Show #6193 2011-07-13 (taped 2011-03-08) Regular

Contestants

Paul Barbour — an aspiring producer from Baldwinsville, New York

Sarah Powell — a project financial analyst from Baltimore, Maryland

Damian Yu — an executive compensation consultant originally from West Vancouver, Canada (whose 2-day cash winnings total $24,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Damian $1,000 $8,600 $14,800 $20,001
2nd place: $2,000
$16,000
22 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Sarah $1,800 $2,800 $2,800 $4,000
3rd place: $1,000
$2,800
6 R, 2 W
Paul $2,400 $4,200 $17,800 $29,800
New champion: $29,800
$17,800
21 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS ROCK OF STAGES WHO DO YOU THINK I AM?! THAT'S SOME NERVE DAN-O-MITE "SUPER"
$200 [7]
A foundersphotoincludes one representative who couldn't actually vote in Congress -Walter Fauntroy, the first elected delegate from here
Washington, D.C.
Paul
$200 [8]
This stage musical around since 1973 has Brad & Janet but no "Picture" in the title
The Rocky Horror Show
Damian
$200 [16]
I died around 965 B.C. & my son Solomon succeeded me as King of Israel
David
Damian
$200 [26]
A knock to the ulnar nerve at the bend of the elbow, which we call this, causes that weird tingling sensation
the funny bone
Damian
$200 [1]
Daniel & Gabriel were the first 2 names of this thermometer inventor
Fahrenheit
Paul
$200 [2]
In this 1986 video game, Luigi & his sibling are trying to rescue Princess Toadstool
Super Mario Bros.
Sarah
$400 [9]
The CBC's fight against this overseas system of segregation included sponsoring a landmark 1986 act
apartheid
Damian
$400 [11]
Gonna be a big man someday & name this hit U.K. musical based on the music of Queen
We Will Rock You
Damian
$400 [17]
On Feb. 3, 1930 I presided over the founding of the Vietnamese Communist Party
Ho Chi Minh
Damian
$600 [28]
This nerve involved in carpal tunnel syndrome shares its name with a math term for the middle number in a sequence
the median
Damian
$400 [22]
(Dan Patrick reads the clue.) When this Charger retired in 1988, he was one of only 3 quarterbacks to have racked up 40,000 passing yards
Dan Fouts
Paul
$400 [3]
This person is in charge of repairs & maintenance at an apartment building
superintendent
Damian
$600 [10]
The CBC led the push for the establishment of this federal holiday, signed into law by President Reaganin 1983
Martin Luther King Day
Paul
$600 [14]
Character who sings "Angry Inch"
Hedwig
Sarah
$600 [18]
Newspapers I own include the Daily Telegraph of Sydney & the Australian
Rupert Murdoch
Paul
$800 [29]
A slipped disc can cause pain along this largest nerve that runs down the leg
the sciatic nerve
Damian
$600 [23]
This 19th c. orator went to Dartmouth & argued Dartmouth College v. Woodward before the Supreme Court
(Daniel) Webster
Damian
$600 [4]
12-letter word meaning pertaining to the eerie or occult
supernatural
Paul
$800 [12]
The CBC set up a Brain Trust for this kind of "justice" to make sure toxic dumps aren't foisted on minority areas
environmental justice
Sarah
$800 [15]
"Smokey Joe's Cafe" features "Hound Dog" & other songs written by Jerry Lieber & him
Mike Stoller
Sarah
$800 [20]
After Los Alamos, I was the director of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study from 1947 to 1966
Oppenheimer
Damian
DD $1,000 [27]
The first cranial nerve, it's responsible for the sense of smell
the olfactory nerve
Damian
$800 [24]
This former Defense Department employee gave the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times
Daniel Ellsberg
Paul
$800 [5]
In grammar, it's the highest degree of comparison of adjectives & adverbs
superlative
Paul
$1,000 [13]
In 2011this Georgia congressman, who was beaten on a 1965 civil rights march, received the Medal of Freedom
John Lewis
$1,000 [19]
In Tom Stoppard's "Rock 'n' Roll", Syd Barrett is a character & the music of this band of his is heard
Pink Floyd
Sarah
$1,000 [21]
I may be a trickster god, but I actually helped Thor get his hammer back after Thrym the frost giant stole it
Loki
Damian
$1,000 [30]
The radial nerve, which travels down the arm, controls movement of this large 3-headed muscle
the tricep(s)
Damian
$1,000 [25]
American architect Daniel Burnham was the Director of Works at the 1893 World's Fair in this city
Chicago
Damian
$1,000 [6]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates the clue with a plastic bottle of water.) Pure water can remain liquid below the freezing point because there are no impurities to form ice crystals around, a phenomenon called this. Motion causes bubbles, allowing the water to crystallize.
supercooling
Sarah

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE NEXT BIBLE BOOK AFTER... THE 13th CENTURY LESSER-KNOWN ANCIENT ROMANS? TINKER "EVER"S CHANCE
$400 [16]
Genesis
Exodus
Sarah
$400 [6]
Around 1250 this country's King Alfonso III reclaimed the Algarve from the Moors after 500 years of control
Portugal
Damian Paul
$400 [11]
Embarrassingly but aptly, this baby doctor's name was synonymous with womb
Uterus
Sarah Paul
$400 [18]
In November 2008 she opened up Pixie Hollow, located at the edge of Tomorrowland
Tinker Bell
Damian
$400 [1]
Chris Rock narrated this show, loosely based on his childhood
Everybody Hates Chris
Paul
$400 [28]
The U.S. golf register says the chances of this have been estimated north of 1 in 20,000
a hole-in-one
Paul
DD $600 [22]
Joshua
Judges
Damian
$800 [7]
A 1287 storm flooded the land separating the North Sea & the Zuiderzee, turning this village into a major port city
Amsterdam
Damian
$800 [12]
Unconquerable & undefeated, he led Rome to victory in the Rugby World Cup championship
Invictus
Damian
$800 [20]
"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" is a novel by this Brit
le Carré
Damian
$800 [2]
This 1965 movie begins with the birth of Jesus
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Paul
$800 [29]
Theoretically, a U.S. casino's ability to make money on roulette relies on the presence of these 2 green figures
0 & 00
Paul
$800 [17]
Mark
Luke
Paul
$1,200 [8]
This Yucatan city whose ruins are a UNESCO world heritage site gave way to Mayapan as a Mayan political center
Chichen Itza
Damian
$1,200 [13]
A little known trilinguist, this island-dweller was fluent in Greek & Turkish as well as Latin
Cyprus
$1,200 [23]
Grant Tinker was known as "the man who saved" this TV network
NBC
Paul
$1,200 [3]
The answer to this title question of 1962: she cares for her crippled sister Blanche
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Paul
$1,600 [27]
His 1742 "A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist" was a prelude to writings on other games
(Edmond) Hoyle
Paul
$1,200 [19]
Numbers
Deuteronomy
Paul
DD $1,200 [10]
In 1215 a bloody incident on this city's Ponte Vecchio began a civil war between the Guelphs & Ghibellines
Florence
Damian
$1,600 [14]
Quiet, efficient & adept at getting around, this Roman Toyota hybrid made for a great spy
Prius
Damian
$1,600 [24]
2 of the "Rude Mechanicals" from this play are Tom Snout the Tinker & Nick Bottom the Weaver
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Paul
$1,600 [4]
In a WB TV series, Treat Williams followed his dead wife's wish & took the kids to this Colorado town
Everwood
Paul
$2,000 [26]
To figure out the chance of a given roll with 2 dice, take the number of ways that total can come up & divide by this
36
Paul
$1,600 [21]
Psalms
Proverbs
$1,600 [9]
Roger Bacon wrote coded instructions for making the explosive mix of saltpeter, sulfur & charcoal called black this
powder
$2,000 [15]
This 12-letter guy isn't remembered for much of anything other than getting under people's skin
Subcutaneous
$2,000 [25]
Sometimes called "Irish Cobs" or "Gypsy Cobs", Irish Tinkers are a type of this animal
horse
$2,000 [5]
Eddie Rabbitt sang the title song for this 1978 Clint Eastwood movie about a boxer & his simian sidekick
Every Which Way but Loose
Damian

Final Jeopardy!

NAME THE POET

"The spirit who bideth by himself / In the land of mist and snow / He loved the bird that loved the man / Who shot him with his bow"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sarah "Who is Colleridge?" — wagered $1,200
Damian "Who isPoeColeridge?" — wagered $5,201
Paul "Who is Colerige?" — wagered $12,000

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