Show #6384 2012-05-24 (taped 2012-01-17) Regular

Joel Pool game 4.

Contestants

Julie Zukowski — a public librarian from Crystal Lake, Illinois

Ursula Rodgers — a homemaker and visual artist from Denver, Colorado

Joel Pool — a real estate developer from Oakland, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $69,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joel $1,200 $3,400 $14,000 $17,000
4-day champion: $86,600
$12,600
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Ursula $2,800 $6,400 $8,400 $4,600
3rd place: $1,000
$10,400
16 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Julie $2,600 $2,400 $5,200 $10,300
2nd place: $2,000
$5,200
12 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

SHAKESPEAREAN LINES WE BAND OF BROTHERS MY SALAD DAYS ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE 2B OR NOT 2B THE WINTER OF OUR DISCOUNT TENT
$200 [18]
After this man scoffs, "The ides of March are come", the reply is "Ay... but not gone"
Julius Caesar
Joel
$200 [1]
Last name of brothers Barry, Robin & Maurice of Bee Gees fame
Gibb
Ursula Julie
$200 [5]
Monday is for Panzanella, an Italian salad whose name suggests it will have healthy chunks of this
bread
Joel
$200 [14]
In the 1100s Joachim of Fiore divided history into stages of the father, the son & coming soon--this
the holy spirit
Joel Julie
$200 [10]
Crumbled rock / Russian currency
rubble & ruble
Joel
$200 [20]
"Winter-proof", hah! Our tent collected so much ice & snow, it resembled this Inuit dwelling aka an aputiak
an igloo
Joel
$400 [19]
Dick the Butcher makes the bloody suggestion "The first thing we do, let's kill all" these professionals
lawyers
Julie
$400 [2]
Brothers Jonny & Colin Greenwood formed this band with Thom Yorke while students at Oxford
Radiohead
Ursula
$400 [6]
On the way home on Tuesdays, I stop at Long John Silver's & get a couple pounds of this cabbage salad
coleslaw
Julie
$400 [15]
The history of the formation of these culminates in the megalopolitan stage
cities
Ursula
$400 [11]
One who tells lies / moral toughness & character
fibber & fiber
Julie
$400 [21]
It took us hours to erect, & I hurt several of these lower-back vertebrae just below the thoracic
the lumbar (vertebrae)
Joel
$600 [26]
"Get thee to a nunnery" is directed to this bard beauty
Ophelia
Ursula Julie
$600 [3]
Mike Kroeger & this half-brother of his are in the post-grunge group Nickelback
Chad Kroeger
$600 [7]
Wednesdays, try this alliterative salad filled with poultry &, of course, mandarin oranges
Chinese chicken salad
Ursula
$600 [17]
Also called Old English, it's the hyphenated term for the first stage in the development of our language
Anglo-Saxon
$600 [12]
A French title for a clergyman / an American nickname for our 16th president
abbe and Abe
Julie
$600 [22]
Winds rushed in & Billy lost some frostbitten toes due to the "dry" type of this localized death of tissue
gangrene
Joel
$800 [27]
"O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day", says Proteus, part of this title duo
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Joel
$800 [4]
Little Richard inducted this R&B vocal trio of brothers into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
The Isley Brothers
Julie
$800 [8]
Thursdays, start with this type of salad seen here, basically, a large section of lettuce with lots of blue cheese
a wedge salad
Ursula
$800 [13]
A fun activity in "hot" water / a fun activity in fast-running rivers
tubbing and tubing
Ursula
$800 [23]
It said "flame resistant", but a bit of this, aka paraffin oil, got on the tent & a spark lit it up like a Roman candle
kerosene
$1,000 [28]
Contemplating murder, Macbeth asks, "Is this" this weapon "which I see before me"
a dagger
Ursula
$1,000 [16]
Isaac Slade's brother Caleb was asked to leave this band, inspiring its 2005 "Over My Head (Cable Car)"
The Fray
Ursula
$1,000 [9]
At a Saturday dinner party, presentation is key, so we serve composed salads, the opposite of this style
a tossed salad
Joel
$1,000 [25]
A British slang term meaning "swindle" / a British aristocrat such as a duke
nobble and noble
$1,000 [24]
The gaping holes in mother's tent let the ticks in, & now she's got this citric-sounding disease
lyme disease
Ursula

Double Jeopardy! Round

50 YEARS AGO--1962 ANIMAL VERBS OPERA CHARACTERS ROMAN THE ROADS "O", HOW ENTERTAINING NEWSPAPER TOWNS
$400 [6]
On February 20, after 10 previous delays, he became the first American to orbit the earth
John Glenn
Joel
$400 [11]
Pester, or equip a room with electronic listening devices
bug
Ursula
$400 [26]
In a rock opera this deaf, dumb & blind kid becomes a pinball wizard
Tommy
Ursula
$400 [21]
Aka the "sacred way", this first & most famous Roman road ran south to the seaports of the Mediterranean
the Appian Way
Joel
$400 [1]
Called the "most influential work in the American musical theatre", it opens with "Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin"'
Oklahoma!
Ursula
$400 [16]
Detroit, Michigan
The Free Press
Julie
$800 [7]
Month in 1962 when the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the U.S. & the Soviet Union to the brink of war
October
Joel Julie
$800 [12]
Stubbornly oppose a trend, or leap upward arching the back like a bronco
buck
Julie
$800 [27]
In a Wagner opera it's heads up for Jochanaan, who is this biblical figure
John the Baptist
Ursula
$800 [22]
The Via Flaminia extended north from Rome & joined the Via Aemilia before "crossing" this stream
the Rubicon
Joel
$800 [2]
In 2011 Elizabeth, kid sister in this celebrated family, gave a breakout performance in "Martha Marcy May Marlene"
the Olsen family
Julie
$800 [17]
Baltimore, Maryland
Sun
Joel
$1,200 [8]
We've had enough Shakespeare for one game; in 1962 this playwright's festival began at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
George Bernard Shaw
$1,200 [13]
Pursue relentlessly, as a certain type of dog does
hound
Ursula
DD $2,000 [28]
In a Franz Lehar opera, Hanna Glawari, who recently lost her banker-husband, is this title character
The Merry Widow
Ursula
$1,200 [23]
In 12 B.C., the emperor Augustus ordered the Via Aurelia be extended through the mountains near modern Nice, connecting Rome with this Roman province
Gaul
Joel
$1,200 [3]
Thisactor's familiar TV face can now be seen on "Modern Family"
(Ed) O'Neill
Ursula
$1,200 [18]
St. Louis, Missouri
Post-Dispatch
Joel
$1,600 [9]
Passing away at 78 she was laid to rest beside her husband at Hyde Park
Eleanor Roosevelt
Joel
$1,600 [14]
To drain the essence of, or to bleed via a certain bloodsucking worm
leech
Joel
$2,000 [25]
The Stanegate, a Roman road in the north of England, paralleled the route of this defensive wall
Hadrian's Wall
Joel
$1,600 [4]
This film about guy & girl musicians making a connection in Dublin has become a stage musical
Once
Ursula
$1,600 [19]
Miami, Florida
Herald
Julie
$2,000 [10]
Katherine Anne Porter sailed up the bestsellers list with this top novel of 1962
Ship of Fools
$2,000 [15]
Refuse to talk, like a beach creature
clam
Julie
DD $3,000 [24]
These stones bearing a dedication to the emperor were set every 1,000 paces along Roman roads
milestones
Joel
$2,000 [5]
Young Walt Disney felt constricted by live-action film, & created this lucky rabbit, his first major animated character
Oswald
$2,000 [20]
Seattle, Washington
Times
Ursula Julie

Final Jeopardy!

BIOGRAPHIES

"The Man who Invented the Twentieth Century" is a biography of this scientist born in the Balkans

Nikola Tesla

Julie "Who was N. Tesla?" — wagered $5,100
Ursula "Who is ?" — wagered $3,800
Joel "Who is Tesla" — wagered $3,000

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