Show #6274 2011-12-22 (taped 2011-10-26) Regular

Jason Keller game 5.

Contestants

Isaac Patterson — a grocer from Seattle, Washington

Niall Prendergast — a medical student originally from Norwich, Vermont

Jason Keller — a tutor from Highland Park, New Jersey (whose 4-day cash winnings total $94,800)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Jason	$3,000	$6,600	$22,200	$32,200 5-day champion: $127,000	$24,000 26 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Niall	$1,800	$4,400	$16,000	$22,201 2nd place: $2,000	$13,200 16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Isaac	$2,400	$1,400	$-1,000	$-1,000 3rd place: $1,000	$-1,000 9 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

A MATTER OF SOME GRAVITY	FRUITS & VEGETABLES	BEWARE OF GOD	GEORGE STRAIT TO NO. 1	"CUS" WORDS	PARDON MY FRENCH
$200 [1] British scientist Henry Cavendish made the first reliable measurement of gravity late in this century the 18th century Jason	$200 [4] Romaine & leaf, aka loose-leaf, are types of this salad starter lettuce Jason	$200 [12] Bacchus gave this king the "golden touch"--but after that worked out horrifically, the king decided to worship Pan Midas Jason	$200 [26] "All My Ex's Live" here In Texas Jason	$200 [11] It's what fills a cream puff custard Isaac	$200 [16] Thismilitary force is still used today when France has problems overseas the Foreign Legion Isaac
$400 [2] NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab puts astronauts in a simulation of this condition that's experienced during space flight zero gravity Niall	$400 [7] The fuzz-free baby type of this fruit named for a New Zealand bird is eaten whole, as one would eat a grape a kiwi Niall	$400 [17] Thrym, king of the frost giants, stole the hammer of this god & buried it 8 miles deep in the earth; bad idea Thor Isaac	$400 [27] "You Can't Make" this organ "Love Somebody" The Heart Jason	$400 [13] What you are in legally if you're held until your trial custody Niall	$400 [22] This hot dog topping of minced pickles takes its name from the Old French for "remainder" relish Niall
$600 [3] The Sun's gravity is said to perturb, or affect, this path of the Moon relative to the Earth its orbit Isaac	$600 [8] The name of this so-called artichoke isn't from a city in Israel but from girasole, Italian for "sunflower" Jerusalem Niall	$600 [18] Venus' boy, this god, said, "Your arrows may strike all things else, Apollo, but mine shall strike you"... & they did Cupid Niall Isaac	$600 [28] One of these "I Can't Put Out" a fire Jason	$600 [14] You're "on" this if your birthday separates 2 signs of the zodiac the cusp Isaac	$600 [23] The name of these "Grand" mountains near Jackson Hole comes from the French the Tetons Niall
DD $1,000 [5] Building on the work of Galileo and Kepler, he published the first quantitative theory of gravitation in 1687 Newton Jason	$800 [9] What we call this is actually the netted melon or muskmelon a cantaloupe Isaac	$800 [20] This sometimes destructive Hindu deity cut off one of Brahma's heads & dropped it in Uttar Pradesh Shiva Jason	$800 [29] "Am I" this, "Baby" this or this "Clear Sky"; (3 No. 1 hits with the same word!) Blue Jason	$800 [15] If you'd give your eye teeth for something, these are the teeth you'd give cuspids Jason Isaac	$800 [24] This tennis term may come from the French l'oeuf, meaning "egg", like a goose egg love Jason
$1,000 [6] There's "gravity" in this term for the point in an object that, if supported, puts the whole object in equilibrium center of gravity Isaac	$1,000 [10] Prickly but edible, they'reone letter different from the name of cities in Arizona & Mexico nopales Jason	$1,000 [21] Prometheus should have bewared of Zeus, who in Greek myth had a vulture eat this organ each day his liver Niall	$1,000 [30] "Let's Fall" this way "Together" To Pieces Jason Niall Isaac	$1,000 [19] One of the ceremonial titles of the king of Saudi Arabia is this keeper "of the two holy mosques" custodian Niall	$1,000 [25] The European Space Agency launches its Ariane rockets from this South American territory French Guiana Jason

Double Jeopardy! Round

6-LETTER TV SHOWS	FLEECE NAVIDAD	A WHALE OF A BOOK	2-LETTER WORDS	TRY STATE AREA	IN BRITAIN'S NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
$400 [1] Magic has been banned by Uther Pendragon in the Syfy series about this title youthful wizard Merlin Jason	$400 [21] This site that started as Auction Web has more than 5,000 "ugly Christmas sweaters" on the auction block eBay Isaac	$400 [8] Jodi Picoult's first novel is titled "Songs of" this whale the Humpback Jason	$400 [3] To be fired from a job is "to get" this bladed tool the ax Niall	$400 [2] 663,267 total square miles, a little bigger than Iran Alaska Jason	$1,600 [27] Please, sir, I want someone to name this author & statesman seenhereeight years before his execution (Sir Thomas) More Niall
$800 [13] This Fox show transitions between our universe & one in which the World Trade Center still stands Fringe Isaac	$800 [22] QVC sold out of a Christmas sweater that had reindeer whose noses lit up using this technology with hair-thin filaments fiber optics Niall	$800 [17] Ethan Hawley, descendant of whaling captains, is the protagonist of this author's "The Winter of Our Discontent" John Steinbeck	$800 [4] In a game of tag, this player attempts to catch other players it Jason	$800 [9] 1,545 total square miles, a little smaller than Miami-Dade county Rhode Island Niall	$2,000 [26] (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Holding a compass with his plans for the west end of St. Paul's Cathedral, this man was 79 when his portrait was painted in 1711 Christopher Wren Niall
$1,200 [14] One episode in the last season of this show was titled "The Bar Manager, the Shrink, His Wife & Her Lover" Cheers Jason	$1,200 [23] In Killington in this state, My Ugly Christmas Sweater Inc. makes tacky holiday sweaters as ironic fashion statements Vermont Jason	$1,200 [18] "Humphrey the Lost Whale" is the true tale of a whale trapped in the Sacramento River after venturing into this bay San Francisco Bay Jason	$1,200 [5] Slang for the featured product at Papa John's & Domino's za Jason	$1,200 [10] It's the smallest on the West Coast, with 71,300 total square miles Washington Jason	DD $4,000 [28] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) It looks like the painter initially included himself but then changed his mind; that shy artist was Branwell, the brother of these literary siblings, in their only group portrait the Brontës Niall
$1,600 [15] The sanguine opening to this Showtime series shows the title character killing a mosquito Dexter Jason	$1,600 [24] Knit a virtual heinous wool sweater at a site whose motto is "We love holiday sweaters. We hate" these creatures sheep Jason	$1,600 [19] It's the native country of Witi Ihimaera, author of "The Whale Rider" New Zealand Jason	$1,600 [6] Archaic second-person pronoun found before "gods" in a mild expletive ye Jason	$1,600 [11] Land area 43,562 square miles, about 2,000 less than a century ago Louisiana Isaac	—
$2,000 [16] The title character from this animated FX show works for the International Secret Intelligence Service Archer Jason	$2,000 [25] In England, pullover sweaters are called these, as in the website cheesychristmas these.com jumpers Niall	$2,000 [20] The hero stows away on a whaler in Poe's "Narrative of A. Gordon Pym, of" this Massachusetts island Nantucket Jason	$2,000 [7] The second-largest city in Sierra Leone, or an Indian fig tree under which Buddha once sat bo Isaac	DD $2,000 [12] 59,425 total square miles, today the biggest of the original 13 Georgia Jason	—

Final Jeopardy!

ISLANDS

1 of the 2 islands with a population exceeding 100 million; each one is part of an Asian country

(1 of) Honshu or Java

Niall "What is Honshu?" — wagered $6,201

Jason "What is Honshu?" — wagered $10,000

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