Show #5173 2007-02-21 (taped 2006-11-29) Regular

Contestants

Ted Dudley — an airline pilot from Colchester, Vermont

Sue Saunders — an oncology dietician from Arlington, Virginia

Brad Haag — an MBA student from Santa Monica, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,199)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Brad $4,200 $7,200 $14,400 $15,701
2nd place: $2,000
$14,200
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Sue $400 $-800 $6,400 $9,600
3rd place: $1,000
$5,600
9 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Ted $1,600 $4,200 $15,700 $28,900
New champion: $28,900
$15,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

SOUND LIKE A LOCAL BROADWAY LYRICS WHAM-O LITERARY BADDIES STATE BIRDS BEFORE & AFTER
$200 [13]
It follows "Pitts-" in the U.S. & "Edin-" in Scotland; we'll accept either pronunciation
burgh (or "borough")
Ted
$200 [18]
"Immigrant goes to America, many hellos in America; nobody knows in America, Puerto Rico's in America!"
West Side Story
Brad
$200 [1]
In 1997 Wham-O introduced a Max Flight version of this 1950s sensation that flew farther & was easy to catch
the Frisbee
Brad
$200 [23]
This Seuss character who lived in a cave "stood there on Christmas Eve, hating the Whos"
the Grinch
Ted
$200 [6]
Ohio:This redbird
a cardinal
Brad
$200 [8]
"Thin" piece of disputed Israeli-Palestinian land involved in a clothes-shedding card game
Gaza Strip Poker
Brad
$400 [14]
To pass for a native of Danvers, Massachusetts, don't pronounce this letter in the town's name
the R (the "Ah")
Brad
$400 [19]
"He had it comin', he had it comin', he only had himself to blame"
Chicago
$400 [2]
Wham-O owners heard about Australian kids using a bamboo ring for exercise; it became this 1958 fad
a Hula Hoop
Ted
$400 [26]
This Harry Potter bad guy's name is French for "flight from death"
Voldemort
Brad Ted
$400 [7]
Virginia:This bird, not Albert Pujols
the cardinal
Sue
$400 [9]
Film legend who became an 1823 edict against European intervention in the Western Hemisphere
the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine
Brad
$600 [15]
Pedernales is in the Dominican Republic; north of the border, the Pedernales River is in this state
Texas
$600 [20]
"I can smile at the old days, I was beautiful then, I remember the time I knew what happiness was"
Cats
Brad
$600 [3]
Wham-O received its name from this first product; when a projectile hit its target, it made a "Wham-O" sound
a slingshot
Brad
$600 [28]
This villainess of "The Wizard of Oz" ruled over the Winkies
the Wicked Witch of the West
Sue
$600 [24]
West Virginia:This crested bird
the cardinal
Sue
$600 [10]
"Bouncy" 1965 Beatles album that took over for Don Cornelius as host of a dance show
Rubber Soul Train
Brad
$800 [16]
(Hi. I'm Allan Houston of the New York Knicks.) Don't say my name like this New York City street that's south of & parallel to Bleecker
Houston Street
Sue
$800 [21]
"Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets, and little man, little Lola wants you"
Damn Yankees
Brad
$800 [4]
This 1962 Wham-O game named for a dance craze came with a moveable cross bar & 2 support stands
Limbo
Brad
$800 [29]
Mrs. Augustine St. Clare sold Uncle Tom to this brutal, alcoholic plantation owner who later beat him to death
Simon Legree
$800 [25]
Kentucky:This colorful songbird
a cardinal
Brad
DD $1,000 [11]
Robert E. Lee's "right arm" general who sang "ABC" with a singing group
Stonewall Jackson 5
Brad
$1,000 [17]
This Ohio village, Thomas Edison's birthplace, is named for a North Italian city but rhymes with "stylin'"
Milan
Brad
$1,000 [22]
"All I need is one more try, gotta get that kite to fly"
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Sue
$1,000 [5]
Versions of this lawn toy to keep you cool in the summer include "Wave Rider" & "Bounce 'N Splash"
a Slip 'N Slide
Ted
$1,000 [30]
This villainous aide in a Shakespeare play states flatly, "I hate the Moor"
Iago
Ted
$1,000 [27]
Missouri:Not a redbird but this colorful creature
a bluebird
Sue Ted
$1,000 [12]
1935 "lunar" Florida song that turned into an '80s Florida cop show
"Moon Over Miami Vice"
Brad

Double Jeopardy! Round

WOLVERINE STORM MAGNETO ROGUE COLOSSUS "X"-MEN
$400 [4]
This creature is the main predator of wolverines; what else would be dumb enough to take one on?
man
Brad Ted
$400 [18]
This 2000 film was based on Sebastian Junger's bestseller about a hurricane that meets a cold front
The Perfect Storm
Ted
$400 [2]
Logically enough, this planet has the strongest magnetic field of any planet in our solar system
Jupiter
Ted
$400 [9]
The U.S. condemned this country's October 2006 nuclear test as a "provocative act"
North Korea
Brad
$400 [25]
2-syllable name for the long-ago elephant relative with 13-foot tusks that has become a synonym for "huge"
a mammoth
Brad
$400 [1]
He was the de facto leader of China from the late 1970s to the early 1990s
Deng Xiaoping
Ted
$800 [5]
During the winter, wolverines hunt caribou & this animal of the genus Rangifer; Santa's gonna be mad
reindeer
Ted
$800 [19]
Bogey & Bacall's final film together was this one that saw them waiting out a storm in Florida
Key Largo
Ted
$800 [3]
Around 1904 this Norwegian explorer confirmed that the Earth's magnetic poles are not fixed
Amundsen
Brad
$800 [10]
In 2000 Zalmay Khalizad, future U.S. envoy here, Talibandied its name about in "Consolidation of a Rogue State"
Afghanistan
Brad
$800 [26]
From this author we get the adjective "brobdingnagian", meaning "gigantic"
(Jonathan) Swift
Sue Ted
$800 [14]
Seen here, Nicholas Brendon played this character on TV's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
Xander
$1,200 [23]
The website for this state's legislature says no bear "can match the vicious disposition... of the wolverine"
Michigan
Sue Ted
DD $1,500 [20]
Hurricane Camille leaves only one operational shrimping boat in Bayou La Batre in this 1994 Oscar winner
Forrest Gump
Ted
$1,200 [6]
(Jon of the Clue Crew indicates a flask.) The shape of the actual magnetic field can be traced using small pieces of this metal
iron
Ted
$1,200 [11]
This president's administration changed the term "rogue state" to "states of concern"
Bill Clinton
Sue
$1,200 [27]
Rabelaisian adjective meaning "enormous", like a task
gargantuan
Sue
$1,600 [16]
This Persian son of Darius I burned Athens in 480 B.C.
Xerxes
Brad
$2,000 [24]
Bears have cubs; wolverine newborns are known as these, like foxes & beavers
kits
Ted
$1,600 [21]
The probe used to investigate tornados in this film is aptly named Dorothy
Twister
Brad
$1,600 [7]
An alnico magnet is an alloy having these 3 elements as its principal ingredients
aluminum, nickel, cobalt
Ted
$1,600 [12]
In August of 2006, the man seenheresaid this country would not give up its homegrown nuclear technology
Iran
Sue Ted
$1,600 [28]
This adjective that means "amazingly large" or "causing amazement" is from the Latin for "to be stunned"
stupendous
Ted
DD $2,000 [15]
His dad Earl Little was an outspoken Baptist minister & supporter of black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey
Malcolm X
Sue
$2,000 [22]
In this cool 2004 film, climatologist Dennis Quaid is right & much of the U.S. evacuates to Mexico
The Day After Tomorrow
Brad
$2,000 [8]
(Jon shows images of early devices on the monitor.) Early electromagnets, like Joseph Henry's in 1831, were horseshoe-shaped to double the pulling power of this type of magnet
a bar magnet
Ted
$2,000 [13]
This country's acceptance of responsibility for the Pan Am 103 bombing helped it lose its rogue status
Libya
Sue
$2,000 [29]
Immeasurably great, like the "Jest" in a David Foster Wallace title
infinite
Sue
$2,000 [17]
The "Apostle of the Indies", this missionary helped found the Jesuits & introduced Christianity to Japan
Francis Xavier
Ted

Final Jeopardy!

EXPLORERS

In 1616, after Hudson died, this man became the 1st European to reach Ellesmere Island; an island & bay are named for him

(William) Baffin

Sue "Who is Baffin?" — wagered $3,200
Brad "Who is Baffin?" — wagered $1,301
Ted "Who was Baffin?" — wagered $13,200

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