Show #6408 2012-06-27 (taped 2012-02-15) Regular

Contestants

Tim Wong — a landscape designer from Cambridge, Massachusetts

Anna-Lise Santella — an editor and musicologist from Trout Valley, Illinois

Jon Shoup — a graduate student of political science from Charlottesville, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,179)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jon $1,000 $4,600 $7,300 $11,601
2nd place: $2,000
$7,400
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Anna-Lise $1,800 $6,600 $19,400 $15,400
New champion: $15,400
$19,400
21 R, 2 W
Tim $-800 $-200 $5,800 $5,800
3rd place: $1,000
$6,400
11 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

FASHION PRESIDENTS BY KIDS BOY SCOUT TIES HAPPY BIRTHDAY "FOR" HE'S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW
$200 [12]
This retailer has a line for kids called Crewcuts
J. Crew
Jon
$200 [13]
Chelsea
Bill Clinton
Tim
$200 [6]
The knot at the bottom of the Boy Scout badge represents the Scouting slogan "do" one of these "daily"
a good turn
Anna-Lise Tim
$200 [1]
This San Francisco landmark celebrated its 75th birthday on May 27, 2012
the Golden Gate Bridge
Anna-Lise
$200 [8]
A well-protected building, perhaps "of solitude"
a fortress
Jon
$200 [21]
This British comic actor played bumbling inspector Jacques Clouseau in 5 "Pink Panther" movies
Peter Sellers
Anna-Lise
$400 [19]
Zooey Deschanel wore a Prada gown to the 2012 Golden Globes, but her nails were painted like these dressy suits
tuxedos
Jon
$400 [14]
Charles, Thomas, John & Abigail
John Adams
Tim
$400 [7]
Happy campers know that with a taut-line hitch, you can tighten or loosen the guyline of one of these
a tent
Anna-Lise Tim
$400 [2]
& a big happy Sept. 26 birthday to her, born at Sea World in 1985 & the 1st killer whale to survive being born in captivity
Shamu
Jon
$400 [9]
The list of the exact ingredients to make my secret age-reducing elixir
a formula
Jon
$400 [22]
Sacha Baron Cohen wrote, produced & starred in this 2006 mockumentary about a journalist from Kazakhstan
Borat
Anna-Lise
$600 [20]
Write it down--a very narrow straight skirt popular in the 1950s is named for this implement
a pencil
Jon
$600 [15]
2 stepkids: John & Martha
George Washington
$600 [26]
Many Scouting awards include knots; the award for a den leader of these young 'uns has a gold knot on blue
Cubs
Anna-Lise
$600 [3]
It would have been quite a party for these two people, a politician and a comic, on their October 13th birthday
Margaret Thatcher & Lenny Bruce
$600 [10]
It's the type of content a radio station specializes in, such as news/talk or jammin' oldies
format
Anna-Lise
$600 [23]
Hill's Angels were the scantily clad women on this Brit's sketch-comedy show
Benny Hill
Jon
$800 [29]
Carrie on "Sex and the City" worshipped the high-end women's shoes designed by this man, real first name Manuel
(Manolo) Blahnik
Anna-Lise
$800 [16]
Jack, Chip, Jeffrey & Amy
(Jimmy) Carter
Jon Anna-Lise
$800 [27]
This practice, also done by film editors, joins 2 ropes & makes them almost as strong as the original ones
splicing
Anna-Lise
$800 [4]
Bird lovers celebrate the April 26, 1785 birth of this man
Audubon
Tim
$800 [11]
10-letter musical direction to play very loudly
fortissimo
Anna-Lise
$800 [24]
After "Monty Python's Flying Circus", he found further comic success as hotel owner Basil Fawlty
John Cleese
Anna-Lise
$1,000 [30]
The glamour of Hollywood in the '40s inspires designing duo Mark Badgley & him
Mischka
Anna-Lise
$1,000 [17]
His 6 include Neil, Marvin & Dorothy
George H.W. Bush
$1,000 [28]
A clove hitch is useful in camping; tie a rope to your sack of food, which you'll hang high to make this alliterative "bag"
a bear bag
DD $1,000 [5]
The commemoration of this former U.S. senator's June 3, 1808 birthday is a legal holiday in several Southern states
Jefferson Davis
Tim
$1,000 [18]
An organized meeting for the discussion of a specific topic
forum
Anna-Lise
$1,000 [25]
His work on shows like "The Office" has been better received than his hosting of the 2011 & 2012 Golden Globes
Ricky Gervais
Jon

Double Jeopardy! Round

NATURE "M"USICALS THE RIVER OF HISTORY A FEW 4-LETTER CATEGORY MY BIG FAT GREEK LIT CATEGORY IN UTAH ROW
$400 [7]
Pond scum is composed of green & brown forms of these simple organisms
algae
Tim
$400 [6]
The title character of this musical shows up at 17 Cherry Tree Lane, London & works her magic
Mary Poppins
Tim
$400 [1]
It was a border of the Roman Empire, & outposts like Singidunum (now Belgrade) were built along it
the Danube
Jon
$400 [21]
A star explosion, or a PBS series
nova
Tim
$400 [16]
This Ancient Greek wrote, "Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, so you would state home to your own land at once?"
Homer
Jon
$1,600 [26]
A native of Ogden, Brent Scowcroft was this adviser to presidents Gerald Ford & George H.W. Bush
National Security Advisor
Jon
$800 [8]
This beetle gets its 4-letter name from its huge jaws that resemble the antlers of a male deer
a stag beetle
Anna-Lise
$800 [9]
In this Lerner & Loewe show, Colonel Pickering, author of "Spoken Sanskrit", makes a dare to a colleague
My Fair Lady
Anna-Lise
$800 [2]
The name of this Michigan waterway that meets up with the Kalamazoo River refers to a fight that involved 4 guys
Battle Creek
$800 [22]
Savasana, the dead body pose, is but one posture in this activity
yoga
Tim
$800 [17]
His "Apology" is seen as a reliable representation of the trial of Socrates
Plato
Anna-Lise
$2,000 [27]
This Beaver-born tinkerer is sometimes considered the inventor of television
Philo T. Farnsworth
$1,200 [13]
The chickaree is also called the pine type of this rodent; it hides pine cones the way others hide nuts
squirrel
Tim
$1,200 [10]
The MGM Studio Chorus backs up Judy Garland on this movie musical's "The Trolley Song"
Meet Me in St. Louis
Anna-Lise
$1,200 [3]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.) Depicted here is the historic moment when American & Russian forces met on April 25th, 1945, at Torgau, Germany, on this river
the Elbe
$1,200 [23]
The back of the neck
nape
Anna-Lise
$1,200 [18]
Known for her 600s B.C. lyric poetry, she was married & had a daughter named Cleis
Sappho
Tim
DD $2,000 [14]
The moonflower, whose blossoms open in the evening, is a fragrant variety of this a.m. flower
the morning glory
Tim
$1,600 [11]
The original London soundtrack of this musical features Jonathan Pryce & Lea Salonga
Miss Saigon
Jon
DD $1,500 [4]
Until the Erie Canal opened, this 981-mile tributary of the Mississippi was the main route west for goods & people
the Ohio River
Jon
$1,600 [24]
As an adjective, it means stylish; as a noun, it's a prestigious award
tony
Jon
$1,600 [19]
Shakespeare used Sir Thomas North's translation of this Greek's "Lives" for some material in his plays
Plutarch
Tim
$2,000 [15]
There are 3 species of this bird with "wing" it its name: Bohemian, Japanese & cedar
waxwing
Anna-Lise
$2,000 [12]
For this 2002 musical, Twyla Tharp used 28 Billy Joel songs
Movin' Out
Anna-Lise
$2,000 [5]
Many Civil War battles had 1 name from a river & 1 from a settlement, as in Stones River/Murfreesboro in this state
Tennessee
Jon
$2,000 [25]
This "beast" of a word originated in the 1930s from the Tibetan language of the Sherpas
yeti
Anna-Lise
$2,000 [20]
To refute a claim that he was senile, this playwright read in court from his own play "Oedipus at Colonus"
Sophocles
Anna-Lise Tim

Final Jeopardy!

EARLY FILMS OF OSCAR WINNERS

The 1995, 2003 & 2006 winners for Best Actor all appeared in this 1982 teen comedy

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Tim "What is Breakfast Club?" — wagered $0
Jon "What is Fast Times @ RidgemontHHigh?" — wagered $4,301
Anna-Lise "What is The Breakfast Club" — wagered $4,000

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