Show #6041 2010-12-13 (taped 2010-09-15) Regular

Contestants

Keri McConaghy — a social worker from Chelsea, Massachusetts

Jonathan Corbblah — a chess teacher from Harlem, New York

Sandra McClellan — a granny nanny from Arlington, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $4,199)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sandra $2,000 $3,200 $13,400 $6,799
2nd place: $2,000
$9,600
17 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Jonathan $6,800 $8,200 $20,000 $13,000
New champion: $13,000
$13,400
26 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Keri $200 $2,200 $7,800 $600
3rd place: $1,000
$7,800
10 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

BIBLICAL CROSSWORD CLUES "M" ACTORS & THEIR ROLES 1901-1910 EDUCATION DESIGNER NAMES HMM... PRONOUN TROUBLE
$200 [1]
The shortest of the four gospels (4)
Mark
Jonathan
$200 [7]
Anastasia & Ilsa Lund Laszlo
Ingrid Bergman
Jonathan
$200 [18]
In 1909 Henry Ford produced over 10,000 of this car, saying customers could get it in "any color...so long as it is black"
the Model T
Keri
$200 [6]
In 1955 Rudolph Flesch wrote "Why Johnny Can't" do this, attacking current teaching practices
read
Jonathan
$200 [26]
She'll always be DKNY to us: Donna ____
Karan
Jonathan
$200 [16]
It's the nominative singular pronoun
I
Sandra
$400 [2]
Food from heaven (5)
manna
Keri
$400 [8]
Billy Flynn & Clifford Irving
Richard Gere
Jonathan
$400 [21]
On July 2, 1903 the U.S. signed a treaty with Cuba to lease this 45-square-mile section of land
Guantanamo
Sandra
$400 [12]
Although best known for his 1828 dictionary, he wrote textbooks on science, grammar & history
Noah Webster
Jonathan
$400 [27]
No relation but same last name: maker of bridge apparel Anne ____ & designer Calvin ____
Klein
Sandra
$400 [17]
In 1977 Carly Simon sang this pronoun "Does It Better"
Nobody
Jonathan
$600 [3]
Water turned to wine (7)
a miracle
Jonathan
$600 [9]
Lon Chaney & George M. Cohan
Jimmy Cagney
$600 [23]
On Jan. 1, 1902 the first postseason college football game was played in this city; Michigan beat Stanford, 49-0
Pasadena
Sandra Jonathan Keri
$800 [14]
In 1971 the Supreme Court ruled doing this to integrate "the dual school systems" of the South was constitutional
busing
Jonathan
$600 [28]
No relation but same last name: shoe designer Kenneth ____ & swimwear designer Anne ____
Cole
Jonathan
$600 [19]
It's the objective case of they, used as a direct or indirect object
them
Keri
$800 [4]
Jesus as the "anointed one" (7)
Messiah
Jonathan
$800 [10]
Frances Farmer & Patsy Cline
Jessica Lange
Keri
$800 [24]
Literature of 1902 included this Owen Wister novel of life in Wyoming
The Virginian
Sandra
$1,000 [15]
In 2009 the Dept. of Education announced a $4.35 billion fund for state grants called "Race to" this
the Top
Sandra
$800 [29]
A fashion footwear mogul: ____ Madden
Steve
Keri
$800 [20]
A sovereign may use the "royal" this pronoun in formal speech; are you not amused?
we
Jonathan
$1,000 [5]
Noah's long-lived granddad (10)
Methuselah
Sandra
$1,000 [11]
Polly Perkins & Pepper Potts
Gwyneth Paltrow
Jonathan Keri
$1,000 [25]
Phenol formaldehyde was introduced as this material named for its inventor; it became popular as cookware
Bakelite
Sandra
DD $2,200 [13]
It was originally called the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 & provided free education for vets
the G.I. Bill
Jonathan
$1,000 [30]
Seen here, her logo includes her first initial:____ Burch
Tory
Keri
$1,000 [22]
Use the first 4 letters of a 1980s British prime minister's name to get this demonstrative pronoun
that
Sandra

Double Jeopardy! Round

ASTRONOMERS THEY CALL ME MISTER... LITERATURE SEQUELS? STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS "1", "2", "3" GO!
$400 [15]
In 1690 this comet discoverer designed the forerunner of the modern diving bell
(Edmund) Halley
Sandra
$400 [26]
From 1961 to 1966 Allan "Rocky" Lane provided the voice of this talkative TV Palomino, of course, of course
Mr. Ed
Sandra
$400 [6]
He jazzed up one of his stories, "The Wife of Bath's Tale", with "The Desperate Housewife of Bath's Revenge!"
Chaucer
Sandra
$400 [1]
Temple Square & the Joseph Smith Memorial Building
Salt Lake City
Jonathan
$400 [16]
It's where you go back to if you're starting over, especially in playing hopscotch
square one
Jonathan
$400 [21]
Go, one of the world's oldest games, is thought to have originated c. 2000 B.C. in this Asian mainland country
China
Jonathan
$800 [14]
This Polish astronomer has craters on the moon & Mars named for him
Copernicus
Jonathan
$800 [27]
This minister's show appeared in Canada in a 15-minute format before premiering on PBS in 1968
Mister Rogers
Jonathan
$800 [7]
Aronnax rethinks his decision to leave the ship in "Finding Nemo!", our sequel to this 1870 Jules Verne novel
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jonathan
$800 [2]
Red Stick Farmers Market & The Blue Bayou Water Park
Baton Rouge
Jonathan
$800 [17]
The butcher, the baker & the candlestick maker, collectively
Three Men in a Tub
Sandra Keri
$800 [22]
In Go, 2 players take turns placing stones of 2 different colors on a board; unlike in chess, this color goes first
black
Jonathan
$1,600 [12]
In 1980 this Cornell astronomer co-founded the planetary society & served as its first president
(Carl) Sagan
Sandra
$1,200 [28]
On "Rocky and his Friends", this genius dog & his pet boy, Sherman, traveled back in time in the dog's way back machine
Mr. Peabody
Jonathan
$1,200 [8]
Florentino Ariza's nephew falls for a young woman in this Marquez novel's sequel, "Love in the Time of the Sniffles"
Love in the Time of Cholera
Sandra
$1,200 [3]
The World of Coca-Cola & Centennial Olympic Park
Atlanta
Sandra
$1,200 [18]
In 1978, for a Texas high school football team, Geral Fauss made the 1st big hands representing this 3-word phrase
We're Number One
Sandra
$1,200 [23]
Go simulates territorial war; the modern game emerged in Japan along with the rise of this warrior class
the samurai
Sandra Jonathan Keri
$2,000 [11]
His "belt" about 4.65 billion miles from the sun may contain more than 70,000 objects
Gerard Kuiper
Sandra Jonathan
$1,600 [29]
Oh noooo! his "Disasterpiece Theater" DVD celebrated "30 Years of Sluggo's Greatest Hits"
Mr. Bill
Sandra
$1,600 [9]
This playwright's title guy takes on a new troll king in "Trollbusters! The Return of Peer Gynt"
Ibsen
Sandra
$1,600 [4]
Benefit Street & the Roger Williams Park Zoo
Providence (Rhode Island)
Jonathan
$1,600 [19]
In online slang .02 means this--another way of saying, "my opinion, though you didn't ask"
my two cents
Keri
$1,600 [24]
A stone that is threatened with capture is said to be "in" this; the makers of Pong chose it for their company name
Atari
DD $5,000 [13]
In 1609, using a weak 9-power telescope, he discovered that Venus has phases just like our moon
Galileo
Sandra
$2,000 [30]
In a 1960s cartoon series, Jim Backus voiced this bald, irritable & dangerously myopic man
Mr. Magoo
Sandra
$2,000 [10]
"Findlay, Ohio", "Sandusky, Ohio" & "Zanesville, Ohio" didn't go as well for Sherwood Anderson as this 1919 book
Winesburg, Ohio
Jonathan
DD $7,000 [5]
Morse Farm Maple Sugarworks & Green Mount Cemetery
Montpelier
Jonathan
$2,000 [20]
It means colored in a pair of hues; it's also a British music movement featuring The Specials
two-tone
$2,000 [25]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in front of a go board.) In go, a stone that'ssurroundedby the opponent's color is captured &removed; it's said to have lost its last this, also an unalienable right mentioned in the Declaration of Independence
liberty
Jonathan Keri

Final Jeopardy!

COUNTRIES

In only 2 cases can you add 2 letters to one country & get another country: Austria/Australia & this pair

Niger/Nigeria

Keri "What are ?" — wagered $7,200
Sandra "What are Guinea & Gu" — wagered $6,601
Jonathan "What is Bujumbura" — wagered $7,000

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