Show #6197 2011-07-19 (taped 2011-03-22) Regular

Mark Runsvold game 3.

Contestants

Tom Vaughan — a plastic surgeon from Cape Elizabeth, Maine

Christine Janson — a freelance writer and editor from Frederick, Maryland

Mark Runsvold — a student and waiter from Moscow, Idaho (whose 2-day cash winnings total $103,000)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Mark	$3,000	$5,200	$17,400	$21,201 3-day champion: $124,201	$15,600 19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Christine	$400	$800	$7,600	$15,100 3rd place: $1,000	$7,600 12 R, 3 W
Tom	$3,000	$-400	$10,600	$17,600 2nd place: $2,000	$17,600 21 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

ADVENTURES IN LITERATURE	MUSICAL NUMBERS	THE PLUMBER KNOWS	"A" BEFORE "E"	CELEBRATED ON THEIR BIRTHDAYS	MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
$200 [1] One adventure of these 2 Twain boys: attempting to cure warts with a dead cat out in the cemetery at midnight Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer Mark	$200 [5] The Commodores:"____ Times A Lady" Three Tom	$200 [25] ...how to install an aerator on this sink part to control flow & splashing the faucet Tom	$200 [20] A radio antenna an aerial Mark	$200 [17] National Inventors Day, February 11 Thomas Edison Tom	$200 [12] (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands on a stage.) W.T.G. Morton made history here in Mass General's surgical amphitheater; on October 14, 1886 he performed the first public successful surgery using this anesthetic ether Tom
$400 [2] The epilogue of this novel says, "I have now told the singular, but veracious story of the opera ghost" Phantom of the Opera Mark	$400 [9] Barenaked Ladies:"____ Week" One Tom	—	$400 [21] "I'm glad I met ya", this company providing medical insurance to more than 19 million Americans Aetna Tom	$400 [18] International Nurses Day, May 12 (Florence) Nightingale Mark Tom	$400 [4] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in front of a piece of apparatus.) Massachusetts General is the only place where PET scanning & this imaging use one machine; the combination in 3-D images gives information faster in brain cancer patients, minimizing the time between detection & treatment MRI Christine
$600 [3] Actually the third book in the series, this kids' classic recounts the Ingalls family's move to Kansas Little House on the Prairie Tom	$600 [10] The Searchers:"Love Potion Number ____" Nine Mark	—	$600 [24] For its 75th anniversary, it is offering flights between Dublin & Boston for as low as 199 euros Aer Lingus Christine	$600 [19] Arbor Day in California, March 7 Luther Burbank Christine	$600 [13] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in front of another apparatus.) A device that uses microchips to detect one cancer cell in a billion may supersede this technique of taking tissue samples from living patients & may lead to finding cancers before tumors form a biopsy Tom
$800 [6] This thriller by Richard P. Hendrick is about a mutiny aboard the USS Alabama, a nuclear submarine Crimson Tide	$800 [8] The White Stripes:"____ Nation Army" Seven Mark	—	$800 [23] Per Virgil, he "was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores" Aeneas Mark Christine	$800 [16] American Painters Day, February 3 Norman Rockwell Mark	$1,000 [15] (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands before another apparatus.) To spare healthy tissues while treating tumors, Massachusetts General uses a state-of-the-art cyclotron to deliver radiation; beams of these particles, hydrogen atoms whose electrons have been removed protons Mark Christine Tom
$1,000 [7] Almost 60, John Steinbeck set out in search of America with his dog & chronicled the adventure in this book Travels with Charley Tom	$1,000 [11] The Vogues:"____ O'Clock World" Five Mark	—	$1,000 [22] It's the 7-letter name for this traffic beater; too bad it never really got off the ground with the public the aerocar Mark	$1,000 [26] Peter Pan Day, May 9 J.M. Barrie Christine	DD $2,800 [14] (Sarah of the Clue Crew is in front of another piece of apparatus.) Massachusetts General is one of the first hospitals to make genetic testing standard in cancer treatment; robotics allow the processing of up to 96 samples at once, so doctors can immediately target patients with these changes in DNA sequence mutations Tom

Double Jeopardy! Round

FRANKS	DEAN	SAMI	JOEY	PETER	THE "RAT" PACK
$400 [5] This brand of franks was known in commercials to "plump when you cook 'em" Ball Park Franks Tom	$400 [1] "Dean" comes from the Latin decan, meaning a ruler or chief of this many ten Christine	$400 [15] The Sami are also known by this name; a "land" within the European Arctic Circle has been named for them the Lapps Christine	$400 [23] There are 3 species of this marsupial with flat skulls, small eyes & adorable joeys wombats Mark	$400 [6] He wrote & directed the most recent incarnation of "King Kong" Peter Jackson Tom	$400 [10] Snake's end, or baby's plaything a rattle Christine
$800 [3] If you see a "K" in a triangle on your hot dog pack, it's been certified as this--l'chaim! kosher Mark	$800 [2] In May 2010 this former Dean of Harvard Law was nominated to succeed Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens (Elena) Kagan Christine Tom	$800 [16] The Sami live in Norway, Sweden & Finland & on this country's Kola Peninsula Russia Mark	$800 [24] Mr. & Mrs. eastern gray this animal welcome joey, 1 inch long & weighing less than a gram a kangaroo Mark Tom	$800 [30] In an HBO biopic John Lithgow played Blake Edwards, & Geoffrey Rush, this late actor Peter Sellers Tom	$800 [11] The formal confirmation of a treaty by a government ratification Christine
$1,200 [4] Austrians challenge Frankfurt's claim to have invented the meaty treat, saying it came from this city Vienna Mark	$1,200 [20] New Yorker staff writer Nicholas Lemann is also dean of the USA's best-known school of this, at Columbia journalism Christine	$1,200 [17] Many of the Sami make their living herding these animals of the family Cervidae reindeer Tom	$1,200 [25] A joey of this marsupial with the same name as a non-powered aircraft takes flight at about 3 1/2 months a glider Mark	$1,200 [9] The Peter of the Rat Pack was this British actor who married Patricia Kennedy Peter Lawford Christine	$1,200 [12] A toothed wheel that allows movement in only one direction a ratchet Tom
$1,600 [21] This now "famous" frank seller used 2 spice purveyors to keep his Coney Island hot dog recipe secret Nathan's Christine	$1,600 [27] Jonathan Swift was dean of this cathedral with a saintly Irish name--in Dublin, not New York St. Patrick's Christine	$1,600 [18] The Sami were long considered this type of people, from the Greek for "to wander in search of pasture" nomads Mark	$1,600 [26] In marsupials only, these glands develop independently to provide tailored nutrition to individual joeys mammary glands Tom	$1,600 [7] His first Oscar nomination came in 1986 for directing "Witness" Peter Weir Tom	$1,600 [13] Climbing palm of Asia used to make furniture rattan Mark
$2,000 [22] Franks without "natural" casings were likely housed in this, the main constituent of plants' cell walls cellulose Tom	$2,000 [28] This association that accredits U.S. law schools stipulates that "a law school shall have a full-time dean" the American Bar Association Tom	DD $3,800 [19] The Sami were gravely affected by this 1986 disaster as fish & livestock meat became tainted Chernobyl Mark	DD $4,200 [29] Seen here is a joey of this marsupial species whose name is from the Telugu word pandi-kokku, meaning "pig-rat" bandicoot Tom	$2,000 [8] This British actor from "The Usual Suspects", "In the Name of the Father" & "The Town" passed away in 2011 Pete Postlethwaite Tom	$2,000 [14] 9-letter word for the underlying reason for a belief or course of action rationale Tom

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY NOVELS

This novel's first epilogue says, "The activity of Alexander or of Napoleon cannot be called useful or harmful"

War and Peace

Christine "What is War and Peace?" — wagered $7,500

Tom "What is War and Peace?" — wagered $7,000

Mark "What is War & Peace?" — wagered $3,801

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