Show #6508 2012-12-26 (taped 2012-09-18) Regular

Contestants

Debra Newman — a psychologist from Pound Ridge, New York

Gonzalo Rufatt — a financial advisor from Santa Fe, New Mexico

Kris Hamilton — a computer technician from Dublin, Ohio (whose 2-day cash winnings total $37,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kris $1,000 $6,400 $17,300 $23,300
3-day champion: $60,301
$21,600
32 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 2 DDs)
Gonzalo $800 $2,000 $5,600 $10,000
2nd place: $2,000
$5,600
9 R, 1 W
Debra $1,600 $2,800 $0 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$0
7 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

A BUNCH OF IDIOMS MEDICAL EQUIPMENT 1892 RESTAURANTS BY SLOGAN TALK OF THE TOWN THEIR SOLE OSCAR NOMINATION
$200 [5]
Another way of saying "the whole kit & caboodle" is "lock, stock &" this
barrel
Kris
$200 [26]
An ECG measures the electrical activity of the heart, while an EEG measures the activity of this organ
the brain
Gonzalo
$200 [21]
On January 20 this sport's first official game was played at the Springfield, Massachusetts YMCA gymnasium
basketball
Kris
$200 [18]
"Eat fresh"
Subway
Kris
$200 [1]
Milton called it "the eye of Greece, mother of arts & eloquence"
Athens
Kris
$200 [11]
Liam Neeson,1993
Schindler's List
Gonzalo
$400 [6]
Beware of this idiom, seen here
the wolf in sheep's clothing
Kris
$400 [27]
Alexander Wood, who invented the hollow-needled hypodermic one of these, became a morphine addict
the syringe
Kris
$400 [22]
On January 1 teenager Annie Moore from Ireland became the first of millions of immigrants to pass through here
Ellis Island
Kris
$400 [17]
"Everything you love about breakfast"
IHOP
Kris Debra
$400 [2]
Dorothy Parker is said to have described it as "72 suburbs in search of a city"
Los Angeles
Kris
$400 [12]
Dudley Moore,1981
Arthur
Kris
$600 [7]
To get your kids up & moving, you might tell them, "don't sit there like a bump on" this
a log
Gonzalo
$600 [28]
In 1977 Raymond Damadian constructed the first one of these full-body magnetic scanners, naming it "indomitable"
an MRI
Kris
$600 [23]
This cotton pest first reached the U.S. when it crossed over the Mexican border into Texas
the boll weevil
Kris
$600 [16]
"Think outside the bun" is dead! Long live "Live mas"
Taco Bell
Kris
$600 [3]
According to Samuel Johnson, "when a man is tired of" this city, "he is tired of life"
London
Kris
$600 [13]
Haley Joel Osment,1999
The Sixth Sense
Kris
$800 [8]
It's the same either way with this idiom
six of one, half dozen of another
Debra
$800 [29]
A tonometer, which tests hydrostatic pressure within the eye, is used to detect this condition
glaucoma
Debra
$800 [24]
The Homestead Strike at one of this tycoon's steel plants was broken, setting back the union movement
Carnegie
Kris
$800 [19]
"When you're here, you're family"
Olive Garden
$800 [4]
"I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday", wrote this mystery novelist; maybe the town put him into a "Big Sleep"
Raymond Chandler
Kris Debra
$800 [14]
As a son, Dan Aykroyd,1989
Driving Miss Daisy
$1,000 [9]
When it comes to bureaucratic rules, you've probably learned "you can't fight" this place
city hall
Kris
$1,000 [30]
The bulldog type of this is used to clamp an artery or vein to stop blood flow
a hemostat (or forceps)
Kris
$1,000 [25]
Homer Plessy was arrested in June for sitting in a whites-only R.R. car, leading to this Supreme Court case
Plessy v. Ferguson
Gonzalo
$1,000 [20]
"No rules. Just right"
Outback Steakhouse
Kris
DD $800 [10]
Hemingway wrote that if you've lived in Paris as a young man, "wherever you go...it stays with you, for Paris is" this book title
A Moveable Feast
Kris
$1,000 [15]
As a rancher, Rock Hudson,1956
Giant

Double Jeopardy! Round

BANGLADESH NOTORIOUS WOMEN SHIP SHAPE THE ARTS STARTS WITH "C" THEIR SOUL GRAMMY NOMINATION
$400 [21]
Seafood is naturally important to the economy, as Bangladesh has 360 miles of coast along this bay
the Bay of Bengal
Gonzalo
$400 [14]
During her crime spree with Clyde, she sent samples of her poetry to newspapers
Bonnie Parker
Gonzalo
$400 [9]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l Maritime Museum in Sydney, Australia.) The CLS4 Carpenteria was built in 1917 to be a floating one of these; a sunlight-operated valve on the unmanned ship turned on the acetylene beacon
a lighthouse
Kris
$400 [6]
This French art movement held its first show in 1874
Impressionism
Kris
$400 [1]
Traditionally, it's what you're told to say so you'll be smiling in a photograph
cheese
Kris
$400 [26]
Oh, yeah, baby...his "Theme From 'Shaft'" was nominated & won in 1971
(Isaac) Hayes
Debra
$800 [22]
This country is the main destination for Bangladeshi exports
the United States
Kris Debra
$800 [15]
Nicknamed "Squeaky", this Charles Manson follower tried to assassinate President Ford in 1975
(Lynette) Fromme
Kris
$800 [10]
This German battleship was launched on February 14, 1939 & sunk by the British 2 years later
the Bismarck
Kris
DD $600 [8]
"Neptune, the Mystic" ends this Gustav Holst work
The Planets
Kris
$800 [2]
Jane Austen's writing room door made this noise, which she liked because it warned her of visitors
a creak
Kris
$800 [27]
It was just him, without the Miracles, nominated in 1987 for "Just To See Her"
Smokey Robinson
Kris
$1,200 [23]
Major industries of Bangladesh include tea processing & the manufacture of these, like jute
textiles (fibers accepted)
Gonzalo
$1,200 [16]
Not notorious herself, she played serial killer Aileen Wuornos in the movie "Monster"
Charlize Theron
Kris
$1,200 [11]
While protesting nuclear testing in the Pacific, this Greenpeace ship was sunk in 1985 by agents of the French govt.
Rainbow Warrior
$800 [7]
In 1928 he composed "Bolero" as a ballet
(Maurice) Ravel
Kris
$1,200 [3]
14-letter term for the 1960s movement opposed to mainstream American society
the counterculture
Kris
$1,200 [28]
I heard it through the grapevine that this soulful legend was nominated in 1982 for "Sexual Healing"
Marvin Gaye
Kris
$1,600 [24]
Subject to flooding, Bangladesh is on the flood plain of this river, which joins with the Brahmaputra
the Ganges
$1,600 [17]
When Anna Sage betrayed this gangster on July 22, 1934, she was not dressed in red but wore an orange skirt
John Dillinger
Gonzalo Debra
$2,000 [13]
It was hijacked in 1985 by Palestinian terrorists who killed American Leon Klinghoffer
the Achille Lauro
Kris Debra
$1,600 [19]
In 2012 Joshua Bell played this instrument at the grand opening of Vegas' Smith Center for the Performing Arts
the violin
Kris
$1,600 [4]
These devices used to measure thickness can be "inside" or "outside"
calipers
Debra
$1,600 [29]
It wasn't the Soul Train but this train that got Gladys Knight & the Pips nominated in 1973
a "Midnight Train To Georgia"
Kris
$2,000 [25]
Following its conquest by Muslim invaders, Bangladesh became part of this empire in the 16th century
the Mughal Empire
Gonzalo Debra
$2,000 [18]
This third wife of Emperor Claudius "mess"ed around with a lot of men & tried to get one on the throne, but it didn't work
Messalina
DD $2,900 [12]
In June 1787 this ship's interior was converted to house pots holding breadfruit plants
the (HMS) Bounty
Kris
$2,000 [20]
The 1824 countryside painting "The Lock" is his costliest, going for $35 million in 2012
(John) Constable
Gonzalo
$2,000 [5]
In music recording, this "track" sets the tempo
the click track
$2,000 [30]
1974 was good to this "Tell Me Something Good" soul group that featured Chaka Khan
Rufus

Final Jeopardy!

LITERARY FIRST LINES

"You better not never tell nobody but God", begins this 1982 novel, whose film version garnered 11 Oscar nominations

The Color Purple

Gonzalo "What is "The Color Purple?"" — wagered $4,400
Kris "What is The Color Purple" — wagered $6,000

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