Show #6266 2011-12-12 (taped 2011-10-25) Regular

Alex returns to conducting contestant interviews from near contestant lecterns.

Contestants

Chuck Rezac — a cattle ranch hand from Emmett, Kansas

Ellen Tabor — a psychiatrist from New York, New York

Drew Bayers — a music supervisor originally from Milford, Connecticut (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Drew $2,400 $5,200 $11,600 $23,200
2nd place: $2,000
$12,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Ellen $1,600 $5,200 $10,000 $10,000
3rd place: $1,000
$10,000
16 R, 1 W
Chuck $2,800 $2,400 $13,600 $25,200
New champion: $25,200
$13,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN POETS INITIAL TV COOKBOOKS NOT ACTUALLY A STATE CAPITAL TAKING SPECIAL MEASURES GET A "CLU"
$200 [14]
He published the first edition of "Leaves of Grass" at his own expense & even set some of the type for it
(Walt) Whitman
Drew
$200 [1]
Mark Harmon investigates all crimes involving U.S. Navy & Marine Corps personnel on this drama
NCIS
Drew
$200 [11]
Matt Armendariz has a whole book devoted to foods "on a" this! like hot dogs, fried mozzarella & chicken satay
on a stick
Drew
$200 [3]
Witch hunting was more fashionable in this city 16 miles N.E. of Boston than in its West Coast counterpart
Salem
Ellen
$200 [9]
It just came to me out of the blue--it's a measure of cloth, usually 40 yards
a bolt
Chuck
$200 [26]
Thick stick
a club
Drew
$400 [15]
Upon this woman's death in 1886, her sister Lavinia found nearly 1,000 poems hidden away in her bureau
Emily Dickinson
Chuck
$400 [2]
Hawkeye & Trapper John shared a tent called The Swamp on this sitcom
M*A*S*H
Ellen
$400 [19]
In a twist on the meat dish, "How to Cook Everything Vegetarian" has a recipe for chili non this
carne
Drew
$400 [4]
This city that lies about 125 miles from the mouth of the Savannah River is known for a certain golf course
Augusta
Chuck
$400 [10]
For my daughter's suitors' reference, my shotgun has a bore just under 3/4 of an inch wide, so it's a 12-this
gauge
Ellen
$400 [27]
To litter with things in a disorderly manner
clutter
Ellen
$600 [17]
Shortly after becoming engaged to Sarah Shelton, he fell ill in a Baltimore tavern & died 4 days later on October 7, 1849
(Edgar Allan) Poe
Drew
$600 [6]
In April 2009 the doors of Chicago's County General Hospital closed to TV viewers as this show ended
ER
Ellen
$600 [20]
In "The Lady & Sons Savannah Country Cookbook", Paula Deen has a section on these, including Confederate bean
soup
Ellen
$800 [7]
Home of the Cascade Falls, this city in Michigan (not Mississippi) is also called "The Rose City"
Jackson
Chuck
$600 [16]
Please tell us you know that a hoppus foot measures this building material--& tell us chop chop
lumber (timber)
Drew
$600 [28]
Hen call
a cluck
Chuck
$800 [18]
This family of poets born in & around Boston includes Amy, James Russell & Robert
the Lowells
Ellen
$800 [12]
Ponch & Jon were motorcycle cops on this '70s police drama
CHiPs
Drew
$800 [21]
This chef whose last name is an anagram of bread published a book "On Bread" in 1973
(James) Beard
Chuck
DD $1,000 [5]
You'll find the University of Missouri's main campus in this city--the one in Missouri, not in South Carolina
Columbia
Chuck
$800 [24]
Used in surveying, this unit is equal to one hundredth of a chain
a link
Chuck
$800 [29]
Ungainly
clumsy
Ellen
$1,000 [25]
In "Concord Hymn", he wrote, "Here once the embattled farmers stood, and fired the shot heard round the world"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chuck
$1,000 [13]
The beer-drinking MacKenzie brothers were a staple on this comedy show whose full name once included "Network 90"
SCTV
Drew
$1,000 [22]
This Bravo star & former "New York Housewife" offers up some easy & healthy recipes in "The Skinnygirl Dish"
Bethenny Frankel
$1,000 [8]
It's the seat of Illinois' Logan County & shares its name with the capital of a different Midwest state
Lincoln
$1,000 [23]
1 of the 2 units, each 3 letters long & starting with "R", that measure radiation exposure from X-rays
rads (or rem)
Ellen
$1,000 [30]
This type of heavenly group seenhereis held together by mutual attraction
a (star) cluster
Drew

Double Jeopardy! Round

MATH ALSO A PRESIDENT'S SURNAME BILLIARDS FRENCH HISTORY CARTS, WAGONS & SLEDS RAND CORPORATION
$400 [3]
It's the result of one or more multiplications
a product
Ellen
$400 [2]
A shrub
Bush
Ellen
$400 [19]
In 8-ball the balls are racked in this shape, with the 8 ball in the center
a triangle
Drew
$400 [17]
Joan of Arc became the maid of this city when she led French troops to victory there in May 1429
Orleans
Chuck
$400 [1]
Used to transport small loads like lawn dirt, it's a cart with 1 tire & a shallow body, held & pushed by handles
a wheelbarrow
Drew
$400 [12]
Seen here are 1960sdesignsby engineer James Drake, who made use of RAND's Santa Monica location to become the father of this sport
windsurfing
Drew
$800 [4]
When he wasn't busy rubaiyating, this 11th century renaissance man wrote a pioneering work on algebra
Omar Khayyam
Ellen
$800 [7]
Carolla, Ant & Sandler
Adams
Ellen
$800 [27]
The bed, or top, of a billiard table is usually made of this rock & can weigh as much as 800 pounds
slate
Chuck
$800 [18]
On May 10, 1981 France elected as president this socialist who then nationalized most of the private banks
Francois Mitterrand
$800 [23]
It can be a sled or toboggan, someone riding in one, or a mat you put under a drink
a coaster
Ellen
$800 [13]
RAND research culminated in a 1987 treaty on these 3-element compounds that break down the ozone layer
CFCs
Drew
$1,200 [5]
The prefix "mega" denotes 10 to the 6th power; "giga", 10 to this power
the ninth
Chuck
$1,200 [9]
Shallow, crossable part of a river
Ford
Chuck
$1,200 [28]
This white object gave its name to a bald "Dick Tracy" villain
cue ball
Drew
$1,600 [21]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In June 1940, France was split into German-occupied France& Vichy France; 2 1/2 years later, Germany gained control of a large part of continental France; Italy gained most of the area east of this river
the Rhone
$1,200 [24]
It's a 2-wheeled wagon used to carry artillery ammunition; in song, they "go rolling along"
caissons
Chuck
$1,200 [14]
In the first book on this, computers doing tasks associated with human intellect, 6 chapters had been RAND reports
Artificial Intelligence
Chuck
$1,600 [6]
Jean Poncelet's work on conic sections helped found the "projective" form of this branch of mathematics
geometry
Drew
$1,600 [10]
To puncture
to pierce
Chuck
$1,600 [29]
Snooker is played with 15 balls of this color & 6 balls of other colors
red
Chuck
DD $2,000 [20]
In a July 6, 2003 referendum, this Mediterranean island narrowly defeated a plan for limited autonomy
Corsica
Drew
$1,600 [25]
A color & a woman's name combine in this term for a police wagon
a Black Maria
Ellen
$1,600 [15]
Packet switching, the basic idea of the Internet, came from '60s research on communications in case of this awful event
nuclear war
Drew
$2,000 [8]
Mathematicians disagree as to whether zero belongs in this set of numbers denoted N
the natural numbers
Chuck
$2,000 [11]
To allow
Grant
$2,000 [30]
In 1845 this firm manufactured its first pool table for a Cincinnati meatpacker; it's sold millions of tables since then
the Brunswick Corporation
$2,000 [22]
The October 1415 battle of this fortress, lost to the English, actually took place in a nearby muddy field
Agincourt
Ellen
$2,000 [26]
This Olympic sport gets its name from the metal sled introduced in the 1890s & what some people thought it resembled
a skeleton
Ellen
DD $2,000 [16]
The field called this"theory", which has influenced economics & other disciplines, wasexpandedat RAND in the '40s
game theory
Drew

Final Jeopardy!

THEBILLBOARDTOP 40

Previously done by the Trapp Family, this song about an instrumentalist was a Top 40 hit every December from 1958 to 1962

"The Little Drummer Boy"

Ellen "What is "My Favorite Things"?"" — wagered $0
Drew "What was The Little Drummer Boy?" — wagered $11,600
Chuck "What isfiddlerLittle Drummer Boy?" — wagered $11,600

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