Show #6045 2010-12-17 (taped 2010-09-15) Regular

Tom Nissley game 4.

Contestants

Teresa Lane — a search engine optimization writer originally from St. Louis, Missouri

Nina Kiekhaefer — a family medicine physician from Jefferson City, Missouri

Tom Nissley — an online books editor from Seattle, Washington (whose 3-day cash winnings total $71,203)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Tom	$5,000	$9,000	$29,800	$43,800 4-day champion: $115,003	$25,800 27 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Nina	$200	$600	$5,400	$7,801 2nd place: $2,000	$6,200 12 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Teresa	$2,800	$3,800	$7,800	$4,799 3rd place: $1,000	$7,800 13 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE WINTER OF	MUSICAL LODGINGS	ONE OF THE 8 PLANETS	LIQUIDS	LOOK AT THAT IDIOM	SCOTLAND
$200 [26] ...1924 saw the first of these, held in Chamonix, France Winter Olympics Nina	$200 [16] The Eagles checked into this structure in the title of their 1976 No. 1 album the Hotel California Tom	$200 [1] Also a chemical element Mercury Tom	$200 [6] This word can apply to plant latex as well as to nourishment for mammals' young milk Teresa	$200 [21] Hold on to this idiom; don't take a chance on finding a better one a bird in the hand is better than two in the bush Teresa	$200 [11] The center of this city, the capital, lies near the southern shore of the Firth of Forth Edinburgh Teresa
$400 [27] ...1000 was when he lived in Vinland, where he built a house & a shed to protect his ship Leif Erikson Tom	$400 [17] The Animals said this place was "the ruin of many a poor boy" the House of the Rising Sun Tom	$400 [2] She's a tennis superstar Venus Nina	$400 [7] Used to prepare a surface for painting, it's spelled the same as a textbook for children primer Teresa	$400 [22] It's some thingI probably shouldn't have said a slip of the tongue Nina	$400 [12] In the late 19th c. the R&A Golf Club of this place became the sole authority on the rules of the game in Great Britain St. Andrew's Tom
$600 [28] ...330 B.C. was when he had his army march on Persepolis & burn the palaces Alexander the Great Tom	$600 [18] This '80s group reminisced that "our house was our castle and our keep" Madness Tom	$600 [3] Popular chocolate bar made in England since 1933 Mars Teresa	$600 [8] Naked, founded in 1983, is a brand of this juice Teresa	$600 [23] Fixing sprinklers is this for me a labor of love	$600 [13] A New Year's celebration, Hogmanay features this national dish, presented to the accompaniment of bagpipes haggis Tom
$800 [29] ...1846 included this party in the Sierra Nevada that only 45 people survived the Donner party Nina	$800 [19] They Might Be Giants sang about putting a little one of these "in your soul" a birdhouse Tom	$800 [4] Lighthouse city near Palm Beach, Florida Jupiter Teresa	$800 [9] It precedes "shrimp" in the name of a shrimp species that lives in the Great Salt Lake brine Tom	$800 [24] Itmeans working hard, not hardly working putting your nose to the grindstone? Teresa	$800 [14] This Scottish seaport is the seat of the Strathclyde state Glasgow Nina
DD $2,000 [30] ...1939 & 1940 was when the USSR fought this country in "the Winter War" Finland Nina	$1,000 [20] Led Zeppelin's alliterative fifth album title, it referred to the large stadiums where the band played Houses of the Holy Tom	$1,000 [5] Husband to Gaea & father of the Titans Uranus Tom Nina	$1,000 [10] The longleaf & slash pines are the USA's main source of this solvent & thinner turpentine Tom	$1,000 [25] Expoundinga position with which you know your audience agrees preaching to the choir Nina	$1,000 [15] The Scots type of this Celtic language is still spoken in the Hebrides Gaelic Tom

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE LITERARY BUSINESS	A HINT OF SPICE	THE WEATHER	"A" + 4	TONIGHT--A WORLD PREMIER!	SCOTT LAND
$400 [11] 2-word term for Oleson's in Laura Ingalls Wilder's books the general store	$400 [26] Eros is a pungent type of this spice (hint: eros is a Hungarian term) paprika Nina	$400 [6] It's the 5-letter term for the advancing edge of an air mass a front Nina	$400 [1] To regard with horror or loathing abhor Teresa	$400 [21] Bruce Golding, this country's premier, is also the MP for West Kingston Jamaica Nina	$400 [16] This weather man does "happy birthday" greetings on the "Today" Show Willard Scott Tom
$800 [12] In this novel John Galt leaves the Twentieth Century Motor Company when it goes Socialist Atlas Shrugged Teresa	$1,200 [28] This spice resembles an onion seed (oh yeah, the hint--it shares its name with TV chef Lawson) nigella	$800 [7] Gulf of Mexico moisture meets dry wind from the rockies to form twisters in this dangerous U.S. "Alley" Tornado Alley Tom	$800 [2] Awry, or to one side askew Tom	$800 [22] Premier Juncker of this Grand Duchy ran for EU President, saying that though his country is small, "I am not a dwarf" Luxembourg Tom Teresa	$800 [17] This actor was "Charles in Charge", the male governess on an '80s sitcom Scott Baio Tom
$1,200 [13] The St. Gregory is the title establishment in this Arthur Hailey novel Hotel Tom Teresa	DD $2,000 [27] It's used medically to treat colic (oh, & in Japan to cleanse the palate) ginger Nina	$1,200 [8] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew explains a weather map.) On a weather map, an isobar is a line that connects areas with the same barometric pressure. A line that connects areas with the sametemperatureis called this an isotherm	$1,200 [3] Very pale ashen Tom Nina	$1,200 [23] French Premier Francois Fillon is seenherevisiting this city of his birth known for a major sporting event Le Mans Tom	$1,200 [18] He's seenhereon his way to winning Olympic gold in 1984 Scott Hamilton Nina
$1,600 [14] The full title of this Dickens work begins, "Dealings with the firm of..." Dombey & Son Teresa	—	$1,600 [9] In this temperature condition, a layer of warm air surmounts cooler air & traps pollutants near the ground an inversion	$1,600 [4] It's a saying that sets forth a general truth & has gained credit through long use adage Nina Teresa	$1,600 [24] Manmohan Singh, of this religion, is India's first non-Hindu prime minister Sikh Tom	$1,600 [19] He directed 2000's "Gladiator" Ridley Scott Tom
$2,000 [15] This type of agency is spiraling downward in "Then We Came To The End" by Joshua Ferris an advertising agency Tom	—	$2,000 [10] These "equine" regions straddle the equator & are characterized by high pressure & relative calm the horse latitudes Tom	$2,000 [5] It can mean passion or zeal, or the intense heat or glow of a fire ardor	$2,000 [25] Sometimes sharing power with Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Hun Sen was first elected PM of this country in 1985 Cambodia Tom	DD $6,000 [20] Campbell was the middle name of this actor who refused an Oscar in 1971 George C. Scott Tom

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICANA

Riding the subway in New York in 1908, Jack Norworth saw a sign for the Polo Grounds & was inspired to write this song

"Take Me Out To The Ball Game"

Nina "What is "Take me out to the ballgame"?" — wagered $2,401

Teresa "What is" — wagered $3,001

Tom "What is Take Me Out To The Ball Game?" — wagered $14,000

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