Show #6472 2012-11-06 (taped 2012-08-22) Regular

Paul Nelson game 3.

Contestants

Colin Bodels — a creative director and branding consultant from Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania

Jessica Lee — an immigration attorney from Evanston, Illinois

Paul Nelson — a Senate staff aide originally from Iowa City, Iowa (whose 2-day cash winnings total $29,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Paul $4,800 $7,200 $18,100 $16,200
3-day champion: $45,400
$17,200
27 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Jessica $0 $1,200 $2,000 $3,900
2nd place: $2,000
$2,000
8 R, 2 W
Colin $1,400 $2,400 $10,000 $1,800
3rd place: $1,000
$10,000
10 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

A YEAR IN THE LIFE "OO" WHAT'S THAT? LONG SONGS WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS RUNNING WITH SCISSORS
$200 [12]
1861:He resigns from the U.S. Army after 36 years of service for "the defense of my native state"
Robert E. Lee
Paul
$200 [6]
A cozy corner of a room, or a small recess, perhaps for breakfast
a nook
Paul
$200 [21]
In 1971 Don McLean served up this 8 1/2-minute anthem about "the day the music died"
"American Pie"
Paul
$200 [1]
The Parthenon
Athens
Paul
$200 [25]
An Ironman Triathlon is a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride & this run
a marathon
Colin
$200 [16]
In the hand game known as roshambo, it's what scissors beats
paper
Paul
$400 [13]
1973:He nationalizes all foreign-owned petroleum assets in Libya
Gadhafi
Paul
$400 [7]
It's a Southern term for a peanut
a goober
Paul
$400 [23]
This 8-minute-long classic begins, "There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold"
"Stairway To Heaven"
$400 [2]
The presidential palace (built on the site of Pizarro's house)
Lima (Peru)
Paul
$400 [26]
Jogging is this type of exercise that increases the efficiency of the body's oxygen intake
aerobic
Paul
$400 [17]
The name of these sewing shears refers to their notched blades, not to a color
pinking shears
Colin
$600 [11]
1669:This Englishman stops writing in his diary because of deteriorating vision
Samuel Pepys
Paul Colin
$600 [8]
This jewelry item from the '70s that changes colors in response to body heat has made several comebacks
a mood ring
Colin
$600 [24]
This "colorful" 1984 hit by Prince clocks in at over 8 1/2 minutes
"Purple Rain"
Jessica
$600 [3]
Museum Van Loon & the Heineken Experience
Amsterdam (the Netherlands)
Paul
$600 [28]
Currently, it's the shortest sprint distance in the Summer Olympics
the 100-meter dash
Jessica
$600 [18]
Most scissors are a pair of pivoting blades, connected by a screw, or one of these two-headed metal pins
a rivet
$800 [14]
1933:This "Untouchable" is in charge of the Treasury Department's alcohol-tax unit
Eliot Ness
$800 [9]
It means to go gaga over something; you don't actually have to faint
swoon
Paul Colin
$800 [22]
In the version that's combined with "Where Did Our Love Go", this Soft Cell hit goes on for 9 minutes
"Tainted Love"
Colin
$1,000 [5]
Zealandia Wildlife Sanctuary
Wellington
Colin
$800 [29]
Usual 4-letter term for the rate at which a group runs; you "set" it if you're in the front
the pace
Paul
$800 [19]
It's the 3-word name for hydraulic rescue scissors used to cut heavy sheet metal in car wrecks
the jaws of life
Paul
$1,000 [15]
1951:This longtime friend of Gandhi is elected president of the Indian National Congress
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
Paul
$1,000 [10]
Thesemountains in Idaho get their name from their jagged appearance
the Sawtooth Mountains
$1,000 [30]
Set aside 17 minutes, baby, if you want to hear this Iron Butterfly hit in its entirety
"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"
DD $1,200 [4]
The Copernicus Science Centre & The John Paul II Museum Collection
Warsaw (Poland)
Paul
$1,000 [27]
A 2010 study suggests 40 mph might be possible for humans--the key is increasing the muscle fibers called "fast" this
twitch
Paul
$1,000 [20]
Finnish company Fiskars has sold over 1 billion pairs of the scissors introduced in 1967 with this color handle
orange
Paul

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY AWARDS GODLY EXPRESSIONS FOOD STUFF WE'VE GOT TO STOP MEETING LIKE THIS MOVIES: WHO PLAYED 'EM? "G", I LOVE SCIENCE
$400 [26]
Since 1953, the Spur Awards have been presented annually to writers of this genre
Western
Paul
$400 [20]
Completes the biblical line "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in..."
vain
Paul
$400 [11]
The name of this Scandinavian buffet is from the Swedish for "bread & butter table"
smorgasbord
Jessica
$400 [25]
In the 1920s & '30s this literary group that included Dorothy Parker met daily for lunch at a NYC hotel
the Round Table at the Algonquin
Colin
$400 [1]
Jerry Maguire
Tom Cruise
Paul
$400 [2]
This muscular sac sits just below the liver
the gallbladder
Jessica
$800 [27]
Brian Selznick won a 2008 Caldecott Medal for Illustration for his book "The Invention of" this French boy
Hugo Cabret
Paul Jessica
$800 [19]
In 2012 physicists announced strong evidence for the existence of the Higgs boson, popularly called this
the God particle
Jessica
$800 [12]
The balloon type of this utensil is ideal for whipping egg whites into proper consistency for meringues
a whisk
Paul
$800 [24]
The Dumbarton Oaks mansion was the site of a 1944 meeting that proposed forming what became this world body
the United Nations
Jessica
$800 [3]
Billy Madison
Adam Sandler
Jessica
$800 [5]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a diagram of an atomic nucleus.) After radioactive decay, when a nucleus is in a high-energy state, the particles of photons known as these rays are released
gamma rays
Paul
$1,200 [28]
Vincent Bugliosi won a 1975 Edgar Award for this book that was subtitled "The True Story of the Manson Murders"
Helter Skelter
$1,200 [18]
Soldiers have long been advised to "Put your trust in God and keep" this "dry"
your powder
Jessica
$1,200 [14]
During the 1928 presidential campaign, Republican ads promised this foodstuff
a chicken in every pot
Paul
$1,200 [23]
During the 1604 Hampton Court conference, this king accepted a request for a new translation of the Bible
King James
Paul
$1,200 [4]
"Bridesmaids" maid of honor Annie Walker
Kristen Wiig
Paul
$1,200 [6]
A lab animal manipulated to exhibit a human disease is an example of a GMO, short for this type of organism
genetically modified
Paul
$1,600 [29]
A British sci-fi award named for this "Childhood's End" author consists of an engraved bookend
Arthur C. Clarke
$1,600 [16]
In a theater, if your seats are in the gods, they're in this section
the balcony
$1,600 [13]
Following her husband's death, Irma Rombauer penned this culinary classic in 1931
The Joy of Cooking
Colin
$1,600 [21]
In February 1945 FDR, Churchill & Stalin met at this Black Sea resort in the Livadiya Palace
Yalta
Paul
$1,600 [8]
In 2002, Frida Kahlo
Salma Hayek
$1,600 [7]
This feature of Jupiter is about 12,400 by 7,500 miles
the Great Red Spot
Colin
$2,000 [30]
He won a Bram Stoker award for horror for "Lisey's Story" & also has a lifetime achievement award
Stephen King
$2,000 [17]
Whether "Little" or not, "God's Acre" means one of these places
a cemetery
$2,000 [15]
The New York Public Libraryexhibit"Lunch Hour NYC" includes a reassembled one of these beloved & once very modern dispensers
an automat
Jessica
DD $2,500 [22]
An 18-minute brawl was caught on film during this 1968 meeting in Chicago
the Democratic National Convention
Paul
$2,000 [9]
Albert Nobbs
Glenn Close
Colin
DD $2,000 [10]
White Sands National Monument is actually an expanse of dunes of this mineral
gypsum
Colin

Final Jeopardy!

CABINET DEPARTMENTS

"Si ve algo, diga algo" was part of a 2011 Spanish-language TV campaign by this Cabinet department

Homeland Security

Jessica "What is the Department of Homeland Security?" — wagered $1,900
Colin "What is the Dept. of Health?" — wagered $8,200
Paul "What is the Dep't of Commerce?" — wagered $1,900

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