Show #5157 2007-01-30 (taped 2006-11-28) Regular

Contestants

Cindi Winstead — a homemaker and student from Villa Rica, Georgia

Jon Protas — a photo editor from New York, New York

Robin Parry — a federal attorney from Arlington, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $24,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Robin $2,200 $2,400 $13,500 $2
2nd place: $2,000
$9,600
17 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Jon $3,600 $6,800 $11,600 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$12,600
17 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Cindi $1,800 $4,200 $21,000 $14,999
New champion: $14,999
$20,600
22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

KHAAAAAAAAAN! MARVELOUS AMERICANA THAT'S MY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE BOSTON LEGAL YOU GET A "D"
$200 [2]
Born around 1162, Temujin, or "Ironworker", must have decided this name would look better for him on Mongol billboards
Genghis Khan
Cindi
$200 [12]
Hewas created as aweaponagainst the Nazis
Captain America
Robin Cindi
$200 [19]
When G.I. Joe was introduced, he had one of these on his face; today, plastic surgery would take care of it
a scar
Cindi
$200 [14]
Dick Cheney
George H.W. Bush
Robin Jon
$200 [11]
British Army Captain Thomas Preston was tried & acquitted for his part in this 1770 slaughter
the Boston Massacre
Jon
$200 [1]
He was married twice: once to Dorothy Arnold & once to Marilyn Monroe
Joe DiMaggio
Cindi
$400 [3]
In 1275 Marco Polo arrived in Shando, the summer capital of this emperor, & may have seen his stately pleasure dome
Kublai Khan
Cindi
$400 [15]
Thischaracter was enlisted as the firstmemberof the X-Men
Cyclops
Jon
$400 [20]
In 1903 the American yacht Reliance defended this trophy against the Irish yacht Shamrock III
the America's Cup
Cindi
$400 [25]
Robert McNamara(2 names, please)
Kennedy & Johnson
Robin Cindi
$400 [13]
Alan Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at this Cambridge, Mass. university
Harvard
Cindi
$400 [7]
One of the Teletubbies
Dipsy
Robin
$600 [4]
From 1984: this singing Khan,"Let me rock you, Let me rock you...That's all I wanna do"
Chaka Khan
Jon
$600 [16]
Seen here, thehotheadof the Fantastic Four goes by this moniker
the Human Torch
Jon
$600 [21]
The U.S. Postal abbreviation for this American territory is "AS"
American Samoa
Robin
$600 [26]
Caspar Weinberger
Ronald Reagan
Jon
$600 [22]
The 1950 robbery of this armored car co. came to grief when "Specs" O'Keefe ratted out the rest of the gang
Brink's
Cindi
$600 [8]
As determined by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, this "clock" has ranged from 11:43 to 11:58
the Doomsday Clock
Jon
$800 [5]
In 1880 this country let Abdor Rahman Khan be Afghanistan's amir in return for control of foreign relations
Great Britain
Cindi
$800 [17]
Thisalliterativesuper-villain could also have had a reality show called "The Osborns"
the Green Goblin
Jon
$800 [23]
The Kansas Statehouse mural seenhereis entitled "The Tragic Prelude" & depicts this pre-Civil War firebrand
John Brown
Jon
$800 [27]
Melvin Laird
Richard Nixon
$800 [29]
In 2005 this association chose a Boston lawyer as president--Michael S. Greco, not Denny Crane
the American Bar Association
Cindi
$800 [9]
A line drawing used as an illustration
a diagram
Robin
$1,000 [6]
A predecessor of Pervez Musharraf, Mohammad Ayub Khan was president of this country from 1958 to 1969
Pakistan
Jon
$1,000 [18]
Radiation had made this superhero them anhe is now
Daredevil
Jon
$1,000 [24]
The Wally Byam Caravan Club International is for owners of this distinctive-looking brand of trailer
Airstream
DD $1,000 [28]
George C. Marshall
Harry Truman
Jon
$1,000 [30]
In 1927 Nicola Sacco & this alleged anarchist accomplice were executed at a Charlestown prison
(Bartolomeo) Vanzetti
Jon
$1,000 [10]
(I'm Soledad O'Brien of CNN.) As an African-Cuban-Irish-Australian-American, I've spoken about the importance in our newsrooms & in our society of this, from the Latin for "contrariety"
diversity
Robin

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY A LA HARLEQUIN YOU DO THE MATH EDIBLE RHYME TIME MAD DOGS ENGLISHMEN THE MIDDAY SUN
$400 [6]
Their bodies pressed together; there was no choice. After all, they were these conjoined twins born in 1811
Chang & Eng (the Siamese twins)
Robin
$400 [26]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows on the monitor a figure of a right triangle with sides marked "3" and "4" and a hypotenuse marked "C".) According to the theorem made famous by Pythagoras, it's the value of C in the figure seen here
5
Robin
$400 [1]
A jiggly dessert molded in the form of a stringed instrument
a Jell-O cello
Robin
$400 [21]
This 3-headed dog guards a forbidden floor at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter books
Fluffy
Robin
$400 [11]
Born in Sheffield, Gordon Banks was the goalkeeper in 1966 when England won this prestigious prize
the World Cup
Cindi
$400 [16]
Per the Constitution, a U.S. president's term ends at noon on the 20th of this month
January
Robin
$800 [7]
Lovers? Oh yes, there was Orlov, Potemkin & Zubov, but 34 years as Russian Empress taught her love came with a price
Catherine the Great
Robin
$800 [27]
You live in a 5-story building where there are 3 apts. on each odd floor & 4 on each even floor; this is the total number
17
Cindi
$800 [2]
Wacky saltwater candy
daffy taffy
Cindi
$800 [22]
The unusual behavior of the movie dog Cujo is the result of this disease
rabies
Jon
$800 [12]
Thomas Huxley, who coined this term for a person who's not sure if God exists, died in 1895; now he may know for sure
an agnostic
Jon
$800 [17]
On this holiday, the U.S. flag flies at half-staff from sunrise to noon & at full staff from noon to sunset
Memorial Day
Robin
$1,200 [8]
She'd never sold herself for a piece of jewelry to a Cardinal in 1785! Never for less than 5! She was queen!
Marie Antoinette
Cindi
$1,200 [28]
(Jon of the Clue Crew shows on the monitor a diagram of two rectangles, one 7' by 7' and one 7' by 4'.) It's the total number of square feet in this diagram
77
Cindi
$1,200 [3]
A dill treat that is not loyal in its affections
a fickle pickle
Jon
$1,200 [23]
Bull's-Eye was the vicious pet dog of burglar & murderer Bill Sikes in this Dickens story
Oliver Twist
Robin
$1,200 [13]
Following the implementation of harsh taxes, Wat Tyler led the 1381 revolt named for this social class
peasants
Robin
$1,200 [18]
The Egyptian sun god was known as Khepera at dawn, as Atum in the evening & by this name at noon
Ra
Cindi
$1,600 [9]
A daughter of the Savannah elite, yes, but now she was 50ish--it was time. She'd found the Girl Scouts... & her destiny
(Juliette Gordon) Low
Robin
$1,600 [29]
Each pizza has 8 slices; each party guest will eat 3 slices; if you have 9 pizzas, it's how many guests you can feed
24
Robin Cindi
$1,600 [4]
A toast spread made from a sweet potato-like tuber
yam jam
Cindi
$2,000 [25]
M'ling was one of the genetic mutant human-dogs in this "Island" tale from H.G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau
Jon
$1,600 [14]
"Mad dogs & Englishmen go out in the midday sun" is from a song by this man who also wrote plays like "Blithe Spirit"
(Noel) Coward
Robin
DD $2,000 [19]
At noon on this date each year, Army posts across the U.S. fire off 50 cannon rounds, one for each state
Independence Day
Cindi
$2,000 [10]
Jan. 1, 1660. This Briton entered his first words into the diary. His life, his loves would live here... famous & forever
Samuel Pepys
Jon
$2,000 [30]
If someone gave you 15 dollars a day every day, you'd have this much cash for the month of September
$450
Cindi
$2,000 [5]
A tidy reddish root veggie
a neat beet
Cindi
DD $5,500 [24]
In Greek mythology, Hecuba was the queen of this doomed city & eventually changed into a fiery-eyed dog
Troy
Robin
$2,000 [15]
Brit economist John Stuart Mill was a great proponent of this "greatest good for the greatest number" system
utilitarianism
Robin Jon
$2,000 [20]
You might visit this city to hear the "Urbi et Orbi" speech in person at noon on Christmas Day
Vatican City
Cindi

Final Jeopardy!

IT HAPPENED IN NEW YORK CITY

On August 10, 2004, 2 days after her death at the age of 96, the Empire State Building dimmed its lights for 15 minutes in her memory

Fay Wray

Jon "Who was Mary" — wagered $11,600
Robin "Who was Rosa Parks?" — wagered $13,498
Cindi "Who is Helen I" — wagered $6,001

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