Show #6301 2012-01-30 (taped 2011-11-16) Regular

Contestants

Danny Parra — a sportscaster from Miami, Florida

Kate Jeracki — a newspaper staff writer from Fort Collins, Colorado

Brendan Graham — a soldier and a physician from San Antonio, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $46,602)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Brendan $5,000 $10,200 $21,000 $19,199
3rd place: $1,000
$21,000
25 R, 0 W
Kate $-2,000 $-600 $11,400 $21,400
2nd place: $2,000
$11,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Danny $1,800 $3,600 $11,000 $22,000
New champion: $22,000
$12,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

TIE ONE ON ALBUMS ART "R"EVIEW PLAY YOUR CARDS RIGHT STATE FLOWERS MARK TWAIN NEVER SAID...
$200 [11]
If an invitation specifies this tie, it means it's a semiformal occasion & a tuxedo is required for men
a black tie
Danny
$200 [14]
He sings to wife Nicole Kidman on the slow songs on his "Get Closer" CD
Keith Urban
Brendan
$200 [21]
The name of this art style literally means "rebirth" in French
Renaissance
Danny
$200 [1]
A hole in one, or a skilled fighter pilot
an ace
Danny
$200 [5]
The mayflower
Massachusetts
Brendan
$200 [16]
"Everybody talks about" this, "but nobody does anything about it"
the weather
Kate
$400 [12]
If an invitation specifies this tie, it means it's a formal occasion & tails are required for men
a white tie
Brendan
$400 [15]
Some of the songs on her 2010 CD "Speak Now" are said to be about Kanye West, Taylor Lautner & John Mayer
Taylor Swift
Brendan
$400 [27]
Donatello used a relatively flat type of this technique, where figures project from the background
relief
Brendan
$400 [2]
It's a connecting device in an electrical circuit designed for the insertion of a plug
a jack
Brendan
$400 [6]
The wild native sunflower
Kansas
Brendan
$400 [17]
"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in" this California city
San Francisco
Kate
$600 [13]
That's Isaac Asimovrocking one of these, also called a "shoelace tie"
a bolo tie
Danny
$600 [22]
This group saw the writing on the wall in 1975 with "Physical Graffiti"
Led Zeppelin
Brendan
$600 [28]
Naturalistic -ism practiced by Caravaggio & Courbet
Realism
Brendan
$600 [3]
Phish musician Ernest Joseph Anastasio III, like many guys with III in their names, goes by this
Trey
Brendan
$600 [7]
The Rocky Mountain columbine
Colorado
Brendan
$600 [18]
"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all" this
doubt
Danny
$800 [25]
This way of tying a tie honors a later title of Prince Edward, who popularized it in the 1920s
a Windsor
Brendan
$800 [23]
This Nigerian-born woman returned in 2010 with "Soldier of Love", which topped the Billboard album chart
Sade
$800 [29]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew strokes a charcoal pencil across paper.) You can take a textured surface, a piece of paper, & charcoal, & turn it into this type of two-dimensional image
a rubbing
Kate
$800 [4]
The word shah means this in Persian
king
Danny
$800 [8]
The orange blossom
Florida
Brendan
$800 [19]
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and" these
statistics
Brendan
$1,000 [26]
It takes a quartet of steps--at least--to make the slip knot required for the tie with this hyphenated 3-word name
a four-in-hand
Brendan
$1,000 [24]
Her sophomore album "21" featured her hit "Rolling In The Deep"
Adele
Kate Danny
DD $1,000 [30]
This term can refer to a style of art or design or to a highly ornamental style of music of the late 18th century
Rococo
Kate
$1,000 [10]
It's slang for the type of restaurant table seen here
a deuce
Kate
$1,000 [9]
The yellow hibiscus
Hawaii
Brendan Kate
$1,000 [20]
"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have" this
the time
Brendan

Double Jeopardy! Round

IT'S A PARTY! TIME PLACE OCCASION HOPE "U" CAN MAKE IT BRING YOUR OWN BOTTLE
$400 [1]
A lynx was part of the petting zoo at this hotel heiress' 30th birthday bash in 2011
Paris Hilton
Kate
$400 [15]
A common pitching stat spells out this 3-letter word, a specific time marked by distinctive events
era
Danny
$400 [6]
It's Australia's second-most populous city
Melbourne
Danny
$400 [11]
June 10, 1829:The "blues" of these 2 universities stroke their way down the Thames in their first boat race
Oxford & Cambridge
Kate
$400 [26]
It's a final proposal; there was a Bourne one in a 2007 movie title
ultimatum
Kate
$400 [21]
Keep your coffee hot in a vacuum flask bottle, which got this name in a 1904 contest
a Thermos
Danny
$800 [2]
The Belvedere brand of this paid $100,000 to sponsor a party for Dwyane Wade in 2011
vodka
Brendan
$800 [16]
In the 20th century the "jazz" one was followed by the "atomic" one
the age
Brendan
$1,200 [10]
Once part of Yugoslavia, this country consists of a Muslim-Croat federation & a Serbian-led republic
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Brendan
$800 [12]
August 25, 1916:An act of Congress establishes the U.S. NPS, this
National Park Service
Danny
$800 [27]
"The Elements of Style" says it is incorrect to modify this adjective that means "being the only one"
unique
Kate
$800 [22]
This West Coast state's 1971 "bottle bill" helped jump-start recycling in the U.S. by banning nonrefundables
Oregon
Kate Danny
$1,200 [3]
A red carpet party for Lil Wayne Nov. 7, 2010 celebrated his homecoming after 8 months here
the pen (prison)
Brendan
$1,200 [17]
The time of the oscillation of the earth's axis, varying between 416 & 433 days, is the Chandler this. End of sentence
Period
Kate
$1,600 [9]
Pico Mogoton, Nicaragua's highest point, lies on its northern border with this country
Honduras
Danny
$1,200 [13]
August 12, 1851:Isaac Singer gets a U.S. patent for this machine
a sewing machine
Danny
$1,200 [28]
This 5-letter verb meaning "to seize by force" is often used of the throne
usurp
Kate
$1,200 [23]
Vintage bottles of products from this company, sold door to door by ladies since the 1880s, are now collectibles
Avon Products
Kate
$1,600 [4]
"90 Years of Excess" read a banner at the bacchanal for the birthday of the French edition of this fashion mag
Vogue
Brendan
$1,600 [18]
In astronomic terms, this 3-letter word describes a billion years
an eon
Brendan
$2,000 [8]
This "Great" depression stretches about 4,500 miles, from Syria to Mozambique
the Great Rift Valley
Danny
$2,000 [20]
November 9, 1923:The Beer Hall Putsch, an attempt to overthrow Germany's government, fails in this city
Munich
Danny
$1,600 [29]
John Stuart Mill wrote the book on this philosophy that says an action is right if it promotes happiness
utilitarianism
Brendan Danny
$1,600 [24]
Illegal in many places, this 1 1/2" fireworks item, also the first film Wes Anderson directed, has a 12" stick attached
a bottle rocket
Kate
$2,000 [5]
Celebs are among the 1,000-plus revelers at Shark Attack Sounds, an annual 4th of July bash at Montauk on this island
Long Island
Danny
$2,000 [19]
One complete heartbeat, consisting of one contraction & relaxation of the heart, makes up the cardiac this
cycle
Brendan
DD $5,000 [7]
Cape Dezhnev, the easternmost point on mainland Asia, juts into this strait
the Bering Strait
Danny
DD $6,000 [14]
September 21, 1897:It seems 3 months early, but the N.Y. Sun publishes an editorial famous for this 7-word phrase
"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus"
Danny
$2,000 [30]
Irish name for a long, loose Irish overcoat
an Ulster
Kate
$2,000 [25]
Matthew 9:17 instructs us that it is not good to put this "into old bottles"
new wine
Kate

Final Jeopardy!

1960s TV CHARACTERS

One of her first spoken lines is translated as "You have the face of a wise and fearless caliph"

Jeannie

Danny "Who is Jeannie?" — wagered $11,000
Kate "Who is Jeanie?" — wagered $10,000
Brendan "Who is Scherezade" — wagered $1,801

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