Show #6749 2014-01-09 (taped 2013-11-05) Regular

Contestants

Seth Tribble — a statistician from New York, New York

Marika Kuspa — a graduate student of biology from South Bend, Indiana

Dinu Nesan — a postdoctoral fellow and university lecturer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dinu $-1,000 $1,600 $2,800 $2,800
3rd place: $1,000
$2,800
9 R, 5 W
Marika $2,200 $2,800 $13,200 $5,601
2nd place: $2,000
$13,200
18 R, 1 W
Seth $4,400 $9,100 $17,600 $26,488
New champion: $26,488
$14,000
19 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE LADY OF SHALLOTS FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES PRESIDENTS & VICE PRESIDENTS FUNNY TV PARKS RECREATION
$200 [16]
Among the ingredients in Julia Child's "basic" this: vinegar (duh), olive oil, shallots & Dijon mustard
vinaigrette
Dinu
$200 [11]
Gracias is Spanish for "thank you" & this phrase means "thank you very much"
muchas gracias
Dinu
$200 [21]
Willie "cemetery" Poteat is best known for being this president's caddy at Augusta national in the 1950s
Eisenhower
Seth
$200 [1]
This "Daily Show" host: "I heard Dennis Kucinich", say, 'when I'm president', & I just wanted to stop him & say, 'Dude'"
Jon Stewart
Marika
$200 [23]
Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields in this park & on to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Central Park
Marika
$200 [24]
Time to hit the street on this piece of equipment & do a Caballerial, a fakie 360 ollie (fakie means backwards)
skateboard
Marika
$400 [17]
Even real men will eat Martha Stewart's shallot-mushroom version of this egg dish, down to the crust
quiche
Dinu
$400 [12]
In Japanese tani is valley; yama is this
mountain
Marika
$400 [29]
(Vice President Biden delivers the clue.) Here in my ceremonial office in this old executive office building, I use a desk made in 1902 for this president & used by every vice president since LBJ
Teddy Roosevelt
Marika
$400 [2]
It got harder & harder for the main character to keep saying Vitameatavegamin in a TV commercial on this show
I Love Lucy
$400 [22]
You might find a gator or 2 in this subtropical national park established in 1947
Everglades
Marika
$400 [25]
Let's practice this type of tennis & win Wimbledon like Daniel Nestor & Kristina Mladenovic did in 2013
mixed doubles
Seth
$600 [18]
Cat Cora's chicken version of this dish named for a Russian count has shallots, sour cream & tarragon
Chicken Stroganoff
Marika
$600 [13]
In Portuguese these 2 antonyms are cedo & tarde
early & late
Marika
$800 [28]
Like his boss, this VP started at Yale; unlike his boss, he didn't finish there, graduating from the University of Wyoming in 1965
Dick Cheney
Seth
$600 [3]
Trace Beaulieu doled out cheesy movie torture as Dr. Forrester & took it as Crow T. Robot on this ter-riff-ic show
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Seth
$600 [4]
FDR should have been familiar with this 350-acre patch of London, formerly a royal hunting preserve
Hyde Park
Seth
$600 [7]
Team, let's get together & practice the old "bump, set," this play on the volleyball court
spike
Seth
$800 [19]
Giada De Laurentiis puts shallots in a pilaf made not with rice, but rather with this graingrown high in the Andes
quinoa
Seth
$800 [14]
Afrikaaners can tell you this is Dutch for "farmer"
boer
Dinu
$1,000 [30]
This VP under Lincoln was born in Paris--Paris, Maine
Hannibal Hamlin
Seth
$800 [10]
On "SCTV" his characters included Tip O'Neill & Stan Shmenge
John Candy
Dinu
$800 [5]
Lonely Planet says this landmark, also a title of a novel, "is one of the most festive places in Moscow"
Gorky Park
Dinu Seth
$800 [8]
I'm gonna climb this alphanumeric mountain, despite the book about a 1953 expedition subtitled "The Savage Mountain"
K2
Seth
$1,000 [20]
In "Joy of Cooking", Irma Rombauer doesn't use shallots for these Rockefeller, but does for them Casino
oysters
Dinu
$1,000 [15]
The ability to say or do the right thing with grace, it's French for "to know how to do"
savoir-faire
Dinu
DD $2,500 [27]
Bill Clinton said authorizing a special counsel for this 1994 investigation "was the worst mistake of my presidency"
Whitewater
Seth
$1,000 [26]
Bret & Jemaine rapped as the rhymenoceros & hiphopopotamus (whose lyrics were bottomless) on this HBO show
Flight of the Conchords
Seth
$1,000 [6]
It's not a bridge too far to visit this 1,000-acre San Francisco destination; 13 million folks do that every year
Golden Gate Park
Seth
$1,000 [9]
I know Core Align is a registered piece of equipment for this program to help improve posture, balance & movement
pilates
Marika

Double Jeopardy! Round

KIDDY LIT COMPLETES THE BROADWAY SHOW TITLE 2-WORD SCIENCE TERMS REDUNDANT SOUNDING NAMES CROSSWORD CLUES "1" AFRICAN RIVERS
$400 [13]
Celeste is the queen of this king of the elephants
Babar
Dinu
$400 [21]
A satire of corporate America:"How to Succeed in Business ____ ____ ____"
Without Really Trying
Marika
$400 [1]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an atomic animation on the monitor.) Absorbing a neutron causes fission in one atom, leading to fission in more and more atoms, creating this process that's usually controlled by nuclear reactors
chain reaction
Marika
$400 [6]
Last name of American general Arthur, father of American general Douglas
MacArthur
Seth
$400 [7]
This steak sauce is first-class(2 squares)
A.1.
Marika
DD $700 [25]
The Vanderkloof Dam on this "colorful" river helped to create productive farmland in South Africa
Orange River
Seth
$800 [14]
The stepmother of this pale beauty tries to poison her twice, first with a comb & then with an apple
Snow White
Marika
$800 [22]
A Tony-winning musical set in a certain section of Manhattan:"In the ____"
Heights
Seth
$800 [2]
A deficiency of an intestinal enzyme usually causes this problem digesting dairy products
lactose intolerance
Marika
$800 [12]
He recently tweeted, "At 50 yrs old and the governor of NJ, I'm still trying to win over my mother-in-law"
Chris Christie
Marika
$800 [8]
"Rock docs" home(3 squares)
VH1
Seth
$800 [26]
2 southern parts of this river are known as Victoria & Albert
the Nile
Seth
$1,200 [15]
In the first draft of "Peter Pan", this little fairy was called Tippytoe
Tinker Bell
Dinu
DD $3,600 [23]
American soldiers in Iraq:"A Bengal Tiger at the ____ Zoo"
Baghdad
Seth
$1,200 [3]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates with a magnet.) Science teachers love to use these, tiny bits of a certain metal, to demonstrate magnetism
iron filings
Dinu
$1,200 [18]
"The World from the Side of the Moon" is the debut album by this "American Idol" winner
Phillip Phillips
Seth
$1,200 [9]
Vitamin that prevents beriberi(2 squares)
B1
Marika
$1,600 [24]
The Draa River, Morocco's longest, marks part of the boundary between Morocco & this eastern neighbor
Algeria
Dinu Seth
$1,600 [16]
This Morgan Rice series tells the tales of Thorgrin, a 14-year-old who strives to become a warrior in the Kingdom of the Ring
The Sorcerer's Ring
$1,600 [4]
This theory formulated in the 1960s says earth's outer layer is broken up into shifting pieces of dinnerware
plate tectonics
Dinu
$1,600 [19]
This doctor-poet was the son of William George Williams; his mother was Raquel from Puerto Rico
William Carlos Williams
Marika
$1,600 [10]
Criminal atop the wanted list(18 squares)
public enemy number 1
Dinu
$2,000 [17]
While spending his school days at Rugby, this title student is harassed by Flashman, the school bully
Tom Brown
$2,000 [5]
When all the frequencies in the visible spectrum combine, they produce this
white light
Marika
$2,000 [20]
"Parade's End", a series of novels by this redundantly named Brit, became an HBO miniseries
Ford Madox Ford
$2,000 [11]
Standard WWII U.S. Army rifle(2 squares)
M1
Marika

Final Jeopardy!

MAGAZINES

This title, launched in early 1930, seemed at odds with the Great Depression in subject & $1 cover price

Fortune

Dinu "What is my nephew Xavier" — wagered $0
Marika "What is Money magazine" — wagered $7,599
Seth "What is Fortune" — wagered $8,888

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