Show #6118 2011-03-30 (taped 2010-11-17) Regular

Contestants

Paul Cheng — a graduate student of English from Walnut, California

Ellen Dickens — an adult education director from Newcastle, Maine

Ted Sitting Crow Garner — a sculptor and writer from Chicago, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $2,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ted $1,600 $7,600 $12,400 $2
3rd place: $1,000
$11,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Ellen $600 $2,400 $18,600 $21,700
New champion: $21,700
$12,800
18 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Paul $3,000 $4,600 $15,800 $11,600
2nd place: $2,000
$15,800
18 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

A DICKENSIAN NIGHTMARE UNIVERSITY SPORTS TEAMS "GENERAL" JOB INFORMATION BATTLE TO NAME THE WAR MAGAZINE FEATURES 3-LETTER ABBREV.
$200 [7]
The prospect of an endless lawsuit winding through generations leaves a "bleak" vision
Bleak House
Ellen
$200 [8]
While Harvard has the Crimson, this university has the Crimson Tide
Alabama
Ted
$200 [6]
Alberto Gonzales & Robert F. Kennedy both held this cabinet position
Attorney General
Paul
$200 [1]
The Battle of Stalingrad
World War II
Ellen
$200 [16]
Leading Off, Faces in the Crowd, Scorecard
Sports Illustrated
Paul
$200 [21]
Everyone has one:POV
a point of view
Paul
$400 [12]
That wedding gown, that faded gown--I cannot get it, or poor Miss Havisham, out of my head
Great Expectations
Paul
$400 [9]
Penn State's teams, they were named partly for a mountain & partly for a creature that could defeat Princeton's Tigers
the Nittany Lions
Ellen
$400 [26]
In 1775 the Continental Congress appointed man of letters Benjamin Franklin to this job
postmaster general
Ellen
$400 [2]
Quang Tri City; the cavalry was sent!
the Vietnam War
Ted
$400 [17]
Goings on About Town, The Talk of the Town, The Critics
The New Yorker
Paul
$400 [22]
On some forms & applications:DOB
date of birth
Ted
$600 [13]
Bill was mean to his dog, Bull's Eye, then he killed Nancy... & so, I ran, but he kept gaining on me...
Oliver Twist
Paul
$600 [10]
You could say these athletes at UNLV aren't "without a cause"
the (Runnin') Rebels
Ted
$600 [27]
It's the rank just below (the very model of a modern) major general
brigadier general
Paul
$600 [3]
Quebec &, a year later, Trenton
the Revolutionary War
Ted Ellen
$600 [18]
Agenda, Fairground, Fanfair
Vanity Fair
Paul
$600 [23]
A religious group:LDS
Latter Day Saints
Ellen
$800 [14]
Oh no, it's the cruel headmaster of Salem House, Mr. Creakle, & his peg leg buddy, Tungay--will this never end?!
David Copperfield
Ted Ellen
$800 [11]
Worn by the National College football champions for 1993 & 1999, this team's logo is seen here
the (Florida State) Seminoles
Paul
$800 [29]
The U.N.'s website says this job is "a spokesman for the interests of the world's peoples, in particular the poor"
the Secretary-General
Ted
$800 [4]
No one enjoyed the portions at Pork Chop Hill
the Korean War
Ted
$800 [19]
Star Tracks, Scoop, Chatter
People
Paul
$800 [24]
For tax purposes, the total amount you earned less deductions:AGI
adjusted gross income
Ellen
$1,000 [15]
It's no "mystery" why John Jasper haunts me--his fingers have knives on them!
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Paul
$1,000 [28]
They're the sports teams of Fresno State as well as Georgia
the Bulldogs
Ted
DD $1,800 [30]
In 1870 Congress created this position to direct the Marine Hospital Service
the Surgeon General
Ted
$1,000 [5]
Let me take you down, 'cause we're going to... Bosworth Field
the War of the Roses
Ted
$1,000 [20]
Your Shot, Where in the World?, Visions of Earth
National Geographic
Ted
$1,000 [25]
Organization founded by Carrie Chapman Catt in 1920:LWV
the League of Women Voters
Ted

Double Jeopardy! Round

BIBLICAL PEOPLE & PLACES PHILMOGRAPHIES ARTISTS' RETREATS GET SMART U.S. GEOGRAPHY "CH"ILL OUT!
$400 [26]
(Alex stands at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.) The Western Wall is the only remnant of a retaining wall that was built to support the Temple Mount; now tradition says this mount was Moriah, the site where this patriarch prepared to sacrifice his son
Abraham
Ellen
$400 [3]
"Jingle All the Way","So I Married an Axe Murderer"(plus 153 episodes of "SNL")
Phil Hartman
Ellen
$400 [1]
"Ariel", "Portnoy's Complaint" & this 1969 mob novel were all written partly in Yaddo in Upstate N.Y.
The Godfather
Ted
$400 [7]
Choline may help adult brains grow; one of these breakfast items has about a third of your RDA--want an omelette?
an egg
Ellen
$400 [21]
Instead of counties, this state has boroughs (or is it brrr-oughs?)
Alaska
$400 [16]
15th century Pope Innocent VIII "The Honest" was the first pope to publicly admit having these
children
Ted
$1,200 [28]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands on the bank of the Jordan River in Israel.) As depicted in art, after parting the River Jordan with his cloak, this biblical prophet followed a chariot of fire into Heaven
Elijah
Ellen
$800 [12]
"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum","It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World"(plus his own 1955-59 TV show)
Phil Silvers
Ellen
$800 [2]
Proceeds from "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" helped him start a residency program on Long Island
Edward Albee
Paul
$800 [8]
A study of 3,500 Japanese men's brains found those who did this in moderation aged better than those who didn't
drank alcohol
Ted
$800 [22]
This state capital is located on the Merrimack River about 15 miles north of Manchester
Concord
Ellen
$800 [17]
The Battle of Missionary Ridge was a chief encounter of the 1863 battle of this southeastern city
Chattanooga
Ted
$1,600 [29]
It was the wealthiest Greek city in Paul's time; he founded a church there & wrote 2 letters to its Christians
Corinth
Ted
$1,200 [13]
"Buster","Hook","The Genesis Concert Movie"
Phil Collins
Paul
$1,600 [5]
The colony bearing this single name features a barn poet Edna built from a Sears kit
Millay
$1,200 [9]
A Boston study found doing this for 40 minutes a day builds up the cerebral cortex; monks must be really smart!
meditate
Ted Ellen Paul
$1,200 [23]
Tributaries of this Mississippi tributary include the Cheyenne, James & Platte
the Missouri
Ted
$1,200 [18]
The Chinese call these kuaizi
chopsticks
Paul
$2,000 [30]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads the clue from a church in Galilee in northern Israel.) This Italian Franciscan church is dedicated to these 9 assertions Jesus made nearby about the blessed
the Beatitudes
Paul
$1,600 [14]
"Doubt","Capote"
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Paul
$2,000 [6]
Around 1912, 2 painters from the Art Institute of this city founded the Ox-Bow Institute in Saugatuck, Mich.
Chicago
Ted
$1,600 [10]
Excess weight can interfere with this hormone, raising risk of diabetes & impairing brain function--so hit the gym, Einstein
insulin
Ellen
$1,600 [24]
The Houston ship channel flows into this bay that shares its name with a city
Galveston Bay
Ellen
$1,600 [19]
Don't squawk if you're accused of having illegible handwriting, aka this
chicken scratches
Paul
DD $5,000 [27]
Ezra was the leader of the Jews who returned from this land, by whose waters they had sat down & wept
Babylon
Ellen
$2,000 [15]
As a director:"The Right Stuff","Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
Philip Kaufman
Paul
DD $2,800 [4]
The patronage of Mabel Dodge Luhan made an artists' magnet of this town 55 miles from Santa Fe
Taos, New Mexico
Ellen
$2,000 [11]
A U. of California study found that listening to the too many notes in this guy's sonatas raised IQ scores 8-9 points
Mozart
Paul
$2,000 [25]
This N.C. peak, the highest east of the Mississippi, was named for the man who surveyed it, died on it & is buried at the top
Mt. Mitchell
$2,000 [20]
Specific 5-letter term for the block of wood you wedge under the wheels when jacking up a car
chock
Ted

Final Jeopardy!

INFLUENTIAL 19th CENTURY THINKERS

At the University of Bonn in 1836, he was wounded in a duel with a member of an aristocratic Prussian fraternity

Karl Marx

Ted "Who isKarl Marx? Nietchze" — wagered $12,398
Paul "Who was Hegel?" — wagered $4,200
Ellen "Who is Marx?" — wagered $3,100

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