Show #5127 2006-12-19 (taped 2006-10-24) Regular

Steve Unite game 2.

Contestants

Mariann Buonadonna — a homemaker from Barnegat, New Jersey

Christian Ruud — a judicial law clerk from St. Paul, Minnesota

Steve Unite — a writer from Studio City, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,404)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Steve $1,800 $5,600 $22,400 $20,000
2-day champion: $42,404
$22,000
24 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Christian $800 $800 $1,400 $2,800
3rd place: $1,000
$1,800
7 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Mariann $2,200 $3,600 $5,600 $2,801
2nd place: $2,000
$5,600
16 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

A CHRISTMAS SONGBOOK LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN DECK THE HALLS O COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL "WINTER" WONDERLAND
$200 [5]
"With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal"
"Frosty The Snowman"
Mariann
$200 [1]
Flat snow crystals generally have this many sides or arms
six
Christian
$200 [20]
This major mountain range of the United States also runs through Canada between Montana & Alaska
the Rockies
Steve
$200 [14]
The Robot Hall of Fame honored this "Star Wars" character for his endearing "human foibles"
C-3PO
Christian Mariann
$200 [15]
Lumbini, Nepal is a pilgrimage site as the birthplace of this man about 2,500 years ago
Buddha
Christian
$200 [10]
It happens on or about December 21
the winter solstice
Steve
$400 [6]
"Come, they told me, pa rum pa pum pum; a newborn king to see, pa rum pum pum pum"
"The Little Drummer Boy"
Mariann
$400 [2]
The National Weather Service defines this as snowy winds of 35 mph with 1/4 mile visibility lasting for 3 hours
a blizzard
Steve
$400 [21]
Africa's highest mountain, it's primarily made up of 3 extinct volcanoes
Kilimanjaro
Mariann
$600 [17]
This founder of the city of Quebec is in an Explorers' Hall of Fame online
Champlain
Steve
$400 [27]
The Slipper Chapel in Norfolk, England is so named because penants walked the last mile this way
barefoot
$400 [11]
Varieties of this cereal crop include Kawvale & Blackhull
winter wheat
Steve
$600 [7]
"Where the treetops glisten and children listen, to hear sleigh bells in the snow"
"White Christmas"
Mariann
$600 [3]
Buffalo, New York is familiar with the snowstorm-causing effect named for this type of body of water
a lake effect
Steve
$600 [22]
This 14,110-foot Colorado mountain peak discovered in 1806 inspired the song "America The Beautiful"
Pikes Peak
Mariann
$800 [25]
Now home to the National Women's Hall of Fame, this N.Y. city was the site of the USA's first Women's Rights Convention
Seneca Falls
Mariann
$600 [28]
"Labbayka Allahumma Labbayk" is recited during this religion's pilgrimage
Islam
Mariann
$600 [12]
Russian revolutionaries stormed it in November 1917
the Winter Palace
Christian
$800 [8]
"And heaven and nature sing, and heaven and nature sing, and heaven and heaven and nature sing"
"Joy To The World"
Mariann
$800 [4]
When air becomes "super" this adjective, relative humidity is above 100% & snow can form
supersaturated
Steve
$800 [23]
You don't need no stinkin' badges to treasure this main mountain system of Mexico
the Sierra Madre
Mariann
DD $1,000 [16]
The Ecology Hall of Fame cites him as "the first American president to take seriously the...protection of nature"
Teddy Roosevelt
Christian
$800 [29]
Devout members of this faith hope to walk Panchakosi Road at Varanasi &, if possible, to die there
Hinduism
Mariann
$800 [13]
This 1935 Maxwell Anderson play was based in part on the Sacco & Vanzetti trial
Winterset
$1,000 [9]
"No crib for a bed, the little Lord Jesus laid down His sweet head"
"Away In A Manger"
Steve
$1,000 [19]
Poli'ahu, the goddess of snow, lives on this highest Hawaiian mountain
Mauna Kea
Mariann
$1,000 [24]
The 20,320-foot mountain then known as Densmore's Mt. was renamed for this presidential candidate in 1896
McKinley
Steve
$1,000 [26]
He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his process of condensing milk
(Gail) Borden
Steve Christian Mariann
$1,000 [30]
Bahá'i pilgrims go to the Shrine of the Báb on this Israeli mount for which a Catholic order is named
Mount Carmel
Steve
$1,000 [18]
This plant, Gaultheria procumbens, produces an oil used in medicine & as a flavoring
wintergreen
Mariann

Double Jeopardy! Round

WHERE IN LONDON AM I? SPORTS ABBREV. WHO'S WHO IN THE WORLD INSPIRED CHARACTERS TRIOS SPLIT INFINITIVES
$400 [6]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Sherlock Holmes Museum.) I'm standing in front of the Sherlock Holmes Museum, a Victorian lodging house built in 1815, on this famous London street
Baker Street
Mariann
$400 [9]
In basketball, FT
free throw
Steve
$400 [20]
He's not just Prince of Wales but also Lord of the Isles & a liveryman of the Fishmongers' Company
(Prince) Charles
Christian
$400 [1]
The heroines of this 1860s novel were based on the author & her sisters Anna, Elizabeth & May
Little Women
Mariann
$400 [14]
Farouk, Latifah & Sprat
king, queen & jack
Steve Christian Mariann
$400 [18]
Line 12 of this Brit's Sonnet 142 reads, "Thy pity may deserve to pitied be"
Shakespeare
Mariann
$800 [7]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a London square.) I'm in this London square associated with Virginia Woolf, who was at the center of a group that made this area famous
Bloomsbury
$800 [10]
We'll give you a break & just ask for the second "F": FIFA
football
Steve
$800 [22]
This "Supreme Temporal and Religious Head of Tibet" has a doctorate in Buddhist philosophy
Dalai Lama
Christian
$800 [2]
Take his book "Dharma Bums" on the road & you'll notice that he based the narrator on himself
(Jack) Kerouac
Christian
$800 [15]
Grief for death, Herman's Hermits warbler Peter & Gawain or Bedivere
mourning, Noone & knight
Steve
$800 [19]
Condemning split infinitives is based on a false analogy with this language in which infinitives are a single word
Latin
Steve
$1,200 [8]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a London street.) Read all about it! Behind me is this London street that has become synonymous with British journalism
Fleet Street
Steve
$1,200 [11]
An umbrella organization: IOC
International Olympic Committee
Steve
$1,200 [24]
His entry features his books "Odin Den' Ivana Denisovicha" & "Arkhipelag Gulag"
Solzhenitsyn
Mariann
DD $1,000 [3]
James Fenimore Cooper's novel "The Pilot" boasts a mysterious title character modeled on this naval hero
John Paul Jones
Christian
$1,200 [16]
To experiment with, activist Medgar & Peter Sellers' "Being There" role
tinker, Evers & Chance
Steve
$1,200 [21]
This split from the last line of the "Star Trek" TV series opening denotes how the crew jaunts into the unknown
to boldly go
Steve
$1,600 [26]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Hyde Park.) Winston Churchill & George Bernard Shaw are among those who've come to say their piece at this spot in Hyde Park
Speaker's Corner
Mariann
$1,600 [12]
A cable channel: ESPN
Entertainment & Sports Programming Network
Steve
$1,600 [25]
Michael Nobel is a philanthropist born in this capital city in 1940
Stockholm
Steve
$1,600 [4]
Duessa, who's executed in Book V on "The Faerie Queene", was inspired by this Scotswoman
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mariann
DD $2,000 [17]
Planet between Venus and Mars, thing measured by Beaufort & brilliant gem property
Earth, wind & fire
Steve
$1,600 [23]
The compact version of this book, aka the OED, says that split infinitive use is normal & useful
Oxford English Dictionary
Steve
$2,000 [27]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a London park.) This famous London park is named for the title of the future George IV & was designed by his friend John Nash
Regent's Park
$2,000 [13]
In cycling, it's one rider against the clock: ITT
individual time trial
Steve
$2,000 [5]
Lotte in his novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther" was based on a woman he loved who married a friend of his
Goethe

Final Jeopardy!

THE ACADEMY AWARDS

When this man won, Richard Dreyfuss said goodbye to being the youngest ever to win the Best Actor Oscar

Adrien Brody

Christian "Who is Adrian Brody" — wagered $1,400
Mariann "Who is Dustin Hoffman" — wagered $2,799
Steve "Who is Haley oel om" — wagered $2,400

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