Show #6838 2014-05-14 (taped 2014-04-17) Battle of the Decades

Battle of the Decades semifinal game 3.

Contestants

Colby Burnett — an AP world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois

Pam Mueller — a graduate student in psychology from Princeton, New Jersey

Roger Craig — a data scientist from Brooklyn, New York

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Roger	$1,400	$5,200	$18,000	$12,799 Finalist	$16,800 24 R (including 1 DD), 8 W
Pam	$1,200	$2,800	$7,200	$1,595 3rd place: $25,000	$5,600 10 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Colby	$200	$3,600	$11,600	$4,099 2nd place: $25,000	$13,400 16 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE CITY	WHO'S THAT?	BOOKS OF THE LATIN VULGATE BIBLE	COMMON BONDS	COLORFUL SPORTS TEAMS	FEEL THE "RG"
$200 [15] This city's seal depicts Hoover Dam, 25 miles away Las Vegas Colby	$200 [18] His1930s exploits included numerous bank robberies (John) Dillinger Roger	$200 [14] "Judicum" Judges Roger	$200 [17] Cupid, Dancer, Prancer reindeer Pam	$200 [23] In 1900 Charles Comiskey relocated the St. Paul Saints & they became this baseball team the White Sox Colby	$200 [1] A song of lament a dirge Roger
$400 [16] The South Dakota capitol in this city saved money by using columns made of something called scagliola instead of marble Pierre Colby	$400 [19] This German count doesn't look like he was lighter than air Zeppelin Colby	$400 [28] "Canticum Canticorum" Song of Songs Pam	$400 [6] All Soul's Day, Eat a Cranberry Day, The Great American Smokeout things in November Roger	$400 [24] It's the NHL team whose logo is seen here The (St. Louis) Blues Roger	$400 [2] The FTC's Bureau of Competition reviews them mergers Roger
$600 [12] When taking "a trip to" this Utah city, be sure to stop by its tabernacle, built before Salt Lake City's Bountiful Roger	$600 [20] Order on the court with this different kind of Russian racketeer (Maria) Sharapova Roger	$800 [29] An Old Testament guy:"Abdias" Obadiah Roger	$600 [7] The Pledge of Allegiance, the Queen when she enters the room, your rights things you stand for Pam	$600 [25] During the 1950s, this Major League Baseball team briefly added "Legs" to their name the Cincinnati Reds Colby	$600 [3] Chaucer's "Knight's Tale" mentions this woolen fabric serge Pam
$800 [11] Pennsylvania's "Christmas City", it was founded by Moravians from Central Europe in 1741 Bethlehem Roger	$800 [21] Thisonetime Coast Guardsman was a best-selling author in the '70s Alex Haley Roger	$1,000 [30] There's "I Regum", First Kings, "I Samuelis", First Samuel, & "I Paralipomenon", this Chronicles Pam	$800 [8] Egos, the economy, an air mattress get inflated Roger	$800 [26] A fan contest in 1945 helped name this pro football team after its first coach the (Cleveland) Browns Colby	$800 [4] A member of Virginia's Colonial legislature a burgess Colby
$1,000 [10] Texas Tech was founded there in 1923 Lubbock Colby	$1,000 [22] "My Side of the Road" is a memoir by this'40s & '50s film star (Dorothy) Lamour Roger	DD $1,800 [13] A New Testament guy:"Jacobi" James Colby	$1,000 [9] A cat, a Scottie dog, a wheelbarrow Monopoly playing pieces Roger	$1,000 [27] In 1905 Rugby's Maorilanders became the New Zealand All these the All Blacks Colby	$1,000 [5] Type of valve on a diver's mask, or a sad fact of Russian history purge Roger

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE "CITY"	THEY DID THE MATH	ADVERBS IN SONGS	PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS	WORLD LITERATURE	THE LOVELY GERMAN LANGUAGE
$400 [13] How much a vessel can hold capacity Roger	$400 [26] At 22, Carl F. Gauss gave a proof of the fundamental theorem of this math branch that uses variables to stand for numbers algebra Colby	$400 [6] In a Paula Abdul No. 1 hit, this adverb precedes "Your Girl" "Forever" Colby	$400 [12] No. 42, he was the first man to become president who was born after World War II Clinton Colby	$400 [18] This poem about "Man's first disobedience" appeared in 1667 Paradise Lost Pam	$400 [7] Sergeant Schultz tried to command "Attention!" with this word Achtung Roger
$800 [19] From the Latin, it means happiness felicity Roger	$800 [27] Here's my point: Simon Stevin's 1585 pamphlet "The Tenth" helped establish the use of this notation a decimal point Roger	$800 [5] Let go & name this Katy Perry tune heard here"Let go and just be free, I will love you..." "Unconditionally" Pam	$800 [11] He was the first president survived by his mother, Jane Knox (James K.) Polk Pam	$800 [17] Inspiring the film "Rescue Dawn" was Dieter Dengler's "Escape from" this Indochinese nation Laos Roger	$800 [16] Mark Twain said German newspapers put this part of speech "away over on the next page" & sometimes go to press without it the verb Pam
$1,200 [20] It's the property of material that stretches & returns to its original shape elasticity Roger	$1,200 [28] You can use these 2 symbols to show that Thomas Harriot's book introducing them appeared not in 1630 or 1632 but 1631 greater than and less than Roger Pam	$1,200 [2] Rick Rolling involves the video of this song whose title begins with an adverb "Never Gonna Give You Up" Roger	$1,200 [10] He was the first president to have been divorced Ronald Reagan Roger	$1,600 [14] The 2 great Sanskrit epic poems are the Mahabharata & this tale of an avatar of Vishnu the Ramayana Roger	$1,200 [23] In French, it's the poetic papillon; in Spanish, the evocative mariposa; in German, Schmetterling butterfly Roger
$1,600 [21] An 1854 U.S.-Canada treaty was this type, saying we'll drop our customs tariffs if you will reciprocity Colby	$1,600 [29] In between loaves of bread, jugs of wine & thous, he came up with the first complete solution of cubic equations Omar Khayyám	$1,600 [3] This Smiths song with an adverb-filled title says, "I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar" "How Soon Is Now?" Roger Colby	$1,600 [9] He was the first president to attend the World Series, the 12th one Wilson Roger	$2,000 [15] In 1907 the performance of this John Millington Synge play set off riots in Dublin The Playboy of the Western World Roger	$1,600 [24] On a calendar, Mittwoch is this Wednesday Colby
$2,000 [22] Cracker Barrel boasts that the tools & toys on their restaurants' walls have this quality authenticity Roger	$2,000 [30] A paradox named for this Greek says you can never reach a goal because the number of halfway-there points is infinite Zeno Colby	$2,000 [4] The Beatles used a trio of adverbs in the title of this song from "Revolver" "Here, There And Everywhere" Roger	DD $3,200 [8] He was commander-in-chief the first time the U.S. formally declared war James Madison Roger	DD $2,800 [1] In Ariosto's chivalric romance "Orlando Furioso", Orlando is this great king's nephew Charlemagne Pam	$2,000 [25] The "Ode to Joy" in Beethoven's 9th says, "Freude, schöner" this zwölf-letter word meaning "divine sparks" Götterfunken

Final Jeopardy!

NAMES ON THE MAP

Visited by Jacques Cartier in 1534, it was later renamed for Queen Victoria's father, the Duke of Kent

Prince Edward Island

Pam "What is Madison?" — wagered $5,605

Colby "What is New Brunswick?" — wagered $7,501

Roger "What is Alberta?" — wagered $5,201

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