Show #6440 2012-09-21 (taped 2012-07-24) Regular

Contestants

Natalie Knowles — a marketing manager from Raleigh, North Carolina

Peter Hansen — a project manager from New York, New York

Erin Zwiener — a conservation journalist and pet-sitter from Abiquiu, New Mexico (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Erin! $400 $5,000 $21,200 $15,999
2-day champion: $32,199
$19,800
24 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Peter $4,400 $5,600 $13,200 $5,199
2nd place: $2,000
$13,000
23 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Natalie $600 $1,600 $4,800 $100
3rd place: $1,000
$6,800
7 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION SINGERS "R" US OFFICIAL LANGUAGES BE A PART OF SEWCIETY NOW A FEW WORDS WHALE-WATCHING IN BAJA
$200 [25]
This oldest delegate declared that a carved sun on Washington's chair was "a rising and not a setting sun"
Benjamin Franklin
Peter
$200 [3]
After leaving Van Halen, he had 4 Top 20 hits, including "Just Like Paradise"
David Lee Roth
Peter
$200 [1]
In Panama:This language
Spanish
Erin!
$200 [17]
That wasn't a mild curse: this 4-letter word means to mend a hole with a row of stitches, as most commonly done to socks
darn
Peter
$200 [22]
This 4-letter word for a type of jazz singing is also used to shoo cats
scat
Peter
$200 [30]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from a boat off the coast of Baja California in Mexico.) Flipper-slapping & tail-slapping are types of behavior on display during these rituals for cetaceans in Baja's breeding grounds
mating
Erin!
$400 [24]
Sessions of the convention took place in the assembly room of this brick building in Philadelphia
Independence Hall
Peter
$400 [11]
Not yet 25, she's the highest-selling digital artist of all time, with more than 47 million units sold
Rihanna
Erin! Peter Natalie
$400 [6]
In New Zealand:English, New Zealand Sign Language & this native tongue
Maori
Peter
$400 [18]
It's a length of fabric, especially as it comes in a roll from the loom
a bolt
Peter
$400 [23]
The use of these 2 letters joined together, as in alternate spellings of words like encyclopedia, is called an ash
A & E
$400 [29]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from a raft off the coast of Baja California in Mexico.) Gray whales calve in Baja's warm waters where foes are few; babies learn to swim in these isolated bodies of shallow water whose name is from the Latin for "lake"
lagoon
Erin!
$600 [7]
This "Father of the Constitution" told delegates they "would decide forever the fate of republican government"
James Madison
Peter
$600 [13]
At a January 14, 1970 concert, she announced that Jean Terrell would be replacing her in The Supremes
Diana Ross
Peter
$600 [5]
In Chad:Arabic & this
French
Peter
$600 [19]
To a chef, it means to moisten meat with drippings; to a seamstress, to sew temporarily with long, loose stitches
baste
Erin!
$600 [14]
According to Merriam-Webster, "take" followed by either of these 2 numbers means to take a break
five & ten
Peter
$600 [26]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from a raft off the coast of Baja California in Mexico.) Cetaceans have been known to go without sleep for a month after giving birth; moms watch out for predators, & the calves' constant motion allows them to stay warm until they get their first layer of this
blubber
Erin!
$800 [8]
The original intent of the convention was to revise this first constitution
the Articles of Confederation
Erin!
$800 [12]
In 2012, this blues rocker was back with her first album in seven years
Bonnie Raitt
Peter
DD $1,000 [4]
In the Republic of Cyprus:These 2 languages
Greek & Turkish
Peter
$800 [20]
This word means the yarns in a woven fabric that run lengthwise, at right angles to the woof
warp
Peter
$800 [15]
This 11-letter word can mean to plan & organize an event or to arrange music
orchestrate
$800 [28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew touches a whale from a boat off the coast of Baja California in Mexico.) These crustaceans on whales aren't parasites because they don't derive nutrition from the whales; they're just along for the ride
barnacles
Erin!
$1,000 [9]
Elbridge Gerry from this state refused to sign the Constitution because in it "liberties... were not secured"
Massachusetts
Erin! Natalie
$1,000 [10]
In 2012 this singer released an album of country duets called "Tuskegee", for his birthplace in Alabama
Lionel Richie
Natalie
$1,000 [2]
In Aruba:Papiamento (a local Creole language) & this
Dutch
Natalie
$1,000 [21]
In sewing, "on the" this means diagonally, not prejudiced
the bias
Natalie
$1,000 [16]
It means raising livestock or crops, though it sounds like the art of making your wife happy
husbandry
Erin! Peter
$1,000 [27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from a boat off the coast of Baja California in Mexico.) During the impressive display known as this, whales jump out of the water & turn on an axis before landing
breach
Erin!

Double Jeopardy! Round

SITCOM COUPLES STATE BY COUNTIES B IN THE MIDDLE IT'S NOT JUST A GOOD IDEA IT'S THE MATH OR SCIENCE LAW PROLOGUES
$400 [1]
Al & Peg Bundy, seemingly to Al's dismay
Married... with Children
Erin! Natalie
$400 [28]
Ocean, Camden, Passaic
New Jersey
Peter
$400 [12]
An apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially
an incubator
Erin!
$400 [13]
Blinded at 3 in a harness shop accident, he developed a raised-dot reading system
(Louis) Braille
Peter
$400 [18]
The second law of this 19th century botanist is the law of independent assortment
(Gregor) Mendel
Erin! Peter
$1,200 [5]
The prologue to this book, the first part of "The Lord of the Rings", says it "is largely concerned with hobbits"
The Fellowship of the Ring
Erin!
$800 [2]
Cliff & Clair Huxtable, dontcha know, with the lovin' & the laughin' & the family stuff...
The Cosby Show
Natalie
$800 [27]
Franklin, Lackawanna, Lehigh
Pennsylvania
Peter
$800 [11]
This trademark machine is a real (ice rink) smoothie
a Zamboni
Erin!
$800 [20]
(Alex delivers the clue from a train station at the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad.) Before trains, when you went from town to town, you had to reset your watch; this made a mess of railroad schedules, until a railroad executive came up with the great idea of the 24 of these that are still in use today around the world
time zones
Erin! Peter
$800 [19]
Mendeleev's Law is also called this law, a word found before "table of elements"
periodic
Erin!
$2,000 [6]
"At Rome"is the prologue to Willa Cather's "Death Comes for" this title religious figure
the Archbishop
Erin!
$1,200 [3]
Cameron Tucker & Mitchell Pritchett
Modern Family
Erin!
$1,200 [24]
Apache, Cochise, Pima
Arizona
Peter
$1,200 [10]
It's the fourth book of the Old Testament
Numbers
Erin!
$1,200 [26]
Mel Brooks:"David Geffen was the first person to say" this movie "should be a Broadway musical"
The Producers
Peter
$1,200 [14]
The law of sines states that the lengths of the sides of this shape are proprtional to the sines of the opposite angles
a triangle
Erin!
DD $3,000 [7]
A prologue by this author says, "I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe"
(Ralph Waldo) Ellison
Erin!
$1,600 [4]
Nickelodeon's animated magical power couple Cosmo & Wanda
The Fairly OddParents
Peter
DD $2,000 [23]
2 states, please:Franklin, Crockett, Knox
Texas & Tennessee
Natalie
$1,600 [9]
This type of sash is from the Japanese for "girdle"
an obi
Peter
$1,600 [25]
Thanks to John Gibbon for his 1953 machine that replaces the function of these 2 organs during surgery
the lung & the heart
Erin!
$1,600 [15]
95 x 27 = 27 x 95(2,565 for those scoring at home) illustrates this law
the commutative law
Erin!
$2,000 [17]
"Uncle" Jesse Katsopolis & Rebecca Donaldson
Full House
Erin!
$2,000 [22]
Manitowoc, Buffalo, Fond du Lac
Wisconsin
Erin! Peter Natalie
$2,000 [8]
A small group of secret plotters
a cabal
Erin!
$2,000 [21]
"Law" was the middle name of this architect who co-designed New York's Central Park
(Frederick Law) Olmsted
Peter
$2,000 [16]
3 laws of planetary motion, including the law of areas, are named for this 17th century German astronomer
(Johannes) Kepler
Natalie

Final Jeopardy!

THE OSCARS

The only remake of a U.S. film to win Best Picture; the original was made in the 1920s, the Oscar-winning remake in the 1950s

Ben-Hur

Natalie "What is Cleopatra" — wagered $4,700
Peter "What is Cleopatra?" — wagered $8,001
Erin! "What isThe Jazz SAll Quiet on the Western Front" — wagered $5,201

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