Show #6207 2011-09-20 (taped 2011-08-02) Regular

Justin Sausville game 4.

Contestants

Ken Herrera — an MBA student originally from Denver, Colorado

Alex Liteplo — an educational publishing digital producer from Wakefield, Massachusetts

Justin Sausville — a urologist from Baltimore, Maryland (whose 3-day cash winnings total $76,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Justin $1,200 $3,600 $16,600 $24,401
4-day champion: $101,201
$16,400
22 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Alex $2,800 $5,800 $12,200 $15,601
3rd place: $1,000
$12,200
12 R, 0 W
Ken $2,800 $3,000 $10,000 $16,801
2nd place: $2,000
$9,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

EARLY MAN TV TITLE ROLE PLAYING AGING GRACEFULLY STATELY RIVERS WAYS TO LOSE MONEY ONE VOWEL ONLY
$200 [6]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us a partial skull at the Smithsonian Hall of Human Origins.) Ouranopithecus macedoniensis, a 9-million-year-old ape from Greece, is a candidate as the long sought-for common ancestor of African apes & humans, popularly but inaccurately known by this two-word term
the missing link
Ken
$200 [1]
"Hannah Montana"
Miley Cyrus
Justin
$200 [11]
Use lotion to protect your skin from these rays with wavelengths shorter than 4,000 angstroms
ultraviolet rays
Ken
$200 [16]
For some 2,300 miles, this "Ol' Man River" just keeps rollin' along
the Mississippi
Ken
$200 [21]
It rhymes with dwindle, & your money will dwindle if you fall for one
a swindle
Ken
$200 [26]
A planet of our solar system
Mars
Justin
$400 [7]
790,000-year-old flints from a site in Israel provide the oldest known evidence of early man's control of this
fire
Ken
$400 [2]
(Adrian) "Monk"
Tony Shalhoub
Justin Ken
$400 [12]
Remove dead cells from your skin via this method, from the Latin for "to strip off leaves"
exfoliate
Alex
$400 [17]
This river that rises in the Rockies forms the Arizona-California border
the Colorado
Justin
$400 [22]
A proverbial mistake is buying swampland in this state, maybe around Sunniland
Florida
Justin
$400 [27]
Basketball's Mr. Nowitzki knows it's a small Scottish dagger
a dirk
Ken
$600 [8]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a small statue at the Smithsonian Hall of Human Origins.) This 35-thousand-year-oldfigurineknown as the Lion Man, the oldest known human statue, is made from the ivory of this animal that went from endangered to extinct thousands of years ago
the Woolly Mammoth
Justin
$600 [3]
"The Good Wife"
Julianna Margulies
Alex
$600 [13]
Moisturizer with glycolic acid helps prevent these alliteratively named results of years of chuckling
laugh lines
Ken
$600 [18]
Fort Smith & Little Rock are among the cities located on its banks
the Arkansas River
Justin Ken
$600 [23]
Add "D" to a word for sheep's wool & you've been this, meaning taken
fleeced
Alex
$600 [28]
A twisting tool that's "thrown into" a situation to mess it up
a wrench
Alex
$800 [9]
The evolution of a large flexor pollicis muscle in this digit was key to early man's ability to use tools
the thumb
Alex
$800 [4]
"Barney Miller"
Hal Linden
$800 [14]
"Free" these aren't out to overthrow your government; they accelerate age-related diseases, so avoid them
radicals
Ken
$800 [19]
This river is formed by the confluence of the Tallapoosa & Coosa Rivers, north of Montgomery
the Alabama River
Justin
$800 [24]
This sensory word follows "soft"' to mean someone easy to take advantage of
a soft touch
Justin
$800 [29]
A country in Central Africa
Chad
Alex
$1,000 [10]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a partial skull at the Smithsonian Hall of Human Origins.) The enlarged brain of this early human species helped it become the longest-lived member of the human family tree; named for its upright posture, it survived nine times longer than our species has been around
Homo erectus
Alex
$1,000 [5]
"Chuck" (Bartowski)
Zachary Levi
$1,000 [15]
This alphabetically second-to-last element is an antioxidant & good for cell repair
zinc
Ken
DD $1,000 [20]
Trenton, New Jersey lies at the head of navigation on this river
the Delaware River
Justin
$1,000 [25]
This phrase for a house that keeps needing costly repairs is also the name of a home improvement radio show
a money pit
Alex
$1,000 [30]
Last name of the president when the California Gold Rush began
Polk
Justin

Double Jeopardy! Round

LATE MAN A CELTIC CATEGORY ISN'T IT "GRAND"? THIS IS A JOB FOR A HERO THE WHITE HOUSE SIBLING REVELRY
$400 [21]
Photocopy pioneer Robert Gundlach, 1926-2010, helped transform the Haloid Company into this office-equipment giant
Xerox
Justin
$400 [16]
Celtic independence on the European continent came to an end with this leader's 58 to 51 B.C. conquest of Gaul
Julius Caesar
Ken
$400 [1]
It's Venice, Italy's main waterway
the Grand Canal
Justin
$400 [6]
Perry Mason
an attorney
Ken
$400 [11]
With the 1866 remodeling of offices, Andrew Johnson installed a room for this communications device
a telegraph
Justin
$400 [26]
The loopy comedy "Raising Arizona" was written & directed by these brothers
the Coen Brothers
Ken
$800 [22]
Morrie Yohai, 1920-2010, "sketched" out the idea for these puffy cheese-flavored snacks
Cheez Doodles
Justin
$800 [17]
Begun more than 2,000 years ago & meaning "summer's end", Samhain was a Celtic festival that has evolved into this holiday
Halloween
Justin
$800 [2]
Titles in this mega-selling video game series include "Vice City" & "Chinatown Wars"
Grand Theft Auto
Justin
$800 [7]
Horatio Hornblower
sailor (or officer)
Justin
$800 [12]
Once a stable, the Rose Garden lies in the ell of this part of the White House, also the name of a TV show
the West Wing
Ken
$800 [27]
"In Living Color" featured siblings Kim, Marlon, Damon, Shawn & Keenen Ivory of this family
the Wayans
Justin
$1,200 [23]
"Piper Bill" Millin, 1922-2010, played "Hieland Laddie" while under heavy gunfire on Sword Beach on this day in 1944
June 6
Justin
$1,200 [18]
Irish, a form of this language, is one of the only Celtic languages to receive full state recognition & support
Gaelic
Ken
$1,200 [3]
In bridge, it's when you take all 13 tricks
a grand slam
Justin
$1,200 [8]
Lew Archer
a private investigator
$1,200 [13]
This distinctively shaped room was designed by Nathan C. Wyeth at the order of President Taft in 1909
the Oval Office
Alex
$1,200 [28]
The real first names of this comedy troupe were Julius, Leonard, Milton, Adolph & Herbert
the Marx Brothers
Justin
$1,600 [24]
Composer Milton Babbitt, 1916-2011, received a 1986 "Genius Grant" from this American foundation
MacArthur
Alex
DD $1,800 [19]
Celts were divided into social classes such as warriors, commoners & this priestly class, performers of religious rituals
druids
Ken
$1,600 [4]
Used for flood control & power production, it's been called the "8th Wonder of the World"
the Grand Coulee Dam
$1,600 [9]
Howard Roark
an architect
$1,600 [14]
On June 2, 1886 Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom in this "colorful" room
the Blue Room
Justin
$1,600 [29]
The dark comedy "Grosse Pointe Blank" starred this actor as an assassin & this sister of his as his office manager
Joan & John Cusack
Alex
$2,000 [25]
Professor Nicolae Popescu, 1937-2010, made many contributions to this branch of math with an Arabic name
algebra
Justin
$2,000 [20]
Celtic folklore told of this "woman of the fairies" whose mournful wails & screams foretold death
a banshee
Alex
$2,000 [5]
How sweet the sound of this composition by Ferde Grofe
the Grand Canyon Suite
$2,000 [10]
George Smiley
the spy
DD $2,200 [15]
The White House's general manager is the chief this, from the time when his chief duty was escorting visitors to the president
the chief usher
Justin
$2,000 [30]
Last name of writers & siblings Amy & David, who collaborated on the play "The Book of Liz"
Sedaris
Ken

Final Jeopardy!

NAME'S THE SAME

Name shared by a popular world sport & a member of the Gryllidae family

cricket

Ken "What is cricket?" — wagered $6,801
Alex "What is cricket?" — wagered $3,401
Justin "What is cricket?" — wagered $7,801

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