Show #6268 2011-12-14 (taped 2011-10-25) Regular

84-year-old Tampa nativeShirley Smallwoodattends the taping thanks to Jeremy Bloom's Wish of a Lifetime Foundation.

Contestants

Matt Harriss — a tire and lube technician from Clemson, South Carolina

Jennifer Hills — a librarian from Twin Falls, Idaho

Boomie Aglietti — a writer for TV and stage from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $34,399)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Boomie $400 $1,600 $22,200 $24,400
2-day champion: $58,799
$20,800
24 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Jennifer $2,200 $2,400 $5,600 $8,600
2nd place: $2,000
$5,000
12 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Matt $2,800 $4,400 $7,200 $3,199
3rd place: $1,000
$7,200
14 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

RELIGIOUS MATTERS MOVIE TITLE SUBJECTS THE 1890s "G", LOOK AT THAT BACK TO SCHOOL UNDERGARMENTS
$200 [11]
Muslims are required to pray 5 times a day while facing this holy city
Mecca
Boomie
$200 [7]
The type of film the kids use to make their own zombie movie(2011)
Super 8
Jennifer
$200 [1]
In 1892 this Chicago company began offering free chewing gum with each can of baking powder sold
Wrigley's
Matt
$200 [2]
You'relooking at what's called the Grand Canyon of Queensland--Carnarvon this
Gorge
Boomie
$200 [20]
English: His "Unfinished Tales", a collection of more Middle-earth material, was published 7 years after his death
Tolkien
Boomie
$200 [26]
An uplift brassiere is more commonly known as this, moving the "up" to the end of the word
a push-up bra
Matt
$400 [13]
In the 200s B.C. Indian emperor Ashoka converted to this religion that had been founded about 300 years earlier
Buddhism
Jennifer Matt
$600 [9]
Captain, Loudy, Bitey, Stinky, Lovey, Nimrod(2011)
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Boomie
$400 [4]
On April 19, 1897 this city's marathon was run for the first time; John McDermott won in 2 hrs., 55 min., 10 sec.
Boston
Matt
$400 [3]
In ancient times the greyhound was trained to hunt this creature
a gazelle
Boomie
$400 [21]
Econ: GDP, this, is the market value of all goods made within a nation's boundaries during a given period
gross domestic product
Boomie
$600 [14]
Mambos & houngans are priests & priestesses in this Haitian religion
Voodoo
Boomie
$800 [10]
A tiny pampered pooch named Chloe(2008)
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Matt
$600 [5]
In 1895 this black educator delivered the Atlanta Compromise speech about improving the lot of African Americans
(Booker T.) Washington
Boomie
$600 [15]
Indian culture is stronger in this Western Hemisphere nation than in its neighbors
Guatemala
Jennifer
$600 [22]
Social studies: In 1984 this Baptist minister established the National Rainbow Coalition
Jesse Jackson
Matt
$800 [19]
The name of the divine mother goddess Durga in this religion is Sanskrit for "invincible"
Hinduism
Boomie
DD $1,000 [8]
High priest Imhotep(1999)
The Mummy
Jennifer
$800 [6]
John Philip Sousa sat down on Christmas 1896 & wrote this march, including the lyric "Hurrah for the flag of the free"
"Stars And Stripes Forever"
Jennifer
$800 [17]
Normally holding up to about 2 ounces of fluid, this organ aids in the digestion of fats
the gallbladder
Matt
$800 [23]
History: This one of the 7 Ancient Wonders was said to be laid out on several brick terraces & 75 feet above the ground
the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Boomie Jennifer
$1,000 [25]
Each year on the Jewish festival Simchat Torah, or "Torah rejoicing", the last part of this book of the Bible is read
Deuteronomy
$1,000 [16]
A 1972 Ford auto(2008)
Gran Torino
Jennifer Matt
$1,000 [12]
On June 2, 1899 Butch Cassidy & this gang, also a 1969 movie title, robbed their first train near Wilcox, Wyoming
the Wild Bunch
Boomie Matt
$1,000 [18]
It's the type of large support structure for launching rockets seen here, Elmer
a gantry
Matt
$1,000 [24]
Geography: This sea, an arm of the Indian Ocean, separates Oman & India
the Arabian Sea
Boomie

Double Jeopardy! Round

SHAKESPEARE WHAT'S ON YOUR iPOD? THE COUNTRY'S NATIONAL HOLIDAY THE NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET IT'S A GROUP THING "C" IN SCIENCE
$400 [2]
Paris calls this character a "banished haughty Montague"
Romeo
Jennifer
$400 [22]
(Hi, I'm Kyra Sedgwick.) I'm always listening to this band's classics like "Crash", but true fans know you've got to see DMB live to really get the experience
Dave Matthews Band
Jennifer
$400 [19]
November 19:Saint Rainier's Day
Monaco
Matt
$400 [1]
Y:One single member of the "Bronx Bombers"
a Yankee
Jennifer
$400 [11]
Drop a letter from "fraction" to get this fraction of a group within a larger group
faction
Boomie
$400 [21]
The sandhill type of this tall wading bird breeds from Alaska to Hudson Bay
crane
Jennifer
$800 [3]
This lover of Bassanio disguises herself as a lawyer & saves Antonio
Portia
Matt
$800 [23]
(I'm Andy Richter.) Usually my iPod has songs by this '60s British soul singer of "I Only Want To Be With You" & "Son Of A Preacher Man"
Dusty Springfield
Jennifer
$800 [18]
March 17:A certain saint's day
Ireland
Boomie
$800 [7]
U:A general wears one & so does a private
uniform
Boomie
$800 [25]
It's a group of bowling teams that compete against each other, or a former association of nations
a league
Boomie
$800 [20]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew swishes a quarter inside an inflated baloon.) The quarter inside the balloon continues in a circular motion, because the balloon is imposing this inward force, from the Latin for "seek the center"
centripetal
Jennifer Matt
$1,200 [4]
Nahum Tate's 1681 adaptation of this play omitted the Fool & added a love affair between Edgar & Cordelia
King Lear
Boomie
$1,200 [24]
(Hi, I'm Rebecca Lobo.) I love just about everything by this Northern Irish rocker, including "Gloria" & "Moondance"
Van Morrison
Boomie
$1,200 [13]
April 30:Queen's Day, celebrating the 1909 birth of Juliana & the 1980 accession of her daughter Beatrix
the Netherlands
Boomie Matt
$1,200 [8]
K:It's equal to 1,000 grams
a kilo
Matt
$1,200 [26]
Shirley MacLaine was one of the few female members of this fabled group that also included Dean Martin & Frank Sinatra
the Rat Pack
Boomie
$1,600 [16]
This type of particle accelerator utilizes a spiraling path
a cyclotron
Boomie
$1,600 [5]
Act I of this tragedy is set in Venice; Act II, in Cyprus
Othello
Matt
$1,600 [29]
(Hi, I'm Christopher Meloni.) I'm on the sonic cutting edge listening to songs from this band's albums like "In Rainbows" or "OK Computer"
Radiohead
Boomie
DD $1,700 [14]
November 3:Separation Day, commemorating its 1903 split with Colombia
Panama
Boomie
$1,600 [9]
H:A place to stay when on vacation
hotel
Boomie
$1,600 [27]
At school, kids inevitably form these exclusive groups of friends, from the French for "noise"
clique
Jennifer
$2,000 [17]
The name of this class of mollusks comes from Greek words meaning "head foot"
cephalopod
Boomie Jennifer
$2,000 [6]
Some believe this comedy was written to be performed during Epiphany festivities, hence its name
Twelfth Night
Boomie
$2,000 [28]
(I'm Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.) You'll find this sax man who took "Giant Steps" to modernize jazz with his innovative "Sheets of Sound" playing style
John Coltrane
Jennifer
$2,000 [15]
September 16:Celebrating the Grito de Dolores
Mexico
$2,000 [10]
L:A New World capital city
Lima
Matt
$2,000 [30]
A synonym for group, it's often applied to "beauties" & is a collective noun for several swans
a bevy
Matt
DD $2,500 [12]
Originally, this unit of measure was the amount of radioactivity given off by one gram of radium
a curie
Boomie

Final Jeopardy!

POPULAR BABY NAMES

Character names in a book & movie series, the top names for 2009 & 2010 were Isabella for girls & this biblical one for boys

Jacob

Jennifer "What is Jacob?" — wagered $3,000
Matt "What is Isaac?" — wagered $4,001
Boomie "What isBoomieJacob?" — wagered $2,200

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