Show #5239 2007-05-24 (taped 2007-02-20) Regular

Mehrun Etebari game 1.

Contestants

Pauline Harris — a children's librarian from San Francisco, California

Mehrun Etebari — a grad student from Durham, New Hampshire

James Clark — a graduate assistant from Monroeville, Pennsylvania (whose 2-day cash winnings total $42,401)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
James	$2,200	$3,000	$15,400	$7,599 2nd place: $2,000	$16,200 22 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Mehrun	$2,600	$7,000	$11,600	$17,900 New champion: $17,900	$11,400 16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Pauline	$2,200	$5,200	$5,200	$0 3rd place: $1,000	$5,200 13 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

FIRST AID	'80s MOVIE MEMORIES	TOUGH TIMES, KID	CAMBODIA, CAMEROON OR CANADA	JACKSON 5	SLANG
$200 [21] This chilly condition that affects nose, ears, hands & feet can also be caused by putting ice on a burn frostbite Pauline	$200 [6] In 1986 he played Seth Brundle, whose teleportation experiment is set awry by a fly Jeff Goldblum James	$200 [16] Home-schooling him for discipline problems paid off; he later moved to Menlo Park, N.J. & was very inventive in his lab Thomas Edison Pauline	$200 [12] It's made up of 3 territories and 10 provinces Canada James	$200 [1] The 1953 Alan Ladd film "Shane" is among the many Westerns filmed in this valley east of the Tetons Jackson Hole Mehrun	$200 [25] In diner slang, apple pie is "eve with a lid" & to "put a hat on" her means to add this ice cream Mehrun Pauline
$400 [22] In cases of snakebite, remove jewelry, because this condition develops quickly swelling Pauline	$400 [7] (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from NORAD.) The experiments of a teenage computer whiz led him to NORAD's Nuclear War Operations Centre in this 1983 film WarGames James	$400 [17] Before success with brands like Tommy Jeans, he was a class clown to cover for the embarrassment of poor grades Tommy Hilfiger Pauline	$400 [13] The one ruled by a king Cambodia Mehrun	$400 [2] The Big Apple's Jackson Heights is part of this borough Queens Pauline	$400 [26] Slang for "to kiss" or "to make out" is this external body part neck Mehrun
$600 [23] (Jon of the Clue Crew performs CPR on a mannequin.) The purpose of CPR's chest compressions is to keep the blood carrying this to the brain oxygen Pauline	$600 [8] Brownsville, Oregon was cast as Castle Rock in this 1986 film about 4 boys on a trek for a dead body Stand By Me James	$600 [18] A dyslexic youth, he rewrote the book on TV by using satellites to make his small UHF channel national Ted Turner Mehrun	$600 [14] The smallest in area Cambodia Mehrun	$600 [3] This American artist moved to NYC in 1930 to study with Thomas Hart Benton Jackson Pollock Mehrun	$600 [28] "Cabbage" & this other basic salad ingredient are both slang for paper money lettuce Mehrun
$800 [24] A good treatment for an ankle sprain is "RICE"--rest, ice, compression & this elevation James	$800 [9] She's the title aquarium dweller beloved by Michael Palin A Fish Called Wanda Mehrun	$800 [19] Though he couldn't read until after he was 10, he became the only U.S. President to earn a doctoral degree Woodrow Wilson	$800 [11] Its national flag contains only 2 colors Canada James	$800 [4] This New Orleans-born gospel singerseen heredebuted at Carnegie Hall in 1950 Mahalia Jackson Pauline	$1,000 [29] This slang term can refer to a peanut, a yokel or a native of Georgia goober Mehrun
—	$1,000 [10] (I'm Jane Kaczmarek.) One of my first movie roles was as this man's wife in "Falling in Love", the rat leaves me for Meryl Streep Robert De Niro	$1,000 [20] Spelling errors & the mirror writing in his notebooks may suggest this artist born in 1452 had a learning disorder Leonardo da Vinci Pauline	$1,000 [15] Uses the franc as its currency Cameroon James Pauline	$1,000 [5] During this Virginia battle, Stonewall Jackson was fired upon by his own men; he died a few days later Chancellorsville James	DD $2,000 [27] It can mean "gossip" or the means by which gossip travels, as in the title of a Marvin Gaye hit grapevine Mehrun

Double Jeopardy! Round

WAR STORIES	ENTERTAINING STATE CAPITALS	THE HISTORY BOYS	MARINE BIOLOGY	HAIFA LOAF	BETTER THAN "NUN"
$400 [1] "The Killer Angels","The Red Badge of Courage" Civil War James	$400 [6] 1988 was a good year for this actress; she won a best supporting acting oscar & her cousin ran for president Olympia Dukakis James	$400 [8] Snorri Sturluson, from this island, wrote a history on Norwegian kings from Odin to his own time Iceland Pauline	$400 [21] In these organs in most fish, water flows the opposite direction to the blood, increasing oxygen transfer gills Mehrun	$400 [12] The main seaport of Israel, Haifa is on this sea Mediterranean Sea James Pauline	$400 [23] In one episode of this TV series, a pelican falls in love with Sister Bertrille The Flying Nun James
$800 [2] "Drums Along the Mohawk","Rebels and Redcoats" Revolutionary War Mehrun	$800 [7] Oscar Goldman was this character's boss in a 1970s series Steve Austin	$800 [9] William Coolidge, author of these mountains "In Nature and History", made the first winter climb of the Jungfrau Alps Mehrun	$800 [22] Sea creatures that live in the benthos, this part of the ocean, include clams & halibut bottom James	$800 [13] Haifa was a target of scud missiles from this country during the Persian Gulf War of 1991 Iraq Mehrun	$800 [24] To overwhelm or flood with water inundate James
$1,200 [3] "365 Days","Born on the Fourth of July" Vietnam War James	DD $1,000 [17] One alive & one deceased, the 2 brothers who have been nominated for acting Oscars River and Joaquin Phoenix Mehrun	$1,200 [10] Mark Bowden has written the story of this 1979 crisis, "The First Battle In America's War With Militant Islam" Iran Hostage Crisis James Mehrun	$1,200 [28] In 1943 this undersea explorer produced his first film, "Par Dix-huit Metres du Fond", or "18 Meters Down" Jacques Cousteau Pauline	DD $800 [15] In 1191 Haifa was destroyed by the forces of this Muslim leader Saladin (or Salahuddin) James	$1,200 [25] Uttering in a clear, meticulous manner enunciate James
$1,600 [4] "The Great Crusade","For Whom the Bell Tolls" Spanish Civil War James	$1,600 [19] This actor who died at 45 starred opposite Elizabeth Taylor in "A Place in the Sun" & "Suddenly, Last Summer" Montgomery Clift James	$1,600 [11] Charlotte Corday is "like a star; cruel-lovely" in Thomas Carlyle's 1837 book titled this event The French Revolution	$1,600 [29] Like jellyfish, sea anemones have stinging cells in these organs to paralyze small animals tentacles James	$1,200 [14] Oddly, in 1983 a skeleton of this Pleistocene hominid named for a German valley was found near Haifa Neanderthal James	$1,600 [26] The Catholic festival in memory of the angel Gabriel telling the Virgin Mary she would soon be with child Annunciation James
$2,000 [5] "The Bridges at Toko-Ri","The Ikon" Korean War James	$2,000 [20] In one of her first big-screen roles, this actress played Lady Jane Grey in a 1986 film Helena Bonham Carter	$2,000 [18] The bestselling author of "The Johnstown Flood" & "1776" is also the narrator of the movie "Seabiscuit" David McCullough Pauline	$2,000 [30] This small five-letter animal seenhereis the main food source of the Antarctic blue whale krill James Mehrun	$2,000 [16] Haifa is the world center of this religion founded in Persia in the mid-19th century Bahá'í Faith James Mehrun	$2,000 [27] An official act of abandoning a claim to a royal throne or title renunciation

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD GEOGRAPHY

These 2 current South American countries gained their independence in the 20th century, one in the '60s and one in the '70s

Suriname and Guyana

Pauline "What are French Guyana & Suriname" — wagered $5,200

Mehrun "What are Suriname and Guyana?" — wagered $6,300

James "What are Suriname & French Guiana" — wagered $7,801

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