Show #5996 2010-10-11 (taped 2010-08-09) Regular

Contestants

Carol Denny — a writer for a non-profit environmental foundation from Arnold, Maryland

Dylan Payne — a psychiatrist from New York, New York

Mike Hodel — a bartender from Bellingham, Washington (whose 2-day cash winnings total $20,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mike $2,800 $3,400 $20,000 $2,700
2nd place: $2,000
$13,400
19 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Dylan $2,000 $6,400 $12,000 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$12,000
18 R, 3 W
Carol $1,800 $5,000 $18,600 $13,199
New champion: $13,199
$16,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

STATES' FORMER CAPITALS NBA HALL OF FAMERS SECRET MENUS DIED ON THE SAME DAY LET'S CALL TRIPLE "A" STRING THEORY 101
$200 [26]
New Haven
Connecticut
Mike
$200 [1]
He won an NBA title ring in 1973 as a reserve forward with the Knicks & coached the Bulls to 6 titles in the '90s
Phil Jackson
Dylan
$200 [11]
A move to healthy eating got the Pizza Sub nixed from this chain, but we hear if you ask nicely some stores will make it
Subway
Mike
$200 [21]
C.S. Lewis & Aldous Huxley's deaths on Nov. 22, 1963 were overshadowed by this man's death in Dallas
John Kennedy
Dylan
$200 [5]
From the Italian for "bad air", this disease kills more than one million people each year
malaria
Carol
$200 [16]
String puppets are often called these, after a certain virgin
marionettes
Dylan
$400 [27]
Knoxville
Tennessee
Dylan
$400 [2]
In 2000 this former Celtics player coached the Indiana Pacers to the NBA Finals
Larry Bird
Mike
$400 [12]
Wendy's will make you a grand slam burger with this many patties, but don't tell everyone
four
Carol
$400 [22]
Just hours before Michael Jackson's death, Hollywood lost this TV "Angel"
Farrah Fawcett
Mike
$400 [6]
In 1775 this island in San Francisco Bay was called "Island of the Pelicans"
Alcatraz
Carol
$400 [17]
If you're emotionally dependent on mom, you're "tied to" these "strings"
apron strings
Dylan
$600 [28]
Wheeling
West Virginia
Carol
$600 [3]
Abe Saperstein is in the Hall of Fame, as is this team he promoted & coached for decades
The Harlem Globetrotters
$600 [13]
Have it your way at this chain & order a Mustard Whopper, which substitutes the yellow stuff for mayo
Burger King
Mike
$600 [23]
On April 25, 1995 first "Jeopardy!" host Art Fleming passed away & the dance was over for this partner of Fred
Ginger Rogers
Dylan
$600 [7]
God requires adult Muslims to fast during this month so they may cultivate piety
Ramadan
Mike
$600 [18]
A 1942 big band hit was entitled "String Of" these
"String Of Pearls"
Carol
$800 [29]
Huntsville
Alabama
Dylan
$800 [4]
As a rookie in the 1980 NBA finals, this Michigan State alum played all 5 positions & scored 42 points in the final game
Magic Johnson
Carol
$800 [14]
Fatburger offers a "Hypocrite Burger" featuring this type of patty with slabs of bacon
veggie patty
Mike Dylan
$800 [24]
This famed aviator outlived his brother by 35 years, passing away in 1948 on the same day Gandhi was assassinated
Orville Wright
DD $800 [8]
The university environment
academia
Mike
$800 [19]
In the U.S. string cheese is usually a type of this cheese
mozzarella
Dylan
$1,000 [30]
Guthrie
Oklahoma
$1,000 [10]
This Nigeria-born Rockets player holds the NBA record for career blocked shots with 3,830
Hakeem Olajuwon
Dylan
$1,000 [15]
Ask this chain that's inspired by a fictional pirate for a "side of crumbs", & you'll get some fried batter bits
Long John Silver's
Dylan
$1,000 [25]
Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni died in 2007 at age 94 on the same day as this 89-year-old Swedish director
Ingmar Bergman
Carol
$1,000 [9]
San Diego County is estimated to have a million acres of this Spanish-named dense shrub growth
chaparral
Mike
$1,000 [20]
Aglets are found on the ends of these strings
shoelaces
Carol

Double Jeopardy! Round

LIBRARIES THE HOUND OF MUSIC PLAY ADJECTIVES JERSEY GIRLS RUSSIAN STRING THEORY 201
$400 [17]
In 1889 this philanthropist funded his first U.S. library in Braddock, Penn., home to one of his steel mills
Carnegie
Mike
$400 [12]
Songwriter Scott English started an urban myth when he jokingly said this 1975 Barry Manilow No. 1 hit was about a dog
"Mandy"
Dylan Carol
$400 [6]
David Yazbek & Jeffrey Lane's musical "____ ____ Scoundrels"
Dirty Rotten
Mike
$400 [1]
Doing laundry in the sink, this "Jersey Shore" girl aka Nicole Polizzi said, "I feel like a pilgrim from the friggin' '20s"
Snooki
Dylan
$400 [2]
A shapka is this: mikhavaya shapka is a fur one, to keep your ears warm
a hat
Mike
$400 [23]
String theory attempts to merge quantum mechanics with Einstein's general theory of this
relativity
Mike
$1,200 [19]
This Ivy League school's Nassau Hall once served as its library; today, books are housed in the Firestone library
Princeton
Mike
$800 [13]
It's the breed of long-eared hound dog a tuxedo-clad Elvis is serenading here
basset
Mike
$800 [7]
Tennessee Williams' "____ Bird of Youth"
Sweet Bird of Youth
Carol
$800 [22]
This Algonquin wit was born in West End, N.J. in 1893 & was a drama critic for Vanity Fair by 1917
Dorothy Parker
Carol
$800 [3]
"Idyot snyek" means this is happening, a common weather condition in January
snowing
Mike
$800 [24]
In certain string theories, you can get up to 26 of these; we're used to dealing with 4 of them, of which length is one
dimensions
Carol
$1,600 [20]
This Maryland community is home to the National Library of Medicine & the National Naval Medical Center
Bethesda
Mike Dylan
$1,200 [14]
Paul Anka & Donny Osmond both had hits with this tune that sounds like it's about a young dog's affection
"Puppy Love"
Mike Dylan
$1,200 [8]
Mark Medoff's "Children of a ____ God"
Lesser
Dylan
$1,200 [28]
Jersey City-born, this "Living Omnimedia" lifestyle maven was raised in Nutley, & that's a good thing
Martha Stewart
Dylan
$1,200 [4]
Blinaya means this, the "hop" in IHOP
house of pancakes
Dylan
$1,200 [25]
A successful string theory would describe nature's 4 forces: weak, strong, electromagnetism & this one
gravity
Dylan
$2,000 [21]
Among this San Marino, California library's exhibits are a 15th century manuscript of "The Canterbury Tales" & a Gutenberg Bible
the Huntington Library
Mike
$1,600 [15]
Title question posed by Patti Page in a 1953 smash
"How Much Is That Doggie In The Window?"
$1,600 [10]
Noel Coward 's "____ Spirit"
Blithe Spirit
Carol
$1,600 [29]
This "Fudge"-tastic children's author was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey
Judy Blume
Carol
$1,600 [5]
To get around underground, the letter seenherestands for this word
metro
Carol
$1,600 [26]
String theory is part of this "P" branch of physics that studies eensy little items
particle
Dylan
DD $7,400 [18]
Raffaele Farina, known as Bibliothecarius XLVI, is its head librarian
the Vatican
Mike
$2,000 [16]
Three word slogan that accompanied the RCA Victor advertisement seen here
His Master's Voice
Dylan
$2,000 [11]
Howard Sackler's "The ____ ____ Hope"
The Great White Hope
Carol
DD $4,000 [30]
Governor of New Jersey form 1994 to 2001, she appointed the state's first female Attorney General
Christine Whitman
Carol
$2,000 [9]
Russian word for a home like Novo-Ogarevo, Vladimir Putin's forest retreat near Moscow
a dacha
Carol
$2,000 [27]
Bosonic string theory has only bosons & none of these particles named for physicist Enrico
fermions
Carol

Final Jeopardy!

PRISONS

Nazi Rudolf Hess in 1941 & the notorious Kray twins in 1952 were among the last people briefly held here

the Tower of London

Dylan "What is Alcatraz?" — wagered $12,000
Carol "What is Nuremburg?" — wagered $5,401
Mike "What is Alcatraz?" — wagered $17,300

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