Show #5193 2007-03-21 (taped 2006-12-13) Regular

Contestants

Ruth Merriam — an accountant from South Orange, New Jersey

Paul Horwitz — a professor from Los Angeles, California

Jamey Kirby — a humanities teacher originally from Live Oak, Florida (whose 3-day cash winnings total $60,265)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Jamey	$0	$2,600	$16,400	$21,177 2nd place: $2,000	$11,800 12 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Paul	$3,200	$7,600	$21,000	$30,500 New champion: $30,500	$20,800 26 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Ruth	$1,600	$3,000	$5,400	$10,800 3rd place: $1,000	$6,400 12 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE NORTHERNMOST CAPITAL CITY	MAJOR LEES	SPORTS TERMS	AIRLINES	JEWISH HISTORY	"OY"!
$200 [26] Paris, Brussels, Rome Brussels Jamey	$200 [14] He starred in the films "Fists of Fury" & "Game of Death" Bruce Lee Ruth	$200 [2] NHL regulations stipulate that this must be kept in a frozen state in order to be used in a game a puck Paul	$200 [3] In 2006 more than 40% of this airline's customers flew to, from or through Atlanta Delta Ruth	$200 [17] The Maccabees fought a guerrilla war to keep the Syrians out of this city Jerusalem Ruth	$200 [6] The definitive English writer of game rules; now everything is "according to" him (Edmond) Hoyle Ruth
$400 [27] San Salvador, San Jose, Santiago San Salvador Paul	$400 [22] 19th century man seen here; we know you were waiting for this one Robert E. Lee Paul	$400 [4] This term once meant an entire golf course; now it refers to the area surrounding the cup a green Ruth	$400 [11] In 2005 this Phoenix-based airline merged with US Airways to create the world's largest low-fare airline America West Ruth	$400 [18] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Prague, Czech Republic.) Josefov, named for an emperor, is Prague's version of this area, to which Jews were restricted the ghetto Paul	$400 [7] Bronze is an important one of tin & copper an alloy Ruth
$600 [28] Pyongyang, Tokyo, Taipei Pyongyang Jamey Ruth	$600 [23] He began working at the Texas School Book Depository in October 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald Paul	$600 [5] (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the University of Iowa.) It's the structural term for the arched position a wrestler uses to avoid his back touching the mat a bridge Paul	$600 [12] It's the airline whose familiar logo is seen here Alaska Airlines	$600 [19] Term for attacks on Jews, from the Russian for "destruction"; they started to get bad around 1881 pogroms Paul	$600 [8] These edible bivalve mollusks can reach 12 inches across oysters Paul
$800 [29] Riyadh, Baghdad, Ankara Ankara Jamey	$800 [24] As of 1975, this Pulitzer Prize-winner was said to be working on her second novel but it hasn't been published yet Harper Lee Paul	$800 [1] In bowling, if only the 2 & 7 pins or 3 & 10 pins are left standing after the first roll, it's called a baby this a split Ruth	$800 [13] It's easy to recognize this airline's planes: they have a shamrock on the tail Aer Lingus Paul	$800 [20] Now the USA's largest Jewish movement, it began in the 19th c. to change Judaism by reducing ritual Reform Paul Ruth	$800 [9] Used as waterspouts, these stone figures take their name from the Old French for "throat" gargoyles
$1,000 [30] Minsk, Monrovia, Manama Minsk Jamey	$1,000 [25] In 1986 Bruce Springsteen refused his $12 million offer to use "Born in the U.S.A." in an automoble ad Lee Iacocca Paul	$1,000 [16] In this illegal block, a football player hits an opponent from behind, below the waist, resulting in a 15-yard penalty clipping Ruth	DD $1,000 [15] Icarus is the frequent-flyer program of this international airline Olympic Airlines Ruth	$1,000 [21] In 1984 an airlift began flying Jews called falashas from this African country to Israel Ethiopia Paul	$1,000 [10] Castle that was the birthplace of St. Ignatius, the founder of the Jesuits Loyola Paul

Double Jeopardy! Round

MEDICINE	THE ROLE IN COMMON	LITERARY LASS LINES	WORLD OF WATER	"P"AINTERS & "P"AINTING	RARE BOGGLE WORDS
$400 [16] A McBurney's incision is made in the lower right abdomen by a surgeon about to remove this the appendix Paul	$400 [10] Sir Alec Guinness&Ewan McGregor Obi-wan Kenobi Paul	$400 [1] "I'll never love anybody but you, Tom, and I'll never marry anybody but you--and you ain't to ever marry anybody but me" Becky (Thatcher) Paul	$400 [20] Tugela, a set of these in South Africa, totals over 5 Washington Monuments high waterfalls Paul	$400 [6] This movement includes works by Claes Oldenburg, David Hockney &, of course, Andy Warhol pop art Jamey	$400 [24] I see this plant-eating aquatic mammal from Florida a manatee Jamey
$800 [17] Popularly called JAMA, this medical publication has been published continuously since 1883 The Journal of the American Medical Association Paul	$800 [11] Gene Wilder&Johnny Depp Willy Wonka Jamey	$800 [2] "The way I flew? Do you know... I sometimes wonder whether I did really fly" Wendy Darling	$800 [22] Power plant runoff is responsible for the water in Iceland's "Blue" one of these, seen here Blue Lagoon	$800 [7] In 1937 he painted a masterpiece that depicted the bombing of a Spanish town Picasso Jamey	$800 [23] It's this light fabric, originally used to wrap a certain food cheesecloth
$1,200 [18] In the 400s B.C. this Greek wrote, "Into whatever houses I enter I will go into them for the benefit of the sick" Hippocrates Paul	$1,200 [13] Kirk Alyn&George Reeves Superman Paul	$1,200 [3] "Our names are worn away to Durbeyfield; but we have several proofs that we are d'Urbervilles" Tess Paul	$1,200 [25] This type of "plain" is covered by water when a river overflows; the Ganges & Yangtze have big ones a floodplain Paul	$1,600 [9] It's the technique of applying paint in little spots, as exemplified by Seurat pointillism Paul	$1,200 [28] That's right, you heard me! I found this item that addresses a lot of people a speaker Paul
$1,600 [19] Robert Koch, in 1876, was the first to identify the bacterium causing a specific disease, this disease of cattle & man anthrax Ruth	$1,600 [14] Rex Harrison&Eddie Murphy Dr. Dolittle Jamey	DD $1,800 [4] "It should be Christmas Day... on which one drinks the health of such an odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man" (Mrs.) Cratchit Paul	$1,600 [26] In 1998 the water supply was threatened by mercury in Russia's huge Bratsk "holding" one of these a reservoir Paul	$2,000 [12] An anarchist, he was the only artist whose work was at every one of the Impressionist exhibitions Pissarro Jamey	$1,600 [29] Thistype of gluttonous eater is going to rack me up the maximum 11 points a gourmand
$2,000 [21] The name of this instrument used to see within the stomach & intestines is from the Latin for "see within" endoscope	$2,000 [15] Michael Caine&Jude Law Alfie Ruth	$2,000 [5] "It is too deeply branded. Ye cannot take it off. And would that I might endure his agony, as well as mine!" Hester Prynne Jamey	$2,000 [27] Sounds odd, but this type of treatment plant opened in 1992 on the Colorado to give Mexico drinkable water a desalination plant	DD $5,800 [8] This abstract expressionist had his first solo show at Peggy Guggenheim's art gallery Pollock Jamey	$2,000 [30] It must be Christmas; there's this colorful plant a poinsettia Ruth

Final Jeopardy!

MUSIC HISTORY

In this building Ella Fitzgerald & Sarah Vaughan both won amateur talent contests, one in 1934 & the other in 1942

the Apollo Theater

Ruth "What is the Apollo?" — wagered $5,400

Jamey "What is the Apollo Theater" — wagered $4,777

Paul "What is the Appollo Theatre?" — wagered $9,500

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