Show #5324 2007-11-01 (taped 2007-08-13) Regular

Paul Glaser game 5.

Contestants

Walter Evans — a park ranger from Boston, Massachusetts

Tara Pearson — a director of human resources from Safety Harbor, Florida

Paul Glaser — a research scientist from Albany, New York (whose 4-day cash winnings total $89,202)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Paul $4,000 $9,400 $22,600 $32,600
5-day champion: $121,802
$22,600
27 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Tara $1,200 $800 $2,400 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$2,000
6 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Walter $3,800 $5,400 $6,200 $4,800
2nd place: $2,000
$11,400
19 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

FISH & SHIPS JOHNNY GILBERT, ROCK GOD "L" ON EARTH 9-LETTER WORDS MONROE DOCTORIN'
$200 [16]
The Moray variety of this fish is sharp-toothed & can be vicious if provoked
eel
Walter
$200 [11]
"Feel the city breakin' & everybody shakin' & we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive ah ha ha ha, stayin' alive"
the Bee Gees
Paul
$200 [21]
In 1959, a chapter of Gamblers Anonymous was formed in this city--how apt!
Las Vegas
Paul
$200 [6]
This enclosed glass container is used to keep plants & small animals such as turtles & lizards
terrarium
Tara
$200 [26]
See Marion Monroe train as a child psychology & co-write the books starring this unexciting boy-girl pair
Dick & Jane
Walter
$200 [1]
Suspect Rocky Mountain fever even in patients from the Carolinas, as it's an area with lots of these critters
ticks
Paul
$400 [17]
The ability of the creatureseen hereto get airborne gives it this two-word name
flying fish
Paul
$400 [12]
"I see a little silhouetto of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the fandango?"
Queen
Walter
$400 [22]
Far from the Caribbean, Jamaica Bay is on this New York island
Long Island
Paul Tara
$400 [7]
When its wind speed hits 74 MPH, a tropical storm is then designated one of these
hurricane
Paul
$400 [27]
In 1948 she had one line in "Love Happy", the last Marx Brothers movie
Marilyn Monroe
Walter
$400 [2]
A cold that lasts longer than a week may indicate inflammation of these airspaces in the skull
sinuses
Walter
$600 [18]
On Columbus' first voyage to the New World in 1492, brothers Martin & Vicente Pinzon commanded these 2 ships
Nina & Pinta
Paul
$600 [13]
"Got it bad, got it bad, got it bad, I'm hot for teacher... I got it bad, so bad, I'm hot for teacher"
Van Halen
Walter
$600 [23]
A type of humorous poem bears the name of this Irish port city
Limerick
Paul
$600 [8]
In this dive, you bend in midair to touch the toes while keeping the legs straight, then straighten the body
jackknife
Paul
$600 [28]
Forget DiMaggio and Berra--the secret to the Yankees' 11 pennants from 1947 to 1960 was Lucy Monroe's singing of this
The Star-Spangled Banner
Paul
$600 [3]
A stent is a tube often used to hold these open, especially the coronary ones
arteries
Walter
$800 [19]
Queen variety of this heavenly sponge eater & reef dweller is seen here
an angel fish
Paul
$800 [14]
"Oh oh oh, I wanna be free, to feel the way I feel, man! I feel like a woman!"
Shania Twain
Walter
$800 [24]
The 2 Baltic nations that qualify
Lithuania & Latvia
Walter
$800 [9]
This identifying design pressed into some paper products dates back to late 13th century Italy
watermark
Paul
$800 [29]
1940s singing star Vaughn Monroe had a rich voice in this middle male range, hence the nickname "old leather tonsils"
baritone
Paul
$800 [4]
The pelvic bones are where doctors get this stuff they transplant into cancer patients
bone marrow
Paul
$1,000 [20]
Built in 1816, the first private yacht to cross the Atlantic shared its name with this ancient craft that cruised the Nile
Cleopatra's barge
$1,000 [15]
"In the jungle, welcome to the jungle, watch it bring you to your sha na na na na na na na knees, knees"
Guns N' Roses
Walter
$1,000 [25]
One of the driest & most parched regions on earth is found in this country of North Africa
Libya
Paul
$1,000 [10]
Some believe this substance emanates from a medium during a seance
ectoplasm
Tara
$1,000 [30]
In 1912 Harriet Monroe launched the magazine simply called this; it soon published T.S. Eliot & Ezra Pound
Poetry
DD $1,000 [5]
The air puff test, a measure of eye pressure, is used to diagnose this condition
glaucoma
Paul

Double Jeopardy! Round

MATH THE HOUSE OF BURGESS MEREDITH WORDS AGAINST WAR STATE YOUR NAME HE WAS PRESIDENT WHEN... MIND YOUR "P"s & "Q"s
$400 [11]
It's a plane figure bounded by 3 straight lines that intersect at 3 vertices
a triangle
Tara
$400 [1]
Wah wah wah!Burgess waddled into this TV villain part in 1966
the Penguin
Paul
$400 [6]
In this Remarque novel, Paul Baumer spends the night seeking forgiveness from a soldier he killed
All Quiet on the Western Front
Walter
$400 [24]
This Pennsylvania-born quarterback is the NFL's only 3-time Super Bowl MVP
Joe Montana
Tara
$400 [12]
"E.T.: the Extra-Terrestrial" was released, grossing more than $300 million that year
Ronald Reagan
Walter
$400 [21]
In arteries, it can cause arteriosclerosis; on the teeth, in can cause decay
plaque
Paul
$800 [17]
With a name meaning "many angles", these shapes may or may not be convex
polygon
Paul
$800 [2]
As Mickey, Burgess had some advice for this 1976 title guy: "Women weaken legs!"
Rocky
Paul
$800 [7]
In this Dalton Trumbo novel, Johnny returns home from the war with his body shattered but his mind intact
Johnny Got His Gun
Paul
DD $1,200 [25]
A chef at Delmonico's in New York named this dessert in honor of a big purchase the U.S. made from Russia
Baked Alaska
Tara
$800 [13]
The 20th century began
William McKinley
Paul
$800 [22]
A clever or witty remark
quip
Tara Walter
$1,200 [18]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue on the monitor.) A pair of angles that add together to make a straight line are called this type of angle
supplementary
Walter
$1,200 [3]
There's the signpost up ahead; Burgess appeared in many episodes of this TV series & was its narrator in movie form
The Twilight Zone
Tara
$1,200 [8]
Oskar the Dwarf revels in the destruction & insanity of Nazi Germany in this novel
The Tin Drum
Walter
$1,200 [26]
The University of Iowa gave this future 2-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright a B.A. in 1938
Tennessee Williams
$1,200 [14]
The U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez was seized by Cambodian forces; U.S. forces rescued the crew of 39
Gerald Ford
Tara Walter
$1,200 [23]
To multiply by 5
quintuple
Tara
$1,600 [19]
From the Greek for "worthy", this kind of statement is also called a postulate
an axiom
$1,600 [4]
Burgess swigs some booze & calls it breakfast as Grandpa Gustafson in this 1993 Lemmon-Matthau film
Grumpy Old Men
Walter
$1,600 [9]
In this Ancient Greek play, women deny their husbands bedroom visitation rights until they stop fighting
Lysistrata
Paul
$1,600 [27]
A museum in New Mexico is devoted to this artist famous for bleak landscapes & cow skulls
Georgia O'Keeffe
Walter
$2,000 [16]
The Telstar Communications satellite relayed the first live TV pictures from the U.S. to Europe
John F. Kennedy
Paul Walter
$1,600 [29]
To excite the curiosity (perhaps by looking through a keyhole)
pique
Paul
$2,000 [20]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents the clue on the monitor.) It's the property that expresses why the third equation follows from the first two
transitive
Paul
$2,000 [5]
In 1945's "Story of G.I. Joe", Burgess played this Pulitzer-winning war journalist who was killed by a sniper that year
Ernie Pyle
Walter
$2,000 [10]
This American humorist's "War Prayer", about the Spanish-American War, was published in 1923, after his death
Mark Twain
Walter
$2,000 [28]
Jessica Biel found a "7th Heaven" in California & found a Hell in the remake of this 1974 Tobe Hooper classic
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Walter
DD $5,200 [15]
The Alien & Sedition Acts were adopted by Congress
John Adams
Walter
$2,000 [30]
The ship in "Moby Dick" that gets its name from an Indian tribe destroyed by the Puritans
Pequod
Paul

Final Jeopardy!

MUSICAL THEATER

He's the only songwriter to have Broadway premieres in every decade from the '50s to the present; his first was in 1957

Stephen Sondheim

Tara "Who isHeywardWebber" — wagered $2,400
Walter "Who is Bacharach?" — wagered $1,400
Paul "Who is Sondheim?" — wagered $10,000

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