Show #5370 2008-01-04 (taped 2007-10-16) Regular

Dan Pawson game 7.

Contestants

Martin Truong — a printing consultant from Fresno, California

Heather Chapman — a news assistant from Lexington, Kentucky

Dan Pawson — a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts (whose 6-day cash winnings total $126,101)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dan $5,400 $9,400 $15,000 $200
7-day champion: $126,301
$14,000
23 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Heather $200 $-1,400 $-6,200 $-6,200
3rd place: $1,000
$-4,200
5 R, 10 W (including 1 DD)
Martin $3,200 $3,200 $14,800 $2
2nd place: $2,000
$14,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT HISTORY: 2006 KEN BURNS DOCUMENTARIES NOTHING SPECIFIC PULP FICTION THE "PEN" IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD
$200 [1]
In February, he accidentally shot Harry Whittington, not his intended target
Dick Cheney
Heather Martin
$200 [2]
(Ken Burns opens the category for us.) On January 8, 2001 the series "Jazz" premiered with a look at this birthplace of jazz, the USA's most cosmopolitancityat the turn of the 20th century
New Orleans
Dan Martin
$200 [17]
You can "think outside of" it, or a group of opera patrons can be held in it
the box
Dan
$200 [4]
All Story Magazine's October 1912 issue featured this hero in "A Romance of the Jungle"
Tarzan
Dan
$200 [8]
This antibiotic is effective against certain spirochetes
penicillin
Dan
$200 [22]
First used in 1915 by the Germans, this 12-letter portable assault weapon adds serious fire-power
a flamethrower
Heather
$400 [3]
One of the 2 space shuttles that went aloft in 2006
the Discovery (or the Atlantis )
Heather
$400 [13]
(Ken delivers the clue once more.) I made a film on this architect who claimed that his Guggenheimwould make the nearby Metropolitan Museum look like a Protestant barn
(Frank Lloyd) Wright
Martin
$400 [19]
In the 1970s, this character's normal rate for psychiatric help was 5 cents
Lucy (van Pelt)
Dan
$400 [23]
Black Star was created by Johnston McCulley, most famous for this hero, Z best he ever created
Zorro
Dan
$400 [9]
Examples of these are the Gaspe, Arabian & Yucatan
peninsulas
Martin
$400 [24]
The M60 type of this weapon is air-cooled, gas-operated & fires about 600 rounds per minute
a machine gun
Dan Martin
$600 [5]
In November, an Andy Warhol work depicting this Asian leader sold for more than $17 million
Mao
Dan
$600 [14]
(Ken shows another one for us.) In films like "The Civil War", the use of archivalrecords&photosis what I call "emotional" this science, because it unearths the heart of our national experience
archaeology
Dan
$600 [18]
These are the deformed offspring that elves & fairies substitute for human infants
changelings
Martin
$600 [27]
First serialized in Black Mask, "The Maltese Falcon" introduced the world to this detective
Sam Spade
Dan Heather
$600 [10]
Religiously, it's a punishment undergone in token of sorrow for sin
penance
Martin
$600 [25]
This powder used to thicken gasoline was introduced in WWII
napalm
$800 [6]
This famous American passed away the day after Christmas at the age of 93
Gerald Ford
Dan
$800 [15]
(Ken trudges through this next clue.) In "The War", my documentary about World War II, soldiers tell the harrowing story of this German offensive that took place in the frozen Ardennes forest
the Battle of the Bulge
Dan
$800 [20]
One of this university's graduate centers is the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Penn State
Heather Martin
$800 [29]
Frederick Schiller Faust wasn't a big name in this genre, but his pen name of Max Brand was
Westerns
Heather
$800 [11]
7-letter term meaning dreamily or wistfully thoughtful
pensive
Martin
$800 [26]
The -25 interceptor version of this Soviet fighter plane was capable of Mach 3
the MiG
Heather
$1,000 [7]
He led the French team to the finals of soccer's World Cup, only to be ejected after headbutting an Italian player
(Zinedine) Zidane
Dan
$1,000 [16]
(Ken finishes off the category.) My film "Unforgivable Blackness" chronicles the rise & fall of this champion who fought for freedom, & not just with his fists
Jack Johnson
Martin
$1,000 [21]
According to the song in a 1941 Ronald Reagan film, it's what was found "in a five and ten cent store"
my million dollar baby
DD $2,000 [30]
Under the name Maxwell Grant, Walter B. Gibson wrote about this pulp hero who knew where evil lurked
The Shadow
Dan
$1,000 [12]
Poetry line of 5 feet
a pentameter
Dan
$1,000 [28]
Dirty Harry said it was "the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off"
a Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum
Martin

Double Jeopardy! Round

GEOMETRY KEEPING UP WITH THE JONES TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER AM I HUNGRY ENOUGH TO EAT THAT? THE VATICAN ONLINE FAMILIAR PHRASES
$400 [22]
The Pythagorean theorem: the square of this of a right triangle equals the sum of the squares of the other 2 sides
the hypotenuse
Dan
$400 [1]
"It's Not Unusual" for women to throw their underwear at this singer; he said the first time was at the Copa in '68
Tom Jones
Dan
$400 [8]
Asia:President Nguyen Hinh Triet
Vietnam
Martin
$400 [15]
In Finland's Vorschmack, beef & this meat are baked, then ground with herring (pass the mint jelly)
lamb
Heather
$400 [4]
The bios of these on the site begin with Crispin of Viterbo, the first one created by John Paul II
saints
Dan
$400 [9]
Financially, it's the colorful opposite of "in the red"
(in the) black
Martin
$800 [26]
The formula for this measure of a pyramid is 1/3Bh
the volume
Dan Heather
$800 [2]
In 1989 the leather jacket & fedora worn by this Harrison Ford character went to the Smithsonian
Indiana Jones
Dan
$800 [11]
Europe:President Anibal Cavaco Silva
Portugal
Heather Martin
$800 [16]
This fermented legume product is the most versatile & important vegetarian ingredient in Chinese cuisine
tofu
Martin
$800 [7]
You'll learn that you may not use cell phones or felt-tip pens when researching in the Secret these
Archives
Dan Heather
$800 [10]
(Hi, I'm Jane Kaczmarek.) My husband & I founded a charity that auctions off designer outfits to benefit kids; naturally, it's called these "Off Our Back"
The Clothes
Dan
$1,600 [28]
It's a line or segment that touches a circle at exactly one point
a tangent
Martin
$1,200 [3]
Giving serious bang for the buck, his salary for his voice-only role in "Star Wars" was just $7,000
James Earl Jones
Martin
$1,200 [23]
South America:President Alvaro Uribe
Colombia
Dan
$1,200 [17]
Some of the toughest meat, this cut from the leg may be fore or hind
the shank
$1,200 [20]
There's a list of the 4 papal these churches, which in addition to St. Peter's include St. John Lateran
basilicas
Heather
$1,200 [12]
Poet who gave us "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!"
Kipling
Martin
DD $2,000 [27]
(Jon of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.) You can see why the term for this type of triangle comes from the Greek for "with equal legs"
an isosceles triangle
Heather
$1,600 [5]
In a 1993 film, after Harrison Ford tells this actor, "I didn't kill my wife", he replies, "I don't care"
Tommy Lee Jones
Martin
$1,600 [24]
Africa:President Joseph Kabila
the DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Dan
$1,600 [18]
This edible Christmas item sounds a lot more appetizing when called by its Italian name, panettone
a fruitcake
Martin
$1,600 [21]
A quote from Erasmus about a "Bibliothecam" is logically found on this institution's home page
the Vatican Library
Heather
$1,600 [13]
Originating in 1844's "Settlers in Canada", this phrase about boat propulsion means to decide your own fate
paddle your own canoe
$2,000 [29]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.) A pair of angles that add together to make a right angle are known as this type of angle
complementary
Martin
$2,000 [6]
This "Monkee" man said, "Most people think I married Marcia Brady and moved to Ohio and had 6 kids"
Davy Jones
Martin
$2,000 [25]
Europe:Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt
Belgium
Martin
$2,000 [19]
Hawaiians have made a staple out of this chopped fish dish made with seaweed & kukui relish
poke
Heather
$2,000 [30]
Clicking on this alliterative link, you find out how the faithful can make their offerings via cash or credit card
Peter's Pence
Martin
DD $2,000 [14]
Slaves once dreaded being sent to the harsh plantations of the lower Mississippi, hence "to sell" someone here
down the river
Martin

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. PRESIDENTS

When this president & his wife didn't want to be understood by others, they spoke to each other in Chinese

Herbert Hoover

Martin "Who was Wilson?" — wagered $14,798
Dan "Who is George H.W. Bush?" — wagered $14,800

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