Show #6213 2011-09-28 (taped 2011-08-23) Regular

Contestants

Libby Nelson — a journalist from Kansas City, Missouri

Sergio Llorian — an attorney from New York, New York

Matt Douma — a standardized test scorer from Minneapolis, Minnesota (whose 2-day cash winnings total $54,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Matt $2,400 $4,200 $14,600 $29,200
2nd place: $2,000
$16,600
21 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Sergio $600 $3,000 $16,000 $29,201
New champion: $29,201
$17,000
18 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Libby $0 $3,400 $6,600 $13,199
3rd place: $1,000
$6,600
10 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

INVENTORS & INVENTIONS IF THEY MARRIED TRIPLE THE FUN BLANK VERSE BEHIND BARS 2-LETTER RESPONSES
$200 [1]
In 1949 Ed Seymour invented paint dispensed this way; aluminum was the first color
spray paint
Libby
$200 [8]
If "Twilight" actress Fanning married a Marine lt. col. known from Iran-Contra, she'd be known as...
Dakota North
Matt
$200 [26]
The home-building materials of the 3 Little Pigs in the Disney version
straw, wood & brick
Libby
$200 [10]
John Keats:"Beauty is ____, ____ beauty,--that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"
truth
Sergio
$200 [17]
The smallest bartender's measurement, it can also refer to a short foot race
a dash
Sergio
$200 [3]
George Clooney actually starred in 2 TV series with this title--the earlier one was a comedy
ER
Sergio
$400 [2]
As a newsboy on the Grand Trunk Railway in 1862, he "saw the light" & published the first newspaper printed on a train
Thomas Edison
$400 [11]
If Miss Q of "Nikita" fame wed Queen guitarist Brian, Rod Stewart would sing to her as...
Maggie May
Matt
$400 [27]
Columbus' 3 ships in 1492
the Niña , the Pinta & the Santa María
Matt
$400 [22]
Ogden Nash"The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other, ____"
milk
Libby
$400 [18]
Bartenders ask, "straight" or this 3-word opposite
on the rocks
Sergio
$400 [4]
It's a symbol of pharmacy & an abbreviation for prescription
Rx
Matt
$600 [9]
In 1810 England's Peter Durand patented the idea of using this metal to coat cans for food preservation
tin
Matt Libby
$600 [12]
Mike Tyson's first wife marries Chicago Cub great Ernie & begins a life of crime as...
Robin Banks
Matt
$600 [28]
The 3 types of events in the Ironman Triathlon
swimming, running & bicycling
Matt
$600 [23]
Robert Frost:"Two roads diverged in a yellow ____"
wood
Libby
$600 [19]
This directional term refers to a nonalcoholic drink placed at the side of the booze in a separate glass
a back
Libby
$600 [5]
This 2-letter Korean company makes a sweet cell phone called the Chocolate Touch
LG
Matt
$800 [15]
Ann Moore invented this "cozy" baby carrier after seeing women in Togo carry their babies in fabric slings
a Snugli
Sergio
$800 [13]
The "House of the Spirits" author gets hitched to a circus sibling who bought out Barnum in 1907 & becomes...
Isabel Ringling
Libby
$800 [29]
On the East Coast "Tri-State Area" often refers to this trio, the 3rd, 5th & 11th to join the Union
Connecticut, New York & New Jersey
Matt
$800 [24]
Alexander Pope:"Fools rush in where angels ____ ____ ____"
fear to tread
Libby
$800 [20]
"Dry" in bartending can pertain to the use of this fortified liquid that also has a "sweet" type
vermouth
Sergio
$800 [6]
Lifebuoy soap once promised to stop this "from head to toe"
B.O.
Matt
$1,000 [16]
Juan de la Cierva invented this rotary-wing aircraft that taxied for takeoff & was replaced by the helicopter
the autogiro
$1,000 [14]
"Criminal" singer Fiona weds Steve, author of legal thrillers like "Double Tap", & hyphenates to get this potable name
Fiona Apple-Martini
$1,000 [30]
The "triple bottom line" concept urges companies to be successful, caring & green: "profit, people" & this "P"
planet
Sergio
DD $1,000 [25]
Thomas Gray:"The paths of glory lead but to the ____"
grave
Libby
$1,000 [21]
This term for the maceration of fruit in a bar using a pestle can also mean "to make unclear"
muddle
Libby
$1,000 [7]
It's this pair of chromosomes that make a man a man
XY
Sergio

Double Jeopardy! Round

DAMN YANKEES HELLO, DOLLY! KISS ME, KATE AVENUE QUEUE KISMET BROADWAY MUSICALS
$400 [1]
In 1864 General Benjamin Butler appointed her superintendent of the Department of Nurses for the Army of the James
Clara Barton
Matt
$400 [17]
For the 60th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, Hasbro introduced a special line of this military action figure
G.I. Joe
Matt
$400 [12]
She & Leo were nominated for a 1998 MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss
Winslet
Sergio
$400 [2]
O'Connell Street, Parnell Street, Pearse Avenue
Dublin
$400 [22]
In a common expression, you may be "out of" this; there's also this "of the draw"
luck
Matt
$400 [11]
Tim Hatley won a 2009 Tony for Best Costume Design for the musical about this green ogre
Shrek
Matt
$800 [7]
Lincoln called this cartoonist "our best recruiting sergeant"
Thomas Nast
Matt
$800 [18]
Not surprisingly, this woman's line of collectible dolls includes Baby Donny Little Bit Rock-n-Roll seen here
Marie Osmond
Sergio
$800 [13]
In "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" she & Matthew McConaughey end up on the kiss cam at Madison Square Garden
(Kate) Hudson
Matt
$800 [3]
Cobb Place, Chrysler Freeway, Lansing Avenue
Detroit
Matt
$800 [23]
In Indian religion, this causal law explains the existence of evil; in a Culture Club title, it precedes "Chameleon"
karma
Sergio
$800 [27]
"Sleep Tite" is a number from this musical with sleepwear in the title
The Pajama Game
Sergio
$1,200 [8]
3 days after graduating from West Point, this future "Boy General" took part in the First Battle of Bull Run
George Armstrong Custer
$1,200 [19]
Because they fit one inside the other, Russian matryoshka dolls are also called these
nesting dolls
Libby
$1,200 [14]
At the end of "Temple of Doom" Indy snaps his whip around Willie (this actress) & lays a kiss on her
Capshaw
Sergio
DD $1,000 [5]
Hull Street, Revere Street, Shawmut Avenue
Boston
Sergio
$1,200 [24]
This word can be used for one's riches as well as one's lot in life; Twain (& others) have called it "outrageous"
fortune
Sergio
$1,200 [28]
A 2010 musical about this family revolves around daughter Wednesday dating a "normal" boy
the Addams Family
Matt
DD $2,000 [9]
By the end of 1862 this newly appointed rear admiral controlled the entire Gulf Coast except for Mobile
David Farragut
Matt
$1,600 [20]
Turning 25 in 2011 is this line of dolls that includes Josefina Montoya, a youngster growing up in 1824
American Girl
Matt
$1,600 [15]
Kate Walsh (Dr. Addison Montgomery) got to kiss Tim Daly (Dr. Pete Wilder) on this TV drama
Private Practice
$1,200 [4]
Quezon Boulevard, United Nations Avenue, Imelda (just "Imelda")
Manila
Sergio
$1,600 [25]
Regulating each person's life, mythological sisters Atropos, Clotho & Lachesis were known as these
the Fates
Matt
$1,600 [29]
A 2006 musical named for this Anne Rice character featured songs by Elton John & Bernie Taupin
Lestat
Sergio
$2,000 [10]
This Maine seascape painter traveled with the Army of the Potomac, sending sketches back to Harper's Weekly
Winslow Homer
Libby
$2,000 [21]
This actress who played Marcia on "The Brady Bunch" voiced many of Mattel's talking dolls, including Chatty Cathy
Maureen McCormick
Sergio
$2,000 [16]
As Ethel Thayer in a 1981 film, she was asked, "Wanna dance or would you rather just suck face?"
(Katharine) Hepburn
Sergio
$2,000 [6]
Louis Botha Avenue, Miriam Makeba Street, Jan Smuts Avenue
Johannesburg
Matt
$2,000 [26]
John Gast's 1872"American Progress"is an allegorical depiction of "manifest"this
destiny
Matt
$2,000 [30]
This show created by the minds behind "South Park" is very different from the same-named religious text
Book of Mormon
Sergio

Final Jeopardy!

THE CHANGING U.S.A.

(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) According to the Census, this point has progressed westward since the U.S. was founded & has moved southwest since the 1960s

the mean center of population

Libby "What is the population center" — wagered $6,599
Matt "What is the center of population?" — wagered $14,600
Sergio "What is the population center?" — wagered $13,201

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