Show #6394 2012-06-07 (taped 2012-02-07) Regular

Contestants

Sarah Fowlkes — an attorney from Brooklyn, New York

Chris Dunn — a billing director from Shepherdsville, Kentucky

Ernest Niño-Murcia — a court interpreter originally from Iowa City, Iowa (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,599)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ernest $800 $2,400 $12,000 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$12,000
16 R, 2 W
Chris $5,100 $9,500 $8,900 $8,900
2nd place: $2,000
$11,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Sarah $1,200 $2,200 $17,800 $9,800
New champion: $9,800
$15,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

IT'S THE BIGGEST IN AREA I NEED SOME SPACE U.S.A. TOUR FOOD STUFF INTERNET SLANG ANTIHEROES
$200 [20]
San Bernardino County, Los Angeles County, San Francisco county
San Bernardino County
Chris Sarah
$200 [11]
The first photo of this heavenly body was a daguerreotype made by John William Draper around 1839
the moon
$200 [14]
Here's a twist--at the end of the Snyder's of Hanover tour, you get 2 free bags of these
pretzels
Sarah
$200 [6]
The wild variety of this grain is actually a type of marsh grass native to the Great Lakes region
(wild) rice
Ernest
$200 [1]
If you want privacy, do it "BCD", behind these
behind closed doors
Ernest
$200 [15]
This Clint Eastwood antihero says he got his nickname because he gets "every dirty job that comes along"
Dirty Harry
Chris
$400 [27]
Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland
Scotland
Chris
$400 [12]
The orbit of this now most distant planet in the solar system is almost exactly circular
Neptune
Sarah
$400 [22]
Drop by the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame during your visit to this facility in Florida, KSC for short
the Kennedy Space Center
Ernest
$400 [7]
Hostess has filed for bankruptcy protection despite selling 36 million packages of this spongy snack in 2011
Twinkies
Chris
$400 [2]
"CWOT" stands for a "complete" one of these
waste of time
Ernest
$400 [16]
Snake Plissken was a bad, bad man in his first feature film appearance, "Escape from" here
New York
Chris
$600 [28]
Coral Sea, Black Sea, Aral Sea
Coral Sea
Ernest Chris
$600 [13]
The Air Pump, the Hare & the Northern Crown are lesser-known these
constellations
Chris
$600 [23]
At a factory & museum in Eden, New York you'll learn the history of this toy instrument heard here
the kazoo
Chris
$600 [8]
An informal dinner can have propersettings with a dinner plate under a salad plate under this plate, named for a food
butter plate (dessert plate accepted)
Chris
$600 [3]
"EBCAK" is "error between chair and" this
keyboard
Sarah
$600 [17]
In "Watchmen" Jackie Earle Haley played this antihero whose mask looked like swirling ink
Rorschach
$800 [29]
Negev desert, Gobi Desert, Kalahari desert
the Gobi
Sarah
$800 [21]
A satellite aptly named for this Greek god mapped the surface topology of the ocean
Poseidon
Chris
$800 [24]
FYI, your tour of this government building at 320 West Colfax Avenue in Denver is absolutely free
the U.S. Mint
Chris
$800 [9]
This type of roast has good "P.R."--at Black Angus it's "seasoned, seared and slowly roasted"
prime rib
Ernest Chris
$800 [4]
You said it with "TWITA"--"that's what" these 3 words
i'm talking about
Ernest
$800 [18]
A verb suffices as the title of this 2011 film with Ryan Gosling as a stuntman with a penchant for violence
Drive
Ernest
$1,000 [30]
Corsica, Sardinia, Malta
Sardinia
Sarah
$1,000 [26]
"If I were" the fourth Mercury astronaut in space, I'd be him
Scott Carpenter
Sarah
$1,000 [25]
If tractors are your thing, visit this company's pavilion in Moline, Illinois or its tractor works in Iowa
John Deere
Ernest
DD $1,500 [10]
In 2005 South Korean scientists cured a few chickens of avian flu using this, sometimes called Korean sauerkraut
kimchi
Chris
$1,000 [5]
A variation on "LOL" is "LQTM"--laughing this way
quietly to myself
Chris
$1,000 [19]
Perhaps the archetypal film antihero is this De Niro taxi driver
Travis Bickle
Chris

Double Jeopardy! Round

COLORFUL LYRICS FROM COLORFUL SONGS ALMOST-FORGOTTEN WARS PAINTERS & PAINTINGS 11-LETTER WORDS AUTHORS' TRILOGIES AUNTIE HEROES
$400 [6]
"So we sailed on to the sun, till we found a sea of green, and we lived beneath the waves"
"Yellow Submarine"
Ernest
$400 [30]
After a hard-fought World Cup qualifier, in 1969 El Salvador & Honduras fought a brief war named for this sport
soccer
Chris
$400 [16]
Commissioned by the Spanish government, this monumental Picasso work measures 11 feet by 25 feet
Guernica
Ernest
$400 [1]
Your partner, who is on trial with you
co-defendant
Ernest
$400 [11]
The "Night" trilogy of holocaust literature
(Elie) Wiesel
Sarah
$400 [21]
Prajapati, the aunt of this "awakened one", was said to be in his religion's first group of nuns
the Buddha
Ernest
$800 [7]
"Violets are blue, sugar is sweet, my love, but not as sweet as you"
"Roses Are Red"
Ernest
$800 [29]
In 1859 Britain & this country faced off in the abortive "Pig War" near Vancouver island; the pig was the only casualty
United States
Chris Sarah
$800 [17]
At his death in 1957, he left behind an unfinished mural for the National Palace on the history of Mexico
Diego Rivera
Sarah
$800 [2]
The quality of than klessness
ingratitude
Sarah
$800 [12]
"Torch Song Trilogy" for the stage
Harvey Fierstein
Chris
$800 [22]
This Beatle could have said a major influence "in my life" was me Aunt Mimi, who bought me a guitar for 30 pounds
John Lennon
Sarah
$1,200 [8]
"And the Red Queen's 'off with her head!' remember what the dormouse said"
"White Rabbit"
Chris
$1,200 [26]
The bloodless 1839 "Honey War" helped establish the boundary between Iowa & this southern neighbor
Missouri
Chris
$1,200 [18]
Canaletto was famous for his paintings of Venice, including "A Regatta on" this "Grand" waterway
Canal
Sarah
$1,200 [3]
Lunulae are the pale crescent-shaped areas found at the base of these body parts
fingernails
$1,200 [13]
The "Oresteia", first performed in 458 B.C.
Aeschylus
Sarah
$1,200 [23]
Prior to becoming a "little black dress" fashionista, this French femme leaned on Aunts Adrienne & Louise
(Coco) Chanel
Chris
$1,600 [9]
"I'm not a present for your friends to open, this boy's too young to be singing the blues, so goodbye..."
"Yellow Brick Road"
Ernest
$2,000 [28]
Spain & Britain fought the inconclusive "War of" this British captain's "Ear" in the 1740s
Robert Jenkins
$1,600 [19]
Around the same time as that "earring" painting, he also did "Woman with a Pearl Necklace"
Vermeer
Sarah
$1,600 [4]
From the Latin for "mother" comes this word meaning to enroll in college for a degree
to matriculate
Ernest
$1,600 [14]
The erotic "Sleeping Beauty" trilogy
Anne Rice
$1,600 [24]
In 1928 this great-aunt of Drew opened a theatre named in her honor in New York City
Ethel Barrymore
Sarah
$2,000 [10]
"Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields, sold in a market down in New Orleans"
"Brown Sugar"
Ernest
DD $3,000 [27]
Warships rammed fishing boats in the 1975-76 "Cod War" between Britain & this usually peaceful Atlantic neighbor
Iceland
Chris
DD $4,000 [20]
Seen here is a rare self-portrait of this American painter
Mary Cassatt
Sarah
$2,000 [5]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Gatorade Sports Science Institute in Barrington, IL.) Making sports drinks taste good as well as have the right amount of sodium is key to helping athletes overcome a natural reluctance to drink during exercise, a phenomenon called voluntary this
dehydration
Ernest
$2,000 [15]
The "U.S.A." trilogy of the 1930s
(John) Dos Passos
Sarah
$2,000 [25]
After his mother the countess died, "Aunt Toinette" helped raise this Russian novelist
Tolstoy
Sarah

Final Jeopardy!

THE ARTS

Formed in 1909, it performed to great acclaim in Paris, London, New York & Monte Carlo, but never in Moscow

Ballet Russe (Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo)

Chris "What is the Bolshoi Ballet?" — wagered $0
Ernest "What is Reds?" — wagered $11,999
Sarah "What is the Bolshoi?" — wagered $8,000

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