Show #6419 2012-07-12 (taped 2012-03-06) Regular

Contestants

Tracey Rhys — a technology trainer from New York, New York

Laura Sikes Jambon — a graduate student of American history from Rochester, New York

A.J. Motley — a student of diagnostic sonography from Wylie, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
A.J. $2,400 $5,200 $22,400 $35,201
2-day champion: $56,002
$22,800
25 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Laura $3,400 $5,000 $17,600 $31,600
2nd place: $2,000
$11,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Tracey $1,000 $2,400 $1,200 $2,200
3rd place: $1,000
$1,200
6 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

30 ROCK LET'S EAT THAI 8-LETTER CROSSWORD CLUES "P" I'M JUST SWAMPED! NOT SO GAY PAREE ELECTION YEAR BEFORE & AFTER
$200 [2]
The daughter of this "30 Rock" creator inspired a catchphrase for Liz Lemon: "I want to go to there"
Tina Fey
A.J. Laura
$200 [1]
Pad Thai is a popular dish consisting of the rice type of these, pan fried with egg, shrimp & tofu
noodles
Laura
$200 [8]
Gruel for Goldilocks
porridge
A.J.
$200 [21]
Most of the small islands in Botswana's Okavango Swamp were formed by mounds built by these insects
termites
A.J. Laura
$200 [16]
One of these was erected in the Place de la Revolution in 1793, & soon heads were rolling
a guillotine
Laura
$200 [28]
Spokesclown for the Golden Arches who flirts with running for president & hosts "The Celebrity Apprentice"
Ronald McDonald Trump
Laura
$400 [3]
Jack Donaghy, played by this man, was "working the dayshift at that graveyard & the graveyard shift at that Days Inn"
Alec Baldwin
Tracey
$400 [4]
A basic ingredient in Thai cuisine is prik kee noo, a small, spicy one of these named for its resemblance to a mouse dropping
pepper
A.J.
$400 [9]
It "makes perfect"
practice
A.J.
$400 [22]
This 700-sq.-mile Georgia-Florida swamp is a critical habitat for the Florida black bear
the Okefenokee
Laura
$400 [17]
Led by Siegfried, an army of these northern invaders sailed up the Seine & besieged Paris in 885
the Vikings
A.J.
$600 [29]
Paul Reubens' childlike (& childish) alter ego who once ran Godfather's Pizza
Pee-wee Herman Cain
A.J.
$600 [11]
This star of "TGS" had a novelty song, "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah": "Boys becoming men, men becoming wolves"
Tracy Morgan (or Tracy Jordan)
Laura
$600 [5]
One of Thailand's most famous dishes is tom yum goong, a type of this made with shrimp
soup
Tracey
$600 [10]
The Garden of Eden
paradise
Laura
$600 [23]
Sudan's Sudd Swamp along the White branch of this river is dominated by swamp grasses & papyrus
the Nile
Tracey
$600 [18]
In the 3rd century Barbarians wiped out Roman Paris; the people fled to what's now this Seine ile crossed by the Pont Neuf
the Île de la Cité
$800 [27]
"Macbeth" witches' potion ingredient that drafted the "Contract with America"
eye of Newt Gingrich
Tracey
$800 [12]
This NBC page said, "Miss Lemon, your eyes look like my uncle's after he would drink from the air conditioner"
Kenneth Parcell
Laura
$800 [6]
In names of Thai food dishes, "jade" & "ruby" refer to green & red types of this sauce mixed with coconut milk
curry
A.J.
$800 [15]
Side by side
parallel
A.J.
$800 [24]
Honey Island Swamp in this state's St. Tammany Parish is said to be home to a 7-foot-tall swamp monster
Louisiana
A.J.
DD $800 [19]
In his 52 B.C. "Commentaries", he wrote that the Parisii burned their town rather than surrender to him
Julius Caesar
A.J.
$1,000 [26]
National Wildlife Federation's magazine for kids that's a conservative ex-senator from Pennsylvania
Ranger Rick Santorum
$1,000 [13]
He was "Bourne" to guest as Carol, a pilot who--unlike Sully--doesn't "hit birds. Where's my ticket to the Grammys?"
Matt Damon
Laura
$1,000 [7]
Used as a condiment, nam pla is a type of sauce made from fermented these
fish
Laura
$1,000 [14]
Golden horse
palomino
Laura
$1,000 [25]
Once home to runaway slaves, this "Great" swamp in Va. & N.C. appears in Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Dred"
the Great Dismal Swamp
$1,000 [20]
In the 1572 St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, Paris' Catholics killed thousands of these French Protestants
Huguenots
Laura

Double Jeopardy! Round

30s ROCK NIXON'S ENEMIES LIST DON'T MESS WITH TAXES THE TELL-TALE HEART "OGRAPHY" HOW NOVEL!
$400 [2]
The opening track on his 1966 album "Blonde on Blonde" is "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"
(Bob) Dylan
A.J.
$400 [7]
One enemy was Hollywood executive Arnold Picker of U.A., this movie studio
United Artists
A.J.
$400 [1]
This tax placed on expensive items such as yachts & precious stones can also be found in the game of Monopoly
a luxury tax
Laura
$400 [13]
Arrhythmia of the heart may be diagnosed by an EKG, short for one of these
an electrocardiogram
A.J.
$400 [15]
The composition & arrangement of dancing
choreography
A.J.
$800 [26]
"It was one of the worst schools I ever went to. It was full of phonies"
The Catcher in the Rye
Laura
$800 [3]
This Commodores hit marvels, "36-24-36, what a winning hand!"
"Brick House"
A.J.
$800 [8]
This flamboyant New York Jets quarterback made the list
Namath
A.J.
$800 [12]
In 1789 the First Congress passed a law setting up these, placed on goods imported into the United States
a tariff
Laura Tracey
$800 [14]
Atherosclerosis, the buildup of plaque on the walls of these blood vessels, has no symptoms until it's advanced
an artery
Laura
$800 [19]
The study of the physical & biological aspects of the seas
oceanography
Tracey
$1,200 [25]
"Prisoners of war from many lands came together that morning at such and such a place in Dresden"
Slaughterhouse-Five
Laura
$1,200 [4]
"Caught Up In You" was a No. 1 mainstream hit (though ironically not with a bullet) for this Southern rock group
38 Special
Tracey
$1,200 [9]
Reporter James Reston of The New York Times was on the list, along with Stanley Karnow of this D.C. paper
The Washington Post
A.J.
$2,000 [27]
This term for a tax placed on property is Latin for "according to value", which is how it's assessed
ad valorem
A.J.
$1,200 [16]
One of the most common symptoms of a heart attack is this discomfort in the chest, from the Greek for "strangling"
angina
A.J.
$1,200 [20]
The art of motion-picture photography
cinematography
A.J.
$1,600 [24]
"The answer to the great question... of life, the universe and everything... is... forty two"
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Laura
$1,600 [5]
30STM is short for this band fronted by Jared Leto
Thirty Seconds to Mars
A.J.
$1,600 [10]
Maxwell Dane made it for helping create ads that defeated this 1964 GOP presidential nominee
Goldwater
A.J.
$1,600 [17]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical animation on the monitor.) Palpitations accompanied by dizziness & shortness of breath may indicate a problem with these parts of the heart, such as the aortic & pulmonary ones, that permit blood flow in only one direction
a valve
A.J.
$1,600 [21]
The art & profession of making maps
cartography
Laura
DD $8,600 [23]
"If this alleged report is true, that is the last of Roy Hobbs in organized baseball"
The Natural
Laura
$2,000 [6]
Track 34 on this band's "Under the Table and Dreaming" is cleverly titled "#34"
the Dave Matthews Band
A.J.
$2,000 [11]
You just knew this Oscar-winning actress who took an infamous trip to Asia in 1972 would be on the list
Jane Fonda
Tracey
DD $1,600 [18]
An irregular heartbeat may be caused by an imbalance of these ions that conduct current, such as sodium
electrolytes
A.J.
$2,000 [22]
The sociological study of populations
demography
Tracey

Final Jeopardy!

THE UNITED NATIONS

Of the 6 official languages used at the U.N., this one is the last alphabetically

Spanish

Tracey "What is Spanish?" — wagered $1,000
Laura "What isRussianSpanish" — wagered $14,000
A.J. "What is Spanish?" — wagered $12,801

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