Show #6768 2014-02-05 (taped 2013-12-17) Battle of the Decades

Battle of the Decades: The 1980s game 3.

Contestants

Leslie Shannon — a strategic market analyst from Espoo, Finland

Tom Nosek — an aerospace consultant from Torrance, California

Richard Cordray — the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from Grove City, Ohio and Washington, D.C.

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Richard	$400	$5,400	$2,600	$5,200 2nd place: $5,000 (prize declined as a federal employee)	$2,600 12 R, 8 W
Tom	$200	$400	$6,000	$7,201 Quarterfinalist	$6,400 12 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Leslie	$2,800	$5,400	$3,600	$0 3rd place: $5,000	$5,000 16 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

WE LOVE PLANET EARTH	IN THE CITY'S NEWSPAPER	SAINTS PRESERVE US!	"F"IVE-LETTER WORDS	2 FIRST NAMES	LIKE HENRY JAMES?
$200 [4] These are the regions within about 1,600 miles north & south of the equator the Tropics Tom	$200 [30] Its Commercial Appeal:"Whither Beale Street? Take It to the River" Memphis Richard Leslie	$200 [16] In art Saint Agnes is often depicted with this animal, "agnus" in Latin a lamb Tom	$200 [10] A source, perhaps of knowledge or wisdom a fount Leslie	$200 [11] He won an Emmy for portraying Liberace in "Behind the Candelabra" Michael Douglas Leslie	$200 [24] I like that "It was raining" is the first line of a story about "Life" in this city where Henry mainly lived from 1876 on London Richard
$400 [5] The emmer type of this was one of the first cultivated crops over 10,000 years ago wheat Tom Leslie	$400 [29] Its World-Herald:"Huskers Headed to Gator Bowl for Rematch with Georgia" Omaha Richard	$400 [17] Embittered by Rome, this translator of the Vulgate took some virgins & went to the Holy Land for good Jerome Richard	$400 [9] Moliere's "Tartuffe" is this type of comedy a farce Leslie	$400 [12] This star of "Glee" made her Broadway debut at age 8 playing Cosette in "Les Miz" Lea Michele	$600 [27] I like the novel "What" this little girl "Knew", & the 2013 movie based on it too Maisie Leslie
$600 [6] North Dakota is a leading producer of this low-grade brown coal lignite Richard Tom	$600 [19] Its Dispatch:"Beagle helps Ohio zoos tell if polar bear pregnant" Columbus Richard	$600 [23] A street festival in NYC's Little Italy is named this, after the saint also called Januarius the San Gennaro Festival	$600 [1] It can be a woman's dress or an old-fashioned coat for men a frock Leslie	$600 [13] In the '90s his "you got the right one baby" Diet Pepsi commercials earned him a new generation of fans--uh huh! Ray Charles	$800 [26] Henry dealt with radical feminism in this novel whose title tells you it's set in Massachusetts The Bostonians Richard
$800 [7] This period, the "age of fishes", was named for a fossil-rich part of southwest England the Devonian period Richard Leslie	$800 [18] Its Register:"Branstad, Grassley Take Different Tacks on Tea Party" Des Moines Richard	$800 [22] Gregory of this is named for the French city where he lived, not for showing people around Tours Leslie	$800 [2] It's a synonym for malodorous fetid Richard	$800 [14] She played the movie star on "Gilligan's Island" Tina Louise Leslie	$1,000 [25] I'd have liked to meet this "Lady" that an 1881 novel is "The Portrait" of (Isabel) Archer Richard
$1,000 [8] This puny type of tide has the smallest difference between high & low the neap tide Richard	$1,000 [21] Its Star:"Ball State Freshman Sinks Half-Court Shot to Win Free Tuition" Indianapolis Richard Leslie	$1,000 [20] He founded an order & monastery at Monte Cassino, where he wrote his "Holy Rules" Saint Benedict	$1,000 [3] It's an antonym of tame for animals feral Tom	$1,000 [15] He won a 1965 Oscar for his dual role as a gunfighter & his evil, noseless twin brother in "Cat Ballou" Lee Marvin Leslie	DD $2,000 [28] I like the symbolism in this novel, such as the shattering of the title object The Golden Bowl Leslie

Double Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY OPERA	BACK IN THE USSR	STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME VOWEL	'80s BABIES	CINEMA OF MY YOUTH	I'M HEADING TO...
$400 [6] We're not neutral about "Un ballo in maschera", about the assassination of a king of this Scandinavian country Sweden Leslie	$400 [1] This Russian president helped put down the 1991 coup that briefly imprisoned Mikhail Gorbachev (Boris) Yeltsin Tom	$400 [11] "Ocular" term for something unpleasant to see an eyesore Leslie	$400 [27] The Sterns of New Jersey won a 1980s custody battle with the surrogate mother of Melissa, better known as "Baby" this "M" Leslie	$400 [21] The idea for this 1954 Elia Kazan film came from a series of newspaper articles about corruption on the docks On the Waterfront Tom	$400 [16] Thunder Bay in Ontario, an arm of this Great Lake Superior Richard Tom
$800 [7] Smitten by Mathilde Wesendonck, Wagner composed this lovey-dovey 1865 opera Tristan und Isolde Richard Leslie	$800 [2] In 1989 the Soviets left this country where they'd suffered 15,000 dead during a 10-year quagmire Afghanistan Tom	$800 [12] This pea family crop is like steak to horses alfalfa Tom	$800 [28] The 1984 U.S. law mandating treatment of seriously ill newborns is known by this generic name Baby Doe	DD $400 [26] Leopoldine Konstantin tells Claude Rains, "We are protected by the enormity of your stupidity" in this Hitchcock film Notorious Tom	$800 [17] Mount Katahdin in this New England state Maine Tom Leslie
$1,200 [8] In an 1893 opera, Lescaut seems to have no first name, but this sister of his does Manon Tom	$1,200 [3] The name of this Soviet foreign minister during WWII became synonymous with a bottle bomb Molotov Leslie	$1,200 [13] This palindromic male given name comes from a Germanic word meaning "rich" Otto	$1,200 [23] They're called whitecoats, & people got mad at Canada in the '80s for hunting them baby fur seals Leslie	$800 [22] William Holden's acceptance speech upon winning the Oscar for playing a P.O.W. in this film was a terse "Thank you" Stalag 17 Richard	$1,200 [18] The Museum of Porcelain on Grande Rue in this city just outside Paris, famous for making the stuff Sèvres Richard
$1,600 [9] One of the many composers to write a "Faust" opera, he was buddies with Bizet Gounod Richard	$1,600 [4] This official Soviet news agency was the main news source for all newspapers & radio & TV stations TASS Richard Tom	$1,600 [14] This term for ignorant folks sounds like but is the opposite of illuminati illiterati	$1,600 [29] She survived for 21 days in 1984 with a transplanted baboon heart Baby Fae Leslie	$1,200 [24] Steve McQueen's first starring role was in this film about a gelatinous mass from outer space The Blob Tom	$2,000 [20] This country to gaze up at the cuneiform Behistun Inscription 300 feet up a sheer limestone cliff Iran
$2,000 [10] Like its heroine, "The Italian Girl in Algiers" did some traveling as this composer's first opera staged in France & Germany Rossini Tom	$2,000 [5] The USSR mounted a 1958exhibitnot of Norman Rockwell but of this left-wing artist with Rockwell as his first name Rockwell Kent	$2,000 [15] From the Italian, it's heartburn or anxiety agita Tom	$2,000 [30] In 1981 Elizabeth Carr became the USA's first of these babies, with less fanfare than the one across the pond a test-tube baby Richard	$1,600 [25] Thisactress was a frequent presence in the films of John Ford Maureen O'Hara	DD $3,000 [19] The banks of this African river that flows between Zimbabwe & Zambia on its way to the Indian Ocean the Zambezi River Leslie

Final Jeopardy!

THE PERIODIC TABLE

Of the element symbols that don't match the element's English name, this element's symbol is alphabetically 1st

silver

Richard "What is silver?" — wagered $2,600

Leslie "What is iron?" — wagered $3,600

Tom "What is AG" — wagered $1,201

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