Show #5095 2006-11-03 (taped 2006-09-13) Regular

Contestants

Jane Toczek — a seller of antique prints and maps from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Cobra Becerra — a professor of landscape architecture from Whittier, California

Dave Meddish — an alternative print coordinator from Moscow, Idaho (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dave $4,000 $7,000 $17,200 $16,200
2-day champion: $36,201
$19,400
27 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Cobra $2,000 $2,800 $1,600 $3,200
2nd place: $2,000
$3,600
12 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
Jane $400 $2,400 $7,500 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$7,200
12 R (including 1 DD), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

BUSINESS LEADERS CONTROVERSIAL SPORTS CELEBS COMMON BONDS GIMME AN "H" AUSSIE HAIRY IT
$200 [26]
If you don't know that he said, "I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks", you're fired!
(Donald) Trump
Dave
$200 [8]
"Game of Shadows" is a 2006 book about this man who is second on the all-time home run list
(Barry) Bonds
Dave
$200 [1]
The Golden Jubilee, The De Beers, The Cullinan
diamonds
Cobra
$200 [6]
The western hemisphere country with French as an official language that fits the category
Haiti
Cobra
$200 [13]
In 1802 Matthew Flinders named an island for the large number of these meat-providing marsupials there
kangaroos
Cobra
$200 [16]
Seen here, this mammal is all mouth & no teeth
an anteater
Dave
$400 [27]
For 21 years of leadership & for putting "the magic back in Disney", Disney named its HQ building for him
(Michael) Eisner
Cobra
$400 [9]
In the 1980s, this iron-fisted team owner hired, then fired, managers Billy Martin, Bob Lemon, Yogi Berra & Gene MIchael
Steinbrenner
Dave
$400 [2]
Stove, corncob, pan
pipes
Jane
$400 [7]
This Onondaga chief who helped unite the Iroquois was celebrated by Longfellow
Hiawatha
Dave Jane
$400 [14]
About 20% of all Australians live in this capital of New South Wales
Sydney
Dave
$400 [17]
This small mammal, Mephitis mephitis, can spray musk accurately as far as 12 feet (& it ain't the Jovan kind)
a skunk
Dave
$600 [28]
This third-party pres. candidate of the 1990s became a billionaire after taking his Dallas-based EDS Company public in 1968
(Ross) Perot
Dave
$600 [10]
After the death of Cus D'Amato & the end of his marriage to Robin Givens, he spent time in prison
Mike Tyson
Dave
$600 [3]
Nebuchadnezzar, Methuselah, Magnum
champagne bottles
Dave
$600 [21]
In the New Testament, he tells the Magi, "Go and search diligently for the young child..."
Herod (the Great)
Cobra
$600 [15]
The Australians call them gum trees; we call them these
eucalyptus trees
Dave Jane
$600 [18]
You think you can experiment with a clue like it was some kind of this rodent, seen here?
a guinea pig
Dave
$800 [29]
After being elected mayor of Atlanta in 1916, Asa Candler gave control of this company to his children
Coca-Cola
Dave
$800 [11]
Be wary of pulling out a chair for this Texas Tech & former Indiana basketball coach; he just might throw it at you!
(Bobby) Knight
Dave
$800 [4]
Krait, Taipan, Fer-de-Lance
snakes
Cobra
$1,000 [23]
This scientific endeavor abbreviated HGP had the goal of mapping every gene of Homo sapiens
the Human Genome Project
Cobra
$800 [24]
The Melbourne Cup is awarded annually in this sport
horse racing
$800 [19]
There are 3 kinds of this animal: western lowland, eastern lowland & mountain
a gorilla
Dave Cobra
$1,000 [30]
In 1975 he launched what was regarded as the "Kmart of the stock brokerage industry"
Charles Schwab
Jane
$1,000 [12]
He received a 73-game suspension after fighting with Detroit Pistons fans in 2004
(Ron) Artest
Cobra
$1,000 [5]
Pont du Quebec, Humber Estuary, Transbay
bridges
Jane
DD $2,000 [22]
He was the last major party pres. candidate to win his party's nod without winning the most votes in the primaries
Hubert Humphrey
Cobra
$1,000 [25]
In an Australian saying, when these birds named for their call "call, the rain will fall"
the kookaburra
Dave
$1,000 [20]
This species seenhereis found only in North America
a bighorn sheep
Jane

Double Jeopardy! Round

SHAKESPEARE HANGIN' WITH MY GNOMIES CENTURY OF THE TRIAL MOSESES BOOZE-A-PALOOZA IDIOMS
$400 [17]
In "Macbeth", among the items in this container are scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, tongue of dog & toe of frog
the witch's cauldron
Cobra
$400 [11]
In the 1932 Disney short "Babes in the Woods", friendly gnomes save this brother & sister from an evil witch
Hansel & Gretel
Jane
$400 [16]
George Ryan, for racketeering conspiracy, tax fraud...
the 21st century
Dave Cobra Jane
$400 [22]
This German-Jewish philosopher was the grandfather of composer Felix
(Moses) Mendelssohn
Jane
$400 [2]
This measure of a liquor's strength is twice its percentage of alcohol
proof
Dave
$400 [1]
"There's no" this "lost" between 2 people used to mean they liked each other; now it means the opposite
love
Dave
$800 [18]
She was worried when Hamlet came to her "pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other"
Ophelia
Dave
$800 [12]
Most know him as the neater half of TV's "Odd Couple"; he was the Gnome King in 1987's "The Gnomes' Great Adventure"
Tony Randall
Dave
$800 [23]
Henry Ward Beecherfor adultery
the 19th century
Jane
$800 [30]
From Jan. 1978 to Dec. 1994, this center did not foul out for an NBA record 1,212 consecutive games
Moses Malone
Dave
$800 [3]
Liquor placed in paper bags led to this slang term for liquor shops
package stores
Jane
$800 [4]
"Ballon d'essai" is the French equivalent of this, sent up to test people's reaction
trial balloon
Cobra Jane
$1,200 [19]
"Twelfth Night" opens with, "If music be the food of love," do this
play on
Dave
$1,200 [13]
On "Happy Days" he was the father of Richie & Joanie, & he voiced the title character on "David the Gnome"
Tom Bosley
Jane
DD $1,500 [24]
Sarah Good, Rebecca Nurse, et al., for witchcraft
the 17th century
Jane
$1,200 [29]
Profession of Thomas, husband of artist Grandma Moses
a farmer
$1,200 [5]
This famous song is sung to the tune of the old British drinking song "To Anacreon In Heaven"
"The Star-Spangled Banner"
Dave
$1,200 [8]
(Jon of the Clue Crew is in his workshop tightening a bolt in a piece of wood.) This mechanism increases tension without the risk of slipping back; it's also an idiom for turning up the pressure on someone
ratchet
Dave
$1,600 [20]
Caesar says this man "thinks too much: such men are dangerous" (No, it's not Brutus)
Cassius
Dave
$1,600 [14]
Audrey Tautou sends her father's garden gnome on some worldwide travels in this French comedy from 2001
Amélie
Dave
$1,600 [25]
Henri Philippe Petain, for treason
the 20th century
Jane
$1,600 [28]
In 1821 he got an OK from Mexico to bring U.S. settlers into the Texas area; his son Stephen carried on his work
(Moses) Austin
Cobra
$1,600 [6]
To create a depth charge, you usually drop a shot of liquor like schnapps or tequila into a glass of this
beer
Jane
$1,600 [9]
To keep making the same point is to do this, like repeatedly picking the same string on a large instrument
harp
Cobra
$2,000 [21]
2-word phrase for a predetermined ending; Othello talks of one in Act III
a foregone conclusion
Cobra
$2,000 [15]
2 gnomes, 2 kids & a lumber tycoon set off on a forest adventure in the title vehicle in this 1967 film
The Gnome-Mobile
Dave
$2,000 [26]
Thomas Cranmer, for heresy
the 16th century
Jane
$2,000 [27]
Robert Caro won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Power Broker", about this administrator who shaped New York City
Robert Moses
Cobra
$2,000 [7]
This rum company's logo of a flying bat traditionally symbolizes long life & prosperity
Bacardi
Cobra
DD $2,200 [10]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a sifter.) It's a part that restrains movement, like the movement of air; you may say that a setback puts one on your plans
a damper
Dave

Final Jeopardy!

THE OSCARS

He's the only person over 70 years of age to win a Best Director Oscar

Clint Eastwood

Cobra "Who is Clint Eastwood?" — wagered $1,600
Jane "Who was ?" — wagered $7,499
Dave "Who is Robert Wise?" — wagered $1,000

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