Show #6396 2012-06-11 (taped 2012-02-08) Regular

Contestants

Dylan Hume — a musician and tutor from Sleepy Hollow, New York

Elaine Moise — a business systems manager from Mountain View, California

Aaron Cappocchi — a writer from Burbank, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Aaron $1,600 $6,800 $21,300 $27,301
2-day champion: $56,101
$18,000
24 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Elaine $3,400 $5,400 $6,600 $13,100
2nd place: $2,000
$6,600
12 R, 2 W
Dylan $1,000 $4,000 $-1,200 $-1,200
3rd place: $1,000
$-400
11 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

WHAT'S UP, DOC? THE TEAM'S RETIRED NUMBERS SEE-ATTLE THE HELOISE WITH YOU "PIPE" DREAMS SPAIN KILLERS
$200 [9]
Whether it's from heredity or aging, it's a clear case of alopecia, a loss of this
hair
Dylan
$200 [1]
Bob St. Clair's 79 & Joe Montana's 16
the (San Francisco) 49ers
Dylan
$200 [26]
A real high point of Seattle is this 1962 landmark where you can enjoy a meal along with a 360-degree view of the city
the Space Needle
Aaron
$200 [16]
"The best place for" this yellow condiment "is on a frankfurter. if you get it anywhere else, (use) peroxide"
mustard
Aaron
$200 [4]
It stretches from the larynx to the bronchi
the windpipe
Aaron
$200 [21]
In 1912 anarchist Manuel Pardinas gunned down premier Jose Canalejas in this Spanish capital
Madrid
Elaine
$400 [12]
Food poisoning--the eggs in your Caesar dressing gave you this form, like a million others in the U.S. every year
salmonella
Dylan
$400 [2]
Hakeem Olajuwon's 34 & Moses Malone's 24
the Houston Rockets
Dylan
$400 [27]
An architectural icon, Seattle's newest central one of these opened in 2004--check it out
a library
Aaron
$400 [17]
Heloise uses boric acid powder on ants & these pests some say could survive a nuclear war
cockroaches
Elaine
$400 [5]
Thishead covering is named for its shape
a stovepipe hat
Dylan
$400 [22]
Numerous Spanish officials have been assassinated by ETA, a group demanding a homeland for these people
the Basque
Dylan
$600 [13]
Little Katie's barking cough is this 5-letter inflammation of the upper airways; a vaporizer might help
croup
Dylan
$600 [3]
Ralph Kiner's 4 & Roberto Clemente's 21
the Pittsburgh Pirates
Elaine
$600 [28]
Grab some Joe at the original one of these, open since 1971 in the Pike Place market
Starbucks
Elaine
$600 [18]
Save money! "Using sandpaper... scrape both ends of" this energy item to prolong its life
a battery
Aaron
$600 [6]
In 2006 & again in 2010 it was all golden for Shaun White in this Olympic event
the halfpipe
Aaron
$600 [23]
The 1936 assassination of Jose Calvo Sotelo was the final spark that set off this 3-year conflict
the Spanish Civil War
Dylan
$800 [14]
Your redness & flushing are characteristic of this skin disease sometimes inaccurately called adult acne
rosacea
Elaine
$800 [10]
Kevin McHale's 32 & Tom Heinsohn's 15
the Boston Celtics
$800 [29]
A national historical park in the city examines Seattle's role in the Klondike one of these
gold rush
Aaron
$800 [19]
String beads for necklaces, sew on buttons or cut cake layers with this (& use it to fight plaque the cake causes)
dental floss
Elaine
$800 [7]
The yagua of the Peruvian Amazon are skilled in using these weapons to bring down game
a blowpipe
Aaron
$1,000 [25]
In 1974, 2 Spaniards convicted of killing policemen were the last to be executed via this strangulation device
a garrote
Aaron
$1,000 [15]
It appears you have hyperthyroidism resulting from this serious-sounding disease, its most common cause
Graves' Disease
$1,000 [11]
Lou Brock's 20 & Dizzy Dean's 17
the St. Louis Cardinals
Elaine
$1,000 [30]
Appropriately, the building housing the EMP, short for this, looks like a smashed guitar
Experience Music Project
Aaron
$1,000 [20]
"Instead of throwing away" this material when it's done wrapping food, "use it as a pot and pan scrubber"
aluminum foil
Aaron
$1,000 [8]
Also known as a syrinx, this variety of flute is popular in the Pyrenees
a panpipe
Elaine
DD $2,000 [24]
Barcelona-born Ramon Mercader killed this Soviet exile in Mexico City in 1940
Leon Trotsky
Dylan

Double Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPHY BY THE BOOK SISTER GOLDENHAIR I DON'T KNOW YOU FROM ADAMS GO WIDE WORDS OF LOVE THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS
$400 [7]
Washington Irving told "The Legend of" this "sequestered glen"
Sleepy Hollow
Aaron
$400 [17]
This blonde actress has a brother named Oliver Hudson who co-stars on "Rules of Engagement"
Kate Hudson
Aaron
$400 [1]
I was well aware of this third president without reading Henry Adams' history of his administration
Thomas Jefferson
Aaron
$400 [12]
A field 53 1/3 yards wide & 120 yards long is used in this U.S. pro sport
football
Dylan
$400 [24]
I've got one of these on you; it's also a verb meaning to squeeze hard
crush
Aaron
$400 [2]
No. 1 is the inner coffin of Hornedjitef, an ancient priest of this kingdom, from the 3rd century B.C.
Egypt
Elaine
$800 [8]
Betty Smith planted a story with "A Tree Grows In" this borough
Brooklyn
Aaron
$800 [18]
After "Lizzie McGuire", she teamed up with sister Haylie for "Material Girls"
Hilary Duff
Aaron
$800 [23]
I read Julie Powell's foodie blog from day 1--didn't need to see Amy Adams play her in this movie
Julie & Julia
Aaron
$800 [13]
Genesis 6 reports that Noah's Ark was 50 of these units wide, about 75 feet
cubits
Aaron
$800 [25]
A guy who hitches horses, or one who's getting hitched himself
a groom
Dylan
$800 [3]
The bronze head of this first Roman emperor butted its way onto the list
Caesar Augustus
Aaron
$1,200 [9]
Sherwood Anderson made his reputation with "Winesburg," this state
Ohio
Elaine
$1,200 [19]
In 2008 Elle of this family was Benjamin Button's friend Daisy & sis Dakota starred in "The Secret Life of Bees"
Fanning
Dylan
$1,200 [20]
I knew of this U.S. physicist born in 1904 before John Adams wrote the opera "Doctor Atomic" about him
Robert Oppenheimer
Elaine
$1,200 [14]
Near Winslow, Arizona, there's a crater nearly a mile wide & over 550 feet deep made by one of these objects
a meteorite
Aaron
$1,600 [27]
I pledge you my everlasting this, from Latin for "faith"
fidelity
Elaine
$1,600 [5]
A recent artifact is a Sharia-compliant credit card issued in 2009 in this federation of states in the Middle East
the UAE (United Arab Emirates)
Aaron
$1,600 [10]
Jean Rhys called a novel this "Wide" sea, an area of the North Atlantic
Sargasso Sea
Aaron
$1,600 [21]
Ansel Adams' 1937 portrait of this painter told me nothing new about her
Georgia O'Keeffe
$1,600 [15]
This giant dam stretches almost a mile & a half wide over the Yangtze River
the Three Gorges Dam
Dylan
DD $2,000 [26]
The Gettysburg Address speaks of "the last full measure of" this committed emotion
devotion
Dylan
$2,000 [6]
British pride added ahelmet from this site where an undisturbed 7th-century Anglo-Saxon burial ship was excavated
Sutton Hoo
Dylan
$2,000 [11]
Christopher Isherwood wrote "Goodbye to" this city & also penned its "Stories"
Berlin
$2,000 [22]
Cecil Adams wrote an interesting "Straight Dope" about this great songwriter only playing in one key, but I knew that
Irving Berlin
Elaine
$2,000 [16]
The filtration technology produced at Israel's Kibbutz Amiad can handle municipal & industrial waste treatment down to two of these units, each .001 millimeters
a micron
Elaine Dylan
DD $4,500 [4]
The 19th C. is represented by a chronometer from this ship that helped make scientific history in the 1830s
The Beagle
Aaron

Final Jeopardy!

EVENTS IN THE BIBLE

Acts 1:13 says this event occurred in "an upper room"

the Last Supper

Elaine "What is the Last Supper?" — wagered $6,500
Aaron "What is Pentecost?" — wagered $6,001

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