Show #5120 2006-12-08 (taped 2006-10-17) Regular

Christian Haines game 3.

Contestants

Rebecca Bizonet — an archivist from Macon Township, Michigan

Gilbert Mercado — a facility director from Irvine, California

Christian Haines — a Congressional special assistant from Newport News, Virginia (whose 2-day cash winnings total $41,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Christian $7,300 $9,300 $27,100 $25,200
3-day champion: $66,200
$24,600
31 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W
Gilbert $1,400 $3,600 $8,600 $10,000
2nd place: $2,000
$7,200
13 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Rebecca $800 $3,400 $2,200 $4,399
3rd place: $1,000
$2,200
7 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

GEMSTONES CELEBRITY RHYME TIME FOOD STUFF? SOUNDS IT'S A DISASTER "OOP"S!
$200 [30]
The name of this gemstone is from the Latin for "red"
ruby
Rebecca
$200 [1]
Nicolas' salaries
Cage's wages
Christian
$200 [6]
Proverbially, you can be a "smart" one or a "tough" one
a cookie
Gilbert
$200 [16]
Leviticus 25 says every 50th year is to be celebrated as a jubilee, with these instruments sounded
trumpets
Christian Gilbert Rebecca
$200 [18]
Near the end of WWI, an outbreak of the "Spanish" type of this disease killed 500,000 Americans
the flu
Christian
$200 [11]
"Hawaiian" exercise ring introduced by Wham-O in the 1950s
a hula hoop
Christian
$400 [29]
Star sapphires contain needles of the mineral rutile that reflect light in starlike rays, usually this many
6
Christian Gilbert
$400 [2]
Kravitz' cents
Lenny's pennies
Christian
$400 [7]
On May 8, 2006 this computer co. won a dismissal of a trademark infringement lawsuit by this "Corps"
Apple
Christian
$400 [17]
Twain wrote that a James Fenimore Cooper character who needs absolute silence "is sure to step on a dry" this
a twig
Gilbert
$400 [19]
1937 disaster captured here
the Hindenburg explosion
Gilbert
$400 [12]
Deck at the back of a ship
the poop deck
Christian
$600 [27]
The only known source of a gemstone called tanzanite was discovered in 1967 on this continent
Africa
Christian
$600 [3]
Winslet's wooden boxes
Kate's crates
Christian
$600 [8]
You can play this by having a strategy of challenging a foe to risk a clash or yield; who'll be the first to duck?
chicken
Christian
$600 [23]
A 5-letter verb meaning to edit a bad word from a broadcast, it originally meant the sound used in the edit
to bleep
Rebecca
$600 [20]
When one of these hit Galveston, Texas in September 1900, causing a flood, as many as 8,000 people perished
a hurricane
Gilbert
$600 [13]
A basketball pass received high in the air & slam-dunked
an alley oop
Christian
$800 [26]
Native Americans believed this blue-green hydrous phosphate of aluminum & copper protected them
turquoise
Rebecca
$800 [4]
Brad's small roles
Pitt's bits
Christian
$1,000 [10]
I've tossed these 2 Supreme Courters on the grill: one appointed in 1939 & the other, our 15th Chief Justice
(Felix) Frankfurter and (Warren) Burger
Christian
$800 [24]
2-word term for a long, sustained siren sound heard after an air raid or other danger is over
an all clear
Christian
$800 [21]
As many as 3,000 may have perished as a result of the earthquake & fire that ravaged San Francisco in April of this year
1906
Christian
$800 [14]
Originally meaning a small opening, it's used figuratively to mean a way around a rule or regulation
a loophole
Christian
$1,000 [28]
The finest quality of this "Chinese" gem is not found in China but in the Mogaung District in Burma
jade
Gilbert
$1,000 [5]
Ledger's door decorations
Heath's wreaths
Rebecca
DD $1,500 [9]
John McCain was said to be "such an opponent of" this type of political spending "he's almost kosher"
pork barrel spending
Christian
$1,000 [25]
This alliterative compound word is a sound perhaps made by a tabby, or by a disappointed fan in the stands
a catcall
Rebecca
$1,000 [22]
The collapse of the South Fork Dam in May 1889 led to the deaths of more than 2,200 in this Pennsylvania city
Johnstown
Gilbert
$1,000 [15]
A small warship of the American Revolutionary period, or a British escort vessel of WWII
a sloop
Gilbert

Double Jeopardy! Round

IOWA LANDMARK CINEMA VILLAINS PLANT LIFE QUID PRO QUO-POURRI PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES ANTONYMS
$400 [15]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in front of a carnival attraction holding corn.) The Iowa State Fair features plenty of corn products--fitting for a state that in 2004 produced 2.2 billion of these units of corn
bushels
Christian Gilbert
$400 [1]
Famous for its murder scenes, this 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film featured a mild-mannered mama's boy killer
Psycho
Christian
$400 [26]
Brown Bent, a type of this, is a favorite of golf groundskeepers because it can be cut very short
grass
Rebecca
$400 [6]
Give me this name of Paris Hilton's sister & I'll tell you that it was also a "diminutive" Adam Sandler role
Nicky
Rebecca
$400 [10]
It was the relationship of Teddy to Eleanor Roosevelt
uncle
Christian
$400 [7]
Someone who puts you down in public may make you feel this, the opposite of a certain Great Lake
inferior
Christian Gilbert
$800 [16]
The quad cities comprise Bettendorf & Davenport, Iowa & Rock Island & Moline in this state
Illinois
Gilbert
$800 [2]
As Regan in this film, Linda Blair evinced evil trapped in the body of a 12-year-old girl
The Exorcist
Christian
$800 [29]
Cycads bear their seeds in these structures
cones
Christian Gilbert
$800 [22]
Give me this name of Chicago's 2nd busiest airport & I'll give you a famed WWII battle named for some Pacific islands
Midway
Christian
$800 [11]
In the 1960s, when she was in her 60s, she joined the Peace Corps & served 2 years in India
Lillian Carter
$1,200 [9]
Done with his dictionary, Samuel Johnson had "little to fear or to hope from censure or from" this
praise
Christian
$1,200 [17]
(Jimmy stands in front of a wrestling match.) The men's wrestling team, with the 20 NCAA Division I titles since 1975, is part of a great tradition for the University of Iowa athletes known by this nickname
the Hawkeyes
Gilbert
$1,200 [3]
In "2001: A Space Odyssey", this computer is pleasant, logical, calm & deadly!
HAL
Christian
$1,600 [27]
Cacti are stem succulents; aloes are this part's type of succulents
leaf succulents
Christian
$1,200 [23]
Give me this Northwest African mountain range & I'll give you a book of the same name where you might see it
the Atlas Mountains
Christian
$1,200 [12]
He was a bank president at 25, a millionaire at 30, & when he retired in 1929 at 40, he had enough capital to raise 9 children
Joseph Kennedy
Gilbert
$1,600 [20]
Mathematical adjective for the opposite of the quality illustrated here
finite
Christian
$1,600 [18]
Before primary season, Iowa gets in early on the pres. nominating process with these party gatherings
caucuses
Christian
$1,600 [4]
Their portrayal of the title romantic bank robbers in "Bonnie And Clyde" changed Hollywood forever
Warren Beatty & Faye Dunaway
Gilbert
$2,000 [28]
The acacia, also called this type of spiny bush, is one of the few plants that thrive in the Kalahari
a thorn
$1,600 [24]
Give me this 1st name of a veep under Lincoln & I'll tell you of a Carthaginian general with the same name
Hannibal
Christian
$2,000 [14]
His great-grandfather, Benjamin, signed the Declaration of Independence
Benjamin Harrison
$2,000 [21]
For Aero Mexico, they're salidas y llegadas
arrivals & departures
Christian
$2,000 [19]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in front of a smithy.) Born in 1874, this U.S. president & famed humanitarian was the son of an Iowa blacksmith, whose shop is replicated here
Herbert Hoover
$2,000 [5]
Through 8 films, Robert Englund has played this sadistic resurrected child killer
Freddy (Krueger)
Christian
$2,000 [25]
Give me this Roman Earth goddess & I'll tell you it's also the name of our solar system's largest asteroid
Ceres
Christian Gilbert Rebecca
DD $3,000 [13]
His great-grandfather George Washington Baynes Sr was a president of Baylor University
Lyndon Johnson
Gilbert
DD $2,600 [8]
This military rank can also mean the opposite of communal
private
Christian

Final Jeopardy!

ENGLISH LITERATURE

This work says, "Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven"

Paradise Lost

Rebecca "What is Paradise Lost?" — wagered $2,199
Gilbert "What is Paradise Lost? ["Go Chris!" written in upper right-hand corner]" — wagered $1,400
Christian "What is [large scribble] Utopia" — wagered $1,900

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