Show #6169 2011-06-09 (taped 2011-02-22) Regular

Contestants

Makeen Huda — a lab assistant from Metairie, Louisiana

Mary Anna Martell — a graduate student in library science from Waterford, Connecticut

Tim Kuehn — a theatrical designer from Venice, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tim $3,400 $4,000 $3,200 $799
3rd place: $1,000
$5,200
10 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Mary Anna $3,000 $7,200 $22,400 $16,800
New champion: $16,800
$22,000
29 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Makeen $800 $2,800 $5,600 $4,799
2nd place: $2,000
$5,600
10 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

NAME THE AUTHOR STATE SONGS? LANGUAGES GOING TO X STREAMS "WALL" STREET JOURNAL
$200 [24]
"He wanted it because it was a ring of power, and if you slipped that ring on your finger, you were invisible"
Tolkien
Makeen
$200 [26]
The Mamas & the Papas:"____ Dreamin"'
California
Makeen
$200 [13]
It's the official language of Qatar
Arabic
Makeen
$200 [16]
The Xiang River flows hundreds of miles through Hunan Province before joining this even mightier Chinese river
the Yangtze
Mary Anna
$200 [1]
Vodka, orange juice & Galliano go into the cocktail called Harvey this
wallbanger
Tim
$200 [10]
The Beatles often recorded at a studio on this street, immortalizing its crossing on an album cover
Abbey Road
Mary Anna
$400 [8]
"'My goodness! My gracious!' they shouted. 'My word! It's something brand new! It's an elephant-bird'"
Dr. Seuss
Tim
$400 [27]
Billy Joel:"____ State Of Mind"
New York
Mary Anna
$400 [14]
Romansch, a dialect of the Central Alps, is the fourth national language of this country
Switzerland
Mary Anna
$400 [17]
At around 20 miles long, the Onyx River is this continent's longest
Antarctica
Mary Anna
$400 [2]
The quokka is another name for the short-tailed scrub species of this marsupial
a wallaby
Tim
$400 [6]
This street in New Orleans' French Quarter is named for a royal house, not for whiskey
Bourbon Street
Mary Anna
$600 [9]
"It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon ball"
Washington Irving
Makeen
$600 [28]
The Jackson 5:The semi-autobiographical "Goin' Back To ____"
Indiana
Tim
$600 [15]
This dialect forms the basis of modern standard Chinese, usually called Putonghua, "common language"
Mandarin
Tim
$600 [18]
Wear a jacket if you're going to the Kalix River in this country's Norrland region; it's even colder than Svealand
Sweden
Mary Anna
$600 [3]
A type of sweet onion is named for this Washington city
Walla Walla
Mary Anna
$600 [7]
This avenue, the traditional route of the presidential inaugural parade, runs over the Anacostia River
Pennsylvania Avenue
Mary Anna
$800 [23]
"On a glance it resembled most primitive carving; and then it didn't, for here was the spit-image of Holly Golightly"
(Truman) Capote
Makeen
$800 [29]
Alabama:"If You're Gonna Play In ____ (You Gotta Have A Fiddle In The Band)"
Texas
Mary Anna
$800 [21]
Tagalog is the basis for one of the official languages of this country
the Philippines
Mary Anna
$800 [19]
The Xucar originates north of Cuenca in this country before flowing into the Gulf of Valencia
Spain
Makeen
$800 [4]
Don't be shy; name this plant seen here
the wallflower
Mary Anna
$800 [11]
This Memphis street, a birthplace of the blues, is home to a museum devoted to W.C. Handy, Father of the Blues
Beale Street
Tim
$1,000 [25]
"Reel'd from the sabre-stroke shatter'd and sunder'd. Then they rode back, but not, not the six hundred"
(Alfred Lord) Tennyson
Mary Anna
$1,000 [30]
Faith Hill:"____ Girl"
Mississippi
Mary Anna
DD $2,000 [22]
L.L. Zamenhof grew up in an area of Poland where 4 languages were spoken, leading to ethnic animosity, so he created this
Esperanto
Mary Anna
$1,000 [20]
Bring a rod! There's great salmon fishing on the River Exe in this English county famous for its clotted cream
Devon
Mary Anna
$1,000 [5]
This type of game fish is named for an ocular feature
the walleye
Tim
$1,000 [12]
Since 1975 the Tour de France has ended with an 8-lap circuit of this broad avenue
the Champs-Elysées

Double Jeopardy! Round

JOHN PHILIP SOUSA AUSTRALIAN MOVIES ANIMAL NAMES AN ERNEST CATEGORY RULE,BRITANNICA! "TO" & "FRO"
$400 [27]
The sousaphone, developed from a suggestion by Sousa, is a 3-valved type of this brass instrument
a tuba
Mary Anna
$400 [11]
Rockatansky is the last name of the title character of this 1979 film set in a dystopian future Australia
Mad Max
Mary Anna
$400 [1]
Ay, this tiny dog is named for Mexico's largest state in area
Chihuahua
Mary Anna
$400 [24]
It was partly at the suggestion of fellow writer John Dos Passos that he moved to Key West, Florida in 1928
Hemingway
Mary Anna
$400 [6]
Encyclopedia Britannica has been U.S.-owned since 1901; in the '20s & '30s, this U.S. mail-order company owned it
Sears
Tim
$400 [15]
This injury from low temperatures can lead to gangrene
frostbite
Makeen
$800 [28]
Sousa met his wife, Jane, during rehearsals for this Gilbert & Sullivan operetta set on a ship off Portsmouth
H.M.S. Pinafore
Tim Mary Anna
$800 [12]
Though this sheep-herding pig was created in a book by an Englishman, the movie was set in Australia
Babe
Mary Anna
$800 [2]
With its stripes resembling another animal, the butterfly seenhereis known as this type of longwing
a zebra longwing
Mary Anna
$800 [21]
With his brother Julio, he created one of the world's largest winemaking empires
Ernest Gallo
Mary Anna
$800 [7]
This now-standard back-of-the-book feature first appeared in the 7th edition of 1830-1842
the (general) index
Mary Anna
$800 [16]
You'll hear this when someone scores a hit in fencing
touché
Mary Anna
$1,200 [26]
This 1893 march named for a national symbol served as the theme for "Monty Python's Flying Circus"
"The Liberty Bell"
$1,200 [13]
2 Australian sprinters are sent to fight in Turkey during WWI in this 1981 film
Gallipoli
$1,200 [3]
Like a woman who assists in childbirth, a type of toad whose male carries the eggs on its hind legs is called this
a midwife
Mary Anna
$1,200 [20]
Ernest "Fritz" Hollings represented this Southern state in the Senate from 1966 to 2005
South Carolina
Makeen
$1,200 [8]
The 10th edition of 1902 was sponsored by this London newspaper; thanks to a lawsuit, it quit before the 11th
The Times of London
$1,200 [17]
It's "An Irish Lullaby" me mother sang to me in Killarney
"Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral"
DD $2,000 [29]
In 1889 the owner of this newspaper asked Sousa to write a march for a ceremony for the winners of its essay contest
The Washington Post
Tim
$1,600 [14]
In this movie that showed a new side of Aussie life, an old bus with a royal name takes 3 entertainers into the Outback
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Makeen
$1,600 [4]
This scarab relative, often seen at night, is named for the time of year when it's most prevalent
a junebug
Mary Anna
$1,600 [22]
In 1947 he headlined the first Grand Ole Opry concert at Carnegie Hall
Ernest Tubb
Mary Anna
$2,000 [10]
The 15th edition of 1974 was the first divided into a "Propaedia" outline of knowledge & these 2 "large" & "small" sections
the Macropedia & the Micropedia
$1,600 [18]
Colloquial 5-letter title for a first-year college student
frosh
Makeen
$2,000 [30]
In 1896 Sousa wrote an operetta set in Peru during Spanish occupation that featured this title march
"El Capitan"
$2,000 [25]
Toni Collette leaves Porpoise Spit for Sydney & lip-syncs to ABBA songs in this 1994 film
Muriel's Wedding
Makeen
$2,000 [5]
This South American monkey seenhereis named for its soft, thick fur
a wooly monkey
Tim
$2,000 [23]
After abandoning ship during a transantarctic expedition in 1915, he & his men spent months drifting on ice floes
Sir Ernest Shackleton
Mary Anna
DD $4,000 [9]
EB's thistle logo is a reminder that it was first published in this country, one of whose symbols is the thistle
Scotland
Mary Anna
$2,000 [19]
Mais oui, it's French for "cheese"
fromage
Tim

Final Jeopardy!

THE PRESIDENCY

From 1792 to 1886 this person, not the Speaker of the House, followed the vice president in the line of succession

the President pro tem (of the Senate)

Tim "Who is the Secretary of State?" — wagered $2,401
Makeen "Who is the Secretary of State?" — wagered $801
Mary Anna "Who is the Secretary of State?" — wagered $5,600

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