Show #6284 2012-01-05 (taped 2011-11-02) Regular

Dave Leach game 6.

Contestants

Amy Ludwig — a copywriter from Los Angeles, California

Mark Rupp — a stay-at-home dad from Indianapolis, Indiana

Dave Leach — a software analyst from Atlanta, Georgia (whose 5-day cash winnings total $78,054)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dave $4,000 $9,200 $19,200 $20,000
6-day champion: $98,054
$23,200
32 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Mark $600 $600 $9,000 $2,000
3rd place: $1,000
$9,000
11 R, 2 W
Amy $2,000 $4,500 $8,700 $16,200
2nd place: $2,000
$11,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

QUOTATIONS EMMY-WINNING TV I'M JUST TALKIN' ABOUT "SHIFT" HOW DO YOU... ARMY STRONG HIGHLY EDIBLE
$200 [17]
His "Divine Comedy": "All hope abandon, ye who enter here!"
Dante
Mark
$200 [13]
"Hill Street Station" (Writing, 1981)
Hill Street Blues
Dave
$200 [1]
A manual transmission requires the driver to use one of these alliterative items
stick shift
Dave
$200 [11]
Drop to one knee--hold on. Check for puddles, drop to one knee, take out the ring, ask
propose marriage
Mark
$200 [23]
Its army has about 30,000 permanent troops, with about 11,000 stationed in Queensland
Australia
Dave
$200 [6]
Bleu des Causses is a cave-matured type of this
cheese
Dave
$400 [19]
From Wilde's "Lady Windermere's Fan": "I can resist everything except" this
temptation
Amy
$400 [18]
"'A', My Name is Alex" (Writing, 1987)
Family Ties
Dave
$400 [2]
"Charnel" work period between midnight & 8 A.M.
the graveyard shift
Dave
$400 [12]
Get out of the cold, put waxy white fingers in 104- to 107-degree water
treat frostbite
Dave Mark Amy
$400 [24]
Its PLA has an active strength of about 1.25 million personnel
China
Dave
$400 [7]
At Hardee's these sides are beer-battered
onion rings
Dave
$600 [20]
Karl Marx: this "is the opium of the people"
religion
Dave
$600 [28]
"Slay Everyone, Trust No One" (Cinematography for Reality Programming, 2010)
Survivor
Dave
$600 [3]
Nonfiction bestseller about the battle to succeed Johnny Carson
The Late Shift
Dave
$600 [14]
Use the buttons & the strum bar, access star power by tilting the head, forget about how foolish you look
play Guitar Hero
Dave
$600 [25]
In 2009 its armed forces had a reported strength of 134,886--beware their multi-purpose knives!
Switzerland
Amy
$600 [8]
This Hawaiian word can refer to the bigeye or the yellowfin tuna; on menus it often follows "seared"
ahi tuna
Amy
$800 [21]
From "Walden": "the mass of men lead lives of quiet" this
desperation
Dave
$800 [29]
"Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Pilot)" (Writing for a Drama Series, 2008)
Mad Men
Mark
$800 [4]
On "True Blood" Sam is this hyphenated kind of creature, often becoming a dog
shape-shifter
Mark
$800 [15]
Fill glass with ice, pour in pinot grigio, add club soda, garnish
make a wine spritzer
Amy
$1,000 [27]
In August 2010 General Zahir Azimi announced that its army had reached target strength of 134,000 2 months ahead of schedule
Afghanistan
Dave Amy
$800 [9]
Eggs a la Jockey Club are served with kidneys & garnished with mushrooms & these fungi (jockeys eat well)
truffles
Dave
$1,000 [22]
John Adams at the Boston Massacre trials: these "are stubborn things"
facts
Dave
$1,000 [30]
"Routine: Hummingbird and Flower / The Chairman's Waltz" (Choreography, 2008)
So You Think You Can Dance
Mark Amy
$1,000 [5]
Jury-rigged
makeshift
Dave
$1,000 [16]
Pick a lead underwriter, give the SEC a prospectus, give possible investors a red herring, run tombstone ads
do an IPO
Dave
DD $1,500 [26]
It has an active-duty military force of about 1.2 million; its neighbor to the south, about 680,000
North Korea
Amy
$1,000 [10]
Kasha is often made from the edible kernels of buckwheat, which are also called not oats but these
groats
Amy

Double Jeopardy! Round

BIBLICAL ART NICKEL & DIMED 4-LETTER WORDS SCIENTIFIC SOUTH AMERICAN "MAN"LY MOVIES HIGHLY OEDIPAL
$400 [24]
For royal visits, a replica of this Michelangelo nudie at the Victoria & Albert Museum was formerly adorned with a fig leaf
David
Mark
$400 [1]
The name of his pet charity made the dime an obvious choice in 1945 when a grieving nation said, "put him on a coin!"
FDR
Dave
$400 [2]
On a tent, it's the equivalent of the door
a flap
Dave
$400 [21]
Manuel Patarroyo developed SPf66, a purported vaccine against this tropical disease that still strikes tens of millions
malaria
Dave
$400 [8]
In 2010 Robert Downey Jr. reprised his role as the heavy metal hero in this movie's sequel
Iron Man
Mark
$400 [15]
King Robert II of this country was a good son to Hugh Capet, but his own sons turned against him
France
Mark
$800 [25]
The first 2 paintings in Rembrandt's Passion Series are "The Raising of" & "The Descent from" this
the Cross
Dave
$800 [7]
The Buffalo head nickel was also called this type; John Big Tree was a model for it
an Indian nickel
Dave
$800 [3]
A tire that has lost its air
a flat
Dave
$800 [22]
Pedro Paulet's Peruvian promoters claim he built a liquid-fueled one of these in 1895
a rocket
Amy
$800 [9]
Peter O'Toole sang & tilted at windmills in the movie adaptation of this musical
Man of La Mancha
Dave
$800 [17]
The book " Operation " these "Secrets" tells how Frank Calabrese Jr. informed on his mobster father
Family
Dave
$1,200 [26]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) In this 17th-century painting, you see Sarah turn her back, as Hagar the handmaid & her son Ishmael are rejected & sent away by this patriarch
Abraham
Amy
$1,200 [13]
Before the 5-cent piece was nickel, it was silver & was, logically, called by this fractional name
a half dime
Dave
$1,200 [4]
It can be a custardy tart or a creme caramel
a flan
Dave
$1,200 [23]
M. Costa-Mattioli found a protein that controls memory formation, a possible help for this disease named for a German
Alzheimer's
Dave
$1,200 [10]
Once upon a time Russell Crowe played boxer James Braddock in this critically acclaimed film
Cinderella Man
Dave
$1,200 [18]
This skater had new troubles in 2010 when her brother assaulted their father
(Nancy) Kerrigan
Dave Amy
$1,600 [27]
A painting by Caravaggio shows this man's "conversion on the way to Damascus"
Saul (or Saint Paul)
Dave
$2,000 [16]
The winged liberty dime bore the bundle of sticks that gave its name to this liberty-hating political system
fascism
Amy
$1,600 [5]
Fatty flesh around people's tummies
flab
Dave
$1,600 [28]
Sometimes credited with inventing the torpedo, Andre Reboucas helped torpedo this in Brazil; it was abolished in 1888
slavery
Mark
$1,600 [11]
This 1980 movie told the true story of the deformed Mr. Merrick
The Elephant Man
Mark
$2,000 [20]
This deranged emperor may even have killed his own father, as Joaquin Phoenix does playing him in "Gladiator"
Commodus
Dave Amy
$2,000 [29]
Claude Lorrain painted a landscape with the marriage of Rebecca & him
Isaac
Mark
DD $4,000 [14]
On the 2006 nickel this building looks basically the same as it always did, though the dome is a little sharper
Monticello
Dave
$2,000 [6]
The unfortunate quality that brings ruin to the hero of a tragedy is called the tragic this
flaw
Mark
$2,000 [30]
In the 1970s Jose Goldemberg showed that this clean fuel can be harvested from sugar cane
ethanol
Amy
$2,000 [12]
It's Greek to me, but in 1971 Richard Matheson's story "I Am Legend" was filmed under this title
The Omega Man
Amy
DD $3,000 [19]
This revolutionary patriot's son William stuck with the crown as Royal Governor of New Jersey
Benjamin Franklin
Amy

Final Jeopardy!

CALIFORNIA HISTORY

Surname of the employer of James W. Marshall, who found gold in a stream near the Sacramento River in 1848

Sutter

Amy "What is Sutter?" — wagered $7,500
Mark "What is Monteray?" — wagered $7,000
Dave "What is Sutter?" — wagered $800

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