Show #6122 2011-04-05 (taped 2010-11-30) Regular

Christopher Short game 3.

Contestants

Cindy Peterson — a crossing guard from Geneva, Illinois

Cory Biggs — a graduate student of public service from Little Rock, Arkansas

Christopher Short — a pub trivia editor from Crawfordsville, Indiana (whose 2-day cash winnings total $32,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Christopher $1,200 $4,000 $14,800 $6,399
3-day champion: $38,399
$14,800
18 R, 1 W
Cory $5,200 $9,800 $9,800 $4,799
2nd place: $2,000
$10,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Cindy $2,000 $3,600 $11,600 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$11,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

ON BENDED KNEE WHO SANG IT? IN FLORIDA OPRAH'S SURPRISES LEGAL ABBREV. A STACK OF KNOWLEDGE
$200 [15]
In 2010 he gave his late mother's engagement ring to Kate Middleton in Kenya
Prince William
Cindy
$200 [1]
"U Can't Touch This" &"2 Legit 2 Quit"
MC Hammer
Christopher
$200 [21]
A short-lived craze
a fad
Christopher
$200 [13]
(Oprah Winfrey gives the clue.) One of my favorite moments on the show is when a "Star Search" winner came on to sing "Isn't She Lovely" & part way through found this man backing him up on a harmonica
Stevie Wonder
Cory
$200 [27]
Enacted by Congress, the U.C.M.J is the Uniform Code of this type of Justice
Military
Cory
$200 [8]
This "stack" is a large chimney or vertical pipe through which combustion gases escape
a smokestack
Christopher
$400 [16]
He talked Grace Kelly out of acting after "High Society" & brought her into high society for their 1956 wedding
Prince Rainier
Christopher
$400 [2]
"What Would You Say" &"Crash Into Me"
Dave Matthews
Cory
$400 [25]
Don't venture up the creek without this synonym for a paddle
an oar
Cory
$400 [14]
(Oprah Winfrey gives the clue.) A moment that meant so much to me was when a man who'd lost 300 lbs came on & we were able to give him this iconic brand of German sports car; he thought he'd never even fit into it
a Porsche
Cindy
$400 [28]
If you're using a name other than your own for your company, you should file the D.B.A. certificate, short for this
doing business as
Christopher
$400 [9]
Carl Sandburg called this city not only the "hog butcher for the world" but also "stacker of wheat"
Chicago
Cory
$600 [17]
Fellow scientist Marie attended his 1895 thesis presentation on magnetism; a proposal soon followed
(Pierre) Curie
Cory
$600 [3]
"Bad Blood" & "Laughter In The Rain"
Neil Sedaka
$600 [26]
The hairdo sported by the young Michael Jackson
an afro
Cory
$600 [20]
(Oprah Winfrey gives the clue.) I thought I was doing a show on juries back in 1994 but it turned out to be a surprise 40th birthday party for me; Patti LaBelle & this "Queen of Soul" made my day by being there
Aretha Franklin
Cindy
$600 [5]
A T.R.O. is a temporary one of these injunctions
a restraining order
Cory
$600 [10]
Referring to public access, it's where you'll find the open & closed stacks on a college campus
the library
Cindy
$800 [18]
In 1931 publisher George Palmer Putnam kept this aviatrix on the ground long enough to marry her
Amelia Earhart
Christopher
$800 [4]
"Nuthin' But A 'G' Thang" &"Keep Their Heads Ringin'"
Dr. Dre
Cory
$800 [29]
A sudden, short attack, like the Great Northfield, Minnesota one
a raid
Cindy
$800 [23]
(Oprah Winfrey gives the clue.) In 2003 I surprised a New Orleans nanny named Fannie with some gifts, including a new van & it was that van that helped Fannie & her family escape this natural disaster
Hurricane Katrina
Cory
$1,000 [7]
The amount of time you have to file a lawsuit is determined by an S.O.L., one of these
a statute of limitations
Cindy
$800 [11]
In restaurant slang, an order of pancakes with maple syrup is "a stack of" this state
Vermont
Christopher
$1,000 [19]
He was on bended knee twice before Frida Kahlo; the 2 were married in 1929 & after a separation, again in 1941
Diego Rivera
Cory
$1,000 [22]
"Undone--The Sweater Song" &"Buddy Holly"
Weezer
Cory
$1,000 [24]
(Oprah Winfrey gives the clue.) In 2006 I reunited sisters Clemantine & Claire Wamariya with their parents--the girls hadn't seen them since escaping the 1994 genocide in this African country
Rwanda
Christopher
DD $1,800 [6]
If you signed an N.D.A., one of these agreements, you've got to keep your mouth shut
a non-disclosure agreement
Cory
$1,000 [12]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows some anatomical diagrams on the monitor.) Despite the vast difference in their heights, a human & a giraffe both have 7 of these bones in the neck, stacked one on top of the other
vertebra
Cory

Double Jeopardy! Round

ON BATTERED KNEE MR. SPEAKER (OF THE HOUSE) WORLD HERITAGE SITES FIRST NAME'S THE SAME NOVEL "T"s SUFFIXES
$400 [26]
This golfer had reconstructive knee surgery after winning the 2008 U.S. Open on one good leg
Tiger Woods
Christopher
$400 [23]
He was on the cover of the Nov. 15, 2010 Time magazine with the caption "Mr. Speaker"
John Boehner
Cory
$400 [12]
Enormous stone figures called moai put this island on UNESCO's list
Easter Island
Cindy
$400 [16]
Gable, Clifford, Kent
Clark
Cindy
$400 [1]
In the title of a favorite by S.E. Hinton, these 3 words precede "This Is Now"
That Was Then
Christopher Cory
$400 [7]
"Brainy" suffix that can denote manner or direction, as when added to "clock"
-wise
Christopher
$800 [27]
Playing for Real Madrid in 2007, this soccer star bent his knee unlike himself, damaging a ligament
Beckham
Christopher
$800 [24]
3 Georgians have served as Speaker of the House: 2 Democrats & from 1995 to 1999 this Republican
Gingrich
Christopher
$800 [13]
UNESCO mentioned the magnificent monuments of the historic center of this Czech city, including the Charles Bridge
Prague
Cindy
$800 [17]
Ellis, Farrell, Mason
Perry
Christopher Cory
$800 [2]
Don't let the title mislead you: this 1844 novel relates the adventures of 4 swashbuckling heroes
The Three Musketeers
Cindy
$800 [8]
When this suffix is added to a number, it means that a building has that number of units
-plex
Cory
$1,200 [28]
When it comes to gruesome leg injuries, this Redskin quarterback's 1985 one is always cringe-worthy
(Joe) Theismann
Christopher
$1,200 [4]
While William Bankhead was Speaker, this daughter was appearing on stage in "The Little Foxes"
Tallulah
Cindy
DD $1,600 [11]
In listing this citadel, UNESCO lauded Phidias, a sculptor who "transformed the rocky hill into a unique monument"
the Acropolis
Cory
$1,200 [18]
Jennings (a real guy), Smithers (an animated one)
Waylon
Christopher
$1,200 [3]
The full title of this sequel continues "and What Alice Found There"
Through the Looking-Glass
Cory
$1,200 [21]
Thinking of the suffix of several Asian countries will help you with the name of this tribal area where the Waziris live
Waziristan
Cory
$1,600 [9]
This "Great Compromiser" from Kentucky was elected Speaker in 1811 on the very first day he set foot in the House
Henry Clay
Cory Cindy
$1,600 [14]
L'Anse aux Meadows, with the remains of an 11th century Viking settlement, is at the tip of this Canadian province
Newfoundland
Christopher
$1,600 [19]
Zubiri, Herbert, Cugat
Xavier
Cindy
DD $2,000 [5]
This Hardy novel is subtitled "A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented"
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Cindy
$1,600 [22]
By itself, it's a geographic line; as a suffix, it means turning toward something
-tropic
Cindy
$2,000 [10]
Of the 49 years this Texan spent in the House of Representatives, nearly 17 were as Speaker--Mister...
Sam Rayburn
$2,000 [15]
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in Australia includes this monolith, which aboriginals of the region call Uluru
Ayers Rock
Christopher
$2,000 [20]
Vance (of 19th century North Carolina politics), Pike (of geographic "Peak" fame)
Zebulon
Cindy
$2,000 [6]
Chinua Achebe's first novel, about the leader of an Igbo community, is called these "Fall Apart", a line from Yeats
Things
Cindy
$2,000 [25]
This suffix can mean "headed in the direction of" or "not headed anywhere because you're trapped by"
-bound
Christopher

Final Jeopardy!

BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS

The latest "Bartlett's" lists quotes chronologically; the first quotes come from this country

Egypt

Cory "What is Afghanistan?" — wagered $5,001
Cindy "What is England" — wagered $11,600
Christopher "What is Greece?" — wagered $8,401

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