Show #5179 2007-03-01 (taped 2006-12-05) Regular

Contestants

Jennifer Nield Cameron — an executive assistant from New York, New York

Brian Morris — an account manager from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Robert Ashley — a psychiatrist from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Robert $4,400 $8,000 $15,200 $22,801
2nd place: $2,000
$14,400
26 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Brian $1,800 $3,000 $19,000 $30,401
New champion: $30,401
$19,000
18 R, 1 W
Jennifer $0 $2,600 $0 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$3,800
7 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

RECONSTRUCTION GIVING YOU THE MUSICAL TIME OF DAY MATH PROBLEMS MY MAINE MAN! ENGLAND, SCOTLAND OR WALES FIX THE MALAPROPISM
$200 [6]
By the end of Reconstruction, production of this "king" crop in the South was nearly equal to pre-war levels
cotton
Robert
$200 [26]
Bill Haley ran down a full 12-hour cycle in this 1955 No. 1 hit
"Rock Around The Clock"
Brian
$200 [1]
If one bus can hold 50 tourists, then at least this many buses are needed for 210 tourists
5
Robert
$200 [17]
In 1966 this Portland-born author published his first short story, "I Was a Teenage Grave Robber"
Stephen King
Brian
$200 [11]
The Angus breed of cattle was developed there
Scotland
Robert
$200 [16]
To do well on "Jeopardy!", you must consecrate on the task at hand
concentrate
Jennifer
$400 [7]
In April 1866 this president vetoed a bill granting citizenship to all persons born in the U.S.; Congress overrode his veto
Andrew Johnson
Robert
$400 [27]
Elton John sang, "She packed my bags last night pre-flight, zero hour, 9 A.M." in this hit song
"Rocket Man"
Jennifer
$400 [2]
The total number of yards on an NFL football field, goal line to goal line, plus the number of minutes in an NFL game
160
Robert
$400 [22]
Listen, my children, & you shall hear, he was born Feb. 27, 1807 in Portland (hey, he was the poet, not me)
Longfellow
Robert
$400 [12]
Regions there include Gwent & Gwynedd
Wales
Robert
$400 [18]
The score was so close in the Lakers game last night; it was a real cliff-dweller right to the end
cliff-hanger
Jennifer
$600 [8]
The Freedman's Bureau aided in establishing black colleges, including this Washington, D.C. school
Howard
Robert
$600 [28]
Debbie Harry sang "It's 11:59 and I want to stay alive" fronting this band
Blondie
Robert
$600 [3]
To pay $200 in rent, a worker getting 50 cents per bucket of tomatoes must pick this many buckets
400
Robert
$600 [23]
Born in Bar Harbor on July 8, 1908, he succeeded Gerald Ford as VP
Rockefeller
Robert
$600 [13]
The Glengarry is a popular men's hat from there
Scotland
Robert
$600 [19]
Following the robbery, the police rounded up several auspicious characters
suspicious
Jennifer
$800 [9]
Once a term for a worthless farm animal, it referred to white Southerners who supported the Republicans
scalawags
$800 [29]
"Six o'clock already I was just in the middle of a dream" begins this 1986 Bangles hit
"Manic Monday"
Robert
$800 [4]
A $2, 3-piece carton contains 1 breast & 2 legs; if breasts cost twice as much as legs, this is the price of 1 leg
50 cents
Robert
$1,000 [25]
The 1st Democrat elected to the Senate by Maine voters, he was Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter
Edmund Muskie
Robert
$800 [14]
Canute reigned there in the 11th century
England
Brian
$800 [20]
When my daughter grows up, I suspect I'll see plenty of illegible young men at my front door
eligible
Brian
$1,000 [10]
Reconstruction produced 2 black senators: Hiram Revels & Blanche Bruce, both from this state
Mississippi
$1,000 [30]
Matchbox 20 sang "She says baby, it's" this title time "I must be lonely"
3 A.M.
Jennifer
$1,000 [5]
If you bought 5 6-packs of beer & drank 80% of it before halftime, you have this many beers left for the second half
6
Robert Brian
DD $1,200 [24]
Raised in Maine, this Bowdoin alumnus hired Matthew Henson in 1887 to assist a Nicaraguan survey
(Admiral) Peary
Robert
$1,000 [15]
The building of Caernarfon Castle, a medieval fortress, was begun there in 1283
Wales
Robert
$1,000 [21]
By definition, countries right next to each other are contagious
contiguous
Robert

Double Jeopardy! Round

PLASMA PHYSICS MOVIE MANIA INTERNATIONAL BOOKSTORE "O" BROTHER WHERE ART THOU?
$400 [6]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from the Plasma Physics Lab at Princeton.) To produce energy, scientists are experimenting with plasma, a charged medium, sometimes called the fourth one of these after solid, liquid & gas
phase of matter (or state of matter)
Robert
$400 [11]
His inspired cinematic lunacy included turns of the big screen as Inspector Clouseau & Dr. Strangelove
(Peter) Sellers
Brian
$400 [1]
It's Mexican author Laura Esquivel's sweet tale of young Tita de la Garza & it's full of recipes & home remedies
Like Water for Chocolate
Jennifer
$400 [16]
Though this big bird thrives in other regions, the Arabian or Syrian type is extinct
an ostrich
Brian
$400 [25]
Takanohana & his brother Wakanohana have sparked a new craze for this Japanese sport
sumo
Robert
$400 [30]
Swimmin' for my life in this body of water with the Pharaoh's army being destroyed in Exodus
the Red Sea
Robert
$800 [7]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from the Plasma Physics Lab at Princeton.) As fuel, fusion reactors use deuterium & tritium, isotopes of this element that contains one proton & one electron
hydrogen
Robert
$800 [12]
1952's "Bwana Devil" was the first film released in this process & pitted man-eating lions vs. unlucky railway builders
3-D
Brian
$800 [2]
A collection of the works of this French comic playwright should include "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme"
Molière
$800 [17]
A closed plane figure, specifically like a standard American stop sign
an octagon
Brian
$800 [22]
In this big band family, Tommy was a trombonist & Jimmy was a saxophone player & clarinetist
Dorsey
Jennifer
$800 [28]
Spending time in this city where Jesus grew up
Nazareth
Robert
$1,200 [8]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Plasma Physics Lab at Princeton.) Scientists are experimenting with plasma as a means to sterilize food containers & destroy spores of these microorganisms of the kingdom Monera
bacteria
$1,200 [13]
In this 1987 film, Cheech Marin gets deported to Mexico & must make his way back to the U.S. without any I.D.
Born in East L.A.
Robert
$1,200 [3]
Kisses are in order for this 1976 Argentinian novel whose film version won William Hurt an Oscar
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Brian
$1,200 [18]
This Japanese city hosted the World's Fair in 1970
Osaka
Robert
$1,200 [21]
The 19th century portrait of these two literary German brothers seenhereis no folk tale
the Brothers Grimm
Brian
$1,200 [26]
Dippin' my tootsies in this sea that's also known as the Lake of Gennesaret
the Sea of Galilee
Brian
DD $2,000 [9]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Plasma Physics Lab at Princeton.) In generating fusion energy, scientists are experimenting with this lightest metal, also used in cell phone batteries
lithium
Robert
$1,600 [14]
French soldiers are accused of cowardice in the Stanley Kubrick WWI film "Paths of" this
Glory
Brian
$1,600 [4]
This influential 1842 Nikolai Gogol novel indicted the "dead" & stultifying influence of serfdom in Russia
Dead Souls
Brian
$1,600 [19]
There were no gold medals at the first modern Olympics; a winner received a diploma & this, a symbol of peace
an olive branch
Brian
$2,000 [24]
On June 5, 1783, these brothers publicly demonstrated their hot-air balloon for the first time
the Montgolfier brothers
$1,600 [27]
Herdin' some sheep with Abraham in this Sumerian city with a 2-letter name
Ur
Brian
$2,000 [10]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Plasma Physics Lab at Princeton.) The plasma in the reactor is heated to about one hundred million degrees Celsius, more than six times hotter than the sun, & has to be confined using this type of field
magnetic
Brian
$2,000 [15]
The title of this 1957 Bergman film refers to what Bibi Anderson picks
Wild Strawberries
Brian
$2,000 [5]
Stevens the butler narrates this 1989 novel by Japanese-British author Kazuo Ishiguro
Remains of the Day
Robert
$2,000 [20]
First name of the 19th century Prussian chancellor known for his "iron & blood"
Otto
Brian
DD $3,800 [23]
Of Henry VIII's 6 wives, the one who had been married to his brother
Catherine of Aragon
Jennifer
$2,000 [29]
Chillin' with the Israelites in the Land o' this, a section of lower Egypt where they lived as captives
Goshen
Robert

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD LEADERS

In 1946 she said, "We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples... to be masters of our own fate"

Golda Meir

Robert "Who is Golda Meier" — wagered $7,601
Brian "Who is Golda Meir?" — wagered $11,401

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