Show #6483 2012-11-21 (taped 2012-08-22) Regular

Paul Nelson game 4.

Contestants

Dan Sims — a case manager from Little Rock, Arkansas

Morgan Kruse — an economics research analyst from Irvine, California

Paul Nelson — a Senate staff aide originally from Iowa City, Iowa (whose 3-day cash winnings total $45,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Paul $800 $5,300 $4,500 $3,500
4-day champion: $48,900
$5,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Morgan $0 $0 $4,400 $3,299
2nd place: $2,000
$4,400
10 R, 4 W
Dan $0 $400 $5,500 $1,000
3rd place: $1,000
$5,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 6 W

Jeopardy! Round

GENERAL PRACTICE 1-LETTER STOCK SYMBOLS POETRY TERMS IT'S A TRAP! CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES
$200 [1]
Jaw pain & earache can be symptoms of bruxism, the grinding of these
teeth
Morgan
$200 [9]
K, for breakfast
Kellogg
Morgan
$200 [22]
An epithalamium is a poem for this occasion; one by Sappho ends, "Happy bridegroom, seek your bride"
a wedding
Paul
$200 [4]
The Kyoto Protocol limits emitting these alliterative items that trap heat in the atmosphere
greenhouse gases
Paul
$200 [2]
(Hi. I'm Neil Patrick Harris.) Hitchcock's genius is that he makes us voyeurs, like Jimmy Stewart & Grace Kelly in this 1954 thriller
Rear Window
Paul
$400 [14]
The doc might say to grab some of this company's aspirin, "the wonder drug that works wonders"
Bayer
Dan
$400 [10]
C, a financial "group"
Citigroup
Dan
$400 [24]
One verse of a poem is called a stave or this word also beginning with "st"
stanza
Dan
$400 [18]
Proverbially, when you "build a better" one of these, you make a superior product
mousetrap
Dan
$400 [3]
(Hi. I'm Cheech Marin, and...) You can't help feeling the exuberance of the Beatles in this, their first movie
A Hard Day's Night
Paul
$600 [15]
That vision problem might be a cataract, clouding this part of the eye
the lens
Paul Dan
$600 [11]
F, in transportation
Ford
Morgan
$600 [23]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew displays some poetry on the monitor.) By marking the stressed & unstressed syllables in a line, we're engaging in scansion, the analysis of this rhythmic element in a poem
the meter
Paul
$600 [19]
The trap-door type of this creature constructs a tubular nest with a hinged lid made of silk & mud
a spider
Paul
$600 [6]
(Hi. I'm Isaac Mizrahi.) Like a lot of others, I loved the story of a paraplegic ex-Marine finding a new life on the distant planet of Pandora in this 2009 film
Avatar
Dan
$800 [16]
This contagious skin disease rhymes with a disease you get from animal bites
scabies
Dan
$800 [12]
T--give them a jingle
AT&T
$1,000 [25]
This line of 12 syllables is likely named for a "great" Macedonian
an alexandrine
Dan
$800 [5]
Debuting in 1900, the Grand American is an event in this sport prizing accuracy
shooting
Morgan Dan
$800 [7]
(Hi. I'm Robin Quivers.) I love watching "The Godfather", which earned supporting actor Oscar nominations for Al Pacino, James Caan & this man who played consigliere Tom Hagen
(Robert) Duvall
Morgan Dan
$1,000 [17]
The most common spot for taking someone's pulse is above this artery in the wrist
the radial artery
$1,000 [13]
X, a company no longer part of USX
U.S. Steel
Morgan
DD $1,500 [21]
A haiku traditionally deals with this; a senryu takes an ironic look at human this
nature
Paul
$1,000 [20]
An event horizon is the "surface" of one of these, invisible because it even traps light
a black hole
Paul
$1,000 [8]
(Hi. I'm Jane Kaczmarek.) I sometimes need a hankie watching the love of Warren Beatty & Natalie Wood hit every kind of obstacle in this 1961 film
Splendor in the Grass
Dan

Double Jeopardy! Round

GENERAL PRACTICE PLANETARY MATTERS? ODD WORDS "THE" TV SHOW THAT IS THE QUESTION BALTIMORE
$400 [10]
In 1989 the first President Bush appointed him Chairman of the Joint Chiefs; he had a different job with Bush 2
General Powell
Paul
$400 [25]
She won Wimbledon singles titles in 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007 & 2008
Venus Williams
Morgan
$400 [1]
A muselet is the wire that holds one of these in a champagne bottle
a cork
Morgan
$400 [4]
In 2010 "Top Chef" broke this CBS program's 7-year Emmy-winning streak for best reality competition show
The Amazing Race
Paul Dan
$400 [9]
In "Sonnets from the Portuguese" this 5-word query is followed by "Let me count the ways"
"How do I love thee?"
Paul
$1,200 [15]
In June 2012 this Baltimore fort had a "Star-Spangled Sailabration" commemorating the War of 1812
Fort McHenry
Paul
$800 [14]
Gen. Thomas Gage, military governor of this colony, ordered the redcoats to march on Lexington & Concord
Massachusetts
Dan
$800 [22]
This festival of sports, art & more has been held annually in Virginia Beach, Virginia since 1974
the Neptune Festival
$800 [2]
Something resembling this proud bird's tail in color, design or iridescence is said to be pavonine
a peacock
Paul
$800 [6]
"He reads between the lies" was a tagline for this CBS show about a crime-solving man named Jane
The Mentalist
Dan
$800 [19]
Four-word caption of the 1870s engravingseen here
"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
Dan
$1,600 [23]
This offbeat Baltimorean film director has his fan mail sent to Atomic Books & sometimes stops by
John Waters
DD $1,500 [13]
Though unpopular with the President for his cautiousness, this Union general was once known as "Young Napoleon"
McClellan
Dan
$1,200 [20]
It's also called a night crawler
an earthworm
Paul Morgan
DD $2,000 [24]
A tonsorialist is one who does this
cut(s) hair
Paul
$1,200 [7]
We met the new boss (James Spader as Robert California) on this NBC sitcom
The Office
Paul
$1,200 [18]
In a kids' book by Bill Martin Jr. & Eric Carle, this question follows "Brown Bear, Brown Bear"
"What do you see?"
Morgan
$1,600 [11]
In 1944 this brilliant tactician told Hitler it was futile to continue the war; later that year he committed suicide
(Erwin) Rommel
Paul Dan
$1,600 [3]
A line from this song by Train says, "Tell me, did you sail across the Sun, did you make it to the Milky Way?"
"Drops Of Jupiter"
Morgan
$1,600 [8]
Whoopi! & food! The titles of these 2 ABC daytime shows rhyme
The View & The Chew
Dan
$1,600 [16]
Latin for "where are you going?", it's the title of a 1951 epic starring Robert Taylor & Deborah Kerr
Quo Vadis
Dan
$2,000 [12]
Thisoutspoken U.S. general is proving his views here, holding a piece of a battleship sunk by air power
Billy Mitchell
Paul
$2,000 [21]
In mythology, he's dad to the Cyclopes as well as the Titans
Uranus
Morgan Dan
$2,000 [5]
will.i.am & T-Pain were far from "turrible" as guest voices on this Fox animated show about Mr. Brown
The Cleveland Show
Morgan
$2,000 [17]
Abe Lincoln, when accused of deceitfulness: "If I had another" one of these, "do you think I'd wear this one?"
a face
Morgan Dan

Final Jeopardy!

OPERA

In 1900 the first La Scala performance of this opera was conducted by the man whose last name began with the opera's title

Tosca

Morgan "What is Cosi fan tutti" — wagered $1,101
Paul "What is Don Giovanni?" — wagered $1,000
Dan "What is Beggars?" — wagered $4,500

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