Show #6244 2011-11-10 (taped 2011-09-27) Tournament of Champions

2011 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 2.

Contestants

Kara Spak — a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois

Jay Rhee — an oncologist from Annapolis, Maryland

Buddy Wright — an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Buddy	$400	$3,200	$10,800	$8,799 Finalist	$10,800 17 R, 4 W
Jay	$1,800	$8,000	$6,400	$0 3rd place: $10,000	$10,400 19 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 2 DDs)
Kara	$200	$-1,600	$5,200	$12 2nd place: $10,000	$5,200 9 R, 6 W

Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY	THE 2011 EMMYS	MILITARY WIVES	AUTOBIOGRAPHIES	STORAGE	JEOPORTMANTEAU
$200 [26] Alphabetically, the countries in Europe run from Albania to this tiny landlocked nation Vatican City Kara	$200 [8] Emmy has spoken: he won his fourth straight award as Best Reality Host & we can tell you for sure that he knows how to rock & roll (Jeff) Probst Buddy	$200 [21] Her married life began in military housing in San Antonio in 1916; 37 years & 22 moves brought her to the White House Mamie Eisenhower Buddy Jay	$200 [2] An entertainer:"Moonwalk" Michael Jackson Jay	$200 [1] The SSA, this association, says its members control 2 1/4 billion square feet Self Storage	$200 [12] U.S. chief executive plus prosthetic teeth presidentures Buddy Kara
$400 [27] We're counting on your knowing that the Firth of Forth is an estuary in this country Scotland Jay	$400 [9] Guy Pearce won an acting Emmy for playing Monty in this HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce Kara	$400 [22] Mary Custis had other suitors, like Sam Houston, but she was set on this soldier son of Light-Horse Harry; they wed in 1831 Robert E. Lee Buddy	$400 [3] A vice president:"In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir" Dick Cheney Kara	$400 [17] This item on which Garrick Ohlsson sits while working often has a compartment to store sheet music a piano bench Jay	$400 [13] Jack-o-lantern gourd plus school for wee ones pumpkindergarten Buddy
$600 [28] (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Beginning northwest of Moscow & flowing 2,300 miles to the Caspian Sea, this river is the longest in Europe the Volga Jay	$600 [4] With clear eyes & a full heart, Kyle Chandler couldn't lose Lead Actor in a Drama for this show Friday Night Lights Jay	$600 [23] In 1824 David Farragut married Susan Marchant of this Virginia city & made that port his home Norfolk Jay Kara	$600 [5] An actor:"My Wicked, Wicked Ways" Errol Flynn Buddy	$600 [18] Store your manly possessions using a gun, bat or pipe type of this 4-letter word rack Buddy Jay	$600 [14] Additional note at the end of a letter plus revered texts postscripture Buddy Kara
$1,000 [30] From their name, these Danish islands sound like they should be ruled by Egyptian royalty the Faroe Islands Buddy	$800 [10] After joining her fellow nominees onstage, Melissa McCarthy won for this double "M" sitcom Mike & Molly Buddy	$800 [24] A few weeks before their 1864 wedding, his fiancee Elizabeth called him her "old fellow with the golden curls" (George Armstrong) Custer Buddy	$800 [6] A songwriter:"Bound for Glory" Woody Guthrie Kara	$800 [19] At U.S. nuclear power plants, most spent fuel is stored in these, which cool them ponds (or pools) Jay	$800 [15] Periodic student allowance plus swinging Foucault feat stipendulum Buddy
DD $2,000 [29] Ports on this bay include Bilbao, Spain & Bayonne, France the Bay of Biscay Jay	$1,000 [11] This Best Director was a raging bull in an Emmy shop for his work on "Boardwalk Empire" (Martin) Scorsese Buddy Kara	$1,000 [25] That's the former Beatrice Ayer, gazing up at this husband of hers (General) George Patton	$1,000 [7] An architect:"Inside the Third Reich" (Albert) Speer Buddy Jay	$1,000 [20] In 1955 the Sentry company made the first one of these classified as fire-resistant a safe Buddy Kara	$1,000 [16] Morning meal plus picky about details breakfastidious Jay

Double Jeopardy! Round

LADS NAMED VLAD	GIVE THE ORDER	THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE	POP CULTURE	2 Vs, PLEASE	ECONOMIST DANCE PARTY
$400 [28] What a sport! In 2008 this Russian leader put out an instructional judo DVD (Vladimir) Putin Jay	$400 [30] The gorilla primate	$400 [18] Thomas Keneally won for a book about this title German man, an unlikely savior to Jews in WWII (Oskar) Schindler Jay	$400 [9] Dana Owens took this name, Arabic for "gentle", at age 8; about 10 years later she put "Queen" in front of it Latifah Buddy	$400 [12] A new production of an old play, or an evangelistic service a revival Kara	$400 [26] In 2011 the Fed, led by him, said let's do the Operation Twist, buying long-term bonds & selling shorter-term debt Bernanke Jay
$800 [27] A butterfly expert, he wrote much of "Lolita" while on butterfly hunting trips with his wife Nabokov Kara	$800 [29] The chinchilla rodent	$800 [16] A burned man is the title figure of this novel by Michael Ondaatje that's set in 1945 The English Patient Jay	$800 [4] A 21-crunch salute to the late Arch West, the Frito-Lay executive credited with creating this brand of tortilla chips Doritos Jay	$800 [10] To develop gradually, Darwin-style evolve Buddy	$800 [25] In 2011 Christine Lagarde became the managing director of the IMF, this body, after it did a needed shuffle the International Monetary Fund Buddy
$1,200 [17] The inspiration for Dracula, Prince Vlad Tepes earned this nickname by executing enemies by driving a stake through them Vlad the Impaler Kara	DD $1,200 [21] The grizzly bear &the gray wolf Carnivore Jay	$1,200 [8] Roddy Doyle, born in this city, won for "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha", set in a fictional part of that city Dublin Kara	$1,200 [3] We are "Royally Mad" about this British-born host (Cat) Deeley Kara	$1,200 [6] Adjective meaning unforgiving or vengeful vindictive	$1,200 [13] This 3-named Brit's "General Theory" says unemployment is reduced with more government spending; how low can you go? John Maynard Keynes Jay
$1,600 [19] This Russian-born piano virtuoso was the son-in-law of Arturo Toscanini (Vladimir) Horowitz Jay	$1,600 [22] The gypsy moth Lepidoptera	$1,600 [7] 1989's winner was this novel by Kazuo Ishiguro about a perfect English butler reflecting on his 30-year career The Remains of the Day Jay	$1,600 [2] In 2011 she returned to TV with a reality series about her efforts to run a macadamia farm in Hawaii Roseanne Buddy	$1,600 [5] 8-letter adjective preceding "procedure", as when a scalpel is required invasive Jay	$1,600 [14] In honor of "Alas, Brazil", a 1999 article by this newspaper columnist & 2008 Nobel winner, it's time to lambada Paul Krugman
DD $4,000 [20] In 1929, while working for RCA, this inventor & engineer demonstrated the first practical all-electronic TV Vladimir Zworykin Jay	$2,000 [23] The platypus monotremes Jay	$2,000 [15] The 2002 Prize went to Yann Martel's bestseller "Life of" this Pi Kara	$2,000 [1] Got that song "Pumped Up Kicks" stuck in your head? Blame this trio led by Mark Foster Foster the People	$2,000 [11] Last name of the 1904 Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine, dog Pavlov Buddy	$2,000 [24] This "funny" man said cuts in marginal tax rates increase tax revenues & draws (then dances) his "curve" (Arthur) Laffer Buddy

Final Jeopardy!

HOLLYWOOD HISTORY

They were the first 2 sisters ever nominated for the same acting Oscar in the same year

Joan Fontaine & Olivia de Havilland

Kara "Who are [scribble] Anna + Miriam Spak?" — wagered $5,188

Jay "Who are Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave?" — wagered $6,400

Buddy "Who are Eva + Zsa Zsa" — wagered $2,001

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