Show #5044 2006-07-13 Regular

Contestants

Rebecca Pinchoff — a pediatrician from Forest Hills, New York

Eric Allen — a video game merchandiser from Birmingham, Alabama

Susan Matejko — a legal secretary from Kailua, Hawaii (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Susan $0 $1,000 $3,600 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$4,200
8 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Eric $2,600 $4,000 $12,000 $15,201
New champion: $15,201
$10,800
23 R (including 1 DD), 9 W
Rebecca $0 $1,600 $7,600 $2,600
2nd place: $2,000
$9,600
15 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE BARD WRITES KIRSTEN, REESE OR SCARLETT NAME THAT AFRICAN COUNTRY I'M SORRY REMEMBERING THE '90s BETTER "RED"
$200 [21]
In Act I, scene 1 of this play, 3 witches chant, "Fair is foul, and foul is fair; hover through the fog and filthy air"
Macbeth
Rebecca
$200 [11]
Has starred with Pitt & Cruise
Kirsten
Eric Rebecca
$200 [15]
Itshistorystretches back more than 5,000 years
Egypt
Susan
$200 [1]
This cabinet member: "To those Iraqis... mistreated by members of the U.S. Armed Forces, I offer my deepest apology"
Rumsfeld
Eric
$200 [20]
Avast, me hearties! In 1995 Malcolm Glazer paid $192 million for this Florida football team
the (Tampa Bay) Buccaneers
Rebecca
$200 [2]
Jeff Foxworthy says, "If your dad walks you to school because you're in the same grade, you might be" one of these
a redneck
Eric
$400 [22]
This king tells Buckingham, "I am not in the giving vein today" & soon has Buckingham executed
Richard III
Eric Rebecca
$400 [12]
Born of a Danish father
Scarlett
Eric Rebecca
$400 [16]
Thiskingdomhas both an Atlantic coast & a Mediterranean coast
Morocco
Eric
$400 [7]
Citing his "degrading and outrageous" behavior, in 1990 this ex-D.C. mayor wrote he was "deeply sorry"
Marion Barry
Eric
$400 [26]
In 1999 she was the commencement speaker at CCNY (perhaps lining up some votes for 2000)
Hillary Clinton
Susan
$400 [3]
A British soldier during the American Revolutionary War
a Redcoat
Eric
$600 [23]
She tells the Duke of Venice, "That I did love the Moor to live with him"
Desdemona
Eric
$600 [13]
Married, with children
Reese
Eric
$600 [17]
For more than 50 years in the 20th century, itwasa colony of Belgium
Congo
Susan Rebecca
$600 [8]
"To the degree I was too brash, too self-confident or too pushy, I apologize", this Speaker of the House said in 1997
Newt Gingrich
Eric
$600 [27]
This blonde proved that "Les" is more when she joined the "60 Minutes" team in 1991
(Lesley) Stahl
Rebecca
$600 [4]
High-flying critter seen here
a robin redbreast
$800 [24]
This, which Shylock demands, "is dearly bought, 'tis mine, and I will have it"
a pound of flesh
Rebecca
$800 [14]
The tallest at 5'7"
Kirsten
Susan Rebecca
$800 [18]
Trouble spotseen here
Somalia
Eric
$800 [9]
He was "sorry for... the events that led to my withdrawal from the race... I should not have been with Miss Rice"
Gary Hart
Eric
$1,000 [29]
In 1990, 100 years after this artist's suicide, medical researchers said that he may have suffered from Meniere's disease
van Gogh
Rebecca
$800 [5]
His film credits include "Hatari!" & "The Poseidon Adventure"
Red Buttons
Eric
$1,000 [25]
"A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in" this part "of him that makes it"
the tongue
Eric Rebecca
$1,000 [19]
Born in the 1970s, she's the oldest
Reese
Eric
$1,000 [30]
For many years, itsterritorywas controlled by South Africa
Namibia
$1,000 [10]
"I want to... ask for forgiveness (for my) arrogant lifestyle", said this ex-PTL leader (even his doghouse had A/C)
James Bakker
Susan Rebecca
DD $2,000 [28]
In 1991 he made his first official public appearance, with his parents, on St. David's Day at Llandaff Cathedral
Prince William
Rebecca
$1,000 [6]
It's Stendhal's novel about the pathologically ambitious Julien Sorel
The Red and the Black

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD RELIGION DISNEY FILM VOICES IT'S AN ILLUSION "F"RIENDS OF SCIENCE WORLD LEADERS MEATY WORDS
$400 [21]
Ciaran, who founded an abbey in Clonmacnoise in this country, has his own feast day
Ireland
Rebecca
$400 [7]
Clint Howard was a small child when he provided the voice of a baby elephant for this 1967 Kipling classic
The Jungle Book
Eric
$400 [12]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows an optical illusion on the monitor.) The duck-rabbit figure with a duck's bill here& a rabbit's noseherewas first commented on by Joseph Jastro, who studied the brain's role in perception as one of America's first professors of this
psychology
Eric
$400 [2]
Before sending this ape expert to Africa in 1966, Louis Leakey asked her to get a pre-emptive appendectomy
(Dian) Fossey
Susan
$400 [24]
The world leader & former judo championseenherecalls this world capital home
Moscow
Susan
$400 [1]
It precedes wagon, Bednarik or Yeager
chuck
Rebecca
$800 [22]
Polynesians believe the deity Maui learned to make this in the underworld
fire
Rebecca
$800 [8]
Princess Jasmine's singing voice in "Aladdin" sounds a bit like this Chinese heroine's; Lea Salonga sang for both of them
Mulan
Eric
$800 [13]
Light distorted by heated air leads to illusions known by this French word
mirage
Rebecca
$1,200 [17]
During WWI this Brit debated the use of antiseptics on wound infections, finding they did more harm than good
(Alexander) Fleming
Eric
$800 [25]
In 2001hewas sworn in as his country's prime minister
Junichiro Koizumi
$800 [3]
A theater stage completely surrounded by seats for the audience is "in the" this
round
Susan
$1,200 [23]
The Panchen Lama was the abbot of Tashilhunpo in this autonomous region of China
Tibet
Eric
$1,200 [9]
Amanda Plummer, Paddi Edwards & Carole Shelley were destined to play the fates in the film about this mythical hunk
Hercules
Eric
$1,200 [14]
(Jon of the Clue Crew shows another illusion on the monitor.) You think the two green verticallinesare different lengths, but they'renot--it's the illusion of depth created by the horizontal lines doing this, from the Latin for "inclined together"
converge
Eric
$1,600 [18]
"Vous etes invité a venir voir tourner la terre" was how this "swinger" extolled his 1851 experiment
Foucault
Rebecca
$1,200 [26]
Seen here, he was his country's chancellor from 1998 to 2005
Gerhard Schröder
Eric
DD $1,000 [5]
The extreme left or right side of an army
flank
Susan
$1,600 [27]
The name of these oldest sacred books of Hinduism means "knowledge"
Vedas
Eric
$1,600 [10]
Brian Bedford was the voice of this title character who out-foxed a British sheriff in a 1973 film
Robin Hood
Eric
$1,600 [15]
The 1965 exhibition "The Responsive Eye" popularized this art movement based on illusions
Op Art
Eric
DD $2,000 [16]
Born in Danzig in 1686, he improved on a Galileo invention by using mercury instead of a gas
Fahrenheit
Eric
$1,200 [4]
A slang term for a type of car accident, or music's Mr. Burnett
T-bone
$2,000 [28]
The 71 members of this Jewish religious council that ruled in Roman times were mostly Pharises
the Sanhedrin
Eric
$2,000 [11]
Eleanor Audley played Eddie Albert's mother on "Green Acres" after voicing this villainess in "Sleeping Beauty"
Maleficent
Rebecca
$2,000 [20]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows one last illusion on the monitor.) The image seenhereis called figure & this; the shape that has more meaning to you is the one that you'll see as the figure
ground
Eric
$2,000 [19]
This bongo-playing Manhattan Project physicist told how Challenger's O-rings failed in 1986
Richard Feynman
Eric
$2,000 [6]
Name given to the English Parliament during the civil war in the mid-1600s
rump
Eric

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. HISTORY

He was the commanding Union general at Bentonville, site of the last major Confederate offensive

William Tecumseh Sherman

Susan "Who was Grant" — wagered $3,599
Rebecca "Who is Lee?" — wagered $5,000
Eric "Who was Sherman?" — wagered $3,201

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