Show #5113 2006-11-29 (taped 2006-09-20) Regular

Contestants

Alexia Henke — a singer from Brooklyn, New York

David Maynard — a coffee shop manager from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Ryan Friedman — a GIS planner from Londonderry, New Hampshire (whose 2-day cash winnings total $32,099)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ryan $600 $3,600 $14,801 $29,601
3-day champion: $61,700
$12,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
David $3,800 $4,000 $10,800 $14,801
3rd place: $1,000
$10,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Alexia $2,200 $3,600 $14,800 $21,601
2nd place: $2,000
$14,800
15 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

MONTHS WHO'S THE MAN AIRPORT CODES GOVERNORS HE SAID, SHE SAID BIG MOUTH
$200 [8]
Flanders & Swann sang that it "brings the sweet spring showers--on and on for hours and hours!"
April
Alexia
$200 [19]
Spartacus
Kirk Douglas
Ryan David
$200 [2]
Get a real Rocky Mountain high here:DEN
Denver
Ryan
$200 [14]
This governor played Prince Hapi in Jackie Chan's 2004 film "Around the World in 80 Days"
Schwarzenegger
Ryan
$200 [13]
In "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" she wrote, "Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend"
Agatha Christie
David
$200 [1]
Proceed down to the mouth of the Congo & you wind up on this ocean
the Atlantic
David
$400 [9]
It's the only month for which the U.S. can have a President-elect from beginning to end
December
Ryan
$400 [20]
Patch Adams
Robin Williams
Ryan
$400 [4]
Hopefully its code isn't an omen for your checked bags:MIA
Miami
Ryan
$400 [15]
This son of Greek immigrants was elected governor of Massachusetts 3 times in the '70s & '80s
(Michael) Dukakis
Ryan
$400 [16]
One of her hints to Abelard was "Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate"
Heloise
David
$400 [3]
The Rio Grande, aka the Rio Bravo, lands in this body of water
the Gulf of Mexico
Alexia
$600 [10]
It's National Military Appreciation Month; we remember fallen soldiers near the end of it
May
Alexia
$600 [21]
Texas Ranger J.J. McQuade
Chuck Norris
David
$600 [5]
It's actually in Virginia (though its full name says otherwise):IAD
Dulles
David
$600 [17]
When it became a state in 1912, William C. McDonald was its governor
New Mexico
$600 [25]
Sydney Smith was quoted as saying "There are 3 of" this palindromic word--males, females "and clergymen"
sexes
Alexia
$600 [28]
The Yangtze flows into the "East" this "Sea"; the Mekong into the "South" this "Sea"
China
David
$800 [11]
It's the first month of the year named for a number
September
David
$800 [23]
Lieutenant Frank Drebin
Leslie Nielsen
David Alexia
DD $1,000 [6]
It's named for Sen. Ted Stevens:ANC
Anchorage
David
$800 [18]
While New York governor, this Republican ran twice for the presidency in the 1940s
Thomas Dewey
David
$800 [26]
One of her book reviews said, "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force"
Dorothy Parker
$800 [29]
Yukon see this sea at the mouth of the Yukon
the Bering Sea
Ryan
$1,000 [12]
In the musical "Carousel", it's the month of the first clambake of the year
June
Alexia
$1,000 [24]
Sergeant Tom Sharky
Burt Reynolds
$1,000 [7]
Its McNamara Terminal is also the Northwest Airlines World Gateway:DTW
Detroit
Ryan David
$1,000 [22]
Charles Bryan, brother of William Jennings, was governor of this state from 1931 to 1935
Nebraska
Ryan
$1,000 [27]
He said his "Social Contract" was undertaken "without thinking of the limitations of my powers"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
$1,000 [30]
The port city of Kismaayo sits on the mouth of the Juba River on this ocean
the Indian
Ryan

Double Jeopardy! Round

"NOV"EMBER THE 19th CENTURY DOCTOR! BRING OUT YOUR FRED LET'S SING A LITTLE DEITY
$400 [1]
Anesthetic you're grateful for on a visit to the dentist
novocaine
Ryan
$400 [22]
After his band of outlaws was decimated trying to rob a bank in 1876, he & his brother Frank formed a new one
Jesse James
David
$400 [3]
In 1954 440,000 schoolchildren became guinea pigs in a test of his polio vaccine
Salk
Alexia
$400 [4]
The 18th century monarch once quipped, "God is always with the strongest battalions"
Frederick the Great
David
$400 [14]
From the '20s, this title character of Araby is the "I" in "At night when you're asleep into your tent I'll creep"
the Sheik
Ryan
$400 [26]
This god was also called Dionysus & Liber--makes sense, as he liberated people from calm & sobriety
Bacchus
Ryan
$800 [2]
The process of turning a film into a book
novelization
David
$800 [23]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands on an Irish seashore at a Martello tower in Dublin, Ireland.) Martello towers were built by the British in the early 19th century to defend against an invasion by this man
Napoleon
$800 [5]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew strolls through a parlor in Vienna, Austria.) I'm in the waiting room of this man's office in Vienna, restored to how it looked in the early 1900s
Freud
Ryan
$800 [7]
Born in Berlin in 1901, this composer was known for his collaborations with Alan Jay Lerner
Fred Loewe
Alexia
$800 [18]
John Lennon song with the lyrics "We all shine on like the moon and the stars and the sun"
"Instant Karma!"
Ryan
$800 [30]
He's the Titan & friend of mankindseenherein a 17th-century painting
Prometheus
Alexia
$1,200 [11]
Cape Breton Island is part of this Canadian province
Nova Scotia
Alexia
$1,200 [24]
On Dec. 17, 1819 this liberator was made president of the new Republic of Gran Colombia
(Simón) Bolivar
Ryan
DD $1,000 [15]
He decided against a general medical practice & chose a military career, entering the Army Medical Corps in 1875
Walter Reed
Ryan
$1,200 [8]
In deteriorating health, he gave his last public piano recital in London at an 1848 benefit for Polish refugees
(Frédéric) Chopin
David
$1,200 [19]
"Fly Me To The Moon" says, "Let me sing among those stars, let me see what spring is like on" these 2 planets
Jupiter & Mars
Alexia
$1,600 [27]
An Egyptian fertility goddess, or what the Thames is called as it runs through Oxford
the Isis
$1,600 [12]
From the Latin for "nine", it's a series of devotional prayers over a 9-day period
a novena
Alexia
$1,600 [25]
On March 17, 1861 the Kingdom of this country was declared with Victor Emmanuel as its king
Italy
$1,200 [6]
This physician & author has been called "the man who reared 50 million kids"
(Dr.) Spock
Ryan
$1,600 [9]
Northern readers got the lowdown on slavery in 1845's "Narrative of the Life of" this former slave & orator
Frederick Douglass
Alexia
$1,600 [20]
It's the mister you don't mess with in "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive"
Mr. In-Between
Alexia
$2,000 [28]
This handsome, ill-fated son of Odin was the most beloved among the Norse gods
Balder
$2,000 [13]
This city of about 250,000 was a capital of early Russia
Novgorod
$2,000 [16]
Francis II, who abdicated this title in 1806, was the last Hapsburg to hold it
Holy Roman Emperor
David
$2,000 [17]
We don't just presume, we know thathestudied theology & medicine in Glasgow in the 1830s
(Dr.) Livingstone
Alexia
$2,000 [10]
In 1989 he became president of South Africa; a few years later, he was deputy president
(Frederik) de Klerk
Ryan
$2,000 [21]
In the song heard here, it's the title place that won't be revisited
Loch Lomond
David
DD $5,001 [29]
This god was upset to find that the mortal girl Apemosyne could outrun him
Mercury (or Hermes)
Ryan

Final Jeopardy!

MODERN LANGUAGES

An estimated 100,000-plus people speak this language whose nouns have no gender & end with -O

Esperanto

David "What is Esperanto" — wagered $4,001
Alexia "What is Esperanto?" — wagered $6,801
Ryan "What is Esperanto?" — wagered $14,800

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