Show #6000 2010-10-15 (taped 2010-08-09) Regular

Contestants

Liz Tracey — an insurance analyst from Lakewood, Ohio

Robert Yowell — an instructor of political science originally from Orange, California

Sara Wilkinson — a country club concierge from Athens, Georgia (whose 2-day cash winnings total $45,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sara $2,200 $5,600 $20,400 $27,700
3-day champion: $72,701
$20,400
23 R, 0 W
Robert $2,200 $3,400 $9,400 $13,400
3rd place: $1,000
$10,400
14 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Liz $1,000 $3,600 $13,800 $23,800
2nd place: $2,000
$13,600
18 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

1960s POLITICAL QUOTES CABLE CHANNELS HOW DO YOU LIKE MY DUDS? PROVINCES 4-LETTER WORDS 6,000
$200 [6]
Concerning the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, this Soviet leader said that "Human reason won. Mankind won"
Khrushchev
Robert
$200 [12]
It's what HBO stands for
Home Box Office
Sara
$200 [26]
Different types of this footwear include clogs, thongs & gladiators
sandals
Sara
$200 [11]
Shaanxi & Jiangsu
China
Liz
$200 [21]
As a verb, it can mean "to give shape to"; as a noun, it can mean "that fuzzy green stuff on the bread"
mold
Sara
$200 [1]
In a classic of American fiction, these 2 boys get a $6,000 reward each after finding money that Injun Joe hid in a cave
Huckleberry Finn & Tom Sawyer
Sara
$400 [7]
In a 1965 message to Congress, he said, "poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance"
Lyndon Johnson
Liz
$400 [13]
This cable channel gets its name from a Utah film festival
Sundance
Sara
$400 [27]
Before you saddle up, put on these riding pants: it's said that some folks git "too big for" them
britches
Robert
$400 [17]
Bataan & Quezon
the Philippines
Robert
$400 [22]
It's the comfortable-sounding name for the fuzzy item seenhereon the teapot
a cozy
Sara
$400 [2]
In Julius Caesar's time, this standard Roman military unit comprised about 6,000 men
a legion
Liz
$600 [8]
In 1968 this mayor said, "The police are not here to create disorder. The police are here to preserve disorder"
(Richard) Daley
Robert
$600 [14]
The Kids' Choice Awards is a slimy annual event on this channel
Nickelodeon
Robert
$600 [28]
In 1997, helaunched his Tommy Jeans line for men
Tommy Hilfiger
Robert
$600 [18]
Leon & Segovia
Spain
Robert
$600 [23]
This word for factual information is a Latin plural, but most English speakers treat it as singular
data
Sara
$600 [3]
In 1815 he sold his collection of more than 6,000 books to the Library of Congress for $23,950
Thomas Jefferson
Sara
$800 [9]
This Defense Sec. told reporters in 1966, "the draft is the largest educational institution in the world"
(Robert) McNamara
Robert
DD $1,000 [15]
This cable channel launched on Feb. 2, 2000--appropriately, that's 02/02
the Oxygen Channel
Robert
$800 [29]
Inspired by WWII parachutists, this 1-piece garment combines shirt & pants, usually with a very long front zipper
a jumpsuit
Liz
$800 [19]
Leinster & Munster
Ireland
Robert
$800 [24]
French for "flea", this 4-letter color is a dark brownish purple
puce
Liz
$800 [4]
In 1991 a 6,000-pound segment of this was put on display at the Reagan Library
the Berlin Wall
Sara
$1,000 [10]
This British PM from a publishing family wrote, "I had ... no idea of the strange underworld" of the Profumo affair
Harold MacMillan
$1,000 [16]
You can "Escape to Chimp Eden" on this channel
Animal Planet
Liz
$1,000 [30]
These leather shorts with a bib top, originally in a Tyrolean style, were popular for U.S. children in the late 1960s
Lederhosen
Sara
$1,000 [20]
Limpopo & Northern Cape
South Africa
$1,000 [25]
A small boat with a flat bottom: when it follows "John", it's a kind of fish
a dory
Sara
$1,000 [5]
In the 1930s the Chinese Communist First Front Army staged the 6,000-mile retreat known as this
the Long March
Robert

Double Jeopardy! Round

GREEK GODS & GODDESSES AFRO-DITTY ZOOS DE METER A POLLO "-ARES"
$400 [11]
Pluto is another name for this god, whose name is now a term for Hell
Hades
Sara
$400 [16]
One of his many South African-themed songs from 1986's "Graceland" was "Under African Skies"
Paul Simon
Liz
$400 [3]
The best-known residents at the National Zoo are Tian Tian & Mei Xiang, a pair of these
pandas
Sara
$400 [17]
The meter of Shakespeare's sonnets, it's 10 syllables, unstressed-stressed-unstressed-etc.
iambic pentameter
Sara
$400 [22]
Chicken panang & chicken satay are signature dishes from this mostly Buddhist nation
Thailand
Robert
$400 [1]
Challenges someone to a demonstration of courage
dares
Sara
$800 [12]
He invented the syrinx or shepherd's flute & had a musical contest with Apollo
Pan
Liz
$800 [27]
Yes, Dorothy, this band had a No. 1 hit in 1983 singing "I bless the rains down in Africa"
Toto
Liz
$800 [4]
A highlight of the Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland is the afternoon parade of these black & white birds
penguins
Liz
$800 [18]
Coleridge said, "God came up with a shout: our lord with the sound of a trumpet" was an ideal hexameter, this many feet
6
Robert
$800 [23]
Oy! I'm feeling verklempt; get me some chicken soup, popularly referred to as "Jewish" this cure-all
penicillin
Liz
$800 [2]
A phrase from the Old Testament mentions beating "swords into" these
plowshares
Liz
$1,200 [13]
Zeus' herald, he's the god of roads, travel & athletic contests
Hermes
Sara Liz
$1,200 [28]
Kanye West took on the issue of blood diamonds in "Diamonds From" this African country
Sierra Leone
Liz
$1,200 [8]
One of the largest metropolitan zoos in the U.S., it opened in a New York City borough in 1899
the Bronx Zoo
Sara
$1,200 [19]
An example of dactylic meter is this poet's "Forward, the light brigade! Was there a man dismayed?"
Tennyson
Robert
DD $1,200 [24]
The French call this part of a chicken a "pilon" from this resemblance to a grinding pestle
the drumstick (leg accepted)
Liz
$1,200 [5]
Entangles by ropes or lies, probably not drums
ensnares
Liz
$1,600 [14]
This goddess was wise indeed to aid Jason in his quest for the Golden Fleece
Athena
Sara
$1,600 [29]
Crosby, Stills & Nash were "Traveling the train through clear Moroccan skies" on this title locomotive
the Marrakesh Express
Liz
$1,600 [9]
Until his untimely death from a stingray's barb, he was director of the Australia Zoo in Queensland
Steve Irwin
Sara
$1,600 [20]
Anapestic meter, using a weak-weak-strong pattern, is heard in these opening words of a Clement Clarke Moore poem
'Twas The Night Before Christmas
Liz
$1,600 [25]
Open the door to the dandoor, one of these, & remove the tandoori chicken, a favorite of India
an oven
Robert
$1,600 [6]
Turns an angry eye
glares
Sara
$2,000 [15]
Hercules had to catch a gold-horned stag that was sacred to this goddess of the hunt
Artemis
Sara
DD $2,200 [30]
A Peter Gabriel song is named for this activist whose 1977 death in a Pretoria jail turned him into a martyr
Stephen Biko
Liz
$2,000 [10]
Founded in 1752, the zoo at Schonbrunn Palace in this European capital calls itself the world's oldest zoo
Vienna, Austria
$2,000 [21]
Classical verse included metrical feet like this one of 2 unstressed syllables; it's also a type of costly victory
pyrrhic
Robert
$2,000 [26]
Wrap some of this around a water chestnut & a piece of chicken liver & you've got the Japanese appetizer rumaki
bacon
Sara Liz
$2,000 [7]
Despite their name, these 10-letter horses don't sulk--they're used for breeding
broodmares
Sara

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. PRESIDENTS

He was the first U.S. president to be elected in an Olympic year

McKinley

Robert "Who was McKinley" — wagered $4,000
Liz "Who was McKinley?" — wagered $10,000
Sara "Who is McKinley" — wagered $7,300

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