Show #6220 2011-10-07 (taped 2011-08-24) Regular

Joon Pahk game 5.

Contestants

Adam Perrotta — a writer originally from Saratoga Springs, New York

Bret Jacobs — a financial consultant from Irvine, California

Joon Pahk — a college physics teacher from Somerville, Massachusetts (whose 4-day cash winnings total $129,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joon $3,800 $7,000 $19,300 $16,800
5-day champion: $146,200
$21,600
29 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Bret $1,200 $5,400 $8,200 $16,399
2nd place: $2,000
$8,200
12 R, 2 W
Adam $1,600 $1,800 $8,000 $7,799
3rd place: $1,000
$7,000
11 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY SPLITSVILLE IN THE PINK HOW IS THAT PREPARED? NAME CALLING NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICBRAIN GAMES
$200 [1]
Disappointment with the Livonian War & suspected treasons in 1582 may have led this czar to order his 1st executions
Ivan the Terrible
Bret Adam
$200 [2]
This singer had 2 days of wedded bliss with a childhood friend before moving on to K-Fed
Britney Spears
Joon
$200 [11]
pinkribbonshop.com promotes awareness of this disease, "one pink ribbon at a time"
breast cancer
Adam
$200 [20]
Eggs over easy
fried
Bret Adam
$200 [15]
Hey little short person, you don't mind if I call you this, do you?--like the ones in the east of the Land of Oz
munchkin
Joon
$200 [26]
The top & bottom hueshereare the same; the braintricks itselfby using these areas of comparative darkness as cues
shadows
Adam
$400 [3]
In 1449 Henry VI instituted the (hopefully non-evil) office of sheriff here, now an industrial city in central England
Nottingham
Joon
$400 [5]
Rumors of Tony Parker's infidelity swirled when this Desperate Housewife filed for divorce in 2010
Eva Longoria
Joon
$400 [12]
Juan & Eva Peronused to appear on the balconies of the Casa Rosada or "pink house", seenherein this world capital
Buenos Aires
Bret
$400 [21]
Snickerdoodles
baked
Adam
$400 [16]
You spend too much time watching TV; you're a sofa spud, or, in other words, this more popular term
a couch potato
Joon
$400 [30]
This 12-letter ability in which several jobs are managed at once is a misnomer; your brain can really only focus on one
multitasking
Joon
$600 [4]
"Black Thursday" happened on Oct. 24 of this year; 5 days later, share prices had fallen 80%
1929
Bret
$600 [8]
This Bon Jovi guitarist said his divorce from Heather Locklear & his addiction made for "a gang tackle from hell"
Richie Sambora
Adam
$600 [13]
This product says it's "the only leading medicine that relieves five stomach problems"
Pepto-Bismol
Joon
$600 [22]
Yakitori
grilled
Bret
$600 [17]
I could call you a dunce or I could call you this, the type of shark seen here
a hammerhead
Joon
$600 [29]
Virtual reality & psychology are used to rewire the brain of war vet Jerry, who suffers from PTSD, short for this
post-traumatic stress disorder
Bret
DD $1,000 [6]
Delegates from 34 countries attended this body's final session April 18, 1946
the League of Nations
Joon
$800 [9]
This "House" and "Tron: Legacy" co-star didn't live happily ever after with her Italian prince, filing for divorce in 2011
Olivia Wilde
$800 [14]
Rapper Cam'ron had a pink one of these alliterative super-SUVs, but sold it as it got too much attention
Range Rover
$800 [23]
Peking duck
roasted
Adam
$800 [18]
Not so computer savvy, are you? You're just a this--like a non-sorcerer in Harry Potter
a muggle
Joon
$800 [28]
Your brain runs on only about 12 of these power units, using shortcuts to focus on what counts
watts
Bret
$1,000 [7]
In 62 A.D. this Roman emperor had his wife Octavia put to death, then he got remarried the same year... coincidence?
Nero
Joon
$1,000 [10]
Divorcing Reese Witherspoon put him in "the darkest, saddest place I had ever been"
Ryan Phillippe
Adam
$1,000 [25]
Jack London wrote that one type of drinker "sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and" these creatures
pink elephants
Bret
$1,000 [24]
Chicago hot dog, for purists
steamed
Adam
$1,000 [19]
I can't tell if you're just a fool or drunk, but you're definitely this, also the name of the character seen here
Jughead
Bret
$1,000 [27]
Recalling the exactdetailsof a robbery uses this "equine" brain part that decides what short-term info to keep
the hippocampus
Joon

Double Jeopardy! Round

GET YOUR WORDSWORTH HERE! OLD (REALLY OLD) PHOTOS AMERICAN ISLANDS "SIT" OR "STAND" MAGAZINES LATINOS IN HOLLYWOOD
$400 [10]
From Westminster Bridge, William mused, "Earth has not anything to show more fair" than this city
London
Joon
$400 [4]
The poetic & artistic Rosettiswere snapped by this Victorian children's author, also a serious photographer
Lewis Carroll
Bret
$400 [22]
It's the USA's largest volcanic island
Hawaii
Joon
$400 [2]
Crunches are a version of these
sit-ups
Joon
$400 [1]
In 1922 DeWitt & Lila Wallace published the first issue of this magazine that condenses articles
Reader's Digest
Joon
$400 [21]
Last name of Fernando, a star in Argentina before moving to the U.S.; his son Lorenzo & grandson A.J. act, too
Lamas
Joon
$800 [11]
Wordsworth belonged to the school of poets named for this watery district of northern England
Lake District (or Country)
Joon
$800 [5]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a photograph on the monitor.) Long exposures made quickly-moving objects disappear; here, in 1838, a man standing still getting a shoe shine is the first known human to be photographed; he was in this capital where photography was largely invented
Paris
Joon
$800 [23]
Theodore Roosevelt Island, now a memorial, lies in this river & is accessible by footbridge from Virginia
the Potomac
Joon
$800 [3]
The operation that took out Osama Bin Laden was monitored from this White House room
the Situation Room
Bret
$800 [9]
Jann S. Wenner is the editor & publisher of this music magazine
Rolling Stone
Joon
$800 [27]
Though the daughter of Hondurans, this "Ugly Betty" star voiced a Viking girl in "How To Train Your Dragon"
America Ferrera
Bret Adam
$1,200 [12]
W.W. lamented childlike wonder: "Nothing can bring back the hour / Of splendour in" this, "Of glory in the flower"
the grass
Joon Adam
$1,200 [18]
In the 1870s, Red Cloud& a delegation of his Oglala people of this tribe came to Washington
the Sioux
Joon
$1,200 [24]
Treasure Island is a manmade island built in this bay for the 1939-1940 Golden Gate Exposition
San Francisco Bay
Bret
$1,200 [6]
Anoushka Shankar played this instrument on her father's album "Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000"
the sitar
Joon
$1,200 [17]
The second word in the French name of this cooking magazine has an accent mark over the "E"
Bon Appétit
Joon
$1,200 [30]
Sheco-founded an organization called Voto Latino to get people to the polls, even in Sin City
Rosario Dawson
$1,600 [15]
It sounds a little backwards, but "The child is father of" this
the man
$1,600 [19]
That's not Napoleon--it's P.T. Barnum's attraction Charles Stratton, known by this name
Tom Thumb
Adam
$1,600 [25]
Manisses, or "Island of Little God", was the Narragansett Indian name for this state's Block Island
Rhode Island
Joon
$1,600 [7]
It can refer to a flag or a popular old song
a standard
Joon
$1,600 [14]
Rodale publishes this healthy living magazine whose 10-letter name implies it can forestall disease
Prevention
Joon
$1,600 [29]
This director's first version of "El Mariachi" was shot for $7,000; the Holywood version cost slightly more
(Robert) Rodriguez
Joon Adam
$2,000 [16]
"All at once I saw a crowd / A host, of golden" these flowers
daffodils
Joon
$2,000 [20]
Britain's Roger Fenton is known as the first war photographer, capturingquiet momentsin this 1850s conflict
the Crimean War
Joon
DD $2,500 [26]
The University of Texas Medical Branch is on this island
Galveston
Joon
$2,000 [8]
A truce or cessation of hostilities
a stand-down
Bret
DD $3,000 [13]
The documentary "The September Issue" showed Anna Wintour prepping for this magazine's 2007 Fall Fashion issue
Vogue
Adam
$2,000 [28]
Born Margarita Carmen Cansino, this bombshell was a trained dancer & sometimes partnered Fred Astaire
Rita Hayworth
Adam

Final Jeopardy!

ROYALTY

The son of an Oscar winner, this prince is also a 5-time Olympian

Prince Albert

Adam "Who is Ranier?" — wagered $201
Bret "Who is Prince Albert" — wagered $8,199
Joon "Who is Prince Rainier?" — wagered $2,500

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