Show #6341 2012-03-26 (taped 2011-12-07) Regular

Contestants

Margie Cohen — a litigator from Houston, Texas

Mithun Kamath — a law student originally from New Orleans, Louisiana

Dennis Wright — a welder from Council Grove, Kansas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $25,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dennis $2,200 $6,000 $9,200 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$9,200
19 R, 2 W
Mithun $1,200 $4,000 $4,000 $1
2nd place: $2,000
$3,800
6 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Margie $3,400 $3,800 $12,800 $6,199
New champion: $6,199
$15,800
19 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

ARCHITECTURAL TERMS BODY PARTS BY PREFIX WEDDING SONGS A "NON" CATEGORY IT'S 1985 LITTLE BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU
$200 [4]
Foliation can refer to a plant producing these or to carved decorations in the shapes of these
leaves
Dennis
$200 [22]
Naso-
the nose
Margie
$200 [21]
Michael Feinstein has couples swaying to his version of this classic from "Casablanca"
"As Time Goes By"
Margie
$200 [9]
It's also called skim milk
nonfat milk
Mithun
$200 [1]
In January he was sworn in for a second term as president
Ronald Reagan
Mithun
$200 [14]
Charles Wesley fell out with this big brother & co-founder of Methodism over (what else?) a woman
John Wesley
Dennis
$400 [5]
A mihrab, a prayer niche in the wall of a mosque, faces this holy city
Mecca
Margie
$400 [23]
Pulmo-
the lung
Dennis
$400 [27]
"I see trees of green, red roses too" & couples slow-dancing to this Louis Armstrong tune
"What A Wonderful World"
Dennis Margie
$400 [10]
In the Army an NCO is this type of officer
noncommissioned
Dennis
$400 [2]
In February this nation finished the first phase of a troop withdrawal from Lebanon
Israel
Dennis
$400 [15]
Warren Beatty is this actress' little brother
Shirley MacLaine
Dennis
$600 [6]
It's the vertical member at either side of a doorframe; the hinge is attached to it
the jamb
Dennis
$600 [24]
Opto-
the eye
Margie
$600 [28]
This Percy Sledge No. 1 hit is a perennial favorite at weddings
"When A Man Loves A Woman"
Dennis
$600 [11]
In 1922 Gandhi called this "the first article of" his faith
nonviolence
Margie
$600 [3]
In April this iconic American drink changed its formula, leading to an overwhelmingly negative reaction
Coca-Cola
Margie
$600 [18]
Outlaw siblings James, John & Little Bob were these brothers--by last name & also in relation to Cole
(the) Younger (Brothers)
Dennis
$800 [7]
The arrangement & design of these in a building is called fenestration
windows
Margie
$800 [25]
Gastro-
the stomach
Margie
$800 [29]
Perfect for a dance with a parent is this show tune that begins, "Is this the little girl I carried"
"Sunrise, Sunset"
Dennis
$800 [12]
It's Latin for "it does not follow", so I'd better get out my umbrella
non sequitur
Mithun
$800 [16]
In November this comic strip about the adventures of a young boy & his stuffed animal debuted
Calvin & Hobbes
Mithun
$800 [19]
Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII was her little brother
Cleopatra
Mithun
$1,000 [8]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an architectural animation on the monitor.) A properly constructed roof will include rafters that give the roof its shape, & these horizontal beams that provide structural support, from the old French for "to lie"
joists
$1,000 [26]
Chiro-
the hand
Dennis Margie
$1,000 [30]
With the party under way, it's time to "celebrate good times, come on" with an R&B favorite from this group
Kool & The Gang
Dennis
$1,000 [13]
Geometry that doesn't follow the parallel postulate of an ancient Greek mathematician is called this
non-Euclidean
Margie
$1,000 [17]
In June this iconic U.S. highway was decommissioned & its familiar markers taken down
Route 66
Dennis
DD $1,200 [20]
This little brother was christened by the Archbishop of Canterbury in December 1984
Prince Harry
Mithun

Double Jeopardy! Round

NONFICTION FAMOUS MENUS AMBASSADORS BHUTAN LINES MOVIES BASED ON SHAKESPEARE THERE'S A WORD FOR THAT
$400 [9]
"Hellhound on His Trail" tells of "The Stalking of" this civil rights leader & "the International Hunt for His Assassin"
Martin Luther King
Dennis
$400 [6]
A Delmonico's menu from 1899 offers 4 varieties of this: ruddy, red-head, canvas-back & mallard
duck
Dennis
$400 [17]
In 2011 the U.S. envoy to Mexico quit over remarks in the diplomatic messages known by this old-fashioned name
embassy cables
$400 [1]
Nyingma & Kagyu are the major Bhutanese sects of this religion practiced by about 75% of the population
Buddhism
Dennis
$400 [13]
"West Side Story"
Romeo and Juliet
Margie
$400 [15]
Hagiolatry is the worship of these, maybe of Peter, Paul & Agatha
saints
Margie
$800 [10]
Piper Kerman chronicles her year in prison in this color "is the New Black"
Orange
$800 [7]
A Christmas 1926 British army menu lists the food in small black type & this 4-letter beverage in much larger red type
beer
Margie
$800 [25]
Last name of the USA's current U.N. ambassador; it was also the last name of a Bush Secretary of State
Rice
Margie
$800 [2]
Unified in 1907, Bhutan didn't ratify one of these until 2008
a constitution
Dennis
DD $1,000 [14]
"Throne of Blood"
Macbeth
Margie
$1,200 [18]
Oddly, this term for a native-born Israeli comes from a Hebrew word for "prickly pear"
sabra
Margie
$1,200 [11]
Daniel Yergin won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Prize", about "The Epic Quest" for this commodity
oil
Margie
$1,200 [8]
The August 23, 1941 menu from this Hollywood eatery named for a colored hat offered a 95-cent tenderloin steak
the Brown Derby
Dennis
$1,200 [26]
Admiral Raymond Spruance won the 1944 battle of the sea named for this island country to which he was later ambassador
the Philippines
$1,200 [3]
Bhutan's big event of 2011 came when the king took this--just one, unlike his father, who had 4
a wife
Margie
$1,200 [23]
"Forbidden Planet"
The Tempest
$1,600 [19]
Something campaniform is shaped like this noise-making object
a bell
$1,600 [12]
She covered the aftermath of her husband's death in "The Year of Magical Thinking" & of her daughter's in "Blue Nights"
Joan Didion
$1,600 [20]
In 1906 this San Francisco hotel fed the birds--to the customers, that is; chicken & squab were on the menu
the St. Francis Hotel
$1,600 [27]
Duff Cooper mediated between Churchill & de Gaulle as Britain's representative to the free French in this N. African city
Algiers
$1,600 [4]
The ngultrum, which is subdivided into chetrums, is the national this
currency
DD $2,000 [16]
It's a device used in threshing grain as well as a verb meaning to wave your arms wildly & uselessly
a flail
Margie
$2,000 [24]
Richard Dawkins hit the bestseller list with the pro-atheism book called "The God" this
Delusion
Margie
$2,000 [21]
In 1945 this ex-heavyweight champ's NYC restaurant offered a $1.75 roast prime sirloin dinner
Jack Dempsey
Dennis
$2,000 [28]
Anatoly Dobryninheld this job from 1962 to 1986, & knew how to get along with all kinds of people
Russian Ambassador to the United States
Dennis
$2,000 [5]
Bhutan is divided into 3 major regions, the Duars Plain & the Great & Lesser these
Himalayas
Margie
$2,000 [22]
In medicine, it's the 4-letter term for the craving or ingestion of such non-food items as dirt, chalk or paint chips
pica
Margie

Final Jeopardy!

ISLANDS

At 22 square miles, it's the world's smallest island with a population exceeding 1 million, a figure it reached by 1880

Manhattan

Mithun "What is Indonesia?" — wagered $3,999
Dennis "What is Singapore" — wagered $9,200
Margie "What is Hong Kong" — wagered $6,601

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