Show #6218 2011-10-05 (taped 2011-08-24) Regular

Joon Pahk game 3.

Contestants

Daniel Okobi, Jr. — a medical student from Freeport, New York

Katie Baker — a staffer for a political organization originally from Mount Vernon, Ohio

Joon Pahk — a college physics teacher from Somerville, Massachusetts (whose 2-day cash winnings total $79,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joon $2,000 $4,800 $16,600 $33,100
3-day champion: $112,700
$22,000
28 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs)
Katie $800 $600 $16,400 $21,400
2nd place: $2,000
$13,000
12 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Daniel $1,800 $2,600 $2,200 $3,800
3rd place: $1,000
$2,200
11 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

I'M DATING MYSELF 4-LETTER WORDS MIDDLE NAMES SPORTS VENUES THE JEWISH HIGH HOLIDAYS RARELY QUOTED SHAKESPEAREAN DIALOGUE
$200 [25]
I swear I saw Dag Hammarskjold in Times Square; he's the top man in this nearby organization
the U.N.
Joon
$200 [6]
A rug with a thick pile, or to chase & catch fly balls
shag
Joon
$200 [1]
Actress Jennifer Hewitt
Love
Joon
$200 [11]
Unfortunately for the Mets, on September 28, 2008, the Marlins beat them 4-2 in the last game played here
Shea Stadium
Daniel
$200 [30]
One reference to Yom Kippur is found in Leviticus 23, which calls for a "day of" this
atonement
Joon
$200 [20]
Polonius, Act II, Scene i:"Wherefore should you do this?"
Hamlet
Daniel
$400 [26]
Going to Cannes? Make sure you've got plenty of these, made the monetary unit over there in 1795
francs
Joon
$400 [7]
This negative verb is found in "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow"
deny
Daniel
$400 [2]
The Romantic Percy Shelley
Bysshe
Joon
$400 [12]
Prior to becoming the New England Patriots, the Boston Patriots played their home games at this ballpark
Fenway Park
Daniel
$400 [18]
The Kol Nidre, an introductory prayer of Yom Kippur eve, is traditionally sung in this language of Jesus
Aramaic
Joon
$400 [21]
Ariel, Act I, Scene ii:"No"
The Tempest
Joon
$600 [27]
I'm looking forward to lots more books from this author; "Music for Chameleons" won't be the last
Truman Capote
$600 [8]
An eft is the juvenile terrestrial stage of this amphibian
a newt
Joon Daniel
$600 [3]
Fur magnate & dynasty founder John Astor
Jacob
Joon
$600 [13]
John L. Sullivan was the first heavyweight champ to box in this original venue; in 1971, Joe Frazier beat Ali there
Madison Square Garden
Daniel
$600 [17]
Traditional Rosh Hashanah foods include this fruit, with the hope that one's merits increase in number to match its seeds
the pomegranate
$600 [22]
Second Capulet, Act I, Scene v:"His son is thirty"
Romeo and Juliet
Daniel
$800 [28]
This "comp"any gave the first e-mail capability for PC users, & they'll rule the Internet for decades
CompuServe
Joon
$800 [9]
The name of this central part of a church comes from the Latin for "ship", a reference to its shape
nave
Joon
$800 [4]
Abolitionist William Garrison
Lloyd
Daniel
$800 [14]
It's hosted 2 Olympic Games, 2 Super Bowls & one World Series; it's also home to the USC Trojans
the (L.A.) Coliseum
Joon Katie
$800 [16]
Teruah, meant to sound like sobbing, is one type of blast on this, a ram's horn
the shofar
Katie
$800 [23]
Goneril, Act II, Scene iv:"At your choice, sir"
King Lear
Joon
$1,000 [29]
I'm excited about this political magazine with Cindy Crawford as Washington on its first cover
George
Joon
$1,000 [10]
This powerful engine from Dodge gets its name from the half-sphere shape of the combustion chamber
a Hemi
Joon
$1,000 [5]
Tell Peter Tchaikovsky the news
Ilyich
Daniel
DD $2,400 [19]
In the beginning this team iced the puck at the Border Cities Arena in Windsor, Ontario; then for 50 years at Olympia Stadium
the Detroit Red Wings
Joon
$1,000 [15]
In ancient times on Yom Kippur, a priest laid the sins of the people upon an animal, leading to this term
scapegoat
Joon Daniel
$1,000 [24]
Cassio, Act I, Scene ii:"To who?"
Othello
Joon Katie

Double Jeopardy! Round

I'M DATING MYSELF LANGUAGES SONGS ABOUT GIRLS NORTH TO ALASKA BALLET THE "N-H-L"
$400 [16]
I have teriyaki steak prepared just for me at my table in this restaurant founded by Rocky Aoki
Benihana
$400 [5]
Russian is an official language of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan & this nation once known as Byelorussia
Belarus
Joon
$400 [29]
"Oh daddy dear you know you're still number one", sang Cyndi Lauper in this 1984 hit
"Girls Just Want To Have Fun"
Katie
$400 [19]
Fairbanks hosts one of the world's biggest competitions in sculpting this material
ice
Katie
$400 [24]
"Fancy Free" follows 3 of these on leave in New York City
sailors
Joon
$400 [3]
Keats' ode to this bird begins, "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense"
nightingale
Joon
$800 [17]
All by itself, the calla this makes a nice bouquet--oh, I shouldn't have
lily
Joon
$800 [9]
This Chinese tongue is spoken by more than a billion people
Mandarin
Joon
$800 [25]
Van Morrison wistfully recalled "Makin' love in the green grass, behind the stadium with you, my" this title female
brown eyed girl
Daniel
$800 [21]
Like Tallahassee, Florida, Alaska's capital of Juneau is located in a strip of land called this
a panhandle
Joon
$800 [23]
Princess Aurora's christening is in the prologue of this ballet
Sleeping Beauty
Katie
$800 [4]
It's the branch of science that specializes in the kidney
nephrology
Daniel
$1,200 [18]
Safe rock climbing requires a partner; rockhounding, also called this, I can do solo
rock collecting
$1,200 [10]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map of Africa on the monitor.) With around 180 million speakers worldwide, it's the official language of eight countries, including the five former European colonies highlighted here
Portuguese
Katie
$1,200 [20]
This single-named singer, a girl from Barbados, had a No. 1 hit in 2010 with "Only Girl (In The World)"
Rihanna
Daniel
$1,200 [22]
This city on an island now better known for a type of grizzly bear was the capital of Russian Alaska
Kodiak
Katie Daniel
$1,200 [15]
Nijinsky's choreography & Stravinsky's score caused a riot at the 1913 premiere of this ballet
The Rite of Spring
Joon
$1,200 [6]
It's an 11-letter synonym for "hell"
a netherworld
Joon
$1,600 [26]
On a night of this Afro-Cuban-based dancing, I specialize in solos, called "shines"
salsa
Joon
$2,000 [14]
The Colorado language is spoken by around 2,000 in the jungle west of this capital of Ecuador
Quito
Katie
$1,600 [1]
In 1983 Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney duetted, "Don't waste your time, because the doggone" this
"because the doggone girl is mine"
Katie
$1,600 [28]
"Alaska" means "mainland" in the language of these natives who gave their name to a long Alaskan island chain
the Aleuts (the Aleutians accepted)
Katie
$2,000 [12]
Adolphe Adam's masterpiece is the music for this 1841 ballet in which the title girl emerges from her grave to dance
Giselle
Joon
$1,600 [7]
This male first name is from the Hebrew for "gift of God"
Nathaniel
Katie
$2,000 [27]
I like to take me for a ride in my Cri-cri, a one-seat type of this, 13 feet long
an airplane
Daniel
DD $3,000 [13]
Frisian, a Germanic language, is spoken in 3 areas, each with its own dialect, along the coast of this sea
the North Sea
Joon
$2,000 [2]
Appropriately, the 2011 film "Rio" featured the 1960s hit about "The Girl From" this place
Ipanema
Joon
$2,000 [30]
Alaska's major river system, it flows in from that big Canadian territory next door
the Yukon
Joon
DD $5,000 [11]
This ballet choreographed by Agnes de Mille is subtitled "The Courting at Burnt Ranch"
Rodeo
Katie
$2,000 [8]
This soft white cheese with a French name is similar to cream cheese
Neufchâtel
Joon

Final Jeopardy!

LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS

He gave his horse a name that partly means "nag" in Spanish; the name he gave himself refers to a piece of armor

Don Quixote

Daniel "Who is Don Quijote?" — wagered $1,600
Katie "Who Don Quixote?" — wagered $5,000
Joon "Who is Don Quixote?" — wagered $16,500

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