Show #5338 2007-11-21 (taped 2007-08-14) Regular

Contestants

Scott Chase — a designer from San Gabriel, California

Bob Black — a history teacher from Canandaigua, New York

Diane Sager — a college professor from Raytown, Missouri (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,199)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Diane $3,800 $5,200 $10,400 $17,199
2nd place: $2,000
$10,400
17 R, 4 W
Bob $2,800 $2,200 $9,400 $18,700
New champion: $18,700
$9,400
14 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Scott $-400 $3,400 $12,200 $3,599
3rd place: $1,000
$15,400
22 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

JUST SAY NOVEMBER TV POP QUIZ FOOD & DRINK STATES & TERRITORIES OF AUSTRALIA AIR ENDS IN "U"
$200 [11]
From its Latin name, you should know that November was this number month in the old Roman calendar
the ninth
Diane
$200 [2]
Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor
Home Improvement
Scott
$200 [16]
There's a museum in Corbin, Kentucky dedicated to this man famous for his 11 herbs & spices
Colonel Sanders
Scott
$200 [21]
An Australian territorial claim covers 42% of this continent
Antarctica
Diane Scott
$200 [26]
In U.S. cities, 95% of this air pollutant comes from incomplete combustion in vehicles
carbon monoxide
Diane Scott
$200 [1]
Both Roy Orbison & Linda Ronstadt sang about a "blue" one
a bayou
Bob
$400 [12]
November in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of this month in the S. Hemisphere
May
Diane
$400 [3]
Reverend Eric Camden
7th Heaven
Diane
$400 [17]
A nice Peroni beer from this country will go perfectly with your pepperoni pizza
Italy
Diane
$400 [22]
95% of the population of the small enclave known as the Australian Capital Territory resides in this city
Canberra
Scott
$400 [27]
(Jon of the Clue Crew puts a peeled hard-boiled egg on the smaller mouth of a glass bottle.) In the egg-in-a-bottle experiment, the flame going out causes a vacuum effect, so the egg issuckedin by the differential in this between the inside & outside of the bottle
air pressure
Scott
$400 [7]
A personal spiritual leader in Hinduism, or a recognized leader in a field
a guru
Diane
$600 [13]
The Thanksgiving holiday takes place in the U.S. on this day in November
the fourth Thursday
Bob Scott
$600 [4]
Chiropractor Alan Harper
Two and a Half Men
$600 [18]
In 1680 the French social critic Marquise de Sevigne made the first mention of adding this to tea
milk
Diane Scott
$600 [23]
Australia's most populous city, Sydney, is in this state with a 3-word name
New South Wales
Scott
$600 [28]
A vaporizer puts out steam; this device has the same effect on the air by producing a cool mist
a humidifier
Bob
$600 [8]
From the Old French for "bundle", it's the bundle of clothing & linens a bride collects for her marriage
a trousseau
Diane
$800 [14]
November 21, the Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, honors her arrival at this holy site
the Temple in Jerusalem
Bob
$800 [5]
TV station manager Steven Keaton
Family Ties
Diane
$800 [19]
Thursday's special at Hollywood's Musso & Frank is this classic made with poultry, gravy, vegetables & a crust
chicken pot pie
Scott
$800 [24]
One of the 2 states named in honor of a woman
Victoria (or Queensland)
Scott
$800 [29]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew pushes a drinking straw into a potato.) This type of air powers air guns & air brakes & gives an ordinary drinking strawincredible strength
compressed air
Scott
$800 [9]
This world capital is located about 180 miles southeast of Miami
Nassau
Bob
$1,000 [15]
Children's Day in India is celebrated on November 14, the birthdate of this first prime minister
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
Diane
$1,000 [6]
Widower Steve Douglas
My Three Sons
Bob
$1,000 [20]
Fruit juice, a croissant or pastry & coffee or tea is this type of "breakfast"
continental
Diane
DD $1,200 [25]
The one state named for a man
Tasmania
Scott
$1,000 [30]
The "air" or "wind" type of this slows down a parachute & heats up a meteoroid
resistance
Diane
$1,000 [10]
These Bantu-speaking people make up the largest language group in the Republic of South Africa
the Zulu
Bob

Double Jeopardy! Round

ASTRONOMY BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES I WAS HIS VEEP GOING HORSE MAKE NO MYTHTAKE FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES
$400 [21]
To Northern observers, the most brilliant part of the Milky Way is found in "the Archer", this constellation
Sagittarius
Diane
$400 [3]
Ben Stiller tries desperately to win the love of Cameron Diaz, the British nanny of the Banks children
There's Something About Mary Poppins
Scott
$400 [1]
Dan Quayle
George Herbert Walker Bush
Bob
$400 [16]
33,000 foot pounds per minute
(one) horsepower
Bob
$400 [26]
In Roman myth, Naenia, whose name means "dirge", presided over these ceremonies
funerals
Diane
$400 [11]
The name of this type of poem is from the Japanese for "stanza"
a haiku
Diane
$800 [22]
With the demotion of Pluto, it's now the smallest, least massive planet
Mercury
Bob
$800 [4]
Dr. Frank N. Furter is dragged aboard a paddle steamer to sing "Ol' Man River" with Paul Robeson in this musical
The Rocky Horror Picture Show Boat
Bob Scott
$800 [2]
Spiro Agnew
Richard Nixon
Scott
$800 [17]
Despite its name, this Marx Brothers movie is about college football
Horse Feathers
Scott
$800 [27]
In a Botticelli painting, Zephyrus, the West Wind, is blowing this full-figured newborn to shore
Venus
Bob
$800 [12]
Undercover cop Arnold Schwarzenegger taught it in a 1990 film
kindergarten
Scott
$1,200 [23]
This solid center of a comet is usually around 10 miles or less in diameter & consists of ice & dust particles
the nucleus (or core)
Diane Scott
$1,200 [5]
Jimmy Stewart Christmas perennial about a reluctant Monty Python messiah
It's a Wonderful Life of Brian
Scott
$1,200 [8]
John Nance Garner
FDR
Bob
$1,200 [18]
Per the bard, at Bosworth Field this man bellowed "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!"
Richard III
Diane
DD $1,200 [28]
This god of earthquakes called Rhea "mom" & spent a lot of time in the water
Poseidon
Bob
$1,200 [13]
A medical aphorism, "primum non nocere" is translated as "first of all, do no" this
harm
Scott
$1,600 [24]
This "Critique of Pure Reason" author called some fuzzy objects "island universes" in 1775; he was right
Immanuel Kant
Diane
$1,600 [6]
Police detective Callahan enrolls at Hogwarts in search of a magical rock
Dirty Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Diane
$1,600 [9]
Elbridge Gerry
Madison
Bob
$1,600 [19]
Sometimes referred to as a living fossil, this so-called crab has been around for about 500 million years
the horseshoe crab
Scott
$1,600 [29]
In Wagner's Ring Cycle, this Norse god is known as Donner
Thor
Bob
$1,600 [14]
This Arabic salutation, often followed by "aleikum", means "peace"
salaam
Diane
$2,000 [25]
The constellation Coma Berenices, or "Berenice's Hair", was given its exact form by this Dane in the 1500s
(Tycho) Brahe
Bob Scott
$2,000 [7]
A chummy animated phantom teams up with Nicolas Cage's demonic motorcyclist in this action fest
Casper the Friendly Ghost Rider
Scott
$2,000 [10]
John C. Calhoun (1 of the 2)
Andrew Jackson (or John Quincy Adams)
Bob
DD $2,000 [20]
This capital of Canada's Yukon Territory was once home to the world's largest Tungsten reserve
Whitehorse
Scott
$2,000 [30]
He fell off Pegasus to his death
Bellerophon
$2,000 [15]
Literally "blow of mercy", this French phrase is used for any decisive stroke
coup de grace
Scott

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY AUTHORS

In 1833 a French historian said that this author had built "a cathedral as solid as the foundations of the other (one)"

Victor Hugo

Bob "Who is Hugo?" — wagered $9,300
Diane "Who was Victor Hugo?" — wagered $6,799
Scott "Who is Dumas?" — wagered $8,601

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