Show #5320 2007-10-26 (taped 2007-07-31) Regular

Paul Glaser game 1.

Contestants

Cathy Thomas — a data specialist from Denver, Colorado

Paul Glaser — a research scientist from Albany, New York

Tracy Martinell Henry — an attorney from St. Petersburg, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tracy $1,200 $1,400 $10,200 $20,200
3rd place: $1,000
$10,200
10 R, 1 W
Paul $0 $4,800 $21,400 $24,401
New champion: $24,401
$18,400
28 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Cathy $2,400 $3,800 $12,200 $22,200
2nd place: $2,000
$12,200
16 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE INDIANS THE GIANTS THE TWINS THE NATIONALS THE "A"s IT'S BASEBALL
$200 [21]
The international airport in New Delhi bears her name
Indira Gandhi
Paul
$200 [1]
On one of his "Travels", this literary character meets rats the size of lions & wasps as big as birds
Gulliver
Paul
$200 [6]
Catamaran is a term for a boat having twin these
hulls
Tracy Paul
$200 [11]
One of the most famous festivals in Bangladesh is Id al-Fitr, which comes at the end of this holy month
Ramadan
Cathy
$200 [16]
A liquid under pressure released through a nozzle as a spray or foam
an aerosol
Paul
$200 [26]
(Hi, I'm Curt Schilling.) Randy Johnson & I were co-MVPs of the 2001 World Series, receiving this award named for a great Yankee slugger
the Babe Ruth Award
Tracy
$400 [22]
Jamsetji Nata, an important businessman of this movie capital, used his wealth to enrich it
Bombay
Cathy
$400 [2]
Champion of Gath in the First Book of Samuel
Goliath
Paul
$400 [7]
The constellation we know as this was known in Southern Asia as Aswins, the twin horse riders of the dawn
Gemini
Paul
$400 [12]
Mount Jacques-Cartier is a fixture on the Gaspe Peninsula in this country
Canada
Paul
$400 [17]
A recess or nook for something like a bookcase
an alcove
Paul
$400 [27]
In 2005 the Angels changed their full name to the Los Angeles Angels of this city
Anaheim
Paul
$600 [23]
As the new leader of India, Lal Bahadur Shastri led it into a war with this neighbor in 1965
Pakistan
Paul
$600 [3]
Ymir was the first giant & the father of a race of giants in this ancient people's mythology
the Norse
Cathy
$600 [8]
These twin internal organs are composed of closely packed uriniferous tubules
the kidneys
Tracy
$600 [13]
The Ubangi River forms part of the northern boundary of this African country that's sometimes shortened to DRC
Democratic Republic of Congo
Cathy
$600 [18]
To suspend a legal proceeding
to adjourn
Paul
$600 [28]
Inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame in July 2007, he won 8 N.L. batting titles during his 20-year career as a Padre
Tony Gwynn
Paul
$800 [24]
The winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature, Rabindranath Tagore was born in this former capital in 1861
Calcutta
Cathy
$800 [4]
Civil War military leader who lent his name to the world's largest tree by volume, a towering Giant Sequoia
(General) Sherman
Paul
$800 [9]
The tallest twin towers in the world, the Petronas Towers are located in this capital of Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur
Tracy
$800 [14]
A 1958 uprising in Algeria threatened this European nation with civil war
France
Paul
$800 [19]
It's the mollusk whose shell is a source of mother-of-pearl
abalone
Paul
$800 [29]
In 1962 this Dodger shortstop stole 104 bases, breaking Ty Cobb's 47-year-old record
Maury Wills
Cathy
$1,000 [25]
"The Father of Modern India", Raja Ram Mohan Roy helped spread democratic ideas & was a member of this highest caste
Brahmin
Cathy
$1,000 [5]
A depiction of the giant god Atlas holding up the world appeared on the front of his 16th century book of maps
Mercator
Paul
$1,000 [10]
After the twins are born in this Steinbeck novel, Cathy Trask deserts everyone & returns to life as a prostitute
East of Eden
Paul Cathy
DD $1,200 [15]
Fittingly the shape of this kingdom is often compared to an elephant's head; the "trunk" extends into the Malay Peninsula
Thailand
Paul
$1,000 [20]
From the Greek for "slope", it's to adjust to a new set of conditions, not just to the weather
to acclimate
Paul
$1,000 [30]
Over the past 75 years, only one pitcher has won more than 30 games in a season--this Tiger in 1968
Denny McLain

Double Jeopardy! Round

PHYSICAL SCIENCE OLD SONG LYRICS LIBRARIES THEATRE HISTORY A FRUITY CATEGORY PROVERBS
$400 [3]
All 5 elements of the salt-producing halogen group end in these 3 letters (one element purifies drinking water)
-I-N-E
Paul
$400 [26]
The Righteous Bros.:"Ohhhh, my love, my darling, I've hungered for your ___"
touch
Cathy
$400 [8]
This country's National Library, the Biblioteca Nacional Jose Marti, was financed by a tax on sugar
Cuba
Paul
$400 [2]
The 1924 Pulitzer Prize went to a play with the oxymoronic title "Hell-bent Fer" this place
Heaven
Paul Cathy
$400 [1]
Oddly, a traditional Christmas pudding contains currants & raisins but not this fruit in its name
plum
Cathy
$400 [17]
It "seldom knocks twice"
opportunity
Tracy
$800 [4]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew explains her science experiment.) Chemical reactions of the paper clip's iron & the copper wire in the acid of the lemon juice draw these elementary particles from one wire to the other
electrons
Paul Cathy
$800 [27]
Tennessee Ernie Ford:"You load ___ ___, what do you get? Another day older & deeper in debt"
16 tons
Paul
$1,200 [10]
The Hector Hodler Library in Rotterdam, which is devoted to this artificial language, has over 15,000 books
Esperanto
Paul
$800 [12]
Pulcinella, a Commedia dell'arte character, evolved into his pugilistic puppet of 17th century England
Punch
Tracy
$800 [22]
The Columbia Encyclopedia calls it "the best known Chinese fruit" (or is it a nut?)
litchi
Cathy
$800 [18]
"There is honor even among" these
thieves
Tracy
$1,200 [5]
Hydroscopic substances have a tendency to absorb this from the atmosphere
water (or moisture)
Paul
$1,200 [28]
The Chordettes:"___ ___ bring me a dream, make him the cutest that I've ever seen"
Mr. Sandman
Tracy
$1,600 [11]
This Shakespeare library is administered by a board of directors under the auspices of Amherst College
the Folger Library
Cathy
$1,200 [13]
The first winners of these didn't get the award we know today: just a scroll & a compact (or a cigarette lighter)
the Tony Awards
Cathy
$1,200 [23]
Named for a city in Morocco, it's the most common type of Mandarin orange in the U.S.
the tangerine
$1,200 [19]
"Close only counts in" this backyard game
horseshoes
Paul
$2,000 [7]
When the Earth's magnetosphere interacts with this flow of charged particles from the sun, auroras are produced
the solar wind
Paul
$1,600 [29]
The Cascades:"Listen to the rhythm of the ___ ___ telling me just what a fool I've been"
falling rain
Cathy
DD $2,000 [9]
When it was dedicated in 1991, President George H.W. Bush & 4 former presidents were in attendance
the Reagan Library
Paul
$1,600 [14]
In 1882 his play "Ghosts" had its world premiere in Chicago, not in Oslo, but it was presented in Norwegian
Ibsen
Cathy
$1,600 [24]
The name of this peach relative comes from the Latin for "early ripe"
apricot
Paul
$1,600 [20]
"Marry in haste and" do this "at leisure"
repent
Tracy
DD $4,600 [6]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew spins an egg on a platter.) Stop an egg while it's spinning, & it will start again, because the liquid inside is still moving, exhibiting this property, a resistance to change in motion
inertia
Paul
$2,000 [30]
Perry Como:"Catch a ___ ___ & put it in your pocket, never let it fade away"
falling star
Tracy
$2,000 [16]
The Radcliffe Camera, Britain's first round library, is the main reading room of this bigger library at Oxford
the Bodleian Library
Tracy
$2,000 [15]
"Radio Golf" is the last play in this "Fences" author's 10-play cycle about the African-American experience
August Wilson
Cathy
$2,000 [25]
Types of this fruit include comice & seckel
pears
Cathy
$2,000 [21]
Alexander Pope wrote, "Hope springs eternal" in here
the human breast
Cathy

Final Jeopardy!

LITERARY CHARACTERS

This hero is the son of Ecgtheow & the grandson of Hrethel

Beowulf

Tracy "Who is Beowolf?" — wagered $10,000
Cathy "Who is Beowulf?" — wagered $10,000
Paul "Who was Beowulf?" — wagered $3,001

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