Show #6416 2012-07-09 (taped 2012-03-06) Regular

Contestants

Kelly Regan — an editorial director from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Christy Gibson — a family medicine physician from Issaquah, Washington

Stephanie Fontaine — an analyst from Arlington, Virginia (whose 2-day cash winnings total $35,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Stephanie $600 $-200 $14,400 $19,400
3-day champion: $54,500
$17,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 2 DDs)
Christy $800 $800 $-6,400 $-6,400
3rd place: $1,000
$-6,400
2 R, 6 W
Kelly $2,200 $4,400 $8,800 $1,800
2nd place: $2,000
$8,800
19 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

LATIN LOVERS NEEDED AIRLINES U.S. OLYMPIC HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES ALSO A BEVERAGE VICE PRESIDENTS SEAS OF THE WORLD
$200 [6]
This 2-word phrase means "after midday" & is often abbreviated to refer to a time of day
post-meridiem
Stephanie Christy
$200 [1]
The logo of this airline based in Georgia is seen here
Delta
Kelly
$200 [7]
1985: Mary Lou Retton
gymnastics
Christy
$200 [12]
Coal residue, not to be confused with a popular soda
coke
Christy
$200 [17]
Recent holder of the office seen here
Dick Cheney
Stephanie
$200 [22]
Located between Morocco & Spain, the Alboran sea is the westernmost part of this body of water
the Mediterranean
Kelly
$400 [2]
Virgin Atlantic's flagship clubhouse is at this airport
Heathrow Airport
Kelly
$400 [8]
1990: Scott Hamilton
men's figure skating
Kelly
$400 [13]
3-hole is one type of this piece of office equipment
punch
Stephanie
$600 [19]
The son of a Methodist minister, this vice president graduated from the University of Minnesota law school in 1956
Walter Mondale
Kelly
$400 [23]
Rich in marine life, the Laccadive Sea borders the Maldive Islands, Sri Lanka & the southern tip of this nation
India
Kelly
$600 [3]
Christian Lacroix designed the current elegant uniform for this airline
Air France
Stephanie
$600 [9]
2008: Karch Kiraly
men's volleyball
Kelly
$600 [14]
Dustin Lance Black won an Oscar for writing this 2008 film
Milk
DD $800 [18]
He was the last Democratic Vice President to become president
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Stephanie
$600 [24]
The Bellingshausen Sea, an area around this continent, is named for the second man to circumnavigate it
Antarctica
$800 [4]
Launched in 2000, it has a Customer Bill of Rights that says if DirecTV isn't working at your seat, you get a $15 credit
JetBlue
Kelly
$800 [10]
2006: Coach Herb Brooks
ice hockey
Kelly
$800 [15]
It's been used as a synonym for electric current since the 19th century
juice
Stephanie
$800 [20]
More famous today for his weird redistricting plans, he was vice president from 1813 to 1814
(Elbridge) Gerry
Stephanie
$800 [25]
Part of the Pacific, the Arafura Sea connects via the Torres Strait to this other sea named for an ocean polyp
the Coral Sea
$1,000 [5]
A consortium, SAS is short for this airlines system
Scandinavian
Stephanie Kelly
$1,000 [11]
2006: Rowdy Gaines
swimming
Christy
$1,000 [16]
The dictionary says it's "a person regarded as being assured & artfully ingratiating in manner"
a smoothie
$1,000 [21]
This Kentuckian was 71 when he became Truman's vice president in 1949, the oldest VP in history
Alben Barkley
$1,000 [26]
The Lincoln Sea stretches from Cape Columbia, Canada to Cape Morris Jesup on this large island to the east
Greenland
Stephanie Kelly

Double Jeopardy! Round

KNIGHT TIME MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS RACHEL LIFE OF PI THAT CHARACTER HAS AUTHOR! "M-S" WORD
$400 [6]
In 1027 the Council of Elne prohibited hostilities between knights & others any time on this day of the week
Sunday
Kelly
$400 [1]
A bassoon is an example of an instrument with a double one of these; a saxophone, a single one
a reed
Kelly
$400 [7]
She & Daniel Craig play a married couple in "Dream House" & took their work home with them, marrying secretly in 2011
Rachel Weisz
$400 [19]
Dating to c. 1650 B.C., the Rhind Papyrus, a scroll from this civilization, put the value of pi at about 3.16
Egypt
Kelly
$400 [12]
Jenny Garp, one of the title character's kids
John Irving
Stephanie
$400 [29]
A celebration of the Eucharist
mass
Kelly
$800 [17]
The increasing idealization of women by knights developed out of cult devoted to this biblical woman
Mary
Stephanie
DD $600 [3]
Appropriately, the song "Back In The U.S.S.R." mentions this Russian instrument
a balalaika
Stephanie
$800 [8]
Evan Rachel Wood played Sophie-Anne, the vampire queen of Louisiana, on this biting series
True Blood
Kelly
$800 [20]
In 1949 this acronymical computer found pi to more than 2,000 digits; modern ones have passed 2 quadrillion
ENIAC
$800 [13]
Major Major Major Major, a major character
(Joseph) Heller
Stephanie
$800 [28]
It's distilled to make rum
molasses
Stephanie
$1,200 [18]
In 1202 Albert, this Latvian city's bishop, organized the Brothers of the Sword to convert pagans
Riga
Kelly
$800 [2]
A type of dulcimer that is the state instrument of Kentucky is named for these mountains
the Appalachians
Stephanie
$1,200 [9]
She plays Rachel Berry, who uses every opportunity to propel herself to stardom on "Glee"
Lea Michele
Stephanie
$1,200 [21]
R.I.P. Ludolph van Ceulen, who calculated pi to 35 places & had the digits engraved on his this in 1610
his tombstone
Stephanie
$1,200 [14]
Paul Atreides, who has a rough go of it on Arrakis (the original author, please)
Frank Herbert
$1,200 [25]
A multi-colored light cotton fabric named for an Indian seaport
Madras
Kelly
$1,600 [24]
The name of these identifying designs comes from their use on the surcoat worn over a knight's armor
a coat-of-arms
Stephanie Christy
$1,600 [4]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Lesedi Cultural Village in South Africa.) This word that's now associated with Latin American music comes from Africa, where it describes many types of xylophones like these
a marimba
$1,600 [10]
She hosts an eponymous show on MSNBC
Rachel Maddow
Kelly
DD $1,200 [22]
Eureka! Around 250 B.C., this sage of Syracuse estimated pi at around 22/7
Archimedes
Stephanie
$1,600 [15]
Jurgis Rudkus, a worker in the Chicago stockyards
Upton SInclair
Stephanie Kelly
$1,600 [26]
This Greek word refers to one underlying system of beliefs of a social group
mythos
Christy Kelly
$2,000 [5]
For some reason, a 3D Legend of Zelda game is subtitled this instrument "of Time"
Ocarina of Time
Christy
$2,000 [11]
This Aussie actress went American to play Sarah Walker on "Brothers and Sisters"
Rachel Griffiths
$2,000 [23]
Johann Lambert wasn't delusional in 1761 when he showed that pi is one of these numbers
an irrational number
Stephanie Christy Kelly
$2,000 [16]
Quentin Compson, a suicidal Harvard student
(William) Faulkner
Stephanie
$2,000 [27]
10-letter word meaning having an unpleasant smell
malodorous
Stephanie

Final Jeopardy!

NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING SCIENTISTS

1910 winner Albrecht Kossel studied a new material in the control center of cells; today, we know it as this

DNA

Kelly "What is nuclear physics" — wagered $7,000
Stephanie "What is DNA" — wagered $5,000

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