Show #6209 - Thursday, September 22, 2011

Justin Sausville game 6.

Contestants

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Brian Lehman, a communications manager from Washington, D.C.

Anne Kenney Chaplin, a housing court judge from Truro, Massachusetts

Justin Sausville, a urologist from Baltimore, Maryland (whose 5-day cash winnings total $117,201)

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Jeopardy! Round

THE WORLD TRADE CENTER & GROUND ZERO
HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION
WHOM DID SHE PORTRAY?
PAN & POT POURRI
FIRST NAME PHRASES
STRAIT AHEAD
    $200 16
In May of 2011, President Obama laid a wreath at Ground Zero, days after announcing that this al-Qaeda leader was killed
    $200 26
As commissioner of the NFL, I spent my summer dealing with a player lockout & negotiating a new contract
    $200 17
Reese Witherspoon in "Walk the Line"
    $200 11
DuPont says that dishwashers are safe for this nonstick coating applied to the cooking surface of some pans
    $200 6
Abbreviated version of the term for teaching youth with disabilities
    $200 1
The Denmark Strait separates Iceland from this large island to its west
    $400 18
The tallest of the new buildings, first dubbed the Freedom Tower, will soar this many feet to signify a big year in American history
    $400 27
I watched my father get pied as we both testified on phone hacking before Parliament
    DD: $1,000 19
Anne Bancroft in "The Miracle Worker"
    $400 12
Custards & other delicate items are cooked in one of these, basically a pair of stacked saucepans
    $400 7
Let's get one thing straight--with this item suspended here
    $400 2
The French call this strait that separates England & France the Pas de Calais
    $600 21
The design for the new Port Authority Transportation Hub was inspired by the gesture of a child releasing this bird into the air
    $600 28
We the people of this African nation spent the summer becoming the newest country in the world & joining the U.N.
    $600 20
Faye Dunaway in "Mommie Dearest"
    $600 13
The book "Cooking A to Z" calls it "the most famous symbol of Chinese cooking"
    $600 8
In a Christmas song, this line about dressing up rhymes with "troll the ancient yuletide carol"
    $600 3
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew points to a map on the monitor.) At its narrowest, this strait separates Europe & Asia by less than 800 yards
    $800 22
The new complex on the site will be six office towers, three of them designed by winners of this 32-year-old architecture prize
    $800 29
My Virginia constituents know that as House majority leader, I spent July hammering out a debt ceiling deal
    $800 24
Robin Wright in "The Conspirator"
    $800 14
Don't have the pot called this? Get this collapsible device to do the same thing
    $800 9
3-word verb phrase meaning to marry or date someone much younger
    $800 4
The scene of a WWII battle, the 3/4-mile-wide Johor Strait separates this island city-state from Malaysia
    $1000 23
Memorial pools at Ground Zero not only commemorate those killed on 9/11, but also in the garage bombing in February of this year
    $1000 30
My 16-year holiday was rudely interrupted in Santa Monica when my past as a Boston crime boss came to haunt me
    $1000 25
Sigourney Weaver in "1492: Conquest of Paradise"
    $1000 15
The first 5 letters of this word for a frying pan are a synonym for "dexterity"
    $1000 10
A slangy term for a baseball doubleheader
    $1000 5
Hydrologically, Lake Huron & Lake Michigan are one lake since they are connected by this strip of water

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Justin Anne Brian
$4,200 $1,600 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Justin Anne Brian
$9,400 $1,800 $3,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

WAR STORIES
SIGNS & SYMBOLS
CHEMISTS
MUSICAL STYLINGS
DO YOU LIKE RUSSIAN HISTORY?
"DA"
    $400 6
"Shades of Gray" &
"Cold Mountain"
    $400 13
In certain emergencies, we hope to see the sign that will guide you to one of these
    $400 11
He improved a smokeless lab burner & in 1841 invented the carbon-zinc electric cell
    $400 21
Sandra Booker, Nina Simone & Esperanza Spalding are all sultry chanteuses of this 4-letter musical genre
    $400 23
The failed liberal Decembrist revolution of 1825 got hundreds of its leaders banished to this vast region
    $400 1
Found in the Middle East, it's considered by some to be the world's oldest continuously inhabited city
    $800 7
"M*A*S*H" &
"The Bridges at Toko-Ri"
    $800 14
It's what the symbol seen here represents
    $800 12
In 1935 Percy Julian synthesized physostigmine, used in the treatment of this eye-pressure disease
    $800 22
In 2011 Ronnie Dunn's "Bleed Red" was in rotation on KXY, "Oklahoma's Classic" this
    $800 30
In 1783, during her reign, Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from the Turks
    $800 2
Thank you, thank you very much for this song, Wayne Newton's first Top 40 hit
    $1200 8
"All Quiet on the Western Front"
    $1200 15
On sheet music this symbol that resembles a small "b" tells you that a note should be lowered by a half step
    $1200 18
Ernst Chain found that this animal substance does its deadly work by destroying a respiratory coenzyme
    $1200 24
A 1979 song by the Sugarhill Gang called this performer's "Delight" launched a musical genre
    $1200 29
Privatization in the 1990s gave power to the wealthy businessmen called these, from a term for government by the few
    DD: $2,000 3
He developed a new silver-based process for photography in the 1830s
    DD: $2,400 9
"Rags of Glory" &
"Kruger's Gold"
    $1600 16
When the symbol seen here is found on a clothing label, it indicates this special instruction
    $1600 19
In 1958 this American chemist & vitamin C advocate published the book "No More War!"
    $1600 27
Dub poetry, a political type of this Jamaican musical form, developed in music halls there in the 1970s
    $1600 26
Founded by this "Great" guy, the Life Guards protected Russia's royalty through the end of the Romanovs
    $1600 4
Deliberately irrational art movement preceding Surrealism
    $2000 10
"For Whom the Bell Tolls"
    $2000 17
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a symbol on the monitor.) Two intersecting triangles form a 6-pointed star called this, from the Greek for "6" & "letter"
    $2000 20
In the 18th century Antoine Lavoisier gave this element its name, from the Greek for "acid forming"
    $2000 28
This structure follows "ambient", "tech" & " left- field" in types of electronica music
    $2000 25
In May 1905 imperial Russia's naval swan song came when 2/3 of its fleet was destroyed by this nation
    $2000 5
Life hung by a thread for this guy of Greek literature who sat beneath a sword

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Justin Anne Brian
$23,400 $6,600 $15,000

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Final Jeopardy! Round

PHILOSOPHY
Nietzsche wrote, "Once you said 'God' when you gazed upon distant seas; but now I have taught you to say" this word

Final scores:

Justin Anne Brian
$16,799 $1 $2
6-day champion: $134,000 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Justin Anne Brian
$22,600 $6,600 $13,600
28 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
11 R,
1 W
17 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $42,800

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Game tape date: 2011-08-02
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