Show #5258 2007-06-20 (taped 2007-03-06) Regular

Contestants

Bonnie Humphrey — an attorney from Tuxedo Park, New York

Dave Dye — an import specialist from Torrance, California

Jesse Berry — a tax analyst from Little Rock, Arkansas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jesse $600 $3,600 $18,000 $11,000
2-day champion: $31,000
$18,600
23 R (including 2 DDs), 7 W (including 1 DD)
Dave $200 $3,400 $3,400 $3,400
3rd place: $1,000
$3,400
12 R, 4 W
Bonnie $4,200 $5,400 $10,600 $7,600
2nd place: $2,000
$10,600
12 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

PTOLEMY...WHY NOT TAKE PTOLEMY? TV LAND'S TOP QUOTES WHERE THE STREETS HAVE SOME NAME EARLS! EARLS! EARLS! FOOD CROSSWORD HELPER
$200 [17]
Ptolemy XII, Egypt's king for nearly 30 years, used bribery to prevent this empire from annexing the country
the Roman Empire
Jesse
$200 [11]
"I'm not a crook"
Nixon
Jesse
$200 [1]
In Waukesha, Wisconsin you can actually live on this, a 2-word phrase for a life of comfort & security
Easy Street
Jesse
$200 [25]
The "Architect Earl" of Pembroke laid the first stone in the first Westminster Bridge over this river
the Thames
Dave
$200 [6]
Food used in many Thai dishes & also mentioned in "Take Me Out To The Ball Game"
peanuts
Bonnie
$200 [5]
Ara: one of these star groups between Triangulum Australe & Scorpius
a constellation
Dave
$400 [18]
Her dad was Ptolemy XII; lucky no. XIII, 10 years old at the time, became her co-ruler & husband
Cleopatra
Dave
$400 [12]
"Heeere's Johnny!"
Ed McMahon
Jesse Dave
$400 [2]
Swing down to the intersection of Count & Basie in this capital of Virginia
Richmond
Bonnie
$400 [26]
In 1595 Hugh O'Neill, "the Great Earl" of Tyrone, led a revolt against British rule here
Ireland
Jesse
$400 [7]
Munich's traditional Weisswurst, a veal sausage, is naked without Senf, German for this
mustard
Jesse Dave
$400 [21]
Gam or pod: a herd of these large mammals
whales
Bonnie
$600 [19]
Fire was an important part of this structure, one of the 7 ancient wonders, finished during Ptolemy II's reign
the Lighthouse at Alexandria
Jesse
$600 [13]
"You're fired"
(Donald) Trump
Jesse
$600 [3]
You can clean up on Dirty Ankle Road in Lawndale, located in this "Tar Heel State"
North Carolina
Jesse
DD $800 [27]
The Earl of Carnarvon gave up race horses for archaeology & financed the 1922 discovery of this
King Tutankhamen's tomb
Jesse
$600 [8]
At his first news conference, George W. Bush compared Iraq sanctions to this dairy food
Swiss cheese
$600 [22]
Ria: a narrow inlet of the sea formed by this type of valley that's been partly submerged
a river valley
Jesse
$800 [20]
Ptolemy's system of astronomy held up until 1543, when this Polish astronomer went heliocentric
Copernicus
Bonnie
$800 [14]
"Baby, you're the greatest"
Jackie Gleason (or Ralph Kramden)
Bonnie
$800 [4]
Traverse to Traverse City, Mich. & go nuts a la Anthony Perkins, for you'll find this "Path" there
Psycho
Dave
$800 [28]
Earl "Citizen" Stanhope chaired a society to promote this the year before the French one
a revolution
Dave
$800 [9]
The main ingredients of ratatouille are tomatoes, onions, peppers, zucchini & this veggie that's bigger than those
eggplant
Bonnie
$800 [23]
Eft: the land-dwelling form of this type of salamander
a newt
Dave
$1,000 [24]
Ptolemy V's decree pardoning prisoners was inscribed on this block of basalt discovered in 1799
the Rosetta Stone
Jesse
$1,000 [15]
"Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, Willis?"
Gary Coleman
Jesse Bonnie
$1,000 [16]
Fittingly, Bakersfield, Calif. has car dealers on this alley that's also the name of a comic strip
Gasoline Alley
Jesse
$1,000 [29]
In 1348 the Earl of Salisbury found his feminine side as one of the original Knights of this
the Garter
Dave
$1,000 [10]
Meat on a stick sounds better if you use the French term, "en" this
brochette
Bonnie
$1,000 [30]
Til: this type of plant; the seeds are used to make tahini
sesame

Double Jeopardy! Round

PHYSICS COLD MOVIES HERE COMES UKRAINE AGAIN ALSO A GUM BRAND EVERYONE'S A CRITIC "MAN" ALIVE
$400 [1]
Relativity theory assumes that the effect of acceleration on an object equals the effect of this force
gravity
$400 [23]
Peter Billingsley watches Flick get triple-dog-dared into sticking his tongue to a flagpole in this film
A Christmas Story
Jesse
$400 [11]
Born in Ukraine in 1894, he became the undisputed leader of the USSR in 1958
Khrushchev
Bonnie
$400 [5]
A shoulder-held weapon for firing armor-piercing rockets
a bazooka
Dave
$400 [2]
In the "Republic", he criticized the job of painter as just a "creator of appearances...what he creates is untrue"
Plato
Dave
$400 [12]
The unlawful killing of another, but without malice aforethought
manslaughter
Dave
$800 [7]
This positively charged nuclear particle has almost 2,000 times the mass of the negatively charged electron
a proton
Jesse
$800 [24]
In the '70s, he was a hockey player in "Slap Shot" & faced a future ice age in "Quintet"
Paul Newman
$800 [17]
Called "Mother of Cities", this Ukrainian capital was heavily damaged in WWII & not fully rebuilt until around 1960
Kiev
Jesse
$800 [6]
To walk with long steps (you may "hit" yours or "take things in" it)
a stride
Jesse
$800 [3]
This film critic became a leading director of the French New Wave with "The 400 Blows" & "Shoot the Piano Player"
Francois Truffaut
Jesse
$800 [13]
Marvelously meticulous medieval monks would methodically "illuminate" them
a manuscript
Jesse
DD $1,400 [8]
In wave motion, period, the time one complete cycle takes, is the reciprocal of this, the no. of cycles in a given time
frequency
Jesse
$1,600 [26]
The Uruguayan rugby team has a bad day & not enough seasoning in this 1993 Ethan Hawke film
Alive
Jesse
$1,200 [18]
Ukraine prospered for several centuries in the Middle Ages until its 1240 conquest by these forces from the East
the Mongols
Dave
$1,200 [28]
A special edition of a newspaper
extra
Dave
$1,200 [4]
He wrote "Lyrical Ballads" with Wordsworth, & his "Biographia Literaria" is the best of English Romantic criticism
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
$1,200 [14]
The name of these handcuffs comes from the Latin for "little hand"
manacles
Bonnie
$1,600 [9]
An object on a table & a compressed spring both have this type of energy; one gravitational, one elastic
potential
Jesse
DD $1,800 [25]
This sequel starts on the icy planet of Hoth
The Empire Strikes Back
Jesse
$1,600 [19]
First name shared by both the current prime minister & current president of Ukraine
Viktor
Dave
$1,600 [29]
The lunar kind means the light of the Moon is obscured because the Earth is between the Moon & the sun
an eclipse
Bonnie
$1,600 [21]
"The Sacred Wood" was the first book of criticism by this Missouri-born "Four Quartets" poet
T.S. Eliot
Jesse
$1,600 [15]
Perhaps the world's first industrial city was this one, later home to the British band Oasis
Manchester
Jesse
$2,000 [10]
Term for the distance from the center of a lens to the pt. where parallel rays that pass through it converge
focal length
Dave
$2,000 [27]
The end of this John Carpenter South Pole-set film finds Keith David & Kurt Russell shivering & paranoid
The Thing
Jesse
$2,000 [20]
Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Ukraine joined Russia & Belarus in forming this, the C.I.S.
the Commonwealth of Independent States
Jesse
$2,000 [30]
Without worry
carefree
Jesse
$2,000 [22]
Her 1991 book said "the undeclared war against American women" is the "backlash against the women's movement"
Susan Faludi
Bonnie
$2,000 [16]
After they invaded China & captured Beijing in 1644, they established the Ching dynasty
the Manchus
Jesse

Final Jeopardy!

LITERATURE

In 1852 his story "The Dandy Frightening the Squatter" appeared in The Carpet-Bag, a humorous paper

Mark Twain

Dave "Who was Twain?" — wagered $0
Bonnie "Who was Charles Dickens?" — wagered $3,000
Jesse "Who is Dickens?" — wagered $7,000

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