Show #6011 2010-11-01 (taped 2010-08-24) Regular

Contestants

Silvio Menzano — a psychologist and university counseling center director from Washington, D.C.

Molly Adams — a radio host and producer from Chicago, Illinois

Marie Braden — a customer service representative from Tempe, Arizona (whose 1-day cash winnings total $24,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Marie $3,000 $6,600 $9,800 $2
3rd place: $1,000
$9,800
15 R, 3 W
Molly $3,200 $8,200 $11,000 $2,399
2nd place: $2,000
$10,000
22 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Silvio $800 $1,800 $5,200 $10,300
New champion: $10,300
$8,200
10 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

ARCHITECTURE SINGLE-NAMED SINGERS' LAST NAMES MAKES SENSE MUSHROOMS IN THE CLOSET NICE "AB"s!
$200 [24]
In 1932 he created the Taliesin fellowship for those wanting to learn organic architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright
Molly
$200 [1]
Rock royalty from Minneapolis: Nelson
Prince
Molly
$200 [8]
Things that fell from the skies in Aristotelian times were known as these, from which a science later took its name
meteors
$200 [21]
This term for the top of a mushroom can also be a small hat
a cap
Molly
$200 [6]
6-letter term for the type of closet with room for a person, not only clothes; Mariah Carey has one just for her underwear
walk-in
Molly
$200 [12]
It means detestable or loathsome, though I have no beef with the snowman, myself
abominable
Marie
$400 [25]
At each end, a pitched roof has one of these triangles, from an Old English word meaning "fork"
a gable
Molly
$400 [2]
Late Tejano singer: Quintanilla
Selena
Molly
$400 [9]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands by a board displaying numbers and letters.) In a simple substitution code, each number stands for its corresponding letter; for example, 3 15 23 spells COW, while 26 5 2 18 1 spells the name of this animal
a zebra
Silvio
$400 [22]
This term often given to a poisonous mushroom sounds like a chair for a frog's cousin
toadstool
Marie
$400 [7]
Store this item from a memorable day in acid-free paper, especially if it's a Vera Wang, who's made them since 1990
a wedding dress
Silvio
$400 [13]
It precedes "...all hope, ye who enter here"
abandon
Marie
$600 [30]
This Greek order of columns was the first created & the only one that normally has no base
a Doric
Molly
$600 [3]
Barbados-born singer & covergirl: Fenty
Rihanna
Molly
$600 [10]
Residents of this "Crossroads of the World" country can see the sun rise over the Pacific & set over the Atlantic
Panama
Molly
$600 [23]
Mushrooms are classed in the phylum Basidiomycota in this kingdom
fungus
Marie
$600 [11]
Rubbermaid's Home Free Closet Kit is one of these, also someone trying to attract union membership
organizer
Marie
$600 [14]
Heeeeey, this job title for the head of a monastery
abbot
Molly
$800 [29]
The wheel-shaped windows found in Gothic cathedrals are known by this floral name
a rose window
Molly
$800 [4]
In the '60s they called him "Mellow Yellow": Leitch
Donovan
Molly
$800 [19]
This grassroots movement founded by Annabel Park invariably draws comparisons to the Tea Party
the Coffee Party
Molly
$800 [26]
These large, dark edible mushrooms of Asia take their name from the Japanese for "oak mushroom"
shiitake
Marie
$800 [17]
Your wear on Friday shelf may have these casual pants whose logo is seen here
Dockers
Marie
$800 [15]
It's a turn of 180 degrees from the position of attention
about face
Marie
$1,000 [28]
In 1851 Joseph Paxton designed this building for a London exhibition using a prefab iron frame & glass panels
the Crystal Palace
$1,000 [5]
Get "Caught Up" with this R&B singer: Raymond
Usher
Molly
DD $2,000 [20]
This 4-digit number is the Hollywood production company of director Chris Columbus
1492
Molly
$1,000 [27]
The name of this widely eaten variety, Agaricus bisporus, implies that it's cute
a button mushroom
Silvio
$1,000 [18]
A coiled spring is often part of these items that preserve the shape of hubby's brogues
shoe trees
Marie
$1,000 [16]
This large mollusk is used as a source of mother-of-pearl
abalone
Marie

Double Jeopardy! Round

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV FILL IN THE TV TITLE "NEW" GEOGRAPHY IT'S HYPHENATED A NOVEL SUM-UP FRONTWORDS & BACKWORDS
$400 [24]
In 1952 Mikhail Gorbachev hit this big city to enter its state university law school; he graduated in 1955
Moscow
$400 [1]
Bristol Palin made a cameo: "The Secret Life of the ____ ____"
American Teenager
Molly
$400 [8]
Moncton in this Canadian province was the cultural center of the Acadians
New Brunswick
Marie Molly
$400 [21]
With 7, Nolan Ryan holds the record for having pitched the most of these rare games
a no-hitter
Silvio
$400 [2]
Cervantes at your service; long knight's journey into day; Rocinante is the horse he rode in on
Don Quixote
Molly
$400 [12]
Bosses do this, to writers' dismay; also, what happens at sea twice a day
edit/tide
Marie
$800 [25]
In his 1991 lecture on winning this, Mikhail spoke of "a fundamentally new phase in our international cooperation"
the Nobel Peace Prize
Marie Molly
$800 [4]
Counterfeiter Neal Caffrey helps the FBI: "White ____"
White Collar
Silvio
$800 [14]
On the banks of India's Yamuna River, it was dedicated in 1931
New Delhi
Molly
$800 [22]
Elvis Presley was fond of biscuits & this "colorful" gravy made from bacon drippings & black coffee
red-eye gravy
Silvio
$800 [3]
Friend or Defoe?: the original "Survivor"; cannibals don't make for good company; thank God it's Friday!
Robinson Crusoe
Silvio
$800 [13]
A part of the body where the food goes; flip it around, it's a ship that tows
gut/tug
Molly
$1,200 [5]
Gentlemen, start your engines: "Ru Paul's ____ Race"
Drag Race
Silvio
$1,200 [15]
This city, later New York, was founded by the Dutch in 1624
New Amsterdam
Marie
$1,200 [23]
According to its initials, an ATV is this type of vehicle
all-terrain
Molly
$1,200 [9]
Dashwoods dally; in awe of Austen; 184 years later, Emma Thompson's a fan
Sense and Sensibility
Silvio
$1,200 [20]
This type of container can hold ale or mead; turn it around, it's a mouth part indeed
mug/gum
Marie
$1,600 [6]
Starring Mark Valley: "Human ____"
Target
Marie
$1,600 [17]
This shipbuilding city is found on England's Tyne river
Newcastle
Marie
$1,600 [26]
This balsa raft that sailed 4,300 miles of the Pacific in 1947 is on display at a museum near Oslo
Kon-Tiki
Marie
$1,600 [10]
Sam Spade Hammetts it up with Brigid O'Shaughnessy; a black piece of art causes all kinds of...heck
The Maltese Falcon
Silvio
$1,600 [19]
Rivers do this, bend upon bend; reverse it for one who sends sheep to their end
flow/wolf
$2,000 [7]
On the CW: "Life ____"
Unexpected
$2,000 [18]
The western half of this large island is a province of Indonesia
New Guinea
Molly Silvio
$2,000 [27]
The Cooper-this, a national design museum in New York City, is actually part of the Smithsonian
Hewitt
Molly
DD $3,000 [11]
What hath Roth Wrought?; title guy Alexander laments to a shrink; feels guilty? You bet!
Portnoy's Complaint
Silvio
$2,000 [16]
Your colorless dress may earn this adjective, I fear; not so for this minstrel or other balladeer
drab/bard
Molly

Final Jeopardy!

BUSINESS PAIRINGS

The names of 2 men, 1 born in Germany in 1834 & 1 in Kansas in 1875, were joined in this company name lasting 1998-2007

DaimlerChrysler

Silvio "What is Daimler-Chrysler?" — wagered $5,100
Marie "What is Enron?" — wagered $9,798
Molly "What was my score before" — wagered $8,601

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