Show #6576 2013-04-01 (taped 2012-11-27) Regular

Rebecca Rider game 3.

Contestants

Alex Stoy — a student from Tarzana, California

Jim Craner — a website developer from Riverton, Illinois

Rebecca Rider — an office supply sales assistant from Fresh Meadows, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $46,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Rebecca $1,600 $6,000 $19,200 $33,800
3-day champion: $80,200
$19,200
22 R, 0 W
Jim $1,600 $3,200 $16,800 $8,800
2nd place: $2,000
$14,800
19 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Alex $5,500 $5,500 $4,300 $8,500
3rd place: $1,000
$3,800
13 R (including 1 DD), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

GIRTH OF A NATION THANK "Q" VERY MUCH PAPER GOOD EATS THE U.S. CONSTITUTION & HERE'S YOUR HOST...
$200 [11]
15,147 miles of South American borders & coastline
Brazil
Rebecca
$200 [1]
A medical fake
a quack
Alex
$200 [17]
Term for the name & address of an organization as printed on its official stationery
letterhead
Jim
$200 [22]
The blue, soft-shelled type of this is a Maryland specialty
crab
Rebecca
$200 [3]
Article II, section 2 gives the president this military title
Commander in Chief
Alex
$200 [16]
This "Idol" host with a variety of showbiz interests made $61 million from May 2010 to May 2011
Ryan Seacrest
Rebecca
$400 [12]
861 miles of border with France, Germany, Luxembourg & the Netherlands
Belgium
Jim Alex
$400 [2]
Let's go swim in this empty pit where building stone was dug
quarry
Alex
$400 [18]
Wish you weren't here--in 1998 $24,000 was paid for one of these travel mementos from the Titanic
a postcard
Jim
$400 [23]
Paper-thin slices of this ham from Parma, Italy are often paired with figs or melon
prosciutto
Jim
$400 [4]
This Founding Father signed the Constitution as "Presidt and deputy from Virginia"
(George) Washington
Rebecca Alex
$400 [27]
This Comedy Central political pundit explored running for "the president of the United States of South Carolina"
Stephen Colbert
Rebecca
$600 [13]
3,099 miles of coastline, including Siglufjordhur & Cape Reykjanes
Iceland
Alex
$600 [8]
A strict isolation to prevent the spread of disease
quarantine
Jim
$600 [19]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Rarely used in the Computer Age, it's the "elemental" method I used to make this copy
carbon copying
Rebecca
$600 [24]
Spanish for "roasted meat", it's a Mexican specialty of thin beef strips, eaten on its own or in tacos or burritos
carne asada
Rebecca
$600 [5]
The term of office for the president & vice president shall end at this time on the 20th of January
noon
Jim
$600 [28]
When he's not snuffing out torches, this new talk show host hopes guests "Say Yes" to an "Ambush Adventure"
Probst
Rebecca
$800 [14]
It doesn't need to diet; it has just 75 miles of border, all with Spain & France
Andorra
Alex
$800 [9]
A significant or sudden advance is said to be this kind of "leap"
quantum
Alex
$800 [20]
This word for a small, folded promotional paper pamphlet is from the French for "stitched together"
a brochure
Rebecca
$800 [25]
This Southern favorite is a thin cut of beef dredged in flour, cooked in hot oil 'til crisp & topped with country gravy
chicken fried steak
Jim
$800 [6]
Each house of the legislature may expel a member by this fractional vote
2/3
Alex
$800 [29]
The 2012 version of this Phil Keoghan-hosted show promised "9 countries, 25,000 miles, $2 million"
Amazing Race
Jim
DD $1,500 [15]
5,108 miles of border, all with China & Russia
Mongolia
Alex
$1,000 [10]
This Army corps deals with fuels, laundry and logistics to name a few
Quartermaster
Alex
$1,000 [21]
Colorful name for an authoritative government report on a major issue
a white paper
Jim Alex
$1,000 [26]
Cinnamon & cocoa season the Cincinnati style of this dish, which is topped with cheese & served on spaghetti
chili
Rebecca
$1,000 [7]
The 13th Amendment abolished slavery; it & the next 2 are the amendments named for this roughly 12-year period
Reconstruction
Rebecca
$1,000 [30]
Hosting 171 episodes of this Discovery Channel show--somebody had to do it, & it was Mike Rowe
Dirty Jobs
Alex

Double Jeopardy! Round

SHAKESPEAREAN PREQUELS? DISNEY MOVIES BY SONG 15 LETTERS OR MORE SOCIOLOGY BORN IN THE 1400s THE "EL" YOU SAY
$400 [11]
"The Moor, The Marrier" looks at his wooing of his future wife, to see how "she loved me for the dangers I had pass'd"
Othello
Jim
$400 [17]
"Someday My Prince Will Come"
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Jim
$400 [6]
On a film, the director of photography sometimes goes by this name
cinematographer
Jim
$400 [12]
Sociological term for a system with the mother as head of the family
matriarchal
Rebecca
$400 [26]
Her, "la pucelle D'orleans"
Joan of Arc
Rebecca
$400 [1]
This Texas city lies across the Rio Grande from its sister city Juarez, Mexico
El Paso
Alex
$800 [13]
"Tybalt and Mercutio Aren't Dead" is the prequel to this play
Romeo & Juliet
Rebecca
$800 [18]
"Let's Go Fly a Kite"
Mary Poppins
Alex
$800 [7]
Term for someone who sails or flies completely around the world
circumnavigator
Jim
$1,200 [22]
This German social scientist co-wrote "The Communist Manifesto" & edited Marx' "Das Kapital"
(Friedrich) Engels
Rebecca
$800 [27]
This "magnificent" sultan, around 1494
Suleiman
Rebecca
$800 [2]
This painter's "View of Toledo" influenced the expressionists of the 20th century
El Greco
Rebecca
$1,200 [14]
In the not-so-tragic "Thane!", Macbeth hangs out with Malcolm & Donalbain, sons of this king
Duncan
$1,200 [19]
Sung by Amy Adams, "True Love's Kiss" & "That's How You Know"
Enchanted
Rebecca
$1,600 [9]
Here the water is illuminated by plankton producing this, from words meaning "life" & "light"
bioluminescence
Jim
$1,600 [24]
This pollster founded his American Institute of Public Opinion in Princeton in 1935
Gallup
Jim
$1,200 [28]
This explorer aka Giovanni Caboto, sort of the Columbus of the North Atlantic
(John) Cabot
Jim
$1,200 [3]
It's the most densely populated country on the mainland of the Americas
El Salvador
Alex
$1,600 [15]
In "Ere the Storm" we see the details of the plot Antonio uses to depose his brother, this man, the Duke of Milan
Prospero
Rebecca
$1,600 [20]
"You Can Fly, You Can Fly, You Can Fly" & "The Second Star to the Right"
Peter Pan
Jim
DD $2,000 [8]
Drawn only partly from Hemingway's own experiences, "A Farewell to Arms" is described as this 20-letter type of novel
semiautobiographical
Jim
DD $2,000 [21]
"Counterculture" was a term popularized by Theodore Roszak to describe this decade's revolt against authority
the 1960s
Jim
$1,600 [29]
In 1449 came this future ruler of Florence
Lorenzo de' Medici
Alex
$1,600 [4]
The name of this warm Pacific current refers to the Christ child since it usually occurs around Christmas
El Niño
Jim
$2,000 [16]
King Lear marries off these 2 daughters to the Dukes of Cornwall & Albany in "The Sisters Royal"
Regan & Goneril
Rebecca
$2,000 [23]
Performed by Hayley Mills & Hayley Mills, "Let's Get Together"
The Parent Trap
Rebecca
$2,000 [10]
Serotonin is this type of chemical that carries signals from one nerve cell to another
a neurotransmitter
Rebecca
$2,000 [25]
In his 1899 work "The Theory of the Leisure Class", Thorstein Veblen coined the term "conspicuous" this
consumption
Jim Alex
$2,000 [30]
This Italian painter, whose work is seen here
Sandro Botticelli
$2,000 [5]
The largest exposed granite monolith in the world, it rises 3,600 feet above the valley floor in Yosemite
El Capitan
Jim

Final Jeopardy!

STATE MOTTOS

On a state seal since 1850, this one-word motto is found in a story about Archimedes

Eureka

Alex "What is Eureka?" — wagered $4,200
Jim "What is Hope" — wagered $8,000
Rebecca "What is Eureka!?" — wagered $14,600

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