Show #5171 2007-02-19 (taped 2006-11-29) Regular

Contestants

Amanda Froning — an elections and voter registration clerk from Wilmington, Delaware

Rob Faunce — a professor from New York, New York

Wayne Cherry — a graduate student from Houston, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $41,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Wayne $2,000 $2,400 $9,200 $9,200
2nd place: $2,000
$9,200
13 R, 1 W
Rob $400 $2,200 $11,000 $3,500
3rd place: $1,000
$11,000
13 R, 2 W
Amanda $3,200 $7,400 $28,700 $34,700
New champion: $34,700
$25,600
29 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

BOTANY I PLAY THE DRUMS! FLY COUNTRIES FUN WITH BALLET LETTER MEN ONE-WORD RHYMES
$200 [11]
The flowers of this lawn weed, Taraxacum oficinale, are sometimes used to make wine
dandelions
Amanda
$200 [1]
(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the drummer's throne.) A common rock & roll pattern is this one which stresses the 2nd & 4th beat; it's also the title of a movie about The Beatles
backbeat
Amanda
$200 [6]
Iberia Airlines
Spain
Rob
$200 [14]
In "La Boutique Fantasque", dolls come to life & perform this high-kicking, skirt-swooshing dance
Can-can
Rob
$200 [23]
At his death in 1971, there were more than 1,600 department stores bearing his name
J.C. Penney
Rob
$200 [18]
An important person, perhaps with an elaborate toupee
bigwig
Rob
$400 [12]
The common species of this prairie flower, Helianthus annuus, can reach a height of 15 feet
sunflower
Amanda
$400 [2]
(Jon of the Clue Crew peers down between the cymbals.) Playing triplets--three strokes for every two notes--was a trademark of this late Led Zeppellin drummer
John Bonham
Amanda
$400 [7]
Aer Lingus
Ireland
Amanda
$400 [15]
Every "Psycho" knows that Matthew Bourne's ballet "Deadly Serious" is an homage to this film director
Alfred Hitchcock
Wayne
$400 [24]
He's the taller of the two gentlemen in the photo seen here
P.T. Barnum
Wayne
$400 [19]
I've come to the ashram so this person can show me the unreality of material things--oops, I scratched his Mercedes
guru
Amanda
$600 [13]
About 3/4 of U.S. plantings of this palm fruit are of the Deglet Noor, a semidry variety
dates
Amanda
$600 [3]
(Jon of the Clue Crew sticks with his drums--& drums with his sticks.) Playing this gives me an explosive sound on the snare drum; to help out a comedian's lame jokecombine it with a cymbal crash
a rimshot
Amanda
$600 [8]
Olympic Airlines
Greece
Wayne
$600 [28]
The Roanoke Ballet's dancers raced around with logos on their unitards in a ballet named for this auto assoc.
NASCAR
Amanda
$600 [25]
In 1930 he directed his first talkie, "Abraham Lincoln", starring Walter Huston
D.W. Griffith
Rob
$600 [20]
Nicole Kidman is one; so was Lucille Ball & Vincent Van Gogh
redhead
Amanda
$800 [16]
Reproducing by means of spores, the only tree with no flowers, fruits or seeds is called the tree type of this
fern
$800 [4]
(Jon of the Clue Crew subs on the drum set.) After you get into a groove, now & again throw in this; as the name suggests, it's for when there's an empty space in the music
a fill
Amanda
$800 [9]
Belavia (Its first terminal was in Minsk)
Belarus
Amanda
$800 [29]
The music of film composer Alex North drives the ballet based on this play about Stanley Kowalski
"A Streetcar Named Desire"
Rob
$800 [26]
He designed the building for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
I.M. Pei
Amanda
$800 [21]
In Manhattan, going from Central Park to Chelsea is heading this way
downtown
Amanda
$1,000 [17]
Prized for its oil, this evergreen shrub of the American southwest is also known as the goat nut
Jojoba
$1,000 [5]
(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the final clue of the category.) It's the rhyming phrase for a steady rhythm that hits the bass drum oneach quarter note
four-on-the-floor
$1,000 [10]
Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatshappij(you might know it by its abbreviation)
The Netherlands (KLM)
Wayne
$1,000 [30]
Dizzy Gillespie's music is also featured in it, but the ballet "For 'Bird' - With Love" is a tribute to him
Charlie Parker
Amanda
$1,000 [27]
A visit to the Marabar Caves is a turning point in his novel "A Passage to India"
E.M. Forster
Amanda
DD $1,000 [22]
This term for empty words or nonsense was originally a trick to gain applause
claptrap
Amanda

Double Jeopardy! Round

BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY WHO'S YOUR MOMMY? AROUND WASHINGTON, D.C. NAME THE POET GRAPES OF "RATH"
$400 [8]
Genesis calls it "the salt sea" perhaps because its salinity reaches 4 times that of ocean water
the Dead Sea
Amanda
$400 [6]
Liza Minnelli
Judy Garland
Amanda
$400 [20]
You might see Bob Woodward during your walking tour of this publication's building on 15th Street N.W.
the Washington Post
Wayne
$400 [22]
"His pride had cast him out from heaven, with all his host of rebel angels"
Milton
Wayne
$400 [16]
Ths underwear maker's logo contains fig leaves, an apple & different types of grapes
Fruit of the Loom
Rob
$400 [1]
It's an adjective meaning really, really angry
wrathful
Wayne
$1,200 [12]
Lying at the foot of the Mount of Olives, this garden was the site where Jesus was betrayed & arrested
Gethsemane
Rob
$800 [7]
Kate Hudson
Goldie Hawn
Wayne
$800 [25]
The Peacock room at the Freer Gallery shows the fun-loving side of this artist known for that dour depiction of mama
Whistler
Wayne
$800 [23]
"Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day"
Dylan Thomas
Wayne
$800 [17]
A wine known as Lacrima Christi, or "tears of Christ" is made from grapes grown on the slopes of this Italian volcano
Vesuvius
Rob Amanda
$800 [2]
On election night 2000, this newsman spouted lines like "Bush will be madder than a rained-on rooster"
Dan Rather
Amanda
$1,600 [15]
In Ezekiel this capital of Egypt is called Noph, & the Lord promises to "destroy the idols" there (he didn't mean Elvis)
Memphis
Amanda
$1,200 [9]
Gwyneth Paltrow
Blythe Danner
Rob
$1,200 [27]
The museum that's now the Smithsonian's Arts & Industries Bldg. was the site of this man's 1881 inaugural ball
Garfield
Wayne Amanda
$1,200 [24]
"I hear American singing, the varied carols I hear"
Walt Whitman
Amanda
$1,200 [18]
In an Aesop fable, this animal decides the grapes he can't reach must therefore be sour
a fox
Amanda
$1,200 [3]
For many, this Johannesburg-born actor will forever be the definitive Sherlock Holmes
Basil Rathbone
Wayne Rob
$2,000 [21]
In the Song of Solomon, a bride refers to herself as "the rose of" this plain between Joppa & Mount Carmel
Sharon
Amanda
$1,600 [10]
Melanie Griffith
Tippi Hedren
Amanda
$2,000 [30]
This Frenchman who planned D.C. had such a "terrible" temperament that he was dismissed in 1792
Pierre L'Enfant
Rob
$1,600 [14]
"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee"
Shakespeare
Wayne
$1,600 [19]
In 1962 this man organized migrant grape pickers into what became known as the United Farm Workers
Cesar Chavez
Amanda
$1,600 [4]
Persian religious leader AKA Zoroaster
Zarathustra
Wayne
DD $4,000 [11]
This mount "as altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire"
Sinai
Amanda
$2,000 [13]
Mariska Hargitay
Jayne Mansfield
Rob
DD $2,500 [28]
It was once known as "Presidents Park" but perhaps this name for it looks better on a "Marquis"
Lafayette Park
Amanda
$2,000 [26]
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words"
Emily Dickinson
Amanda
$2,000 [29]
A popular grape used in making raisins is this variety that shares its name with the capital of Oman
Muscat
Rob
$2,000 [5]
Basement beerhall in Bavaria
rathskeller
Rob

Final Jeopardy!

ORGANIZATIONS

The C.A.P., or Common Agricultural Policy, accounts for almost half the budget of this 25-nation organization

the European Union

Wayne "What is the European Union?" — wagered $0
Rob "What is John Stark?" — wagered $7,500
Amanda "What is the European Union?" — wagered $6,000

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