Show #6516 2013-01-07 (taped 2012-10-15) Regular

Ashok Poozhikunnel game 3.

Contestants

Steve Money — an international education specialist from Washington, D.C.

Wendy Hayes — a project specialist from Kansas City, Missouri

Ashok Poozhikunnel — an underwriter from Wheaton, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $39,601)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Ashok	$3,000	$2,800	$18,800	$26,001 3-day champion: $65,602	$19,600 21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Wendy	$2,600	$2,800	$2,400	$4,000 3rd place: $1,000	$2,400 11 R, 2 W
Steve	$1,200	$6,200	$13,000	$19,000 2nd place: $2,000	$12,800 16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

HOW DO YOU?	ORIGINAL OPERA TITLES	RULE OF THIRDS	UCLA CELEBRITY ALUMNI	4-SYLLABLE WORDS	2000: THE YEAR IN QUOTATIONS
$200 [13] Purse your lips into a small "O" shape, place your tongue behind your bottom teeth, gently blow out air (How do you) whistle Steve	$200 [1] Rossini: "Guillaume Tell" William Tell Wendy	$200 [2] Kentucky Derby, Preakness... The Belmont Stakes Ashok	$200 [23] This blonde beauty who reprised her role as Amanda on the new "Melrose Place" was a psychology major Heather Locklear Wendy	$200 [4] Mission: this 10-letter word meaning hopelessly difficult; the clue will self-destruct in one second impossible Ashok	$200 [18] His State of the Union speech: "Never before has our nation enjoyed... so much prosperity... and so few external threats" Bill Clinton Wendy Steve
$400 [14] Cover the "Free" space on your card, listen to the host call letters & numbers, yell the winning word if you complete a line play bingo Ashok	$400 [12] Mozart: "Le Nozze di Figaro " The Marriage of Figaro Steve	$400 [3] The id, the ego... the superego Wendy	$400 [24] For the brief time he attended, he was a rebel with a cause, even landing a lead role in a 1950 stage production (James) Dean Ashok	$400 [5] It takes a very steady hand... this term for a medical procedure also describes a math process like addition operation Wendy	$400 [19] "We reverse the judgment of the Supreme Court of" this state "ordering a recount to proceed" Florida Steve
$600 [15] Start by gathering enough gopher wood to construct a 450 x 75 x 45-foot boat build an ark Wendy	$600 [26] Offenbach: "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" The Tales of Hoffmann Ashok	$600 [6] Purgatorio, paradiso... inferno Ashok	$600 [25] Attending UCLA in the '60s, he was no "Meathead", he just played one later on television Rob Reiner	$600 [9] Term for a document that comes before "of deposit" & after "birth" certificate Steve	$600 [20] In January, the spokesman for a presidential council on this computer issue: "It's a lot quieter" Y2K Wendy
$800 [16] Melt butter, melt in marshmallows, add breakfast cereal, stir, press flat & cut into squares make Rice Krispie Treats Ashok Steve	$800 [27] Wagner: " Gotter-dammerung " Twilight of the Gods Wendy	$800 [7] In credit rating: Fitch, Moody's... Standard & Poor's Ashok	$800 [29] This woman who won consecutive heptathlons at the Olympics went to UCLA on a basketball scholarship Jackie Joyner-Kersee Ashok	$800 [10] Also a physiological term, it's the distribution of copies of a periodical among readers circulation Ashok	$800 [21] A congressman: "Regardless of whether we grant normal trade status to" this vast country, its "market is opening" China Steve
$1,000 [17] Open the airflow valve slowly, note the reading when you first hear the pulse & again when you can no longer hear it take someone's blood pressure Steve	$1,000 [28] Puccini: "La Fanciulla del West" Girl of the Golden West	$1,000 [8] In the body: stirrup, hammer... anvil Wendy	$1,000 [30] Neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler on "The Big Bang Theory", in real life she has a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA Mayim Bialik Steve	$1,000 [11] A collection of monkeys & mambas on exhibit a menagerie	DD $1,200 [22] This country's president, in an address to the Knesset: "I am asking forgiveness ...for myself and my generation" Germany Steve

Double Jeopardy! Round

IT'S PLAY TIME	DAYS OF YORE	ACTORS WHO DIRECT	FEMALE FIRSTS	AMERICAN REGIONALISMS	HOLD THE FORT!
$400 [6] In a Sophocles play, Jocasta hangs herself when she realizes that her husband & her son are both this title guy Oedipus Wendy	$400 [1] The object that caused quite a stir as the "Great Comet" of 1531" is now known as this Halley's Comet Ashok	$400 [16] 1941: "Citizen Kane" Orson Welles Steve	$400 [11] In 1935 she became the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland (Amelia) Earhart Steve	$400 [21] Whether it's a trash mover, a toad strangler or a gully washer, a hard one of these is about to fall a rain Wendy	$400 [23] This fort south of Louisville currently houses more than 140 million ounces of gold Fort Knox Wendy
$800 [7] This playwright's "The Importance of Being Earnest" was back on Broadway in 2011, 116 years after its debut there (Oscar) Wilde Ashok	$1,200 [3] In 1505 this writer established a Florentine militia Machiavelli Ashok	$800 [17] 2012:"Madea's Witness Protection" (Tyler) Perry Steve	$800 [12] In 1809 Mary Kies became the first woman to receive one of these, for a method of weaving straw a patent Ashok	$800 [22] Chesterfield & daveno are words for this piece of furniture a sofa	$800 [24] Fort Abraham Lincoln was established in 1872 to protect the survey crews & workers who were building this as it advanced west across the Dakota Territory & beyond the (Transcontinental) Railroad Steve
$1,200 [8] "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" in the first scene tells us things are not as they should be in this Shakespeare tragedy Macbeth Ashok	$1,600 [4] Legend has it that around 550 Byzantine ruler Justinian sent monks to China to smuggle out these lepidopterans silkworms Wendy	$1,200 [18] 1996: "Sling Blade" Billy Bob Thornton Ashok	$1,200 [13] In 1989 reverend Barbara Harris of Boston became the first female bishop in this Protestant church the Episcopal church Ashok	$1,200 [28] If a fluffernutter or a grinder is on the menu, you're about to enjoy one of these a sandwich Steve	$1,200 [25] What's called "Fort Sam" for short is named for him Fort Sam Houston Steve
$1,600 [9] Annie Sullivan spells out "water", "egg" & "mug" for her pupil in living up to the title of this play The Miracle Worker Ashok	$2,000 [5] 9th century English King Alfred the Great is said to have used calibrated candles to measure this time	$1,600 [19] 2000: "Pollock" Ed Harris	$2,000 [15] The first female White House press secretary, sheserved in 1993 & 1994 (Dee Dee) Myers Steve	$1,600 [29] Mosquito hawk & globe-skimmer are terms for this "fly" with distinctive wings a dragonfly Ashok	$1,600 [26] Troops are both mobilized & demobilized at this fort about 15 miles southeast of Trenton Fort Dix
$2,000 [10] Proteus syndrome may have been the cause of the deformities of the title character of this 1979 play The Elephant Man Ashok	DD $3,000 [2] This mixture of potassium nitrate, sulfur & charcoal was perfected by the Chinese around 1000 A.D. gunpowder Ashok	$2,000 [20] 2001: "Zoolander" Ben Stiller Ashok	DD $3,000 [14] The first to be named Time magazine's Woman of the Year, she soon married ex-British king Edward VIII Wallis Warfield Simpson Ashok	$2,000 [30] It's a New Englandism for what the rest of us call a milkshake a frappe	$2,000 [27] George Washington led the building of Fort Necessity in 1754 during this war the French & Indian War Ashok

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN SPORTS LEGENDS

A bio from 1974, 26 years after his death, quotes him: "I swing big... I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can"

Babe Ruth

Wendy "Who is Babe Ruth?" — wagered $1,600

Steve "Who is Babe Ruth" — wagered $6,000

Ashok "Who is Babe Ruth?" — wagered $7,201

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