Show #5019 2006-06-08 (taped 2006-03-31) Regular

Contestants

Kerry Rucidlo — a secretary from New York, New York

Jessica Tanner — a graduate student from Cambridge, Massachusetts

Roberta Ellington — a marketing coordinator from Tustin, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Roberta $3,600 $7,200 $12,800 $24,201
2-day champion: $41,701
$12,800
21 R, 4 W
Jessica $1,000 $3,600 $11,400 $5,599
2nd place: $2,000
$14,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Kerry $2,800 $4,600 $8,600 $10
3rd place: $1,000
$8,600
13 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

JUNE SWOON DAVES OF OUR LIVES TOOLS MANHATTAN'S MUSEUM MILE GAMES 3-LETTER WORDS
$200 [11]
This Philippine city was proclaimed a capital on June 24, 1571 & again on June 24, 1976
Manila
Roberta
$200 [25]
In December 2005 an estimated 13.5 million late-night viewers tuned in to see him welcome Oprah to his show
David Letterman
Jessica
$200 [6]
The peen is opposite the striking surface on this tool
a hammer
Roberta
$200 [21]
New to Museum Mile, the Neue Galerie features works from Austria & this country, home of Ernst Kirchner
Germany
Jessica
$200 [16]
This British sport features 2 teams of 11 members & 2 wickets placed 22 yards apart
cricket
Roberta
$200 [1]
Fishin' stick
rod
Jessica
$400 [12]
June is Dairy Month in this 30th state & celebrates its proud dairy heritage
Wisconsin
Jessica
$400 [26]
In 2004 this "X-Files" star disappeared behind the camera to direct his first movie, "The House of D"
David Duchovny
Jessica
$400 [7]
(Jon of the Clue Crew inserts a Phillips-head screwdriver into a screw.) With its quick alignment, the Phillips-head screw was designed to help in mass production; it first became standard in this industry
the auto industry
Roberta
$400 [22]
5 of the fewer than 40 known Vermeers reside in this 5th Avenue museum
the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Kerry
$400 [17]
Battledore & shuttlecock was the forerunner of this racket game
badminton
Roberta
$400 [2]
Now it's a party! Here's Joe with this "pony" cask of ale
keg
Kerry
$800 [14]
Famous date on which more than 5,000 ships carrying Allied troops crossed the English Channel
June 6, 1944
Kerry
$600 [27]
In 1988 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his humorous newspaper columns
Dave Barry
Roberta
$600 [8]
Someone with an ulterior motive "has" this tool "to grind"
an axe
Jessica
$600 [23]
The exterior of this museum at 5th & 89th was designed to break the rectangular grid of Manhattan
the Guggenheim
Kerry
$600 [18]
It's the trademarked name for the game that uses a hollow white celluloid ball that's 40 mm in diameter
Ping-Pong
Roberta
$600 [3]
A rounded mass of chewing gum
wad
Kerry
DD $1,000 [13]
The National Foundation for this June holiday is based in Baltimore
Flag Day
Jessica
$800 [28]
With 6 Major League teams including the Padres & Yankees, he hit 465 home runs & won 7 Gold Gloves
Dave Winfield
Jessica
$800 [9]
The saw, an ancient tool, was first patented in this shape by Samuel Miller in 1777
a circle
Jessica
$800 [24]
The Museum of the City of N.Y. has the derby of this governor, the first Catholic to be a major party pres. candidate
Al Smith
Roberta
$800 [19]
A fronton is the arena in which this sport is played
jai alai
Kerry
$800 [4]
Over there; often hitched with hither
yon
Roberta
$1,000 [15]
Declared a public enemy by the Senate, this Roman emperor committed suicide on June 9, 68 A.D.
Nero
Kerry
$1,000 [29]
Take five & name this leader of the jazz quartet heard here
Dave Brubeck
Jessica
$1,000 [10]
A sickle is a crescent-shaped blade on a short handle; this is a long, single-edged blade on a long, curved pole
a scythe
Roberta
$1,000 [30]
A Latino art museum goes by the name El Museo del this, a Spanish word for the inner city
Barrio
Roberta
$1,000 [20]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew plays croquet.) In U.S. croquet, a ball that goes through all the wickets has this travelling name, especially if it's the red one
a rover
$1,000 [5]
When paired with vigor, it signifies exuberance
vim
Roberta

Double Jeopardy! Round

CITY OF THE DAY: SAN FRANCISCO CLASSIC TV THEMES LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "L" PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS WE KNOW EMISSARY TO AMERICA MARK ANTONYMS
$400 [21]
Members of the American Indian movement seized this then-unoccupied island in 1969 & were forced off in 1971
Alcatraz Island
Roberta Kerry
$400 [8]
In a way, this show whose theme is heardherewas 12,000 years in the making
The Flintstones
Roberta
$400 [1]
"King" of nonsense poets(4)
(Edward) Lear
$400 [13]
If someone wants you caught & is offering a reward, you have this "on your head"
a price
Roberta
$400 [19]
E.-C. Genet, an 18th c. French minister to the U.S., undermined the neutrality policy of this pres., who got him recalled
George Washington
Roberta Jessica
$400 [6]
This antonym of "to mark" is a synonym of "efface" & rhymes with it
erase
Kerry
$800 [27]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Chinatown in San Francisco.) The first of San Francisco's Chinese immigrants arrived on the ship Eagle in 1848, a week after this discovery that changed California
gold
Jessica
$800 [9]
1971--those were the days for this show
All in the Family
Kerry
$800 [2]
"Sheepish" essayist Charles(4)
Lamb
Jessica
$800 [14]
Merv could tell you this monster who drew the chariot of the sun may come from Indo-Iranian mythology
griffin
Jessica
$800 [20]
Vijaya Pandit saw both sides of the Cold War as ambassador of this country to the U.S. & USSR in the 1940s
India
Roberta
$800 [7]
The traditional mark of someone who can't sign his name has this opposite in tic-tac-toe
O
Roberta
$1,200 [29]
This poet was the first black--& the first female--streetcar conductor in San Francisco
Maya Angelou
Roberta
$1,200 [10]
This sitcom's theme song is heard here
Bewitched
Roberta
DD $1,000 [4]
Robin Hood's pseudonym in "Ivanhoe", or Tennyson's "Hall"(8)
Locksley
Jessica
$1,200 [15]
Last name of the "kinky" author of "'Scuse Me While I Whip This Out" who ran for Texas governor in 2006
Friedman
Kerry
DD $800 [23]
Carlos de Icaza, ambassador from this country, attended the 2005 inauguration of the new mayor of Los Angeles
Mexico
Jessica
$1,200 [18]
It's at the opposite end of a race from your mark
finish
Roberta
$1,600 [30]
An elaborate 1915 San Francisco expo celebrated the completion of this, which made it much easier to sail to the city
the Panama Canal
Roberta
$1,600 [11]
I'm so glad you had the time to tell me this zany variety show whose theme is heard here
The Carol Burnett Show
Kerry
$1,200 [3]
Natty Bumppo's accessory, or his nickname(15)
Leatherstocking
Roberta Jessica
$1,600 [16]
18th century English writer Samuel & a motel-chain founder both had this last name
Johnson
Kerry
$1,200 [22]
In 1919 former British foreign minister Grey came over to try to nudge the U.S. into this world body--no dice
the League of Nations
Jessica
$1,600 [25]
Mark as in "mark my words" means "pay attention"; this opposite word is from the Latin for "to not know"
ignore
Jessica
$2,000 [28]
It was once a military post under the flag of Spain; it's now part of Golden Gate National Recreation Area
the Presidio
Roberta
$2,000 [12]
Stand back! It's the '70s action series whose theme is heard here
S.W.A.T.
Kerry
$2,000 [5]
James T. Farrell's Studs(7)
Lonigan
$2,000 [17]
It's the 820-mile-long river represented here
the Rhine
Roberta Jessica
$2,000 [24]
Vincent Massey was Canada's first minister to the U.S. & later the first non-Brit to hold this post
governor-general
$2,000 [26]
As "mark" can mean "to make conspicuous", one antonym could be this synonym of "skin"
hide

Final Jeopardy!

UNIVERSITIES

It's the only state that doesn't have an undergraduate university or university system named just for the state itself

New Jersey

Kerry "What is Alaska" — wagered $8,590
Jessica "What is Alaska?" — wagered $5,801
Roberta "What is New Jersey?" — wagered $11,401

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