Show #6451 2012-10-08 (taped 2012-08-01) Regular

Stephanie Jass game 1.

Contestants

Clint Stiffler — an attorney from Dallas, Texas

Stephanie Jass — a history professor from Milan, Michigan

Mike Lonesky — a federal investigator from Clinton, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mike $200 $2,600 $6,600 $6,201
2nd place: $2,000
$6,600
15 R, 3 W
Stephanie $4,400 $8,000 $22,000 $17,000
New champion: $17,000
$23,200
26 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Clint $1,800 $4,000 $2,800 $5,600
3rd place: $1,000
$2,800
5 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE 1912 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CINEMANIA FIRST NAME FILL-IN RAY BRADBURY FESTIVALS THEOEDSAYS IT'S...
$200 [12]
With his opponents dividing the vote, this democratic challenger was elected
Woodrow Wilson
$200 [1]
Aka background actors, they're the people milling about in a shot to lend atmosphere to a scene
extras
Stephanie
$200 [7]
Mr. Knife, seen here
jack
Mike
$200 [17]
"The Fireman" was an early version of this Bradbury novel
Fahrenheit 451
Mike
$200 [26]
A highlight of the St. Mary's county, Maryland festival devoted to this bivalve is the national shucking contest
oysters
Mike Clint
$200 [6]
"A mechanical device on an aircraft... consisting of two or more blades"
a propeller
Mike
$400 [13]
This incumbent president accepted the Republican nomination & did no campaigning; electoral votes: 8
Taft
Stephanie
$400 [2]
Many low-budget American movies of the 1940s were made in this genre, French for "black film"
(film) noir
Stephanie
$400 [8]
Ms. Pack, seen here
fanny
Mike
$400 [18]
Futurist visionary Bradbury never operated a computer or this, which he makes sinister in 1951's "The Pedestrian"
a car
$1,000 [27]
Each May this New Mexico city has a festival honoring Ralph Edwards, who brought the city much fame
Truth or Consequences
Mike
$400 [19]
"Any of the numerous systems, often of millions or billions of stars, held together by gravitation"
galaxies
Mike
$800 [15]
Eugene V. Debs garnered almost 1 million votes representing this left-leaning party
the socialists
Stephanie
$600 [3]
Also a type of saw, it means to interweave 2 scenes in editing, indicating simultaneous action
crosscut
Mike
$600 [9]
Mr. Cloth, seen here
terry
Stephanie
$600 [23]
Earthmen conquer, despoil & commercialize another planet in these "Chronicles"
Martian
Clint
$600 [20]
"A string of a hundred and sixty-five beads... used for keeping count" in the recital of a devotion
rosaries
Mike
DD $1,000 [14]
Theodore Roosevelt used this metaphor when announcing his run, hence the buttonseen here
throwing his hat in the ring
Stephanie
$800 [4]
Not just animated movies but many live-action films today use the technique known as CGI, which stands for this
computer generated imagery
Clint
$800 [10]
Mr. Club, seen here
billy
Stephanie
$800 [24]
"Green Shadows, White Whale" was about Ray adapting this novel into a movie with John Huston in Ireland
Moby Dick
Clint
$800 [21]
"Sentimental longing for or regretful memory of a period in the past"
nostalgia
Stephanie
$1,000 [16]
Everyone wanted change even back then; the opposing campaign slogans were The ____ Freedom & The ____ Nationalism
New
Stephanie
$1,000 [5]
This genre created in the '70s featured African-American actors in stereotypical & often violent characterizations
blaxploitation
Clint
$1,000 [11]
Ms. Board, seen here
peg
Stephanie
$1,000 [25]
Bradbury took the title of this novel from the line in "Macbeth" that follows "by the pricking of my thumbs"
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Clint
$1,000 [22]
"A person who shares a deep understanding or bond with another; esp. one ideally suited...as a lover or spouse"
a soulmate
Stephanie

Double Jeopardy! Round

NEW ENGLAND FOLIAGE SIBLINGS AVIATION BEGINS & ENDS WITH "A" AROUND THE WORLD & THE EMMY FOR COMEDY ACTRESS GOES TO...
$400 [11]
This tree, seenherein autumn, takes on new importance to Vermont's economy in winter
the (sugar) maple tree
Stephanie
$400 [16]
"Happy Times" is a memoir by socialite Lee Radziwill, sister of this first lady
Jackie Onassis
Stephanie
$400 [21]
This company's Wingfoot Lake airship base near Akron is sometimes called "the Kitty Hawk of lighter-than-air"
Goodyear
Mike
$400 [6]
You'll hear this 11-letter word right before a magic trick
abracadabra
Mike
$400 [24]
Whether Lomond or Ness, it's a word for "lake" in Scotland
loch
Mike
$400 [1]
America Ferrera in 2007 for this series
Ugly Betty
Mike
$800 [12]
Maine's forest service says this tree's bark "separates freely and easily into thin, papery sheets"
birch
Stephanie
$800 [17]
In 1961 Ray Kroc bought out these brothers for $2.7 million
the McDonald brothers
Stephanie
$800 [22]
The original sperry type of this technology basically kept an airplane going straight; now it can fly patterns
automatic pilot
$800 [7]
"Vesti la giubba" from "Pagliacci", for example
an aria
Stephanie
$800 [25]
Stewart Island, this Down Under country's third-largest island, is 1/66th & 1/87th the size of the 2 biggest
New Zealand
Mike Stephanie
$800 [2]
Her in 1975 for "Rhoda"
Valerie Harper
Stephanie
$1,200 [13]
The beech trees of Bellevue Avenue in the mansion district of this Rhode Island city are a symbol of the Gilded Age
Newport
Mike Stephanie
DD $1,600 [18]
At the royal wedding of William & Kate, these 2 younger siblings served as best man & maid of honor
Prince Harry & Pippa Middleton
Stephanie
$1,200 [23]
This WWII flying fortress was named for a southern city & the girlfriend of its captain, Robert K. Morgan
Memphis Belle
Clint
$1,200 [8]
It's the woolly mammal seen here
alpaca
Mike
$1,200 [26]
This northern Spanish port city boasts a Guggenheim museum designed by Frank Gehry
Bilbao
Stephanie
$1,200 [3]
Toni Collette in 2009 for this Showtime series
the United States of Tara
$1,600 [14]
G. biloba, this tree, loses all its leaves in about a day, & Dartmouth students bet on what day it'll be each year
the gingko tree
Stephanie
$1,600 [19]
Last name of siblings George, Charles & Edward, who went into business together to sell board games
Parker
Mike
$1,600 [9]
An example of this branch of math is 2x - 3=7
algebra
Mike
DD $2,000 [27]
Following Russia & China, which each border 14 other countries, this New World country is third with 10
Brazil
Stephanie
$1,600 [4]
Carol Kane in 1982 for this comedy
Taxi
Stephanie
$2,000 [15]
Walkers in Boston's Public Gardenenjoy the foliage of these trees, sadly vulnerable to a disease
elm trees
Stephanie
$2,000 [20]
Sophocles named a play for this woman of myth who defied her uncle Creon in attempting to bury her brother Polynices
Antigone
Stephanie
$2,000 [10]
This first name of tennis great Ms. Gibson means "wholesome"
Althea
Stephanie
$2,000 [5]
Patricia Heaton in 2000 & 2001 for this sitcom
Everybody Loves Raymond
Stephanie

Final Jeopardy!

WAR NOVEL & MOVIE TITLES

Its title phrase traces back to a stand by heavily outnumbered British infantry against a cavalry charge

The Thin Red Line

Clint "What is The Thin Red Line" — wagered $2,800
Mike "What Charge of the light Brigade" — wagered $399
Stephanie "What is the Charge of the Light Brigade" — wagered $5,000

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