Show #6278 2011-12-28 (taped 2011-11-01) Regular

Jason Keller game 9.

Contestants

Lesley Tsina — a comedy writer from Los Angeles, California

Patrick Rostock — a fulfillment manager from Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Jason Keller — a tutor from Highland Park, New Jersey (whose 8-day cash winnings total $202,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jason $4,800 $3,800 $18,400 $11,800
9-day champion: $213,900
$14,800
22 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Patrick $1,000 $7,400 $21,600 $5,101
3rd place: $1,000
$20,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Lesley $1,200 $4,200 $2,600 $5,198
2nd place: $2,000
$2,600
10 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

AROUND THE FARM MONSTERS OF ROCK UNCOMMON BONDS "NEW" U.S. CITIES POTPOURRI DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS
$200 [21]
A moving platform, or a tall warehouse for grain
an elevator
Lesley
$200 [8]
In a 1977 hit, Blue Oyster Cult sang, "Oh, no! There goes Tokyo! Go, go" this monster
Godzilla
Jason
$200 [13]
J. Max Bond Jr., who helped design the National September 11 Memorial, was a 1980-86 member of this city's Planning Commission
New York
Jason
$200 [1]
Yale University was around for 15 years before it moved to this city in 1716
New Haven
Lesley
$200 [26]
A verbal prompt for an actor
a cue
Lesley
$200 [6]
Not much to spit out--Tiffany & crimson trio are this type of watermelon
seedless
Jason
$400 [22]
The air tractor is one of these low flyers that spread pesticide
a crop duster
Patrick
$400 [10]
A 2008 tune by Benji Hughes warns that when this ancient Egyptian ghoulie gets drunk, "he unravels"
the Mummy
Jason
$400 [14]
Later jailed for fraud, Australian Alan Bond became a national hero for financing the 1983 capture of this sailing trophy
America's Cup
Lesley
$400 [2]
The 33-story World Trade Center building rises at the south end of Canal Street in this city, y'all
New Orleans
Jason
$400 [27]
From the Latin for "tail", it's what the Brits stand in to get in to see a movie
a queue
Patrick
$400 [7]
The katydid is also called the long-horned this
a grasshopper
Patrick
$600 [23]
This farm machine that travels along cutting standing grain shares a name with a grim angel of death
a reaper
Patrick
$600 [18]
This Warren Zevon song about monsters includes one with perfect hair & a taste for pina coladas
"Werewolves Of London"
Patrick
$600 [15]
Born to the role: Samantha Bond has played this secretary in 4 007 films
Moneypenny
Jason
$600 [3]
This New Jersey city boasts an international airport & the 360-acre Branch Brook Park
Newark
Lesley
$600 [28]
The actress seen here, a star in Hong Kong & then on American TV, goes by this 1-letter last name
Q.
Patrick
$600 [9]
Vivaldi composed some 39 concertos for this woodwind instrument
the bassoon
Patrick
$800 [24]
Like the ones seen here, it's a maintained wetland used for farming, especially where rice is grown
a paddy
Patrick
$800 [19]
Their monster '60s hits included "She's Not There" & "Time Of The Season"
The Zombies
Lesley
$800 [16]
From 1900 to 1909 Sir Robert Bond was prime minister of this British colony, now the newest Canadian province
Newfoundland
$800 [4]
The U.S. Naval War College & Naval Undersea Warfare Center is in this city on Narragansett Bay
Newport
Jason
$800 [29]
It's a rowing team or all of the personnel serving aboard a ship
a crew
Lesley
$800 [11]
Appraise a piece of property for taxation purposes, or evaluate the situation
assess
Jason
$1,000 [25]
These 4 letters precede "tiller" to indicate it has spinning blades attached for cultivating soil
roto
Lesley
$1,000 [20]
This 1973 Edgar Winter Group No. 1 got its title from all the cutting & splicing done to it in the editing process
"Frankenstein"
Patrick
$1,000 [17]
At the 1968 Democratic Convention, this future NAACP chairman was briefly considered for vice president
Julian Bond
Patrick
DD $1,200 [5]
Somewhat ironically, this Connecticut city was attacked, captured & burned by the British in 1781
New London
Jason
$1,000 [30]
Royal Botanical Gardens of southwest London
the Kew Gardens
Jason Patrick
$1,000 [12]
In 1903 Sherlock Holmes retired to Sussex to take up this "busy" hobby
beekeeping

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE HOST WITH THE MOST 6-SYLLABLE WORDS AUTHORS NOT WRITING CENTERS OF POWER ORANGE YOU HUNGRY? THIS... IS... HEGEMONY!
$400 [6]
Ted Koppel,1980-2005
Nightline
Jason
$400 [21]
Adjective for school activities that aren't class
extracurricular
Patrick
$400 [26]
In 1848, the year he turned 13, he became a printer's apprentice for Joseph Ament's Missouri Courier
(Mark) Twain
Jason
$400 [14]
The Kingston Fossil Power Plant in Tennessee burns 14,000 tons of this a day
coal
Patrick
$400 [1]
If you separate out these rhyming candies, you'll get about half orange ones, 1/4 brown & 1/4 yellow
Reese's Pieces
Jason
$400 [11]
Around 274 B.C. this republic, which later went full-blown empire, gained dominance over Italy with the defeat of Pyrrhus
the Roman Empire
Lesley
$800 [7]
Peter Marshall,1966-1982
Hollywood Squares
Jason
$800 [22]
It's a noun meaning anything that can't happen
impossibility
Jason
$1,200 [29]
She taught at Howard University before writing "Song of Solomon"
Toni Morrison
Lesley
$800 [15]
The Belwind Offshore Wind Farm, Bel for Belgium, is in this sea
the North Sea
Jason
$800 [2]
A Kraft favorite debuted in 1937 containing this food in orange powder form
cheese
Jason
$800 [12]
After the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, the Serbs fell under the hegemony of this empire of nomadic Turks
the Ottomans
Patrick
$1,200 [8]
Chris Harrison,2002-present
The Bachelor
$1,200 [23]
Heidegger espoused this philosophy that stresses individual choice
existentialism
Lesley
$2,000 [27]
In 1824 his dad was thrown into debtor's prison; he was withdrawn from school & forced to work in a factory
Dickens
Patrick
$1,200 [16]
The DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center has over 90,000 solar these--aiieee! Turn it away! I'm going blind!
panels
Jason
$1,200 [3]
Orange chicken is the most popular item at this restaurant founded by Andrew Cherng
Panda Express
Jason
$1,200 [13]
In 386 B.C. Persia ratified this city-state's hegemony, about 100 years too late for Leonidas & his 300
Sparta
Jason
$1,600 [9]
Jim McKay,1961-1998
ABC's Wide World of Sports
Jason
$1,600 [24]
To have an insufficient amount of startup cash for a business enterprise
undercapitalize
DD $3,000 [28]
In WWII he flew 60 combat missions as a bombardier with the U.S. Army Air Forces in Europe
Joseph Heller
Patrick
$2,000 [18]
One of the worst nuclear accidents in history took place in 2011 at this Japanese plant No. 1
Fukushima
Patrick
$1,600 [4]
The country tune "Song Of The South" mentions pie made from this tuber
sweet potato
Patrick
$1,600 [19]
In October 1919 he reorganized his political party, the Kuomintang, & was communism's rival for power in China
Sun Yat-sen
Jason
$2,000 [10]
Ed McMahon,1983-1995
Star Search
Patrick Lesley
$2,000 [25]
When a man sees a woman only as a thing serving his needs, not as a person, that's this process
objectification
Patrick
DD $5,000 [17]
(Alex reports from aboard the Maid of the Mist at Niagara Falls.) The huge hydroelectric potential of the falls led to a war of inventors; it was only settled when Westinghouse was given the right to build the A.C. generators that were designed & patented by this man
Tesla
Jason
$2,000 [5]
In Yiddish tsorres (trouble) should not be confused with tsimmes, a stew containing mern, these veggies
carrots
Jason
$2,000 [20]
In the first half of the 3rd millennium B.C., this 2-letter city established its hegemony over the rest of Sumer
Ur
Jason

Final Jeopardy!

BUSINESS HISTORY

Crosby, Sinatra & Hope starred in the October 13, 1957 CBS-TV special that launched this short-lived product

the Edsel

Lesley "What is the Edsel" — wagered $2,598
Jason "What is... Toronto" — wagered $6,600
Patrick "What was the A" — wagered $16,499

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