title hero seen here in a 2010 sequel doing exactly what you would do if you had the opportunity
Iron Man
Kara
$200 [9]
Vegetables that fall under this colorful generic term are mustard, spinach & turnip
greens
Kara
$200 [6]
Give yourself a hand if you know that this group of New York lakes includes Otisco, Owasco & Cayuga
the Finger Lakes
Kara
$200 [1]
One of these may be cinch, money or tooled leather
a belt
Kara
$200 [22]
This general term for confections loved by children is from the word meaning sugar
candy
Robert
$400 [27]
This Cubist's sheet metal & wire "Guitar" from 1912-13 was made to hang on a wall like a painting
Picasso
Robert
$400 [11]
Leonardo DiCaprio was just dreamy as a master of psychic espionage in this flick
Inception
Kara
$400 [15]
You can be certain that if you go to a catfish joint, they'll also have these cornmeal fried dough balls
hush puppies
Kara
$400 [14]
The French name of this chief river of Nebraska refers to its shallowness
the Platte
Kara
$400 [2]
For many women their wardrobe includes a black one of these jackets as well as a double breasted navy one
a blazer
Kara
$400 [21]
It's a piece of cloth worn by women & draped about the head & shoulders
a shawl
Robert
$600 [28]
Sculpted for Julius II's tomb, his "Dying Slave" & "Rebellious Slave" figures are now in the Louvre
Michelangelo
$600 [10]
This title spy's first name was Edwin when Tom Cruise had the role originally; a casting change made it Evelyn
Salt
Kara
$600 [16]
A popular recipe for this pie was created by the wife of a sales executive at Karo syrup
pecan pie
Beth
$600 [25]
The Willamette river of Oregon flows northward for about 190 miles before emptying into this river
the Columbia
Beth
$600 [3]
In the '50s trendy teen girls dressed up in poodle skirts, saddle shoes & this hosiery
bobby socks
Kara
$600 [20]
It's a marketplace or shopping quarter, especially one in the Middle East
a bazaar
Robert
$800 [29]
A 22-year-old Belgian soldier was the model for this French sculptor's 1877 work "The Age of Bronze"
Rodin
Robert
$800 [8]
Can we talk? A documentary covered a year in the life of this red carpet comedienne: "A Piece of Work"
Joan Rivers
Robert
$800 [17]
A Virginia law said this type of ham had to be cured for 180 days
Smithfield ham
Kara Robert
$1,000 [23]
Named for the Southern poet, Lake Sidney Lanier is a popular manmade lake in this state
Georgia
$800 [4]
It's the French name for a tam
beret
Kara
$800 [18]
A group traveling together, it's also the name of a Dodge minivan
a caravan
Kara
$1,000 [30]
In the 1920s this mobile sculptor worked as an illustrator for the National Police Gazette
(Alexander) Calder
Robert
$1,000 [7]
As Aldous Snow, Russell Brand sang & taught us all in this 2010 pic: "When the world slips you a Jeffrey, stroke the furry wall"
Get Him to the Greek
Kara
$1,000 [13]
A favorite is fritters made from this West African pod vegetable
okra
Beth
DD $2,000 [24]
This southern bay on the Atlantic coast is part of the largest marine park in the national park system
Biscayne Bay
Robert
$1,000 [5]
This children's shoe brand dates back to a comic strip character with a dog named Tige & sister named Mary Jane
Buster Brown
Beth
$1,000 [19]
It's a shrub with fragrant flowers & the name of the Disney princess in "Aladdin"
jasmine
Kara

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE NP FOR L DAFFYNITIONS -OLOGIES WHAT'S IN STORE? PUT UP YOUR DUKES FIGHT LIKE A MAN
$400 [2]
In 1923:W.B.Y., for his "always inspired poetry"
(William Butler) Yeats
Kara
$400 [15]
An adjective meaning greedy, or what the owner of a Long John Silver's does
selfish/sell fish
Kara
$400 [13]
Speleology is the study of flora & fauna in these places
caves
Robert
$400 [7]
Select Stop & Shops have handheld these, so you can check prices as you go
scanners
Kara
$400 [12]
2 days after he abdicated the throne, Edward VIII was given this new title
Duke of Windsor
Beth
$400 [1]
This "sweet" fighter held the world welterweight title from 1946 to 1951
Sugar Ray Robinson
Kara Beth
$800 [3]
In 1929:T.M., "principally for his great novel 'Buddenbrooks"'
Thomas Mann
$800 [16]
Animals that feed on others, or what you'll see from the top of the Eiffel Tower
a parasite/Paris sight
Robert
$800 [14]
Dendrochronology tries to reconstruct past climates using information stored in these living things
trees
Kara
$800 [8]
Erma Bombeck said in a book title that all she knew about animal behavior, she learned in these rooms at Loehmann's
dressing rooms
Kara
DD $400 [26]
On the death of his father, Robert I, William the Conqueror inherited this title, as well as the region
the Duke of Normandy
Kara
$800 [24]
Boxing's "Golden Boy", he now promotes a stable of fighters under his Golden Boy Promotions
Oscar De La Hoya
$1,600 [5]
1946:H.H. from Switzerland, for his "inspired writings"
(Hermann) Hesse
Robert
$1,200 [17]
Adjective meaning heightened emotionally, or where campers sleep in the woods
intense/in tents
Robert
$1,200 [20]
If you want to study cytology, you'd better have a love of these microscopic things
cells
Beth
$1,200 [9]
Bookstores put some products face-out; these sell more than the ones placing this body part-out
the spine
Robert
$800 [23]
This title currently held by Prince Andrew was first given to Edmund of Langley in 1385
the Duke of York
Kara
$1,200 [25]
Nicknamed "Hit Man", he held titles in 4 different weight divisions with 46 KOs in his 60-win career
Thomas "The Hit Man" Hearns
DD $2,000 [4]
In 1907:R.K. from the U.K.
Rudyard Kipling
Kara
$1,600 [18]
An instance of the Moon passing in front of the Sun, or what a Cockney barber does for a living
eclipse/'e clips
Kara
$1,600 [21]
Roentgenology is another name for this -ology
radiology
Beth
$1,600 [10]
Target started out as a company whose name included these "goods", an old term for clothing
dry goods
Kara
$2,000 [6]
In 1913:R.T., born in India; that first name's a doozie
Rabindranath Tagore
$2,000 [19]
Adjective meaning able to be dodged, or what a matador tries to do
avoidable/avoid a bull
Kara
$2,000 [22]
Scientist Joshua Lederberg coined this word for the study of life beyond our atmosphere
exobiology
$2,000 [11]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from a table with some packaged items.) This type of packaging with a marine name is purposely made impenetrable, so that a thief can't open it in a store & slip out the merchandise--it really works
clamshell coverings
Robert

Final Jeopardy!

NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES

Built between 1940 & 1942, Moton Field in Alabama has a national historic site honoring men belonging to this famed group

the Tuskegee Airmen

Robert "Who is the Crimson Tide?" — wagered $0
Beth "Who are the Tukegee Airmen" — wagered $5,601
Kara "Who are the Tuskegeeairmanairmen?" — wagered $6,601

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