Show #6807 2014-04-01 (taped 2014-01-22) Battle of the Decades

Battle of the Decades: The 2000s game 2.

Contestants

Stephanie Jass — a history professor from Milan, Michigan

Roger Craig — a data scientist from Brooklyn, New York

Vijay Balse — a chemical engineer consulting in renewable energy from Chatham, New Jersey

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Vijay	$1,400	$2,400	$8,800	$17,600 2nd place: $5,000	$8,800 15 R, 2 W
Roger	$2,800	$5,200	$17,200	$17,601 Quarterfinalist	$11,800 21 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W
Stephanie	$5,000	$8,000	$7,800	$15,600 3rd place: $5,000	$10,800 18 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE "AUGHT"S	AMERICAN NOVELISTS	BRAND NAMES	CABLE NETWORKS	INVENTORS & INVENTIONS	I STAND BEFORE THE COUNTRY
$200 [1] Meaning "full of", it's often found before "with peril" fraught Vijay	$200 [7] Tired of whaling, he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in July 1842 & lived there for a month (Herman) Melville Vijay	$200 [14] peanutbutter.com is the website for this 6-letter brand Skippy Stephanie	$200 [12] "Gettysburg" &"God, Guns & Automobiles" the History Channel Roger	$200 [19] Dr. Rene Laennec invented this medical instrument, then just a hollow wooden tube the stethoscope Roger	$200 [26] Before "Timor" East Stephanie
$400 [2] Filled with woe or agitation distraught Roger	$400 [8] In 1961 the ban on his "Tropic of Cancer" was lifted in the U.S., & soon many of his other banned books were issued (Henry) Miller Stephanie	$400 [15] Corning Glass Works introduced this brand of glass bakeware in 1915 Pyrex Vijay	$400 [22] "Girlfriends" &"The Hip Hop Awards" BET Roger	$400 [20] Norwegian Erik Rotheim is the inventor of this type of spray can an aerosol Stephanie	$400 [27] Before "Verde" Cape Roger
$600 [4] Queen Latifah discovered the group known as this "by Nature" Naughty Stephanie	$600 [9] In the early 1920s he briefly served as a scoutmaster for an Oxford, Mississippi Boy Scout troop Faulkner Vijay	$600 [16] "Don't suffer the coughequences" is a slogan of this Pfizer brand Robitussin Vijay	$600 [23] "Too Cute" &"River Monsters" Animal Planet Stephanie	$600 [21] Here's Dr. Lonnie Johnson holding two of his inventions, the Nerf dart gun &this alliterative one a Super Soaker Roger	$600 [28] Before "Sudan" South Roger
$800 [5] Under a 1978 law the USDA inspects these food supply facilities slaughterhouses Stephanie	$800 [10] This author of "The Bone Bed" once worked as a computer analyst at the chief medical examiner's office in Richmond (Patricia) Cornwell Roger	$800 [17] Its slogan "Strong enough to stand on" was coined back in 1916 Samsonite Vijay	$800 [24] "Army Wives" &"24 Hour Catwalk" Lifetime Roger Stephanie	$1,000 [3] His mechanical reaper had 7 basic mechanisms that are basically the same as those in the modern equivalent Cyrus McCormick Stephanie	$800 [29] Before "Islands"--1 of the 2 U.N. members Marshall (or Solomon) Vijay
$1,000 [6] Historical Irish region where today you'll find counties Galway & Mayo Connaught Stephanie	$1,000 [11] This "tasty" author bakes her novels a while: 1992's "The Secret History" was her 1st, & "The Goldfinch" from 2013 is her 3rd Donna Tartt Stephanie	$1,000 [18] Sneaker brand ASICS is an acronym ending with these 3 Latin words that mean "in a sound body" in corpore sano	$1,000 [25] "Total Blackout" &"Sharknado" Syfy Stephanie	DD $1,400 [13] Last name of American inventor Ray, whose noise-reduction system eliminated that background hiss on recordings Dolby Roger	$1,000 [30] Before "Darussalam" Brunei Roger

Double Jeopardy! Round

KING JAMES BIBLE QUOTES	HISTORIC OBJECTS	WORLD NEWSPAPERS	MANKIEWICZES AT THE MOVIES	TRIPLE RHYME TIME	CERN
$400 [12] When this apostle saw Jesus walking on water, he said, "Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water" Peter Vijay	$400 [18] Pieces of dinnerware are some of the only objects remaining from this airship designated the L.Z. 129 the Hindenburg Vijay	$400 [22] In 1993 Boris Yeltsin shut down this newspaper for 30 days for inciting armed rebellion Pravda Vijay	$400 [26] (I'm Ben Mankiewicz of Turner Classic Movies.) My grandfather Herman Mankiewicz shared screenplay credit with Orson Wells on this film, often called the greatest movie of all time Citizen Kane Roger	$400 [13] The most outstanding policeman's agricultural yield top cop crop Vijay Stephanie	$400 [14] (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives us a clue about the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.) CERN really is the coolest place on Earth; prior to operation, one-eighth of the LHC was cooled with superfluid helium to -271 degrees Celsius, a few degrees above this term for the lowest temperature possible absolute zero Roger
$800 [8] To King Hezekiah, "Thus saith the Lord, set thine" this "in order, for thou shalt die, and not live" house Roger Stephanie	$800 [19] To reconstruct the original Hollywood sign, you'd have to add these 4 letters L-A-N-D Stephanie	$800 [23] Al-Ahram, which features the pyramids on its masthead, is headquartered in this capital Cairo Vijay	$800 [30] Ava Gardner was rarely lovelier than in Joseph L. Mankiewicz' "The Barefoot" this lady Contessa Roger	$800 [3] Jacket worn when transporting billys & nannys in a launch goat coat boat (or boat goat coat) Stephanie	$800 [21] (Kelly of the Clue Crew comes to us from the halls of CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.) The offices of this corridor were those of CERN computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, who wanted to connect hypertext to the Internet in an effort to easily relay information, thereby creating this service that is now practically synonymous with the Internet the World Wide Web Roger
$1,200 [9] "Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed" this "with her already in his heart" adultery Stephanie	$1,200 [1] This 23-inch beeping metal sphere galvanized America in the 1950s Sputnik Roger	$1,200 [7] Le Figaro began in 1826; this other Paris daily paper has been around only since 1944 Le Monde Stephanie	$1,200 [29] Herman Mankiewicz produced films like this troupe's classic comedy "Monkey Business" The Marx Brothers Roger	$1,200 [4] The greatest possible levy on Madame Tussaud's favorite sculpting material max wax tax Vijay	$1,200 [17] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.) CERN's globe is a symbol of the Earth & sustainable development; its structure is wood, a material that minimizes the greenhouse effect due to its ability to store rather than emit this element carbon Vijay
$2,000 [11] "Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name" this Emmanuel Stephanie	$2,000 [20] In 2014 $4.6 million was the price for the first gold coin made in the U.S., known as the "Brasher" this Spanish coin Doubloon Roger	$1,600 [24] The name of this 145-year-old Argentine newspaper simply means "The Press" La Prensa Vijay	$1,600 [28] Joseph L. Mankiewicz' last film was this 1972 Olivier-Caine battle of wits, remade in 2007 with Caine & Jude Law battling Sleuth Roger	$1,600 [5] Vestments of Thumper, the new head of the monastery rabbit abbot habit Roger Stephanie	$1,600 [16] The activation of CERN's first accelerator helped develop the theory of this "anemic" type of force weak force Roger
DD $3,000 [10] A major theme of Ecclesiastes is stated in the second verse of the book: "All is" this vanity Stephanie	DD $6,400 [2] Today thought of as a bejeweled statue, it was the Knights of Malta's annual tribute to the Holy Roman Emperor the Maltese Falcon Roger	$2,000 [25] This German tabloid whose name means "Picture" was founded in 1952 for those with poor reading skills Bild Vijay Roger	$2,000 [27] The title character of Joseph's "All About Eve" isn't played by Bette Davis but by her Anne Baxter Vijay Roger Stephanie	$2,000 [6] Go online with your brisket brag your post roast boast	$2,000 [15] 53 quadrupole these had to be replaced in the Large Hadron Collider after an accident magnets Roger

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS WOMEN

This crusader, in 1906: "More than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, & then to die without it seems so cruel"

Susan B. Anthony

Stephanie "Who is Susan B. Anthony?" — wagered $7,800

Vijay "Who was S.B. Anthony?" — wagered $8,800

Roger "Who is Anthony?" — wagered $401

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