Show #6497 2012-12-11 (taped 2012-09-04) Regular

Contestants

Rachel Shuman — a curriculum coordinator from Silver Spring, Maryland

Jan Rishoi — an analytic software sales executive from Ann Arbor, Michigan

Josh Frumkin — a non-profit assistant director of donor relations from Germantown, Maryland (whose 2-day cash winnings total $43,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Josh $4,200 $5,200 $12,000 $799
3rd place: $1,000
$12,000
19 R, 0 W
Jan $1,200 $0 $9,600 $4,200
2nd place: $2,000
$7,600
12 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Rachel $2,000 $3,800 $11,600 $19,600
New champion: $19,600
$14,600
13 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE SIGHTS YOU'LL SEE! PATRON SAINTS MOVIE CROSSWORD CLUES "R" ANTHROPOLOGY ON THE JOB IN BRITAIN I CAN ALMOST TASTE THAT WORD
$200 [6]
A giant statue of this logger & Babe the blue ox greet visitors to the Trees of Mystery in Klamath, California
Paul Bunyan
Josh
$200 [26]
St. Patrick:This country
Ireland
Jan
$200 [1]
1976 Stallone pug(5)
Rocky
Josh
$200 [19]
This term can mean a native of any region, but usually it's applied to the indigenous peoples of Down Under
aborigine
Josh
$200 [16]
Send not to know for whom this tolls; a knoller tolled it for thee
a bell
Josh
$200 [11]
Adjective for racy humor or life at sea
salty
Josh Jan
$400 [7]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds up a rock in front of an exhibit on Rocks from Space at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, MA.) The Harvard Museum has many more impressivemeteoritesbut none more interesting: after an explosion blew it free, it took about 3 million years to make its way to Earth from this planet that orbits about 50 million miles away
Mars
Josh
$400 [27]
St. Thomas Aquinas:These institutions, like one named for him in Grand Rapids
a college
$400 [2]
Bill Maher's 2008 documentary(10)
Religulous
Josh
$400 [20]
It's a culture-specific prohibition of certain behavior, like...well, things we don't talk about
taboo
Rachel
$400 [17]
Hey, Don! Even mad men know a clerk who sold clothing & dry goods did this 6-letter job
a draper
Jan
$400 [12]
One of the 4 basic tastes, it's also a noun for a basic type of cocktail
sour
Rachel
$600 [8]
Visiting Philly? Take a tour of 239 Arch Street, the house where it's said this woman lived from 1773 to 1785
Betsy Ross
Jan
$600 [28]
St. Francis of Assisi:This "saintly" U.S. state capital
Santa Fe
$600 [3]
Brad Pitt spy spoof "Burn After ____"(7)
Reading
Rachel
$600 [23]
This term for a basic social unit of parents & their offspring sounds like they are radioactive
a nuclear family
Rachel
$600 [18]
Like their brethren in West Virginia, colliers went down, down, down to work in this place
a coal mine
Josh
$600 [13]
This 10-letter word that means "sugary" is one letter longer than the name of a sugar substitute
saccharine
$800 [9]
One of the largest public displays of these dwarfed trees outside of Japan is at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
bonsai
Rachel
DD $800 [29]
St. Andrew:This profession he practiced for a living
a fisherman
Jan
$800 [4]
For bike messengers it's "premium"(4)
rush
Josh
$800 [24]
This type of social group, from the Greek for "nation", is linked by language, culture, origin or religion
an ethnicity (or ethnic group)
Rachel
$800 [21]
There were wax & tallow subspecialties of this, a word meaning candlemaker
chandler
$800 [14]
Everyone wants quesadillas to be this adjective; you don't want your screenplay described that way
cheesy
Jan
$1,000 [10]
Natural Bridge, Virginia is home to an exact foam replica of this circular landmark on an English plain
Stonehenge
Josh
$1,000 [5]
Suave Snape portrayer Alan(7)
Rickman
Josh
$1,000 [25]
The Taung baby, discovered in 1924, was the first fossil ever found of this "southern" genus, species africanus
Australopithecus
Jan
$1,000 [22]
In the British army, a soldier assigned to an officer as a servant had this job, also the name of a comic book hero
batman
$1,000 [15]
In this word that means "without taste", every other letter spells "bad"
bland
Rachel

Double Jeopardy! Round

"WHITE" MATTER 19th CENTURY AMERICANS LET'S GO CAROLING THE BEAT MOVEMENT IN THE DICTIONARY I GOT A BRIDGE I'D LIKE TO SELL YOU
$400 [2]
Get a load of the jaws on this predator seen here
a great white shark
Josh
$400 [7]
One of this circus man's 1st exhibits was Joice Heth, who claimed to be the 161-year-old nurse of George Washington
(P.T.) Barnum
Josh
$400 [1]
"Hark" when I tell you its music was adapted from a Mendelssohn cantata commemorating the printing press
"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"
Josh
$400 [19]
Many beat writers such as Gary Snyder were involved in this eastern religion, particularly the Zen form
Buddhism
Josh
$400 [12]
To invest with the functions of a priest
ordain
Rachel
$1,200 [28]
It's already been sold & moved across the ocean to Arizona; if you've got the "capital", it's yours
London Bridge
Josh
$800 [3]
Architect James Hoban modeled this building after Leinster House in Dublin
the White House
Jan
$800 [8]
In 1848 he sold his song "Oh! Susanna" for $100
(Stephen) Foster
Rachel
$800 [15]
In "A Christmas Carol", Scrooge scares a caroler singing this song; so much for "comfort and joy"
"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"
Jan
$800 [20]
Seen here, Neal Cassady never wrote a novel but inspired some including this one that depicts him as Dean Moriarty
On the Road
Josh Jan
$800 [13]
To bring a formal charge or accusation againstbefore trial
indict
Jan
$1,600 [27]
Named for the unhappy sounds prisoners made when crossing it, this Venice bridge is 400 years old & priced to move
the Bridge of Sighs
Rachel
$1,200 [4]
From 1901 to 1931 they were owned by Charles Comiskey
the Chicago White Sox
Jan
$1,200 [9]
Hailing from New Hampshire, he's the orator & statesman seen here
(Daniel) Webster
Rachel
$1,600 [17]
This carol uses "Greensleeves" as its melody & 3 verses of the William Dix poem "The Manger Throne" for lyrics
"What Child Is This?"
$1,200 [21]
Beat writer Gregory Corso was born on Bleecker Street in this NYC neighborhood where the beatniks gathered
Greenwich Village
Jan
$1,200 [14]
Get on "track" & name this adjective describing someone from Scandinavia
nordic
Josh
$2,000 [26]
Relax, it's only a little torsional oscillation here, in 1940, at Tacoma Narrows Bridge over this body of water
Puget Sound
Jan
$1,600 [5]
Bechamel, for example
a white sauce
Jan
$2,000 [11]
Last of the Whigs was a nickname of this president
Fillmore
Rachel
$2,000 [18]
Meaning to sing heartily, it's what we do to "the ancient yuletide carol" in "Deck The Halls"
troll
Jan
$1,600 [22]
In 1953 this grandson of an adding machine company founder published "Junkie", his first novel
William S. Burroughs
$1,600 [25]
A close pal or buddy; a political one often gets a plum job
a crony
Rachel
$2,000 [6]
In a 1906 novel Weedon Scott rescues & tames this wild wolf-dog
White Fang
Josh
DD $3,000 [10]
An 1877 cartoon showed 12 widows crying in bed, mourning the death of this man
Brigham Young
Rachel
DD $4,000 [16]
The view of a certain Middle Eastern city inspired Pastor Phillips Brooks to write this carol in 1868
"O Little Town Of Bethlehem"
Jan
$2,000 [23]
"A Supermarket in California", an ode to Walt Whitman, was one of the other poems included in this 1956 Ginsberg work
Howl
Rachel
$2,000 [24]
Macbeth says life is "a tale told by" this type of person
an idiot
Rachel

Final Jeopardy!

BUSINESSMEN

Thomas Watson Jr. appeared on the March 28, 1955 cover of Time with the caption "Clink. Clank." This

Think

Jan "What is IBM" — wagered $5,400
Rachel "What is Think" — wagered $8,000
Josh "What is Computer?" — wagered $11,201

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