Show #6161 2011-05-30 (taped 2011-02-09) Regular

Contestants

Matt Larson — a technical support specialist from Denver, Colorado

Roberta Candalino — a homemaker from Bedford, Texas

Monica Iyer — a law clerk from New York, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $32,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Monica $1,800 $4,200 $10,800 $5,598
2nd place: $2,000
$9,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Roberta $400 $2,900 $13,200 $200
3rd place: $1,000
$14,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Matt $4,400 $6,800 $16,000 $5,599
New champion: $5,599
$16,000
21 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

A NOVEL CATEGORY FILL IN THE SONG TITLE CARBAGE BORN & DIED NO DICE 5 IN A "ROW"
$200 [1]
Published posthumously, "Sleeping Murder" was her last novel to feature miss Jane Marple
Agatha Christie
Matt
$200 [2]
The 4 Seasons, or Fergie: "B.G.D.C."
"Big Girls Don't Cry"
Monica
$200 [11]
The Citation & Corsair were models of this Ford failure of the 1950s
the Edsel
Roberta
$200 [16]
Born: Feb. 22, 1932, Boston, Massachusetts. Died: Aug. 25, 2009, Hyannis Port, Massachusetts
Ted Kennedy
Matt
$200 [23]
Gingerbread playing tokens pass through the peppermint forest in this game for preschoolers
Candy Land
Roberta
$200 [21]
They're the first 5 words of the little ditty that ends, "life is but a dream"
Row, row, row your boat
Roberta
$400 [3]
Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" was originally published in this language
German
Monica
$400 [7]
Seal: "K.F.A.R."
"Kiss From A Rose"
Monica
$400 [12]
Time said this 1980s Slavic import "had the distinct feeling of something assembled at gunpoint"
the Yugo
Matt
$400 [17]
Born: 570, Mecca. Died: June 8, 632, Medina
Muhammad
Monica
$400 [24]
Shown here is the creation of the powerful piece called this
the king
Matt
$400 [22]
It's the groove made in the ground by a plow
a furrow
Monica
$600 [4]
This weepy 1970 bestseller begins with the line "What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?"
Love Story
Monica
$600 [8]
Cheap Trick:"I.W.Y.T.W.M."
"I Want You To Want Me"
Matt
$600 [13]
The Sierra Club derisively dubbed this gargantuan SUV "the Ford Valdez"
the Excursion
Matt
DD $500 [19]
Born: Nov. 2, 1755, Vienna, Austria. Died: Oct. 16. 1793, Paris, France
Marie Antoinette
Roberta
$600 [26]
The "hock" is the last card drawn in this once-popular game, a homophone of an ancient ruler
faro
$600 [25]
As it allows you to take books on loan, a library card is also known as this type of card
a borrowing card
Monica
$800 [5]
Oddly, Eric van Lustbader has written more of the Jason Bourne novels than this original author did
Robert Ludlum
Matt
$800 [9]
Carrie Underwood & her Louisville Slugger: "B.H.C."
"Before He Cheats"
Matt
$800 [14]
Powered(?) by a 90-hp engine, the 1982 model of this iconic Chevy sports car took 20 seconds to go from zero to 60
the Camaro
Monica Roberta
$600 [18]
Born: Oct. 2, 1869, Porbandar, India. Died: Jan. 30, 1948, New Delhi, India
Gandhi
Roberta
$800 [27]
Shogi is a Japanese variant of this board game but captured pieces can be used by the opponent
chess
Matt
$800 [29]
When you're wrong & you admit it, you "eat" this bird; now wipe your mouth!
crow
Monica
$1,000 [6]
"The Ghost Writer" & "Exit Ghost" are 2 of the novels featuring this author's alter ego Nathan Zuckerman
Philip Roth
Monica
$1,000 [10]
The Fray: "H.T.S.A.L."
"How To Save A Life"
Matt
$1,000 [15]
This model was the infamous focus of Ralph Nader's 1965 expose "Unsafe At Any Speed"
the Corvair
Roberta
$1,000 [20]
Born: June 14, 1928, Rosario, Argentina. Died: Oct. 9, 1967, Bolivia
Che Guevara
Matt
$1,000 [28]
This Mattel game has 2 decks of cards for "things" & "descriptions" & your "thing" must try to match the "description"
Apples to Apples
Monica
$1,000 [30]
TV's Baretta may have had a pet cockatoo, but his theme song was "Keep Your Eye On" this
"The Sparrow"
Roberta

Double Jeopardy! Round

LINGUISTICS BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS PASS THE VEGGIES CATCHING A FEW "Z"s PENNSYLVANIA DREAMIN' ON SUCH A WINTER'S DAY
$400 [4]
In European languages, this, such as masculine or feminine, is often unpredictable
the gender
Monica
$400 [7]
She had us at "Cold Mountain"
Renée Zellweger
Roberta
$400 [1]
This favorite of Popeye makes an excellent "wilted" side dish
spinach
Roberta
$400 [10]
6-letter word: go to the left, now right, back left, then right again
zigzag
Matt
$400 [15]
The Pennsylvania state Capitol dome rises 272 feet above this city
Harrisburg
Matt
$400 [20]
On Jan. 15, 1827 a man exited an oven (holding an overdone steak!) in a suit of this in a test of its heat resistance
asbestos
Roberta
DD $500 [9]
It's not just a Louisiana French dialect, but any language that evolves from pidgin speech
Creole
Roberta
$800 [8]
No driving over a cliff for her in "The Accidental Tourist"
Geena Davis
Monica Roberta
$800 [2]
Please pass the small, round pearl type of these around; the cream sauce is delicious!
onions
Matt
$800 [11]
This rock musician brought his wild, macabre style to his first feature directorial effort, "House of 1000 Corpses"
Rob Zombie
Matt
$800 [16]
The western tip of this city's Golden Triangle--where the Ohio River begins--is called the point
Pittsburgh
Matt
$800 [21]
On Dec. 27, 1900 she staged her 1st big "raid" when she marched on a Wichita saloon & smashed all liquor bottles in reach
Carrie Nation
Monica
$1,200 [28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a linguistic diagram on the monitor.) In English, standard word order is SVO, short for this; in Japanese, it's SOV
subject, verb, object
Matt
$1,200 [17]
She won for "My Cousin Vinny" & has been nominated 2 other times, as well
Marisa Tomei
Matt
$1,200 [3]
For carb cutters, "Joy of Cooking" has a recipe for this vegetable, mashed as a substitute for potatoes
cauliflower
Monica Roberta
$1,200 [12]
Atomic number 30, it's often used in sunscreen
zinc
Roberta
$1,200 [25]
Well, we're living here in this "town" that lies on the Lehigh River across from Bethlehem
Allentown
Roberta
$1,200 [22]
He & Alfred Vail demonstrated their telegraph publicly for the first time on Jan. 6, 1838 in Morristown
(Samuel) Morse
Monica
$1,600 [29]
Study of the Indo-European family began in 1786 with a scholar noting this ancient tongue's affinity with Greek & Latin
Sanskrit
Monica
$1,600 [18]
She won for "Tootsie", a few years after not even being nominated for "King Kong"
Jessica Lange
Roberta
$1,600 [5]
Argenteuil, France is famous for its white type of this, which is grown underground
asparagus
Monica
$1,600 [13]
This term meaning "just don't" is applied to policies like those in California schools for students carrying guns
zero-tolerance
Matt
$1,600 [26]
In 1850 this city that loves Feb. 2 became a borough; in 1850 this city that loves Feb. 2 became a borough; in 1850...
Punxsutawney
Roberta
$2,000 [24]
In his Feb. 18, 1861 inaugural address, he spoke of "the absence of wrong on our part"
Jefferson Davis
Monica Roberta Matt
$2,000 [30]
Forming statements not about here & now is called this, like the amount of water moved by a floating body
displacement
Monica
$2,000 [19]
She took home an Oscar for "From Here to Eternity" & later starred in one of TV's most wholesome sitcoms
Donna Reed
Roberta
$2,000 [6]
Pablo Neruda said this thistlelike plant had a "tender heart" & a "small helmet under its scales"
an artichoke
Matt
$2,000 [14]
The Matura diamond is a colorless variety of this 6-letter mineral
zircon
Roberta
$2,000 [27]
This city with a hyphenated name was named for 2 British politicians who defended the American colonies in parliament
Wilkes-Barre
Matt
DD $3,000 [23]
On Jan. 14, 2011 President Ben Ali fled this African country as his people protested his 23-year rule
Tunisia
Monica

Final Jeopardy!

SCIENCE TERMS

This term for the lowest level of the ocean that the Sun's rays can reach shares its name with a classic 1960s TV show

the twilight zone

Monica "What is ?" — wagered $5,202
Roberta "What is sunset?" — wagered $13,000
Matt "What is deep sea" — wagered $10,401

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