Show #6546 - Monday, February 18, 2013

2013 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

[<< previous game]

Dan McShane, a bartender from West Islip, New York

Kristin Morgan, a strategic analyst for NASA from Huntsville, Alabama

Keith Whitener, a research chemist originally from Charlotte, North Carolina

 [next game >>]

Jeopardy! Round

NATIONALITIES?
LITERARY TERMS
BING'S TOP SEARCHES: 2012
AN "IMP"ISH CATEGORY
MICRO
MANAGE
    $200 2
In this game played with marbles, the board is a 6-pointed star
    $200 4
By definition, an epistolary novel uses these to tell the story
    $200 27
With its lineup of mighty superheroes, this was the most searched movie
    $200 13
A small airship, colonel
    $200 1
The smallest one of these tables was etched on a hair that belonged to a chemistry professor
    $200 22
Last name of Arthur, who managed to get a 9,000-year lease on a brewery at St. James' gate, Dublin
    $400 3
In the movie "The Deer Hunter", the Vietcong force 3 American POWs to play this high-risk game
    $400 6
Self-revealing narration is the heart of the Japanese genre that fittingly goes by this single-letter name
    $400 30
The most searched musician after Justin Bieber was this late "How Will I Know" singer
    $400 14
Showing lack of favoritism
    $400 5
Ironically, the FBI's smallest field office, located in this state, covers the most territory of any office in the bureau
    $400 23
After he managed to circumnavigate the globe, he was personally knighted by Queen Elizabeth I
    $600 8
The original one of these had a blade, a reamer, a screwdriver & a can opener
    $600 12
A word meaning "ideal" derived from a 1516 work gets a new first syllable & becomes this adjective for an awful setting
    $600 16
Get on the dance floor & spell out for us this most searched charitable organization
    $600 15
The practice of one nation forcibly extending its territory into another
    $600 7
In a novelty song, these 4 words precede "yellow polka dot bikini"
    $600 24
He managed to manage the Philadelphia A's from 1901 until 1950, when he was 87
    $800 11
Despite its name, the heritage of this cake with coconut in its frosting isn't Bavarian
    $800 18
9-letter subgenre of sci-fi whose name includes a 19th century form of mechanical power
    $800 29
Not to judge but this competition was the most searched TV show of 2012
    $800 20
To pinch pie crust or put waves in hair
    $800 9
Smallest republic: this island "N"ation that's a whopping 8.2 square miles in the Pacific Ocean
    $800 25
Sir Edmund Hillary first managed to set foot on the summit of Mount Everest with this Sherpa guide
    $1000 17
The White Witch gives Edmund this sweet, the title of chapter 4 of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"
    $1000 19
This long German word refers to a novel that deals with the formation of a young protagonist
    $1000 28
Among the top 5 celebrity events was the birth of Lorenzo Lavalle, her son
    $1000 21
It's what the young medieval woman seen here is wearing
    DD: $1,200 10
This field covers the control of bits of matter smaller than 1 /100th the thickness of a sheet of paper
    $1000 26
Rejected for military service, Ernest Hemingway managed to get into WWI by driving an ambulance for this group

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

Keith Kristin Dan
$2,800 $1,600 $2,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Keith Kristin Dan
$4,200 $5,600 $6,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

NONFICTION
THE TV CHARACTER'S JOB
LET'S GO TO THE CIRCUS
LANDMARKS
IN THE DICTIONARY
1960s BLACK AMERICA
    $400 1
In "Through My Eyes", this quarterback talks about his life, faith & family values
    $400 14
Sam Malone, Nick Miller
    $400 5
In 1859 Jules Leotard became the first daring young man to perform on this apparatus
    $400 4
Winding around 5,500 miles across deserts, mountains & plateaus, it was mostly built during the Ming dynasty
    $400 10
The name of this branch of math comes from words meaning "earth" & "measure"
    $400 6
Lucius Amerson wore a star as the Deep South's first black one of these in a century
    $800 2
This mountain climber & journalist's bestsellers include "Into the Wild" & "Into Thin Air"
    $800 15
Ally McBeal, Denny Crane
    $800 7
In the 1700s Philip Astley standardized its diameter at 42 feet as the ideal size for a galloping horse
    $800 16
Even from space, these ancient edifices are pretty wonderful
    $800 30
Five-letter word for the puzzle seen here, consisting of pictures & letters
    $800 9
In 1969 black's opinion (Justice Hugo Black) was that this school practice should not "be tolerated another minute"
    $1200 3
In October 2012 Bill O'Reilly doubled up on the bestseller list with "Killing Lincoln" & this other murderous book
    $1200 13
Hayden Fox, Eric Taylor
    $1200 8
David Smith Sr. once flew over 2 Ferris wheels, 201 feet up, as part of this act
    $1200 17
Jorn Utzon called this Australian landmark that he designed "a beautiful white shimmering thing"
    $1200 27
Switch genders & misandry becomes this
    DD: $2,500 11
In March 1964 he broke with the Nation of Islam
    $1600 29
Her "Unbroken" was hailed by Time magazine as the best nonfiction book of 2010
    $1600 25
Frank "Ponch " Poncherello, Danny Reagan
    $1600 23
This type of performer is a circus "wild man" with a gruesome act
    DD: $5,000 18
Architect Guarino Guarini designed the Cappella Della Sacra Sindone to house this relic
    $1600 21
Just a few words apart: one is a city founded by the Phoenicians, the other a type of connective tissue
    $1600 12
This new cabinet department was headed by the first African-American cabinet member, Robert Weaver
    $2000 28
Classic by Studs Terkel in which "people talk about what they do all day & how they feel about what they do"
    $2000 26
Ted Mosby, Mike Brady
    $2000 24
You'll enjoy the show less but learn more if you visit this organization's "How do circuses train animals?" FAQ
    $2000 19
This Viennese palace where Mozart played when he was 6 is home to an annual Mozart festival
    $2000 20
It's a 4-letter word for a small bouquet of flowers
    $2000 22
(Alex reports from the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center.) In 1966, the new Metropolitan Opera House opened here at Lincoln Center with a world premiere featuring this African-American diva as Cleopatra

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Keith Kristin Dan
$16,000 $13,300 $12,400

Final Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CAPITALS
Alphabetically, Zagreb is the last world capital; this capital of a former Soviet republic is second to last

Final scores:

Keith Kristin Dan
$26,601 $17,500 $20,000
Automatic semifinalist 3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated 2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Keith Kristin Dan
$12,600 $12,000 $12,200
17 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $36,800

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

The J! Archive is created by fans, for fans. 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.