Show #5243 2007-05-30 (taped 2007-02-21) Regular

Mehrun Etebari game 5.

Contestants

Dianne Lindsay — a publisher's representative from Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Phil Cunneff — a musician and teacher from Baltimore, Maryland

Mehrun Etebari — a grad student from Durham, New Hampshire (whose 4-day cash winnings total $99,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mehrun $7,800 $12,400 $27,800 $29,000
5-day champion: $128,100
$26,200
33 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Phil $200 $1,400 $600 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$600
5 R, 1 W
Dianne $1,800 $6,200 $12,600 $22,600
2nd place: $2,000
$16,600
17 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN AUTHORS BEGINNING & END STATE SUPERLATIVES 3 LITTLE LETTERS CALL OUT THE VOICE SQUAD YOU'RE UNDER A "REST"
$200 [6]
While he was in Spain in 1959, he wrote "The Dangerous Summer", a story about rival bullfighters
Hemingway
Mehrun
$200 [13]
Like a door, a Broadway show does these 2 things
open & close
Mehrun
$200 [1]
A valley at 282 feet below sea level in this state is the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere
California
Mehrun
$200 [8]
Like banks, many grocery stores now have these for dispensing cash & taking deposits
ATMs
Phil
$200 [26]
He was the voice of Mickey Mouse in "Steamboat Willie"
Walt Disney
Dianne
$200 [21]
Eastern European capital city of more than 2.2 million
Bucharest
Mehrun
$400 [7]
In 1884 she moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska & later fictionalized it as the town of Hanover in "O Pioneers!"
Willa Cather
Mehrun
$600 [15]
"From" this to this is an idiom meaning from the start of a meal (or something else) to the end
from soup to nuts
Dianne
$400 [2]
With 6,640 miles of coast, this state has the longest shoreline
Alaska
Mehrun
$400 [9]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Catalina Island Conservancy.) Rampant use of this 3-letter insecticide lead to a hefty settlement for restorating the population of Catalina'sbald eagles
DDT
Mehrun
$400 [27]
(Hi, I'm Harry Shearer.) Among my many "Simpsons" voices are the subservient Smithers & this man who lives next door to Homer--Howdy, neighbor
Ned Flanders
Mehrun
$400 [22]
Any mountain's summit
crest
Phil
$600 [16]
(Alex reports from the Mark Twain House.) Mark Twain said that this anti-slaverynovelist, his next-door neighbor, liked to sneak up behind people and "fetch a war-whoop that would jump that person out of his clothes"
(Harriet Beecher) Stowe
Mehrun
$800 [17]
These titles of the2 paintingsseen hererepresent the beginning & end of Jesus' life
"The Nativity" & "The Crucifixion"
Phil
$600 [3]
It pumps more than one million barrels of oil a day, more than any other state
Texas
Mehrun Dianne
$600 [10]
"Day to Day" & "All Things Considered" are among the programs going out to its 26 million listeners
NPR
Mehrun
$600 [28]
The voice of Daffy Duck (for the first 50 years)
Mel Blanc
Mehrun
$600 [23]
A braced framework for carrying a railroad over a chasm
a trestle
Dianne
$800 [18]
Under the name Laura Bancroft, he wrote about Twinkle & Chubbins in Nature Fairyland after taking us to Oz
L. Frank Baum
Dianne
$1,000 [20]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew indicates the monitor.) A porkchop plot, named for its shape, is used for planning space missions; the vertical & horizontalaxesplot possible dates for these 2 flight events
takeoff & landing (or launch & arrival)
Dianne
$800 [4]
Considered the healthiest state in 2006, it's also home to the Mayo Clinic
Minnesota
Dianne
$800 [11]
Its headquarters compound in Langley, Virginia is named for Former President George Bush
the CIA
Mehrun
$800 [29]
He voiced Puss In Boots in "Shrek 2"
Antonio Banderas
Mehrun
$800 [24]
Quickly! (to an Italian)
Presto
Dianne
$1,000 [19]
William Rose Benet won a Pulitzer for "The Dust Which Is God", & this brother won for "John Brown's Body"
Stephen Vincent Benet
Mehrun
DD $3,000 [14]
In 2006 it began on July 1 in Strasbourg & ended on July 23 in Paris
the Tour de France
Mehrun
$1,000 [5]
Its Boeing manufacturing plant in Everett is the world's largest building by volume
Washington
Dianne
$1,000 [12]
A TV cable network, or an explosive for bombs
TNT
Mehrun
$1,000 [30]
He provided the voices of both Beavis & Butthead
Mike Judge
Mehrun
$1,000 [25]
The son of Agamemnon, he avenged his father's death by killing his mother Clytemnestra
Orestes
Dianne

Double Jeopardy! Round

EARLY AMERICA BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS DOWN MEXICO WAY TAKE A PILL TRANSPORTATION AN E FOR AN I
$400 [10]
In 1718 this Texas town was founded by Martin de Alarcon & Father Olivares & named for St. Anthony of Padua
San Antonio
Mehrun
$400 [2]
1980: "Regular Folks"
Ordinary People
Phil
$400 [17]
In 1986 Mexico scored as the first country to host this international sports competition twice
the World Cup
Mehrun
$400 [16]
Going on a cruise? You might pick up this Pfizer product, the "original" or "less drowsy" formula
Dramamine
Mehrun
$400 [26]
The bestselling passenger car of all time is this company's Corolla
Toyota
Mehrun
$400 [1]
A Hawaiian wreath becomes an area sheltered from wind
a lei & a lee
Dianne
$800 [11]
In defending British soldiers on trial for this 1770 event, John Adams said, "Facts are stubborn things"
the Boston Massacre
Mehrun
$800 [3]
1932: "Magnificent Inn"
Grand Hotel
Dianne
$800 [18]
This resort city about 200 miles southwest of Mexico City is famous for its cliff divers
Acapulco
Mehrun
$800 [22]
Antabuse is designed to make you feel really, really bad after ingesting this
alcohol
Phil
$800 [29]
The transport for a 19th century double date might have been a barouche, one of these
a carriage
Mehrun
$800 [7]
A "landing" area is transformed into a serious throat infection
strep & strip
Dianne
$1,200 [12]
In 1685 he joined his father in pastorship of the Old North Church, a post he held until his death
Cotton Mather
Mehrun
$1,200 [4]
1976: "A Single Colorado Mountain"
Rocky
$1,200 [19]
Founded in the 1530s, this capital of Jalisco state is the second-largest in Mexico
Guadalajara
Mehrun
$1,200 [23]
Estramustine is a chemotherapy agent for this glandular cancer in men
prostate cancer
Mehrun
DD $1,000 [30]
Since 1899 these stalwart animals used in transport have served as the mascots of the Army Corps of Cadets
mules
Mehrun
$1,600 [9]
One means "severely tested"; the other, "trapped on a branch"
tried & treed
$1,600 [13]
In 1562, in what is now S.C., these French Protestants established a colony named Port Royal
the Huguenots
Dianne
$1,600 [5]
1954: "Dockside"
On the Waterfront
Mehrun
$1,600 [20]
This gritty 1961 Tennessee Williams play unfolds in a seedy Mexican hotel
Night of the Iguana
Dianne
$1,600 [24]
Pravastatin aims to block your body's ability to make this
cholesterol
Mehrun
$1,200 [27]
Cabbies in this Eur. city spend 2 years gaining "the knowledge", mental maps needed to get a license
London
Dianne
$2,000 [15]
"To replenish" becomes "to knock down"
to fill & to fell
$2,000 [14]
In "Of Plymouth Plantation", he wrote that there was so much disease "the living were scarce able to bury the dead"
William Bradford
$2,000 [6]
1966: "One Bloke Year-Round"
A Man For All Seasons
Phil Dianne
$2,000 [21]
This popular resort island lies north of Cozumel off the coast of the state of Quintana Roo
Cancun
Mehrun
$2,000 [25]
This tranquilizer that sounds like a village was introduced in 1955 & became the USA's bestselling drug
Miltown
Dianne
$1,600 [28]
In "Sixteen Candles", Molly Ringwald says, "I loathe" this method of transport
the bus
Mehrun
DD $4,000 [8]
"Gentle" becomes "to blend"
mild & meld
Dianne

Final Jeopardy!

THE BRITISH THEATRE

Richard Attenborough, who was in the original 1952 cast of this play, helped celebrate its performance No. 20,000 in 2000

The Mousetrap

Phil "What is The Importance of Being Earnest" — wagered $599
Dianne "What is the Mouse Trap?" — wagered $10,000
Mehrun "What is The Mousetrap?" — wagered $1,200

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