Show #6344 2012-03-29 (taped 2011-12-07) Regular

Contestants

Richie Rodriguez — a mechanical engineer from Hayward, California

Jay Ben Markson — an actor originally from Lakeville, Massachusetts

Beau Henson — a test prep teacher and actor originally from Mt. Carmel, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $28,002)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Beau	$-400	$3,400	$13,800	$23,201 3-day champion: $51,203	$13,800 18 R, 2 W
Jay Ben	$6,600	$9,200	$11,600	$23,200 2nd place: $2,000	$14,000 17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Richie	$1,000	$3,200	$5,400	$0 3rd place: $1,000	$10,400 17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE MARQUIS DE SADE	FACTS & FIGURES	PLACES TO EAT	RUNNING ON "N.T."	THE FIRST EPISODE	WHERE ON EARTH...?
$200 [26] Pursuing a military career early in his life, de Sade fought in this 1756-1763 conflict against Great Britain The Seven Years' War Jay Ben Richie	$200 [21] 3-5 P.M. is the best time of day to post on this microblogging site if you want to be retweeted Twitter Beau	$200 [12] Originally a Spanish term meaning "coffee shop", it's an eatery, often in an institution like a hospital a cafeteria Beau	$200 [11] It doesn't count as opening someone else's mail to read the letter to Philemon found in this book The New Testament Richie	$200 [1] 1962:"The Clampetts Strike Oil" The Beverly Hillbillies Richie	$200 [2] This country has "city" in its name; with a population of 830, might we suggest "village"? Vatican City Beau
$400 [27] In 1789 de Sade was moved from this prison for creating a disturbance, only days before it was stormed The Bastille Jay Ben	$400 [23] This building in Arlington, Virginia has 131 stairways, 19 escalators & 17.5 miles of corridors the Pentagon Jay Ben	$400 [17] A highway service station & restaurant principally for the drivers of all them 18-wheelers a truck stop Richie	$400 [13] A classy goodbye includes "until" then, the occasion after this one next time Jay Ben	$400 [3] 2001:"12:00 A.M.-1:00 A.M." 24 Richie	$400 [7] It's a long way to Tipperary in this country, & to Kilkee & Tralee as well Ireland Jay Ben
$600 [28] In the film "Quills" this Australian actor garnered an Oscar nomination for his role as de Sade in the last years of his life Geoffrey Rush Richie	$600 [22] In 1877 the Liberty Bell was hung by a chain of this symbolic number of links 13 Beau	$600 [18] Foul cutlery term for a local restaurant that serves fried, inexpensive food a greasy spoon Beau	$600 [14] In the address P.O. Box 438 Fort Simpson, NT X0E 0NO, NT is short for this Northwest Territories Beau Richie	$600 [4] 2011:"Winter is Coming" Game of Thrones Beau	$800 [9] Kid, next time I say let's go someplace like this country whose judicial capital is Sucre, let's go someplace like this country Bolivia Jay Ben
$800 [29] The Marquis vented his thoughts in the scandalous "Philosophy in" this room of the house Bedroom Beau	$800 [24] This private college in Northern California has 20 libraries with some 8.5 million physical volumes Stanford Beau	$800 [19] On Food Network, Guy Fieri hosts the show known as "Triple D": these, "Drive-ins and Dives" Diners Beau	$800 [15] The guy not as important as the top guy but more important than every other guy number two Richie	$800 [5] 1951:"The Girls Want to go to the Nightclub" I Love Lucy Beau Jay Ben	$1,000 [10] Lemur entertain you with the Isalo Massif, a geographic feature of this island country Madagascar Jay Ben
$1,000 [30] De Sade's work "120 days of" this sinful biblical city helped introduce the term "sadism" Sodom Jay Ben Richie	$1,000 [25] In 2010 there were more than 21,000 U.S. cases of this, aka pertussis whooping cough Jay Ben	$1,000 [20] Drooling for fast food at Indiana's Greenwood Park Mall? Head for an establishment in this 2-word area the food court Richie	$1,000 [16] More kids than adults have these episodes of fear & sometimes screaming during sleep night terrors Richie	$1,000 [6] 1989:"Panic at Malibu Pier" Baywatch Jay Ben	DD $2,200 [8] Thetowerof the Great Opening Hotel is in Khartoum in this country Sudan Jay Ben

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE MARQUEE DE SAD	THEY CAME FROM OHIO	CULTURE CLUB	14-, 15- & 16-LETTER WORDS	PHILOSOPHICAL METAPHORS	LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
$400 [7] Shirley MacLaine & Debra Winger in this Best Picture Oscar winner about a mother & very sick daughter Terms of Endearment Richie	$400 [23] Born in Cincinnati, this CNN founder became North America's largest private landowner Ted Turner Beau	$400 [1] Jasper Johns' "Sketch for 'Good Time Charley"' can be found at this museum at 1000 5th Ave. at 82nd the Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Beau	$400 [2] A disobedient soldier can be busted for this insubordination Richie	$400 [17] Plato said the world of sense experience is like living in one of these, seeing only shadows of true reality a cave Jay Ben	$400 [18] A 2009 Air Force report envisions the possibility of these flying robots replacing all its manned aircraft drones Beau
$800 [8] Bette Midler & Barbara Hershey as lifelong friends in this weepie; at the end, they sit on the sand one last time Beaches Richie	$800 [24] Like Tecumseh, this Civil War general who was named for him also hailed from Ohio (William Tecumseh) Sherman Jay Ben	$800 [14] The witch of this biblical place pops up in Carl Nielsen's opera "Saul and David" Endor	$800 [3] Mr. Vonnegut knew it's another term for abattoir slaughterhouse Richie	$800 [12] Wittgenstein compared his own book the "Tractatus" to this--you climb its rungs to see the world as it is a ladder Beau	$800 [19] (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports.) Deep in a tunnel behind this door is the Global Vault, holding more than half a million samples of these items as backups, the ultimate insurance policy for our food supply in case of global catastrophe seeds Richie
$1,200 [9] Clint Eastwood & Hilary Swank in this sad 2004 tale of fisticuffs & euthanasia Million Dollar Baby Jay Ben	$1,600 [26] From 1971 to 1979 he was a Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Cincinnati Neil Armstrong Richie	$1,200 [30] Many an artist, Uccello being one example, has depicted Saint George battling this beast the dragon Beau	$1,200 [4] It's the "EV" in EVA, an outer space jaunt extravehicular Richie	$1,200 [13] Aristotle was among those who believed the mind begins as a blank slate, this phrase in Latin tabula rasa Richie	$1,200 [20] The Pew Research Forum says by 2030 the world population of this religion will cross the 1/4 of humanity mark Islam Beau
$1,600 [10] Jude Law as a Civil War dropout & Nicole Kidman as the woman he tragically wants to come home to Cold Mountain Jay Ben	$2,000 [27] This designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was naturally drawn to sculpture, coming from Athens (Ohio) Maya Lin	$1,600 [29] This composer's 1869 waltz "Wine, Women and Song" was far from junior league Johann Strauss Jr.	$1,600 [5] This word for a prediction also starts with P & ends with T-I-O-N prognostication Jay Ben	$2,000 [16] Nietzsche wrote, "when you look long into" this immeasurable chasm, it "also looks into you" the abyss Jay Ben	$1,600 [21] Robert Ettinger, a founder of this optimistic scientific movement, died in 2011 & of course is frozen in Michigan cryonics
$2,000 [11] Tommy Kirk, Fess Parker & some fine canine performers in this heart-tugging classic Old Yeller Beau	DD $4,000 [25] An elementary school in Lorain, Ohio is named for this woman from Lorain who's both a Pulitzer & Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison Jay Ben	$2,000 [28] "The Hunted", 5 acts long, is but the second part of this man's trilogy "Mourning Becomes Electra" Eugene O'Neill Jay Ben	$2,000 [6] Poe knows this word for the ringing or sound of bells starts with a bit of double talk tintinnabulation Beau	DD $5,000 [15] In a work of political philosophy, Hobbes compared "The Great Power of" man's governor to this biblical beast leviathan Richie	$2,000 [22] Ray Kurzweil foresees the melding of human & machine into one in his book titled this event "is Near" The Singularity Beau

Final Jeopardy!

SPACE EXPLORATION

On March 17, 2011 a probe called MESSENGER became the first spacecraft to orbit this planet

Mercury

Richie "What is Neptune?" — wagered $5,400

Jay Ben "What is Mercury?" — wagered $11,600

Beau "What is Mercury?" — wagered $9,401

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