Show #6200 2011-07-22 (taped 2011-03-22) Regular

Contestants

Tim Wagner — a graduate student of meteorology from Madison, Wisconsin

Linda Percy — a retired emergency room physician from Connellsville, Pennsylvania

Brian McEntee — an academic advisor from Arlington, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $30,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Brian $2,400 $4,800 $13,600 $13,600
2nd place: $2,000
$12,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Linda $1,200 $2,000 $15,800 $31,600
New champion: $31,600
$16,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Tim $3,800 $7,800 $16,200 $200
3rd place: $1,000
$16,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

NAME THAT BIBLE GUY ROLES IN 2010 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES RHYMING NICKNAMES GENERAL RELATIVITY GOVERNMENTAL STUPID ANSWERS WORDS FROM PLANETS
$200 [22]
When this man "saw many of the Pharisees... come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers"
John the Baptist
Brian Tim
$200 [1]
"Irish" Micky Ward, known to turn southpaw on occasion
The Fighter
Brian
$200 [16]
John J. Pershing, commander of the AEF during WWI, had this rhyming nickname
Black Jack
Tim
$200 [21]
This woman who triumphed over blindness & deafness was the granddaughter of Confederate gen. Charles W. Adams
Helen Keller
Tim
$200 [11]
Of this, the Constitution says the pres. "shall from time to time give to... Congress Information on the State of the Union"
the State of the Union address
Brian
$200 [3]
A song from the eighth planet
a tune
Linda
$400 [23]
"He returned to the land of Egypt: and (he) took the rod of God in his hand"
Moses
Tim
$400 [2]
Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain
The King's Speech
Tim
$400 [17]
Gene Krupa dubbed Benny Goodman this
the King of Swing
Brian
$400 [24]
Benjamin D. Wilson, an early mayor of Los Angeles, was the grandfather of this general, "Old Blood and Guts"
Patton
Linda
$400 [12]
This service determines, assesses & collects internal revenue in the United States
the Internal Revenue Service
Tim
$400 [4]
French "sea" on the innermost planet
a mer
Brian
$600 [28]
He "put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it"
David
Tim
$600 [5]
Understudy for Siegfried,"Corps de ballet" (18 of them!)
Black Swan
Brian
$600 [18]
Decorator Mario Buatta is "the prince of" this indoor fabric
chintz
Linda
$600 [25]
Both this general & his father Arthur fought in the Philippines, the father in 1898, the son in 1944
Douglas MacArthur
Linda
$600 [13]
8 small windows are located at the 500-foot level of this Washington monument
the Washington Monument
Tim
$600 [8]
To move around the axis of the second-biggest planet
turn
Brian Tim
$800 [29]
"Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew"
Peter
Tim
$800 [6]
Prince Albert, Bill Gates
The Social Network
Brian
$800 [19]
Early in the career of comedian Phyllis, Time magazine dubbed her this
"Killer" Diller
Linda
$800 [26]
In 1968 this grandson of a general & U.S. president married Julie Nixon with Norman Vincent Peale officiating
David Eisenhower
Brian
$800 [14]
Even though it's in Arlington, Va., the address for this building is 1400 Defense Pentagon, Washington D.C. 20301
the Pentagon
Tim
$800 [9]
The area for the orchestra on the biggest planet
a pit
Brian
DD $1,000 [30]
He "said, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof"
Solomon
Tim
$1,000 [7]
Cobb, Saito, Ariadne
Inception
Tim
$1,000 [20]
The current president is known as this, for his cool demeanor in messy situations
"No-Drama" Obama
Brian
$1,000 [27]
Ulysses S. Grant could count among his ancestors Richard Warren, a signer of this 1620 document
the Mayflower Compact
Tim
$1,000 [15]
This cabinet department is responsible for housing needs & the improvement & development of urban areas
Housing and Urban Development
Brian
$1,000 [10]
Culture from the "third rock"
art
Brian Linda

Double Jeopardy! Round

PAINTINGS IN THE PRADO AUTO TUNES STORY WITHIN A STORY BRITISH TITLES OF NOBILITY DAM IT! LETTER PERFECT
$400 [9]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue on a monitor.) An angel stands pointing to show that you don't have to go to the underworld in Joachim Patinir's painting of Charon crossing this mythic river
the Styx
Brian
$400 [16]
This Springsteen song mentions "suicide machines sprung from cages out on Highway 9, chrome wheeled, fuel injected"
"Born To Run"
Linda
$400 [21]
Exodus: "and she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been" this, a Robert Heinlein novel
a Stranger in a Strange Land
Linda
$400 [26]
Parliament has a whole "House of" them
Lords
Linda
$400 [4]
The Tarbela Dam is located on the Indus River not far from Islamabad in this country
Pakistan
Tim
$400 [1]
It precedes 94 in a way to get from Michigan to Montana
I
Linda
$1,200 [11]
Jose de Ribera's renditionof this Old Testamentpatriarch's dreamis in the collection
Jacob
Linda Tim
$800 [17]
Back in 1983 Prince drove this song to No. 6
"Little Red Corvette"
Linda
$800 [22]
Carroll: "the time has come... to talk of many things: of shoes--& ships--& sealing-wax--of" these, an O. Henry book
Cabbages and Kings
Linda
$800 [27]
The oldest title, it's also the first name of basketball's Mr. Monroe
Earl (the Pearl)
Linda
$800 [5]
It supplies about 15% of Egypt's electric power
the Aswan High Dam
Linda
$800 [2]
In baseball scoring it refers to a fielder's boo-boo
E (for error)
Brian
$1,600 [12]
This low country painter disturbs Prado patrons with his "Garden of Earthly Delights"
(Hieronymus) Bosch
Linda
$1,200 [18]
Janis Joplin sang, "Oh Lord, won't you buy me" this car? "My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends"
a Mercedes-Benz
Tim
$1,200 [23]
Shakespeare: "we few, we happy few, we" this Stephen Ambrose book & miniseries
Band of Brothers
Tim
$1,200 [28]
Used by one who holds his title only for life, it's also a homophone for a desolate adjective
Baron
DD $1,000 [7]
Norris Dam, completed in 1936, was the first dam built by this New Deal agency
the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
Linda
$1,200 [3]
Christ, symbolically
X
Tim
DD $2,000 [10]
Spaniards well represented include Velazquez & this later great, with works like "Saturn Devouring One of His Sons"
Goya
Brian
$1,600 [19]
Aretha Franklin sang about "ridin' on the freeway of love" in this car; it was later the title of a hit by Natalie Cole
"Pink Cadillac"
$1,600 [24]
The "Odyssey": "(Faulkner novel), the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades"
As I Lay Dying
$1,600 [29]
There's one of Beaufort & one of Bedford & also a university in North Carolina
Duke
Tim
$1,200 [6]
The Oxbow, Brownlee & Hells Canyon dams all dam this winding river
the Snake
Linda
$1,600 [14]
The velocity of light in a vacuum
c
Brian
$2,000 [13]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue on a monitor.) In a portrait by Anthony Mor, England's Queen Mary holds a red rose, the symbol of this side in the Wars of the Roses that triumphed under Mary's grandfather, Henry Tudor
Lancaster
Linda
$2,000 [20]
Sammy Hagar protested the speed limit in this hit
"I Can't Drive 55"
Tim
$2,000 [25]
Whitman:This E.M. Forster novel! "Cooling airs from Caucasus far, soothing cradle of man, the River Euphrates"
A Passage to India
Brian
$2,000 [30]
Princess Margaret's son holds this fourth-highest rank, preceding "Linley"
Viscount
Linda
$2,000 [8]
In the 1910s the Elephant Butte Dam was built on this river to provide water & irrigation to Texas & New Mexico
the Rio Grande
Brian
$2,000 [15]
Tungsten, on the periodic table
W (Wolfram)
Tim

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS AMERICANS

In 1909 he sent the message "Stars and Stripes nailed to the pole"

Robert Peary

Brian "Who is Byrd?" — wagered $0
Linda "Who is Robert Peary (with "PEARY" written under that)?" — wagered $15,800
Tim "Who is T. Roosevelt?" — wagered $16,000

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