Show #5249 2007-06-07 (taped 2007-02-27) Regular

Susan Mitchell game 1.

Contestants

Marilyn Carnahan — a secretary from Flagstaff, Arizona

Susan Mitchell — a graduate student from College Station, Texas

Heidi Sanchez — a college library director from Bethpage, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $42,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Heidi $3,400 $5,200 $15,000 $21,000
2nd place: $2,000
$13,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Susan $3,000 $5,600 $20,400 $30,100
New champion: $30,100
$19,200
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Marilyn $1,400 $4,000 $10,400 $20,400
3rd place: $1,000
$11,800
17 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

NONFICTION TV INITIALS PUBLISHING DUDE-ERONOMY CLASSIC AD CAMPAIGNS YOU GET A "D"
$200 [1]
This mega-bestseller by John Gray is touted as "the classic guide to understanding the opposite sex"
Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
Marilyn
$200 [6]
Erik Estrada was a CHiP, meaning he worked for this agency
California Highway Patrol
Marilyn
$200 [26]
In the 17th century Oxford University Press got the right to print this "royal" version of the Bible, quite a cash cow
King James Bible
Heidi
$200 [16]
Totally cool! This dude wrote Deuteronomy as a way of reinforcing what he first learned on Mount Sinai
Moses
Susan
$200 [21]
"It's the real thing"
Coca-Cola
Marilyn
$200 [11]
Curl up on a desert island with his "Political History of the Devil" or "Robinson Crusoe"
Daniel Defoe
Susan
$400 [2]
Oprah chose for her book club "The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography" by this Oscar winner
Sidney Poitier
Marilyn
$400 [7]
On the series "24", C.T.U., the good guys, stands for this
Counter-Terrorism Unit
$400 [27]
Like the "Idiot's Guide" series 2 years earlier, this series with a similar title began with a book about DOS
...for Dummies
Marilyn
$400 [17]
Sweet! The fifth chapter of Deuteronomy raps out this list of dos & don'ts, just in case we spaced it
the Ten Commandments
Marilyn
$400 [22]
"We try harder"
Avis
Marilyn
$400 [12]
National Lead was one of the 12 companies tracked by this "average" when it debuted May 26, 1896
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Heidi
$600 [3]
The first edition of this book about the body was published in 1858 with 750 pages & 363 figures
Gray's Anatomy
Heidi
$600 [8]
In the 1960s Peter Graves led this squad, "IMF" for short
Impossible Missions Force
Marilyn
$800 [29]
Since 1933 this publication called this "reviews" has provided pre-publication reviews to its subscribers
Kirkus
Heidi
$600 [18]
Awesome, dude! Deuteronomy says that all debts are to be canceled after this many years!
seven
Susan
$600 [23]
"Look, mom--no cavities!"
Crest
Marilyn
$600 [13]
In the comics, she's Dagwood & Blondie's dog
Daisy
Heidi
$800 [4]
Her "The Sea Around Us" was among the top 10 nonfiction bestsellers for 1951 & 1952
Rachel Carson
Susan
$800 [9]
It's the "S" in "M*A*S*H"
Surgical
Heidi Susan
$1,000 [30]
"Electronic Mission Aircraft" & "Fighting Ships" are put out by this publisher with a feminine-sounding name
Jane's
Marilyn
$800 [19]
Grab your surfboard, rad boy! In Deuteronomy, this sea is referred to as the "salt sea"
Dead Sea
Susan
$800 [24]
"Ring around the collar"
Wisk
Heidi
$800 [14]
6-letter word meaning to expose as being false or ridiculous, like certain wacky theories
debunk
Susan
$1,000 [5]
Oliver Sacks shared some of his fascinating neurological cases in "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A" this
hat
Heidi
$1,000 [10]
(I'm Bill Goldberg.) I tossed Detective Stabler through a window when I made my prime time TV debut in 2007 on this NBC drama & by the way, the head writer is my cousin Neal
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Susan
DD $1,400 [28]
Puffin & Firebird are young readers imprints of this publisher
Penguin
Marilyn
$1,000 [20]
Party on, dude! This guy gets appointed to be the new leader of the Israelites!
Joshua
Susan
$1,000 [25]
"Does she... or doesn't she?"
Clairol
Marilyn
$1,000 [15]
In Greek mythology, the mother of Persephone
Demeter
Susan

Double Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY ASIA JUILLIARD ALUMNI ANATOMY 2 FOR THE MONEY LINCOLN LORE 10-LETTER WORDS
$400 [4]
This chairman soon ended his Hundred Flowers Movement encouraging criticism of the Communist Party
Mao Zedong
Susan
$400 [21]
Not averse to portraying icons, this alum has played Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley & Batman on film
Val Kilmer
Marilyn
$400 [1]
The roof of the mouth is made up of hard & soft ones that are covered by mucous membranes
palates
Marilyn
$400 [14]
A thrice-married Revolutionary War flag seamstress from Philly, & the ice-resurfacing machine patented in 1953
Betsy Ross & Zamboni
Marilyn
$400 [9]
Legend says Abe became interested in this profession when he found Blackstone's "Commentaries" in a rubbish barrel
law
Heidi
$400 [27]
Intolerable, as in a Milan Kundera title
unbearable
Susan
$1,200 [6]
The future leader of independent Malaya is shown in this city signing an agreement ending British rule
Kuala Lumpur
Susan
$800 [22]
In 1992, a year after playing an older Peter Pan, he was a mime instructor in "Shakes the Clown"
Robin Williams
$800 [2]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from a lab.) Due to its worm-like shape, the adjective vermiform is commonly used to refer to this tubethat's attached to the cecum
appendix
$800 [15]
9-foot man from the Biblical books of Samuel, & the franchise that created the Frappuccino in 1995
Goliath & Starbucks
Susan
$800 [10]
Lincoln said one of things that made him president was this man's retouched Cooper Union photo of him
Mathew Brady
Susan
$800 [28]
The tent that housed the Ark of the Covenant; today the Mormons have a big one in Salt Lake City
tabernacle
Susan
$1,600 [7]
In the 1990s 5 "stan" nations agreed to give up to .3% of national income to restore this shrunken saltwater body
Aral Sea
Susan
$1,200 [23]
This man who began leading the Federal Reserve in 1987 studied clarinet & sax at the school
Alan Greenspan
Susan
$1,200 [3]
The meniscus disks in your knee are a type of this material that may tear if you twist wrong
cartilage
Susan
$1,200 [16]
The Russian president right before Putin & an "Absolut" type of alcohol (There's no connection)
Boris Yeltsin & vodka
Susan
$1,200 [11]
In a classic "Twilight Zone" episode, a time traveler tries to save Lincoln but is drugged by this man
John Wilkes Booth
Heidi
$1,200 [29]
From the Greek for "together" & "name", it means having the same meaning
synonymous
Heidi
DD $2,000 [5]
In 1902 Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud captured what's now this capital city
Riyadh
Susan
$1,600 [24]
This Oscar winner, the most "verbal" of "The Usual Suspects", got into Juilliard but blew his "Gong Show" audition
Kevin Spacey
$1,600 [19]
It includes the ascending colon & the sigmoid colon
large intestine
Susan
$1,600 [17]
One-mile-deep Arizona landmark that's up to 18 miles wide & ex-MTV "Weasel" star of "Jury Duty"
Grand Canyon & Pauly Shore
Marilyn
$2,000 [13]
It's unusual for U.S. coins that Lincoln faces right on his penny, first issued in 1909 to commemorate this
100th anniversary of his birth
Heidi
$1,600 [30]
Graphic representation of surface features on a region of a map
topography
Marilyn
$2,000 [8]
An alternate to the Ho Chi Minh Trail was a trail named for this Cambodian royal
Norodom Sihanouk
$2,000 [25]
In 1958, this Israeli violinist entered Juilliard; in 1963 he played Carnegie Hall
Itzhak Perlman
Heidi
$2,000 [20]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads in front of a skeleton)It's the medical name for these two bones, from the Latin for "key"; in birds, they fuse to form a wishbone
clavicle
Susan
$2,000 [18]
6-letter fuzzy nylon fastening device used in place of zippers, & the "king of the pan flute"
velcro & (Gheorghe) Zamfir
Marilyn
DD $3,000 [12]
On his April 4, 1865 visit to Richmond, Lincoln sat at this man's desk; we don't know if he put his feet up on it
Jefferson Davis
Heidi
$2,000 [26]
It's how the words seen here are presented
italicized
Susan

Final Jeopardy!

ARTISTS

One of his last letters said, "I am risking my life for (my work) and my reason has half-foundered owing to it..."

Vincent van Gogh

Marilyn "Who is Van Gogh?" — wagered $10,000
Heidi "Who is Van Gogh?" — wagered $6,000
Susan "Who is V. Van Gogh?" — wagered $9,700

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