Show #6455 2012-10-12 (taped 2012-08-01) Regular

Stephanie Jass game 5.

Contestants

Jennifer Hughs — a bookstore manager from New York, New York

Matt Bibb — an administrative assistant from North Hollywood, California

Stephanie Jass — a history professor from Milan, Michigan (whose 4-day cash winnings total $90,170)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Stephanie $5,000 $6,600 $14,400 $8,800
5-day champion: $98,970
$15,000
24 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Matt $2,200 $5,800 $8,200 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$5,600
12 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Jennifer $1,000 $2,200 $6,600 $4,399
2nd place: $2,000
$6,600
10 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

BUFFETT TALKS BUSINESS GEOG. DICT. ABBREV. A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE ODD NAMINGS NORTH AMERICAN LANGUAGES A HOT LATIN NUMBER
$200 [19]
(Warren Buffett delivers the clue.) I believe in productive assets that will keep delivering output in 100 years; people will still buy products from companies like this soft drink maker of which Berkshire Hathaway owns 8.8%
Coca-Cola
Matt
$200 [16]
N.H.S. stands for a "national" this type of "site" in the national park system
historic
Stephanie
$200 [10]
Cal Ripken, Jr. had another consecutive game streak--13 straight All-Star Game starts at this position
shortstop
Stephanie
$200 [4]
It's an imprecise 2-word name for a meteor that's burning up in the atmosphere
a shooting star
Matt
$200 [1]
When traveling to a certain part of the U.S., you might be called a "malihini", meaning tourist in this language
Hawaiian
Stephanie
$600 [24]
It's the new 30:quadraginta
40
Jennifer
$600 [21]
(Warren Buffett delivers the clue.) This is the worst investment you can have, because it's worth less over time; but keep some on hand so you can sleep at night
cash
Matt
$400 [17]
A.F.B. stands for one of these military installations
Air Force Base
Stephanie
$400 [12]
Wayne Gretzky & Wilt Chamberlain both played this position, though in different sports
centers
Stephanie
$400 [5]
Found in Snickers, it's actually a legume; you eat the seed that's in a pod
a peanut
Stephanie
$400 [2]
About 4 million Canadians are unilingual speakers of this language
French
Stephanie
$800 [28]
I'm sorry, Dave:duo milia et unum
2001
Matt Jennifer
$800 [22]
(Warren Buffett delivers the clue.) Stay away from this, the use of borrowed funds for speculation; you can't go broke if you don't owe anybody money
leverage
$600 [18]
"est." (little e) stands for estimated; "Est." (big E) is this country
Estonia
Matt
$600 [13]
Georges Vezina (of trophy fame) & Briana Scurry both played this position, though in different sports
goalies
Stephanie
$600 [6]
It's really a low-pitched oboe & what it has to do with Britain, no one is sure
an English horn
Matt
$600 [3]
As you might expect, Yucatec is a Mayan language spoken in Belize & Mexico on this peninsula
the Yucatan
Matt
$1,000 [25]
You're accountable for your actions now:duodeviginti
18
Stephanie Matt
$1,000 [23]
(Warren Buffett delivers the clue.) If you're a passive investor, you're fine with this type of fund that gets its name because it tracks an aggregation, such as the S&P 500
an index fund
Jennifer
$800 [26]
Res. can stand for a reservation or this type of body of water
reservoir
Jennifer
$800 [14]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew illustrates a football play on the monitor.) In a 4-3 defense, a linebacker can drift back in coverage, enabling players like Troy Polamalu at the strong type of this position, to blitz the quarterback
a safety
Stephanie
$800 [7]
The head of this second-largest North American bird of prey is covered with white feathers, not just skin
a bald eagle
Stephanie
$800 [9]
Nunavut means "our land" in the language of these people
the Inuit
Stephanie Matt
DD $3,000 [20]
(Warren Buffett delivers the clue.) If you understand a particular industry, put more capital into the companies you believe in; don't bother with this strategy of putting eggs in different baskets
diversification
Matt
$1,000 [27]
Pk. is park; to get an abbreviation for a scenic road, add these 2 letters
w & y
Matt
$1,000 [15]
In major league baseball, when the ball is put in play only this player may be in foul territory
the catcher
Jennifer
$1,000 [8]
Even the OED is stumped as to how this pancreatic delicacy got its name
sweetbreads
Stephanie
$1,000 [11]
Nahuatl, Mexico's second-most widely spoken language, is also known by the name of this pre-Columbian people
Aztecs
Stephanie

Double Jeopardy! Round

COMPLETELY BASSLESS RUMORS MEASURING DEVICES THE EDICT OF NANCY PREHISTORIC TIMES THE LAST "DROP"
$400 [8]
Keyboardist Ray Manzarek's left hand was all the bass Jim Morrison needed backing him up in this band
the Doors
Stephanie
$400 [6]
A saying attributed to Henry Ward Beecher is that "rumor has winged feet like" this Roman god
Mercury
Stephanie
$400 [21]
A lactometer measures the specific gravity of this liquid
milk
Jennifer
$400 [11]
She was the chair of the California Democratic Party, 1981-1983
Nancy Pelosi
Jennifer
$400 [26]
The procoptodon, a 450-pound one of these, jumped all over Australia during the Pleistocene Epoch
a kangaroo
Stephanie
$400 [1]
A saline lacrimal secretion
a teardrop
Jennifer
$800 [9]
This group, Jack on guitar & Meg on drums, broke up in 2011
the White Stripes
Stephanie
$800 [7]
George Eliot wrote that gossip is this "that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it"
smoke
Stephanie
$800 [22]
A creepmeter doesn't measure how weird your date is but the movement of these cracks between quakes
faults
Stephanie Matt
$800 [12]
One of the mysteries featuring her is "The Halloween Hoax"`
Nancy Drew
Stephanie
$800 [27]
These early humans of Europe are the first known to bury their dead & may have placed flowers on their graves
Neanderthal
$800 [2]
To stand within the overhang of a building to hear something you shouldn't
eavesdrop
Jennifer
$1,200 [10]
Patrick Carney & Dan Auerbach make up this blues-rock duo whose name is even musical
the Black Keys
$1,200 [16]
This Stephen Crane story says, "The army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors"
The Red Badge Of Courage
Stephanie
$1,200 [23]
Thedeviceseenhereis used to take a reading of this
tire pressure
Jennifer
$1,200 [13]
She's the voice of Nelson, Ralph Wiggum & Bart Simpson
Nancy Cartwright
Stephanie
DD $1,000 [29]
During the Chalcolithic period, 4,000-6,000 years ago, this metal became the first used for tools & weapons
copper
Stephanie
$1,200 [3]
Goody goody! It's this kind of candy made from corn syrup & gelatin
a gumdrop
Jennifer
$1,600 [19]
The name of this guitarist precedes "Blues Explosion" in a bassless '90s trio
Jon Spencer
DD $2,000 [17]
This mischievous Shakespeare character says, "I jest to Oberon... and sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl"
Puck
Stephanie
$1,600 [24]
In 1450 Italian architect Leon Alberti invented the first mechanical one of these to measure wind speed
an anemometer
$1,600 [14]
She lived with Sid Vicious in the Chelsea Hotel & died there
Nancy Spungen
Matt
$1,200 [28]
The iguanadon was named because these body parts resembled those of an iguana
teeth
$1,600 [4]
Let me set the stage for you; it's the rear curtain of a stage setting
a backdrop
Matt
$2,000 [20]
This triple-talk band makes do with drums, guitar & the vocals of Karen O
the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Matt
$2,000 [18]
"If you haven't got anything nice to say... come sit next to me" was a motto of this daughter of Teddy Roosevelt
Alice
Stephanie
$2,000 [25]
The hair type of this instrument uses human hair to measure relative humidity
a hygrometer
Stephanie
$2,000 [15]
In "Oliver Twist", Nancy is his girlfriend
Bill Sikes
$2,000 [5]
To describe a moment of utter silence, these four words follow "You could have..."
heard a pin drop
Matt

Final Jeopardy!

OSCAR NOMINEES

One of his first Oscar nominations was for Best Actor; none of his 22 other Oscar nominations was for acting

Woody Allen

Jennifer "Who is Scorcese?" — wagered $2,201
Matt "Who was Robert Evans?" — wagered $8,199
Stephanie "Who is Disney?" — wagered $5,600

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