Show #6347 2012-04-03 (taped 2011-12-13) Regular

Contestants

Joey Falco — a writer from Santa Monica, California

Tamara Tatum-Broughton — an assistant professor of biology from Washington, D.C.

Elisabeth Carrel — a copy editor from Elgin, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $24,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Elisabeth $-200 $200 $8,800 $1,199
3rd place: $1,000
$6,600
12 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Tamara $3,600 $3,800 $8,200 $2,199
2nd place: $2,000
$8,200
13 R, 2 W
Joey $2,800 $1,600 $6,400 $3,999
New champion: $3,999
$12,400
19 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS AP MALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR STUPID ANSWERS PLANT-HERS GOOD NEWS A "LEG" TO STAND ON
$200 [18]
Washington, D.C. has no streets named for "Y", "Z" or this letter of the alphabet because of its similarity to "I"
J
Elisabeth
$200 [2]
2002:American cyclist
Lance Armstrong
Tamara
$200 [7]
It's the highest mountain in Kenya
Mt. Kenya
Elisabeth Tamara
$200 [1]
The black-eyed this flower is called a pioneer plant--it's one of the first plants to grow in a new field, such as after a fire
Susan
Joey
$200 [12]
This piece of cutlery was added to the European table in the Middle Ages, bringing cleaner hands & better hygiene
a fork
Tamara
$400 [27]
The soybean is a member of this plant family
legume
Joey
$400 [19]
In a Beatles song this street named for an 18th century slave ship owner runs "beneath the blue suburban skies" of Liverpool
Penny Lane
Joey
$400 [3]
1982:Edmonton Oilers center
Wayne Gretzky
Tamara
$400 [8]
In 1984 this novel first published 35 years earlier was on the bestsellers list
1984
Joey
$400 [14]
The flower known as this "of the valley" in the U.S. is called the May Bell in Germany
a lily
Joey
$400 [13]
For those wanting privacy to watch movies, the first of this type of theater opened in New Jersey on June 6, 1933
a drive-in theater
$600 [26]
Hit the bricks at this theme park that has locations in Denmark, Germany, England & Carlsbad, California
Legoland
Elisabeth
$600 [20]
Although there is no standard speed limit on this German highway system, there is a recommended limit of about 80 mph
the Autobahn
Elisabeth
$600 [4]
1936:Ohio State track star & Olympic gold medalist
Jesse Owens
Joey
$600 [9]
In this classic game from Milton Bradley, you have to connect 4 of your pieces in a row to win
Connect Four
Joey
$1,000 [23]
Siberian, Yellow Flag & Dwarf Bearded are varieties of this popular 4-letter garden flower
an Iris
Tamara Joey
$600 [15]
To provide old-age retirement benefits & unemployment insurance, Congress passed this act on August 9, 1935
the Social Security Act
Joey
$800 [24]
Chopin advocated this smooth playing style
legato
Elisabeth
$800 [21]
One genealogist estimates around 90% of Kentucky's 1790 population had arrived there via this road
the Wilderness Road
Elisabeth Tamara
$800 [5]
1995:Reliable star seen here
Cal Ripken, Jr.
Tamara
$800 [10]
Bakers have been using this brand of chocolate in their recipes since 1780
baker's chocolate
Tamara
$1,000 [17]
The Inuit were exempted from a 1986 worldwide ban on commercial hunting of these animals
whales
Elisabeth Joey
$1,000 [25]
This sleeve style that sounds like a dinner roast was popular in the 19th century
leg o'mutton
Elisabeth
$1,000 [22]
The Grand Trunk Road begins at Peshawar, Pakistan, travels SE though India & ends at Sonargaon in this country
Bangladesh
Elisabeth
$1,000 [6]
1935:Heavyweight boxer who defeated Primo Carnera & Max Baer in a 3-month period
Joe Louis
Elisabeth Tamara
$1,000 [11]
Carvings of a horse, star & bell appear on the headstone of this Wild West "Bandit Queen"
Belle Starr
Elisabeth
DD $2,000 [16]
In the late 1700s Charles de l'Epee began the 1st public school for these people in Paris & created a language for them
the hearing-impaired (the deaf)
Joey

Double Jeopardy! Round

AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTORS NEW YORK MUSEUMS AL-LIT-ERATION POISON PROPOSED STATES MATH, YET NOT MATH
$400 [2]
This Oscar winner played cab driver Max (not Maxx) in "Collateral"
Jamie Foxx
Joey
$400 [25]
Alfred Barr Jr., the founding director of this museum, intended it to help people enjoy the visual arts of our time
MOMA (the Museum of Modern Art)
Elisabeth Joey
$400 [14]
Fantastic Fitzgerald, neighbor Nick, car crash
The Great Gatsby
Joey
$400 [19]
Phosgene gas was commonly used along the Somme in this war
World War I
Elisabeth
$400 [7]
Today with almost 8 million people, this island has talked of splitting from New York since the 1890s
Long Island
Joey
$2,000 [26]
This negative-sounding word means to render someone utterly perplexed
nonplus
$800 [3]
"The Measure of a Man" is "a spiritual autobiography" by this actor whose distinguished feature film career began in 1950
(Sidney) Poitier
Joey
$1,200 [1]
The collection of industrialist Henry Clay Frick is on view in a mansion at East 70th St. & this avenue
5th Avenue
Tamara
$800 [15]
Bunyan biggie, amply allegorical, Christian chronicles
Pilgrim's Progress
Elisabeth
$800 [20]
The venom of the Gaboon viper can affect the way your blood does this inside you--either too much or too little
flow
Tamara
$800 [8]
State Senator Bob Morton has proposed that Washington east of these mountains go its own way
the Cascades
Tamara
$1,200 [4]
Dennis Haysbert's credits include "The Unit", "Far From Heaven" & ubiquitous ads for this insurance company
Allstate
Joey
$1,600 [13]
This borough's museum of art upset folks with a 1999 exhibit featuring maggots, dung & formaldehyde
Brooklyn
Joey
$1,200 [16]
Rudyard ruminates, superb story,"wee" wonder
Wee Willie Winkie
$1,200 [21]
The oldest record of murder with poison, from Egypt, refers to "death by peach"--this toxin
cyanide
Tamara
$1,200 [9]
Jefferson had a plan for dividing this "directional" territory into states like Cherronesus & Polypotamia
the Northwest Territory
Elisabeth
$1,600 [5]
Woody Strode, seenherein this Kirk Douglas film, helped integrate the NFL in 1946 with the Rams
Spartacus
Joey
$2,000 [24]
This planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History has a 10,000-volume library on astronomy
the Hayden Planetarium
$2,000 [17]
Melville man, Claggart clash, mutiny mitigation
Billy Budd
Joey
$1,600 [22]
In 1935 actress Thelma Todd was found in her car, dead of this type of poisoning under unexplained circumstances
carbon monoxide
Joey
$1,600 [10]
Absaroka, which in 1939 proclaimed a governor & a Miss Absaroka, had parts of this state, Montana & South Dakota
Wyoming
Elisabeth Tamara Joey
$2,000 [6]
He's gone from "Ocean's Eleven" to "Hotel Rwanda"
Don Cheadle
Tamara
DD $3,000 [12]
The Whitney Museum has 187 works by this artist, including a mobile called "Big Red"
(Alexander) Calder
Elisabeth
DD $4,000 [18]
Dickens delights, title teen, woeful Wackford
Nicholas Nickleby
Joey
$2,000 [23]
Jim Jones promised his followers a utopia in this country; it ended in mass suicide by poison
Guyana
Elisabeth
$2,000 [11]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a map of the Western United States.) In 1849, 47 years before Utah statehood, partsof nine future states were encompassed by this proposed state, whose name meant "honeybee"
Deseret

Final Jeopardy!

SYMBOLIC SCULPTURE

In 2005 a sculpture of an African elephant was installed outside this country's embassy in Washington, D.C.

Côte d'Ivoire

Joey "What is Kenya?" — wagered $2,401
Tamara "What is South Africa?" — wagered $6,001
Elisabeth "What is Kenya" — wagered $7,601

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