Show #6492 2012-12-04 (taped 2012-08-29) Regular

Jason Shore game 5.

Contestants

Bryan Shilowich — a graduate student of neuroscience from Cambridge, Massachusetts

Jennifer North — an attorney from Jersey City, New Jersey

Jason Shore — a medical student from Plano, Texas (whose 4-day cash winnings total $85,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jason $600 $4,400 $17,000 $7,000
2nd place: $2,000
$15,800
22 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Jennifer $1,400 $3,800 $13,000 $9,200
New champion: $9,200
$13,000
13 R, 0 W
Bryan $1,400 $4,600 $4,600 $10
3rd place: $1,000
$4,600
12 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

DOUBLE "L" WORDS OREGON A BIT O' HONEY ALSO A SEA ITS REIGNING MEN SOCCER
$200 [1]
To plunder, or the loot that was plundered
pillage
$200 [14]
Nicknamed "Beervana", this largest Oregon city is home to more than 30 breweries
Portland
Bryan
$200 [24]
Honeybaked sells turkey, ribs & roasts as well as the original & "Authentic Honeybaked" this
ham
Bryan
$200 [16]
In sports names, it precedes Auerbach & Grange
Red
Jason
$200 [6]
Mutsuhito, Takaharu
Japan
Jason
$200 [11]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew describes what's happening at a soccer field in Johannesburg, South Africa.) Soccer players' ability to bend the ball is shown in two types of this, named for where on the field it takes place--inswinging & outswinging
a corner kick
Jason
$400 [2]
It can be a husk or a ship part
hull
Bryan
$400 [15]
It's the witch-free state capital
Salem
Jennifer
$400 [30]
The Honey Maid brand of these is a trademark of Nabisco
Graham crackers
Bryan
$400 [17]
Victorious side in the U.S. Civil War
the North
Jason Bryan
$400 [7]
Olof Skotkonung, Gustav VI Adolf
Sweden
Bryan
$400 [12]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew describes what's happening at a soccer field in Johannesburg, South Africa.) It's awarded after a foul by defenders, & stopping it at over 60 mph is one of sport's great challenges; the ball will generally go the way the shooter's plant foot is pointed
a penalty kick
Jason
$600 [3]
A song in "Chicago" says, "Mister" this material "shoulda been my name... 'cause you can look right through me"
cellophane
Jennifer
$600 [23]
Seen here, the Bonneville Dam spans this river between Oregon & Washington
Columbia
Jason
$600 [27]
It's traditional to eat apple slices dipped in honey on this holy day that rings in the Jewish New Year
Rosh Hashanah
Jennifer
$600 [18]
Precedes "Queen" in the title of a No. 1 hit by Billy Ocean
Caribbean
Jennifer
$600 [8]
Wladvslaw II Jagiello, Casimir IV
Poland
Jason
$600 [13]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew describes what's happening at a soccer field in Johannesburg, South Africa.) Graze the bottom of the ball on one side to make the ball curve around defenders, with a kick named for this fruit
a banana
Bryan
$800 [4]
The name of this game comes from a French word for "cue"
billiards
Jennifer
$800 [25]
Oregon's breadbasket is this fertile valley named for the river that runs through it
the Willamette
Bryan
$800 [28]
A museum in Wisconsin displays over 5,200 varieties of this condiment, including honey, Creole & stone ground
mustard
Jennifer
$800 [19]
The emir Abd el-Kader wrote about the history of this horse breed
Arabian
Jason
$800 [9]
Fyodor I, False Dmitry I
Russia
$800 [21]
He led Brazil to 3 World Cup soccer titles & won an NASL title with the Cosmos
Pelé
Jason
$1,000 [5]
This adjective is used of land that is plowed but left unseeded for a season or more
fallow
Jason
$1,000 [26]
Named for a British admiral, it's the state's tallest mountain
Hood
Bryan
$1,000 [29]
This liqueur is made from a secret recipe of herbs, spices, heather honey & aged Scotch whisky
Drambuie
$1,000 [20]
This language is also called Gaelic or erse
Irish
Jason
DD $1,800 [10]
Hercule Grimaldi, Honore Grimaldi
Monaco
Jason
$1,000 [22]
Kicking the ball through a soccer defender's legs & recovering it on the other side is this move, also the name of a spice
nutmeg
Bryan

Double Jeopardy! Round

NUCLEAR ENERGY OSCAR-WINNING ACTRESSES SUPREME COURT JUSTICES PHOTOGRAPHERS WORLD AUTHORS "FOUR" LETTER WORDS
$400 [2]
This rate of radioactive decay can be a fraction of a second or billions of years; for plutonium-239, it's 24,000 years
a half-life
Jason
$400 [1]
"A Streetcar Named Desire" netted Kim Hunter a supporting actress Oscar for playing this character
Stella
Jason
$400 [19]
In 1921 he replaced fellow heavyweight Edward D. White, whom he had appointed Chief Justice in 1910
(William Howard) Taft
Jason
$400 [24]
Mike Mitchell's rare photos of this group's first U.S. concert on February 11, 1964 were auctioned by Christie's in 2011
the Beatles
Bryan
$400 [16]
In the 1920s this Brit bought a house that she named "Styles", after her novel "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"
(Agatha) Christie
Bryan
$400 [7]
A Lincolnesque way of saying 80
fourscore
Jennifer
$800 [3]
The 1st controlled nuclear reaction was produced in 1942 by using uranium & uranium oxide embedded in this soft carbon
graphite
Jason
$800 [8]
Olivia de Havilland lost out on supporting actress to Hattie McDaniel, both nominated for roles in this film
Gone with the Wind
Jennifer
$800 [20]
Thisjustice who served for 35 years shares his first two names with apostles
John Paul Stevens
Jason
$800 [25]
Patrick Farrell of this Miami paper won a 2009 Pulitzer for his images of the devastation caused by hurricane Ike
the ( Miami ) Herald
Jason
$800 [17]
This "Thorn Birds" author established the department of neurophysiology at a hospital in Sydney, Australia
Colleen McCullough
$800 [12]
2-word theater term for the imaginary item that separates the actors from the audience
the fourth wall
Jason
$1,200 [4]
In one type of fusion reactor, laser beams heat deuterium & tritium to create this fourth state of matter
plasma
Jason
$1,200 [9]
She won a supporting actress Oscar for her turn as the sassy Minny Jackson in "The Help"
Octavia Spencer
$1,200 [21]
A Reagan appointee, he has the most children of any justice on the current court with 9
Antonin Scalia
$1,200 [26]
In 1940 he & Edward Weston taught the U.S. Camera Photographic Forum, the first workshop in Yosemite
(Ansel) Adams
Bryan
$1,200 [18]
During WWII, this author of "The Plague" joined the French resistance
(Albert) Camus
Jason
$1,200 [13]
It's slang for 50 cents
four bits
Jason Jennifer
$1,600 [5]
This independent agency of the U.S. government licenses & oversees the construction of reactors
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
$1,600 [10]
She won an Oscar for playing Hanna, the older woman who loves "The Reader"
Kate Winslet
Jennifer
$1,600 [22]
The portrait of this Chief Justice, also the first Republican governor of Ohio, once graced the $10,000 bill
Salmon P. Chase
$1,600 [27]
The photographs in this 1992 coffee-table book by Madonna were taken by Steven Meisel & members of his studio
Sex
Jennifer
$1,600 [14]
The name of this small teacake is from the French for "small oven"
petit four
Jennifer
DD $5,000 [6]
The U.S. leads the world in operating nuclear reactors with 104, followed by this European country with 58
France
Jason
$2,000 [11]
Shewon an Oscar for playing Hana, the nurse to "The English Patient"
Juliette Binoche
Jennifer Bryan
DD $2,000 [23]
After World War I this justice headed a delegation of American Zionists to a conference in London
(Louis) Brandeis
Jason
$2,000 [15]
"Bathroom" term for a person who makes false or pretentious claims
a four flusher

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN ICONS

He has a Medal of Freedom, a Pulitzer Citation & membership in the Rock & Roll & Minnesota Music Halls of Fame

Bob Dylan

Bryan "Who is Clapton" — wagered $4,590
Jennifer "Who is Prince?" — wagered $3,800
Jason "Who is Prince?" — wagered $10,000

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