Show #6102 2011-03-08 (taped 2010-11-09) Regular

Contestants

Meg Khavari — a high school biology and religion teacher from Silver Spring, Maryland

Joe Mastroeni — a mutual funds analyst from Colt's Neck, New Jersey

Mike Nelson — a mechanical engineer from Geneva, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mike $1,800 $3,600 $7,600 $4,799
2-day champion: $20,800
$9,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Joe $-200 $400 $5,200 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$5,200
13 R, 8 W
Meg $1,200 $3,400 $8,600 $1,999
2nd place: $2,000
$10,600
15 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

BOOK NUMBERS WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS NAME THAT PREZ DRINKING VESSELS HOCKEY WHAT THE "ECK"
$200 [19]
It begins, "It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him"
Catch-22
Mike
$200 [30]
Make your own version of Marie Callender's top-selling pie, this one with stiffly beaten egg whites
a lemon meringue pie
Meg
$200 [2]
Wearing No. 5, he's famous for a doctrine
Monroe
Mike
$200 [8]
The tall, narrow flute used for this beverage named for a region of France allows the bubbles to rise slower
champagne
Mike
$200 [1]
Jacques Plante is credited with making this piece of equipment de rigueur for goalies
a face mask
Joe
$200 [14]
A quick kiss, or part of a primitive typing style
peck
Meg
$400 [20]
"The Starlight Barking" is Dodie Smith's sequel to this 1956 classic kids' book
The 101 Dalmatians
$400 [29]
Make lemonade, add an equal amount of iced tea & you'll have this drink named for a golfer
an Arnold Palmer
Joe Meg
$400 [4]
Was engaged only once, to Ann Coleman, but broke it off
Buchanan
Mike
$400 [9]
Also the name of a pub at Brandeis U., this ear then ware vessel can hold about a pint of beer
a stein
$400 [3]
A winged wheel is the logo of this franchise
the Red Wings
Meg
$400 [15]
"Odelay" alt-rocker
Beck
Mike
$800 [22]
The action of this novel is seen through the eyes of the seemingly mute Chief Bromden
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Meg
$600 [28]
Cook up a sauce for chicken or fish with lemon & these small, dried pickled buds
capers
Meg
$600 [5]
From 1937 to 1940 his father was U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain
JFK
Joe
$600 [10]
Although it usually refers to a laboratory container, it can also mean a large drinking cup with a wide mouth
a beaker
Mike
$600 [11]
In 2010 the Hockey Hall of Fame welcomed its first 2 of these, James & Granato
women
$600 [16]
Area containing the trachea
the neck
Mike
DD $1,000 [21]
This Dickens novel opens in the year 1775
A Tale of Two Cities
Mike
$800 [27]
Pucker up with a lemon drop cocktail, lemon juice, a lemon slice, sugar & this liquor
lemon-flavored vodka
$800 [6]
The oldest to be inaugurated
Reagan
Meg
$800 [13]
A flat-bottomed glass with no handle, it sounds like a gymnast
tumbler
$800 [12]
He won the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year in 1967 playing with great conviction, or is it conjunction?
(Bobby) Orr
Meg
$800 [17]
To threaten the king, in chess
check
Meg
$1,000 [23]
In 2010's "Imperial Bedrooms", Bret Easton Ellis follows up with characters from this 1985 novel of his
Less Than Zero
Joe
$1,000 [26]
When life gives you lemons, get out a grater, as you can add intense flavor to a dish using this outer part of the peel or rind
zest
Joe
$1,000 [7]
Had been president of Columbia University
Dwight David Eisenhower
Joe Meg
$1,000 [25]
Ochoko are traditional tiny cups from which to drink this alcoholic beverage
sake
Joe
$1,000 [24]
Borje Salming, from this country, helped get European players accepted in the NHL
Sweden
$1,000 [18]
Wall-climbing house lizard
a gecko
Meg

Double Jeopardy! Round

MYTHOLO-"G" TV SHOWS BY KIDS ABBREV. HODGEPODGE MULTIPLY BY 5, DIVIDE BY 2, ADD 3 SORRY ABOUT THAT
$400 [1]
These monstrous sisters were the daughters of Phorcys & Ceto
the Gorgons
Mike
$400 [6]
Chris, Tracy, Keith, Danny, Laurie
The Partridge Family
Joe
$400 [13]
In the '60s the U.S. had a strategic policy known as MAD, mutual assured this
destruction
Mike
$400 [12]
Calgary & Medicine Hat are in this Canadian province
Alberta
Joe
$400 [26]
2
8
Mike Joe
$400 [7]
In 1997 Tony Blair formally apologized to this country for British negligence during the 1845-49 famine
Ireland
Mike
$800 [2]
An oracle decreed that anyone who could unravel this would rule Asia
the Gordian knot
Joe
$800 [18]
Becky, Darlene, D.J.
Roseanne
Meg
$800 [14]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an animated car chase on the monitor.) A police cruiser's right front bumper nudges a fleeing suspect's left rear to induce a stop using the PIT maneuver, PIT short for this intervention technique
pursuit
Joe
$800 [22]
International Nurses Day is May 12; in 2013 it'll coincide with this other big day for caregivers
Mother's Day
Joe Meg
$800 [27]
10
28
Joe
$1,200 [9]
In the '70s this ex-Alabama gov. said his opposition to integration had been wrong & apologized for his actions
(George) Wallace
Meg
$1,200 [3]
In Greek myth, she's Mother Earth
Gaia
Joe
$1,200 [19]
David, Mary, Susan, Nicholas, Joannie, Elizabeth, Nancy, Tommy
Eight is Enough
Mike
$1,200 [15]
The computer language COBOL is an acronym: Common this Oriented Language
Business
Joe
$1,200 [23]
Since 2008 this insurance conglomerate has gotten $182 billion in government funds
AIG
Meg
$1,200 [28]
16
43
Joe Meg
$1,600 [10]
On Feb. 5, 2010 the president of this car company apologized for massive global recalls over sticking gas pedals
Toyota
Mike
$1,600 [4]
Pygmalion fell in love with a statue called this when she came to life
Galatea
Joe
$1,600 [20]
The Henricksons:Sarah, Ben, Tancy & many more
Big Love
Joe
$1,600 [16]
Often loosely referred to as Scotland Yard, CID stands for this Department
Criminal Investigation Department
Meg
$1,600 [24]
In February 1815 Napoleon snuck off this island with about 1,000 followers
Elba
Joe
$1,600 [29]
60
153
Joe
DD $2,000 [8]
In 1986 the French govt. apologized & paid compensation for the sinking of this group's ship the Rainbow Warrior
Greenpeace
Mike
$2,000 [5]
One of Jupiter's moons is named for this boy, Zeus' cupbearer
Ganymede
Mike
$2,000 [21]
Grace & Zach Florrick
The Good Wife
DD $2,000 [17]
It's what the "A&M" stands for in the name of Alabama A&M University
Agricultural & Mechanical
Meg
$2,000 [25]
Madagascar's pygmy mouse type of this grows about 8 inches long & weighs about 1 ounce
lemurs
$2,000 [30]
50,000
125,003
Mike
$2,000 [11]
Richard Jewell, a suspect for 3 months in this city's 1996 Olympic Park bombing, got an apology from Janet Reno
Atlanta
Meg

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN LITERATURE

"The Scarlet Letter" says, "to forbid the culprit to hide his face... was the essence of" this 7-letter punishment

the pillory

Joe "What is Shameness" — wagered $5,199
Mike "What is adultery?" — wagered $2,801
Meg "What is shaming" — wagered $6,601

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