Show #6650 2013-07-12 (taped 2013-03-28) Regular

Mark Japinga game 2.

Contestants

Ken Dasher — an archivist from Raleigh, North Carolina

Toby Crew — a commercial pilot from Natick, Massachusetts

Mark Japinga — a legislative researcher from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $31,199)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mark $4,600 $5,000 $20,800 $28,300
2-day champion: $59,499
$19,400
22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Toby $1,200 $7,000 $26,400 $11,000
2nd place: $2,000
$19,200
23 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Ken $1,800 $4,600 $6,600 $600
3rd place: $1,000
$6,600
10 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

WHAT AN ICE PARTY TIME'S 50 WORST CARS OF ALL TIME COUNTRIES' LOWEST POINTS COMPOUND WORDS ANIMAL CARE HERE'S JOHNNY!
$200 [26]
This Minnesota capital'swinter carnival started building ice palacesback in the 1880s.
St. Paul
Mark
$200 [24]
This 1958 Ford model "was the first victim of Madison Avenue hyper-hype"
the Edsel
Toby
$200 [7]
Death Valley
the U.S.
Mark
$200 [20]
The 2012 London Paralympic Games included this type of basketball & fencing
wheelchair
Toby
$200 [30]
Petsmart recommends these creatures, frozen, as the best diet for your snake
mice
Mark
$200 [1]
His film roles have included Willy Wonka & Gilbert Grape
Johnny Depp
Toby
$400 [25]
We hopehistrademark candelabrum didn't mel this ice piano.
Liberace
Toby
$400 [23]
The "cheap" Gremlin from this 3-letter company had "vacuum-operated windshield wipers, no less"
AMC
Toby
$400 [13]
Lake Hachiro-gata
Japan
Toby
$400 [19]
The British use this 9-letter word for what we call a vest
waistcoat
Ken
$400 [29]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) Rhino horns are sometimes humanely removed by activists to deter poachers who wish to create these potions named for a Greek love goddess
aphrodisiacs
Toby
$400 [12]
In 1980, at age 48, he was the youngest living inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame
Johnny Cash
Mark
$600 [2]
In the drinking aid called an "ice" one of these, from the French for "sled", liquor flows through a chilly channel
a luge
$600 [21]
This Soviet-bloc brand "had a rear-window defroster--reportedly to keep your hands warm (as) you pushed it"
the Yugo
Toby
$600 [5]
Zuidplaspolder
the Netherlands
Mark
$600 [16]
In TV cartoons, Shoeshine Boy would take an energy pill & become this canine superhero who spoke in rhyme
Underdog
Ken
$800 [27]
Preserving the forest is the best way to care for this Asian arboreal ape that only gives birth every 8 years
orangutan
Ken
$600 [9]
In the 1930s & '40s he was quite the swinger, starring in 12 Tarzan movies
Johnny Weissmuller
Toby
$800 [3]
Seen here is the ice palace of Bonhomme Carnaval in this Canadian provincial capital
Quebec City
Mark
$800 [14]
The DMC-12 by this maker "was heavy, underpowered... and overpriced" & didn't really go back to 1955 when it hit 88 MPH
Delorean
Mark
$800 [6]
Sebkha Tah, southwest of Marrakech
Morocco
Ken
$800 [17]
This owner of squalid housing overcharges his tenants while allowing the property to deteriorate
a slumlord
Toby
$1,000 [28]
Test a prospective pup's temperament with a rollover test--this type of pet, from Latin for "send under", will happily comply
submissive
$800 [10]
Famous nickname of Johnny Manziel, who in 2012 became the first freshman to win the Heisman trophy
Johnny Football
Mark
$1,000 [4]
A 15-foot wide, 1-toncreationwas unveiled & symbolicallymeltedat these 2012 events in Charlotte & Tampa
the DNC & the RNC
Mark
$1,000 [15]
While "not particularly" a bad car, this Ford model "tended to erupt in flame in rear-end collisions"
the Pinto
Toby
$1,000 [8]
Lake Eyre
Australia
Toby
$1,000 [18]
A troublemaker, or a piece of burning wood
a firebrand
Ken
DD $2,800 [22]
Vets discourage this procedure unless absolutely necessary: it severs tendons & can make kitty a biter
de-clawing
Toby
$1,000 [11]
"Chances are" you might know that in 2006 he celebrated his 50th anniversary as a recording star
Johnny Mathis
Ken

Double Jeopardy! Round

BEACH READING OH, CANADA FEEL NOT-SO-GOOD MOVIES GUINNESS RECORDS BILLIONS OF PEOPLE SO "CAL"
$400 [14]
"The Longest Day" tells what happened on the beaches of Normandy on this date
June 6, 1944
Ken
$400 [13]
The Parliament Buildings in this city include the restored office of Canada's first P.M., Sir John A. MacDonald
Ottawa
Mark
$400 [1]
A boxer who was never quite a contender battles a union boss; his brother is killed, & he gets beaten up
On the Waterfront
Ken
$400 [30]
Jonathan Lee Riches filed one of these against Guinness for naming him as the person who's filed the most
a lawsuit
Toby
$400 [19]
World population hit 1 billion in this early 19th Century year that Thomas Jefferson was re-elected president
1804
Ken
$400 [21]
Piebald or variegated, like some cats
calico
Mark
$800 [15]
Books on this diet out of Florida include a "Taste Of Summer Cookbook"
the South Beach Diet
Ken
$800 [12]
"Old" this city lies between Rue Berri & Rue McGill
Montreal
Mark
$800 [2]
5 teens are sentenced to one day in a confined setting; Dad issues arise; buns are said to have been taped together
The Breakfast Club
Toby
$800 [29]
Hope it's not a hot day if you set out to beat the record of balancing 71 of these on a cone
ice cream scoops
Mark
$800 [20]
There were now 2 billion of us in this roaring year that Lindy flew into history
1927
Mark
$800 [22]
To set a scientific instrument for accurate readings
calibrate
Toby
$1,200 [16]
This character's journal for Oct. 26, 1659 says, "I walked about the shore almost all day... to fix my habitation"
Robinson Crusoe
Mark
$1,200 [9]
Canada is a federation of 10 provinces & 3 of these whose total population is about 100,000
territories
Toby
$1,200 [3]
Kid meets ghosts, child psychologist meets kid, child psychologist gets bad surprise, the end
The Sixth Sense
Mark
$1,200 [26]
In 2012 Felix Baumgartner dropped 24 miles making this type of alliterative tumble setting 5 world records
a freefall
Toby
$1,200 [6]
World population hit 3 billion in this year that Rome hosted the Summer Olympics
1960
Mark
$1,200 [23]
To harden by deposit of lime
calcify
Toby
$1,600 [17]
In Alex Garland's "The Beach", a tourist (Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie) explores this Southeast Asian country
Thailand
Mark
$1,600 [10]
Hamilton & Thunder Bay are ports along this joint U.S./Canada project completed in 1959
the St. Lawrence Seaway
Toby
$2,000 [5]
Sure, Joe Buck gives up being a male prostitute, but Ratso isn't just sleeping when the bus pulls into Miami
Midnight Cowboy
Mark
$1,600 [27]
The fastest mile with someone over your shoulder, this act named for a profession, is 15 minutes, 11.87 seconds
a fireman's carry
Mark
$1,600 [7]
This year of Nixon's resignation saw the dawn of a world of 4 billion
1974
Toby
$1,600 [24]
A compass with bowed legs used to measure thickness
calipers
Toby
$2,000 [18]
"On Chesil Beach" is a novel by this British McAuthor of "Atonement"
Ian McEwan
Mark
$2,000 [11]
Transcanada wants to build this pipeline to carry oil from Alberta through Nebraska to Gulf Coast refineries
the Keystone
Mark
DD $3,000 [4]
Title guy loses best friend in Vietnam; his mom dies, too; finally gets his dream girl but guess what? She dies!
Forrest Gump
Mark
$2,000 [28]
A New Zealand man pedaled 18.64 miles in an hour on this "singular" device
a unicycle
Toby
DD $7,000 [8]
5 billion Earthlings were on the globe in this 1980s year when the stock market crashed on "Black Monday"
1987
Toby
$2,000 [25]
Libel or slander
a calumny

Final Jeopardy!

VIDEO GAME HISTORY

The title princess of this game, which launched a best-selling franchise, was named for F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife

The Legend of Zelda

Ken "What is Zelda" — wagered $6,000
Mark "What is The Legend of Zelda" — wagered $7,500
Toby "What is Zelda?" — wagered $15,400

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