Show #6224 2011-10-13 (taped 2011-08-29) Regular

Contestants

Liz Good — a freelance editor from Brockton, Massachusetts

Drew Denton — a graduate student of American religious history from Decatur, Georgia

Katie Proctor — a stay-at-home mom from Hendersonville, North Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $26,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Katie $7,400 $12,400 $32,400 $24,800
2-day champion: $51,201
$30,200
34 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Drew $-200 $1,400 $5,200 $7,040
3rd place: $1,000
$3,800
9 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Liz $2,000 $1,400 $10,600 $10,600
2nd place: $2,000
$10,600
12 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY NARRATORS IT'S IN YOUR MIND VIDEO GAME HISTORY YOU SEE 'EM AT THE MUSEUM ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES AN "ITHER"
$200 [11]
This Mark Twain character says that "Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it"
Huck Finn
Katie Drew
$200 [26]
From the Greek for "not remembered", it's partial or complete memory loss
amnesia
Katie
$200 [1]
It was joystick to the world in 1977 when this company released its 2600 system
Atari
Katie
$200 [21]
Botticelli's 1481 fresco of St. Sixtus II is at this landmark, part of the Vatican Museums
the Sistine Chapel
Liz
$200 [6]
A move toward political liberalism, or the move NASCAR drivers perform all race long
a left turn (to the left accepted)
Katie
$200 [16]
Adverb meaning "to where I am"; it often precedes "and yon"
hither
Liz
$400 [12]
In this author's "The Cask of Amontillado ", Montresor narrates his own revenge on Fortunato
(Edgar Allan) Poe
Drew
$400 [27]
A first shot in golf, or a psychological term for a strong motivating instinct
drive
Katie
$400 [2]
In 1984 this 76er & Larry Bird went "one-on-one" for the Commodore 64
Dr. J
Katie Drew
$400 [22]
You can view Veronese's "The Wedding Feast at Cana" (& the French crown diamonds, too) at this museum
the Louvre
Katie
$400 [7]
If you're driving west-northwest, it's the quickest turn to change your direction to east-southeast
a 180 (or a U-turn)
Katie
$400 [17]
Reptilian way of moving
slither
Katie
$600 [13]
The narrator of David Foster Wallace's "The Pale King" battles boredom at this agency's Regional Examination Center
the IRS
$600 [28]
Bipolar disorder was once known as this type of "depression"
manic
Katie
$600 [3]
id Software says hardcore PC games went mainstream in 1994 when it unleashed this fatal-sounding game
Doom
Katie
$600 [23]
Manet's "Before the Mirror" & Monet's "Palazzo Ducale" are in this unique NYC circular building
the Guggenheim
Katie
$800 [9]
At sea, if you want the wheel turned all the way in 1 direction, say this 4-letter word "a-port" or "a-starboard"
hard
Katie
$600 [18]
Ruth Welcome was a virtuoso on this musical instrument
the zither
Katie
$800 [14]
Oliver Barrett IV narrates this 1970 novel about his romance & marriage to Jenny Cavilleri
Love Story
Katie
$800 [29]
Peccatophobia is the fear of committing one of these religious transgressions
a sin
Drew
$800 [4]
OK chums, Deathwing the Dragon has caused a "cataclysm" on Azeroth in a 2010 expansion of this massive game
World of Warcraft
Katie
$800 [24]
This Madrid museum has Van Dyck's "Beatrice, Countess of Oxford" & "The Executions" by Goya
the Prado
Drew
$1,000 [10]
If you perform a step turn or a stem Christie, you're on a pair of these
skis (snow skis accepted)
Liz
$800 [19]
To be have indecisively
dither
Katie
$1,000 [15]
Both Nelly Dean & Mr. Lockwood provide narration about Heathcliff & the denizens of his manor in this 1847 novel
Wuthering Heights
Liz
$1,000 [30]
I love Dr. Freud for using this term for strong feelings of attachment by a patient toward an analyst
transference
$1,000 [5]
In December 2002 Will Wright moved these virtual people "online"
the Sims
Katie
$1,000 [25]
Titian's "St. Sebastian" & "Danae" are at this St. Petersburg museum known for its arsenal
the Hermitage
Liz
DD $2,000 [8]
Sharp type of turn that sounds like an accessory to keep your toupee from flying off
a hairpin
Katie
$1,000 [20]
The area between a horse's shoulder blades
the withers
Katie

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 2011TIME100 MOVIES ON THE MAP CAPTAIN COOK A POPS CONCERT HODGEPODGE HOMONYM FILL-INS
$400 [6]
She reshaped "the state department to emphasize development and people-powered diplomacy"
Hillary Clinton
Drew
$400 [1]
1993 Tom Hanks / Denzel Washington film
Philadelphia
Drew
$400 [14]
Cook was 26 when he joined the navy; he'd spent the previous years mainly ferrying this fuel around the North Sea
coal
Katie
$400 [11]
The concert includes keyboard music by this master who left 3 claviers to his youngest son, Johann Christian
Johann Sebastian Bach
Liz
$400 [21]
This goat constellation is the smallest of the zodiac
Capricorn
Liz
$400 [26]
When you fast, food often goes to ____; start eating again, & it will go to your ____
waste/waist
Katie
$800 [7]
Robert Gates said this U.S. general who was in charge in Afghanistan "is the premier soldier-scholar of his time"
(David) Petraeus
Drew
$800 [2]
Robert Altman's 1975 movie about the music business
Nashville
Drew
$1,200 [16]
Cook's first visit to Australia was tagged onto a voyage to this South Seas island later visited by Captain Bligh
Tahiti
Liz
$800 [12]
I hear a waltz by this composer who died in 1849, father of a Vienna dynasty
Johann Strauss
Liz
$800 [22]
A Buick was named for this New York City street that runs parallel to & between Fifth & Lexington
Park Avenue
Katie
$800 [27]
When the ____ wrote a letter in cursive, the king pored over it & said, "Next time, he ____"
prince/prints
Katie
$1,600 [9]
"The face of Wikileaks... (no matter) what happens to (him), secrets will never be safe again"
Assange
Katie
$1,200 [3]
Steve Buscemi is part of a botched kidnapping; you might say it had a chipper ending
Fargo
Katie Drew
DD $1,600 [15]
Young Cook's charts of this river's estuary were vital to the British victory at Quebec in 1759
the St. Lawrence
Katie
$1,200 [13]
Last name of Carmine, who composed the music for his son's film "Godfather III"
Coppola
Drew
$1,200 [23]
Thomas Gore, a blind senator from Oklahoma, was the grandfather of this "Myra Breckinridge" author
Gore Vidal
Liz
$1,200 [28]
Some thieves in the night sought the troubadour's ____; they found not a dime, just a 6-stringed ____
loot/lute
Drew
$2,000 [10]
"Now in his second stint as Israel's prime minister, he is Bibi; as with Bono, a single name suffices" (except right now)
(Benjamin) Netanyahu
Katie
$1,600 [4]
Roxie & Velma (Renee & Catherine) make a path from death row to stardom
Chicago
Liz
$1,600 [17]
On Jan. 17, 1773 Cook & crew became the first people to cross this geographic circle
the Antarctic Circle
$1,600 [19]
He wasn't "La Mer" but Le Pere of Chouchou, for whom he composed the "Children's Corner"
Debussy
Liz
$1,600 [24]
Derived from Latin, it's the 10-letter term for the place where 2 or more rivers flow together
confluence
Katie
$1,600 [29]
You're right to refuse to give up your rights by signing a ____; don't ____ in your convictions
waiver/waver
Katie
DD $2,600 [8]
Her "post is now one of the 50 most frequented web destinations... in Feb. it attracted more than 23 mil. unique visitors"
(Arianna) Huffington
Drew
$2,000 [5]
2005 Oscar nominee about the aftermath of an Olympic tragedy
Munich
Katie
$2,000 [18]
In 1770, Cook made the map seen here, using "Ea Hei Nom Auwe" & "Toai Poonamo O" where atlases now use these two names
the North and South Islands
Katie
$2,000 [20]
Next, from this musical family, a sonata by Alessandro; his son Domenico's "Inheritance" included talent
Scarlatti
Liz
$2,000 [25]
In Greek mythology dryads were nymphs who lived here
forest
Katie
$2,000 [30]
Listening to the facts spouted by the just-arrived talking antelope, I couldn't believe what the ____ ____ ____
new/gnu/knew
Katie

Final Jeopardy!

THE OSCARS

This performer is the only person to win Oscars for acting & also songwriting

Barbra Streisand

Drew "Who is Streisand?" — wagered $1,840
Liz "Who is" — wagered $0
Katie "Who is Sinatra?" — wagered $7,600

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