Show #5028 2006-06-21 Regular

Contestants

Tony Mahler — a healthcare consultant from Bronx, New York

Amanda Ross-White — a librarian from Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Clark Floyd — an accountant from Savannah, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Clark $2,800 $6,200 $11,200 $8,200
2-day champion: $36,400
$12,600
25 R (including 2 DDs), 7 W (including 1 DD)
Amanda $1,200 $2,000 $4,400 $7,400
2nd place: $2,000
$4,400
9 R, 3 W
Tony $2,800 $5,800 $7,000 $2,000
3rd place: $1,000
$7,000
15 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

1491 THE DESPERATE HOUSEWIFE WHO... COOK ME UP! IT'S ALL A PLANT PLEAD THE FIFTH COLORFUL IDIOMS
$200 [11]
In 1491 this country outlawed golf, soccer & other sports that were taking young men away from military training
Scotland
Clark
$200 [21]
...got an Oscar nomination in 2006
Felicity Huffman
Amanda
$200 [16]
With the rising sun beating down on me I was doing this, as if I was a genoise or a loaf of bread
baking
Tony
$200 [23]
Arkansas has made the pink variety of this its state fruit & its state vegetable, just in case
a tomato
Clark
$200 [6]
The Chinese believe that 5 elements influence daily life: metal, wood, earth, fire & this
water
Amanda
$200 [1]
Elephant or lie
white
Tony
$400 [12]
Born in 1491, this future king had a nurse named Anne Luke--not the last Anne he'd nuzzle
Henry VIII
Clark
$400 [22]
...showered a little too much affection on Terrell Owens on "Monday Night Football"
Nicollette Sheridan
Clark Tony
$400 [17]
I went on a diet to try to do this, like chateaubriand sauce when it's boiled down
reduce
Tony
$400 [24]
Scientifically Hamamelis virginiana, this "bewitching" plant is used to make a soothing astringent
witch hazel
Amanda
$400 [7]
In baseball scoring, 5 represents this position
third base
Clark
$400 [2]
Elephants or slip
pink
Tony
$600 [13]
This German city & capital of Saxony was destroyed by fire in 1491 & by Allied firebombing in 1945
Dresden
Clark
$600 [29]
...appeared on the cover of the April 2006 Vanity Fair
Teri Hatcher
Clark Tony
$600 [18]
I thought the police just had a few questions--I didn't know I'd be this, like a Burger King hamburger
grilled
Clark
$600 [25]
In Dutch, these tuber vegetables are known as aardappelen
potatoes
Tony
$800 [9]
It's fifth in the Greek alphabet & its descendant is fifth in the English alpabet
epsilon
Clark Amanda Tony
$600 [3]
Humor or market
black
Tony
$800 [14]
In 1491 he began his studies at the University of Krakow; his impact on the world would be astronomical
Copernicus
Tony
$800 [28]
...literally blew up "Melrose Place" as Dr. Kimberly Shaw
Marcia Cross
Clark
$800 [19]
In that heavy wool suit I was doing this, the process coffee beans go through before grinding
roasting
Amanda Tony
$800 [26]
Arctic alpine plants include the saxifrage, whose roots manage to grow into these to anchor themselves
rocks
Tony
DD $1,000 [8]
They're the 3 letters above the number 5 on a standard telephone button
J-K-L
Clark
$800 [4]
Blood or streak
blue
Amanda
$1,000 [15]
The siege of this kingdom, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, began in late 1491
Granada
$1,000 [30]
...has a B.S. in kinesiology & was No. 1 on Maxim Magazine's "Hot 100" list
Eva Longoria
Clark
$1,000 [20]
I couldn't do anything until he finally showed up except sit there & do this, like slow-simmered meat
stew
Amanda
$1,000 [27]
The Great Basin bristlecone species of this tree can live for more than 4,000 years
a pine
Clark
$1,000 [10]
Elected in 1995, he's the fifth president in France's history
(Jacques) Chirac
Clark
$1,000 [5]
Light or thumb
green
Amanda

Double Jeopardy! Round

CURRENT POLITICOS MOVIE TITLE NAMES NONFICTION BEST SELLER OF THE YEAR WHERE AM I? PAINTERS WHAT HAVE "V" HERE?
$400 [11]
Saying bye-bye in April 2006, this Texan said, "I think I could have won this seat but it would have been nasty"
Tom DeLay
Clark
$400 [1]
Told his nose is broken, this 1976 title pugilist asks how it looks & gets the reply,"Ah, it’s an improvement"
Rocky
Clark
$400 [21]
1990: This TV journalist’s "A Life on the Road"
Charles Kuralt
Clark
$400 [6]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands next to a restaurant billboard.) I’m in this country getting used to some unfamiliar letter combos, like "DZISIAJ W PROMOCJI:"--"Today's specials are:"
Poland
Clark Amanda
$400 [26]
In his book "Noa Noa" he wrote about Tahiti, "Here I enter into truth, become one with nature"
(Paul) Gauguin
Clark
$400 [14]
When it's time for the zazuski, be ready for fancy Russian hors d'oeuvres served with this beverage ice cold
vodka
Clark
$800 [12]
Now an Illinois senator, he gave the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention
Barack Obama
Clark
$800 [2]
A single mom leads the legal charge against Pacific Gas & Electric in this 2000 drama
Erin Brockovich
Amanda
$800 [22]
1998: Her "9 Steps to Financial Freedom"
Suze Orman
Clark Amanda
$800 [7]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew walks through a city park.) I’m on Tahrir or Liberation Square in this vast & ancient capital city
Cairo
$1,200 [28]
The title of his 1885 work "Halibut Fishing" was changed to the more familiar title "Fog Warning" years later
Winslow Homer
$800 [15]
Cyrpus is celebrated as the island where she emerged from the sea
Venus
Tony
$1,200 [13]
In 2002 this Republican became the first sitting senator ever to host "Saturday Night Live"
Senator John McCain
Clark
$1,200 [3]
Characters in this 1990 film included Mumbles, Shoulders, Flattop, The Rodent & The Brow
Dick Tracy
Clark
$1,200 [23]
1957 & 1958: His "Kids Say the Darndest Things!"
Art Linkletter
Clark
$1,600 [9]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands in a narrow space station module replica in Russia.) I'm at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in this complex near Moscow, appropriately named this City
Star City
Tony
$1,600 [29]
This Missouri-born muralist was the son of a congressman & the grand-nephew of a senator
(Thomas Hart) Benton
Tony
$1,200 [18]
It was the Mayflower's original destination; then they ran out of beer
Virginia
Clark Amanda
$1,600 [16]
Called the "Ragin' Cajun", this Louisiana lawyer & his partner Paul Begala helped get Clinton elected in 1992
James Carville
Clark
$1,600 [4]
This 1977 romantic comedy set in NYC beat out "Julia" for Best Picture
Annie Hall
$1,600 [24]
1967: His "The Death of a President"
William Manchester
Clark Tony
$2,000 [10]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew walks down a bustling street in Germany.) In Lübeck, I'm in this northern German state composed of two historic areas
Schleswig-Holstein
Tony
DD $2,000 [27]
His "Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle" hangs in Glasgow
(James) Whistler
Clark
$1,600 [19]
In the King James version of Genesis, "The Earth was without form, and" this
void
Clark
$2,000 [17]
This Democrat was named Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in 1997 & didn't lose an Allied soldier in combat in Kosovo
(Wesley) Clark
Tony
$2,000 [5]
It’s the name of the 1976 field-goal-kicking mule that got booted up to title billing
Gus
Tony
$2,000 [25]
1921 & 1922: His "The Outline of History"
H.G. Wells
DD $3,000 [8]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew walks in front of some ruins in Greece.) It's a dog day afternoon in Athens, Greece, located on this peninsula
Attica
Clark
$2,000 [30]
A surrealist like Dali, this artist who died in 1983 has a foundation in Barcelona named for him
Joan Miró
$2,000 [20]
You might be down for this rank of British nobility right below an earl
a viscount
Clark

Final Jeopardy!

AUTHORS

Author seen here with his son

A.A. Milne

Amanda "Who is Milne?" — wagered $3,000
Tony "Who was" — wagered $5,000
Clark "Who is Lewis Carroll" — wagered $3,000

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