Show #5294 2007-09-20 (taped 2007-07-18) Regular

Contestants

Erica Endicott — a graphic designer from Atlanta, Georgia

Donal Coomey — a masonry restoration specialist from Arlington, Massachusetts

Ann Gavaghan — a congressional staffer from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,399)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ann $2,500 $1,900 $2,300 $4,301
3rd place: $1,000
$2,800
8 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Donal $1,600 $2,600 $8,200 $14,100
New champion: $14,100
$7,400
12 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Erica $400 $-1,200 $12,200 $13,200
2nd place: $2,000
$13,200
17 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

CSI: SHAKESPEARE 1970s NO. 1 HITS FASHION SENSE CATCHING SOME "Z"s OFFICIAL STATE THINGS THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNERLYRICS
$200 [12]
Stabbed the king & made him drink poison--something is rotten in the state of Denmark... & it's him
Hamlet
Donal
$200 [11]
1970:"(They Long To Be) Close To You"
The Carpenters
Erica
$200 [2]
Made of lace & ribbons over a framework, a commode was worn on top of this in the late 1600s
head
$200 [1]
Each defender guards a section of the playing area in this system of sports defense
zone
Erica
$200 [22]
It reigns as West Virginia's official state butterfly
monarch
Donal
$200 [15]
The song ends by rhyming this word with "brave"
wave
Ann
$400 [13]
Witness says he "does murder sleep" & the guy okayed the hit on Banquo, but what we have here, Frank... is regicide
Macbeth
Ann
$400 [27]
1975:"Have You Never Been Mellow"
Olivia Newton-John
Donal
$400 [3]
A housedress was named for this nursery rhyme character, who was not the mom of Scientology's founder
Old Mother Hubbard
Ann
$400 [7]
This Italian squash can be eaten raw, steamed or grilled, or baked in a sweet bread
zucchini
Ann
$400 [23]
The syringa, also known as the mock orange, is Idaho's official state this
flower
Ann Erica
$400 [16]
It's the color mentioned in the song that's also one of the colors in the U.S. flag
red
Ann Donal
$600 [14]
Blood spatter says the guy killed Paris, then himself. The girl stabbed herself... ain't love grand
Romeo and Juliet
Erica
DD $500 [6]
It's a French name for a Polish dance, as well as a fitted top & overskirt ensemble of the 1700s
polonaise
Ann
$600 [8]
2-word term for the weightlessness experienced by astronauts in orbit
zero gravity
Donal
$600 [24]
When Virginia got a state one of these animals, the gov.'s office released a poem that mentioned Adam West
bat
Ann
$600 [17]
They're the type of elevated fortifications o'er which "we watched"
ramparts
Erica
$800 [20]
3 dead daughters, by poison, hanging & suicide; I wouldn't want to write the family Christmas card... this year
King Lear
Donal
$600 [4]
Lord Spencer may have invented the Spencer style of this by burning off one of his tails, then cutting off the other
jacket
Erica
$800 [9]
The Lozi people move to higher ground during the annual flooding of this African river
the Zambezi
Donal
$800 [25]
Appropriately, the official state cantata of Connecticut has this spicy 6-letter name
nutmeg
Donal
$800 [18]
The punctuation mark that ends the first verse, the one that's usually sung
question mark
Erica
$1,000 [21]
The Duke's been stabbed, then drowned in a barrel of wine; looks like the drinks... are on him
Richard III
$800 [5]
A sack dress with box pleats in the back was named for Antoine Watteau, a famous 18th c. one of these
painter
Ann
$1,000 [10]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.) This is the point on the celestial sphere vertically above a given position
zenith
Ann
$1,000 [26]
Sounds scary, but Colorado's official state fish is the greenback cutthroat type of this
trout
$1,000 [19]
The 2 times of day mentioned in the first 2 lines
dawn & twilight
Ann Erica

Double Jeopardy! Round

CIVIL WAR MILITARY LEADERS LEND US THY VOICE AN ORGAN-IC CATEGORY UP, UP & AWAY ON THE "M"AP RELATED WORDS
$400 [26]
In late 1864 this Union General said, "I can make Georgia howl"
Sherman
Erica
$400 [11]
Albert Brooks as Marlin
Finding Nemo
Erica
$400 [16]
A dialysis machine is also called an artificial one of these organs
kidney
Erica
$400 [21]
There's a drawing of the first manned balloon flight as seen from Ben Franklin's place in this foreign city
Paris
Erica
$400 [1]
Counties in this U.S. state include Jones, Jasper & Jefferson Davis
Mississippi
Ann Erica
$400 [6]
A "park" was originally an enclosed place; this related word still means an enclosure for race horses
paddock
DD $1,000 [27]
Both General John Hunt Morgan & Captain William Quantrill led groups of men who carried this nickname
Raiders
Erica
$800 [12]
Jason Lee as Buddy Pine aka Syndrome
The Incredibles
$800 [17]
Alveoli are tiny sacs clustered like grapes in these organs
lungs
Erica
$800 [22]
In Nov. 2003 a nosecone from one of these fabled planes sold for $490,000 at an auction in France
Concorde
Donal
$800 [2]
This city of about 3 million is Rupert Murdoch's birthplace
Melbourne
Donal
$1,200 [8]
As "score" can mean "to cut", it makes sense that it's from the same root as this word for big scissors
shears
Donal
$1,200 [28]
Prior to the war, this bewhiskered Union general manufactured firearms in Rhode Island
Burnside
$1,200 [13]
Sacha Baron Cohen as Julien, self-proclaimed king of the lemurs
Madagascar
$1,200 [18]
Though this organ has no known use, it can harm you if it ruptures, creating the risk of peritonitis
the appendix
Erica
$1,200 [23]
(Jon of the Clue Crew presents in a tunnel.) Wind tunnel experiments at Texas A&M are used to minimize the effects of this phenomenon that occur when airplanes pass Mach 1
sonic boom
Erica
$1,200 [3]
There's a Shatner Building at McGill University in this city where William Shatner was born
Montreal
Donal
DD $1,600 [7]
"Fabricate" is related to this verb that can mean to write something fraudulent, like a signature
forge
Donal
$1,600 [14]
Louis Prima as King Louie
The Jungle Book
Erica
$1,600 [19]
The hepatic duct carries bile from the liver to this organ for storage
gall bladder
Erica
$1,600 [24]
When he flew the X-1 over Mach 1 on Oct. 14, 1947 he was suffering from 2 broken ribs
Chuck Yeager
Erica
$1,600 [4]
This former Soviet republic lies between the Prut & Dniester Rivers
Moldova
Erica
$1,600 [9]
"Culprit", meaning the guilty party, evolved from this adjective meaning "guilty"
culpable
Erica
$2,000 [15]
Rachel Weisz as the high-flying Saphira
Eragon
$2,000 [20]
The islets of Langerhans aren't a vacation spot but a group of cells in this organ
the pancreas
Erica
$2,000 [25]
This craft left California Dec. 14, 1986 & landed back there with 18 gallons of gas left after circling the world
Voyager
$2,000 [5]
According to the New Testament, a battle of good versus evil will take place on a hill in this town Joshua captured
Makkedah
Donal
$2,000 [10]
To do this to something is to make it "holy", a word from the same root
hallow
Donal

Final Jeopardy!

CHAMPIONSHIP SPORTS

In 2007 this university became the 1st to hold national titles in both football & basketball in the same year

the University of Florida

Ann "What is the University of Florida?" — wagered $2,001
Donal "What is Florida" — wagered $5,900
Erica "What is Florida?" — wagered $1,000

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