Show #5368 2008-01-02 (taped 2007-10-16) Regular

Dan Pawson game 5.

Contestants

Chris Falcinelli — an owner of a tutoring and test-prep business from Brooklyn, New York

Katy Halpern — a stay-at-home mom from Dublin, California

Dan Pawson — a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts (whose 4-day cash winnings total $86,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dan $7,600 $9,200 $23,200 $23,000
5-day champion: $109,100
$16,600
24 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Katy $400 $3,200 $7,600 $100
3rd place: $1,000
$7,600
13 R, 1 W
Chris $1,600 $3,600 $11,400 $7,600
2nd place: $2,000
$7,600
11 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

EYE ON AFRICA CRAIGS LIST THE STAMP ACT AN "A" IN AMERICAN HISTORY IT'S ON THE TIP OF MY TONGUE RHYME STOPPER
$200 [11]
If Bogie were still Running Rick's Cafe Americain like he did on film, he'd be living in this country
Morocco
Chris
$200 [22]
Valerie Bertinelli has joined Kirstie Alley as a spokesperson for this weight-loss program
Jenny Craig
Katy
$200 [17]
Introduced in 2007, the Forever Stamp "rings in" the 41-cent rate, depicting this American icon
the Liberty Bell
Dan
$200 [6]
On March 6, 1836 Jim Bowie, weak as a kitten from illness, was killed by Mexican troops while lying in his cot there
the Alamo
Dan
$200 [12]
You know, this place... London's West End... 775 rooms, 4 main wings, a 40-acre garden... Ah, geez...
Buckingham Palace
Dan
$200 [1]
A big lie, or a Burger King favorite
a whopper
Katy
$400 [13]
On landing in Accra, the very first Peace Corps volunteers sang this country's national anthem on the tarmac
Ghana
Dan
$400 [23]
In 2006 this actor was in Bond-age & left moviegoers shaken & stirred
Daniel Craig
Dan
$400 [18]
The EID Stamp, featuring Arabic calligraphy, celebrates festivals of this religion
Islam
Dan
$400 [7]
This 3-word Virginia village, site of a surrender, was made a National Historic Park in 1954
Appomattox Court House
Chris
$400 [24]
Singing this way... Like Tyrolean mountaineers... Going from ordinary voice to falsetto & back... It's right there...
yodeling
Katy
$400 [2]
Mayor James Harper equipped the NYC police with their first uniforms, with buttons made of this
copper
Katy
$600 [14]
This nation has the dubious distinction as the birthplace of the Internet e-mail scams known as 419 Fraud
Nigeria
Dan
$600 [25]
As food editor of this newspaper, Craig Claiborne gave all the recipes that were fit to print for nearly 30 years
The New York Times
Dan
$600 [19]
The Crops of the Americas stamps included corn & this state flower of Kansas
the sunflower
Katy
$600 [8]
On New Year's Day 1801, she opened the executive mansion to visitors for the first time
Abigail Adams
Dan
$600 [26]
It's a weather term... Perhaps from a word for "long grass on damp ground", it describes a daze... I'm in one now...
fog
$600 [3]
A helicopter or a motorcycle
a chopper
Dan
$800 [15]
In the first Allied victory of World War I, Togo was captured from this European country
Germany
$800 [29]
This funny Scotsman is seen here& on late, late television
Craig Ferguson
Katy Chris
$800 [20]
A triangular stamp honoring the 400th anniversary of its settlement depicts the Discovery, the Godspeed & the Susan Constant
Jamestown
Katy
$800 [9]
In 1942 Japanese forces captured Attu in this Alaskan island group & relocated its inhabitants
the Aleutians
Dan
$800 [27]
Oh yeah, this car company... It makes the Explorer & the Excursion... I can't believe I'm blanking here...
Ford
Chris
$800 [4]
He rode on the same last flight as Ritchie Valens & Buddy Holly
the Big Bopper
Katy
$1,000 [16]
The Drakensberg Mountains form part of South Africa's border with this small landlocked country
Lesotho
Katy Chris
$1,000 [30]
Craig Bierko played Max Baer in this 2005 film about Depression-era boxer Jim Braddock
Cinderella Man
$1,000 [21]
A 1-cent stamp that's part of the American design series shows a lamp named for this designer
(Louis Comfort) Tiffany
Chris
DD $3,200 [10]
Secretary of State under Truman, he negotiated the treaty that led to the formation of NATO in 1949
(Dean) Acheson
Dan
$1,000 [28]
Oh man, this guy... Was director of scientific studies at the Ecole Normale in 1857... Him"-ization"... Help me out here!
(Louis) Pasteur
Chris
$1,000 [5]
The cone-headed type of this is related to the katydid
a grasshopper
Dan

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMELIA EARHART THE NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY SCIENCE CLASS LET'S GET SAUCED DEATH OF AN AUTHOR "Z" END
$400 [23]
In June 1928 Amelia became the first woman to fly across this body of water, though she was only a passenger
the Atlantic
Dan
$400 [16]
The latest recording on the 2006 additions to the list is this Paul Simon album recorded with African musicians
Graceland
Katy
$400 [11]
This "Age" is divided into the Paleolithic, the Mesolithic, & the Neolithic
the Stone Age
Chris
$400 [21]
You can tell from the name that a vin blanc sauce has this specific type of potent potable in it
white wine
Dan
$400 [1]
She died on July 18, 1817 after dealing with some pride & prejudice in her day
Jane Austen
Katy
$400 [5]
It was first dispensed as a peppermint candy in Vienna
Pez
Chris
$800 [24]
Amelia was promised her independence when she married George Putnam, of a prominent family in this business
publishing
$800 [17]
This singer made the list with his 1920 recording of "Swanee"
Al Jolson
Chris
$800 [12]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue.) We've rubbed the pigment of a radish on these cards; lemon juiceturns the pigment orange, indicating that it's an acid; milk of magnesiaturns it blue, indicating that it's this
a base
Dan
$800 [22]
Chasseur sauce, aka this style sauce, gets its name because it was originally meant for badly shot game
hunter sauce
$800 [2]
On Sept. 28, 1891 he died in New York City after a whale of a life
(Herman) Melville
Katy
$800 [7]
The name of this, a thin pancake filled with cheese or fruit, is from the Yiddish
a blintz
Dan
$1,200 [25]
Amelia's first plane was bright yellow & named for this songbird
a canary
Katy
$1,600 [19]
He's the populist pol heardherein a 1935 speech"Every man a king: every man sharing in the splendor and abundance of God's Earth."
Huey Long
Dan
$1,200 [13]
As a visiting scientist to this Caltech lab, Carl Sagan contributed to the first missions to Venus
JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
$1,200 [28]
Go "Dutch" & tell me the name of this butter, egg yolk, & lemon juice sauce
hollandaise
Dan
$1,200 [3]
No amount of electricity could reanimate her on Feb. 1, 1851
(Mary) Shelley
Dan
$1,200 [8]
A schmancy hotel gives us this word for a fancy display that you might "put on"
the Ritz
Dan
$1,600 [26]
In 1935 Amelia flew solo in about 18 hours from Wheeler Field, located here, to Oakland, California
Hawaii
Chris
$2,000 [20]
His 1963 "Live at the Apollo" album brought his soul to a wider audience
James Brown
Chris
$1,600 [14]
Gustav Kirchhoff & Robert Bunsen used this prismed "scope" to see the bands of colored light each element produced
a spectroscope
Dan Chris
$1,600 [29]
"The butter of Provence", this sauce gets its name from the French for garlic, "ail"
aioli
Katy
$2,000 [6]
It was this author, not the wallpaper, who went on Nov. 30, 1900
(Oscar) Wilde
Dan
$1,600 [9]
Adjective meaning artificial or synthetic
ersatz
$2,000 [27]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew is in the pilot's seat of a cockpit mockup.) I'm at the National Geographic Society's Explorers Hall in a Lockheed Electralike the one in which Amelia Earhart took off from this large island on her last flight
New Guinea
DD $5,000 [18]
The Fisk Jubilee Singers were coming for to carry this spiritual onto the Registry
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
Chris
$2,000 [15]
Named for a physicist, it's the amount of work done when 1 amp passes through 1 ohm of resistance for 1 second
a joule
Dan
$2,000 [30]
Gherkins & anchovies go in this chilled, flavored mayonnaise that's big in Cajun shrimp dishes
remoulade
DD $6,000 [4]
After Oct. 19, 1745 he would make no more modest proposals
(Jonathan) Swift
Dan
$2,000 [10]
This unit of frequency is equal to one cycle per second
hertz
Dan

Final Jeopardy!

THE BOX OFFICE

Rated "R" for violence, this 2004 film set in ancient times is the highest-grossing "R" movie ever in the U.S.

The Passion of the Christ

Katy "What is Troy?" — wagered $7,500
Chris "What is Gladiator?" — wagered $3,800
Dan "What is Gladiator?" — wagered $200

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