Show #6390 2012-06-01 (taped 2012-01-18) Regular

Clip of this game shown in the eleventh Season 1 episode ofHouse of Cards.

Contestants

D.J. Perry — a burrito architect from Houston, Texas

Claudia Gray — a substitute teacher from Monrovia, California

John Baker — a home inspector from Dixon, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
John $1,200 $3,800 $13,400 $7,700
2nd place: $2,000
$14,200
18 R, 7 W (including 1 DD)
Claudia $1,000 $3,400 $9,000 $8,000
New champion: $8,000
$10,200
15 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
D.J. $2,000 $3,600 $13,600 $399
3rd place: $1,000
$13,600
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGANS DAY SONGS ALSO A BIRD PENINSULAS CUTS LIKE A KNIFE AN "R_____T" CATEGORY
$200 [6]
1864:"Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream"
(Abraham) Lincoln
D.J.
$200 [12]
"Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M." is the title track of their album that also had the acoustic "Sound Of Silence"
Simon & Garfunkel
Claudia
$200 [1]
To take liquid down the throat
swallow
D.J.
$200 [7]
This island's westernmost point lies on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry
Ireland
Claudia
$200 [26]
The official instrument of execution in France in 1792, it was still an option for the job until 1981
the guillotine
D.J.
$200 [17]
It's a type of jet-propulsion device, but powered by fuel it carries rather than taking in gases from around it
a rocket
John
$400 [22]
1976:"He's making us proud again"
Ford
John D.J.
$400 [13]
Prince wrote this song that was the Bangles' first Top 10 hit
"Manic Monday"
D.J.
$400 [2]
An antiwar politician
a dove
Claudia
$400 [8]
Cities on this Mexican peninsula include Ensenada & La Paz
Baja California
John D.J.
$400 [27]
You need a lighter to illuminate the writing of a pen reminding you to buy a Flex 3 razor? Don't worry, this co. makes all 3
Bic
Claudia
$400 [18]
The last name of Secretary of War Elihu Root is found within this last name of the president he served
Roosevelt
John D.J.
$600 [23]
1888:"Grandfather's hat fits Ben"
Benjamin Harrison
Claudia
$600 [14]
Katy Perry topped the charts with this song subtitled "(T.G.I.F.)"
"Last Friday Night"
D.J.
$600 [3]
Stretch your neck out to get a better view
crane
John
$600 [9]
Once an island formed by 2 volcanoes, Banks Peninsula is now part of this country's South Island
New Zealand
Claudia
$600 [28]
If Death took a holiday, he'd leave behind this implement with a curved cutting blade & a shaft called a snath
a scythe
John
$600 [19]
The Moral Majority & the Christian Coalition are groups identified as part of this alliterative movement
the Religious Right
Claudia D.J.
$800 [24]
1900:"The full dinner pail"
McKinley
D.J.
$800 [15]
"Thursday" is one of the tunes on this late singer's classic album "I Got A Name"
Jim Croce
Claudia
$800 [4]
Moving briskly
a swift
$1,000 [11]
Yalta & Balaklava are located on this peninsula
the Crimean
D.J.
$800 [29]
Itcan be used as a weapon, a tool, or a 2010 movie title
a machete
John
$800 [20]
William the Conquerer's father was this Duke of Normandy
Robert
$1,000 [25]
1964:"In your heart, you know he's right"
(Barry) Goldwater
Claudia
$1,000 [16]
The Monkees mention "status symbol land" & "creature comfort goals" in this hit
"Pleasant Valley Sunday"
John Claudia
$1,000 [5]
In bowling, 3 strikes in a row
a turkey
John
DD $1,200 [10]
This triangular peninsula juts into the northern end of the Red Sea
the Sinai Peninsula
Claudia
$1,000 [30]
Likely a French invention, this knife that fits on the barrel of a gun first appeared around 1640
a bayonet
John
$1,000 [21]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates a science experiment.) It's a substance used to test for another substance. Whenmixedwith orange juice, the type that tests for vitamin C turns clear
reagent
John

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE WRIGHT STUFF THE "RONG" STUFF PLAY CHARACTERS WHAT'S YOUR PLEASURE? FRENCH FILMS PHYSICS
$400 [3]
The Kill Devil Hill Monument National Memorial in this state became the Wright Brothers National Memorial in 1953
North Carolina
John D.J.
$400 [2]
Louis or Lance
Armstrong
John
$400 [1]
Hoke Colburn is the black chauffeur who drives her around
Miss Daisy
D.J.
$400 [17]
A gourmand
eating (or food)
Claudia
$400 [26]
To portray Edith Piaf in 2007's "La Vie en Rose", she shaved back her hairline & removed her eyebrows
(Marion) Cotillard
John
$400 [8]
In 1935 he argued in the "EPR Paper" (he was the "E") that quantum mechanics wasn't a complete theory
Einstein
D.J.
$800 [4]
In 2000 Will Wright gave us this computer game that lets the user control the daily life of families of virtual people
The Sims
John D.J.
$800 [22]
It's another word for a crowd
throng
John
$800 [13]
In "The Tempest" he isn't a little mermaid but a sprite who serves Prospero
Ariel
D.J.
$800 [18]
A bibliophile
books
Claudia
$800 [27]
Jean Dujardin stars in this 2011 black & white film set in silent-era Hollywood
The Artist
Claudia
$800 [9]
From the Greek for "icy cold", it's the science of extremely cold temperatures
cryogenics
Claudia
$1,200 [5]
The title of this book by Barack Obama was taken from a Jeremiah Wright sermon
The Audacity of Hope
$1,200 [23]
Both men & women wear this Pacific islands garment seen here
a sarong
D.J.
DD $800 [16]
Patrons at Harry Hope's saloon eagerly awaiteth Theodore "Hickey" Hickman's arrival in this O'Neill play
The Iceman Cometh
John
$1,200 [19]
An oenophile
wine
Claudia
$1,200 [28]
This 2001 film starring Audrey Tautou as a shy waitress working in a Paris cafe received 5 Oscar nominations
Amelie
John
$1,200 [10]
(Jimmy demonstrates a science principle with a Slinky.) The bottom of a dropped Slinky remains stationary & then falls; in slow motion, you can see the bottom is in equilibrium between the downward pull of gravity & the upward pull of this force that tends to stretch, stress or elongate
tension
John
$1,600 [6]
This author's "12 Million Black Voices" is a pictorial history of African Americans
Richard Wright
John
$1,600 [24]
10-letter "anatomical" term meaning stubborn or obstinate
headstrong
D.J.
$1,200 [14]
Olga, Masha & Irina are the title characters in this Chekhov play
Three Sisters
D.J.
$1,600 [20]
A dendrophil
trees
D.J.
$1,600 [29]
1959's "Black Orpheus" retold the tale of Orpheus & Eurydice set during this South American city's Carnival
Rio de Janeiro
Claudia
$1,600 [11]
In 1865 physicist Rudolf Clausius coined this term for the measure of disorder or randomness in a system
entropy
John D.J.
$2,000 [7]
This follows Wright in the name of an Ohio Air Force base
Patterson
John
$2,000 [25]
This hoofed mammal can really hoof it, hitting 60 MPH
pronghorn
John
$1,600 [15]
At the end of this play, Vladimir asks, "Well? Shall we go?" Estragon: "Yes, let's go." ("They do not move")
Waiting for Godot
John
$2,000 [21]
A logophile
words
John D.J.
$2,000 [30]
This French New Waver directed the autobiographical film "The 400 Blows"
Francois Truffaut
DD $2,000 [12]
2 light waves whose phases have a fixed relationship, as in a laser, are said to be this, like a clear sentence
coherent
D.J.

Final Jeopardy!

WORD ORIGINS

From the French for "to set in the woods", this word refers to a type of attack

ambush

Claudia "What is ___?" — wagered $1,000
John "What is" — wagered $5,700
D.J. "What is a siege?" — wagered $13,201

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