Show #6059 2011-01-06 (taped 2010-09-28) Regular

Contestants

Maureen Abell — a family law and immigration lawyer from New York, New York

Dan Jensen — a restaurant manager from Reston, Virginia

Steve Gratz — a freelance artist from Washington, D.C. (whose 2-day cash winnings total $30,999)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Steve $1,200 $2,200 $10,200 $11,301
3rd place: $1,000
$12,200
17 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
Dan $3,600 $9,300 $11,300 $21,001
New champion: $21,001
$10,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Maureen $2,600 $4,800 $10,500 $20,500
2nd place: $2,000
$9,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

FRANCE, FRANCE REVOLUTION "V" SHALL SEE DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSE? SAY UNCLE STATE QUARTERS NICK NAMES
$200 [30]
This structure, a symbol of the Bourbon monarchy, was stormed on July 14, 1789
the Bastille
Dan
$200 [1]
The hungry South Carolina native seen here
the Venus Flytrap
Steve
$200 [21]
You'll find San Jose, California about 90 miles southwest of this state capital
Sacramento
Maureen
$200 [6]
This personification of the United States wears a white top hat that has white stars on a blue band
Uncle Sam
Dan
$200 [12]
A salmon breaching the water in front of Mount Rainier
Washington
Steve
$200 [11]
Nick Park created the animated characters Wallace & this loyal dog
Gromit
Dan
$400 [25]
France was in dire straits financially due to its support of this other revolution
the American Revolution
Dan
$400 [2]
You're all wet if you can't name this location
the Victoria Falls
Maureen
$400 [29]
San Jose in this country is on the main highway from Manila to Aparri
the Philippines
Steve Dan
$400 [7]
This "electric" character in "The Addams Family" could light up a light bulb by sticking it in his mouth
Uncle Fester
Maureen
$400 [17]
Susan Constant, Godspeed & Discovery, ships that brought settlers to Jamestown
Virginia
Maureen
$400 [13]
He played Four Leaf Tayback in the 2008 comedy "Tropic Thunder"
Nick Nolte
Dan
$600 [26]
Germinal, Fructidor & Thermidor could be found on the New French Republican this adopted in 1793
calendar
Steve
$600 [3]
It's a point on a triangle indicated here
a vertex
Dan
$600 [24]
San Jose Succotz in Belize is the starting point for Xunantunich, famous for its ruins of this people
the Mayans
Maureen
$600 [8]
Among the stories he narrates are "The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox" & "Why Mr. Possum has no hair on his tail"
Uncle Remus
Dan
$600 [20]
A grizzly bear emerging from the water with a salmon in its jaws & the motto "The Great Land"
Alaska
Dan
$600 [14]
Drumroll, please, for this star of "Drumline" who is the CEO of the Can I Ball record label
Nick Cannon
Dan
$1,000 [28]
A royalist power grab in Paris was crushed by this young general in 1795
Napoleon Bonaparte
Maureen
$800 [4]
Early 20th century revolutionary seen here
Pancho Villa
Dan
$800 [23]
If you're looking for the San Jose river, it's in this Canadian province on the Pacific
British Columbia
Dan
$800 [9]
John Candy played this loud & crude slacker relative of Macaulay Culkin in a 1989 film
Uncle Buck
Maureen
$800 [19]
A racecar superimposed on an outline of the state & the motto "Crossroads of America"
Indiana
Dan
$800 [15]
Nick Lowe wrote Elvis Costello's classic song "(What's so funny 'bout)" this trio
"Peace, Love, And Understanding"
Steve
DD $1,500 [27]
Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety controlled this period of revolution that saw 30,000 executions
the Reign of Terror
Dan
$1,000 [5]
Structure seenhereperfected by the Romans
a viaduct
Dan
$1,000 [22]
San Jose island off Texas in the Gulf of Mexico is this type of narrow island parallel to the shore
a barrier island
Steve
$1,000 [10]
This Chekhov hero's real name is Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky
Uncle Vanya
Maureen
$1,000 [18]
A trumpet with musical notes & a pelican
Louisiana
Steve
$1,000 [16]
Nick Hornby novels made into films include "About a Boy" & this one in which John Cusack ran a record store
High Fidelity
Dan

Double Jeopardy! Round

PHYSICS NO. 1 WITH A BULLET ART "T" LANGUAGE OF ORIGIN SEASONAL QUOTES NICKNAMES
$400 [11]
In the late 19th century, scientists postulated that this travels in waves through what they called luminiferous ether
light
Steve
$400 [20]
This title character of a Jim Croce No. 1 carried "a 32 gun in his pocket for fun"
"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
Steve
$400 [1]
Luca della Robbia made decorative reliefs from this, baked clay, glazed in blue & white
terracotta
Steve
$400 [6]
Hallelujah, sabbath
Hebrew
Maureen
$400 [15]
The narrator of "A Visit from St. Nicholas" has settled his brain "for a long" this season's "nap"
winter
Maureen
$400 [30]
On her death, Tony Blair said, "She was the 'People's Princess', and that is how she will stay"
Princess Diana
Maureen
$800 [12]
The torr is equal to 1 mm Hg, or the pressure exerted by 1 millimeter of this metal
mercury
Steve
$800 [22]
In "The Night The Lights Went Out In" this state, an innocent man fires a shot to summon the law--big mistake
"Georgia"
Dan
$800 [2]
Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights" is one of these multipaneled works
a triptych
Dan
$800 [7]
Coach, paprika
Hungarian
Steve
$800 [19]
In 1864 at Spotsylvania, this Union General vowed "to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer"
Ulysses Grant
$800 [26]
Born in 1874, he was nicknamed "The Handcuff King" & "The King of Escapologists"
Houdini
Dan
$1,600 [14]
The term horsepower was first used by James Watt affer comparing the power of horses to the power of these
steam engines
Dan
$1,200 [27]
"Out of the doorway the bullets rip/ To the sound of the beat" in this Queen No. 1
"Another One Bites The Dust"
$1,200 [3]
Salvador Dali is among those who've portrayed this "of St. Anthony"
The Temptation
Steve
$1,200 [8]
Almanac, hashish
Arabic
Maureen
$1,200 [16]
This royal "made some tarts all on a summer's day"
the Queen of Hearts
Maureen
$1,200 [23]
This writer was known affectionately as "The Concord Rebel" & "The Poet Naturalist"
Thoreau
Steve
DD $2,000 [13]
Fluid dynamics can be divided into hydrodynamics, the study of fluids in motion, & this study of gases in motion
aerodynamics
Steve
$1,600 [28]
"The sound of the battle rang/ Through the streets of the old East Side" in "The Night" this town "Died"
"Chicago"
Steve
$1,600 [4]
Still life painter William Harnett was a practitioner of this type of illusionism, French for "deceive the eye"
trompe l'oeil
Steve
$1,600 [9]
Kowtow, catsup
Chinese
Steve
$2,000 [18]
In 1950 Johnny Mercer wrote the lyric "but I miss you most of all, my darling, when" these "start to fall"
"The Autumn Leaves"
Maureen
$1,600 [24]
Though he didn't really blaze his own trails, this explorer & politician was nicknamed "The Pathfinder"
John C. Fremont
Steve
$2,000 [21]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue.) On the surface of a cylinder rising at a constant angle lies this three-dimensional curve whose name is from the Greek for "spiral"
a helix
Steve
$2,000 [29]
In the 1965 No. 1 "Eve Of" this, "The eastern world, it is explodin'/ Violence flarin', bullets loadin'"
"Destruction"
Maureen
$2,000 [5]
John Constable deprecatingly called the work of this other Brit "airy visions, painted with tinted steam"
Turner
Steve
$2,000 [10]
Jai alai
Basque
Steve Dan Maureen
DD $2,500 [17]
T.S. Eliot wrote that it was the "cruellest month...stirring dull roots with spring rain"
April
Maureen
$2,000 [25]
Before he came to the U.S., this physicist's Italian students called him "The Pope"; they considered him infallible
Enrico Fermi
Steve

Final Jeopardy!

WORLDWIDE MEDIA

The name for this news agency means "peninsula", referring to the Arabian peninsula

Al Jazeera

Steve "What is Al Jazeera?" — wagered $1,101
Maureen "What is al Jazeera?" — wagered $10,000
Dan "What is Al-Jazeera?" — wagered $9,701

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