Show #5145 2007-01-12 (taped 2006-11-08) Regular

Contestants

Dom Ochotorena — an Air Force officer from Altadena, California

Val Adamcyk — a foreign services officer originally from Manhasset, New York

Kelly Isenor — a TV news producer from Boston, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kelly $-200 $2,400 $10,400 $14,500
2-day champion: $31,800
$14,400
17 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs)
Val $2,000 $1,600 $7,200 $10,001
2nd place: $2,000
$7,200
12 R, 1 W
Dom $2,200 $5,800 $5,000 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$4,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

5 BANDS THE REPLACEMENTS THE FALL 'HUSKER DO THE ENGLISH BEAT BIG "STAR"
$200 [4]
Appropriately, this '80s band sang, "You can't go on thinking, nothing's wrong, who's gonna drive you home tonight?"
The Cars
Val
$200 [23]
A piece that makes it to your foe's deepest row in checkers can be replaced with one of these "royal" ones
a king
Kelly
$200 [15]
In October 1967 in Tehran, he crowned himself Light of the Aryan Race, among other things
the Shah (Mohammed Reza Pahlavi)
Dom
$200 [17]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Girls and Boys Town in Omaha, NE.) After becoming a parish priest in O'Neill, Nebraska, he founded Boys Town near Omaha
Father (Edward) Flanagan
$200 [1]
This city, first mentioned in 912, is the seat of Britain's oldest university, developed in the 1100s
Oxford
Val
$200 [11]
As soon as corn is picked, its sugar begins to turn into this, so get it into the pot fast!
starch
Kelly
$400 [5]
2 members of this '70s "Ramblin' Man" band died in bike crashes, a year apart & within 3 blocks of each other
The Allman Brothers Band
$400 [24]
When companies do this to their stock, they replace outstanding shares with multiple new ones
a split
Dom
$400 [19]
Headed by Chief Justice Charles T. Wells, the Supreme Court of this state was in the news in November 2000
Florida
Kelly
$400 [18]
Not just a noted NYC psychiatric hospital, it's Nebraska's oldest town, established around 1822 as a fur-trading center
Bellevue
Val
$400 [2]
Researchers estimate its construction on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire took about 30 million man-hours
Stonehenge
Val
$400 [12]
In 1990 this company expanded its Seattle HQ & built a new roasting plant
Starbucks
Val
$600 [6]
"Fun", "sleazy" & "raucous" are under "moods" at All Music.com for this metal band co-founded by Tommy Lee
Mötley Crüe
Dom
$600 [25]
The "arthro" in "arthroplasty" refers to these body parts that are replaced with stainless steel or plastic ones
joints
Dom
$600 [20]
In October 1983 the U.S. invaded this Caribbean country, officially to protect American medical students there
Grenada
Dom
$600 [28]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the University of Nebraska.) Before going to Congress, hestrode this field for 25 years as Nebraska's head coach, & the field is now named for him
Tom Osborne
$600 [3]
In 1964 a Shakespeare center was opened on Henley Street in this city
Stratford-upon-Avon
Dom
$600 [13]
This hotel & casino at 3000 Las Vegas Blvd. South cashed out in 2006
the Stardust
Kelly
$800 [7]
"Remember when we traveled 'round the world, we met a lot of people & girls", sang this Joey McIntyre boy band
New Kids on the Block
Dom
$800 [26]
George Williams founded the association familiarly known as this to replace life on the street with Bible study
the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA)
Val
$1,000 [22]
In 1918 this date in autumn brought the signing of the armistice ending World War I
November 11
Dom
$800 [29]
One of the 2 vice presidents born in Nebraska; one in 1913, the other in 1941
Gerald Ford (or Dick Cheney)
Dom
$800 [9]
You'll find the Cavern Club at 10 Mathew Street in this port city; how fab
Liverpool
Val
$800 [14]
In WWI Germany introduced this chemical weapon, C4H8Cl2S
mustard gas
$1,000 [8]
"Welcome to Paradise"; Tre Cool drums for this punk-pop band who performed at 2005's Live 8
Green Day
Kelly
$1,000 [27]
This cell-division process in which a cell's nucleus replicates is vital for repair & replacement of worn-out cells
mitosis
Kelly Dom
DD $1,800 [21]
On Nov. 8, 1519 the sight of his forces made the Tenochtitlaners feel like they'd "eaten stupefying mushrooms"
(Hernándo) Cortés
Dom
$1,000 [30]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Omaha, NE.) I'm in a replica of the Omaha grocery a man with this last name started running in 1915; 50 years later, his grandson started running an investment business called Berkshire Hathaway
Buffett
Dom
$1,000 [10]
Centenary Square, in the center of this city, is its main cultural center; Alabama has a city by that name as well
Birmingham
$1,000 [16]
It's a dessert made of eggs, sugar & milk, either baked, boiled or frozen
custard
Kelly

Double Jeopardy! Round

INSIDE THE ARTIST'S STUDIO WITH JAMES LIPTON MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL NICKNAMES "O"PERA WORLD MUSEUMS LIFE SCIENCE DOUBLE MEANINGS
$400 [26]
(James Lipton reads the clue.) The 19th century--more than 800oil paintingsand 700 drawings--yet you sold but one in your 37 years. Are you bitter?
Van Gogh
Val
$400 [16]
"The Ryan Express"
Nolan Ryan
Dom
$400 [2]
Stravinsky enlisted the help of Cocteau for a Libretto based on Sophocles' play about this Theban king
Oedipus
Dom
$400 [1]
Hanoi, where this man died in 1969, has a museum devoted to him
Ho Chi Minh
Kelly
$400 [21]
A nematode is a roundworm; a planarian's shape gives it this name
a flatworm
Val
$400 [7]
I know Mike ____ his expense account, but I can't believe he'd steal legal ____ from the conference room
pads
Dom
$800 [27]
(James Lipton reads the clue.) In 1891, you sold 30paintingsto help finance your move to Tahiti. How marvelous!
Gauguin
Kelly
$800 [17]
"The Rocket"
Clemens
Dom
$800 [8]
George finds out Lennie has a dead mouse in his pocket in this Carlisle Floyd opera based on a 1937 novel
Of Mice And Men
Kelly Dom
$800 [3]
Totem poles & Noh masks are at the Pitt Rivers Museum, given on condition that Oxford hire a lecturer on this -ology
anthropology
$800 [22]
In colenterates like jellyfish, the cavity called the coelenteron has an opening called this--don't get too complex
a mouth
Kelly
$800 [9]
Maybe Don needs to get more exercise; he ____ just from pulling up his ____
pants
Val
$1,200 [28]
(James Lipton reads the clue.) You finished "The Sick Child" in 1886. 7 years later, the world would recoil from "The Scream." Tell us about your pain
Munch
Kelly
$1,200 [18]
"The Big Hurt"
Frank Thomas
Kelly
$1,200 [13]
Verdi's work on this General's life opens in Cyprus; Shakespeare's tale begins in Venice
Otello
Kelly
$1,200 [4]
"ANZACs in France, 1969" was a 2006 exhibit at a war museum in this capital city
Canberra
Val
$1,200 [23]
In nat. selection, a ref froggus trebekus has .5 relative fitness if it produces 1/2 as many of these as a pink one
offspring
Kelly
$1,200 [10]
I liked that girl with the cute little ____ nose, so to have her ____ me really hurts
snub
Val
$1,600 [19]
Yankee batting champ "Donnie Baseball"
Mattingly
Kelly
$1,600 [14]
Titania & Puck play a part in the Carl Maria Von Weber opera named for this king of the fairies
Oberon
Kelly
$1,600 [5]
A Durer collection is highlight of this city's Kuns this torisches Museum, built up by the Hapsburgs
Vienna
Kelly
DD $2,000 [24]
In a fish's 2-chambered heart, it's the chamber that receives blood from the veins
atrium
Kelly
$1,600 [11]
Chairman Mao was very resourceful when he built a seaworthy ____ out of a lot of old ____ lying around
junk
Val
$2,000 [20]
"The Bird"--seen here--hewas a national sensation in 1976
Mark Fidrych
$2,000 [15]
Disney World crowds might go nuts for this title knight, aka Roland, made famous by both Handel & Vivaldi
Orlando
DD $2,000 [6]
It's the set of museums that includes the Museo Pio-Clementino, exhibiting sculpture
the Vatican Museums
Kelly
$2,000 [25]
The 2 main types of vascular seed plants are gymnosperms & these, 80% of known green plants
angiosperms
Dom
$2,000 [12]
I started to ____ in the hot sun, but I had to grab the ____ out of Ed's belt so he wouldn't score a TD
flag
Kelly

Final Jeopardy!

LITERARY TITLES

This 1954 book title refers to an impaled sow's head, an offering to the "beast"

Lord of the Flies

Dom "What is Catcher in the Rye?" — wagered $4,999
Val "What isLord Of The Flies?" — wagered $2,801
Kelly "What is Lord of the Flies?" — wagered $4,100

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