Show #5027 2006-06-20 Regular

Contestants

Clark Floyd — an accountant from Savannah, Georgia

Sioux Stoeckle — an English professor from Blythe, California

Josh Kennedy — a bartender from Trenton, New Jersey (whose 2-day cash winnings total $55,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Josh $4,500 $6,300 $11,500 $22,999
2nd place: $2,000
$10,800
22 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Sioux $-1,000 $800 $-800 $-800
3rd place: $1,000
$-800
8 R, 4 W
Clark $600 $2,600 $27,200 $28,200
New champion: $28,200
$21,400
23 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT TIMES BASEBALL RECORD BREAKERS ANIMALS ON THE CHINESE CALENDAR AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY CARS IN THE DICTIONARY "D" BRIEFING
$200 [26]
Called ros caelestis, or "heavenly dew", it was the chief sweetener of ancient times
honey
Sioux
$200 [2]
On Sept. 26, 1981 he hurled his record-breaking 5th no-hit game; he went on to pitch 2 more in his career
Nolan Ryan
Clark
$200 [20]
1975:I'm wefuhwing to this cwazy cwitter, heheheh
a rabbit (or a wabbit)
Sioux
$200 [1]
This Great Lake is the lowest in elevation & the only one of the 5 sharing its name with a province
Ontario
Clark
$200 [11]
This Chevy car is perfectly ship-shape
a Corvette
Josh
$200 [16]
Snow White's only beardless dwarf
Dopey
Josh
$400 [27]
Myron's Discobolus statue shows a man doing this, not dancing
throwing a discus
Sioux
$400 [3]
This Cincinnati Red had more career at-bats than any other player, 14,053; that's one reason for all those hits
Pete Rose
Clark
$400 [22]
1900:It's slang for an informer
a rat
Clark
$400 [7]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew points to a map of Southern California on the monitor that zooms in on a central region.) This world-famousarea within Los Angeles is also an adjective meaning flashy or glamorous
Hollywood
Josh
$400 [12]
I think we can all agree on this Honda
an Accord
Josh
$400 [17]
Oh, waiter! Contact Hades & have them ship in a serving of this rich, dark chocolate cake
devil's food
Josh
$600 [28]
Julius Caesar said this region was divided into 3 parts; Augustus divided it into 4, including Aquitania
Gaul
Sioux
$600 [4]
In 2004 this Seattle Mariner had 262 hits, breaking an 84-year-old record
Ichiro
Josh
$600 [23]
1965:A wirepuller, or a treacherous person, as in "a low-down, dirty..."
a snake
Sioux
$600 [8]
We're sure the Berkshires are a chain of hills centered in the western part of this state
Massachusetts
Josh
$600 [13]
This Ford model created quite a storm in North America
a Thunderbird
Josh
$600 [18]
The international road vehicle sticker of this nation is seen here
Denmark
Sioux
$800 [29]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from the Nile in Egypt.) The mud deposited by the Nile made ancient Egypt "kemet", black land; the desert was "deshret", meaning this
red land
Josh Sioux
$800 [5]
In 2003 this Atlanta Braves pitcher set a record by winning at least 15 games for the 16th straight season
Greg Maddux
Clark
$800 [24]
1940:A Tom Clancy novel in 2000 was called "The Bear and" this beast
the Dragon
Clark
$1,000 [10]
Many Oregon Trail trekkers set out from this Missouri city, the trail's eastern terminus
Independence
Josh Sioux
$800 [14]
It would take many of this Nissan model to reach its limit
a Maxima
Josh
$800 [19]
Until 1971 college students could get these delays of military service & avoid Vietnam
deferments
Clark
$1,000 [30]
The Epigoni were the sons of the "7 against" this city who later succeeded where their dads had failed
Thebes
$1,000 [6]
While with the Rockies, this outfielder became the first Canadian-born major leaguer to collect 2,000 hits
Larry Walker
Josh Clark
$1,000 [25]
1980:Proverbially, you can have one of these on your back, or make one of these out of someone
a monkey
Josh
DD $1,500 [9]
These largest cities of Michigan & Iowa were both given French names
Detroit & Des Moines
Josh
$1,000 [15]
This Volkswagen model is a real sport
a Golf
Josh
$1,000 [21]
It's the technical name for a 12-sided solid figure
a dodecahedron
Josh

Double Jeopardy! Round

CHEMISTRY SEASONAL ACTING DURING THE FILLMORE PRESIDENCY BRANDS LITERARY JOHNS SUPERHERO BEFORE & AFTER
$400 [3]
1,6-diaminohexane & hexanedioic acid mix to make this polymer popular in stockings
nylon
Sioux
$400 [22]
Thisheartthrob has starred as Lt. Zac on "Battlestar Galactica" & Dr. Noah Drake on "General Hospital"
Rick Springfield
Clark
$400 [16]
This state entered the Union on Sept. 9, 1850, becoming at the time the second-largest state in area
California
Josh
$400 [11]
Yuban says it's 100% this type of coffee
Colombian
Clark
$400 [1]
A 1921 poem by Vachel Lindsay was "In Praise of" this wandering planter
Johnny Appleseed
Josh
$400 [21]
1970s bodybuilding documentary & Avengers member whose secret identity is Tony Stark
Pumping Iron Man
Josh Sioux
$800 [6]
In 1856 Sir William Perkin made the first synthetic one of these; he produced mauve while trying to make quinine
dye
Josh
$800 [23]
His friendship with Robin Williams landed him a part as Robin's son on "Mork & Mindy"
Jonathan Winters
Clark
$800 [17]
In 1851 this actor played his first major role when he replaced his father Junius as Richard III at the National Theatre
Edwin Booth
Josh Sioux
$800 [12]
This breakfast cereal is "kid-tested, mother-approved"
Kix
Josh
$800 [2]
The Phillips Exeter Academy was the model for the Steering School in his "The World According to Garp"
John Irving
Clark
$800 [27]
1991 Madonna pic highlighting her "Blond Ambition" tour in which she fights crime as a blind Marvel acrobat
Truth or Daredevil
Josh
$1,200 [7]
These electron energy layers surrounding an atom's nucleus are labeled K, L, M, N, O, etc.
shells
Clark
$1,200 [24]
This German actress & model starred opposite Inspector Clouseau in "A Shot in the Dark"
Elke Sommer
Clark
$1,200 [18]
Popularized by Horace Greeley, this 4-word phrase is often credited to an 1851 editorial by John Soule
"Go West, young man"
Clark
$1,200 [13]
This Copenhagen-based beer brand became purveyors to the Royal Danish Court in 1904
Carlsberg
Josh
$1,200 [4]
He regained paradise with 2nd wife Katharine & mourned her in "Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint"
John Milton
Clark
$1,200 [28]
Whitman "Leaves of Grass" poetic entry that, with patriotic shield in hand, battles the Red Skull
"O Captain! My Captain! America"
Josh Clark
$2,000 [9]
This Frenchman known for his oxygen theory of combustion wrote the first modern chemistry textbook in 1789
Lavoisier
Clark
$1,600 [25]
Lee Majors made a name for himself after "The 6 Million Dollar Man" playing Colt Seavers on this action series
The Fall Guy
Clark
$2,000 [20]
In 1852 this hero of Veracruz in the Mexican War was nominated by the Whig party as its presidential candidate
Winfield Scott
Josh
$1,600 [14]
This candy-coated gum brand is named for a substance used to make gum
Chiclets
Josh
$1,600 [5]
He dedicated his "Endymion" to Thomas Chatterton, a poet who killed himself at the age of 17
John Keats
Sioux Clark
$1,600 [29]
Flubberific Fred MacMurray film that leads the X-Men, albeit from his wheelchair
The Absent-Minded Professor X
DD $4,000 [8]
Dextran, starch & glycogen are examples of these, meaning "many sugars"
polysaccharides
Clark
$2,000 [26]
This actress from "The Poseidon Adventure" & "A Patch of Blue" passed away in January 2006
Shelley Winters
Clark
DD $5,000 [19]
On August 22, 1851 this U.S. yacht defeated 14 British vessels in a race around the Isle of Wight
the America
Clark
$2,000 [15]
An animated Santa glides over the snow in a rotary razor in classic holiday ads for this brand
Norelco
Josh Clark
$2,000 [10]
In Spanish his bestseller is "Los Hombres Son de Marte, las Mujeres Son de Venus"
John Gray
Clark
$2,000 [30]
Judas' named biblical betrayal price was hanging ten & being confined to Earth by Galactus, the planet eater
30 pieces of Silver Surfer

Final Jeopardy!

NATIONAL NAMES

2 of 3 European Union member nations whose names are only one syllable in English

(2 of) France, Greece, & Spain

Josh "What are Spain and Greece" — wagered $11,499
Clark "What are France and Spain" — wagered $1,000

« Back to Games