Show #6395 2012-06-08 (taped 2012-02-07) Regular

Contestants

Aaron Cappocchi — a writer from Burbank, California

Rosanne Lightstone — an automotive quality engineer from Royal Oak, Michigan

Sarah Fowlkes — an attorney from Brooklyn, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sarah $800 $2,800 $8,400 $100
3rd place: $1,000
$8,400
16 R, 4 W
Rosanne $1,800 $3,400 $14,400 $11,999
2nd place: $2,000
$12,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Aaron $3,600 $7,800 $21,600 $28,800
New champion: $28,800
$19,800
23 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

A BARE BONES CATEGORY DENMARK DA TRAIN! DA TRAIN! THE TV CHARACTER WHO WASN'T THERE PROVERBIAL NUMBERS THINGS YOU HAVE TO DO
$200 [1]
The hip bones are part of the pelvic this, also the name of an undergarment
girdle
Sarah
$200 [4]
It's what English speakers call the northeastern city of Helsingor
Elsinore
Rosanne
$200 [7]
The Ethan Allen Express & the City of New Orleans are routes of this semipublic corporation
Amtrak
Sarah
$200 [13]
On "Seinfeld" George Costanza had to listen to this Yankees owner ramble on about "Febuary" vs. "February"
Steinbrenner
Aaron
$200 [24]
Looking your best? You're "dressed to" these
the nines
Aaron
$200 [12]
Postmark your income tax return no later than this 105th day of 2013
April 15th
Rosanne
$400 [2]
In humans the top 7 pairs of these are attached to the backbone & the breastbone
the ribs
Sarah
$400 [5]
This most important naval battle of World War I took place off Denmark's coast
the Battle of Jutland
$400 [8]
It wasn't murder riding this luxury train that began running from Paris to Istanbul in 1889
the Orient Express
Sarah
$400 [14]
The wife of this rumpled police detective was never seen on his show, but did get her own, "Kate Loves A Mystery"
Columbo
Sarah
$400 [25]
The last possible moment for doing something is called this hour
eleventh hour
Sarah Aaron
$400 [20]
The "organismic" type of this 11-letter activity--breathe!
respiration
Aaron
$600 [3]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew points to bones in a skeleton.) The uniquely evolved bones of this down-under denizen allow it to achieve its distinctive locomotion
a kangaroo
Rosanne
$600 [6]
Now a ruin, the Trelleborg Fortress of these warriors was built using half the timber on the island of Zealand
the Vikings
Aaron
$600 [9]
"May God continue the unity of our country as this railroad unites the two...oceans" is inscribed on the Golden this
Spike
Aaron
$600 [16]
Nothing like watching Farrah watch a voice box on a desk deliver exposition via Mr. Townsend on this '70s action show
Charlie's Angels
Aaron
$600 [26]
This golf hole is known to have a fully stocked bar
the nineteenth hole
Sarah
$600 [21]
For men of Cyprus, 2 years of this type of service
military
Aaron
$800 [15]
This larger bone of the forearm is the most commonly broken arm bone
radius
Sarah Rosanne
$800 [29]
Helle Thorning-Schmidt holds this post in Denmark; her father-in-law, Kinnock, once hoped to hold it in the United Kingdom
prime minister
Rosanne
$1,000 [11]
Japan has developed electro-dynamic maglev test vehicles that can go 340 mph; maglev is short for this
magnetic levitation
Aaron
$800 [17]
When it came to Wilson on this Tim Allen sitcom, the eyes had it (that's all we saw)
Home Improvement
Sarah
$800 [27]
A 5-word bit of wisdom begins, this many's company
two
Rosanne
$800 [22]
If you're Catholic, attend Mass on All Saints' Day, as it's a "holy day of" this
obligation
Sarah
$1,000 [18]
Only about a tenth of an inch long, the stirrup in this body part fits into an opening of the bony labyrinth
the ear
Aaron
$1,000 [30]
This 11th century "Great" Dane united Denmark, England & Norway
Canute the Great
Rosanne
DD $1,200 [10]
On April 30, 1900 this engineer died with one hand on the brake lever, saving all but himself in an unavoidable crash
Casey Jones
Aaron
$1,000 [19]
Niles Crane, on the phone to this lady, his wife: "No, I've never heard you use those words before... you're welcome"
Maris
Aaron
$1,000 [28]
If you're in disorder or confusion, you're "at" these 2 numbers
sixes and sevens
Rosanne
$1,000 [23]
Per Morgan Freeman in "Lean on Me", "Nothing' but stay black and" do this
die
Sarah

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE LOVELY BEANS LATIN NAMES FOR CITIES POETRY, THY NAME IS HIM "OCK" IT TO ME PRESIDENTIAL ALUMS THE TONY AWARDS
$400 [1]
Edamame are made from green these, picked when fully grown but before complete maturity
soybeans
Sarah
$400 [9]
A world capital:Varsovia
Warsaw
Rosanne
$400 [21]
"There he sang of Hiawatha, sang the song of Hiawatha, sang his wondrous birth and being"
(Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow
Sarah Aaron
$400 [13]
It's the pilot's compartment on an airplane
a cockpit
Aaron
$400 [18]
His mom went to Baylor, but he began at Southwest Texas State Teachers College in 1927
Lyndon Johnson
Rosanne
$400 [16]
2006 was a good year for boys: "The History Boys" won Best Play & this show about the Four Seasons was named Best Musical
Jersey Boys
Rosanne
$800 [2]
This bean with an anatomical name & dark red skin is popular in chili con carne & red beans & rice
kidney beans
Sarah
$800 [10]
Not too far from Rome:Neapolis
Naples
Aaron
$800 [22]
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!"
Lewis Carroll
Sarah
$800 [6]
Around 1960 this 10-letter word for a Rastafarian hairstyle came into fashion
dreadlocks
Aaron
$800 [29]
He attended the Illinois college called Eureka, which is also the motto of California, the state he governed
Reagan
Aaron
$800 [17]
In 2010 this "Malcolm X" on film swung for the "Fences" on Broadway & won a Best Actor Tony
(Denzel) Washington
Aaron
$1,200 [3]
It's "bedtime for" this bean also known as the chickpea
garbanzo
Aaron
$1,200 [11]
A seaport:Massilia
Marseilles
$1,200 [23]
"Death be not proud... Die not, poor death; nor yet canst thou kill me"
John Donne
$1,200 [4]
Saint Patrick used this national symbol of Ireland to explain the Trinity
the shamrock
Sarah
$1,200 [30]
Though he didn't graduate, he attended the Kansas City School Of Law for 2 years beginning in 1923
Truman
Rosanne
$1,600 [20]
2 couples meet to discuss a playground fight between 2 of their children in 2009's Tony winner "God Of" this
Carnage
Sarah
$1,600 [5]
What are also called broad beans are better known as this when paired with "a nice chianti"
fava beans
Aaron
$2,000 [15]
At the mouth of the Tagus River:Olisipo
Lisbon
Rosanne
$1,600 [24]
"Don Juan's parents lived beside the river, a noble stream, and call'd the Guadalquivir"
Byron
Sarah
$1,600 [7]
It's similar to an ottoman, the kind you rest your feet on
a hassock
Rosanne
$1,600 [27]
The only prez to get a Ph.D., he earned it at John Hopkins after finishing up at Princeton
Wilson
Sarah
$2,000 [28]
The 1979 Tony for Musical Score went to this Broadway Legend for "Sweeney Todd"
Sondheim
Aaron
$2,000 [8]
The fibrous item that ran down the pod's seam, giving this long green bean its name, has been bred out
a string bean
Aaron
DD $3,000 [12]
A city on the Danube:Vindobona
Vienna
Aaron
$2,000 [25]
"That is no country for old men.The young in one another's arms, birds in the trees"
William Butler Yeats
$2,000 [14]
To add texture, as to wallpaper, with pulverized wool
flock
Rosanne
$2,000 [26]
This man who succeeded a slain president was a quartermaster for the Union & an alum of, duh, Union College
Chester Arthur
Sarah
DD $3,000 [19]
The 1956 Best Musical award went to this show that was mad about baseball
Damn Yankees
Rosanne

Final Jeopardy!

CLICHES

In an 1873 Thomas Hardy serial, a chapter ends with a character dangling from an "enormous sea-bord" this

a cliff

Sarah "What is a tender hook?" — wagered $8,300
Rosanne "What is a wooden plank" — wagered $2,401
Aaron "What is a cliff?" — wagered $7,200

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