Show #6406 2012-06-25 (taped 2012-02-15) Regular

Contestants

Melissa Rabey — a teen librarian from Germantown, Maryland

Deniz Cordell — a freelance writer and musical director from West Chesterfield, New Hampshire

Margaret Swanson — a graduate student of architecture from Somerville, Massachusetts (whose 2-day cash winnings total $17,199)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Margaret	$2,200	$9,000	$16,200	$30,801 3-day champion: $48,000	$14,200 16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Deniz	$3,200	$6,800	$15,400	$5,900 3rd place: $1,000	$18,400 23 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Melissa	$2,200	$3,400	$8,600	$17,200 2nd place: $2,000	$10,600 16 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE CIVIL WAR	SCANDINAVIAN WORDS WE ALL USE	SINGERS' SONGS FROM THE HEART	YOUR PEAS	QUEUES	MINE
$200 [1] Gen. Beauregard wrote that Gen. Bee actually said, "Look at" this man's "brigade! It stands there like a stone wall" "Stonewall" Jackson Margaret	$200 [6] Swedish gave us this word for a buffet meal a smorgasbord Deniz	$200 [10] "I Left My Heart In San Francisco"(1962) Tony Bennett Melissa	$200 [15] "Pea soup" has been used to describe this type of London air condition at least as far back as Herman Melville in 1849 fog Deniz	$200 [21] Get ready, get set, wait! Lines at this Anaheim theme park are known to be long, especially for rides like Peter Pan's Flight Disneyland Melissa	$400 [29] Radiation laden radon-222 is a by-product of mining this element that's named for a planet uranium Deniz
$400 [2] Early models of the Gatling gun were manually operated using one of these a crank Deniz	$400 [7] This word for a downhill zigzag ski race marked by poles or gates is from the Norwegian a slalom Deniz	$400 [11] "Un-Break My Heart"(1996) Toni Braxton Margaret	$400 [17] This group headlined the halftime show at the 2011 Super Bowl the Black Eyed Peas Melissa	$400 [22] In 2009 people lined up for free vaccinations in an effort to fight off the H1N1 type of this the flu Deniz	$600 [26] This green-blue gemstone is sometimes acquired as a side operation at copper mines, like the Bisbee one in Arizona turquoise Deniz
$600 [3] A leader of Confederate guerrillas who were spookily hard to find & fight, John Mosby was aka the Gray this Ghost Deniz	$600 [8] Small twigs are woven together in this kind of "work" seen in furniture & baskets wicker Deniz	$600 [12] A boy band:"Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)"(1997) the Backstreet Boys Margaret Melissa	$600 [18] This numerical expression refers to a pair of things that bear a strong resemblance to each other two peas in a pod Deniz	$600 [23] Lines at U.S. gas pumps resulted from a 1973 oil embargo by OAPEC, OPEC with this 4-letter word added Arab Melissa	$800 [27] These birds are sensitive to me than e & carbon monoxide, which explains their use in a coal-mining phrase a canary Deniz
$800 [4] In 1865 his pursuit hastened Lee's surrender; in 1866 he was sent west to deal with the Indians & passed into history (George Armstrong) Custer Deniz	$800 [9] This word for a bicycle that also has a low-powered gasoline engine was coined in Sweden a moped Melissa	$800 [13] "Piece Of My Heart"(1968) Janis Joplin Melissa	$800 [19] This classic Billy Wilder film gets its name from the nursery rhyme "Pease Porridge Hot" Some Like It Hot Deniz	$800 [24] Long lines are the norm on the day after Thanksgiving, which has this colorful name referring to profit Black Friday Margaret	$1,000 [28] In 2012 this 2-word West African nation launched a website to make its diamond & other mining operations more transparent Sierra Leone Margaret
$1,000 [5] This bloodiest 1-day battle of the Civil War stopped the first Confederate invasion of the North in 1862 Antietam Margaret	$1,000 [16] Norwegian for young fry of fish, they're the shrimp-like crustaceans eaten by certain whales krill Margaret	$1,000 [14] "Open Your Heart"(1987) Madonna Melissa	$1,000 [20] John Irving & Gore Vidal went to this New Hampshire boarding school abbreviated PEA Phillips Exeter Academy Margaret	DD $3,000 [25] He abdicated shortly after Petrograd police opened fire on a group lined up for bread Nicholas II Margaret	—

Double Jeopardy! Round

YOU GO, GIRL!	SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHIES	HOMOPHONIC PAIRS	SOUTH AMERICA	"D" SCIENCE	ROLE CALL
$400 [20] In 1975 Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the top of this highest mountain Everest Deniz	$400 [16] Published in 1694, George Fox' "Journal" recounts the "shaky" birth of this religious group the Quakers Melissa	$400 [8] A rather colorless bucket a pale pail Margaret	$400 [25] The name of this capital of Peru is a corruption of the Quechua name Rimac, meaning "talker" Lima Margaret	$400 [1] Because it loses its leaves in the autumn, the maple is this type of tree deciduous Melissa	$400 [3] One of his greatest roles is Jake LaMotta in "Raging Bull" (Robert) De Niro Melissa
$800 [21] This co-founder of Ms. magazine also helped create "Take Our Daughters to Work Day" Gloria Steinem Deniz	$800 [17] Helping to spread Hinduism in the U.S., Paramahansa Yogananda penned an "Autobiography of" one of these holy men a Yogi Melissa	$800 [9] A levy on short bulletin board nails a tacks tax Deniz	$800 [26] Argentina, where the wind comes sweepin' down this fertile plain with about 3/5 of the country's people the Pampas Deniz	$800 [2] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) The bubble floats because the smoke that's produced from this form of carbon dioxide that was added to the water is heavier than the air around the bubble, but less dense than the air inside it dry ice Margaret	$800 [4] In a 2011 comedy, we got a double dose of this funny man Adam Sandler Deniz
$1,200 [22] In 1936 Margaret Bourke-White became one of the first photojournalists to work for this magazine Life Deniz	$1,200 [18] 1964's "Markings" marked the life & reflections of this U.N. leader who died in a plane crash (Dag) Hammarskjöld Melissa	$1,200 [10] Jot correctly write right Margaret	$1,200 [30] You go your way, I'll go mine to this country's highest elevation, 1,685 feet at Mount Catedral Uruguay Deniz	$1,200 [13] In dogs & some other animals, this vestigial digit does not reach the ground when walking the dewclaw Margaret	$1,200 [5] Her roles include Roxie Hart in the musical "Chicago" & diarist Bridget Jones Renee Zellweger Melissa
$1,600 [23] On Easter Sunday, 1939, this woman sang to a crowd of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial Marian Anderson Melissa	DD $2,000 [19] This pope's "Journal of a Soul" from adolescence to the Vatican was published after he died in 1963 John XXIII Melissa	$1,600 [11] Entirely sacred wholly holy Margaret	$1,600 [29] Named for a military hero, this country has had 17 constitutions since independence in 1825 Bolivia Melissa	$1,600 [14] Fertilizing the queen is their only job a drone Deniz	$1,600 [6] In "Eat Pray Love", she played Liz Gilbert Julia Roberts Melissa
$2,000 [24] She designed the new home of the Museum of Chinese in America, which opened in Manhattan's Chinatown in 2009 Maya Lin Margaret	$2,000 [27] I must disclose it was the name of St. Augustine's 4th century spiritual autobiography The Confessions Deniz	$2,000 [12] Contracting tissue in a bivalve mollusk a mussel muscle Deniz	$2,000 [28] 2 miles wide, these falls form part of Argentina's northern border Iguazu Falls Melissa	DD $3,000 [15] It's either of the 2 cells formed when a cell divides--each one is a genetic duplicate of the parent cell a daughter cell Deniz	$2,000 [7] 25 years after "The Hustler", he reprised his role as Fast Eddie Felson in "The Color of Money" Paul Newman Margaret

Final Jeopardy!

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS

Though shot in the chest, Teddy Roosevelt gave a 1912 speech saying, "it takes more than that to kill" one of these animals

a bull moose

Melissa "What is a bull moose?" — wagered $8,600

Deniz "What is a Bear?" — wagered $9,500

Margaret "What is a bull moose?" — wagered $14,601

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