Show #6257 2011-11-29 (taped 2011-10-11) Regular

Contestants

Mary Redling — an operations manager from Huntington, West Virginia

Kiran Kedlaya — a math professor originally from Boston, Massachusetts

Kendra Anspaugh — a community college instructor from New Orleans, Louisiana (whose 2-day cash winnings total $61,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kendra $2,400 $5,400 $9,800 $19,600
2nd place: $2,000
$9,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Kiran $3,600 $7,800 $17,800 $30,801
New champion: $30,801
$17,800
24 R, 1 W
Mary $1,400 $2,600 $15,400 $5,400
3rd place: $1,000
$15,000
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

EVENING CONSTITUTIONAL STADIUM FOOD LATIN BODY PARTS -OLOGIES THE CONSTRUCTION CREW THE WRECKING CREW
$200 [6]
This "liberty or death" guy turned down an invite to be a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, saying he "smelt a rat"
Patrick Henry
Kiran
$200 [10]
At Yankee Stadium, pucker up for some frickles, fried these
pickles
Kendra
$200 [1]
Digitus
a finger
Kiran
$200 [15]
The name of this -ology, the study of atmosphere & weather, comes from a book title by Aristotle
meteorology
Kiran
$200 [20]
This guy in charge of the crew shares his title with a jury leader; don't mess with him--he's a real heavyweight
the foreman
Kiran
$200 [26]
The Wrecking Crew were L.A. studio musicians who played on dozens of hits, including this band's "Good Vibrations"
The Beach Boys
Mary
$400 [7]
Rhode Island was the only state not to send delegates to the convention & the last of the 13 to do this, 3 years later
ratify the Constitution
Kendra Kiran
$400 [11]
A Pittsburgh institution, Primanti Brothers' sandwiches are served at this home of the Steelers
Heinz Field
Mary
$400 [2]
Caput
the head
Kiran
$400 [16]
Physical & cultural are 2 of the main branches of this study of mankind
anthropology
Kiran Mary
$400 [22]
This term for the person who wraps pipes & ducts in heat-resistant material comes from the Latin for "island"
an insulator
Kiran
$400 [27]
Micky, Davy, Mike & Peter sang, but the Crew did all the playing on this band's 1966 No. 1 album
The Monkees
Kiran
$600 [8]
As it permitted this practice, William Lloyd Garrison branded the Constitution "a covenant with death"
slavery
Kiran
$600 [12]
While Boston has the Fenway Frank, L.A.'s National League baseball team has this alliterative equivalent
a Dodger Dog
Kendra
$600 [3]
Umbilicus
the belly button
Kiran
$600 [17]
It's the science & application of X-rays
roentgenology (or radiology)
Kendra
$600 [23]
If you're building with stone, call this expert; he might bring lunch in the same-named jar
a mason
Mary
$600 [28]
Wrecking Crew bass queen Carol Kaye added the bottom end to the No. 1 "Theme From" this 1971 detective film
Shaft
Kendra
$800 [9]
The 2 presidents to sign the document were George Washington & this one who was very involved in its formation
James Madison
Kendra Kiran
$1,000 [14]
Florida's Sun Life stadium features such Latin cuisine as Cuban sandwiches & these meat-filled turnovers
empanadas
Mary
$800 [4]
Bracchium(this limb)
the arm
Kiran
$800 [18]
In 1512 Martin Luther earned the degree doctor of this
theology
Mary
$800 [24]
"Pargeter" is an old term for a worker who applies this stuff to walls & ceilings; he doesn't have to be from Paris
plaster
Kendra
$800 [29]
On "Whipped Cream & Other Delights", Herb Alpert played the trumpet, but the Wrecking Crew was this "south of the border" band
the Tijuana Brass
Kiran
$1,000 [21]
Since 1952, all 4 pages of the Constitution have been on display behind protective glass at this facility in D.C.
the National Archives
Kiran
DD $1,200 [13]
A few years back Wrigley Field introduced the Northside Twist, a 4-pound one of these with 3 dipping sauces
a pretzel
Kendra
$1,000 [5]
Auris
the ear
Kiran
$1,000 [19]
Mycology is the study of fungi; myology is the study of these body parts
muscles
Kendra
$1,000 [25]
Let's see if Jennifer Beals is available for this job of heating & joining metal
welding
Kiran
$1,000 [30]
Wrecking Crew drummer Hal Blaine used tire chains to lay down the crashing sounds on this Simon & Garfunkel No. 1
"Bridge Over Troubled Water"

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE ODD WORDS '90s NOVELS MOAT POINTS INVENTIONS FOR THE HOME MUST "C" TV
$400 [6]
This inert gas alters your voice because sound travels more than twice as fast in it as in air
helium
Mary
$400 [1]
To decaudate is to do this, like the farmer's wife did to the 3 blind mice
cut off tails
Mary
$400 [16]
In this author's "Debt of Honor", Jack Ryan comes out of retirement to serve as the new National Security Advisor
Tom Clancy
Mary
$400 [18]
Moats were crossed via this device; it was lowered & raised depending on who wanted to cross
a drawbridge
Kiran
$400 [23]
It's not shocking that in 1928, Philip Labre added a third prong, for grounding, to this
an electrical plug
Mary
$400 [7]
In 2011 Larry David & the gang went to New York City on this uncomfortably funny HBO show
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Kendra
$800 [8]
Lignin, a substance in wood, changes when exposed to oxygen; that makes white paper turn this color as it ages
yellow
Mary
$800 [2]
A nummular thing is shaped like one of these; if you know Latin, it makes cents
a coin (a penny accepted)
Kiran
$800 [17]
If you haven't read this first novel in Cormac McCarthy's "Border Trilogy", say "neigh"
All the Pretty Horses
Kendra
$800 [19]
Great Britain's second largest, after Windsor, the Castle of Caerphilly, moat & all, is found in this country
Wales
Kendra
$800 [24]
Avon salesladies thank Joseph Henry, the first secretary of the Smithsonian, for inventing the electric this
a doorbell
Kiran
$800 [9]
The focus shifted from 40-something Courteney Cox dating men in their 20s, but the show was stuck with this title
Cougar Town
Mary
DD $1,000 [15]
It's the form of glucose that rotates a plane of polarized light clockwise
dextrose
Mary
$1,200 [3]
To the Pennsylvania Dutch, smearcase is this, both large & small curd varieties
cottage cheese
Mary
$1,200 [25]
The title character loses 72 pounds (but gains 74) during the year recorded in this Helen Fielding novel
Bridget Jones's Diary
Mary
$1,200 [20]
In the late 1100s what's now the site of this in Paris was Philip Augustus' castle, with a wide moat & not much art
the Louvre
Kiran
$1,200 [28]
MIT gives a prize for design named after Carl Sontheimer, who invented this food processor in the 1970s
the Cuisinart
Mary
$1,200 [10]
Kyra Sedgwick stars as tough cookie interrogator Brenda Leigh Johnson on this drama
The Closer
Mary
$1,200 [13]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue as she and Kelly demonstrate a potato gun.) A potato gun demonstrates Boyle's Law using a simple tube & a stick; pushing the stick reduces the volume of air & increases this 8-letter term, making the potato go ballistic
pressure
Kiran
$2,000 [5]
Oneiromancy is the practice of foretelling the future by the interpretation of these
dreams
Kiran
$1,600 [26]
Anne Rice cast a spell on readers with her saga of the Mayfair family begun in this "timely" 1990 novel
The Witching Hour
$1,600 [21]
A remnant of the former moat at this Copenhagen pleasure garden was turned into a lake for boating
Tivoli
Kiran
$1,600 [29]
John Hammes invented the food waste disposer a few blocks from the current HQ of this company that makes them
InSinkErator
Mary
$1,600 [11]
Thomas Gibson & Shemar Moore star as members of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit on this drama
Criminal Minds
Mary
$1,600 [14]
Slow-motion video shows this bug evading a swat in 250 milliseconds; for 240 of those, it's repositioning itself to jump
a fly
Kendra Mary
DD $3,000 [4]
This verb can refer to making & serving sodas or to cutting meat into long strips to be dried in the sun
jerking
Mary
$2,000 [27]
In 1991 John Updike won a Pulitzer for this fourth & final novel about Harry Angstrom
Rabbit at Rest
Kiran
$2,000 [22]
To keep fans off the field, a deep moat surrounds the playing area of this South American city's Maracana Stadium
Rio de Janeiro
Kendra Mary
$2,000 [30]
Zalmon Simmons accepted a patent on a woven-wire one of these in lieu of cash, & the "rest" is history
mattress
$2,000 [12]
"Family Guy" Peter Griffin's African-American neighbor moved to Stoolbend, Virginia for this cartoon spin-off
The Cleveland Show
Kendra

Final Jeopardy!

TOYS

Invented in 1943, this toy was flung over tree branches by soldiers in Vietnam & used as a makeshift radio antenna

the Slinky

Kendra "What is a Slinky?" — wagered $9,800
Mary "What is boomerang?" — wagered $10,000
Kiran "What is the Slinky?" — wagered $13,001

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