Show #5355 2007-12-14 (taped 2007-08-29) Regular

Contestants

Max Zarou — a fifth-grade teacher originally from Culver City, California

Diana Klick — a homemaker from Hershey, Pennsylvania

Chris McCarthy — a technical support specialist from Brockton, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Chris $200 $1,600 $3,600 $2,399
3rd place: $1,000
$3,600
9 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Diana $1,800 $6,400 $16,000 $4,799
2nd place: $2,000
$18,000
21 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Max $1,400 $6,000 $13,600 $7,201
New champion: $7,201
$12,400
22 R (including 1 DD), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN EXPLORERS DOUBLE TALK ROCK PIE-POURRI CALIFORNIA, OREGON OR WASHINGTON MONOPOLY SUFFIXES
$200 [4]
In 1609 he led his men across the Atlantic & up what became known as his river, to Albany
(Henry) Hudson
Max
$200 [1]
This group that was "Hungry Like The Wolf" was named after a villain in the movie "Barbarella"
Duran Duran
Diana
$200 [21]
Betty Crocker has a recipe for rhubarb pie topped with this fluff made from egg whites
meringue
Diana
$200 [11]
The smallest in area of the 3
Washington
Chris Diana
$200 [25]
Each time a player passes go, he collects this salary
$200
Max
$200 [13]
We love this suffix that means "lover of", as in audio- or anglo-
-phile
Max
$400 [5]
Commanding the Pelican in 1578, this English circumnavigator reached the South American coast
(Sir Francis) Drake
Chris
$400 [2]
It precedes "Top" in the name of the group that sang, "She's got legs, she knows how to use them"
ZZ
Chris
$400 [22]
You don't need a lot of dough to make pie crust; smash up some chocolate wafers to make this kind of crust instead
a crumb crust
Diana Max
$400 [12]
Contains the lowest point in the nation
California
Diana
$400 [26]
Tokens that are household items include the iron & this sewing accessory
a thimble
Diana
$400 [16]
Silly rabbit, this suffix isn't for kids--it was used for female equivalents, like for women aviators
-trix
Max
$600 [6]
Beatriz Barbosa said goodbye to this Portuguese husband of hers in 1519; 19 months later, he died in the Philippines
Magellan
Diana
$600 [3]
Neil Diamond had his first Top 10 hit with this song that says, "She got the way to move me"
"Cherry, Cherry"
Max
$600 [23]
Not chocolate silk or chocolate chiffon, but chocolate this glossy fabric is a favorite at Marie Callender's
chocolate satin
Chris
$600 [14]
Its Shakespeare Festival at Ashland started in 1935
Oregon
Max
$600 [28]
A question mark is on the space in which you draw one of these cards
Chance
Max
$600 [18]
This suffix (as with acr- or syn-) is from the greek for "name"
-onym (-nym accepted)
Diana
$800 [7]
In 1536 Spain's King Charles I made this explorer governor of Cuba; he arrived near present-day Tampa Bay in 1539
Hernando de Soto
Chris
$800 [9]
"Head To Toe" & "Lost In Emotion" were huge hits for her & Cult Jam
Lisa Lisa
Max
$800 [24]
Leaping insects! This pie is actually made with creme de menthe, not with the bug in its name
grasshopper
Max
$800 [15]
Home to the world's oldest living things, a grove of 4,000-year-old bristlecone pine trees
California
Diana
$1,000 [30]
A railroad & an avenue are both named for this state
Pennsylvania
Diana
$800 [19]
The suffix -ose is used to form the names of these, as in glucose & sucrose
sugars
Chris
$1,000 [8]
Seen here is a map of this Florentine's explorations
(Amerigo) Vespucci
Max
$1,000 [10]
This one-named Scottish lass topped the charts in 1967 with "To Sir With Love"
Lulu
$1,000 [27]
Finely chopped beef was once a key ingredient in this holiday pie that's often vegetarian these days
mincemeat
Diana
$1,000 [17]
Has 2 male U.S. senators
Oregon
Max
DD $2,000 [29]
A classic PBS kids' series that taught reading shared its name with this Monopoly utility
the Electric Company
Max
$1,000 [20]
A 3-letter suffix that forms the present participle of a verb, or before "direct", an online banking group
-ing
Diana

Double Jeopardy! Round

HEALTH & MEDICINE WOMEN ON TV COUNTRIES' LARGEST ISLANDS A SNAKEY CATEGORY THESE 3... LET'S LEARN HEBREW
$400 [16]
Statin drugs like Lipitor are used to lower the bad type of this
cholesterol
Diana
$400 [2]
One of the original co-hosts of "The View", she now gives her views as co-anchor of "Today"
Meredith Vieira
Diana
$400 [21]
Marajo in the Amazon River
Brazil
Max
$400 [26]
Term for a roll of 2 in the game of craps
snake-eyes
Max
$400 [1]
These 3 U.S. coins total $1.11
a dollar, a dime, and a penny
Max
$400 [11]
(Jon of the Clue Crew shows a Hebrew word on a monitor.) Hebrew is based on 3-letter roots; the equivalent of "S", "D", "R" gives us "sidrah", a Torah reading, "siddur", a prayer book, & this word for a special meal
seder
Max
$800 [17]
There are viral & bacterial types of this, the inflammation of the membranes covering the brain & spinal cord
meningitis
Diana
$800 [3]
In addition to playing matriarch Nora Holden on "Brothers & Sisters", she has played Abby's mom on "ER"
Sally Field
Diana
$800 [22]
Baffin Island
Canada
Chris
$800 [27]
Stanley Kunitz wrote a poem, "The Snakes Of" this month; take an easy guess & remember, he's a poet
September
$800 [5]
These 3 planets are closer to the sun than Mars is
Mercury, Venus, and Earth
Max
$800 [12]
Dictionary definitions of this Hebrew word include safety, health, success, hello, goodbye & peace
shalom
Chris
$1,600 [19]
Lateral epicondylitis is the medical term for this chronic sports injury that affects the arm
tennis elbow
Max
$1,200 [4]
In the '70s she played Maude Findlay; in the 80s, Dorothy Zbornak
Bea Arthur
Chris
$1,200 [23]
Majorca
Spain
Max
$1,200 [28]
Twin Falls on the Snake River give this state's city of Twin Falls its name
Idaho
Max
$1,200 [8]
King who was dad to these 3 girls: Goneril, Regan & Cordelia
King Lear
Diana
$1,200 [13]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives us a Hebrew lesson.) Hebrew letters can also indicate numbers; the word for 14 is yod-dalet, or 10 + 4; but 15 is9 + 6to avoid writing one of the many of these sacred names
the names of God
Chris Diana Max
DD $2,000 [18]
A sign of this infection from the virus that also causes chicken pox is a blistering rash preceded by severe pain
shingles
Diana
$1,600 [6]
Daughter of a Mr. Universe, she shows some muscle as Detective Olivia Benson on "Law & Order: SVU"
Mariska Hargitay
Max
$1,600 [24]
Sakhalin
Russia
Diana
$1,600 [30]
The basis of the Snake Handlers' Sect, this Second Gospel says believers "shall take up serpents"
Mark
Diana
$1,600 [9]
White light is made up of these, the 3 additive primary colors
red, blue, and green
Chris Max
$1,600 [14]
Modern Hebrew uses Sephardic pronunciation, not that of these European Jews, so "Shabbat" not "Shabbes"
Ashkenazi
Max
$2,000 [20]
The name of this fluid that contains white blood cells comes from the Latin for "water"
lymph
Diana
$2,000 [7]
On "Dallas", one of the 2 actresses who played Miss Ellie
Barbara Bel Geddes (& Donna Reed)
Max
$2,000 [25]
Isla Isabela in the Galapagos
Ecuador
Diana
$2,000 [29]
Thislactic critter is an important controller of pests
the milk snake
Diana
$2,000 [10]
Annexed by the USSR in 1940, these 3 countries were the first to break away
Latvia, Lithuania & Estonia
Max
DD $2,000 [15]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew gives us a Hebrew lesson.) In Hebrew, prefixes can be used as prepositions; "reshit" means "beginning", &"b'reshit"means this familliar phrase
in the beginning
Chris

Final Jeopardy!

ACADEMY AWARD FIRSTS

On March 5, 1936 screenwriter Dudley Nichols did this; it didn't happen again until an actor did it April 15, 1971

refused his Oscar

Chris "What is die?" — wagered $1,201
Max "What is cried during the acceptance" — wagered $6,399
Diana "What is won for best director?" — wagered $11,201

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