Show #6286 2012-01-09 (taped 2011-11-08) Regular

Dan McShane game 2.

Contestants

Julie Podlesni — a law clerk for a federal judge from Chattanooga, Tennessee

Sean Norris — a hockey arena announcer from Portland, Oregon

Dan McShane — a baseball game logger from West Islip, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dan $600 $2,200 $16,200 $5,599
2-day champion: $24,400
$17,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Sean $400 $400 $800 $844
3rd place: $1,000
$800
7 R, 3 W
Julie $1,600 $5,400 $13,400 $1,602
2nd place: $2,000
$13,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

BEATLEWOMANIA THE FOOD CHAIN LABOR DAY FOR HERCULES POINT THE "FINGER" SO VERY JANUARY 9 A BUCKET LIST
$200 [7]
Lady Gaga was among the stars who joined her new "Plastic" band for a 2010 rendition of "Give Peace A Chance"
Yoko Ono
Dan
$200 [12]
This convenience store was born when the Southland Ice Co. sold milk & eggs after grocery stores closed
7-Eleven
Dan Julie
$200 [20]
Hercules is often depicted wearing this animal's skin; killing the Nemean one was quite a labor
a lion
Julie
$200 [1]
The identification of the unique marks a gun leaves on a bullet is called "ballistic" this--no dusting required
a fingerprint
Sean
$200 [6]
1570:Suspecting a revolt in the city of Novgorod, this man captured the city & executed many there
Ivan the Terrible
Julie
$800 [5]
Taste a thousand-dollar bottle of wine from this chateau bought by a Rothschild in 1868
(Chateau) Lafite
Julie
$400 [8]
Ringo Starr wed first wife Maureen Cox in London in 1965; she'd been born in this Mersey River city in 1946
Liverpool
Dan
$400 [13]
This company's first Supercenter opened in 1988 & included a grocery & 36 departments of general merchandise
Walmart
Julie
$400 [21]
Hercules used 2 rivers to clean these Augean structures
the stables
Dan
$400 [4]
After dining on finger foods, dip your digits into one of these to clean off
a finger bowl
Sean
$400 [3]
2007:Ending years of intense speculation, Apple introduced this product
the iPhone
Dan
$1,000 [22]
Learn to speak Romansch & these 3 other official languages of Switzerland
German, French & Italian
Dan Sean
$600 [9]
Buddy Clark's 1947 chart-topping song "Linda" was written about the future wife of this Beatle (when she was 5 years old)
Paul McCartney
Dan
$600 [14]
Starting in 1980 as a small store in Austin, today this grocery chain is one of the world's leaders in organic & natural foods
Whole Foods
Julie
$600 [17]
For his last labor, Hercules had to go to Hades & subdue this canine that had a dragon for a tail
Cerberus
Julie
$600 [23]
The lunula is the small white crescent-moon-shaped part of one of these
fingernails
Julie
$600 [27]
1987:This country's forces launched a major offensive against the Iraqi city of Basra
Iran
Julie
$800 [10]
"Half of what I say is meaningless", John Lennon sang on "Julia", which bears the name of this woman in his life
his mother
Julie
$800 [15]
Established in 1859, this transoceanic supermarket merged with Pathmark in 2007
A&P (Atlantic & Pacific)
$800 [18]
Hercules went to the ends of the Earth to get these; maybe he wanted his tarte tatin to taste just right
(the Golden) Apples (of the Hesperides)
Julie
$800 [2]
Close basketball shot from the tip of the hand into the basket
a finger roll
Dan Sean
$800 [26]
1861:This state seceded, prompting Jefferson Davis to leave the U.S. Senate
Mississippi
Dan Julie
$1,000 [11]
Before she was married to Eric Clapton, George Harrison wrote the song "Something" about her
Pattie Boyd
Sean Julie
$1,000 [16]
This company, stock symbol WINN on the NASDAQ, got its name "because of" acquisitions
Winn-Dixie
Sean
DD $800 [19]
Hercules hunted down a brass-hooved stag that was sacred to this goddess
Diana
Julie
$1,000 [24]
Elmira Corning Regional Airport is one gateway to this scenic region
the Finger Lakes
Dan
$1,000 [25]
1960:Construction began on the high dam at this Egyptian location
Aswan
Julie

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE SEA AROUND US WHAT'S NEXT? 'ROUND MIDNIGHT FELONIOUS MONKS BROADCASTER NEWS WEIRD WORDS
$400 [9]
The song "This Land Is Your Land" mentions these waters, a warm ocean current flowing in the North Atlantic
the Gulf Stream waters
Dan Sean
$400 [21]
Apollo missions that landed on the Moon:11, 12, this
14
Dan
$400 [7]
In 1861 this poet wrote about "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"
Longfellow
Julie
$400 [2]
In 1589 a fanatical monk named Jacques Clement assassinated this country's reigning King Henry III
France
Sean
$1,200 [26]
Here's the "Situation": this anchor began his career in 1972 working for Reuters in Tel Aviv
(Wolf) Blitzer
Dan
$1,200 [1]
A cruciverbalist is someone who engages in this endeavor
crosswords
Julie
$800 [17]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Australia.) This section of water known as the Backpacker's Express carries unwary tourists out to sea; it's one of these currents, similar to an undertow, that draws water away from shore
a rip current
Dan
$800 [22]
On the periodic table:Carbon, nitrogen, this
oxygen
Dan
$800 [8]
This poem begins, "Once upon a midnight dreary"
"The Raven"
Julie
$800 [4]
John de Roma is one of the brutal monks in the 16th c. Protestant "Book of" these people who died for their faith
Martyrs
Dan
$1,600 [14]
This "Current" newsman wrote the book "The Worst Person in the World: And 202 Strong Contenders"
Keith Olbermann
Dan
$1,600 [25]
Seen in rodeos, estrapade is a horse's attempt to remove this
its rider
Julie
$1,200 [18]
It's hard to visit, but this deepest trench, in the Pacific Ocean, was designated a U.S. national monument
the Mariana Trench
Dan
$1,200 [10]
White House state dinner May 7, 2007:Soup, fish, meat, this course
salad
Dan
DD $1,200 [15]
"Midnight's Children" by Salman Rusdie tells of the post-colonial era in this nation where Rushdie was born
India
Dan
$1,200 [3]
Friar Vicente de Valverde gave Atahuallpa the choice of death by fire or garrote; he chose the latter & this empire ended
the Incan Empire
Dan
$2,000 [23]
(Hi. I'm Chris Matthews.) In 2004 I received the award for excellence in broadcast journalism named for this longtime news partner of Chet Huntley
David Brinkley
Julie
$2,000 [24]
Want to open your Veuve Clicquot with style? Try sabrage, where you use one of these
a sword
Julie
$1,600 [19]
The Gulf of Volos or Pagasai, anciently called Sinus Pagasaeus, is an arm of this sea
the Aegean
Dan
$1,600 [11]
States, alphabetically:New Mexico, New York, this
North Carolina
Sean
$1,600 [13]
"The Book" gift shop in Savannah, Georgia offers souvenirs associated with this John Berendt bestseller
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
DD $1,200 [5]
AKA Saloth Sar, he was a novice monk for a time in Cambodia before becoming infamous for "Killing Fields"
Pol Pot
Dan
$2,000 [20]
This is a measure of certain minerals in the water; for the deep waters of the Dead Sea, it's about 332 parts per thousand
salinity
Dan
$2,000 [12]
Geologic time eras:Paleozoic, Mesozoic, this
Cenozoic
$2,000 [16]
James Leo Herlihy wrote this 1965 novel about Joe Buck, who tries to make it in New York as a stud for hire
Midnight Cowboy
Dan
$2,000 [6]
As the first Grand Inquisitor in Spain, this Dominican authorized torture
Torquemada
Dan Sean

Final Jeopardy!

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