Show #6234 2011-10-27 (taped 2011-09-20) Regular

Clip of Sunny Stalter's contestant interview from this game appeared in a clue in show#8048, aired 2019-09-11.

Contestants

Alex Johnson — an actor and theater intern originally from Danvers, Massachusetts

Sunny Stalter — an English professor from Auburn, Alabama

Gabor Vari — a psychiatrist from Los Angeles, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $58,402)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Gabor $2,600 $5,000 $14,600 $19,599
2nd place: $2,000
$10,600
23 R (including 1 DD), 7 W
Sunny $2,800 $8,000 $15,200 $29,200
New champion: $29,200
$14,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Alex $200 $800 $4,800 $9,600
3rd place: $1,000
$3,600
10 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

ADDRESS ME FILL IN THE ANIMAL THE EMPIRE STRIKES PLAQUE THE "BEST" OF EVERYTHING MOST POPULAR BABY NAMES BY YEAR MYTHBUSTERS
$200 [1]
This family lives at 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield, somewhere in the United States
the Simpsons
Gabor
$200 [7]
A game from Rovio:Angry ____
Birds
Gabor
$200 [28]
The British Dental Association says that most adults in the U.K. suffer from periodontal, aka this, disease
gum
Alex
$200 [6]
Traditionally he gives the first toast to the bride & groom at the reception
the best man
Alex
$200 [17]
1971, boys:An archangel
Michael
Gabor Alex
$200 [18]
(The Mythbusters deliver the clue.) The idiom "going down like a lead balloon" implies that lead balloons can't fly but by constructing a balloon & filling it with enough of this inert gas, we achieved lift-off, myth busted!
helium
Gabor
$400 [2]
This rather animated guy lives at 124 Conch Street
SpongeBob
Gabor
$400 [10]
A magazine for teens:____ Beat
Tiger
Gabor
$400 [20]
U.K. dentists recommend no less than 1,000 ppm of this in your 3-year-old's toothpaste
fluoride
Gabor
$400 [8]
Put this body part "forward" to create a favorable initial impression
your best foot
Gabor
$600 [16]
1914, boys:A gospel writer
John
Sunny Alex
$400 [19]
(The Mythbusters deliver the clue.) In the 15th century, Leonardo da Vinci designed a cannon powered by the rapid expansion of this; he thought it would fire projectiles 3,000 feet, but our test showed that the idea was mostly hot air
steam
Gabor
$600 [3]
On "Everybody Loves Raymond", Ray & Debra lived at 320 Fowler; these people, across the street at 319
Ray's parents
$600 [14]
A Mac operating system:Snow ____
Leopard
Sunny
$600 [13]
British dentistry has advanced since medieval barbers performed this procedure using a tool called the pelican
an extraction
Gabor Sunny
$600 [9]
Male or female, it's the main assistant to the chief electrician on a movie
the best boy
Sunny
$800 [25]
1930, boys:Like Goddard or Benchley
Robert
Gabor Sunny
$600 [27]
(The Mythbusters deliver the clue.) We tested a story of unlikely survival using a parachutist hitting a see-saw to launch a girl several stories up but she'd be subjected to 42 of these units, exerted on an object by changes in speed, so a safe landing is unlikely indeed
a g
Gabor
$800 [4]
Holly Robinson & Peter DeLuise were youthful cops on the show named for this address
21 Jump Street
Sunny
$800 [15]
The fruit of the baobab:____ bread
monkey
Gabor
$800 [12]
The British Dental Association says there is little danger from this element that's always present in amalgams
mercury
Gabor Sunny
$800 [11]
With more than 4,000 hotels, this chain claims to be the world's largest
Best Western
Gabor
$1,000 [26]
1950, girls:"Pretty" en español
Linda
Gabor
$800 [29]
(The Mythbusters deliver the clue.) 500 mirrors reflected the sun's rays on a ship's sail which got hot, but failed to catch fire; at President Obama's request we were testing a method invented by this ancient Greek mathematician
Archimedes
Sunny Alex
$1,000 [5]
1020 Palm Drive, Cocoa Beach, Florida was home to all the magical fun on this classic sitcom
I Dream of Jeannie
Sunny
$1,000 [22]
A selfish person:____ in the manger
dog
Sunny
$1,000 [21]
Missing a molar in Manchester? Contact the NHS, short for this, & get a list of hospitals with a dentist on call
the National Health Service
Sunny
$1,000 [23]
3 returning veterans from World War II readjust to civilian life in this Oscar-winning 1946 film
The Best Years of Our Lives
Sunny
DD $1,600 [24]
1998, girls:One of the Bronte sisters
Emily
Sunny

Double Jeopardy! Round

ADDRESS ME THE TONY AWARD FOR BEST PLAY CERAMICS MY "K"OUNTRY POSTHUMOUS POP HITS MAKING WORDS
$400 [17]
This speech ends, "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth"
the Gettysburg Address
Alex
$400 [1]
1988:This story based on an opera set in Asia
M. Butterfly
Gabor
$400 [26]
From the Latin for "stove", this brick-lined oven is used to harden & glaze ceramics
kiln
Gabor
$400 [9]
It's the larger of the 2 "K" stans
Kazakhstan
Alex
$400 [15]
1968:"(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay"
(Otis) Redding
Gabor
$400 [11]
H2O+small storage structure=this turning point
watershed
Gabor
$800 [22]
Patrick Henry gave his rousing "Give me liberty or give me death" address in this pre-revolutionary year
1775
Gabor
$1,200 [3]
1979:Despite this title, he was not an animal
The Elephant Man
Alex
$800 [27]
Jasperware, introduced by Josiah Wedgwood in 1774, is most commonly made in a pale shade of this color
blue
Sunny
$800 [8]
It's the smaller of the 2 "K" stans
Kyrgyzstan
Alex
$800 [18]
1973:"Time In A Bottle"
Jim Croce
Sunny
$800 [12]
Shakespearean second-person singular pronoun+fine quartz debris=this 4-digit number
thousand
Gabor
$1,200 [23]
In a 1951 farewell address after he was fired, he lamented, "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away"
MacArthur
Alex
$1,600 [4]
1985:This Neil Simon story of basic training
Biloxi Blues
Gabor
$1,200 [28]
Porcelain is basically made from a mixture of 2 ingredients: petuntse & kaolin, a pure white type of this
clay
Gabor Sunny
$1,200 [5]
Pristina is the capital of this self-declared independent country of the Balkans
Kosovo
Gabor
$1,200 [19]
1981:"Watching The Wheels"
John Lennon
$1,200 [13]
Perpetrate, like a crime+pointy golf ball aid=this appointed group
committee
Gabor
$1,600 [24]
About to become prime minister of a new country, he ended his 1947 "Tryst with Destiny" speech "jai hind"
Nehru
Gabor Sunny
DD $2,000 [2]
2005:This drama of nuns, priests & uncertainity
Doubt
Alex
$2,000 [7]
Though split in two by the international date line, this Pacific republic has all its islands on the same day
Kiribati
Gabor
$1,600 [20]
1989:"You Got It"
Roy Orbison
Sunny
$1,600 [14]
Automobile+absent=this aromatic cooking seed
caraway
Gabor Sunny
$2,000 [25]
In his second inaugural, FDR said this fraction of the U.S. was "ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished"
one-third
Sunny
$2,000 [10]
2011:This, also a term for a play that gets trotted out over & over
War Horse
Alex
DD $5,600 [6]
This Eastern African country is on the Indian Ocean
Kenya
Gabor
$2,000 [21]
1995:"I Could Fall In Love"
Selena
$2,000 [16]
Big river structure+long period of time=this injurious consequence
damage

Final Jeopardy!

MOVIES

The villain's visage in this movie series was partly chosen due to its likeness to an 1893 work by a Norwegian artist

Scream

Alex "What is Scream?" — wagered $4,800
Gabor "What is Scream?" — wagered $4,999
Sunny "What is the Scream series?" — wagered $14,000

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