Show #6125 2011-04-08 (taped 2010-12-01) Regular

Christopher Short game 6.

Contestants

Anselm Chen — an educational consultant from Alamo, California

Kimberly Sheppard — a legal assistant from Fort Worth, Texas

Christopher Short — a pub trivia editor from Crawfordsville, Indiana (whose 5-day cash winnings total $68,399)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Christopher $4,200 $6,000 $26,400 $26,353
6-day champion: $94,752
$24,400
28 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Kimberly $2,000 $4,200 $13,000 $2,001
2nd place: $2,000
$12,600
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Anselm $200 $600 $1,000 $1,000
3rd place: $1,000
$3,000
8 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

IT BORDERS JUST ONE OTHER COUNTRY 21st CENTURY MUSIC BABY NAMES A LA SHAKESPEARE YES, THAT'S "WHITE" WHEN THE SAINTS COME, HO CHI MINH
$200 [14]
Canada
the United States
Anselm
$200 [6]
The nickname of this woman from the Black Eyed Peas is just a shortening of her last name
Fergie
Christopher
$200 [19]
Knowing it's from the Greek for "serpent" might turn you off this name of a doomed lass in "Hamlet"
Ophelia
Anselm
$200 [1]
Turbulent rapids
whitewater
Christopher
$200 [11]
Santa Rosa de Lima is honored with festivals each August 30 in this country where she's patron saint
Peru
Christopher
$200 [26]
Ho Chi Minh is buried in this capital city
Hanoi
Kimberly Anselm
$400 [15]
South Korea
North Korea
Kimberly
$400 [7]
The stage name of this R&B singer born Shaffer Smith is a play on the name of a character in "The Matrix"
Ne-Yo
Christopher
$400 [22]
Name a girl this after the "Merchant of Venice" heroine & she'll probably grow up to like fast sports cars
Portia
Christopher
$400 [2]
Milk with butter & flour added used as a base in cooking
a white sauce
$400 [12]
The site of this city, now the seat of Saint Johns County, Florida, was visited by Ponce de Leon in 1513
St. Augustine
Christopher
$400 [27]
Ho Chi Minh helped start Vietnam's Communist Party & in the 1920s helped start this Eur. country's Communist Party
France
Anselm
$800 [17]
San Marino
Italy
Kimberly
$600 [8]
"Ordinary People" singer John Stephens took on this last name, the stuff that myths are made of
Legend
Christopher
$600 [23]
If you give your son this villainous 4-letter name from "Othello", you're just asking for trouble
Iago
Christopher
$600 [3]
Condition of heavy snow or fog during daylight in which visibility is lost
a whiteout
Christopher
$600 [13]
You're a Slav to the study of language if you know that this alphabet bears the name of a 9th c. saint
Cyrillic
Kimberly
$600 [30]
The trail bearing Ho's name was a series of Viet Cong supply routes mostly through this neighboring nation
Laos
Kimberly
DD $1,000 [16]
Denmark
Germany
Kimberly
$800 [9]
"Icky Thump" was a No. 1 modern rock hit for this duo
The White Stripes
Christopher
$800 [24]
I'd think twice about naming your daughter this; she might turn into a shrew like in the play
Katherine
Kimberly
$800 [4]
A chess piece, or a company involved in a friendly takeover of another
a white knight
Christopher
$800 [20]
It's the secret identity of the British detective known as "The Saint"
Simon Templar
Christopher
$800 [29]
Ho Chi Minh was also known by the nickname Bac Ho, meaning this relative
uncle
Kimberly
$1,000 [18]
Brunei
Malaysia
Kimberly Anselm
$1,000 [10]
Brothers Chad & Mike Kroeger make up half of this rock band
Nickelback
Christopher
$1,000 [25]
For an eighth child, preferably a daughter, this name from "Antony and Cleopatra" would be fitting
Octavia
Kimberly
$1,000 [5]
Down a shot & name this 1973 Burt Reynolds movie
White Lightning
Christopher
$1,000 [21]
This Afro-Cuban belief system uses Catholic saints as representations of the spirit world
Santería
Kimberly
$1,000 [28]
Ho Chi Minh's real family name wasn't Ho, it was this, like many other Vietnamese
Nguyen
Anselm

Double Jeopardy! Round

BALLETS WE'VE NEVER ASKED ABOUT BEFORE BEST MOVIE QUOTES EVER! 6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR SYRIA'S EATING UP IN THE AIR ABBREV.
$400 [26]
In Jerome Robbins' "Celebration", couples representing 5 countries dance this, "step for 2" in French
pas de deux
Anselm
$400 [7]
1967:"We rob banks"
Bonnie and Clyde
Christopher
$400 [5]
D'Artagnan
Dumas
Anselm
$400 [21]
Syria had to wait until 2006 for an American fast food franchise, this fowl-selling one
KFC
Christopher
$400 [16]
It decreases for the first 6 miles of the atmosphere, then goes way up, way down & finally up again around 55 miles high
the temperature
Kimberly
$400 [12]
A recent, frightening addition to our world language:WMD
weapons of mass destruction
Kimberly
$800 [28]
"Fete Noire" was first presented in 1971 by the fledgling dance theatre of this Manhattan area
Harlem
Kimberly
$800 [8]
1975:"She turned me into a newt!"
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Kimberly
$800 [4]
Harry Angstrom, aka "Rabbit"
(John) Updike
Christopher
$800 [22]
Mansaf is this favorite meat cooked in a yogurt sauce
lamb
Christopher
$800 [17]
Warm air flows deflected by the Earth's rotation create winds that were named this by business-minded mariners
trade winds
Christopher
$800 [6]
Since 1871, they've aimed to please:NRA
the National Rifle Association
Kimberly
$1,200 [29]
In "Harlequinade" the hero tries to rescue Columbine with the help of the magical "La Bonne Fee", this in English
the good fairy
Christopher
$1,200 [9]
1999:"Get in my belly!" (second in a series)
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Christopher
$1,200 [3]
Esmeralda & Claude Frollo
(Victor) Hugo
Kimberly Anselm
$1,200 [23]
Sultan Ibrahim is a Mideastern name for red mullet, a type of this creature
fish
Anselm
$1,200 [18]
At under 6,000 feet, this 7-letter layered type of cloud is one of the lowest
stratus
Christopher
$1,200 [13]
Printer particular:DPI
dots per inch
Christopher
$1,600 [30]
The ballet "Bhakti" features 3 Hindu gods including this "destroyer", whose wife, Shakti, dances for him
Shiva
Anselm
$1,600 [10]
1999:"Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler"
Office Space
Christopher
$1,600 [2]
Catherine Earnshaw
Emily Brontë
Kimberly
$1,600 [25]
The leaves of mulukhiya resemble those of this vegetable; we hope Syrian kids don't turn up their noses at mulukhiya
spinach
Christopher
$1,600 [19]
Pilots are leery of CAT, or clear-air this, which often occurs over mountains & around thunderstorms
turbulence
Kimberly
$1,600 [14]
You can bank on it:FDIC
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Christopher
$2,000 [27]
The 1969 ballet "Trinity" was inspired by the peace movement in this California university city
Berkeley
Christopher
$2,000 [11]
1951:"Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above"
The African Queen
Kimberly
DD $2,000 [1]
Paul Baumer, a young German soldier
Erich Maria Remarque
Anselm
$2,000 [24]
To make eish al-Saraya or "Syrian dessert" you need this preparation made by steeping petals in liquid
rosewater
Christopher
$2,000 [20]
From 30 to 50 miles up is this intermediate section of the atmosphere; it gets its name from the Greek for "middle"
mesosphere
Christopher
DD $4,000 [15]
Like NAFTA, but farther south:CAFTA
Central American Free Trade Agreement
Christopher

Final Jeopardy!

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

64 paintings from the Met's founding purchase are still in its collection; over 1/3 of them are from this current European nation

the Netherlands

Anselm "What is Italy?" — wagered $0
Kimberly "What is Italy?" — wagered $10,999
Christopher "What is the answer" — wagered $47

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