Show #6790 2014-03-07 (taped 2014-01-21) Battle of the Decades

Battle of the Decades: The 1990s game 5.

Contestants

Brad Rutter — an actor and producer from Hollywood, California

Mike Dupée — a post-graduate student from Gainesville, Florida

Jill Bunzendahl Chimka — a director of therapy from Washington, D.C.

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Jill	$0	$1,200	$0	$0 3rd place: $5,000	$0 3 R, 1 W
Mike	$400	$5,100	$14,300	$28,300 2nd place: $5,000	$13,800 18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Brad	$5,600	$7,200	$30,600	$30,600 Quarterfinalist	$28,400 33 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB	THE 2-DOORS	THE WORLD WIDE "WEB"	ALL SORTS OF SPORTS	THE NEW YORK TIMES: THE 1990s	HAIL TO THE CHEF
$200 [2] 4 of her books, including "The Bluest Eye", made the club (Toni) Morrison Mike	$200 [26] Ford introduced this "avian" 2-door in 1954 the Thunderbird Brad	$200 [21] An old spider's home up in the corner of the attic a cobweb Mike	$200 [7] In 1999 this Denver QB quit while he was way ahead after 16 seasons & more than 51,000 passing yards John Elway Brad	$200 [13] "Guilty at Last", said the Times when this don was convicted of the murder of Paul Castellano John Gotti Mike Brad	$200 [1] In 2013 Zagat named his Spago the most iconic restaurant in Los Angeles Wolfgang Puck Brad
$400 [3] Works by this fatherly TV star, including "The Meanest Thing To Say", made the club in 1997 Bill Cosby Brad	$400 [27] In the early 1950s, Chevrolet PR exec Myron Scott came up with the idea of naming this 2-door for a type of fast warship the Corvette Brad	$400 [22] Hyphenated appendage adjective for a frog or beaver web-toed (or web-footed) Jill	$400 [8] In 1976 the scoreboard in Montreal didn't have enough spaces, so the perfect score of this gymnast read 1.00 (Nadia) Comăneci Brad	$400 [17] (The New York Timesreporter Linda Greenhouse gives the clue.) In a 1991 case I covered, the Supreme Court overturned a New York law aimed at preventing criminals from profiting by selling their stories--a law informally named for this 1970s killer the Son of Sam Mike	$400 [12] While living in Paris, Julia Child was the only woman in her class at this famed cooking school Le Cordon Bleu Mike
$600 [4] For Book Club 2.0, Oprah chose "The Invention of Wings" by this author who once explored the secret life of bees Sue Monk Kidd Mike	$600 [28] This sporty Triumph convertible that debuted in 1962 shares its name with a classic British fighter plane a Spitfire Brad	$600 [23] A nickname for Spider-Man; it's also a toy you can buy to pretend to be him Web Slinger Brad	$600 [9] Sports Illustrated compared the 15-year rivalry of Chris Evert & this woman to Ali & Frazier Navratilova Mike	$600 [18] The 1996 crash of this airline's Flight 800 "broke the calm of a sultry summer evening... along the Long Island shore" TWA Brad	$600 [14] In 2012 this Brit who brought his "Food Revolution" to America won the Harvard School of Public Health's Healthy Cup Award Jamie Oliver Brad
$800 [5] The club's 70 books in 15 years included this biblically titled book by Jane Hamilton The Book of Ruth	$800 [29] Mazda introduced the sprightly MX5, aka this, in 1989 the Miata Jill	$800 [24] Seen here is this diagram of ecological relations a food web Mike	$800 [10] In 1923 Zev won the first & third legs of horse racing's Triple Crown but finished 12th in this race the Preakness Brad	$800 [19] (The New York Timesreporter James Risen gives the clue.) In 1998 I reported on the deadly al-Qaeda bombings of U.S. embassies in these 2 neighboring African countries, a prelude to the worse attacks to follow Kenya & Tanzania Mike	$800 [15] Her dad was part of Thatcher's cabinet; she became Britain's "Domestic Goddess" Nigella Lawson Brad
$1,000 [6] Things got a little dicey after Oprah selected this maybe not-so-autobiographical James Frey memoir A Million Little Pieces Brad	$1,000 [30] More than a "minor" success, this British car was born in a 2-door version in 1948 the Morris Minor	$1,000 [25] 19th century treaty that settled the northern boundaries of Maine & Wisconsin the Webster-Ashburton Treaty Mike Brad	$1,000 [11] The only position player to join baseball's Hall of Fame in 2014 is this 2-time MVP for the White Sox in the '90s Frank Thomas Brad	DD $1,500 [20] "Accord Reached to End the War in Bosnia" in a 1995 story datelined this Midwest U.S. city Dayton Mike	$1,000 [16] This Frenchman who created the peach Melba was known as "the king of chefs & the chef of kings" Escoffier Brad

Double Jeopardy! Round

ASIAN GEOGRAPHY	MOVIE SONGS	14-LETTER WORDS	THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION	CAUSES & EFFECTS	TELL US WHAT HE'S WON!
$400 [1] The Khongoryn Els, or "Singing Dunes", are a popular tourist destination in this Central Asian desert the Gobi Mike	$400 [10] Free yourself & tell us this Righteous Brothers song that was featured prominently in "Ghost" "Unchained Melody" Brad	$400 [9] If you put off till tomorrow what you can do today, you're this type of person a procrastinator Jill	$400 [12] He said, "I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way" John Paul Jones Mike	$400 [21] An astrobleme is a scar on the Earth's surface from the impact of one of these a meteorite Mike	$400 [26] 2004:Canadian Lorne Michaels took this "prize for American humor" the Mark Twain Prize Brad
$800 [2] This Russian lake, the world's deepest, plunges to 5,315 feet Lake Baikal Brad	$800 [17] Songs in this marionette-populated movie included "Freedom Isn't Free" & "Kim Jong Il" Team America: World Police Brad	$800 [13] Popular in the 1970s & '80s, they were largely replaced by DVDs videocassettes Brad	$800 [11] In the early hours of April 19, 1775, minutemen gathered at this city's Buckman Tavern awaiting the Redcoats Lexington Mike	$800 [22] In the Compton Effect, light quanta, better known by this one-word name, transfer energy to electrons photons Mike	$800 [27] 1920:W.E.B. Du Bois medaled as winner No. 6 the Spingarn Medal Mike
$1,200 [6] This sultanate borders Saudi Arabia in the Rub Al Khali Desert Oman Brad	$1,200 [18] Dressed in Amish garb, John Popper & this band close out "Kingpin" with "But Anyway" Blues Traveler Brad	$1,200 [14] Profession of Nobel Prize winner Saul Perlmutter, who discovered that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate astrophysicist Brad	$1,600 [4] This "New" city 20 miles from Newark served both the British & the Americans as a headquarters New Brunswick	$1,200 [23] This genus is the most common bacterial cause of a sore throat streptococcus Brad	$1,200 [28] Jan. 26, 1986:Richard Dent sacked the competition Super Bowl MVP Brad
DD $2,000 [7] Kotte, a suburb of this city, was once a capital of Sinhalese kings Colombo Brad	$1,600 [19] At the end of this David Lynch film, Nicolas Cage croons "Love Me Tender" to Laura Dern Wild at Heart Jill Brad	$1,600 [15] Pinkeye is a form of this eye inflammation conjunctivitis Brad	$2,000 [5] This British general who captured Fort Ticonderoga in 1777 later became a playwright (John) Burgoyne Mike	$1,600 [24] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is with Team Oracle at the America's Cup in San Francisco.) The lower pressure at the front of the sail generates faster-moving air and allows a vessel to travel as fast as 2 1/2 times the wind that is driving it, a demonstration of the effect named for this Swiss physicist Bernoulli Brad	$1,600 [29] 1967:Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a "star" for the first time Mr. Universe Mike Brad
$2,000 [8] This smallest Chinese province in area consists mostly of one island in the Gulf of Tonkin Hainan Mike	$2,000 [20] "We're gonna do what they say can't be done" is from this "Smokey & The Bandit" song, later an HBO sitcom title "East Bound And Down" Brad	$2,000 [16] Brainwashing is a type of this, the process of teaching an ideology & making sure it sticks indoctrination	DD $3,000 [3] On Dec. 16, 1773 members of this 8-year-old group left a meeting to board British ships & dump tea the Sons of Liberty Brad	$2,000 [25] The Mariana Trench is this type of zone, caused because the Pacific Plate is being pushed under the Philippine Plate a subduction zone Brad	$2,000 [30] 1983:I.M. Pei wins "the Nobel Prize of Architecture" the Pritzker Brad

Final Jeopardy!

BIBLICAL NAMES

In Genesis 4 this name is chosen because God "hath appointed me another seed"

Seth

Mike "What is Seth? [Heart drawing with a "Z" inside]" — wagered $14,000

Brad "What is Ishmael?" — wagered $0

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