Show #6179 2011-06-23 (taped 2011-03-01) Regular

Jay Rhee game 4.

Contestants

Pat Connor — a management consultant from Cummaquid, Massachusetts

Andrew Dobbs — a community organizer and writer from Austin, Texas

Jay Rhee — an oncologist from Annapolis, Maryland (whose 3-day cash winnings total $70,803)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jay $3,000 $6,000 $19,400 $15,000
4-day champion: $85,803
$16,000
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Dobbs $400 $1,400 $3,800 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$3,800
11 R, 5 W
Pat $1,800 $3,600 $5,600 $3,599
2nd place: $2,000
$7,600
12 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

GENERAL SCIENCE TV TOE TAGS CHILDREN'S BOOK NAMES "N" THE MIDDLE VIETNAM THE VEGETABLE GARDEN
$200 [1]
Technically, the measure of a body's inertia is known as this property of matter
mass
Jay
$200 [6]
Mary Alice's suicide in the first episode of the show doesn't stop her from narrating this series
Desperate Housewives
Jay
$200 [26]
Margaret & H.A. Rey:"The Complete Adventures of Curious ____"
George
Dobbs
$200 [8]
You might use this electrical appliance to mix your smoothies
a blender
Jay
$200 [17]
In the 1880s this European nation combined the 3 areas under its control into a unified Vietnam
France
Dobbs
$200 [16]
Plant this veggie, allium cepa, near your carrots, as its odor drives off carrot flies, & maybe makes them cry
onions
Dobbs
$400 [2]
In palynology scientists study the past distribution of seed plants by looking at grains of this
pollen
Jay
$400 [7]
Edgar succumbed to sentox gas at CTU in a 2006 episode of this show
24
Dobbs
$400 [27]
Beatrix Potter:"The Tale of ____ Bunny" (not "The Curious Case of ____ Bunny")
Benjamin
Jay
$400 [12]
The Corinth one in Greece is only 3.9 miles long & has no locks
a canal
Pat
$400 [18]
According to its official name, Vietnam is one of these republics
a socialist
Dobbs Pat
$400 [22]
Full of nitrogen & potassium, this marine product, such as knotted wrack, can make your garden healthier
seaweed
Pat
$600 [3]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew drops a spoonful of something into some hot water, then shapes it in her hand.) The polymer here has a melting point of only 140 degrees Fahrenheit, so it can be shaped & molded by hand; it's this kind of material, from the Greek for "heat formed"
thermoplastic
$600 [9]
Episodes of this HBO series began with someone's death; one was a jogger killed by a mountain lion
Six Feet Under
Jay
$600 [28]
Roald Dahl:"____ and the Great Glass Elevator" (a sequel)
Charlie
Jay
DD $600 [13]
In June 1919 a group of writers that included Edna Ferber began lunching together at this New York City hotel
the Algonquin
Pat
$600 [19]
In January 2007 Vietnam joined this global trading alliance after waiting 12 years to do
the World Trade Organization
Jay
$600 [23]
These annelid creatures improve the soil, so take a census of them in a batch of earth & add mulch if needed
earthworms
Jay
$800 [4]
In 1674 this Dutchman, using microscopes that he made, became the first to describe red blood cells
van Leeuwenhoek
Pat
$800 [10]
After she jumped into a demonic portal in 2001, her gravestone read "she saved the world a lot"
Buffy
Jay
$800 [29]
Jane O'Connor & Robin Preiss Glasser:"Fancy ____" (it rhymes)
Nancy
Pat
$800 [14]
This type of fence is made of thick steel wire interwoven in a diamond pattern
chain-link
$800 [20]
Vietnam's president & prime minister both have this family name, a very popular one there
Nguyen
Dobbs
$800 [24]
The kitazawa seed co. can help you grow the greens of this 4-syllable flower with edible as well as symbolic value in Japan
chrysanthemum
Jay
$1,000 [5]
The proton consists of 2 types of this elementary particle: 2 up & 1 down
quarks
Jay
$1,000 [11]
After his sitcom alter ego died in 1975, this actor surfaced on "The Carol Burnett Show" in a raft, screaming, "I'm OK"
McLean Stevenson
$1,000 [30]
Beverly Cleary:"Runaway ____" (it's alliterative)
Ralph
Dobbs
$1,000 [15]
In the 1st century B.C., Publilius Syrus wrote that this "alone sets all the world in motion"
money
$1,000 [21]
At 1 Le Thanh Tong street, you'll find this--an actual hotel, not a hellish prison
the Hanoi Hilton
Dobbs
$1,000 [25]
This veggie whose name comes from the Latin for "root" needs to be harvested before root maggots set in
a radish
Pat

Double Jeopardy! Round

REIGN MAN TERMS OF ENDEARMENT GONE "D" SNOUT OF AFRICA & OTHER '80s OSCAR WINNERS CHARIOTS OF FIRE
$400 [13]
Did a lot of "great" things for Russia:1682-1725
Peter the Great
Pat
$400 [20]
In "Peter Pan", it's the last name of siblings Wendy, John & Michael
Darling
Pat
$400 [1]
From the Greek for "fearsome", these creatures last existed in the Cretaceous period
dinosaurs
Jay
$400 [18]
The nose of this tallest ruminant is not as moist as those of other ruminants
a giraffe
Jay
$400 [26]
This actress won an Oscar for playing Loretta Lynn & did her own singing to boot
Sissy Spacek
Pat
$1,200 [8]
In the '60s George Barris bought a concept car from Ford for $1; holy swindle! in 1966 we knew it as this fire-spewing TV car
the Batmobile
Jay
$800 [14]
Victoria's grandson:1910-1936
George V
Dobbs Pat
$800 [21]
Many terms of endearment are food words, like muffin or this, a round mass of steamed dough, like a wonton
dumpling
Dobbs
$800 [5]
A 2010 Bild magazine survey showed that almost half of all Germans would like to forgo the euro to get this back
the Deutsch mark
Dobbs
$800 [19]
The newborn South African croc seenhereis showing us this tooth, named for what it's just broken out of
an eggtooth
Jay
$1,200 [2]
He was acclaimed onstage as Hamlet in 1929 & onscreen as Arthur's butler in 1981
John Gielgud
Jay Dobbs
$1,600 [9]
In 1994 this brand extinguished the name of its K5 Blazer, replacing it with Tahoe
Chevy
Jay
$1,600 [16]
He was Armada 'bout you, Spain:1556-1598
Philip II
Pat
$1,200 [10]
In "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", Ichabod Crane's hat is found next to a shattered one of these gourds
a pumpkin
Pat
$1,200 [6]
"You're all clear, kid, now let's blow this thing & go home" is spoken just before this is destroyed in a 1977 movie
the Death Star
Jay
$1,200 [23]
The proboscis of the elephant is unique to its order, which includes these 2 types of extinct behemoths
mammoths & mastodons
Dobbs
$2,000 [22]
This David Cronenberg film won best makeup for transforming Jeff Goldblum into the title character
The Fly
Pat
$2,000 [24]
This brand made both the Fiero (which is actually Italian for "proud") & the Firebird
Pontiac
Dobbs
DD $2,000 [15]
Mais oui, after him, France was indeed deluged:1715-1774
Louis XV
Pat
$1,600 [4]
The first line of "I Can't Help Myself" by The Four Tops is "Sugar Pie" followed by this 2-word term of endearment
"Honey Bunch"
Dobbs
$1,600 [7]
From 1881 to 1888 this Midwest city had a baseball team in the National League known as the Wolverines
Detroit
Jay
$2,000 [25]
Camels can squeeze their nostrils shut during a haboob, one of these
a sandstorm
Jay
DD $5,000 [3]
Male & female supporting Oscars went to Michael Caine & Dianne Wiest for this comedy
Hannah and Her Sisters
Jay
$2,000 [17]
Not Haakon in Norway:1957-1991
King Olaf
$2,000 [11]
It's the literal translation of "my love" into French
mon amour
Jay Dobbs Pat
$2,000 [12]
"The Miracle in the Desert" was the nickname of this defunct Vegas casino
the Dunes

Final Jeopardy!

LITERARY SEQUELS

The mirror motif in this 1871 sequel includes 2 characters who are enantiomorphs, or mirror-image twins

Through the Looking-Glass

Dobbs "What is. . ." — wagered $3,799
Pat "What is The Picture of Dorian Gray?" — wagered $2,001
Jay "What is the Man in the Iron Mask?" — wagered $4,400

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