Show #5416 2008-03-10 (taped 2007-11-27) Regular

Contestants

Mandy Loy — a freelance editor and graphic designer from Richmond, Virginia

Chris Flood — a Ph.D. student in French studies originally from Van Nuys, California

Jeff Harmon — a public defender from Dunlap, Tennessee (whose 1-day cash winnings total $25,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jeff $1,600 $7,600 $15,200 $19,100
2-day champion: $44,600
$13,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Chris $1,000 $2,000 $5,600 $600
2nd place: $2,000
$5,600
13 R, 3 W
Mandy $4,000 $8,600 $8,400 $145
3rd place: $1,000
$13,000
20 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

THE WORLD OF MR. BURNS RELIGIOUS RHYME TIME PASS THE CHOCOLATE KIDDY LIT THE CAT THE CANARY ISLANDS
$200 [1]
I've said it before: "Family. Religion. Friendship. These are 3 demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in" this
business
Mandy
$200 [9]
Pontiff's cleansing agents
the Pope's soaps
Chris
$200 [6]
The leaf design on Godiva's Autant chocolates is a stylized version of a feather on this "Gone With the Wind" heroine's hat
Scarlett O'Hara
Jeff
$200 [14]
This dark horse shares stables with Merrylegs & Ginger
Black Beauty
Jeff Chris
$200 [21]
Of all the varieties of cats big & small, the cheetah is the only one that can't fully retract these
the claws
Jeff
$200 [26]
The Canary Islands' highest point, 12,000-foot Pico de Teide, is the peak of a dormant one of these
a volcano
Mandy
$400 [2]
...A 2-seat escape pod at the nuclear plant; this man believes it's for him,...he's wrong; I just like to put my feet up
Smithers
Jeff
$400 [10]
A Latter-Day jury spokesperson
a Mormon foreman
Jeff
$400 [7]
Candymakers know that the fat obtained from cocoa beans isn't called cocoa margarine but this
cocoa butter
Mandy
$400 [15]
In this poem, the hero is instructed to shun the frumious Bandersnatch
Jabberwocky
Chris
$400 [22]
It's the full name for the domesticated kitty called a tortie
a tortoiseshell
Mandy
$400 [27]
On his 3 15th century voyages to the New World, his ships stopped off at the Canary Islands for supplies
Columbus
Jeff
$600 [3]
For me, this number is naught naught naught, naught naught, naught naught naught 2; curse you, Roosevelt!
social security number
Chris
$600 [11]
Society of Friends' parcels of land
Quakers' acres
Mandy
$600 [8]
A 2007 study said that eating a little dark chocolate daily may reduce this, both systolic & diastolic
blood pressure
Chris
$600 [16]
The wedding meal eaten by this odd Edward Lear pair is "mince and slices of quince"
the owl and the pussycat
Mandy
$600 [23]
It's the tailless cat variety from an island south of Scotland
a manx
Mandy
$600 [28]
In July 2007 one of these instruments with a 34-foot mirror was completed on the Canary Islands
a telescope
Jeff
$800 [4]
After a near-un-requested fission surplus, I said Homer "turned a potential Chernobyl into a mere" this Pennsylvania place
Three Mile Island
Jeff
$800 [19]
Around the time of a veiled Muslim garment for women
circa burka
$800 [12]
Fran's Chocolates of Seattle makes delectable caramels topped with the gray sea type of this
salt
Mandy
$800 [17]
This title flute player's "queer long coat from heel to head Was half of yellow & half of red"
the Pied Piper of Hamelin
Mandy
$800 [24]
This shorthaired "brown" cat is named for its color, which is said to resemble that of a Cuban cigar
a havana
Jeff
$1,000 [30]
The Canary Islands were named for a large number of these the Romans found there, not yellow songbirds
wild dogs
Jeff
$1,000 [5]
My mother's sordid affair with this president & later, Chief Justice of the United States, still rankles
Taft
Mandy
$1,000 [20]
A large Asian white winter radish that's a representation of a saint
a daikon icon
Mandy
$1,000 [13]
Good news:Dark chocolate is rich in these antioxidant compounds whose very name sounds "flavorful"
flavonoids
Chris Mandy
$1,000 [18]
These tiny people in a 1952 Mary Norton story live under the floor in a large country house
the Borrowers
Chris
$1,000 [25]
This breed of domestic feline from Maine is the first truly American show breed
a Maine coon
Mandy
DD $3,000 [29]
In 1936 the Spanish government demoted this general to Governor of the Canary Islands
Franco
Jeff

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD WAR I SECRET IDENTITIES LET'S PLAY BLACKJACK WOMEN'S FIRSTS HOW'S THE WEATHER? WORD"Z"
$400 [8]
In 1917 Allied troops from this North American country stormed up Vimy Ridge in a legendary charge
Canada
Mandy
$400 [1]
Superman
Clark Kent
Chris
$400 [14]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew sits at a Las Vegas blackjack table with Sarah.) To ask the dealer for another card, I cangestureor say this traditional 2-word phrase
hit me
Mandy
$400 [26]
Let's show her a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T; she's the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Aretha Franklin
Chris
$400 [6]
Sept. 4, 2007 was the first time that 2 of these, Henriette & Felix, made landfall on the same day
hurricanes
Mandy
$400 [7]
In football, it's a charge on the QB by linebackers or defensive backs
a blitz
Jeff
$800 [10]
In the 1st raid of its kind in history, the British town of Yarmouth was bombed in 1915 by a German one of these
a Zeppelin
Jeff
$800 [2]
Batman
Bruce Wayne
Chris
$800 [18]
In multi-deck blackjack, the cards are usually dealt from one of these--but not the kind you wear
a shoe
Chris
$800 [27]
In 2007 Drew Gilpin Faust became the first female president in this university's 371-year history
Harvard
Chris
$800 [22]
Mountain passes speed up hot, dry air, giving this U.S. state its Santa Ana winds
California
Mandy
$800 [9]
A granular form of this common mineral is used to make sandpaper
quartz
Jeff
$1,200 [11]
Enver Pasha, this country's minister of war, commanded the troops defending the Dardanelles
Turkey
Jeff
$1,200 [3]
The original Robin, the Boy Wonder
Dick Grayson
Chris
$1,200 [19]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew takes her turn reading the clue.) When you get a pair of 8's, it's recommended you do this, giving yourself a chance at 2 winning hands
splitting
Jeff Chris
$1,200 [28]
Registering as K. Switzer, in 1967 Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to officially enter & run this race
the Boston Marathon
Mandy
$1,200 [23]
The forecast is cloudy with a 30% chance of these, characterized by the sudden start & stop of light rainfall
showers
Jeff
$1,200 [15]
Many French eateries include this word in their names; it means "at the home of"
chez
Mandy
$1,600 [12]
What the Germans called the Siegfried Line, the Allies called this, after a famous German general of the war
the Hindenburg Line
$1,600 [4]
Wonder Woman
Diana Prince
Chris
$1,600 [20]
When a player & dealer tie, it's called this & no money is won or lost
a push
Jeff
DD $1,600 [29]
Frances Perkins became the first woman cabinet member when FDR put her to work in this post
Secretary of Labor
Mandy
$1,600 [24]
High clouds may bring this type of damaging precipitation, especially to the "alley" for it in the Rockies
hail
$1,600 [16]
It's true! This city, the first colonial post in Mexico, was founded by Hernando Cortes in 1519
Veracruz
Jeff
$2,000 [13]
At the 1914 Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia, this country's army was surrounded & largely destroyed
Russia
$2,000 [5]
Zorro
Don Diego de la Vega
$2,000 [21]
(Sarah reads the last clue.) Since my first 2 cards are an ace & 6, I have this type of 17 and will draw at least one more card
soft
Jeff
$2,000 [30]
Wilma Mankiller was the first woman to serve as principal chief of this Southeast Native American tribe
the Cherokee
Chris Mandy
$2,000 [25]
Longer autumn nights let the ground cool, producing condensation & the "ground" type of this
fog
Mandy
DD $3,000 [17]
Last name of German engineer Karl, who in 1885 developed a 3-wheeled vehicle called the Motorwagen
Benz
Mandy

Final Jeopardy!

ACTORS

He never won an Oscar, but this 1960s movie star got a patent for a low-slung bucket seat for race cars

Steve McQueen

Chris "Who is James Dean?" — wagered $5,000
Mandy "Who is James Dean?" — wagered $8,255
Jeff "Who is Steve McQueen?" — wagered $3,900

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