Show #6331 2012-03-12 (taped 2011-11-30) Regular

Contestants

Reid Rodgers — a locomotive mechanic from North Platte, Nebraska

Richard Elepano — a pediatrician from New York, New York

Jessamine Price — a graduate student in creative writing from Greenbelt, Maryland (whose 2-day cash winnings total $19,202)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jessamine $2,200 $4,200 $9,400 $7,601
3-day champion: $26,803
$9,400
11 R, 0 W
Richard $800 $5,200 $11,600 $1,599
3rd place: $1,000
$12,800
16 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Reid $4,400 $8,000 $10,800 $1,800
2nd place: $2,000
$10,600
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

YOUR BIRTHDAY HOROSCOPE PRESIDENTIAL ARTIFACTS "U" TUBE THE SPORTING LIFE U.S. COMMUNITIES TONGUE, TWISTED
$200 [16]
November 16:People of this sign, don't get stung by being too aggressive
Scorpio
Jessamine
$200 [1]
His library & museum has a sculpture ofhimas the Sphinx
FDR
Richard
$200 [21]
In London the subway is called "the Tube" or this subterranean term
the Underground
Jessamine
$200 [2]
In the 1980s college students were combining football & plastic throwing discs to create this "ultimate" sport
(Ultimate) Frisbee
Richard
$200 [8]
Hey, y'all! The Deep Ellum Arts Festival, not far from the Tom Landry Freeway, is a 3-day "Street Party" in this city
Dallas
Reid
$200 [22]
A Luger or Walther PPK
a gun
Richard
$400 [17]
March 25:Mars may rule this fire sign known for great athletes, but no one else does! Also, bet heavy on the Rams
Aries
Reid
$400 [4]
Truman kept a sign with this 4-word motto on his Oval Office desk; the original sign is at his presidential library
"The buck stops here"
Richard
$400 [27]
You can get a tube for priority or express mail from the organization with this 4-letter abbreviation
USPS
Richard
$400 [3]
In 1884 Maud Watson won the first women's singles tennis competition at this British venue
Wimbledon
Reid
$400 [9]
Do you know the way to this California city that topped a 2011 list of America's geekiest cities?
San Jose
Jessamine
$400 [23]
To pull with force, perhaps like a certain boat
tug
Richard
$600 [18]
October 3:Your peacemaking abilities will bring everyone together! This air sign's life is in balance today!
Libra
Reid
$600 [5]
Marshal Zhukov presented Eisenhower with the Order of Victory, a military decoration of this colorful army
the Red Army
Reid
$600 [28]
Even with a misspelling, this tube toothpaste brand from Colgate sure lightens my teeth
Ultra Brite
Reid
$600 [13]
(Hannah Storm presents the clue.) Flo-Jo's sister-in-law, she won the heptathlon gold at the 1988 & 1992 Olympics as well as a 1988 long jump gold medal
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Reid
$600 [10]
In the names of Chicago residential neighborhoods, this word follows Hyde & Rogers
Park
Reid
$600 [24]
One of Freud's 3 basic divisions, mentally
ego
Richard
$800 [19]
Nov. 26:Though normally you're warm & relaxed, this sign is all a-quiver with joy today! Shoot for the stars!
Sagittarius
Jessamine
DD $1,000 [6]
Documents relating to these agreements, the framework for peace in the Middle East, are at the Carter Library
the Camp David Accords
Reid
$800 [29]
Alleged sightings of these include a cigar-shaped one reported in 1991 by airline pilot Achille Zaghetti
a UFO
Jessamine
$800 [14]
In 2011 this Brewers outfielder became the first Jewish Major League MVP since Sandy Koufax
Ryan Braun
Reid
$800 [11]
Located on Tchoupitoulas St., "Rebuilding Together" this city has had 18,000 volunteers rebuild 305 homes
New Orleans
Jessamine
$800 [25]
A disease characterized by joint pain, especially in the big toe
gout
Richard
$1,000 [20]
August 28:Deal with dichotomy today, as this sign is a symbol of fertility but famed for its chastity
Virgo
Richard
$1,000 [7]
Artifacts at his library include hand-knitted Christmas stockings for Buddy & Socks
Clinton
Jessamine
$1,000 [30]
Also called Fallopian, these tubes are the pathway down which an ovum passes on its way to the womb
uterine tubes
Richard
$1,000 [15]
Named in honor of one of its former commissioners, the Larry O'Brien Trophy goes to the champion of this pro league
the NBA
Reid
$1,000 [12]
Movies like "The Departed" are set in this colorful area of Boston with a 1-word directional nickname
Southie
Reid
$1,000 [26]
A renowned secondary school in England
Eton
Reid

Double Jeopardy! Round

ZOOLOGY FBI TV HERR BANDS BRITISH DRAMA CHARACTER NAMES WE LOVE YOU, CONRAD "O.S." WE DO
$400 [4]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows some insects on the monitor.) Belonging to the same insect order as the stick insect is another inconspicuous one--look closer--aptly named this
a leaf insect
$400 [3]
Agent Scully was reassigned to teaching forensics at the FBI Academy in Quantico at the start of Season 2 of this series
The X-Files
Reid
$400 [5]
In Germany these male student societies differ from those in the U.S.--the uniforms with colorful sashes, for one
fraternities
Reid
$400 [1]
In 1696 "The Relapse" featured characters like Sir Tunbelly Clumsy & Syringe, who has this job
the doctor
Reid
$400 [6]
This hotelier was briefly married to Zsa Zsa Gabor; his son Nicky was briefly married to Elizabeth Taylor
Hilton
Jessamine
$400 [14]
It's the first verbal presentation made by an attorney at a trial
opening statements
Richard
$800 [7]
National Geographic calls it "the prickliest of rodents"
a porcupine
Richard
$800 [8]
Joe Mantegna joined the cast when Mandy Patinkin left this show about an FBI unit that tracks serial killers
Criminal Minds
$800 [2]
"Sir Timothy Tawdry" is alternately titled "The Town" this, a 3-letter fashion victim
Fop
Reid
$800 [12]
The first of 4 emperors of the Salian dynasty, Conrad II of Swabia was crowned this on Easter 1027
Holy Roman Emperor
$800 [15]
Because Adam & Eve ate of the forbidden fruit, this was inherited by all their descendants
original sin
Reid
$1,600 [25]
They're the respiratory organs of squid & octopi as well as fish
gills
Richard
$1,200 [9]
FBI agent Dale Cooper came to town to solve Laura Palmer's murder on this '90s series
Twin Peaks
Richard
$1,200 [21]
Joseph Surface is a hypocrite in 1777's "The School for" this
Scandal
Jessamine
DD $1,200 [13]
As a part of this 1969 mission, Charles "Pete" Conrad became the third man to walk on the Moon
Apollo 12
Richard
$1,200 [16]
"Little Rhody" also has this official nickname
the Ocean State
Reid
$2,000 [24]
The 2-inch-long golden poison dart one of these has enough venom to kill 10 men
a frog
Jessamine
$1,600 [10]
A forensic anthropologist teams up with FBI agent Seeley Booth to solve crimes on this Fox drama
Bones
Richard
$1,600 [22]
Not Little Jack, just plain this is the seducer hero of "The Country Wife"
Mr. Horner
$1,600 [20]
Time magazine's first literary cover boy, in April 1923, was this author of "Nostromo"
Joseph Conrad
Jessamine
$1,600 [17]
Term used today for dates on the superseded Julian calendar
old style
$2,000 [11]
Poppy Montgomery & Anthony LaPaglia co-starred on this CBS series about an FBI squad that searched for missing persons
Without a Trace
Richard
$2,000 [23]
This saintly name belongs to 1 of the "Two Gentlemen of Verona", & also, fittingly, to the hero of "Love for Love"
Valentine
$2,000 [19]
A 2007 fraud conviction "darkened" the good name of this Canadian-born onetime owner of 100s of newspapers
Conrad Black
$2,000 [18]
Home to many aquatic species & covering 700 square miles, it straddles the Georgia/Florida border
the Okefenokee Swamp
Reid

Final Jeopardy!

PEOPLE OF EUROPE

These people who ruled large parts of Spain before Celtic & Roman dominance left their name on the land

the Iberians

Jessamine "Who are the Basques?" — wagered $1,799
Reid "Who are theHibernians" — wagered $9,000
Richard "Who were Basque?" — wagered $10,001

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