Show #5061 2006-09-18 (taped 2006-08-03) Regular

Sara Terrell game 1.

Contestants

Sean Carson — a teacher from Greenville, Florida

Sara Terrell — a veterinary technician from Collinsville, Connecticut

Lou Bayard — a writer from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lou $1,200 $4,000 $16,200 $1,599
3rd place: $1,000
$17,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Sara $2,000 $3,800 $9,000 $17,999
New champion: $17,999
$9,000
12 R, 0 W
Sean $4,400 $9,000 $15,400 $14,599
2nd place: $2,000
$18,400
26 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

RONALD REAGAN PUNCH LINES THE KING JAMES BIBLE TELLS ME SO OFFICIAL STATE STUFF "OVER" & "UNDER" MORTAL MATTERS
$200 [24]
Presidential Chief of Staff Donald Regan was fired after hanging up on her
Nancy Reagan
Lou
$200 [14]
In 1966 he refused military induction by saying, "I ain't got no trouble with them Viet Cong"
Muhammad Ali
Sara
$200 [1]
James 5:"Ye have heard of the patience of" this man
Job
Sean
$200 [6]
Its official state sport is dog mushing
Alaska
Sean
$200 [8]
A small, folded pastry with a sealed edge
a turnover
Lou
$200 [9]
Cambyses killed Smerdis to head this empire but died stopping a pretend Smerdis; then Darius I took over
Persia
Sean
$400 [27]
Reagan was in his 50s in 1962 when he joined this organization founded in 1854
the Republican Party
Sean
$400 [15]
After losing the title to Gene Tunney in 1926, he told his wife Estelle, "Honey, I just forgot to duck"
Jack Dempsey
Lou
$400 [2]
Luke 4, to this person:"Heal thyself"
physician
Sara
$400 [7]
Oklahoma's official one is "Howdy folks", not "A Shropshire Lad"
state poem
Lou
$400 [21]
From the Old Norse for "having one's eyes closed", it's a serious mistake or oversight
a blunder
$400 [10]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Ireland.) It's June 16, 2006, a day of mourning in Ireland for Charles Haughey, 3-time Taoiseach, or holder of this office
prime minister
Lou Sara
$600 [28]
On Oct. 27, 1964 Reagan was launched in politics with a speech supporting this candidate
Barry Goldwater
Lou
$600 [16]
His 1973 call "Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!" will long be remembered
Howard Cosell
Sara
$600 [3]
Genesis 4:"And the Lord set a mark upon" this man, "lest any finding him should kill him"
Cain
Sean
$600 [18]
Appropriately, this is the state song of Kentucky
"My Old Kentucky Home"
Sara
$600 [22]
You're this if a judge disallows your objection
overruled
Sara
$600 [11]
His "Self-Portrait with Saskia" (his wife) around 1635 showed him in the lap of luxury; in 1669 he died broke
Rembrandt
Lou
$800 [29]
In November 1994 Reagan wrote, "I am one of the millions... who will be afflicted with" this
Alzheimer's disease
Sean
$800 [17]
This heavyweight champ was referring to Billy Conn & their 1946 bout when he said, "He can run, but he can't hide"
Joe Louis
Sean
$800 [4]
Matthew 14:"Give me here" this man's "head in a charger"
John the Baptist
Sean
$800 [19]
Its state dish is chili & its state mammal is the longhorn cow
Texas
Sean
$800 [23]
To disguise the illegal source of money by routing it through banks or intermediaries
laundering
Sean
$800 [12]
In a December night in 1916, he was poisoned, shot & thrown in the Neva River to drown
Rasputin
Sean
$1,000 [30]
2 new male justices joined the Supreme Court under Reagan: these 2 with similar first names
Anthony Kennedy & Antonin Scalia
$1,000 [26]
Red Smith wrote that this Cinderella Man's "time was the Great Depression and he was a man of his time"
James J. Braddock
Lou
DD $1,600 [5]
John 20:"Then saith he to" this man, "...be not faithless, but believing"
(Doubting) Thomas
Sean
$1,000 [20]
This state has 8 official state songs, including "Rocky Top"
Tennessee
Sean
$1,000 [25]
It was also known to the pioneers as a prairie schooner
a covered wagon
Lou
$1,000 [13]
When this ballerina died January 23, 1931, her last words were "Get my swan costume ready"
Anna Pavlova
Sara

Double Jeopardy! Round

JONATHAN SWIFT SINGERS ON FILM TREES HEY, 4 As! I'M HUNGARIAN LET'S EAT
$400 [9]
Swift's nickname for his "friend" Esther Johnson" it's a name Stanley Kowalski knew well
Stella
Sean
$400 [1]
As Jimmy "Rabbit" Smith in "8 Mile"
Eminem
Sara
$400 [6]
One of Andrew Jackson's nicknames implied that he was as tough as this tree
hickory
Sean
$400 [13]
A vessel propelled by sail, formed of 2 hulls held side-by-side by a frame above them
a catamaran
Sean
$400 [19]
I'm a Hungarian-born actress & I once quipped "I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back"
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Sean
$400 [27]
To make this labor-intensive Italian dish, you must constantly stir stock into rice 1/2 cup at a time
risotto
Sean
$800 [12]
Swift sent Gulliver on this many voyages, 3 fewer than Sinbad
4
Lou Sean
$800 [2]
As the leading lady in "The Rose"
Bette Midler
Sara
$800 [7]
It's the type of tree on the flag of Lebanon
a cedar
Sean
$800 [14]
Spread out along 10 miles of the coast, it's Morocco's chief port, Sweetheart
Casablanca
Sean
$800 [20]
I'm a Hungarian actor & I was buried in the cape that I wore in one of my most memorable roles
Bela Lugosi
Sean
$800 [28]
This catch-all stew of meat, potatoes & vegetables is said to have originaed in the hobo camps of the early 1900s
mulligan stew
$1,200 [18]
After 1710 Swift flipped his Whig & joined this conservative party that was gaining power
Tory
Sean
$1,200 [3]
As Althea Flynt in "The People vs. Larry Flynt"
Courtney Love
Sara
$1,200 [8]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Oregon.) Also called the Sierra redwood, or just "the big tree", itonce covered much of the Northern Hemisphere; now it's down to a few groves
the giant sequoia
Lou Sean
$1,200 [15]
A dentist could tell you this verb means to mix or alloy a metal with mercury
amalgamate
Sean
$1,200 [21]
I was born in Budapest in 1908 & was instrumental in making possible the first U.S. hydrogen bomb
Edward Teller
DD $1,000 [26]
For Marcel Proust the "vicissitudes of life had become indifferent" after eating these small French cakes
madeleines
Lou
$1,600 [24]
In 1729's "A Modest Proposal", Swift wrote that these "...at a year old [are] a most delicious... food"
babies (or children)
Lou
$1,600 [4]
As the estranged husband in "Pay It Forward" & as a housepainter in "Moonlight and Valentino"
Jon Bon Jovi
Sara
$2,000 [11]
The Buddhist term for enlightenment, it's also the type of tree under which Buddha attained enlightenment
bodhi
Lou
$1,600 [16]
It's another term for a bachelor's degree
baccalaureate
Lou
$1,600 [22]
I'm a Hungarian composer & more than proved it with my 20 "Hungarian Rhapsodies"
Liszt
Lou
$1,200 [29]
This steak used for fajitas, also called the Romanian tenderloin, is the diaphragm muscle
skirt steak
Sara
$2,000 [25]
Not to tell tales, but Swift wrote some pieces for this journal created by Richard Steele in 1709
The Tatler
Lou
$2,000 [5]
As Jareth, the Goblin King, in "Labyrinth"
David Bowie
Sean
DD $3,600 [10]
The southern tip of Florida has forests of this tree, genus Rhizophora, noted for the above-ground knee roots
the common (or red) mangrove
Sean
$2,000 [17]
This 28-letter word means opposition to the withdrawal of a church's official state status
antidisestablishmentarianism
Lou
$2,000 [23]
I'm the Hungarian-born financier & philanthropist who once made $1 billion in a week betting against the British pound
George Soros
$1,600 [30]
This type of quahog clam is named for a Long Island bay, not its anatomy
Littleneck
Sean

Final Jeopardy!

CASTLES

The name of this large home located in Aberdeenshire means "the majestic dwelling" in Gaelic

Balmoral Castle

Sara "What is Balmoral?" — wagered $8,999
Sean "What is Clonmacnois?" — wagered $801
Lou "What is Inverness?" — wagered $14,601

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