Show #6295 2012-01-20 (taped 2011-11-09) Regular

Contestants

Bob Powell — a network administrator from Fort Walton Beach, Florida

Russell Howes — a graduate student of mathematics originally from Taylorsville, Utah

Lynn Hammerlund — a college librarian from Lake in the Hills, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lynn $2,600 $6,800 $10,800 $1,600
3rd place: $1,000
$10,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Russell $1,800 $1,600 $14,400 $3,199
2nd place: $2,000
$15,600
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Bob $3,400 $4,000 $12,800 $4,800
New champion: $4,800
$12,800
17 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

COMMON COLD CHICKEN SOUP CLEAN "X" AIRBORNE NIGHT QUILL VICKSBURG
$200 [13]
This 5-letter adjective refers to 2 places on Earth & is frequently used before "opposite"
polar
Lynn
$200 [6]
This McPoultry product from Mc Don Mc Don Mc Don Mc Don Mc Don Mc Don Mc DonMcDonaldntaleonwide
McNuggets
Lynn
$200 [1]
This scouring powder is named for a mythical warrior who fought in the Trojan War
Ajax
Lynn
$200 [9]
It figures that Otto was the name of the autopilot in this 1980 movie comedy in the clouds
Airplane!
Bob
$200 [28]
In the 1880s explorer Sir Richard Burton prepared a 16-volume English translation of these tales
the Arabian Nights
$600 [23]
The CSS Arkansas, one of these ships named for its armor, had a glorious 23-day career in the campaign
ironclad
Russell
$400 [14]
It can describe the chilled morning air or a pooch prone to biting
nippy
Bob
$400 [7]
Per the American Heritage Dictionary, one of the 2 chicken internal organs that represent cowardice
the liver (or the heart)
Russell
$400 [2]
This company that's synonymous with bleach also makes the Green Works line of cleaning products
Clorox
Bob
$400 [10]
Tom Hanks & several FedEx packages survive a particularly bumpy flight in this film
Cast Away
Bob
$600 [27]
Blake wrote that this, "like a flower / In heaven's high bower / With silent delight / Sits and smiles on the night"
the moon
Lynn
$800 [21]
This general found himself "in the enemy's country, with a vast river... between me and my base of supplies"; he won anyway
(Ulysses) Grant
Lynn
$600 [18]
Joy to the world! A band took its name from this phrase describing how chilled Aboriginies slept with pets for heat
Three Dog Night
Bob
$600 [8]
The moral of "The Milkmaid & Her Pail" is "don't" do this
Don't count your chickens before they hatch
Russell
$600 [3]
Ben Hirsch invented this liquid auto polish; the brand now includes car wash & chrome polish
Turtle Wax
Bob
$600 [11]
Nicolas Cage plays Cameron Poe, a prisoner with a heart of gold, in this flighty film
Con Air
Bob
$800 [26]
Works by this beloved children's author/illustrator include "In the Night Kitchen"
(Maurice) Sendak
Lynn
$1,000 [24]
6 weeks before the actual surrender, the Confederates raised the white flag but only to ask for a truce to do this
bury their dead
Bob
$800 [19]
When used before "pace", it means really slow; otherwise, it refers to masses of ice
glacial
Russell
$800 [16]
A book of chicken recipes by Wade Boggs is titled these "Tips"
Fowl
$800 [4]
This blue spray offers a "streak-free shine"
Windex
Bob
$800 [12]
One of the President's own men is a terrorist when the title plane gets hijacked in this 1997 actioner
Air Force One
Russell
$1,000 [25]
"December Night" is a faith-restoring episode in Willa Cather's "Death Comes for" this churchman
the Archbishop
Lynn
$1,000 [22]
This word that r--er, that sounds a lot like "dime" refers to frost formed in fog
rime
Lynn
$1,000 [17]
"Hang on tight" to this term for a bunch of eggs from a brood of chickens
a clutch
Bob
$1,000 [5]
20 Mule Team this, a natural detergent booster, has been around since the 19th century
Borax
Lynn
$1,000 [15]
Vera Farmiga & Anna Kendrick were both nominated for Oscars for this 2009 film
Up in the Air
Lynn
DD $1,600 [20]
Searching for this character, Mr. Utterson says, "I shall be Mr. Seek" & one night does find him
Edward Hyde
Russell

Double Jeopardy! Round

ALLITERATIVELY YOURS FAMOUS WOMEN COPPING OUT ON TV "U-R" THERE PHYSICS SPELLING IT OUT IN ROMAN NUMERALS
$400 [17]
Kids wear them on their arms to stay afloat
water wings
Bob
$400 [14]
Thoughfemale, sheclaimed to have the heart & stomach of a king
Queen Elizabeth I
Russell
$400 [19]
Just one more thing, sir... the first run of this Peter Falk detective show played on NBC from 1971 to 1977
Columbo
Bob
$400 [6]
In winter, when it's cold enough, you can snowmobile across this Great Lake to get to Mackinac Island
Huron
Lynn Russell
$400 [3]
This stuff, crucial to the "Star Trek" episode "The Alternative Factor", consists of antiparticles like antiprotons
antimatter
Bob
$400 [1]
11; turns out it's also the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet
X-I
Russell
$800 [18]
These events terrorized black citizens in Springfield, Ill. in 1908 & Tulsa, Okla. in 1921
race riots
$800 [22]
A former spy, shecooked up some excitement of her own as an author & TV host
Julia Child
Lynn
$800 [20]
This '70s show had 3 things going for it: Wo Fat, a killer theme song & a snappy catch-phrase ("Book 'em, Danno")
Hawaii Five-O
Bob
$800 [8]
The small European part of this country lies in Thrace; the rest is in Asia
Turkey
Lynn
$800 [4]
Add this word to "electro" to get the adjective for electrical phenomena produced by charges at rest
static
Lynn Russell
$800 [7]
Now you're in a pickle with 501, 50 & 50
D-I-L-L
Russell
DD $1,600 [24]
By request of director Roman Polanski, this function was disabled on the DVD of "Knife in the Water"
fast forward
Russell
$1,200 [23]
She'sseen here, perhaps contemplating a creative homicide
Agatha Christie
Russell
$1,200 [21]
Sheena Easton played Caitlin, Don Johnson's girlfriend on this '80s cop show
Miami Vice
Russell
$1,200 [9]
To visit the birthplace of Pancho Villa, drive your Dodge SUV to this Mexican state of the same name
Durango
Russell
$1,200 [5]
This particle in an atom's nucleus was discovered free of charge in 1932
a neutron
Russell
$1,200 [2]
509; it's a fort in Jersey
D-I-X
Russell
$1,600 [26]
A nation's fleet of commercial ships
the merchant marine
Bob
$1,600 [28]
In 1992, this womanendeavored to achieve an historic first, & she did
Mae Jemison
Lynn
$2,000 [27]
Ironically, Ben McKenzie moved north from "The O.C." to star as Officer Ben Sherman on this TNT drama
Southland
Russell
$1,600 [12]
In 1989, the Union of this, it's official English name since 1885, was changed to the Union of Myanmar
Burma
Lynn
$1,600 [10]
Grouped in pairs, these fundamental particles of atomic nuclei come in 6 "flavors" or types
quarks
Bob
$1,600 [15]
Be nice & string together the letters for 100, 4, 1, 50 to get this word
C-I-V-I-L
Bob
$2,000 [25]
Seen here, it's used to signal a footnote when you've run out of other symbols
a double dagger
$2,000 [29]
Duringherrulein antiquity, she was often depicted as a male with a beard
Hatshepsut
Lynn
DD $2,400 [13]
As indicated on the map, they are South America's two smallest independent countries in area
Uruguay & Suriname
Lynn
$2,000 [11]
The idea that in a closed system matter is neither created nor destroyed is referred to by this 3-word phrase
conservation of matter
Bob
$2,000 [16]
The letters for 1,001 followed by 50 give you this word, a unit of length equal to .001 inches
M-I-L (a mil accepted)
Russell

Final Jeopardy!

ENGLISH LITERATURE

This title character of an 18th century novel was the son of a man named Kreutznaer, but his name gets Anglicized

Robinson Crusoe

Lynn "Who is Crown?" — wagered $9,200
Bob "Who is" — wagered $8,000
Russell "Who is Crosi" — wagered $11,201

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