Show #6382 2012-05-22 (taped 2012-01-17) Regular

Joel Pool game 2.

Contestants

Marnie Cox — an attorney from Astoria, New York

Mike Lally — a food safety inspector from Ada, Michigan

Joel Pool — a real estate developer from Oakland, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joel $1,800 $5,400 $16,600 $31,700
2-day champion: $48,400
$16,600
20 R, 4 W
Mike $2,800 $2,400 $1,400 $2,199
3rd place: $1,000
$2,400
13 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Marnie $1,000 $4,200 $15,800 $2,800
2nd place: $2,000
$15,400
16 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE INDIANAPOLIS 500 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS WRITER'S DICTIONARY IN PERE-LACHAISE CEMETERY GIVE ME A PRIZE! "IFY" ANSWER CORRECTLY
$200 [7]
This school's boilermaker band has been part of the pre-race ceremonies since 1919
Purdue
Mike
$200 [6]
Governed by treaty, it's the formal return of a wanted criminal to the country where the offense occurred
extradition
Mike
$200 [9]
From the Latin for "knowing", it's the character telling the story
narrator
Mike
$200 [24]
This mime has the only spoken line of dialogue in "Silent Movie"
Marcel Marceau
Mike
$200 [13]
Carleton Mabee won this literary prize for his Samuel Morse biography "The American Leonardo"
a Pulitzer
Mike
$200 [1]
To bring together as one
unify
Marnie
$400 [8]
The tradition of drinking this in victory lane after the race was begun by Louis Meyer after his 3rd win in 1936
milk
Joel Marnie
$400 [16]
Agreements signed in this city between 1864 & 1949 govern the treatment of wounded soldiers & prisoners of war
Geneva
Mike
$400 [20]
"Kick the bucket" is an example of this 5-letter type of phrase that doesn't literally mean what it says
an idiom
Joel
$400 [25]
A grave is a grave is a grave for this writer born in Pennsylvania
Gertrude Stein
$400 [14]
The most prestigious award for pitching in baseball is the one named for this man who hurled a record 511 wins
Cy Young
Marnie
$400 [2]
To prepare a pharaoh for burial
mummify
Joel
$600 [10]
This Texan known by his initials holds the record for most Indy 500 starts with 35, 1958-1992
(A.J.) Foyt
Mike
$600 [17]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a map of a generic coastline.) As defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, these coastal belts are considered sovereign & can extend outward for up to 12 miles
territorial waters
Joel
$600 [21]
In 1865 Walt Whitman published both "Drum-Taps" & a follow-up titled this "to Drum-Taps"
Sequel
$600 [26]
"Earnest" Irish wit who died at age 46 in 1900
(Oscar) Wilde
Joel
$600 [15]
He won a 1987 spoken word Grammy for "Lake Wobegon Days"
Garrison Keillor
Joel
$600 [3]
To explain something more thoroughly, or to just turn up the volume
amplify
Joel Mike
$800 [11]
This nickname for the garage area, originally the fuel depot, was possibly inspired by a comic strip of the same name
Gasoline Alley
Mike
$800 [18]
The bag or package in which dispatches are securely transported is called a diplomatic one of these
a pouch
Joel
$800 [22]
It can mean firm determination or the outcome of the conflict in a story
resolution
Marnie
DD $600 [30]
This novelist's magnum opus is literally translated "In Search of Lost Time"
(Marcel) Proust
Marnie
$800 [27]
These "planetary" statuettes have been given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association since 1944
the Golden Globes
Marnie
$800 [4]
To execute in the ancient Roman fashion
crucify
Joel
$1,000 [12]
Now tragically deceased, this British racer won in 2011, the 100th anniversary of the Indy 500
Dan Wheldon
$1,000 [19]
In 2003 OPEC's secretary general said, "OPEC is not" this type of price-regulating body, "as some... insist on calling us"
a cartel
Joel
$1,000 [23]
En garde! Raise your this, also a character whose opposite traits highlight those of the protagonist
a foil
Joel Mike
$800 [29]
Some of his "timely" genius is heard here
Chopin
$1,000 [28]
This prestigious British prize for literature was started in 1968 as a counterpart to France's Prix Goncourt
the Booker Prize
Marnie
$1,000 [5]
To give something honor, as in "I won't" do this to "your question with a response"
dignify
Joel

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS FROM THE SANSKRIT YOUR DAY IN "C"OURT NATIVE AMERICANS BY TRIBE BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES EYE Q
$400 [1]
Currently the Commonwealth's official head
Queen Elizabeth
Mike
$400 [3]
The name of this mountain range containing 9 of the world's 10 highest peaks is from the Sanskrit for "abode of snow"
Himalayas
Mike
$400 [21]
An assertion to a legal right to something; you can also make a "counter-" one
a claim
Joel
$400 [26]
Sitting Bull
Hunkpapa Sioux
$400 [8]
A 1997 movie with Tommy Lee Jones policing aliens puts on a tutu to jete into a Natalie Portman film
Men in Black Swan
Marnie
$400 [16]
During an exam, your doctor will use drops to cause the pupils to do this, ophthalmologists' word for "widen"
to dilate
Joel
$800 [2]
In 1973 the Commonwealth issued a statement calling for an end to tests of these
nuclear weapons
Marnie
$800 [4]
Spiked or not, this drink comes from a word meaning "five nectars"
punch
Joel
$800 [22]
"Cross-" this is security for one debt that also serves as security for another
collateral
Joel
$800 [27]
Geronimo
Apache
Joel Mike
$800 [9]
1988 Dustin Hoffman film that definitely, definitely became the musical film version of "Don Quixote"
Rain Man of La Mancha
Marnie
$800 [17]
Glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness, can be controlled by eye drops that reduce pressure on the optic one of these
the optic nerve
Joel
$1,200 [13]
It achieved dominion status in 1867, the first Commonwealth member to do so
Canada
Joel
$1,200 [5]
Wise Jawaharlal Nehru was known as "Pandit"; if he'd done more CNN, 1 letter would have changed & he'd have been this
pundit
Joel
$1,200 [23]
This effort to boot a juror can be peremptory or for cause
a challenge
DD $1,000 [28]
Osceola
Seminole (or Creek)
Mike
$1,600 [11]
Roger Moore 007 film that turns into another action pic with Uma Thurman as a killer bride
View to a Kill Bill
Mike Marnie
$1,200 [18]
Smoking can increase the risk of getting this clouding of the lens
a cataract
Joel
$1,600 [14]
Recovering from years of strife between Hutus & Tutsis, it joined the Commonwealth in 2009
Rwanda
Mike Marnie
$1,600 [6]
This 4-letter word for the plunder taken during war can also be a slang term for money
loot
Joel Mike
$1,600 [24]
A judge other than a chief judge at one of the U.S. courts of appeals
a circuit judge
Marnie
DD $2,000 [10]
Mia Farrow taking a pregnant pause in a horror pic segues into Tina Fey's ticking biological clock in a 2008 comedy
Rosemary's Baby Mama
Marnie
$1,600 [19]
This condition usually caused by a misshapen cornea can be corrected with glasses or toric contact lenses
astigmatism
Joel
$2,000 [15]
The independence of the dominions was recognized by the 1931 Statute of this London borough where parliament sits
Westminster
Marnie
$2,000 [7]
This Sanskrit word for correct law or custom is found before "Bums" in a 1958 novel title
dharma
Marnie
$2,000 [25]
Executive clemency can lead to this, reducing the severity of a punishment
a commutation
Joel
$2,000 [12]
The horror, the horror at seeing a Coppola war film turn into a 1942 film where Bette Davis overcomes her domineering ma
Apocalypse Now, Voyager
$2,000 [20]
Allergies or infections can cause inflammation of this membrane that lines the eyelids & covers the eyes' surface
the conjunctiva
Marnie

Final Jeopardy!

1957

On September 5, Dwight Eisenhower told this state's governor that "the federal Constitution will be upheld by me by every legal means"

Arkansas

Mike "What is Arkansas" — wagered $799
Marnie "What is Mississippi?" — wagered $13,000
Joel "What is Arkansas" — wagered $15,100

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