Show #5268 2007-07-04 (taped 2007-04-12) Regular

Contestants

Edgar B. Herwick III — a public relations coordinator originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Rachael King — a journalist originally from Providence, Rhode Island

Holly Owens — a physician originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,501)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Holly $600 $3,800 $14,600 $24,401
2-day champion: $31,902
$14,200
21 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Rachael $2,800 $4,400 $11,200 $18,200
2nd place: $2,000
$11,200
13 R, 0 W
Edgar $3,600 $1,000 $500 $3
3rd place: $1,000
$3,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 7 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

CANADIAN HISTORY TV CHARACTERS BIBLE BOOK SHORTHAND GIVE ME A SIGN YOU WANNA PIZZA THIS? STARTING "OVER"
$200 [26]
In 1778 James Cook became the first European to land on this island, the largest on Canada's west coast
Vancouver Island
Holly
$200 [1]
(Hi. I'm Rob Morrow.) As Joel Fleischman, I found myself the only doctor among the weirdos of Cicely, Alaska on this series
Northern Exposure
Holly
$200 [16]
Salacious serpent dispenses bad dietary advice
Genesis
Edgar
$200 [21]
Tapping your head in Holland or circling a finger at the ear in the U.S. usually means you think someone is this
crazy
Holly
$200 [6]
Mamma mia! As Columbus could tell you, it was first designated National Pizza Month in 1987
October
Rachael
$200 [11]
It's the type of day we're having if it's very cloudy with little or no sun showing
overcast
Holly
$400 [27]
Once the Canadian Pacific Railway reached this Alberta city in 1883, Settlers began a "stampede" to live there
Calgary
Holly Edgar
$400 [2]
He married Dharma on their first date
Greg
Edgar
$400 [17]
Big fish puts the bite on a reluctant prophet
Jonah
Edgar
$400 [22]
This gesture can mean "cut power to the microphone" or, in scuba diving, "I'm out of air"
putting your hand across your (throat)
Holly
$400 [7]
Traditionally, Pizza Napoletana is topped with these little fish
anchovies
Holly Rachael
$400 [12]
It's the result of the upper incisor teeth overlapping the lower ones
an overbite
Edgar
$600 [28]
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763, which ended this war, France surrendered most of New France to Britain
the French and Indian War
Rachael
$600 [3]
We found out in "Star Trek: Generations" that this navigator of Asian heritage had a daughter, Demora
Sulu
Holly
$600 [18]
Brother's bovine effigy bothers big boy
Exodus
$600 [23]
In the most basic set of catcher's signals, one finger down equals this most basic pitch
fastball
Holly
$600 [8]
Take some pizza dough; stuff it with meat, cheese & herbs; fold it over into a turnover; & you've got this favorite
a calzone
Rachael Edgar
$600 [13]
Once the punishment of heretics, to severely chastise someone is to "rake" him here
over the coals
Edgar
$800 [29]
The Charlottetown Accord recognizing this province as a "distinct society)" failed a 1992 vote
Quebec
Holly
$800 [4]
"My Name Is Earl" & this is my ex-wife
Joy
Rachael
$800 [19]
Writing on the wall breaks up party
Daniel
Edgar
$800 [24]
It can be a billboard way up over the road, or an "OK" signal with thumb & forefinger
a high sign
$800 [9]
It's the song title & lyric that follows the line "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie..."
"That's Amore"
Rachael
$800 [14]
Tchaikovsky's "1812" is a famous one
an overture
Edgar
$1,000 [30]
The word "Canada" first appeared in 1535 in this French explorer's journal
Jacques Cartier
Holly
$1,000 [5]
(Hello. I am "Who is Mario Cantone?") On "Sex and the City", I was the wedding planner of this desperate-to-be-married character played by Kristin Davis
Charlotte
Edgar
DD $2,000 [20]
Loyal daughter-in-law is betrothed in Bethlehem
Ruth
Edgar
$1,000 [25]
Mute & paralyzed from the neck down, Jean-Dominique Bauby dictated a classic memoir by doing this
blinking
Rachael
$1,000 [10]
As seen here, the three colors of the toppings on a Pizza Margarita represent this Italian symbol
the flag
Edgar
$1,000 [15]
The Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944 was code-named Operation this
Overlord

Double Jeopardy! Round

PENINSULATION "IDI" I MEAN COMPLETE THE POETIC RHYME ABSINTHE MAKES THE HEART GO FONDA!
$400 [21]
They're the 2 countries that make up almost all of the Scandinavian Peninsula
Norway and Sweden
Edgar
$400 [1]
In "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" these come in "comfort" & "joy" varieties
tidings
Edgar
$400 [6]
Lewis Carroll:"O frabjous day! Callooh! ____!"
Callay!
Rachael
$400 [16]
A cube of this is used to allay the bitterness of absinthe
sugar
Holly
$400 [26]
The left side of the heart pumps oxygenated blood to the body; the right side picks it up from these organs
the lungs
Holly Edgar
$400 [11]
"Barefoot in the Park"
Jane Fonda
Holly
$800 [22]
You can drive the length of this peninsula from Tijuana all the way to Cabo San Lucas
the Baja Peninsula
Holly
$800 [2]
The television is sometimes referred to as this kind of "box", though not when you're watching our show
the idiot box
Rachael
DD $700 [8]
Maya Angelou:"...your bitter twisted lies,/ You may trod me in the very dirt/ but still, like dust, I'll ____"
rise
Edgar
$800 [17]
Seen here is a 1901 painting by this Spaniard of a woman drinking absinthe
Picasso
Rachael
$800 [27]
This term first meant a central court in a Roman house; now it also means a heart chamber
an atrium
Holly
$800 [12]
"Wild Hogs"
Peter Fonda
Holly
$1,200 [23]
(Jon of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Jutting into the Black Sea, this region of Ukraine includes Yalta & Sevastapol, the site of a famous 1855 siege
the Crimean Peninsula
Rachael
$1,200 [3]
(Listen.) You're hearing this type of file for communication between electronic instruments & computers
a midi file
Edgar
$800 [7]
William Blake:"When the stars threw down their spears,/ And watered heaven with their ____"
tears
Edgar
$1,200 [18]
The "Girdle of St. John" in Europe, this herb contains a toxic substance used to make absinthe
wormwood
Holly
$1,200 [28]
Diastole is the part of the cardiac cycle when chambers are relaxed; when the chambers contract, it's this
systole
Holly
$1,200 [13]
"On Golden Pond"(2 of 'em)
Jane and Henry
Holly
$1,600 [24]
The inhabitants of this 70,000-square-mile peninsula are predominantly descendants of the Maya
the Yucatan
Holly
$1,600 [4]
Derision
ridicule
$1,600 [9]
Wordsworth:"And then my heart with pleasure fills,/ And dances with the ____"
daffodils
$1,600 [19]
A 1992 Paris retrospective of this short artist's life sold replicas of his cane with a hidden vial for absinthe
(Henri de) Toulouse-Lautrec
Rachael Edgar
DD $2,000 [29]
The mitral valve has 2 flaps & is also called this valve, just like a certain tooth
a bicuspid
Holly
$1,600 [14]
"Midway"
Henry Fonda
Holly
$2,000 [25]
This European peninsula is named for a mythological son of Tantalus
the Peloponnese (or the Peloponnesian Peninsula)
Edgar
$2,000 [5]
This is either a regional dialect or an odd phrase that can't be understood by looking at the individual parts
idiom
Rachael
$2,000 [10]
Andrew Marvell:"The grave's a fine and private place,/ But none, I think, do there ____"
embrace
$2,000 [20]
A revival of absinthe-making in this country benefited from the 1989 "Velvet Revolution"
Czechoslovakia
$2,000 [30]
The Amer. Heart Assoc. defines bradycardia as a heart rate of fewer than this many beats per minute
60
Holly
$2,000 [15]
"Single White Female"
Bridget Fonda
Holly

Final Jeopardy!

WORD ORIGINS

From the Old French for a soldier sent ahead to clear the way, today it refers to the first settlers of a region

pioneers

Edgar "What is a word that I wish I knew" — wagered $497
Rachael "What is pioneer" — wagered $7,000
Holly "What are pioneers?" — wagered $9,801

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