Show #5134 2006-12-28 (taped 2006-10-25) Regular

Contestants

Jared Thompson — an actuarial analyst originally from Eureka, Illinois

Carol Pal — a graduate student from San Francisco, California

Lisa McClain — a history professor and director of gender studies from Boise, Idaho (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lisa $600 $3,400 $10,200 $19,200
2nd place: $2,000
$10,200
10 R, 0 W
Carol $4,400 $5,400 $400 $800
3rd place: $1,000
$7,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 2 DDs)
Jared $1,600 $6,600 $20,600 $20,500
New champion: $20,500
$20,600
26 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY FACES ACTUAL MLB BROADCAST QUOTES NUMERAL-OLOGY BIBLICAL RHYME TIME WORLD CURRENCY WORD ORIGINS
$200 [26]
The life of this man has not been greatly exaggerated
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Lisa
$200 [12]
"Boros is not with the team...because he's attending his daughter's funeral. Oh, wait, it's her" this, another big day
wedding
Carol
$200 [7]
In order to deliver mail more efficiently, the USPS added this many new digits to existing ZIP codes in 1983
four
Jared
$200 [21]
Long-suffering man's dressing gowns
Job's robes
Carol
$200 [1]
The name of this Maltese currency comes from the Latin libra, meaning "pound"
lira
Jared
$200 [5]
This kind of dummy often displays women's clothes, though its name comes from the Dutch for "little man"
mannequin
Jared
$400 [27]
People went ape afterhisgroundbreaking 1859 publication
Charles Darwin
Jared
$400 [16]
At then-Royals Stadium, in Kansas City: "The sky is so clear today, you can see all the way to" this state
Missouri
Jared
$400 [8]
In fluid measurements, 1 pint equals this many cups
two
Carol
$400 [22]
First woman's minor annoyances
Eve's peeves
Lisa
$400 [2]
The lat, equivalent to 100 santims, is the currency of--yep, you guessed it--this country
Latvia
Jared
$600 [14]
This musical instrument's name may be influenced by "hurly-burly", a Scots word meaning "uproar".
hurdy-gurdy
Jared
$600 [28]
This American seenheremight have left the light on for you
Thomas Edison
Lisa
$600 [17]
"Rich Folkers is throwing up in" this warmup area
bullpen
Jared
$600 [9]
When scoring in bowling, if you make 3 strikes in your first 3 rolls, this is the number that goes in the first box
30
Jared
$600 [23]
Naomi's daughter-in-law's tanning rooms
Ruth's booths
Lisa
$600 [3]
This S. American country's currency is the real thing; the real was also once used in Portugal
Brazil
Lisa
$800 [15]
This type of tower is usually seen in Asia, but its name comes from a Portuguese word for "temple"
pagoda
Jared
$800 [29]
19th century man of steel, seen here
Andrew Carnegie
Jared
$800 [18]
"Well, it looks like" this mid-season "balloting is over, especially in the National & American leagues"
All-Star voting
Jared
$800 [10]
Any solution with a pH less than this number is acidic; if it's more, it's alkaline
seven
Jared
$800 [24]
Precious stones belonging to Noah's oldest son
Shem's gems
Carol
$800 [4]
In 1964, a country on this continent abandoned the pound & introduced the leone
Africa
Carol
$1,000 [20]
The name of this almond paste confection is derived in part from an Italian word for "candy box"
marzipan
Lisa
$1,000 [30]
They're the famous librettist & composer duo seen here
W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan
Jared
$1,000 [19]
"If" this all-time hit king "brings the Reds in, they ought to bronze him & put him in cement"
Pete Rose
Jared
$1,000 [11]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew presents.)When I hold up all the fingers on one hand, the v-shapehereis thought to be the origin of a V representing this.
(Roman numeral) five
Carol Jared
$1,000 [25]
Gospel writer's quirks of fate
Luke's flukes
$1,000 [6]
This Angolan currency introduced in 1977 was named for a river, not a late December holiday
kwanzaa
DD $2,000 [13]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew helps with an image on a monitor.) The pair of Greek letters seen here inspired this eight-letter English word that's a cornerstone of the English language
alphabet
Carol

Double Jeopardy! Round

FARGO MILLER'S CROSSING THE LADYKILLERS BLOOD SIMPLE THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE THE COEN BROTHERS
$400 [19]
Fargo, North Dakota was named for a partner in this stagecoach express line
Wells Fargo
Carol Jared
$400 [30]
He wrote the script for the 1961 film "The Misfits"
Arthur Miller
Carol
$400 [11]
In 1841, crowds gathered on NYC docks to get the (not good) news of the fate of this author's Little Nell
Charles Dickens
Carol
$400 [1]
In 1920, King Alexander of Greece, bitten by a monkey, died of septicemia, also called by this 2-word name
blood poisoning
Carol
$400 [14]
Trim off "man" from a word for humanity & you get this 4-letter adjective meaning considerate or gentle
kind
$400 [6]
The Coens were nominated for a 2000 screenwriting Oscar for this film that starred George Clooney
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Jared
$1,200 [23]
Also known as a plains buffalo, it's the logo & nickname of North Dakota State's athletic teams
bison
Jared
$800 [29]
Country legend who wrote & sang "King of the Road"
Roger Miller
Jared
$1,200 [13]
This author's character Lennie is stroking the hair of Curley's wife when things go wrong
John Steinbeck
$800 [2]
A type of high-tech TV screen shares its name with this straw-colored fluid of the blood
plasma
Jared
$800 [15]
Chop "man" from a term for a band's lead singer & get this word for a place where 2 air masses meet
front
Carol
$800 [7]
Joel Coen is married to this actress who starred in "Fargo", don'tcha know
Frances McDormand
Jared
$1,600 [24]
This home run slugger's museum has his 1961 Hickok Pro Athlete of the Year Award & a replica of his Yankee locker
Roger Maris
Jared
$1,200 [28]
In a letter to Anais Nin, he wrote, "Was all this so wonderful only because it was brief and stolen?"
Henry Miller
Lisa
$1,600 [21]
In his "An American Tragedy", Clyde muses that Roberta "could not swim--could not swim--could not swim"
Theodore Dreiser
Jared
$1,200 [3]
The inherited absence of the blood-clotting agent known as factor VIII leads to this disease
hemophilia
$1,200 [16]
Snip "man" from a term for a junior or senior in college & get this term for something of high social rank
upper-class
Carol
$1,200 [8]
This 1987 comedy starred Nicolas Cage & Holly Hunter as baby snatchers
Raising Arizona
Jared
$2,000 [25]
This railroad, the NP, built a line that reached Fargo in 1872 & as far as Bismarck a year later
Northern Pacific
Lisa
$1,600 [26]
In 2000, Georgia's governor appointed this man to fill the seat of deceased U.S. senator Paul Coverdell
Zell Miller
$2,000 [22]
Winifred Utley is clubbed dead in "A Season in Purgatory" by this Vanity Fair murder journalist
Dominick Dunne
$1,600 [4]
Much of this organ's blood comes from the hepatic artery
liver
Jared
$1,600 [17]
Take "man" away from a term for a type of nighttime secruity guard & you get this type of timepiece
watch
Lisa
$1,600 [9]
This 1998 effort had Jeff Bridges mistaken for a millionaire of the same name
The Big Lebowski
Jared
DD $3,600 [20]
With this state's Moorhead, Fargo forms a metro area of about 180,000
Minnesota
Carol
$2,000 [27]
He changed the world of comic books with "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns" & "Sin City"
Frank Miller
Jared
DD $5,000 [12]
He wrote, "The fish had moved away. It swallowed the woman's limb without chewing"
Peter Benchley
Carol
$2,000 [5]
O- is the universal donor blood type & we're "positive" that this blood type is the "universal recipient"
AB
Jared
$2,000 [18]
Bite away "man" from a fancy word for someone fond of his food & get this word for edibles like squash or melons
gourd
Lisa
$2,000 [10]
An early writing effort from Ethan & Joel was 1985's "Crimewave", penned for this man who directed "Spider-Man"
Sam Raimi
Jared

Final Jeopardy!

THE 1970s

G. Gordon Liddy, E. Howard Hunt & Egil Krogh were nicknamed this because they "plugged leaks"

(White House) plumbers

Carol "Who were the plumbers?" — wagered $400
Lisa "Who are the Whitehouse plumbers?" — wagered $9,000
Jared "Who are stoppers?" — wagered $100

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