Show #6808 - Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Battle of the Decades: The 2000s game 3.

Contestants

[<< previous game]

Russ Schumacher, a university professor from Fort Collins, Colorado

Larissa Kelly, an editor for academic competitions from Richmond, California

Tom Kavanaugh, a personal trainer, filmmaker, and singer from St. Louis, Missouri

 [next game >>]

Jeopardy! Round

NEW IN THE 2000s
AMERICAN IDYLL
TWEETING
LOCAL FOOD MOVEMENT
BINGE WATCHING
"SELF-E"s
    $200 21
The 2000 Toy of the Year was a scooter from this brand whose logo is seen here
    $200 26
This New York spot became popular after Napoleon's brother Jerome & his American bride honeymooned there in 1804
    $200 6
You might think we're crazy to play the song of this bird
    $200 11
Britannica says the human digestive system begins at these fleshy bits; mum's the word on where it ends
    $200 16
He called his role in "Leaving Las Vegas" the "portrayal of a dead man's suicide letter"
    $200 1
Completes the Founding Fathers' phrase "We hold these truths to be..."
    $400 22
News Corporation paid $580 million in 2005 to get this social networking site that sold for $35 million in 2011
    $400 27
Vistas of Pennsylvania seen from Blue Mountain & Lehigh Gap are highlights of this 2,000-mile hiking trail
    $400 7
It's the common urban dweller heard here
    $400 12
This shortest, initial part of the small intestine has ducts from the pancreas & gall bladder
    $400 17
As he's passing out, a drunk Jonah Hill headbutts Emma Stone in this 2007 comedy
    $400 2
Status in common of freelance writers, sole business proprietors & contract killers
    $600 23
New word for a hairstyle that copies a "Taxi Driver" look but without shaving the sides
    $600 28
The red sandstone buttes of this Arizona/Utah valley continue to inspire
    $600 8
The wing noise tells you it's this bird
    $600 13
From the Greek, this squeezing motion pushes food down the esophagus
    $600 18
Bartender Howard da Silva finally cuts off Ray Milland early in this film
    $600 3
The Offspring sang, "I know she's playing with me, that's okay cause I got no" this
    $800 24
In 2012 Joanna Rohrback put out a book & a video called this, her exercise technique that emulates a horse's gait
    $800 29
Drop anchor & relax on this northern Arizona lake created by Glen Canyon Dam
    $800 9
The somewhat disturbing call of this bird is heard here
    DD: $2,800 14
A main function of the large intestine is the absorption of these current-conducting compounds
    $800 19
The Scopes Trial judge was "prejudential", explains a sloshed narrator in this Comedy Central series
    $800 4
Adjective for an autodidact
    $1000 25
Bill Wasik came up with the idea for these; the first to succeed, in June 2003, gathered 200 folks at a Macy's rug department
    $1000 30
In 1524 Giovanni da Verrazzano described the U.S. Atlantic coast as this, a mythic Greek term for an unspoiled utopia
    $1000 10
The song of this North American insect eater is its name
    $1000 15
It's the valve that leads from the stomach to the small intestine
    $1000 20
In 1975, 2 years after playing Regan MacNeil, she was the lead in "Sarah T.--Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic"
    $1000 5
This adjective is a synonym for "modest"; literally, it would mean erasing one's own person

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

Tom Larissa Russ
$1,000 $6,600 -$600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Tom Larissa Russ
$1,600 $8,400 $2,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

WOMEN ON U.S. STAMPS
POP QUIZ
MOUNTAIN RANGES
19th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS
LITERARY TITLES
SAME FIRST & LAST 2 LETTERS
    $400 30
This Nobel Prize-winning nun was featured on a 2010 stamp
    $400 2
Carrie Underwood starred in a 2013 live TV presentation of this musical
    $400 11
The Pindus Range on the border of Thessaly & Epirus is often called the "Spine of" this country
    $400 1
(Alex reports from the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.) In his series paintings, this artist concentrated on a single subject to show how the light changes depending on the time of day & the season; here is one of his 30 "Wheatstacks," in this case, on a winter morning
    $400 28
Completes the title of Robert Pirsig's road saga "Zen and the Art of..."
    $400 21
Adjective for handwriting that can be read
    DD: $5,000 29
In 2005, for what would have been her 100th birthday, the U.S. & Sweden issued stamps featuring this movie legend
    $800 4
It's a wild world for this convert to the Muslim faith, a 2014 inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
    $800 12
Algeria's Aures Mountains are at the eastern end of this mountain system
    $800 7
This Scandinavian's paintings of human emotions in the 1890s included "Anxiety" & "Jealousy"
    $800 26
Tom Wolfe's "From" this "to Our House" cleverly rhymes a Gropius creation
    $800 27
Getting one for the chalkboard? Don't skimp, go all-felt
    $1200 17
With the Columbus commemorative stamps in 1893, she became the first woman to be depicted on a U.S. stamp
    $1200 3
In 2013 Marc Anthony's "Vivir Mi Vida" was Record of the Year at the 14th of these awards
    $1200 13
Turner Ward Knob in Arkansas' Boston Mountains is the highest named peak in this much larger range
    $1200 8
In 1826 Thomas Cole settled in Catskill, New York & started painting the works that launched this "School"
    DD: $3,600 16
The title of this 1943 bestseller refers to an Ailanthus
    $1200 24
Ruminant adjective for a bashful grin
    $1600 18
As part of the Black Heritage series, this two-time Wimbledon champ was depicted on a 2013 stamp
    $1600 5
This 2013 movie character is loosely based on 1960s folkie Dave Van Ronk
    $1600 14
This system extends more than 1,600 miles from the Arctic to Kazakhstan
    $1600 9
This artist who gained fame illustrating books by Owen Wister is seen here in a self-portrait on a horse
    $1600 20
Owned by black sharecroppers, this title dog was named for his bark
    $1600 22
The name of the main enemy ship attacking you is also the name of this classic video game
    $2000 19
"God Bless America" & this beloved singer who was honored on a stamp in 2010
    $2000 6
Spudboys in energy-dome hats are fans of this band
    $2000 15
This 900-mile range forms a semicircle around Transylvania
    $2000 10
Between 1819 & 1825 this British landscape artist painted a series of 6 scenes on the River Stour
    $2000 25
This title of an 1850 collection doesn't refer to a language but to a nickname the poet's husband gave her
    $2000 23
Adjective for soil deposited by flowing water

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Tom Larissa Russ
$5,600 $22,800 $15,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

MONARCHS
In 2005 the Kul Sharif Mosque of Tatarstan was reopened 453 years after it was destroyed by this man

Final scores:

Tom Larissa Russ
$0 $14,799 $15,400
3rd place: $5,000 2nd place: $5,000 Quarterfinalist

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Tom Larissa Russ
$5,600 $18,400 $11,200
11 R,
3 W		 23 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $35,200

[game responses] [game scores] [suggest correction]

Game tape date: 2014-01-22
The J! Archive is created by fans, for fans. Scraping, republication, monetization, and malicious use prohibited; this site may use cookies and collect identifying information. See terms. The Jeopardy! game show and all elements thereof, including but not limited to copyright and trademark thereto, are the property of Jeopardy Productions, Inc. and are protected under law. This website is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or operated by Jeopardy Productions, Inc. Join the discussion at JBoard.tv.