Show #5144 2007-01-11 (taped 2006-11-08) Regular

Contestants

Cindy Peters — a project manager from Orlando, Florida

Kelly Isenor — a TV news producer from Boston, Massachusetts

Alan Husby — a teacher from Minneapolis, Minnesota (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Alan $800 $2,400 $6,000 $12,000
3rd place: $1,000
$6,000
12 R, 1 W
Kelly $2,400 $4,400 $10,400 $17,300
New champion: $17,300
$10,400
17 R, 4 W
Cindy $400 $2,800 $8,600 $16,100
2nd place: $2,000
$7,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 6 W

Jeopardy! Round

A ROLL OF THE DICE TV ATTACK ADS CHIMP-POURRI YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION WELL, YOU "NO" WE ALL WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD
$200 [7]
In this game created in 1979, a roll of the die determines the color-coded category of the upcoming question
Trivial Pursuit
Cindy
$200 [12]
(This ad ran on Nickelodeon:)An obese bird, a disheveled dumpster diver, a monster who thrives on trans-fat cookies. Is this really what you want your children to watch?
Sesame Street
Alan
$200 [19]
At 74 years of age, this 1930s & '40s movie companion of Tarzan is the world's oldest living chimp
Cheetah
Alan
$200 [26]
He asked for 20,000 pounds to betray his command at West Point
Benedict Arnold
Cindy
$200 [1]
To propose someone for election to an office
nominate
Cindy
$200 [3]
Around 1948 she moved into slums to help the poor; on Oct. 19, 2003 she was beatified
Mother Teresa
Kelly
$400 [8]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew rolls a pair of dice.) Though it doesn't always seem that way, snake eyesonly come up in 2.8% of dice rolls, as it is just one of this many possible rolls
36
$400 [13]
(Here's an ad from CBS:)A late night "comic" claims he'll leave this show & retire in 2009. Can America afford to wait that long? (This message was approved by David Letterman)
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
Kelly
$400 [20]
A song in this 1967 film begins, "If we could just talk to the animals, just imagine it, chatting to a chimp in chimpanzee"
Dr. Dolittle
Alan
$400 [27]
Washington's 1776 crossing of the Delaware led to the occupation of this future state capital 4 days later
Trenton
Cindy
$400 [2]
9-letter adjective pertaining to the night
nocturnal
Kelly
$400 [4]
On May 20, 2002 U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill and this singer began a 10-day economic mission to Africa
Bono
Kelly
$600 [9]
In Monopoly, 3 of these in a row lands you in jail
doubles
Cindy
$600 [14]
(Here's one from ABC:)Over 35 years with the same old talking heads. And does America really need any more advice from Andy Rooney? It's time for a change
60 Minutes
Kelly
$600 [21]
In 1967 a chimp named Washoe became the first non-human to learn ASL, which stands for this
American Sign Language
Cindy
$600 [28]
In 1777, after defeat at Germantown, Washington led his troops to this winter camp; had a rough stay
Valley Forge
Cindy
$600 [6]
It's a wistful desire to return in thought to a former time in one's life
nostalgia
Kelly
$600 [5]
A choice she made on Dec. 1, 1955 would lead to a Supreme Court ruling & Martin Luther King's rise to fame
Rosa Parks
Alan Cindy
$800 [10]
With a 6-5 opening roll in this game, make the move called "Lover's Leap", which gets one man halfway home
backgammon
Kelly
$800 [15]
(NBC ran this ad:)Contestants sleep on the ground with bugs & snakes, while Jeff Probst reclines in his feather bed. Is this fair, America? You be the judge
Survivor
Kelly
$800 [22]
AKA the pygmy chimpanzee, the bonobo is found only in the rain forests along this 2nd-longest African river
Congo
Kelly Cindy
$800 [17]
Neon, argon, krypton, xenon, radon & helium, collectively
noble gases
Kelly
$800 [24]
Richard Gere titled the Time 100 article on this longtime friend of his "He Belongs To The World"
Dalai Lama
Cindy
$1,000 [11]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew rolls a pair of dice.) My main point is a six. [Rolls] Yes! I'm playing this very old game whose name may come from the Arabic word "zahr", meaning die, & now means a danger
hazard
$1,000 [16]
(Well, CBS and ABC both showed this one:)They dumped Clooney; they dumped Macy; they even dumped Anthony Edwards. Maybe it's time you dumped them
ER
Kelly
$1,000 [23]
In 1986 she presented the cumulative findings of her research in "The Chimpanzees of Gombe"
Jane Goodall
Alan
$1,000 [18]
Warren Harding campaigned on the slogan "Return to" this
normalcy
Kelly Cindy
$1,000 [25]
In 1996 this president of South Africa oversaw the enactment of a new democratic constitution
Nelson Mandela
Kelly

Double Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN CITIES "BLACK" & "WHITE" MOVIES A 5-CHAPTER STORY ABOUT STORIES 4 PLAY YOU RULE! FROM A TO Y
$400 [14]
This capital's oldest residential area, the Plaka, lies behind the Acropolis
Athens
Alan
$400 [16]
Linda Fiorentino became Agent L in this 1997 film
Men in Black
Alan Cindy
$400 [17]
Ch. 1: This Russian title boy meets girl (Lara)
Doctor Zhivago
Cindy
$400 [6]
The solar system's 4 "giant planets"
Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, & Neptune
Alan
$400 [11]
King Carl XVI Gustaf
Sweden
Kelly
$400 [1]
Washington Irving said this type of dollar is "that great object of universal devotion throughout our land"
the almighty
Kelly
$800 [15]
Home to the Mauritshuis Royal Art Gallery, it began in the 1200s as a hunting lodge of the Count of Holland
The Hague
Kelly
$800 [24]
Wesley Snipes has this piece of sports wisdom for Woody Harrelson, the title of a 1992 film
White Men Can't Jump
Cindy
$800 [18]
Ch. 2: Rich boy (Oliver) falls for poor girl (Jenny) in this 1970 first novel
Love Story
Alan
$800 [7]
In card games, the 4 of this suit is called the devil's bedposts
clubs
Alan Kelly Cindy
$800 [12]
King Norodom Sihamoni
Cambodia
Cindy
$800 [2]
It's a symbolic narrative, like "Piers Plowman"
an allegory
Alan
$1,200 [27]
This capital of the Isle of Man is located at the common mouth of the Dhoo & Glass rivers, hence its name
the Douglass
Kelly
$1,200 [25]
Jennifer Jason Leigh was the roommate from hell in this 1992 flick
Single White Female
$1,200 [19]
Ch. 3: Boy & girl have a family (well, an imaginary one, at least) & entertain Nick & Honey in this 1962 play
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
$1,200 [8]
The "four Cs" of diamonds are carat, clarity, color & this, such as oval or marquise
cut
Kelly
$1,200 [13]
King Abdullah (2 different guys), these 2 countries
Saudi Arabia & Jordan
$1,200 [3]
When this word precedes "canal", it refers to the gastrointestinal tract
alimentary
Kelly
$1,600 [26]
This classic 1954 horror film about a humanoid amphibian monster practically saved Universal from bankruptcy
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Kelly
$2,000 [23]
Ch. 5: This 1819 title boy gets girl (Rowena) & their pals leave England for Iberia
Ivanhoe
Alan
$1,600 [9]
3 of the 4 people to have assassinated a U.S. president
(3 of) Guiteau, Booth, Oswald, & Leon Czolgosz
Cindy
$1,600 [20]
Grand Duke Henri
Luxembourg
Cindy
$1,600 [4]
It's a comparison of 2 unlike things to illustrate a point
an analogy
Cindy
DD $3,000 [22]
Ch. 4: Boy poet loses this title girl when kinsmen "shut her up in a sepulchre / In this kingdom by the sea"
Annabel Lee
Cindy
$2,000 [10]
About 25 people were arrested under this group of 4 "acts" passed in 1798; all were repealed or expired by 1802
the Alien and Sedition Acts
Alan Cindy
$2,000 [21]
King Bhumibol Adulyadej
Thailand
$2,000 [5]
The placing of prepositional phrases, as in "I saw the boy with a telescope", can cause this, from Latin for "around"
ambiguity

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN THEATRE HISTORY

This 1943 musical is based on a 1931 play that featured Tex Ritter as a cowboy & Lee Strasberg as a peddler

Oklahoma!

Alan "What is Oklahoma!?" — wagered $6,000
Cindy "What is Oklahoma" — wagered $7,500
Kelly "What is Oklahoma?" — wagered $6,900

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