Show #6236 2011-10-31 (taped 2011-09-21) Regular

Contestants

Evan Sandman — a hotel front desk manager from Los Angeles, California

Gina Harris — a document specialist from Aloha, Oregon

Sunny Stalter — an English professor from Auburn, Alabama (whose 2-day cash winnings total $36,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sunny $3,800 $8,000 $14,400 $28,400
2nd place: $2,000
$13,600
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Gina $2,400 $4,200 $10,600 $500
3rd place: $1,000
$10,600
17 R, 1 W
Evan $2,800 $2,800 $22,200 $28,801
New champion: $28,801
$18,000
16 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

RICH COUNTRY, POOR COUNTRY SHOW ME YOUR STUFF TV PERSONALITIES HOSPITALS TEXTING FOR SHORT SEASHELLS
$200 [16]
It's the world's third-biggest economy, with 2010 GDP of $4.3 trillion--that's more than 300 trillion yen
Japan
Gina
$200 [11]
It's no "Pulp Fiction" that this actor could pull his Boeing 707 or Gulfstream into the driveway of his Florida home
John Travolta
Sunny
$200 [5]
He began doing his "A Few Minutes With..." commentaries for "60 Minutes" in 1978
Andy Rooney
Gina
$200 [21]
This Rochester, Minnesota clinic is around 15 million square feet, about 3 times the size of the Mall of America
the Mayo Clinic
Gina
$200 [1]
I could be wrong, but that's what I think:IMHO
in my humble opinion
Sunny
$200 [26]
Prized by collectors, this type of shell has been used as a trumpet for thousands of years
a conch
Sunny
$400 [17]
Among individual nations, it was the world's biggest exporter in 2010
China
Sunny
$400 [12]
Her pinup poster was already the stuff of dreams during WWII when she played the lead in "Pin Up Girl"
Betty Grable
Sunny
$400 [6]
This British chef ran a culinary boot camp on "Hell's Kitchen" & faces "Kitchen Nightmares" on his Fox show
Gordon Ramsay
Gina
$400 [22]
Sylvia Plath worked as a secretary at this hospital, MGH for short
Massachusetts General Hospital
Sunny
$400 [2]
I'll be there soon:OMW
on my way
Evan
$400 [27]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) The shell of Tridacna squamosa, or fluted giant clam, shows why is is classed as one of these, from the Latin for "two folding doors"
a bivalve
Gina
$600 [18]
Bailout talk heated up in Europe when Standard & Poor's downgraded its credit to junk status in April 2010
Greece
Gina
$600 [13]
Starting a toy collection? Then buy one featuring this feline character from Sanrio
Hello Kitty
Evan
$600 [7]
She helms "Fashion Police" on E! & has a reality show with her daughter Melissa
Joan Rivers
Sunny
$800 [24]
This city's Johns Hopkins hospital opened on May 7, 1889; today, it's part of a $5 billion medical system
Baltimore
Sunny
$600 [3]
I can't really give you legal advice because:IANAL
I am not a lawyer
Sunny
$600 [28]
An abalone shell is lined with a lustrous material called nacre, or this, because shellfish can give birth to gems
mother-of-pearl
Gina
$800 [19]
More than 80% of its exports go to the U.S. & Canada; its trade with them has nearly tripled since 1994
Mexico
Gina
$800 [14]
The Persian type of this home furnishing is usually tied with what's known as a sehna knot
a rug (or carpet)
Sunny
$800 [9]
He joined the "Today" show as a news anchor in 1994 & has been a co-anchor of the show since 1997
Matt Lauer
Evan
$1,000 [25]
Known for its mental health facilities, this NYC hospital was founded in 1736, 4 years after George Washington's birth
Bellevue
Sunny
$800 [4]
It's how you might sign off to your child or spouse:LYL
love you lots
Gina
$800 [29]
Irregularly-shaped shells of creatures in the family vermetidae are also known as this type of shell, named for an earth tiller
a worm shell
$1,000 [20]
More than 80% of Angola's GDP stems from the production of this resource; much is found offshore
oil
Sunny
$1,000 [15]
In the model version of this hobby, you might launch an Estes 1292 Wizard or a 2162 Big Daddy
model rocketry
Evan
$1,000 [10]
As a boy this cable TV star was nicknamed "El Perrero" because of his natural abilities
Cesar Millan (the "Dog Whisperer")
Sunny
DD $1,400 [23]
Now closed, the D.C. hospital named for him opened in 1909 & in WWI, went from 80 beds to 2,500 in months
Walter Reed
Sunny
$1,000 [8]
511 is another way to say it:TMI
too much information
Gina
$1,000 [30]
Shells of the family terebridae, called this, like the carpenter's drilling tool they resemble
an auger shell
Sunny Gina

Double Jeopardy! Round

IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD FALL GUYS BOOK DEDICATIONS THE MUSICAL ACT THEY FOLLOW HALLOWEEN CANDY "TRICK" OR "TREAT"
$400 [1]
The 1806 "Prophet Hen of Leeds" in this country laid eggs that said "Christ is coming"; turns out the eggs were placed there
England
Gina
$400 [21]
He was born in the fall of 1918 & fell out of the vice presidency in the fall of 1973
Agnew
Gina
$400 [10]
His No. 1 bestseller "The Rainmaker" was dedicated "to American trial lawyers"
John Grisham
Evan
$400 [3]
Little Monsters
Lady Gaga
Sunny
$400 [30]
Wow! The neighbors gave trick-or-treaters the king size of this Nestle candy bar with a noisy name
Crunch
Evan
$400 [5]
It's the National Cathedral of the Church of Ireland
St. Patrick's
Sunny
$800 [2]
& lo, the world would go dark at midnight on Jan. 1, 2000, due to this alphanumeric event, & lo... it did not come to pass
Y2K
Sunny
$800 [22]
This Daredevil was born in the fall of 1938, 36 years before his fall into the Snake River Canyon
Evel Knievel
Gina
$800 [17]
C.S. Lewis dedicated this 1950 classic "to Lucy Barfield" from "your affectionate godfather"
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Evan
$800 [4]
Blockheads
New Kids on the Block
$800 [28]
Abe Vigoda & Betty White have appeared in commercials for this candy bar that satisfies
Snickers
Evan
$800 [6]
This term for a date on which the lady pays her own way may upset some in Amsterdam
Dutch treat
Gina
$1,200 [11]
In 1980 on "The 700 Club", he said, "I guarantee you by the end of 1982 there is going to be a judgment on the world"
Pat Robertson
Evan
$1,200 [23]
He was born September 29, 1758 & fell to enemy fire on the quarterdeck of HMS Victory in the fall of 1805
(Lord) Nelson
Evan
$1,200 [18]
Amy Tan dedicated this bestseller "to my mother and the memory of her mother..."
The Joy Luck Club
Evan
$1,200 [14]
Parrotheads
Jimmy Buffett
Sunny
$1,200 [27]
This tri-colored sweet, popular on Halloween, has its own national day on October 30
candy corn
Gina
$1,200 [7]
Rick Nielsen, this band's guitarist is seenherein his trademark look
Cheap Trick
Gina
$2,000 [13]
This 89-year-old ex-civil engineer said May 21, 2011 was the day... then, sorry, I was off by 5 months, it's Oct. 21, my bad
Harold Camping
$1,600 [24]
Born in the fall of 1837, Tokugawa Yoshinobu was the last Japanese ruler with this title
shogun
Sunny
$2,000 [20]
Larry McMurtry dedicated this sequel to "The Last Picture Show" to Cybill Shepherd, who starred in the film versions
Texasville
Evan
$1,600 [15]
Apple Scruffs
the Beatles
Sunny
$1,600 [26]
The name of these bite-sized candies is also a British term for ninepin bowling
Skittles
Sunny
$1,600 [8]
To give someone this is to show disapproval by deliberately not communicating with him
the silent treatment
Gina
DD $4,400 [12]
Oct. 22, 1844 became "The Great Disappointment" for those awaiting the end; it led to the start of this "numeric" faith
the Seventh Day Adventists
Evan
$2,000 [29]
Born in the fall of 1764, he took the fall for inciting a 1789 mutiny
Fletcher Christian
Evan
DD $3,000 [19]
E.M. Forster dedicated this 1924 novel to Syed Ross Mahood, who showed him "new horizons and a new civilization"
A Passage to India
Evan
$2,000 [16]
Phans
Phish
Evan
$2,000 [25]
Tootsie Roll Industries makes Tootsie Pops (candy inside a lollipop) & these Blow Pops (gum inside a lollipop)
Charms
$2,000 [9]
A small amount of a liquid flowing slowly
a trickle
Sunny

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY QUOTATIONS

"In this sense, the theory of" this group "may be summed up in the single sentence: abolition of private property"

communists

Gina "What are abolitionists?" — wagered $10,100
Sunny "What is communists?" — wagered $14,000
Evan "What are the Communists?" — wagered $6,601

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