Show #6400 2012-06-15 (taped 2012-02-08) Regular

David Menchaca game 2.

Contestants

Jim Stekelberg — a Ph.D. student in accounting from Granada Hills, California

Sally Greene — an education instructor from Moscow, Idaho

David Menchaca — a law student originally from Long Beach, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
David $1,400 $2,600 $15,400 $24,401
2-day champion: $40,301
$16,600
21 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Sally $3,400 $9,400 $12,200 $7,199
3rd place: $1,000
$11,600
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Jim $2,400 $3,800 $8,600 $9,600
2nd place: $2,000
$8,600
10 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE BRITISH ARE COMING! 3-LETTER WORDS INVENTORS .gov WHO SAID WHAT ABOUT WHOM? "G"EOGRAPHY
$200 [23]
In 1964 this band had 19 Top 40 hits; not a bad year, lads
the Beatles
David
$200 [26]
A play on words, usually in a humorous way
a pun
Sally
$200 [13]
In 1876 he patented the telephone
(Alexander Graham) Bell
David
$200 [6]
Information for first responders & links regarding cybersecurity are found at dhs.gov, this department
Department of Homeland Security
David
$200 [16]
Following this man's assassination, Jawaharlal Nehru said, "the light has gone out of our lives"
Gandhi
Sally
$200 [1]
Look out below! It's this ice-covered land mass
Greenland
Jim
$400 [22]
This band had the "satisfaction" of opening its first U.S. tour in San Bernardino & closing it at Carnegie Hall in '64
the Rolling Stones
Jim
$400 [27]
3-letter creature, seen here
a doe
David
$400 [14]
In the 1440s he came up with movable type
(Johannes) Gutenberg
David
$400 [7]
Its .gov website says it "regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television... satellite & cable"
FCC
Sally
$400 [17]
Howard Hughes said this "Gone With The Wind" actor's "ears make him look like a taxi-cab with both doors open
Clark Gable
Sally
$400 [2]
The fourth-largest city in the United Kingdom, it lies on both sides of the River Clyde
Glasgow
Jim
$600 [21]
Dave Davies played guitar in this band
The Kinks
David
$600 [28]
It's any of the bench-like seats with a fixed back arranged in rows in churches
a pew
Sally
$600 [15]
In the 1920s Jacob Schick produced the first successful electric one
razor
Sally
$600 [8]
In 2011 the site for this volunteer org. touted its "50 years of promoting... friendship around the world"
the Peace Corps
Sally
$600 [18]
Of this prior champ, Muhammad Ali said, "I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest"
Joe Louis
Sally
$600 [3]
It's the suburb where you'd see the landmarks shown here
Giza
David
$800 [11]
It took The Animals less than 30 minutes to record this 1964 hit about a certain place in New Orleans
"The House Of The Rising Sun"
David
$800 [29]
In tennis, when a serve hits the net & drops into the proper court, it's called this & is replayed
a let
Sally
$800 [24]
His 1869 inspiration was the stock ticker
Edison
Sally
$800 [9]
bia.gov is the site for this bureau established in 1824, the oldest in the Interior Department
the Bureau of Indian Affairs (Bureau for Indian Affairs accepted)
Jim
$1,000 [20]
MacArthur reportedly said of him, "he'll make a fine president, he was the best clerk who ever served under me"
Eisenhower
David
$800 [4]
This cheesy town in South Holland is also noted for its stained-glass windows
Gouda
David Sally
$1,000 [12]
Then-session guitarist Jimmy Page played on this 1-named guy's "Sunshine Superman"
Donovan
Sally
$1,000 [30]
To confer knighthood upon, or to insert new dialogue into a movie
dub
Jim
$1,000 [25]
You know him for his 1876 hand-operated carpet sweeper
(Melville) Bissell
David Sally
$1,000 [10]
It's the "nw" in nwtrb.gov, overseeing the Department of Energy's disposal of high-level this
nuclear waste
Jim
DD $1,400 [19]
John Keats called this American "A philosophical Quaker full of mean and thrifty maxims"
Benjamin Franklin
Sally
$1,000 [5]
(Sasrah of the Clue Crew reports from Panama)Covering nearly 170 square miles, this man-made lake acts as water storage, enabling the Panama Canal to continue operation through the dry season.
Gatun

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE BRITISH ARE GOING! CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES ____ OF ____ ZODIAC RHYME TIME 20th CENTURY WRITERS OPERA LOVERS
$400 [16]
In December 1963 Prince Philip was in Nairobi to hand over the documents making this country independent
Kenya
David
$400 [3]
(Hi, I'm Kyra Sedgwick.) I made my professional debut on "Another World", so I have extra appreciation for this farce in which Dustin Hoffman goes to great lengths to land a part on a soap opera
Tootsie
Sally
$400 [11]
"Divine" legal phrase for something caused by uncontrollable forces
an act of God
Jim
$400 [26]
A bullish group of singers
a taurus chorus
Jim
$400 [25]
He popularized the term "The Jazz Age" in a 1922 book title
Fitzgerald
Sally
$400 [1]
After she declares her love for a toreador named Escamillo, she is stabbed to death by Don Jose
Carmen
David
$800 [17]
Big news in 1997 included the British handover of this place
Hong Kong
David
$800 [4]
(I'm Andy Richter.) I'm crazy about 1934's "It's a Gift", the masterpiece of this comedian & his alcoholic, henpecked persona
W.C. Fields
David
$800 [15]
Its 3 Capitol Hill buildings hold more than 63 million manuscripts
the Library of Congress
Sally
$2,000 [27]
Slang for a football referee born in early October
a libra zebra
David
$800 [24]
World Book says this "Main Street" author "died lonely and unhappy in Italy on Jan. 10, 1951"
Sinclair Lewis
Sally
$800 [2]
"I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'" & "Oh Lawd, I'm On My Way" are arias in the opera about this title couple
Porgy & Bess
Sally
$1,600 [19]
In 1976 a Colonel Swynnerton was the last British military presence on this island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula
Singapore
David
$1,200 [5]
(Hi, I'm Joshua Malina.) I don't think I'd like to live in the world that Jonathan Pryce inhabits in this fantasy movie from Terry Gilliam, but I sure enjoy watching it
Brazil
David
$1,200 [14]
A path you're allowed to take on another's land
right of way
Sally
$1,200 [21]
In 2005 Britain's National Portrait Gallery acquired the only known drawing of Ted Hughes by this writer, his wife
Sylvia Plath
David
$1,200 [8]
At the end of a Berlioz opera inspired by Shakespeare, she & Benedict admit their love for one another
Beatrice
David
DD $2,000 [18]
In 120-degree heat in April 2009, British combat operations ended in this country, turned over to a U.S. brigade
Iraq
David
$1,600 [6]
(Hi, I'm Julie Bowen.) A love triangle, a tank invasion & Daniel Day-Lewis; this adaptation of Milan Kundera's novel has it all
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
$1,600 [12]
If your sample is 1 thousand people in a population of 1 million, your poll has this of 3.1%
a margin of error
David Sally
DD $2,000 [22]
From 1962 until his death in 1967, he was Poet Laureate of Illinois
Carl Sandburg
David
$1,600 [9]
It's love at first sight for Sophie & Octavian in this "Knight Of The Rose" opera
Der Rosenkavalier
$2,000 [20]
This last British mainland colony in the Americas became independent in 1981, but the British Military stayed until 1994
Belize
Jim
$2,000 [7]
(Hi, I'm Pat Sajak.) My favorite movie is this perfect little 1983 film about what happens when an oil company encounters the people of a Scottish town
Local Hero
David
$2,000 [13]
A little south of the state of the same name, it's AKA the Sea of Cortez
the Gulf of California
Jim
$2,000 [23]
3's the charm for this playwright whose "Three Tall Women" earned him his third Pulitzer
Edward Albee
$2,000 [10]
In a Gluck opera with the help of the love god Amor, Orfeo attempts to bring her back from Hades
Eurydice
David

Final Jeopardy!

ISLANDS

This nation, independent since 1960 is the largest island in the world with French as one of its official languages

Madagascar

Jim "What is Madagascar?" — wagered $1,000
Sally "What is the Dominican Republic?" — wagered $5,001
David "What is Madagascar?" — wagered $9,001

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