Show #6249 2011-11-17 (taped 2011-09-21) Regular

Contestants

Glenn Sullivan — a psychology professor from Lexington, Virginia

Matt Andelman — a family law attorney from Silver Spring, Maryland

Ellen Lewis — a retired high school math teacher from Mount Vernon, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ellen $1,000 $5,000 $7,800 $5,600
3rd place: $1,000
$7,800
17 R, 3 W
Matt $2,000 $5,000 $13,400 $9,400
2nd place: $2,000
$13,400
16 R, 2 W
Glenn $5,500 $6,300 $8,650 $15,601
New champion: $15,601
$6,800
20 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

AIRSHIPS THEIR ONLY TOP 10 POP HIT THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! EXTRAVAGANZA ELEGANZA "FUN" IN ACAPULCO
$200 [8]
The passenger & crew compartment of an airship shares this name with a type of boat used in Venice
a gondola
Glenn
$200 [6]
1996:"Killing Me Softly"
The Fugees
Matt
$200 [13]
Around 447 B.C. this group led by the "Scourge of God" devastated the Balkans & drove south into Greece
the Huns
Ellen
$200 [19]
Valued at $3.8 mil., the most expensive one of these is encrusted with 4,517 diamonds; it'll at least hold a lipstick
a purse
Matt
$200 [1]
A professional solicitor of financial contributions for charity
fundraiser
Ellen
$200 [26]
His "Fun in Acapulco" included crooning "Bossa Nova Baby"
Elvis
Glenn
$400 [9]
In 2011 this firm announced it was phasing out its blimps in favor of rigid airships with aluminum & carbon skeletons
Goodyear
Glenn
$400 [7]
1969:"A Boy Named Sue"
Johnny Cash
Glenn
$400 [14]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were spread out over three continents: 2 were in Africa, 3 in Asia, & the 2 in Europewere the Colossus of Rhodes & this other statue
the Statue of Zeus (at Olympia)
Glenn
$400 [22]
A $69 hot dog (called a "haute dog") is grilled in white truffle oil & topped with this liver from a duck
foie gras
Ellen
$400 [2]
I've got the munchies; ah, just what I need--these savory snacks from Frito-Lay
Funyuns
Glenn
$400 [27]
Later president of the U.S., he caught a sailfish on his honeymoon in Acapulco in 1953
(John F.) Kennedy
Ellen Glenn
$600 [10]
On March 31, 1936 it left Germany on its first transatlantic trip, arriving in Rio de Janeiro 4 days later
the Hindenburg
Glenn
$600 [17]
1987:"Touch of Grey"
The Grateful Dead
Glenn
$600 [15]
This king who died in 1750 B.C. left a code dealing with family laws, loans, debts & even witchcraft
Hammurabi
Ellen
$600 [23]
Fetching $3.6 million at auction, the "Molitor" is a violin he made in 1697
Stradivarius
Ellen
$600 [3]
A strict, often literal adherent to a faith's tenets & practices
fundamentalism
Glenn
$600 [28]
Acapulco is famous for this daring activity at La Quebrada
cliff diving
Glenn
$800 [11]
This insurance company operates 2 full-time blimps, Snoopy One & Snoopy Two
MetLife
Glenn
$800 [20]
1978:"Dust in the Wind"
Kansas
Glenn
$800 [16]
Doric columns, like at the Parthenon, had 16-20 grooves; these more slender columns at the nearby Erechtheum usually had 24
Ionic
Matt
$800 [24]
Go ahead & splurge on a private island; Bird Cay is just $14 million & 30 minutes from Nassau in these islands
the Bahamas
Ellen
$800 [4]
An official dinner, or a mathematical variable with a specified relation to another one
a function
Matt
$800 [29]
He spent his last days in Acapulco but died in flight on his private plane back to Houston in 1976
Howard Hughes
Ellen
DD $1,700 [12]
He began construction of his first airship in June 1898 in a wooden hangar on Lake Constance
(Count) Zeppelin
Glenn
$1,000 [21]
2006:"White & Nerdy"
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Matt
$1,000 [18]
The 1st inscription on this 1799 discovery is in hieroglyphics, the 2nd in everyday Egyptian & the 3rd in Greek
the Rosetta Stone
Ellen
$1,000 [25]
He had more than 300 field animals in his private zoo at his San Simeon estate
(William Randolph) Hearst
Ellen
$1,000 [5]
It's a cable-operated railway going up a hillside
a funicular
Matt
$1,000 [30]
Several of this artist's last murals were painted at the Acapulco estate of his friend Dolores Olmedo
(Diego) Rivera
Ellen Matt Glenn

Double Jeopardy! Round

IT'S ANDREW! LETTER PERFECT SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGIC MEN "SCOPE" IT OUT COLOR MOVIES THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
$400 [20]
Andrew Lloyd Webber composed "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina" for this Broadway show
Evita
Ellen
$400 [13]
It can mean 1,000 or a baseball strikeout
K
Matt
$400 [1]
The porter &Duncan
Macbeth
Ellen
$400 [11]
This device detects sounds produced within the body & conveys them to doctors' ears through tubes
a stethoscope
Glenn
$400 [3]
Top ballerina Sarah Lane was Natalie Portman's dance double for this 2010 film
Black Swan
Glenn
$400 [26]
(Janet Napolitano gives the clue.) Threats from denial of service attacks to software are major concerns in this area, the CS in the division NCSD
Cyber Security
Glenn
$800 [21]
The son of illustrator N.C., this painter had his first exhibition in 1936 at the Art Alliance of Philadelphia
Andrew Wyeth
Ellen
$800 [14]
Metaphysically speaking, it's the ego
I
Ellen
$800 [2]
Benvolio &Friar Laurence
Romeo and Juliet
Matt
$800 [12]
Among the world's largest of these are the twin 400-inch ones on Mauna Kea in Hawaii
telescopes
Matt
$800 [6]
Ryan Reynolds gets a mystical ring that endows him with special powers in this 2011 film
Green Lantern
Matt
$800 [27]
(Janet Napolitano gives the clue.) In 2011, color-coded alerts were replaced by a warning system with information about particular terrorist threats, either elevated or this, meaning we think it will happen soon
imminent
Glenn
$1,200 [22]
In 1901 he sold his steel company to J.P. Morgan for a tidy $250 million
(Andrew) Carnegie
Glenn
$1,200 [15]
A scale measuring the popularity of a celebrity is this "rating"
Q
Matt
$1,200 [4]
The fool &the Dukes of Cornwall & Albany
King Lear
Ellen
$1,200 [18]
It's seen here& also in dramatic pursuit scenes in many a movie
a radarscope
Matt
$1,200 [7]
Henry Mancini got an Oscar nomination for the score to this 1964 Peter Sellers film
The Pink Panther
Ellen
$1,600 [23]
Oddly, Andrew was the middle name of this "40 whacks" gal (that wasn't the only odd thing in her life, though)
Lizzie Borden
Ellen
$1,600 [16]
The first letter alphabetically to appear alone as a periodic table element symbol
B (for boron)
Ellen Matt Glenn
$1,600 [5]
Brabantio &Cassio
Othello
Matt
$1,600 [19]
From the Latin for "joint", it's an instrument that looks into the interior of joints
arthroscope
Matt
$1,600 [9]
Amanda Seyfried donned the title cloak in this 2011 film
Red Riding Hood
Glenn
$2,000 [24]
This gay, often conservative British-born pundit serves up the blog "The Daily Dish"
(Andrew) Sullivan
Matt
$2,000 [17]
Random House says it's the medieval Roman numeral for 7; makes sense
S
Glenn
$2,000 [8]
Octavius &Philo
Antony and Cleopatra
Ellen Matt Glenn
$2,000 [25]
In the pre-videotape era, these trademarked cameras were used to record TV shows onto 16mm film
kinescopes
DD $3,150 [10]
In this animated film Fred captains the title transport to Pepperland
Yellow Submarine
Glenn

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC DOCUMENTS

It's the shorter, better-known name of the document "United States-Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967"

the Pentagon Papers

Ellen "What is Sei" — wagered $2,200
Glenn "What are the Pentagon Papers?" — wagered $6,951
Matt "What is The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?" — wagered $4,000

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