Show #6028 2010-11-24 (taped 2010-08-31) Regular

Contestants

Stephanie Gumble — an associate director of policy from Boston, Massachusetts

Rebecca O'Brien — a writer from Brooklyn, New York

Bob Kennedy — a college linguistics instructor from Santa Barbara, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bob $2,800 $3,200 $15,200 $16,100
2-day champion: $33,800
$16,000
23 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Rebecca $1,000 $2,000 $8,000 $15,999
2nd place: $2,000
$8,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Stephanie $3,400 $3,600 $8,000 $8,500
3rd place: $1,000
$8,000
9 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY 2010 EMMY WINNERS ORGANIZATIONS MISSING BODY PARTS DWIGHT EISENHOWER I LIKE "IKE"
$200 [11]
Thiscity is the brightest area along the East Coast
New York
Rebecca
$200 [2]
He outwitted, outplayed & outlasted Heidi Klum, among others, to take Best Reality Show Host
Jeff Probst
Bob
$200 [21]
This "Union" was formed in 1920 because the Supreme Court wasn't upholding free speech claims
the ACLU
Stephanie
$200 [26]
A sharp plunge:____ dive
nose
Rebecca
$200 [16]
After taking office, Eisenhower ended hostilities in this conflict by agreeing to a ceasefire
the Korean War
Bob
$200 [1]
Myers, Ditka, or Wallace
Mike
Stephanie
$400 [12]
You can see the shore of this Asian capital's bay has orange sodium lamps, while the city uses green mercury lamps
Tokyo
Bob
$400 [7]
We know you're all over Outstanding Sound Editing... this Fox drama's "4:00 am - 5:00 am" episode won; Beep! boop! Beep! boop!
24
Bob
$400 [22]
(Former President Bill Clinton presents the clue.) My work with the first President Bush helps groups that create & carry out their own projects; a 2005 effort focused on the U.S. Gulf Coast in the wake of these 2 hurricanes
Katrina & Rita
Rebecca
$400 [27]
The result of a boxer's injuries:cauliflower ____
ear
Rebecca
$400 [17]
In 1916 Eisenhower married this woman, whom her father called "Puddy"
Mamie Eisenhower
$400 [3]
A proverb says that powerful cerebrums "think..." this way
alike
Rebecca
$600 [13]
This Great Lakes city has 3 million people, but the surrounding suburbs increase the population to almost 10 million
Chicago
Rebecca
$600 [8]
Jim Parsons enjoys Klingon Boggle as physicist Sheldon Cooper on this CBS sitcom; he also enjoys his new Emmy
The Big Bang Theory
Stephanie
$600 [23]
Started in 1961 to stop human rights abuses around the globe, this organization lit its first candle the same year
Amnesty International
Bob
$600 [28]
Alert watchfulness:eagle ____
eye
Rebecca
$600 [18]
It was the highest military rank Eisenhower achieved before resigning so he could run for the presidency
5-star general
Bob
$600 [4]
A sudden variation in voltage or current
a spike
Rebecca
$800 [14]
The amazing variety of light colors must belong tothisU.S. desert city
Las Vegas
Bob Rebecca
$800 [9]
Know what Emmy voters like? Meth & murder! OK, not really, but they loved Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman on this AMC show
Breaking Bad
Stephanie
$800 [24]
This service "Club" has a 4-way test of things they think, say & do, including "Will it be beneficial to all concerned?"
the Rotary Club
Bob Rebecca
$800 [29]
These were part of the "Flashdance" look in the '80s:____ warmers
leg
Bob
$1,000 [20]
From 1971 to 1978 Eisenhower's image graced the front of this U.S. coin
the dollar
Bob
$800 [5]
Long-snouted freshwater swimmer of the family Esocidae
(northern) pike
Stephanie
$1,000 [15]
This Capital gleams on the southern shore of the Rio de la Plata
Buenos Aires
Bob
$1,000 [10]
Claire Danes won for playing the title role in this HBO movie; Julia Ormond won for playing her mother
Temple Grandin
Stephanie
$1,000 [25]
Julian Bond was the first president of this "Law Center" that works for civil rights & tolerance education
the Southern Poverty Law Center
Rebecca
$1,000 [30]
The Beatles wore them:____ boots
ankle
DD $1,200 [19]
Eisenhower died in this year, the same year his vice president took up residence in the White House
1969
Bob
$1,000 [6]
To form coins by stamping metal
strike

Double Jeopardy! Round

ISLAMIC CULTURE NBA LOGOS BRITISH POETS "S"MORGASBORD WHAT A GODDESS ROMAN NUMERAL WORDS
$400 [1]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Jerusalem's Mayer Museum in Israel.)Thischess set was made around the year 1000 in this present-day country; their kingwas called "shah" & the end of the game was "shah mat", our checkmate
Iran
Rebecca
$400 [11]
Lucky, who wears a vest, bow tie & bowler hat with shamrocks on them
the Celtics
Bob
$400 [16]
In May 2009 Carol Ann Duffy became the first woman in history appointed to this U.K. post
Poet Laureate
Bob
$400 [21]
If you're having albondigas in a Mexican restaurant, you're eating meatball this
soup
Bob
$400 [6]
Associated with Juno, she's Zeus' sister-wife
Hera
Bob
$400 [26]
To combine, perhaps for movie cowboy Tom
mix
Rebecca
$800 [2]
The spiritual center of Tunisia is Kairouan, "The City of 50" of these religious buildings
mosques
Bob
$800 [12]
A flaming red basketball going through a white hoop
the (Miami) Heat
Bob
$800 [17]
In his "Essay on Man", he wrote, "Know then thy self presume not God to scan, the proper study of mankind is man"
Alexander Pope
$800 [22]
Sometimes confused with a sea creature, they're also called green onions
scallions
Stephanie
$800 [7]
Hesiod mentioned the names of these 9 sister goddesses, patrons of particular arts & sciences
the Muses
Bob
$800 [27]
It can follow "wind" or "pepper"
mill
Bob
$1,200 [3]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Mayer Museum in Israel.) Astronomy was just one area in which the Islamic world made great strides with devices like these navigational instruments with the same root as the word "astronomy"
the astrolabe
$1,200 [13]
A shield with a horse's head & a single star
the (Dallas) Mavericks
Bob
DD $1,200 [18]
He wrote a 1671 poem about the biblical Samson, who like him suffered blindess
John Milton
Bob
$1,200 [23]
There's a pineapple type of this herb whose name also means wise
sage
Bob
$1,200 [8]
This Greek goddess of war & handicraft changed Arachne into a spider after a weaving contest between them
Athena
Bob
$1,200 [28]
To imitate
mimic
Bob
$1,600 [4]
Ta'ziyah, Muslim passion plays, tend to show the martyrdom of members of this minority branch of Islam
Shia
Rebecca
$1,600 [14]
A sword goes through the "C" in the team's name
the (Cleveland) Cavaliers
Rebecca
$1,600 [19]
In early 1956 he met Sylvia Plath at a launch party for his literary magazine St. Botolph's Review
Ted Hughes
Stephanie
$1,600 [24]
This quick bread takes its name from the Stone of Destiny
scones
$1,600 [9]
You think your family is unusual? This Greek goddess of victory was the daughter of Pallas (a Titan) & Styx (a river in Hades)
Nike
$1,600 [29]
Full of life, or when talking about color, strikingly intense
vivid
Bob
$2,000 [5]
A qibla indicator shows where to face when praying: toward Mecca & specifically, toward this holy structure
the Kaaba
Rebecca
DD $2,000 [15]
The letter "W" forms the body of a man in blue wearing a pointy hat
the (Washington) Wizards
Rebecca
$2,000 [20]
The famous "Death be not proud" line is from this man's "Holy Sonnets"
John Donne
Stephanie
$2,000 [25]
This Italian dish that contains slices of veal & prosciutto sounds like a Cirque du Soleil show
saltimbocca
$2,000 [10]
The name of this Greek goddess means "foam born", which some stories say she was
Aphrodite
Rebecca
$2,000 [30]
Furious
livid
Bob

Final Jeopardy!

PAINTINGS

The alternate name of this 16th century Italian painting also means "cheerful"

the Mona Lisa

Rebecca "What isLa Giacondathe Mona Lisa" — wagered $7,999
Stephanie "What is the Mona Lisa?" — wagered $500
Bob "What is the Mona Lisa?" — wagered $900

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