Show #6456 2012-10-15 (taped 2012-08-07) Regular

Stephanie Jass game 6.

Contestants

John Matthews — a camp counselor and law student from McLean, Virginia

Ricky Leiter — a resident physician in internal medicine from New York, New York

Stephanie Jass — a history professor from Milan, Michigan (whose 5-day cash winnings total $98,970)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Stephanie $5,000 $9,200 $21,000 $25,000
6-day champion: $123,970
$22,600
30 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Ricky $400 $1,600 $2,000 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$2,000
6 R, 2 W
John $1,400 $200 $2,200 $4,100
2nd place: $2,000
$2,200
10 R, 6 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE TOOL SHED DR. SEUSS TITLES BY INITIALS SING US A SONG, YOU'RE THE PIANO MAN STUPID FOOD ANSWERS PLURALS THE ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
$200 [6]
"Beastly" tool consisting of a metal wire fed into curved pipes to remove an obstruction
a (plumber's) snake
Stephanie
$200 [11]
"G.E.A.H."
Green Eggs and Ham
Stephanie
$200 [21]
"Bennie And The Jets" & "Candle In The Wind" (both versions)
Elton John
Stephanie
$200 [1]
The limequat is a cross between a kumquat & this lemon-shaped fruit
the lime
John
$200 [16]
Alumnus
alumni
Stephanie
$200 [26]
(Alex walks the stage of Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.) President Lincoln arrived late at Ford's Theatre; the show was already underway, but when he was spotted walking down the stairs toward the presidential box, everything here stopped; then the orchestra struck up "Hail To The Chief", the audience gave him a thunderous round of applause, the President waved & bowed, & then the performance of this play continued
Our American Cousin
Stephanie
$400 [7]
Peter Gabriel sang about this long-handled smashing tool
sledgehammer
Stephanie
$400 [12]
"T.C.I.T.H."
The Cat in the Hat
Ricky
$400 [22]
The original "Piano Man" (1974)
Billy Joel
Stephanie
$400 [2]
It's the fruit of the coconut palm tree
the coconut
John
$400 [17]
Secretary-general
secretaries-general
Ricky
$400 [27]
(Alex stands on the stage of Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.) Police work in those days could be a little bit shoddy: hours after the murder, a man named William Kent came back to thepresidential boxlooking for his keys; what he found was them urder weapon, the small .44-caliber single-shot pistol bearing the name of this Philadelphia gunsmith who invented it
Henry Deringer
John
$600 [8]
Buzz & coping are 2 varieties of this tool
a saw
John
$600 [13]
"H.T.G.S.C!"
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
$600 [23]
"Can't Smile Without You" (1978)
Barry Manilow
Stephanie
$600 [3]
It's a hot dog on a stick that's dipped in cornbread batter & deep fried
a corn dog
Stephanie John
$600 [18]
Man-child
men-children
Ricky
DD $800 [28]
(Alex walks the stage of Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.) Illustrating the difference in memories, some people said that Booth shouted this Latin phrase right from here, center stage; others said, "No, it was from the box"; Booth himself wrote that he spoke the words before shooting Lincoln; perhaps he said these words more than once
Sic semper tyrannis
Stephanie
$800 [9]
Dividers have sharp points on both ends; this similar device has one sharp point & one pencil
a compass
Stephanie
$800 [14]
"O.F.T.F.R.F.B.F."
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
John
$800 [24]
He sang lead & played piano on "Bohemian Rhapsody"
(Freddie) Mercury
Stephanie
$800 [4]
The blacker the color of these berries, the riper & sweeter the fruit
blackberries
Stephanie
$800 [19]
Seraph: seraphs or this longer word
seraphim
Stephanie Ricky John
$800 [29]
(Alex reports from the Petersen House in Washington, D.C.) While Mrs. Lincoln & her friends sat vigil here in the front parlor, in the back parlor, this energetic Secretary of War took charge of the investigation & worked tirelessly through the night, coordinating the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth & his accomplices
Edwin Stanton
Stephanie
$1,000 [10]
A group of different-sized attachments for a ratchet-style wrench is called this set
a socket wrench (or socket set)
Stephanie
$1,000 [15]
"F.I.S."
Fox in Socks
$1,000 [25]
In 1957 he had a "Whole Lot Of Shakin' Going On"
Jerry Lee Lewis
Stephanie
$1,000 [5]
The Linzer torte, a tart usually filled with raspberry jam, is named for this Austrian city
Linz
Stephanie
$1,000 [20]
Stigma: stigmas or this longer form
stigmata
Ricky
$1,000 [30]
(Alex reports from the Petersen House in Washington, D.C.) At 7:22 on the morning of April 15, 1865, President Lincoln died in this small bedroom; a prayer was said, & then, according to tradition, Edwin Stanton uttered these six famous words
"Now he belongs to the ages"

Double Jeopardy! Round

ART TERMS "SIN" FULL CITY FOUNDERS TV CHARACTERS GET YOUR DUCKS IN A ROW
$400 [17]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew showsA Bar at the Folies-Bergèreon the monitor.) Critics describing areas within a painting that are shaped alike, the way Manet crafted thechandelier & fruit bowl, employ this term, used of words in a poem that sound alike
rhyme
Stephanie
$400 [1]
"Arabian Nights" guy
Sinbad
Ricky
$400 [15]
Andrew Jackson was a co-founder of this largest Tennessee city
Memphis
Stephanie John
$400 [6]
Charlie Harper--uh, make that Walden Schmidt--accounts for 40% of this show's title total
Two and a Half Men
Stephanie
$400 [11]
Drop a "G" from a Chinese dish to get this breed of duck popular among U.S. poultry farmers
a Pekin duck
$400 [22]
Don Quixote attacks a row of these, believing them to be gigantic knights
windmills
John
$800 [18]
To show musculature, an ecorche drawing shows a figure not only without clothes but without this
skin
Stephanie
$800 [2]
A tendon
sinew
Stephanie
DD $1,000 [16]
In 1839 John Sutter established the colony that became this state capital
Sacramento
Stephanie
$800 [7]
Mary Alice Young was heard in more than 150 episodes of this ABC drama, despite having died in the very first show
Desperate Housewives
Stephanie
$800 [12]
It's the most common duck species in North America
mallard
John
$800 [23]
The earliest versions of this puzzle of 9 rows & 9 columns were called Number Place
Sudoku
John
$1,200 [19]
It's the main difference between a kouros & a kore, types of Greek sculptures of standing figures
one's a male & one's a female
Stephanie
$1,200 [3]
Not feigned or pretended
sincere
Stephanie
$1,200 [28]
This home to the University of Oregon was founded by a Mr. Skinner & given his first name
Eugene
Stephanie
$1,200 [8]
Annie, Britta & Magnitude seek higher education on this NBC comedy
Community
John
$1,200 [13]
Thesawbillfeeds mainly on this slippery prey, hence these rrated, saw-like bill
fish
John
$1,200 [24]
Archaeologists discovered 19 rows of stones extending below this alliterative holy landmark in Jerusalem
the Western Wall (or the Wailing Wall)
$1,600 [20]
Duchamp is the father of this style of art that elevates idea over execution; the term contains a synonym for "idea"
conceptual art
John
DD $2,000 [4]
Astronomical term for a place in space where matter is infinitely dense
a singularity
Stephanie
$1,600 [9]
Howard Wolowitz deals with his off-screen maaaa! on this brainy sitcom
The Big Bang Theory
John
$1,600 [14]
There are blue-winged & green-winged types of this duck that's also a blue-green color
a teal
$1,600 [25]
This type of ancient Greek chariot race venue with a 600-to-700-foot course had seats in rows or tiers
a hippodrome
Stephanie
$2,000 [21]
To authenticate a painting, you need this record of its ownership from the period of its creation to the present
provenance
Stephanie
$2,000 [5]
Mexican state where you'll find Mazatlan
Sinaloa
Ricky
$2,000 [10]
Yes, there is crime in Toronto & Andy McNally (Missy Peregrym) is a new cop fighting it on this ABC show
Rookie Blue
Ricky
$2,000 [27]
A largegroupof floating ducks is called this, like a flat water transport
a raft
John
$2,000 [26]
This 18th c. Oxford man didn't invent an "Aqualung" but did devise a farm tool for planting seeds in rows
Jethro Tull
Stephanie

Final Jeopardy!

FICTION

A proposed title for this novel sounded too much like a Vegas heist movie, so the number in the title was doubled

Catch-22

Ricky "What is 50/50?" — wagered $2,000
John "What is Catch-22?" — wagered $1,900
Stephanie "What is Catch 22?" — wagered $4,000

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