Show #6625 2013-06-07 (taped 2013-01-30) Regular

Contestants

Susan Torsell-Damico — a retired bookseller from Hamburg, New York

Tim Anderson — a Spanish professor from Rockford, Illinois

Greg Draves — an MBA student from New York, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Greg $0 $4,400 $8,800 $2,801
2nd place: $2,000
$6,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Tim $5,200 $5,400 $18,200 $18,000
New champion: $18,000
$19,400
24 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Susan $-200 $1,200 $1,400 $2,100
3rd place: $1,000
$4,400
11 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

ALICE IN WONDERLAND WILL THE REAL CHEMICAL ELEMENT PLEASE STAND UP? EUROPEAN HOLIDAYS LIFE OF BRIAN TIME FOR SOME HAIR CARE SPLIT "N"s
$200 [1]
John Tenniel's drawings of him may be based on Theophilus Carter, a furniture dealer who wore a top hat
the Mad Hatter
Tim
$200 [17]
Saturnium, venusium, neptunium
neptunium
Tim
$200 [2]
The Portuguese call it Ano Novo
New Year's Day
Greg
$200 [10]
This musical giant gave us "God Only Knows" & "Little Deuce Coupe"
Brian Wilson
Tim
$200 [22]
Use of medicated shampoo controls these flakes caused by scalp inflammation & a fungus
dandruff
Susan
$200 [15]
Oddly, an archaic meaning of this time of day is midnight
noon
Greg
$400 [3]
Lewis Carroll first told the story of Alice in 1862 on this date, a uniquely American summer holiday
July 4th
Susan
$400 [19]
Francium, belgium, italium
francium
Tim
$400 [5]
Like the U.S., Latvia & Estonia celebrate this holiday on the second Sunday in May
Mother's Day
Tim
$400 [11]
Brian Warner, from Ohio, remade himself as this shock rocker
Marilyn Manson
Tim
$400 [23]
Chocolate goes into a type of this post-shampoo product from Robert Max
conditioner
Greg
$400 [18]
To tidy
to neaten
Susan
$600 [4]
When Alice plays this game, live flamingoes serve as mallets and hedgehogs as the balls.
croquet
Tim
$600 [24]
Estherium, ruthenium, jezbelium
ruthenium
Greg
$600 [6]
On February 10, the Maltese have a feast celebrating this New Testament epistle writer's shipwreck on the island
Paul
Greg Susan
$600 [12]
This Rolling Stone who died in 1969 played marimba on "Under My Thumb" & sitar on "Paint It Black"
Brian Jones
$600 [29]
Judging by its name, this kind of perm producing soft curls should have a pH below 7.0
an acid perm
Greg
$800 [21]
Any male born to high rank
a nobleman
Susan
$800 [7]
In a little glass box, Alice find this dessert with the words "eat me" written in currants, & eat it she does
cake
Tim
$800 [25]
Hafnium, quartnium, tenthmium
hafnium
Greg
$800 [8]
It's the only one of the 4 U.K. countries in which St. Patrick's Day is an official bank holiday
Northern Ireland
Tim
$800 [13]
An ice follies show sparked his interest in figure skating, in which he took Olympic gold in 1988
Brian Boitano
Tim
$800 [30]
A hairstyle using extensions, or the pattern of threads in a fabric
a weave
Tim
$1,000 [27]
A state's suspension of certain federal laws; S.C. attempted it with tariff laws in 1832
nullification
Tim
$1,000 [16]
He orders Alice, "Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan! Quick now!"
the White Rabbit
Greg
$1,000 [26]
Technium, techniqium, technetium
technetium
Greg
$1,000 [9]
October 23 in this country is National Day, the day in 1956 when it rose up against Soviet rule
Hungary
Greg
$1,000 [14]
He must like old TV shows--he directed the film versions of "Mission: Impossible" & "The Untouchables"
Brian de Palma
Tim
$1,000 [28]
Barbicide, used by barbers to disinfect salon equipment, says it's "distinctly" this color
blue
Tim
DD $1,200 [20]
A doc who cuts into the brain
neurosurgeon
Tim

Double Jeopardy! Round

CARNY ART DRINKS 4-LETTER COUNTRY NAMES SAME ROLE, SAME FILM WORLD WAR II THE END "ZONE"
$400 [28]
The printmaking duo of Currier & him showed "The Skating Carnival" at Central Park in winter
Ives
Tim
$400 [24]
The 7/11 drink with this trademarked name was invented when some sodas were put in a freezer & became all slushy
a Slurpee
Tim
$400 [10]
It's Andean
Peru
Greg
$400 [1]
Harrison Young & Matt Damon as James Francis Ryan (1998)
Saving Private Ryan
Greg Susan
$400 [4]
This name for the group of countries that lost the war dates to a 1936 German-Italian pact
the Axis
Tim
$400 [15]
It's colorful football talk for the part of the field between the 20 & the goal line
the red zone
Susan
$800 [29]
In between cancans, he painted anadvertisementfor a Mardi Gras confetti-maker.
Toulouse-Lautrec
Susan
$800 [25]
There's a Marshmallow Madness variety of this rhyming brand of hot cocoa
Swiss Miss
Susan
$800 [11]
A communist country of southeast Asia
Laos
Greg
$800 [2]
Bobby Anderson & James Stewart as George Bailey (1946)
It's A Wonderful Life
Greg
$800 [5]
In 1940 de Gaulle said, "the flame of French" this, the name of the anti-Nazi underground, "must never be quenched"
the Resistance
Tim
$800 [16]
The name of this Italian favorite, a half-moon-shaped stuffed pizza, means "pant leg"
a calzone
Tim
$1,200 [30]
"The Carnival of Animals" by this hyphenated French composer was not performed publicly during his lifetime
(Camille) Saint-Saëns
Tim
$1,200 [26]
This coffee drink is named for the resemblance of its color to that of a certain monk's habit
cappuccino
Susan
$1,200 [12]
An Islamic sultanate
Oman
Susan
$1,200 [3]
Ian Holm & Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins (2012)
The Hobbit
Tim
$1,200 [6]
This air marshal's Luftwaffe hammered England, resulting in nearly 40,000 civilian deaths
Hermann Goering
$1,200 [17]
"Ride in" to this top 10 hit from "Top Gun"
"Danger Zone"
Greg
$2,000 [19]
The weirdness of carnivals was a natural subject for painters following this -ism, like Rouault & Beckmann
expressionism
Greg Susan
$1,600 [27]
This energy drink that comes in flavors like Juiced Mango uses a star for the "A" in its name
Rockstar
Susan
$2,000 [14]
French troops started fighting jihadists there in January 2013
Mali
Tim
$1,600 [9]
Mayim Bialik & Bette Midler as singer C.C. Bloom (1988)
Beaches
Tim
$1,600 [7]
On May 6, 1942 U.S. troops on this fortress island in Manila Bay surrendered to the Japanese
Corregidor
$1,600 [22]
Each one of these is about 15 degrees of longitude wide
a time zone
Greg
DD $4,000 [20]
Here, Bruegel the Elder's workshopdepicts, on one side, Carnival, and, on the other, this period that ends it.
Lent
Greg
$2,000 [23]
This traditional Greek wine is treated with pine tree resin, which gives it a distinct flavor of turpentine
retsina
Greg Tim
DD $3,000 [13]
A Pacific island republic
Fiji
Susan
$2,000 [18]
Toby Stephens & Clint Eastwood as astronaut Frank Corvin (2000)
Space Cowboys
Greg
$2,000 [8]
This British field marshal was in charge of all Allied ground troops during D-Day
Montgomery
Greg Susan
$2,000 [21]
It roughly follows the 38th parallel for about 150 miles
the Demilitarized Zone
Tim

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN WRITERS

Contemporary reviews called this writer "A Yankee Diogenes" & the "Concord Diogenes"

Henry David Thoreau

Susan "Who is Thoreau?" — wagered $700
Greg "Who was R.W. Emerson?" — wagered $5,999
Tim "Who was Melville?" — wagered $200

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