Show #6488 2012-11-28 (taped 2012-08-28) Regular

Jason Shore game 1.

Contestants

Todd Federman — a professor and education consultant from Livingston, New Jersey

Jason Shore — a medical student from Plano, Texas

Lucas Peterson — an actor originally from Oak Park, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $33,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lucas $1,800 $5,000 $11,400 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$11,400
19 R, 7 W
Jason $2,000 $5,000 $22,900 $22,878
New champion: $22,878
$20,200
23 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W
Todd $800 $800 $3,600 $2,200
2nd place: $2,000
$3,600
8 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE OAKLAND "B"s BEASTLY MOVIE TITLES A LIFE IN BRIEF MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES TUESDAYS WITH MAORI
$200 [1]
In November 1936 it began carrying traffic between San Francisco & Oakland across the water it's named for
the Bay Bridge
Lucas Todd
$200 [3]
Starring Jane Fonda:"____ Ballou"
Cat
Lucas
$200 [8]
Minted in 1767, he did enough to get his mug on our $20 bill
Andrew Jackson
Jason
$200 [14]
Placed on top of a pillar, a herm is a bust of this god for whom it's named
Hermes
Lucas
$200 [17]
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Tuesdays are dedicated to this man who foreshadowed the arrival of Jesus
John the Baptist
Jason
$200 [22]
Waka taua are these boats that can be more than 100 feet long & hold 80 paddlers
canoes
Lucas
$400 [2]
In between stints as California's governor, he served 2 terms as Oakland's mayor
Jerry Brown
Todd
$400 [5]
A movie with "true grit":"____ Cogburn"
Rooster
Lucas
$400 [9]
Met life in 1879, wrote 6 books & never met a man he didn't like
Will Rogers
Lucas
$400 [15]
An oceanspongeknown for its lattice-likeskeletonis called this love goddess'flower basket
Venus
Lucas Jason
$400 [24]
On "Black Tuesday", Oct. 29 of this year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average crashed & lost 23% of its value
1929
Jason
$400 [23]
Maori ceremonial cloaks called korowai are made with the feathers of a rare albino variety of this flightless bird
a kiwi
Lucas Jason
$600 [4]
What's now East Oakland was once a city called this, like a borough southeast of Manhattan
Brooklyn
Lucas Jason Todd
$600 [13]
Technology tracks & controls Shia LaBeouf:"____ Eye"
Eagle
Jason
$600 [10]
Born in Simbirsk in 1870, founded the Comintern with comrades
Lenin
Jason
$600 [16]
A Phrygian king is the source for this 2-word phrase for the talent for making wealth out of any business endeavor
the Midas touch
Lucas
$600 [25]
In rhyme "Tuesday's child is full of" this
grace
DD $1,000 [28]
Seen before rugby games, a haka is one of these & is performed "so that the whole body should speak"
a dance
Jason
$800 [6]
Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded this radical party in Oakland in 1966
the Black Panthers
Lucas
$800 [20]
A fantasy film by Tim Burton:"Big ____"
Fish
Lucas
$800 [11]
Born in England but moved left to the U.S. (& right politically), told us about it in "Hitch-22"
Christopher Hitchens
Jason
$800 [18]
A source of unforeseen troubles, it's derived from a container that held all the world's evils
Pandora's box
Lucas
$800 [26]
Every 4 years a politically important day is dubbed this; in 2012 it was March 6
Super Tuesday
Lucas
$1,000 [7]
Francis Smith, the 19th c. "king" of this mineral soap additive, helped build Oakland's streetcar system
borax
$1,000 [21]
Based on a true Australian story:"____-Proof Fence"
Rabbit
Lucas
$1,000 [12]
Born in 1892, military man, into Spain management, still dead since 1975
(Francisco) Franco
Lucas
$1,000 [19]
A project that is, by design, never finished is called the web of this woman, Ulysses' wife
Penelope
Lucas
$1,000 [27]
For Greeks, Tuesday is considered unlucky; it was the day of the week this city fell in 1453
Constantinople
Jason

Double Jeopardy! Round

ITALIAN ART THE LANE! THE LANE! MORTAL MATTERS AMERICAN LITERATURE THE ERA OF ERAS "TIC" "TAC" "TOE"
$400 [25]
One version of Botticelli's "Adoration of the Magi" was painted with portraits of this Florentine family, his patrons
the Medicis
Todd
$400 [14]
Look! Down on the ground! It's not a bird! It's not a plane! It's this Daily Planet reporter
Lois Lane
Todd
$400 [8]
This word for "burial" is sometimes confused with a similar word for forced confinement
inter
Todd
$400 [3]
Langston Hughes called this Harriet Beecher Stowe novel "the most cussed & discussed book of its time"
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Jason
$400 [12]
The first 2 decades of the 20th century are called the "heroic era" of exploration of this continent
Antarctica
Lucas
$400 [2]
Kiss-inducing Christmastime shrub
mistletoe
Lucas
$800 [26]
Tintoretto's "Miracle of St. Mark" was done for the Scuola di San Marco in this city protected by that saint
Venice
Lucas
$800 [15]
Croydon Avenue & Dovedale Road intersect Penny Lane in this city
Liverpool
Lucas Todd
$800 [1]
A musical composition written for a mass for the dead; Mozart's is heard here
a requiem
Jason
$800 [13]
This Mark Twain book contains such chapters as "The Ogre's Castle" & "Merlin's Tower"
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Todd
$800 [20]
This period in Europe that came right after the Middle Ages was marked by a rebirth of interest in classical learning
the Renaissance
Jason
$800 [4]
Adjective for a non-electric musical instrument
acoustic
Jason
$1,200 [29]
Lino Tagliapietra "blew" his future when he dropped out at 11 to work in this medium; he's one of the modern masters in it
glassblowing
Jason
$1,200 [16]
He got a Golden Globe nomination for his role of Albert in "The Birdcage"
Nathan Lane
Lucas
$1,200 [9]
6 is the traditional number of these, though more can be used if the casket is heavy
pallbearers
Jason
$1,200 [18]
Mess officer Milo Minderbinder profits by working both sides during World War II in this 1961 novel
Catch-22
Todd
$1,200 [21]
The Boston Columbian Centinel coined this term for the mood of the U.S., widely used to describe Monroe's 2 terms
the Era of Good Feelings
Lucas
$1,200 [5]
To step lightly
tiptoe
Lucas Todd
$2,000 [28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Caravaggio's "Deposition from the Cross" illustrates this technique that uses light & shadow to create 3-D effects; its name is from the Italian for "clear and dark"
chiaroscuro
Lucas
$1,600 [17]
In 2008 Diane Lane spent some "Nights in Rodanthe" with Paul, played by this leading man
Richard Gere
$1,600 [10]
To stay awake watching over the deceased is to keep one of these, from the Latin for "awake"
a vigil
Jason
$1,600 [19]
His 1949 collection of stories "Knight's Gambit" features Gavin Stevens, a county attorney from Yoknapatawpha
Faulkner
Jason
DD $2,000 [23]
In the 1890s this era of economic, political & social reform in the U.S. began moving forward, as it name says
the Progressive Era
Jason
$1,600 [6]
Spectacles substitutes
contact lenses (contacts)
Lucas
DD $3,500 [30]
From the spring of 1508 until October 1512, he painted on a scaffold with his "beard turned up to heaven"
Michelangelo
Jason
$2,000 [27]
"Oh, do you know the muffin man?" Well, in the kids' song, this street is where the man lives
Drury Lane
Jason
$2,000 [11]
French term for a long queue of people & cars taking part in a funeral procession
a cortege
Jason
$2,000 [22]
In this Ray Bradbury tale, the title character has tattoos that move & change, each telling a story
The Illustrated Man
Jason
$2,000 [24]
Trilobites lived throughout this era, from the Cambrian to Permian periods
the Paleozoic Era
$2,000 [7]
To assault
attack
Jason

Final Jeopardy!

COUNTRIES

It was created in the early 1700s from 2 counties purchased by an Austrian prince; he named the nation for his family

Liechtenstein

Todd "What is Checkoslov[scribble]" — wagered $1,400
Lucas "What is Switzerland? [with a drawing of the Swiss flag]" — wagered $11,400
Jason "What is ?" — wagered $22

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