Show #6270 2011-12-16 (taped 2011-10-25) Regular

Jason Keller game 1.Alex acknowledges a 102-year-old woman (andJeopardy!fan) in the audience.

Contestants

Leslie Hamilton — a teacher and swim coach from Erlanger, Kentucky

Jason Keller — a tutor from Highland Park, New Jersey

Beth Watkins — a graduate student of medieval studies from Savannah, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $37,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Beth $1,800 $3,800 $3,000 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$3,000
8 R, 3 W
Jason $3,600 $7,000 $20,200 $28,200
New champion: $28,200
$19,000
24 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Leslie $600 $4,600 $13,800 $6,558
2nd place: $2,000
$13,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE INTERNET ANTONYMIC BOOK TITLES CANADA ROCKS TIME FOR LUNCH JOHN, PAUL, GEORGE THING"O"
$200 [9]
A new rule in this Yahoo sports fantasy game is the Mulligan, which allows you to drop your worst weekly score
golf
Jason
$200 [3]
1913:"Daughters & Haters"
Sons & Lovers
Leslie
$200 [1]
Toronto-born Robbie Robertson was part of the Bob Dylan backup group that made it big on their own using this name
The Band
$200 [19]
Maybe they take tokens at this chain that offers Italian B.M.T. & Black Forest ham sandwiches
Subway
Beth
$200 [16]
He was the youngest man elected president &, sadly, the youngest to die in office
JFK
Jason
$200 [5]
It's defined as a voice extending above a man or woman's normal range
falsetto
Leslie
$400 [10]
Jimi Hendrix fans know kiss this guy.com is always good for a laugh, as it's an "archive of misheard" these
lyrics
Leslie
$400 [4]
1667:"Hell Recovered"
Paradise Lost
Jason
$400 [2]
He recorded some of his biggest albums, including "Rust Never Sleeps", backed up by Crazy Horse
Neil Young
Beth
$400 [20]
In the world according to this fish, the kind made into gefilte fish is called the German or Israeli type
carp
$400 [24]
His home at 19 North Square is the oldest building in downtown Boston
Paul Revere
Jason
$400 [11]
a single unit of a General Mills cereal, or a British expression meaning "see you around, old chap"
Cheerio
Leslie
$600 [14]
This website named for a curious mythological gal hosts the Music Genome Project for your listening pleasure
Pandora
Jason
$600 [6]
1813:"Humility & Objectivity"
Pride & Prejudice
Jason
$600 [28]
We can ask about Montreal's Men Without Hats if we want to (if we don't, nobody will); in 1983 they hit No. 3 with this
"The Safety Dance"
Leslie
$600 [21]
Leave the gun; take this Italian treat of pastry shells stuffed with a sweetened filling of whipped ricotta
cannoli
Leslie
$800 [26]
One of Washington, D.C.'s major airports is named for this Secretary of State
(John Foster) Dulles
Jason
$600 [12]
It's the Japanese game seen here
Pachinko
Beth Leslie
$800 [15]
Press "Scan" on the social site that bills itself as "Chat" this game & you are visually connected to a random user
Roulette
Beth
$800 [7]
1988:"The King Of The Saved"`
The Queen Of The Damned
Beth
$800 [29]
In 2007 this Montreal group was "aflame" with creativity on their album "Neon Bible"
Arcade Fire
Beth
$800 [22]
Mock this soup is sometimes garnished with calves' brains; who can say no to that?
turtle
Leslie
DD $1,000 [27]
He's the botanist seenherein 1940
George Washington Carver
Jason
$800 [13]
A type of con game; many a police department used to have a squad named for it
bunko
Jason
$1,000 [17]
Established in 2007, this microblogging site that sounds like an acrobat handles 40 million posts a day
Tumblr
Leslie
$1,000 [8]
1997:"Hot Valley"
Cold Mountain
Jason
$1,000 [30]
This arena-rock trio hit it big in the '70s with the Ayn Rand-inspired album "2112"
Rush
Beth
$1,000 [23]
This name for the "food of the gods" now means a dessert of chilled fruit mixed with coconut
ambrosia
Leslie
$1,000 [25]
After starring in "A Man for All Seasons" in London & on Broadway, he won an Oscar for the movie
Paul Scofield
$1,000 [18]
This word for a devotee of an activity is Spanish for "enthusiast"
aficionado
Jason

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC LEADERS' LETTERS TO SANTA A STONY CATEGORY ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY LAKE CITY STREEP TEASE THE VILLAGE IDIOM
$400 [1]
"Okay, I did have my mom killed in 59 A.D. & wife no. 1 in 62, but I've been a good boy (& emperor!). I'd like a fiddle. Now!"
Nero
Leslie
$400 [21]
On August 5, 1884 the cornerstone for its pedestal was laid on Bedloe's Island
the Statue of Liberty
Jason
$400 [13]
This alternate name for the kneecap is from the Latin for "little plate"
patella
Jason
$400 [3]
Buffalo, New York
(Lake) Erie
Jason
$400 [26]
Meryl Streep was nominated but didn't have the recipe for a 2009 Oscar when she played Ms. Child in this film
Julie & Julia
Leslie
$400 [8]
The cape-wearing artiste who settled in the village was just one of these "in a round hole"
a square peg
Beth
$800 [2]
"Next year, in 1799, I want to stage the coup d'etat of 18th Brumaire & become first consul. I'll want a lot more after that"
Napoleon
Jason
$800 [22]
Serving from 1941 to 1946, Harlan Stone was the 12th guy to head up this important group
the Supreme Court
Leslie
$800 [14]
Italian anatomist Alfonso Corti gave his name to the organ of Corti, which is the actual organ of this sense
hearing
Jason
$800 [4]
Boulder City, Nevada
Lake Mead
Beth Jason
$1,600 [28]
For a SAG award, Susan Sarandon's "Dead Man Walking" work beat Meryl's romance with Clint in this 1995 film
Bridges of Madison County
Beth
$800 [9]
Want conversation? At the barbershop you'll find someone ready to sit around & "chew" this
the fat
Leslie
$1,200 [18]
"...& one last thing. If a Spaniard ever topples my rule as the 9th Aztec emperor, I'd like but one thing...revenge!"
Montezuma
Jason
$1,200 [23]
According to 17th century poet Richard Lovelace, "stone walls do not" one of these "make"
a prison
$1,200 [15]
This scientific name for the tailbone comes from its resemblance to a cuckoo bird's beak
coccyx
Leslie
$1,600 [6]
Desaguadero, Bolivia & Puno, Peru
Lake Titicaca
Jason
$2,000 [27]
The Golden Globes nominated Meryl for this 2004 remake about a brainwashed assassin, but she got shot down
The Manchurian Candidate
Leslie
$1,200 [10]
Attempts to get money from the mill owner are in vain; "you can't get" this "out of a stone"
blood
Jason
$1,600 [19]
"If Edward IV dies in 1483, I want in as Lord Protector & eventually, king. & a horse! That's super important!"
Richard III
Leslie
DD $2,000 [24]
Geologists use these 2 Greek-derived terms to describe the "New Stone Age" & the "Old Stone Age" time periods
neolithic and paleolithic
Leslie
$1,600 [16]
This tough membrane that forms the outermost covering of the brain is Latin for "hard mother"
dura mater
Jason
DD $2,000 [5]
Jinja, Uganda
Lake Victoria
Jason
$1,600 [11]
Like a Tower of London guard, Ed has done this type of "service", running our volunteer fire department
yeoman
Jason
$2,000 [20]
"I built the temples of Abu Simbel, but what I'd like is to outlive my first dozen heirs & be preserved in a Cairo museum"
Ramses
$2,000 [25]
From about 1,200 to 400 B.C., these people carved stone heads, like the one seen here, & lived along the Gulf of Mexico
Olmec
Beth Jason
$2,000 [17]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical animation on the monitor.) The hyoid bone, which supports the tongue, takes its name from the Greek word hyoeides, meaning shaped like the lowercase form of this Greek letter
upsilon
Jason
$2,000 [7]
Baku, Azerbaijan (a salt lake that's called a sea)
the Caspian
Jason
$2,000 [12]
The village undertaker literally "knows" this phrase, but Mrs. Smith the postmistress knows too
where the bodies are buried

Final Jeopardy!

WORD HISTORY

A Roman legal term for a debtor sentenced to servitude is the origin of this term for a slave to a vice

addict

Beth "What is a ??" — wagered $3,000
Leslie "What is a dependent?" — wagered $7,242
Jason "What is addict?" — wagered $8,000

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