Show #6159 2011-05-26 (taped 2011-02-08) Regular

Contestants

Carl Aveni — a civil litigation attorney from Columbus, Ohio

Chloe Horning — a graduate student in library and information science from Seattle, Washington

Tom Brown — a program analyst originally from Harleysville, Pennsylvania (whose 2-day cash winnings total $40,402)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tom $400 $2,000 $12,800 $4,799
2nd place: $2,000
$15,200
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Chloe $0 $4,000 $10,400 $14,000
New champion: $14,000
$10,400
15 R, 4 W
Carl $3,000 $5,300 $13,700 $1,799
3rd place: $1,000
$12,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

AUTHORS MUSICAL BY CHARACTERS FASHION FROM HEAD TO TOE U.N. OBSERVANCES THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE 3-LETTER THE BETTER
$200 [1]
While attending Lisbon Falls High School in Maine, this horror author published a newspaper, The Village Vomit
Stephen King
Chloe
$200 [6]
Fantine & her daughter Cosette
Les Misérables
Chloe
$200 [23]
This type of felt hat that Dick Tracy wore is named for a play by Sardou
a fedora
Tom
$200 [10]
December 2 is International Day for the Abolition of this, which didn't disappear in 1865
Slavery
Tom
$200 [15]
Cape Catoche, the northeastern tip of this large peninsula, lies a little more than 30 miles north of Cancun
the Yucatan
Tom
$200 [20]
To point your Mauser
aim
Chloe Carl
$400 [2]
Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from this lung disease for many years, but died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1894
tuberculosis
Carl
$400 [7]
Miguel de Cervantes & Aldonza
The Man of La Mancha
Chloe Carl
$400 [24]
1950s fashion favored this canine skirt
a poodle skirt
Carl
$400 [11]
March 22 is World this Resource Day; the theme for 1999 was "Everyone Lives Downstream"
Water
Carl
$400 [16]
This companion island to Trinidad has its own airport, Crown Point International
Tobago
Carl
$400 [21]
What a film reel is stored in; hence something finished is "in" it
the can
Chloe
$600 [3]
Already a successful poet, in 1814 he started his career as a novelist with a tale of the Highlands
Sir Walter Scott
Chloe
$600 [8]
Emile de Becque & Ensign Nellie Forbush
South Pacific
Chloe Carl
$600 [25]
This company's canvas All Star basketball shoe goes all the way back to 1917
Converse
Tom Chloe
$600 [12]
September 16 is International Day for the Preservation of this atmospheric layer
the Ozone Layer
Carl
$800 [18]
This Venezuelan waterfall was named for an American bush pilot who discovered it in 1935
Angel Falls
Carl
$600 [28]
Saturated
wet
Chloe
$800 [4]
About the "Human Comedy" series, he said, "French society was to be the historian, I was only to be its secretary"
Honoré de Balzac
$800 [9]
Aunt Eller Murphy & Laurey Williams
Oklahoma!
$800 [26]
This French-named garment looks like a skirt but is actually pants
culottes
Chloe
$800 [13]
Can't wait for Oct. 20, World Day for this science of collecting & arranging numerical facts & data
statistics
Carl
$1,000 [19]
This southwestern U.S. desert has a river of the same name, flowing mainly underground to near Soda Lake
Mojave
$800 [29]
To impose a levy
to tax
Tom
$1,000 [5]
His "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" spans 100 years from the Civil War to the civil rights movement
Ernest J. Gaines
$1,000 [22]
Rolf Gruber & Mother Abbess of Nonnberg Abbey
The Sound of Music
Chloe
$1,000 [27]
The French name of these casual summer shoes derives from a tough wiry grass that's used to make rope
espadrilles
Chloe Carl
$1,000 [14]
International this Remembrance Day, January 27, commemorates the 1945 date on which Auschwitz was liberated
Holocaust
Carl
DD $1,500 [17]
A monument dedicated to the men who lost their lives on the USS Maine stands in this capital's Parque del Maine
Havana
Carl
$1,000 [30]
It's the plant seen here; Don Draper favors one of its products
rye
Chloe

Double Jeopardy! Round

"G"ARDEN GLOSSARY TURN OF THE CENTURY MOVIES I SERVED IN HIS CABINET ARE YOU PERHAPS FRENCH? BIBLE BOOK BINDINGS GREEK LETTERS
$400 [6]
Inserting a section of one plant into another so that they grow as one plant
to graft
Tom
$400 [14]
In a northern England mining town, a young boy takes up ballet dancing
Billy Elliot
Tom
$400 [1]
Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sebelius
Barack Obama
Tom
$400 [9]
Philippe of this family is Chief Ocean Correspondent for Animal Planet
Cousteau
Carl
$400 [16]
Hey___Law
Jude
$400 [26]
Precedes "-bits" in the name of a sweet Post cereal
alpha
Chloe
$800 [7]
Rich in nutrients, this bat or bird dropping is good for your garden
guano
Tom
$800 [15]
Policeman Ichabod Crane is sent to a small town to investigate a series of decapitations
Sleepy Hollow
Chloe Carl
$800 [2]
Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt
Ronald Reagan
Tom
$800 [10]
Born in 1911, Louise Bourgeois worked into her 90s on her biomorphic creations in this art form
sculpture
Chloe
$800 [17]
Maker's___Sanchez
Mark
Tom
$800 [27]
The ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter
pi
Tom
$1,200 [8]
Open an account at one of these banks that exist for the conservation of seeds, tissues or reproductive cells
a gene bank
Chloe
$1,200 [21]
A young cop works with rogue detective Denzel Washington on the narcotics beat in Los Angeles
Training Day
Chloe
$1,200 [3]
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance
Jimmy Carter
Tom
$1,200 [11]
Michelin 3-star chef Joel Robuchon opened his first U.S. restaurant in this city, not New York
Las Vegas
Tom
$1,600 [19]
Losing___Washington
Isaiah
Carl
$1,200 [28]
A little bit, a really little bit
iota
Tom
$1,600 [24]
This cereal grain embryo is usually separated from the endosperm during milling; health nuts love the "wheat" kind
the germ
Carl
$1,600 [22]
A research chemist appears on a "60 Minutes" expose of the tobacco industry
The Insider
Tom
$1,600 [4]
Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz
Nixon
$1,600 [12]
He was Jacques Chirac's predecessor as president
François Mitterrand
Tom
$2,000 [20]
The Heidi___of Riddick
Chronicles
Chloe
$1,600 [29]
A homophone of a verb meaning "to paddle"
rho
Carl
$2,000 [25]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows some plants on the monitor.) Most plant shoots have a tendency to grow towards the sun, which is called phototropism; if roots grew that way, they'd shrivel up & die, so they grow into the earth, displaying this other -ism
geotropism
$2,000 [23]
2 warriors seek the Green Destiny, a stolen ancient sword
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Carl
$2,000 [5]
Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall
Harry Truman
Carl
DD $2,000 [13]
Luc Montagnier identified the AIDS virus while working at the institute named for this 19th c. Frenchman
(Louis) Pasteur
Tom
DD $2,400 [18]
Prime___Racket
Numbers
Tom
$2,000 [30]
Ancient Romans would've read this one as 11
xi

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY MUSIC

Lyrics to an 1868 tune by this man began, "Guten Abend, Gut Nacht, Mit Rosen Bedacht"

Johannes Brahms

Chloe "Who is Brahms?" — wagered $3,600
Tom "Who is Wagner?" — wagered $8,001
Carl "Who was Wagner?" — wagered $11,901

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