Show #6546 2013-02-18 (taped 2013-01-15) Tournament of Champions

2013 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

Dan McShane — a bartender from West Islip, New York

Kristin Morgan — a strategic analyst for NASA from Huntsville, Alabama

Keith Whitener — a research chemist originally from Charlotte, North Carolina

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Keith	$2,800	$4,200	$16,000	$26,601 Automatic semifinalist	$12,600 17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Kristin	$1,600	$5,600	$13,300	$17,500 3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated	$12,000 19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Dan	$2,000	$6,000	$12,400	$20,000 2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated	$12,200 18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

NATIONALITIES?	LITERARY TERMS	BING'S TOP SEARCHES: 2012	AN "IMP"ISH CATEGORY	MICRO	MANAGE
$200 [2] In this game played with marbles, the board is a 6-pointed star Chinese checkers Dan	$200 [4] By definition, an epistolary novel uses these to tell the story letters Keith	$200 [27] With its lineup of mighty superheroes, this was the most searched movie The Avengers Keith	$200 [13] A small airship, colonel a blimp Dan	$200 [1] The smallest one of these tables was etched on a hair that belonged to a chemistry professor a periodic table Dan	$200 [22] Last name of Arthur, who managed to get a 9,000-year lease on a brewery at St. James' gate, Dublin Guinness Keith
$400 [3] In the movie "The Deer Hunter", the Vietcong force 3 American POWs to play this high-risk game Russian roulette Kristin	$400 [6] Self-revealing narration is the heart of the Japanese genre that fittingly goes by this single-letter name I Keith	$400 [30] The most searched musician after Justin Bieber was this late "How Will I Know" singer Whitney Houston Kristin	$400 [14] Showing lack of favoritism impartial Keith	$400 [5] Ironically, the FBI's smallest field office, located in this state, covers the most territory of any office in the bureau Alaska Kristin	$400 [23] After he managed to circumnavigate the globe, he was personally knighted by Queen Elizabeth I (Sir Francis) Drake Dan
$600 [8] The original one of these had a blade, a reamer, a screwdriver & a can opener a Swiss Army knife Keith	$600 [12] A word meaning "ideal" derived from a 1516 work gets a new first syllable & becomes this adjective for an awful setting dystopian Keith Kristin Dan	$600 [16] Get on the dance floor & spell out for us this most searched charitable organization the YMCA Keith	$600 [15] The practice of one nation forcibly extending its territory into another imperialism Keith	$600 [7] In a novelty song, these 4 words precede "yellow polka dot bikini" itsy bitsy teenie weenie Kristin	$600 [24] He managed to manage the Philadelphia A's from 1901 until 1950, when he was 87 Connie Mack Dan
$800 [11] Despite its name, the heritage of this cake with coconut in its frosting isn't Bavarian German chocolate cake Kristin	$800 [18] 9-letter subgenre of sci-fi whose name includes a 19th century form of mechanical power steampunk Kristin	$800 [29] Not to judge but this competition was the most searched TV show of 2012 American Idol Keith	$800 [20] To pinch pie crust or put waves in hair crimp Kristin	$800 [9] Smallest republic: this island "N"ation that's a whopping 8.2 square miles in the Pacific Ocean Nauru Dan	$800 [25] Sir Edmund Hillary first managed to set foot on the summit of Mount Everest with this Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay Keith
$1,000 [17] The White Witch gives Edmund this sweet, the title of chapter 4 of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" Turkish delight Kristin	$1,000 [19] This long German word refers to a novel that deals with the formation of a young protagonist Bildungsroman Dan	$1,000 [28] Among the top 5 celebrity events was the birth of Lorenzo Lavalle, her son Snooki Dan	$1,000 [21] It's what the young medieval woman seenhereis wearing a wimple Kristin	DD $1,200 [10] This field covers the control of bits of matter smaller than 1 /100th the thickness of a sheet of paper nanotechnology Dan	$1,000 [26] Rejected for military service, Ernest Hemingway managed to get into WWI by driving an ambulance for this group the Red Cross Dan

Double Jeopardy! Round

NONFICTION	THE TV CHARACTER'S JOB	LET'S GO TO THE CIRCUS	LANDMARKS	IN THE DICTIONARY	1960s BLACK AMERICA
$400 [1] In "Through My Eyes", this quarterback talks about his life, faith & family values Tim Tebow Keith	$400 [14] Sam Malone, Nick Miller a bartender Dan	$400 [5] In 1859 Jules Leotard became the first daring young man to perform on this apparatus the trapeze Dan	$400 [4] Winding around 5,500 miles across deserts, mountains & plateaus, it was mostly built during the Ming dynasty the Great Wall of China Kristin	$400 [10] The name of this branch of math comes from words meaning "earth" & "measure" geometry Kristin	$400 [6] Lucius Amerson wore astaras the Deep South's first black one of these in a century a sheriff Kristin
$800 [2] This mountain climber & journalist's bestsellers include "Into the Wild" & "Into Thin Air" (Jon) Krakauer Keith	$800 [15] Ally McBeal, Denny Crane an attorney Kristin	$800 [7] In the 1700s Philip Astley standardized its diameter at 42 feet as the ideal size for a galloping horse a circus ring Dan	$800 [16] Even from space, these ancientedificesare pretty wonderful the pyramids Dan	$800 [30] Five-letter word for the puzzle seen here, consisting of pictures & letters a rebus Kristin	$800 [9] In 1969 black's opinion (Justice Hugo Black) was that this school practice should not "be tolerated another minute" segregation Kristin
$1,200 [3] In October 2012 Bill O'Reilly doubled up on the bestseller list with "Killing Lincoln" & this other murderous book Killing Kennedy Dan	$1,200 [13] Hayden Fox, Eric Taylor football coach Dan	$1,200 [8] David Smith Sr. once flew over 2 Ferris wheels, 201 feet up, as part of this act a human cannonball Keith	$1,200 [17] Jorn Utzon called this Australian landmark that he designed "a beautiful white shimmering thing" the Sydney Opera House Keith	$1,200 [27] Switch genders & misandry becomes this misogyny Keith	$1,600 [12] This new cabinet department was headed by the first African-American cabinet member, Robert Weaver Housing & Urban Development Dan
$1,600 [29] Her "Unbroken" was hailed by Time magazine as the best nonfiction book of 2010 Laura Hillenbrand	$1,600 [25] Frank "Ponch" Poncherello, Danny Reagan a cop (police officer) Kristin	$1,600 [23] This type of performer is a circus "wild man" with a gruesome act a geek Kristin	$2,000 [19] This Viennese palace where Mozart played when he was 6 is home to an annual Mozart festival Schönbrunn Palace	$1,600 [21] Just a few words apart: one is a city founded by the Phoenicians, the other a type of connective tissue Carthage & cartilage Kristin	$2,000 [22] (Alex reports from the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center.) In 1966, the new Metropolitan Opera House opened here at Lincoln Center with a world premiere featuring this African-American diva as Cleopatra Leontyne Price Kristin Dan
$2,000 [28] Classic by Studs Terkel in which "people talk about what they do all day & how they feel about what they do" Working	$2,000 [26] Ted Mosby, Mike Brady an architect Kristin	$2,000 [24] You'll enjoy the show less but learn more if you visit this organization's "How do circuses train animals?" FAQ PETA Dan	DD $5,000 [18] Architect Guarino Guarini designed the Cappella Della Sacra Sindone to house this relic the Shroud of Turin Keith	$2,000 [20] It's a 4-letter word for a small bouquet of flowers a posy Keith	DD $2,500 [11] In March 1964 he broke with the Nation of Islam Malcolm X Kristin

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD CAPITALS

Alphabetically, Zagreb is the last world capital; this capital of a former Soviet republic is second to last

Yerevan

Dan "What is Yerevan?" — wagered $7,600

Kristin "What is Yerevan?" — wagered $4,200

Keith "What is Yerevan?" — wagered $10,601

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