Show #6235 2011-10-28 (taped 2011-09-20) Regular

Contestants

John Jordan — a university English teacher from Fort Collins, Colorado

Helaine Greenfeld — a government attorney from Chevy Chase, Maryland

Sunny Stalter — an English professor from Auburn, Alabama (whose 1-day cash winnings total $29,200)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Sunny	$-200	$2,400	$8,000	$7,000 2-day champion: $36,200	$8,000 15 R, 2 W
Helaine	$1,200	$0	$2,900	$5,799 2nd place: $2,000	$6,400 12 R, 7 W (including 1 DD)
John	$1,200	$600	$4,400	$0 3rd place: $1,000	$9,000 15 R, 8 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

CASEY AT THE BAT	THE 1600s	IN THE DICTIONARY	THE SHAPE OF THINGS	LAND IDAHO!	KEYBOARD NEIGHBORS
$200 [1] Future Major Leaguer Casey Kotchman hit .456 to help lead Seminole High in this state to the 2001 national title Florida Helaine	$200 [4] After observing a comet in 1682, he proved it was the same one seen in 1607, 1531, 1456... (Edmond) Halley John	$200 [16] This 10-letter word refers to one's partner in crime, perhaps as an accessory an accomplice Sunny John	$200 [23] DNA is a double one of these a helix Sunny	$200 [12] In 1900, the population of this capital was about 6,000; by 1960, it had exploded to 34,000 Boise John	$200 [7] A simile is a comparison usually including the word "like" or this as Sunny
$400 [2] He made the Hall of Fame as a Yankees manager, but he also batted .284 in 14 big-league seasons Casey Stengel John	$400 [5] Dutchman Willem Schouten, who rounded this dangerous tip of South America in 1616, named it for his birthplace Cape Horn Helaine	$400 [17] This unit of measure also means to move by small degrees to inch Sunny	$400 [24] Something deltoid resembles this basic geometric shape a triangle John	$400 [13] Rexburg has an Idaho branch of this man's university; you may be more familiar with the one in Provo, Utah Brigham Young Helaine	$400 [8] They combine to make an "F" sound "G" & "H" Sunny Helaine John
$600 [3] From 1999 to 2005, Sean Casey batted .300 or better 5 times in 7 seasons for this Ohio team the (Cincinnati) Reds Sunny John	$600 [6] For nearly 40 years, until 1679, New Hampshire was part of this colony the Massachusetts Bay Colony Helaine	$600 [18] One who makes a brief but intense effort & enjoys short-lived success is this "in the pan" a flash Helaine	$800 [26] Something pinnate is shaped like this (it's what "pinna" means in Latin) feather	—	$600 [9] In Spanish it's nosotros we Sunny John
$800 [14] Casey Candaele played 9 seasons in the majors; his mom Helen played ball too, & helped inspire this 1992 film A League of Their Own John	$800 [21] The oldest opera for which complete music still exists is Jacopo Peri's 1600 work about this lover of Orpheus Euridice John	$800 [19] This 2-word term can refer to a spicy sausage or a piece of highlighted text on a web page a hot link Sunny Helaine	$1,000 [25] The Earth is this type of spheroid, meaning flattened at the poles oblate Helaine John	—	$800 [10] In Caesar's time it was 90 XC John
$1,000 [15] Joe Casey batted .152 for the 1911 Detroit Tigers; this Georgia-born teammate batted .420 Ty Cobb Sunny	DD $2,400 [22] After hoarding food rations, he & his son were kept at bay, literally, by mutineers who set them adrift in 1611 Henry Hudson John	$1,000 [20] This 4-syllable adjective can refer to non-canonical parts of the Vulgate Bible or to any documents of doubtful origin apocryphal John	—	—	$1,000 [11] The bottom right pair of letters, it's a U.S. state postal abbreviation NM

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE STATUE OF LIBERTY	MEANINGFUL STAGE NAMES	WHERE'S THE PROBLEM?	LIBRARIES	"SH"!	RUSSIAN COMPOSERS
$400 [1] Give this man a "prize"! He used his newspaper, the World, to help raise funds for the statue's pedestal Pulitzer Sunny Helaine	$400 [7] Wrestler Steve Williams adopted this surname in tribute to Lee Majors' superhuman TV character Austin Sunny Helaine John	$400 [16] Cirrhosis the liver Sunny	$400 [21] Entitled to free copies of all books printed in Britain, the Bodleian Library is the main library of this university Oxford Sunny	$400 [6] Many a manly man sports a "five o'clock" one of these a shadow Sunny	$800 [26] In 1936 Prokofiev wrote this musical piece & its narration for a children's theater in Moscow Peter and the Wolf Helaine
$800 [2] Sculptor Frederic Bartholdi constructed the statue out of this, hammering sheets of it in a technique called repousse copper Helaine	$800 [8] This Mindfreak-y performer changed his name from Christopher Sarantakos Criss Angel John	$800 [17] Rhinitis the nose Sunny	$800 [22] This city's first public library opened in 1873 in a circular water tank that had survived the Great Fire Chicago John	$800 [9] From the name of a British Army officer, they're fragments from an exploded artillery shell shrapnel John	$1,600 [27] In 1856, at age 12, this "Flight Of The Bumblebee" composer entered a naval academy & remained in the navy for 17 years Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
$1,200 [3] Her poem about the Statue of Liberty says, "Her mild eyes command / The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame" Emma Lazarus Helaine	$1,200 [13] Focus on the middle name of Richard Melville Hall to figure out he's better known as this techno musician Moby Helaine	$1,200 [18] Silicosis the lungs Sunny	$1,200 [23] Both he and Bess are buried in the courtyard of his Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri Harry S. Truman Helaine	$1,200 [10] 2 to 4 feet long, the spiny dogfish is probably the most abundant species of this fish on the U.S. Atlantic Coast shark John	—
$1,600 [4] A "magician of iron", this French engineer designed Lady Liberty's skeletal framework Eiffel John	$1,600 [14] Louis Lindley is known as this to movie lovers because he was told he wouldn't make much money in the rodeo Slim Pickens Sunny	$1,600 [19] Glossitis the tongue	$2,000 [25] A library at the U.N. serves as a memorial to this Secretary-General who was killed in a 1961 plane crash Dag Hammarskjold	$1,600 [11] Some Native Americans believe these medicine men have contact with the spirit world shaman John	—
DD $2,200 [5] The Statue's full proper title is "Liberty" doing this to "the World" Enlightening John	$2,000 [15] Donald Lytle's choice of this stage name made extra sense when "Take This Job And Shove It" became his biggest hit (Johnny) Paycheck Helaine John	$2,000 [20] Meniere disease the inner ear Helaine	DD $3,500 [24] Robert Frost & Daniel Webster collections are housed at a special collections library at this Ivy League school Dartmouth Helaine	$2,000 [12] Add Asian flair to a room by partitioning it off or accenting it with one of these rice paper screens shoji Helaine	—

Final Jeopardy!

INVENTORS

In 1823 this Scot obtained a patent for a process that made silk, paper & "other substances impervious to water and air"

Charles Macintosh

Helaine "Who was Macintosh?" — wagered $2,899

John "Who is Carnegie?" — wagered $4,400

Sunny "Who is Tesla?" — wagered $1,000

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