Show #6336 2012-03-19 (taped 2011-12-06) Regular

Contestants

Kyle Roll — a compliance analyst from Richmond, Virginia

Alex Wright — a university administrator from Upper Arlington, Ohio

Hannah Spector — a stay-at-home mom from Van Nuys, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $29,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Hannah $3,400 $6,600 $11,000 $19,000
3rd place: $1,000
$11,600
17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Alex $3,200 $3,400 $15,600 $25,600
New champion: $25,600
$13,000
18 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Kyle $2,200 $4,600 $17,400 $24,000
2nd place: $2,000
$17,400
21 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

HOLD EVERYTHING POETS' MONOGRAMS LOGO SECRETS SPORTS ILLUSTRATEDSPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR "SQ"SES, "SQ"SES DR. JANE GOODALL
$200 [13]
If you're a pistol-packin' pardner, this leather holder open at the top is probably what you pack the pistol in
a holster
Alex
$200 [21]
He heard "America Singing":WW
Walt Whitman
Kyle
$200 [8]
Next time you get a FedEx package, notice a right-pointing one of these between the second "E" & the "X"
an arrow
Hannah
$200 [26]
2010:N'awlins quarterback
Drew Brees
Alex
$200 [1]
2-word term for a police cruiser
a squad car
Alex
$200 [6]
(Dr. Jane Goodall delivers the clue.) Within weeks of arriving in Africa in 1957, I met this paleontologist who soon hired me as an assistant
(Louis) Leakey
Kyle
$400 [14]
A small, enclosed shell that can hold medicine or objects for a future "time"
a capsule
Kyle
$400 [22]
A romantic poet who ode a lot:JK
John Keats
Hannah
$400 [9]
Parts of the "B" & the "R" in this sweet treat shop's logo form the number "31"
Baskin-Robbins
Hannah
$400 [27]
2011:Coaches Pat Summitt & this Duke legend (nickname accepted)
Coach K (Mike Krzyzewski)
Hannah
$400 [2]
I spent most of my money on booze, fast cars & women; the rest was this, meaning "wasted"
squandered
Alex
$400 [7]
(Dr. Jane Goodall delivers the clue.) The male chimpanzee who can intimidate all others & win their submissive pant-grunts is known by this Greek-letter term
the alpha (male)
Hannah
$600 [17]
This synonym for "coffin" can also mean a small ornamental chest or box
a casket
Hannah
$600 [23]
A key figure of the Harlem Renaissance:LH
Langston Hughes
Kyle
$600 [10]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) An analog sine wave begins the word, & digital signals in binary code end it, in the logo for acomputer from this company
Sony
Alex
$600 [28]
1999:Kristine Lilly & her teammates in this sport
women's soccer
Hannah
$600 [3]
An election won by a few votes, or a ball game won by a few points
a squeaker
Hannah
$600 [15]
(Dr. Jane Goodall delivers the clue.) The first chimpanzee to venture into my camp was David Greybeard, attracted by palm nuts & then lured by this fruit; you may have seen thephotoof another chimpanzee looking for them under my shirt
banana
Kyle
$800 [18]
As in song, "pack up your troubles" in one of these leather traveling sacks & smile, smile, smile
a kit bag
Kyle
$800 [24]
Wrote a sonnet "On His Blindness":JM
John Milton
Kyle
$800 [11]
BMW calls it a "coincidence" that the blue & white on its logo are the colors of this German region's flag
Bavaria
Hannah
DD $600 [29]
1954:British track man
Roger Bannister
Hannah
$800 [4]
Foreclosed, abandoned homes have brought an influx of these people who live in a place without a title or lease
squatters
Alex
$800 [16]
(Dr. Jane Goodall delivers the clue.) I made an exciting discovery: chimpanzees fashioning probes to fish termites from their nests; chimpanzees were making & using these, which anthropologists had earlier seen as behavior that separates man from all other animals
tools
Hannah
$1,000 [20]
It's a stationary crib or cradle with a hood
a bassinette
Kyle
$1,000 [25]
Irish-born 1995 Nobel laureate:SH
Seamus Heaney
Hannah
$1,000 [12]
This corporation that owns Lipton & Hellmann's uses many of its products in its letter-U logo
Unilever
Hannah
$1,000 [30]
1968:Player-coach of the Boston Celtics
(Bill) Russell
Alex
$1,000 [5]
Easily made to feel sick
squeamish (or squeasy)
Alex Kyle
$1,000 [19]
(Dr. Jane Goodall delivers the clue.) Flo's offspring were successful as adults because she was an affectionate & supportive mother & coped wisely even during this time of mother-child conflict in the fourth year of life
weaning
Alex Kyle

Double Jeopardy! Round

BY GEORGE FAMILIAR PHRASES A YEAR ENDING IN 12 "YOU" ROCK HERE I AM... POTPOURRI
$400 [6]
The music for "Porgy and Bess"
George Gershwin
Alex
$400 [11]
An Arab proverb says, "The enemy of my enemy is my" this
my friend
Alex
$400 [16]
John Rolfe & the Jamestown colony experiment with growing tobacco
1612
Kyle
$400 [1]
Title that follows "Shot through the heart and you're to blame"
"You Give Love a Bad Name"
Alex
$400 [21]
Where the Zambezi river rises in this country whose name starts with the same 4 letters
Zambia
Kyle
$400 [26]
Egypt's mount Katrina is the highest peak on this peninsula
the Sinai
Kyle
$800 [7]
The 1993 book "Turmoil and Triumph: My Years As Secretary of State"
George Shultz
Alex Kyle
$800 [12]
Dragging a certain fish across a trail made hounds lose the scent, hence this term for a misleading clue
a red herring
Alex
$800 [17]
Robert Falcon Scott & his team reach the South Pole
1912
Alex
$800 [2]
Police hit that says, "Since you've gone I've been lost without a trace; I dream at night, I can only see your face"
"Every Breath You Take"
$800 [22]
In Providence, Rhode Island, at the head of this bay that's about 30 miles long
Narragansett
Kyle
$800 [27]
In the 1880s Camille Claudel was a pupil & then more of this sculptor
Rodin
Hannah Kyle
$1,600 [9]
The novel "Silas Marner"
George Eliot
Kyle
$1,200 [13]
Meaning "stunningly attired", it's also the name of a macabre Brian de Palma film starring Michael Caine
dressed to kill
Hannah
$1,600 [19]
Emboldened by the sight of a cross in the sky, Constantine defeats Maxentius
312
Kyle
$1,200 [3]
"And I'm here to remind you of the mess you left when you went away" is part of this accusatory tune
"You Oughta Know"
Alex
$1,200 [23]
At the Mosque of Ali Pasha, one of the principal mosques of this Bosnian city
Sarajevo
Kyle
$1,200 [28]
In 1804 Andrew Jackson bought the Hermitage, his home & refuge in this state
Tennessee
Hannah
DD $2,000 [8]
"The Sophisticated Poll Watcher's Guide"
(George) Gallup
Alex
$1,600 [14]
"To hang by a thread" is an allusion to this weapon suspended above a banquet guest
the Sword of Damocles
Hannah
$2,000 [20]
A warrant is issued for the arrest of Scottish outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor
1712
Hannah Kyle
$1,600 [4]
Human League topped the U.S. charts with this musical question, "baby"
"Don't You Want Me"
Hannah
$1,600 [24]
In this region declared Portuguese territory in 1849 & returned to Chinese sovereignty in 1999
Macao
Kyle
$1,600 [29]
Byzantine empress Irene promoted the use of this type of symbol & battled the -oclasts
icon
Hannah
$2,000 [10]
1749's "Music for the Royal Fireworks"
George Handel
Kyle
$2,000 [15]
In the 19th century this phrase meant "neck and neck"; in the 20th, it was reinvented to mean a cosmetic surgical operation
nip & tuck
Kyle
DD $3,000 [18]
Ponce de Leon reaches the Turks & Caicos islands
1512
Alex
$2,000 [5]
"So I took what I could get, yes I took what I could get, & then she looked at me with those big brown eyes & said" this
"You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet"
Alex
$2,000 [25]
On a hill called El Panecillo ("The little loaf of bread"), seeing panoramic views of this capital of Ecuador
Quito
Kyle
$2,000 [30]
In 1993 the Library of Congress made Rita Dove the first African American to hold this position
a poet laureate
Alex

Final Jeopardy!

MOVIE DIRECTORS

On visiting RKO in 1939, he described the studio as the biggest electric train set any boy ever had

Orson Welles

Hannah "Who is Orson Wells?" — wagered $8,000
Alex "Who is Wells" — wagered $10,000
Kyle "Who wasHitchcockWelles" — wagered $6,600

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