Show #5237 2007-05-22 (taped 2007-02-20) Regular

Contestants

James Clark — a graduate assistant from Monroeville, Pennsylvania

Cindy Ladensack — a manager of marketing intelligence from Harper Woods, Michigan

Vic Sawyer — a snowcoach driver and hotel manager from Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming and Montana (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Vic $4,400 $10,500 $13,600 $1,199
3rd place: $1,000
$13,600
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Cindy $1,400 $3,000 $13,000 $21,500
2nd place: $2,000
$13,000
12 R, 0 W
James $2,400 $3,600 $12,600 $25,199
New champion: $25,199
$10,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 6 W

Jeopardy! Round

NEW FACES IN THE 110th CONGRESS DOCUMENTARIES SOUNDS LIKE WEATHER ALL ABOUT ANIMALS A PIECE OF CAKE EASY AS "A-B-C"
$200 [4]
Tennessee's Bob Corker won the seat vacated by this ex-Majority Leader
Bill Frist
$200 [9]
"Murderball" chronicles quadriplegics who play this football-like game in tricked-out wheelchairs
rugby
Vic
$200 [26]
Louis XIV's lasted 72 years
a reign
James
$200 [16]
This large predator's name is from the Spanish "el lagarto", or the lizard
alligator
James
$200 [17]
In the Grimm Bros. version, this "little" fairy tale girl on her way to visit her granny is carrying cake & wine
Little Red Riding Hood
James
$200 [1]
The state of being away; you might take a "leave of" one
absence
Vic
$400 [5]
Ex-rocker John Hall (of the band Orleans, not & Oates) now reps this states's 19th, including Peekskill
New York
Vic
$400 [10]
"The tiles and tribulations" of competetive players of this board game are examined in "Word Wars"
Scrabble
Vic
$400 [27]
In the 1880s this country promised to build a railroad for Bolivia, whose coastline it took away
Chile
James
$400 [19]
You might find this horned mammal of the genus Capra on a farm
a goat
Vic
$400 [23]
If you don't add raisins to this holiday baked good, you might be "as nutty as" one
a fruitcake
Vic
$400 [2]
Oxygenated endurance exercises that promote cardiovascular fitness
aerobic
Cindy
$600 [6]
In a huge upset in Virginia, Jim Webb beat this senator & prospective presidential candidate
(George) Allen
James
$600 [11]
Flightless birds head single file to their traditional breeding ground in this 2005 documentary
March of the Penguins
Vic James
$600 [28]
James Caan's character's name in "The Godfather" was Santino, but everyone called him this
Sonny
Vic
$600 [20]
The reticulated species of this huge Asian snake can grow up to be 30 feet long
a python
Vic
$600 [18]
4-letter term for a thick piece of cake, bacon or marble
a slab
Cindy
$600 [3]
Tasty tuna type
albacore
James
$800 [7]
Nick Lampson took the Texas House seat once held by "The Hammer"
DeLay
James
$800 [12]
This Michael Moore documentary asked, "Are we a nation of gun nuts or are we just nuts?"
Bowling for Columbine
Vic
$1,000 [30]
A container designed for cigars
a humidor
James
$800 [21]
In the Middle Ages, caparisons were a leather or fabric type of covering, mainly for these animals
horses
Vic
$800 [24]
This children's book character rapidly grows to incredible size after eating a cake marked "EAT ME"
Alice (in Wonderland)
Vic
$800 [14]
A plentiful or overflowing quantity or supply
abundance
Vic
$1,000 [8]
Peter Roskam won the seat held for 32 years by this state's Henry Hyde
Illinois
James
$1,000 [13]
An Oscar-winning film about children from Calcutta's red-light district was called "Born into" these
Brothels
Vic
DD $2,500 [29]
It's the architectural term for what the guyhereis looking at
a frieze
Vic
$1,000 [22]
Humans and this "armored" mammal are among the only known animals that carry the bacterium that causes leprosy
armadillos
James
$1,000 [25]
A long twisted doughnut topped with sugar or glaze, its name is from the Dutch for "twisted cake"
a cruller
Cindy James
$1,000 [15]
Another word for a kidnapping, perhaps from a seraglio
abduction
Cindy

Double Jeopardy! Round

LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES TONY AWARD WINNERS "F"INE ART SIGNS & SYMBOLS BESTSELLERS CHANGE ONE LETTER
$400 [9]
The Taliban has been Talibanned from this landlocked country where it used to rule
Afghanistan
James
$400 [14]
In 2006 "The History Boys" won for Best Play & this other show with "Boys" in the title won for Best Musical
Jersey Boys
Cindy
$400 [20]
The Titian work seenhereis titled "Georgio Cornaro with" this
a falcon
James
$400 [6]
Chalked on a fence, the symbol seenherewarned fellow hobos of the presence of one of these
a mean dog (or junkyard dog)
James
$400 [1]
In 1968 this Arthur Haley novel took off, landing at No. 1 on the bestseller list
Airport
James
$400 [15]
A stocking bag
a sock sack
Vic
$1,200 [11]
This small landlocked nation of the Pyrenees is only 180 square miles in area
Andorra
James
$800 [27]
(Hi, I'm Martin Short.) I won a 1999 Tony for Cy Coleman & this playwright's "Little Me"; I also received a Tony nomination for his "The Goodbye Girl"
Neil Simon
James
$800 [21]
Michelangelo used this method of wall painting for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
frescoes
James
$800 [7]
Fancy design firms like the one founded by Mr. Hodgetts & Ms. Fung often use this sign instead of "and" or an &
a plus sign
Cindy
$800 [2]
His "Clear and Present Danger" was the bestselling fiction book of 1989
Tom Clancy
Vic
$800 [16]
A sodium chloride auction
a salt sale
Vic
$1,600 [12]
The 2 landlocked nations of the Himalayas
Bhutan & Nepal
Vic
$1,200 [28]
How about a Wolverine whistle for this actor who won a Tony for starring in "The Boy From Oz"
(Hugh) Jackman
James
$1,200 [22]
Caravaggio has done this to the hands in the painting seenhereto give athree-dimensionalappearance
foreshorten
Cindy James
$1,200 [8]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew gives the clue.) A symbol that is familiar from its use in biology is also used in astronomy to represent this planet
Venus
James
$1,200 [3]
First published in 2003, it's Lauren Weisberger's humorous novel about the fashion world & the boss from hell
The Devil Wears Prada
Cindy
$1,200 [17]
A final printed series of names
a last list
Cindy
$2,000 [13]
Vaduz is the capital of this small principality that borders Switzerland
Liechtenstein
James
$1,600 [29]
(Hi, I'm Brian Stokes Mitchell.) I won a Tony for my portrayal of an actor playing Petruchio in the 1999 revival of this classic Cole Porter musical
Kiss Me, Kate
Cindy
$1,600 [23]
The name of this early 20th century art movement comes from a term meaning "wild beast"
Fauvism
Vic
$1,600 [25]
A coat of arms might include a cadency symbol, like crescent for a second of these
a son
$1,600 [4]
In 2006 he was back at No. 1, this time with his first nonfiction book, "The Innocent Man"
(John) Grisham
Vic
$1,600 [18]
A benevolently dispositioned male monarch
a kind king
Cindy
DD $3,000 [10]
Of the 3 countries of Indochina, the only one that is landlocked
Laos
James
$2,000 [30]
This "Sex and the City" co-star climbed into a "Rabbit Hole" to win the 2006 Tony for Best Leading Actress in a Play
Cynthia Nixon
Cindy
$2,000 [24]
Feel free to psychoanalyze the work by this current German-born British painter
Lucian Freud
DD $1,700 [26]
It's the type of cross seen here; you'd think it would be on the flag of an island country
a Maltese cross
Vic
$2,000 [5]
Joe Klein (aka Anonymous) could have titled this political novel "Red, Yellow, Blue"
Primary Colors
Vic
$2,000 [19]
A speedy fair
a fast fest

Final Jeopardy!

SPORTS LEGENDS

Between 1977 & 1980, he won a state high school championship, an NCAA championship, & an NBA championship

Magic Johnson

James "Who is Magic Johnson" — wagered $12,599
Cindy "Who is Magic Johnson? Go Green!" — wagered $8,500
Vic "Who is M. Jordan?" — wagered $12,401

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