Show #5427 2008-03-25 (taped 2007-12-04) Regular

Contestants

Andy Catsimanes — an Internet marketing copy writer from Overland Park, Kansas

Abigail Rosenthal — a graduate student from Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Sara Boretz — a prospect research coordinator from Upland, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,199)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sara $2,200 $5,800 $13,000 $8,000
3rd place: $1,000
$13,000
14 R, 0 W
Abigail $2,200 $4,800 $13,000 $26,000
2nd place: $2,000
$15,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Andy $2,800 $3,800 $16,800 $26,001
New champion: $26,001
$15,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

IKE SPEAKS MOVIE COMEDIES 3 LITTLE LETTERS WHERE'D YA GO TO SCHOOL? MASSACHUSETTS THE "BAY" STATE
$200 [8]
Eisenhower said, "No treaty or international agreement can contravene" this document
the Constitution
Sara
$200 [2]
Katherine Heigl unexpectedly finds herself expecting in this 2007 film
Knocked Up
Abigail
$200 [1]
The initials of this organization disbanded in 1991 were from Russian words meaning "Committee for State Security"
the KGB
Abigail
$200 [12]
Pierre Curie:this division of the University of Paris
the Sorbonne
Sara
$200 [22]
Historic places of interest in Massachusetts include the Old State House & the Old North Church in this city
Boston
Abigail
$200 [17]
It's the compartment where a B-52's ordnance is carried & from which it's dropped
the bomb bay
Andy
$400 [27]
Ike telegrammed that the mission of "Allied force was fulfilled at 0241 hours local time" in this month, 1945
May
$400 [3]
(I'm Rob Reiner.) In this romantic comedy that I directed, it was my mother Estelle who uttered the famous line, "I'll have what she's having"
When Harry Met Sally...
Abigail
$400 [7]
First on radio, then on TV, 3 chimed notes were a longtime trademark of this network
NBC
Abigail
$400 [13]
John F. Kennedy Jr.:this Providence campus
Brown
Andy
$400 [23]
The Pilgrims could tell you this is Massachusetts' official state flower
the mayflower
Andy
$400 [18]
This rifle attachment was first developed in France in the 17th century
bayonet
Andy
$800 [29]
In 1957 Ike used "the full power of the United States" to enforce integration at Central High in this city
Little Rock
Sara
$600 [4]
30-some things Vince Vaughn & Will Ferrell are members of the Lambda Epsilon Omega fraternity in this comedy
Old School
Abigail
$600 [9]
A high school equivalency diploma is referred to by these 3 letters
G.E.D.
Andy
$600 [14]
Antonin Scalia & basketball great Patrick Ewing:this Jesuit school
Georgetown
Abigail
$600 [24]
Minute Man National Historical Park is located between these 2 Massachusetts cities made famous in April 1775
Lexington & Concord
Abigail
$600 [19]
This Caribbean location was headline news on April 17, 1961
the Bay of Pigs
Abigail
$1,000 [30]
Eisenhower said appointing him to the Supreme Court was "the biggest damn-fool mistake I ever made"
Earl Warren
Sara
$800 [5]
(Here's Morgan Freeman.) My character's directive leads to Steve Carrell reading "Ark Building for Dummies" in this film
Evan Almighty
Abigail
$800 [10]
With more than 6,200 stores across the U.S., it's the nation's largest retail pharmacy chain
CVS
Sara
$800 [15]
Dick Cheney (bachelor's & master's):the University of this state
Wyoming
Andy
$800 [25]
We "checked": the first Massachusetts factory to make this fabric opened in 1846
gingham
$800 [20]
An oriel is one of these projecting from an upper floor of a house
a bay window
Sara
DD $1,200 [28]
Of this man's contributions to major White House decisions, Ike said, "If you give me a week, I might think of one"
Nixon
Abigail
$1,000 [6]
Michael Caine & Steve Martin teamed up as Lawrence & Freddy, a couple of these, the title of a 1988 film
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Andy
$1,000 [11]
This global express shipping co. began as a service to deliver documents between the West Coast & Hawaii
DHL
Sara Abigail
$1,000 [16]
Isaac Newton & Lord Byron:this Cambridge University college
Trinity
Sara
$1,000 [26]
Founded in 1620, this town is the seat of a Mass. county of the same name & sits on a bay of the same name
Plymouth
Andy
$1,000 [21]
German city that's home to an annual Wagnerian festival
Bayreuth
Andy

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD HISTORY POP CULTURE'S PARTING WORDS "A" IN SCIENCE DAYS MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS 6-LETTER WORDS
$400 [15]
The 843 Treaty of Verdun divided his empire; grandson Louis II received lands east of the Rhine River
Charlemagne
$400 [10]
It's Señor Schwarzenegger's Spanish catchphrase meaning "See you later", baby
Hasta la vista
Sara
$400 [5]
This deficiency of hemoglobin is often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells
anemia
Abigail
$400 [18]
When founded by Benjamin Day in 1833, the New York Sun was sold daily for this much per issue
a penny
Abigail
$400 [1]
Joanne Kathleen...
J.K. Rowling
Andy
$400 [23]
This Italian word for the concluding part of a performance is often "grand"
finale
Sara
$800 [16]
Around 4,500 years ago, the bronze age Minoan civilization emerged on this Mediterranean island
Crete
Andy
$800 [11]
In the title of a Raymond Chandler novel, it precedes "My Lovely"
Farewell
Andy
$1,200 [7]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the lab, holding an inflated balloon.) If you put a flame up to a balloon it will pop, but if you put water inside the balloon & hold it over a flame it will not pop, because the water does this
absorb (the heat)
$800 [19]
It's the day of the week that Columbus discovered the island of Dominica
Sunday
Abigail
$1,200 [3]
Elwyn Brooks...
E.B. White
Andy
$800 [24]
This synonym for "split" most often describes certain hooves
cloven
Sara
$1,200 [17]
The Glorious Revolution of 1688 brought this Dutchman to power as king of England, Scotland, & Ireland
William of Orange
Abigail
$1,200 [12]
In this 1957 film classic, Marlon Brando played a war pilot who fell in love with a Japanese dancer
Sayonara
$1,600 [8]
The name of this one-celled protozoan comes from the Greek for "change"
amoeba
Andy
$1,200 [20]
In the book of Exodus, the fourth commandment says to remember this day
the sabbath
Andy
$1,600 [4]
Virginia Cleo...
V.C. Andrews
Abigail
$1,200 [25]
A grain or seed of an ear of corn
a kernel
Abigail
$1,600 [29]
In the 5th century B.C., this Greek historian wrote that it took 100,000 men 20 years to complete the Great Pyramid
Herodotus
Andy
$1,600 [13]
In a Woody Guthrie dust bowl song, the parting words before "It's Been Good To Know Yuh"
So Long
Sara
$2,000 [9]
This type of "shock" is usually a severe allergic reaction, as to a bee sting
anaphylactic
Sara
$1,600 [21]
In 1886 a workers' demonstration asking for this, now common, turned into the Haymarket Square Riot
the 8-hour workday
Abigail
DD $1,800 [2]
Jerome David...
J.D. Salinger
Andy
$1,600 [26]
If that "spring lamb" you bought was really a 3-year-old animal, it should have been labeled this
mutton
Andy
$2,000 [30]
It's been estimated that this grand inquisitor put to death about 2,000 people during his term of office, 1483-1498
(Tomás de) Torquemada
Abigail
$2,000 [14]
In the title of a Louis Malle film, it precedes "les enfants"
Au revoir
Sara
DD $3,000 [6]
This adjective means "having a pH factor of more than 7"
alkaline
Abigail
$2,000 [22]
This day is oddly named, as it's celebrated on June 24, which is only 2 or 3 days after the solstice
Midsummer's Day
Abigail
$2,000 [28]
Gilbert Keith...
Chesterton
Andy
$2,000 [27]
This flowery shade of reddish blue was one of the original Crayola colors
violet

Final Jeopardy!

ANCIENT NAMES

Appropriately, the name of this dramatist comes from Greek words meaning "wise" & "famous"

Sophocles

Sara "Who is Aescylus?" — wagered $5,000
Abigail "Who was Sophocles?" — wagered $13,000
Andy "Who is Sophocles?" — wagered $9,201

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