Show #6279 2011-12-29 (taped 2011-11-01) Regular

Jason Keller game 10.Dave Leach game 1.

Contestants

Dave Leach — a software analyst from Atlanta, Georgia

Jennifer Green — a university librarian from Paris, Tennessee

Jason Keller — a tutor from Highland Park, New Jersey (whose 9-day cash winnings total $213,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jason $2,000 $3,000 $8,800 $1,800
2nd place: $2,000
$11,800
17 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Jennifer $600 $2,200 $11,200 $2
3rd place: $1,000
$9,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Dave $2,600 $5,800 $19,000 $15,599
New champion: $15,599
$18,000
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

I THINK I LOVE SHOE KENTUCKY KERNELS EPONYMS OFFICIAL BRITISH ROYAL POSTS CHILDREN'S LIT THAT SMELLS... LIKE A CELEBRITY!
$200 [8]
Tassel-top, chain & penny are variations of this shoe
loafers
Dave
$200 [10]
Born in Kentucky the year before Lincoln, he became president the same year as Lincoln & died 24 years after Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Jennifer
$200 [1]
This -ism named for a legendary soldier devoted to Napoleon can mean the belief that one's gender is superior
chauvinism
Jason
$200 [23]
This verse job is awarded on the advice of the prime minister / Whose motives may be underhanded, even sinister
Poet Laureate
Jason
$200 [21]
In a kids' book, this Plaza dweller "takes a bawth"
Eloise
Jennifer
$200 [6]
Does this movie character's "Mojo" cologne make you hor--uh... smell good? Yeah, baby!
Austin Powers
Dave
$400 [9]
Have a unique fashion sense? Into rubber sole?Then the shoe seen here, used in this sport, is for you
bowling
Jennifer
$400 [11]
Half of a deadly feud, this family lived primarily in Kentucky; their rivals, in West Virginia
the McCoys
Jennifer Dave
$400 [2]
To execute without due process, especially by hanging; it was named for a Virginian who was allowed to do it
to lynch
Dave
$400 [24]
Each earning £3.50 a year in a ceremonial post, royal watermen play a part in any state occasion on this river
the Thames
Jason
$400 [22]
"A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver" is about 12th century queen Eleanor of this duchy
Aquitaine
Jason
$400 [7]
Bend your nasal passages with this soccer guy's floral scent for ladies or aromatic scent for the blokes
(David) Beckham
Jason
$600 [12]
This 4-letter word describes a high-heeled, slip-on shoe with a low-cut or V-shaped throat
a pump
Jennifer
$600 [13]
In 1883 Thomas Edison showed off his light bulb at the southern exposition in this largest Kentucky city
Louisville
Dave
$600 [3]
A Greek god who was half man, half goat & known for causing terror gives us this word for sudden terror
panic
Jason
$600 [25]
Tom! Tom! You can be the son of the queen's this, if dad's musically inclined & in the armed forces
the piper
Dave
$600 [26]
Chapter I of this Lewis Carroll book says, "the glass was beginning to melt away, just like a bright silvery mist"
Through the Looking Glass
Jennifer Dave
$600 [18]
This singer believes "you are beautiful, no matter what they say", especially with her "Inspire" floral scent
Christina Aguilera
Jennifer
$800 [14]
Named for a Buster Brown girl, this low-heeled, patent leather slipper has a single strap over the instep
a Mary Jane
Jennifer
$800 [15]
In 1775 he blazed a trail through Kentucky that became known as the Wilderness Road
(Daniel) Boone
Jason
$800 [4]
The 9th century "Apostle of the Slavs" gave his name to this alphabet used by the Slavs
Cyrillic
Dave
$800 [29]
Not the Master of the House, but the Master of the this is responsible for the sovereign's carriages & certain animals
Horse
Jason
$800 [27]
Sara Crewe is the little title character of this classic by Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Little Princess
Jennifer
$800 [19]
Everyone nose this Yankee shortstop is "Driven"; now no one can ever say he stinks
(Derek) Jeter
Jason Dave
$1,000 [16]
You can recognize this French designer's chic shoes by the trademark red soles
Louboutin
Jennifer
$1,000 [17]
Not cotton but this rope-making plant was king in antebellum Kentucky, which grew almost all the USA's supply
hemp
Jennifer
$1,000 [5]
This setter dog breed was developed in Scotland & named for the nobleman who popularized it in the early 19th c.
the Gordon setter
Jennifer
DD $2,000 [30]
Edmund Halley was the second this "Royal" from 1720 to 1742
the Astronomer Royal (the Royal Astronomer accepted)
Dave
$1,000 [28]
A ravenous insect larva consumes a ton of food & undergoes metamorphosis in this classic by Eric Carle
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Jennifer Dave
$1,000 [20]
Get this "U Remind Me" R&B singer's eau de toilette for dad... then explain he's not a guy who works in a movie theater
Usher
Dave

Double Jeopardy! Round

OPERA SCIENTISTS "D-O" DAYLIGHT COME ME WANNA GO HOME THE THIRD-MOST POPULAR PRESIDENTIAL CHOICE
$400 [4]
This title character is sent to fetch Isolde, his uncle King Mark's intended bride
Tristan
Jason
$400 [8]
In 1727 this physicist became the first scientist buried in Westminster Abbey
Newton
Jason
$400 [1]
It precedes "tranquility" in the preamble of the Constitution
domestic
Jennifer
$400 [16]
A dawn event, or a Florida city of 84,000
Sunrise
Dave
$400 [21]
The "wine" is too warm in the Transylvanian Alps of this country, & why do I have to carry garlic? Me wanna go home
Romania
Jason
$2,000 [25]
John B. Anderson
Reagan
Dave
$800 [5]
She's a slave to Amneris, an Egyptian princess
Aida
Jennifer
$800 [12]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew hovers over Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in a helicopter.) To switch on floodlights for Christ the Redeemer's dedication in 1931, this radio pioneer sent shortwave signals from Naples
Marconi
Jason
$800 [2]
A lump or blob of something, like whipped cream
a dollop
Dave
$800 [17]
"Light's glittering morn bedecks the sky", says a hymn for lauds, also called morning this
prayers
Jennifer
$800 [26]
The summers are nice in this capital of Manitoba--that's when I should have come. Me wanna go home
Winnipeg
Jason
DD $3,000 [27]
Strom Thurmond
Harry Truman
Jason
$1,200 [9]
Alban Berg's 1937 opera is a real doozy, or a real this, the double-talk name of its title character
Lulu
$1,200 [13]
Scientist & author Temple Grandin overcame this alienating condition, from the Greek for "self" or "same"
autism
Jennifer
$1,200 [3]
It's a file of documents on a particular subject or person
a dossier
Jason
$1,200 [18]
Daylight comes, & it's time for this mixof martial arts & exercise, whose name means "supreme ultimate fist"
tai chi
Jennifer
$1,200 [24]
Got sunburned visiting the beach of this most populous Brazilian city; home please!
São Paulo
Jason Dave
$1,600 [10]
Gingerbread figures turn back into boys & girls when the witch's spell is broken in this opera
Hansel and Gretel
Jennifer
$1,600 [14]
In the 2nd century this Alexandrian astronomer catalogued 47 of the 88 constellations we know today
Ptolemy
Dave
$1,600 [6]
Small "coins" thrown from Mardi Gras floats
doubloons
Dave
$2,000 [20]
This author says the cells in the skin of some of her characters are "reflective like crystal" & sparkle in daylight
(Stephenie) Meyer
Dave
$1,600 [23]
The seafood was great, the tequila too much in this "True Cross" city on the Gulf of Mexico; me wanna go home
Veracruz
Jason
$2,000 [11]
(Alex gives the clue from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) The Met's production "Enchanted Island" is a version of "The Tempest", & the costume I'm wearing belongs to this magician, who rules the island
Prospero
Dave
$2,000 [15]
In 1986 Ernst Ruska received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his development of this type of microscope 53 years earlier
an electron microscope
Dave
$2,000 [7]
This word for a wild brawl is from the name of a Dublin fair
donnybrook
Dave
DD $3,000 [19]
When in Rome, Eos, goddess of dawn, went by this name
Aurora
Jennifer
$2,000 [22]
If you can't stand the heat either, then let's caravan out of this fabled city at the center of Mali; me wanna go home
Timbuktu
Jason

Final Jeopardy!

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN WRITERS

Concluding a 4-book series, his 2004 novel "Folly and Glory" features Kit Carson, William Clark & Jim Bowie

Larry McMurtry

Jason "Who is Grisham?" — wagered $7,000
Jennifer "Who is McMurty?" — wagered $11,198
Dave "Who is Michener?" — wagered $3,401

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