Show #5085 2006-10-20 (taped 2006-08-31) Regular

Contestants

Dave Singleton — an academic advisor from Henderson, Nevada

Linda Sue Park — a children's author from Rochester, New York

Joe Leibrandt — a marketing director from Costa Mesa, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $61,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joe $1,800 $3,200 $19,400 $3,199
2nd place: $2,000
$15,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Linda Sue $2,400 $2,400 $4,200 $1,200
3rd place: $1,000
$4,600
10 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Dave $3,400 $8,200 $17,800 $8,600
New champion: $8,600
$17,800
24 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS CANADIANS 10-LETTER WORDS THE '70s ALPHABETICALLY LAST PUT OUT THE CHINA FOOD STUFF
$200 [16]
A native of Cardston, Alberta, she went native co-starring with King Kong in 1933
Fay Wray
Dave
$200 [11]
Often available on CD, it's the music & songs from a movie
soundtrack
Dave
$200 [1]
In a 1976 article in New York Magazine, Tom Wolfe dubbed the '70s this decade
the "Me Decade"
Joe
$200 [21]
...of months of the year
September
Joe Dave
$200 [26]
After a 3,900-mile journey, this Chinese river flows into the East China Sea
the Yangtze
Dave
$200 [3]
Frenchman Odette Philippe is credited with introducing this large citrus fruit to Florida around 1823
the grapefruit
Joe
$400 [17]
Aye, Captain; he was born in Vancouver & played Scotty on "Star Trek"
James Doohan
Joe
$400 [12]
The Internet or the online world
cyberspace
Linda Sue
$400 [2]
In the 1970s many studied ESP, short for this awareness beyond the normal senses (but you already knew that)
extrasensory perception
Dave
$400 [22]
...of the countries of Africa
Zimbabwe
Joe
$400 [27]
The Chinese didn't invent the block & tackle types of this, but the block & moveable
printing
$400 [5]
In 1916 Aron Streit began baking these unleavened breads on Manhattan's Lower East Side
matzah
Joe
$600 [18]
This Edmonton, Alberta native has starred in "Best Buds", "Half Baked" & "Up in Smoke"
Tommy Chong
Linda Sue
$800 [14]
It's another name for your clavicle
collarbone
Dave
$600 [4]
This company's 1973 Gremlin had a Levi's trim package option featuring nylon "blue jeans" seat covers
AMC (American Motors)
Dave
$600 [23]
...of the Great Lakes
Superior
Linda Sue
$600 [28]
Dots make up 36 of the tiles in this Chinese game; there are also cracks & winds
mah jongg
Dave
$600 [8]
Spinach is added to pasta to turn it green & "ink" from this ocean cephalopod is added to turn it charcoal gray
squid
Dave
$800 [19]
Halperin is the real last name of this Winnipeg-born man who hosted "Let's Make a Deal" from 1963 to 1986
Monty Hall
Joe
$1,000 [15]
A type of rafting in the rapids, or a real estate scandal involving the Clintons
whitewater
Joe
$800 [6]
Notable disappearances during the '70s were those of Jimmy Hoffa & this hijacker/parachutist
D.B. Cooper
Linda Sue
$800 [24]
...of the U.S. states
Wyoming
Dave
$800 [29]
Wushu is the Chinese word for martial arts; this term more familiar to TV watchers means any acquired skill
kung fu
Dave
$800 [9]
This "Beantown" dessert is 2 layers of sponge cake with a custard filling & chocolate glaze
Boston cream pie
Dave
$1,000 [20]
This Manitoba-born woman's biggest success as a writer & an actress has been "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"
Nia Vardalos
Dave
DD $1,200 [13]
Here's the drill--a sapsucker is one of these birds
woodpecker
Linda Sue
$1,000 [7]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.) This capsule was the U.S. half of this project; President Ford said it opened a new era in international cooperation
the Apollo-Soyuz Project
Linda Sue
$1,000 [25]
...among current U.S. senators is this Oregonian
Ron Wyden
$1,000 [30]
In Chinese, Wanli Changcheng is the name of this formidable construction
the Great Wall of China
Dave
$1,000 [10]
What fearful folks call Frankenfood is defined as GM, short for food modified this way
genetically
Linda Sue

Double Jeopardy! Round

HAIL TO THE CHIEF "B" ACTORS THE NASTY CRITIC REVIEWS THE 19th CENTURY TECH TONIC DOGS 3-LETTER WORDS
$400 [26]
His presidential library has a sailfish he caught during his 1953 honeymoon in Acapulco
Kennedy
Joe
$400 [16]
Over a 20-year period, he played vigilante Paul Kersey in 5 "Death Wish" movies
Charles Bronson
Dave
$400 [2]
He left Elba in February 1815 but abdicated (again!) by June 22... what a dreadful performance
Napoleon
Linda Sue
$400 [21]
The "Shuffle", "Nano" & "Photo" are versions of this Apple music player
the iPod
Dave
$400 [1]
Contrary to popular legend, this breed never carried a cask hanging from its collar on rescue missions
a Saint Bernard
Joe
$400 [7]
Do something intensely & you do it "to the" this, like Planck or Born
max
Dave
$1,200 [28]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Duke University in Durham, NC.) Beforehebecame president of the United States, he was president of Duke University's bar association & graduated 3rd in his class from Duke Law School
Nixon
Linda Sue
$800 [17]
I kid you not! In 1972 he brought his famous role to TV, starring in a sitcom version of "Anna and the King"
Yul Brynner
Dave
$800 [12]
In 1843 Congress granted $30,000 for a line to test his new telegraph; finally, some brilliance in the competition!
Morse
Dave
$800 [22]
NASA technology used to detect a star's birth is now used in the ear type of this, which measures your infrared energy
a thermometer
$800 [3]
The Gordon breed of this was named for a Scottish nobleman who bred them
setter
$800 [8]
Oh, happiness! She shares "The View" with Elisabeth & Barbara
Joy
Dave
$1,600 [29]
He was nicknamed "The Driving Force" (& "The Trust Buster")
Theodore Roosevelt
Joe
$1,200 [18]
Of the actors who have played James Bond, he's the one born in Ireland in 1951
Pierce Brosnan
Dave
$1,200 [13]
I'd say this man's "ornithological biography", written from 1831 to 1839, is for the birds
Audubon
Joe
$1,200 [23]
With the Delphi Roady, you can listen to NASCAR in the car on this satellite radio provider
XM
Dave
DD $1,000 [4]
This breed was launched in the U.S. with the gift of dogs from the Dalai Lama to an American traveler in 1933
the Lhasa apso
Linda Sue
$1,200 [9]
A German soldier during WWI, or a member of Attila's tribe
Hun
Linda Sue
$2,000 [30]
In 1931 Herbert Hoover, who had been this Pres.'s Secretary of Commerce, helped dedicate his tomb in Marion, Ohio
Harding
Joe Linda Sue
$1,600 [19]
For his starring role in "The Pianist", he shed 30 pounds & brushed up on his arpeggios
(Adrien) Brody
Joe
$1,600 [14]
After an 1835 election loss, he told Tennesseans, "You may all go to Hell & I will go to Tex."; never did like his hat
Crockett
Joe
$1,600 [24]
The 2nd version of his game system has over 5,000 game titles; no news on how many Blu-ray titles for the 3rd
PlayStation 2
Dave
$1,600 [5]
This hound with a 6-letter name hunts by sight, not scent, & was used to hunt wolves in Russia
borzoi
Joe Linda Sue
$1,600 [10]
A sealed vase in which to keep a loved one's ashes
urn
Linda Sue
DD $5,000 [27]
In a 1989 ceremony at Buckingham Palace, the Queen of England made him an honorary knight
Ronald Reagan
Joe
$2,000 [20]
This Dublin-born actor who's featured in "The Usual Suspects" & "Stigmata" was formerly married to Ellen Barkin
(Gabriel) Byrne
Joe
$2,000 [15]
I found this Swedish soprano's 1838 debut as Agathe in "Der Freischutz" to be second-rate karaoke, at best
Jenny Lind
Linda Sue
$2,000 [25]
RFID chips, this type of I.D., can be placed on store products or on soldiers to find them in an emergency
radio frequency
Dave
$2,000 [6]
Named for a British city, this terrier is a cross between the whippet & the black-and-tan terrier
the Manchester terrier
$2,000 [11]
A projection on a gearwheel; you may feel like one in a giant machine
cog
Joe

Final Jeopardy!

LITERARY TITLE OBJECTS

In an 1868 novel, this mysterious title object is believed to sparkle or dim depending on lunar phases

the Moonstone

Linda Sue "What is HELP!" — wagered $3,000
Dave "What is the picture of Dorian Gray" — wagered $9,200
Joe "What is The Gold Bug?" — wagered $16,201

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