Show #6515 2013-01-04 (taped 2012-09-19) Regular

Ashok Poozhikunnel game 2.

Contestants

Alison Shapiro — a publicist from Santa Monica, California

Michele Myers Beuerlein — a research assistant from Cincinnati, Ohio

Ashok Poozhikunnel — an underwriter from Wheaton, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ashok $4,000 $8,800 $24,600 $18,001
2-day champion: $39,601
$22,000
25 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Michele $2,200 $3,400 $5,000 $10,000
3rd place: $1,000
$5,000
10 R, 2 W
Alison $800 $4,800 $9,000 $12,999
2nd place: $2,000
$10,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

NEWSPAPERS AFRICAN CITIES MEN'S HAIRSTYLES FILMS BY SUBTITLE HISTORICAL QUOTES "CAT" OR "DOG"?
$200 [4]
The dominant paper in our nation's capital, it's among the top 10 U.S. papers in circulation
The Washington Post
Ashok
$200 [1]
Several bridges, including El Tahrir, cross the Nile in this capital
Cairo
Ashok
$200 [26]
What you're seeing is the hairstyle created when 500,000 of these pass through your body
volts
Alison
$200 [22]
"International Man of Mystery"
Austin Powers
Ashok
$200 [9]
Concerning this failed operation, JFK said, "the Cuban people have not yet spoken their final piece"
the Bay of Pigs
Ashok
$200 [7]
On "Jeopardy!", it consists of 5 clues
the category
Alison
$400 [18]
Early in their careers, Mark Twain & Bret Harte wrote pieces for this California city's Chronicle
San Francisco
Ashok
$400 [2]
This port is the southernmost of South Africa's 3 capitals
Cape Town
Alison
$400 [27]
Don't wig out--this monarch from 1643 to 1715 had dozens of wig makers working for him
Louis XIV
Ashok
$400 [23]
"How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"
Dr. Strangelove
Michele
$400 [10]
As reported by Hernan Cortes in a 1522 dispatch, these people said that "by no means would they give themselves up"
the Aztecs
Michele
$400 [8]
Trivial or undignified verse
doggerel
Michele
$600 [19]
This Georgia newspaper is known as The AJC for short
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Alison
DD $400 [3]
The name of this largest Moroccan city combines 2 Spanish words
Casablanca
Alison
$600 [28]
In a painting by Matthias Stom, this biblical figure is in theprocessof becoming dis-tressed
Samson
Alison
$600 [15]
"The First Avenger"
Captain America
Ashok
$600 [14]
In a 1959 American kitchen exhibit in Moscow, he told Khrushchev, "In America, we like to make life easier for women"
Nixon
Michele
$600 [11]
To jump on top of another person, often in a group
dog pile
Alison
$800 [20]
Daniel Hertzberg & James B. Stewart of this paper shared a 1988 Pulitzer for their stories about insider trading
The Wall Street Journal
Alison
$800 [5]
Wooden 2-story verandas in this Liberian capital are an architectural link to the U.S. South
Monrovia
Ashok Alison
$800 [29]
In 1786 Gilbert Stuartpainted Chief Joseph Brant, who was--go figure--head of this tribe
Mohawk
Michele
$800 [24]
"The Ballad of Ricky Bobby"
Talladega Nights
Alison
$800 [16]
After the fall of France in 1940, this general told his country, "France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war"
(Charles) de Gaulle
Ashok
$800 [12]
Asserting an opinion in an authoritative manner
dogmatically
Michele
$1,000 [21]
In 1840 Horace Greeley began publishing "The Log Cabin", a weekly campaign paper in support of this Whig candidate
William Henry Harrison
Ashok
$1,000 [6]
Named for a 19th century queen, this capital of the Seychelles has fewer than 30,000 people
Victoria
Ashok
$1,000 [30]
The hairdo of this comic-strip prince has gone in & out of fashion
Prince Valiant
Alison
$1,000 [25]
"The Far Side of the World"
Master and Commander
Ashok
$1,000 [17]
In 1888 this chancellor told the Reichstag, "We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world"
(Otto von) Bismarck
Ashok
$1,000 [13]
High-deductible health insurance only useful in case of utter disaster
catastrophic
Ashok

Double Jeopardy! Round

LET ME PREFACE THAT COMPLETE DOME-INATION POTPOURRI MUSICAL NUMBERS I'M BURNIN' FOR YOU 10-LETTER WORDS
$800 [15]
"Those awful young women capering at the hotel-door, they are the real little Daisy Millers that were"
(Henry) James
Ashok
$400 [4]
This New Orleans venue reopened Sept. 25, 2006
the Superdome
Alison
$400 [10]
Large specimens of this marsupial can leap over barriers 6 feet high
kangaroos
Michele
$400 [19]
Adam Ant:"Goody ____ Shoes"
Two
Alison
$400 [16]
Pierre Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais, presided over the trial of this woman who went up in smoke May 30, 1431
Joan of Arc
Michele
$400 [21]
In Olympic gymnastic events, it precedes "all-around men" & "all-around women"
individual
$1,200 [1]
"'Jude the Obscure' is simply an endeavour to give shape... to a series of... personal impressions"
Thomas Hardy
Alison
DD $1,000 [5]
This Wisconsin city claims to have built the USA's only granite dome
Madison
Alison
$800 [11]
One of the N.Y. Times' headlines on this landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision was "Cardinals Shocked"
Roe v. Wade
Ashok
$800 [20]
Steely Dan:"Hey ____"
Nineteen
Alison
$800 [17]
Nicholas Ridley, who supported Lady Jane Grey, got burned when this "Bloody" British queen took the throne
Mary
Alison
$800 [22]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Newseum in Washington, D.C.)Thisinvention sped up the flow of news from behind the beyond; in 2001, this one sent the only real-time images of U.S. surveillance personnel being freed from China
a videophone
$1,600 [2]
"Some of the characters in these pages are chosen from the most criminal and degraded... Sikes is a thief"
Charles Dickens
Alison
$1,200 [6]
Thissacred structure dates from the late 600s A.D.
the Dome of the Rock
Alison
$1,200 [9]
Because of the way he became president, John Tyler's opponents nicknamed him "His" this
"Accidency"
Ashok
$1,200 [23]
T-Pain featuring Wiz Khalifa & Lily Allen:"____ O'Clock"
5
Ashok
$1,200 [18]
William Tyndale, who completed his English translation of this in 1525, was burned in Brussels in 1536
the New Testament
Ashok Michele Alison
$1,200 [25]
This "botanical" interchange is where 2 highways meet
a cloverleaf
Ashok
$2,000 [3]
"Erewhon is pronounced as a word of three syllables, all short"
Samuel Butler
Michele
$1,600 [7]
Syracuse Univ.'s domed stadium is named for this air-conditioning company that paid $2.75 million for the rights
(the) Carrier (Corporation)
Ashok
$1,600 [12]
In 2011 bell ringers for this charity started accepting digital donations to its red kettle
the Salvation Army
Alison
$1,600 [24]
Public Enemy:"____ Is A Joke"
911
$1,600 [28]
In 1612 Edward Wightman became the last person to be burned in England as this religious criminal
a heretic
Ashok
$1,600 [26]
The gangster who actually moves his finger to carry out a hit while the guy who planned it might be elsewhere
a triggerman
Ashok
DD $3,000 [14]
"The tribe... was a mighty people, called the 'Mahicanni,' or, more commonly, the 'Mohicans'"
(James Fenimore) Cooper
Ashok
$2,000 [8]
The structure seen here, in this city, is technically not a dome since it uses masts & cables for support
London
Michele
$2,000 [13]
After Elizabeth's death in 1603, the crown passed to King James, the first of this royal house to rule England
Stuart
Ashok
$2,000 [30]
The Proclaimers:"I'm Gonna Be (____ Miles)"
500
Michele
$2,000 [29]
France's Philip IV--known as "The Fair"--had Jacques de Molay, the last grand master of this order, burned in 1314
the Knights Templar
Ashok
$2,000 [27]
This term for a shabbily clothed, dirty child is the name of a demon in the poem "Piers Plowman"
ragamuffin

Final Jeopardy!

IMAGINARY CHARACTERS

For a 1912 play they were dubbed Blick, Flick, Glick, Snick, Plick, Whick & Quee; 25 years later, they got new names

the Seven Dwarfs

Michele "Who are the Seven Dwarves" — wagered $5,000
Alison "Who are the Seven Dwarves?" — wagered $3,999
Ashok "Who are the Munchkins?" — wagered $6,599

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