Show #5435 2008-04-04 (taped 2007-12-05) Regular

Contestants

Jacob Gold — a writer from Chicago, Illinois

Mary McGhee — a college advisor from SeaTac, Washington

Rich House — an English professor from Terre Haute, Indiana (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Rich $3,000 $6,800 $18,200 $28,801
2-day champion: $45,602
$14,800
17 R (including 3 DDs), 0 W
Mary $2,000 $3,200 $14,400 $28,798
2nd place: $2,000
$14,400
22 R, 4 W
Jacob $1,800 $4,600 $5,800 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$5,800
12 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

ORGANIZATIONS MOVIE ADJECTIVES FUN ON THE MAP MAKE IT STICK "BARN"S NOBEL
$200 [4]
The name of this 111-year-old association means it's for moms & dads & educators
the PTA (Parent-Teacher's Association)
Rich
$200 [29]
1989:"The ___ Baker Boys"
Fabulous
Mary
$200 [30]
Just one look at this island southeast of Sumatra makes me want a cup of coffee
Java
Mary
$200 [12]
This line of auto body products includes 4 Minute Epoxy Steel & EZ Finish Bumper Repair Adhesive
Bondo
Mary
$200 [1]
This purple Jurassic giant is a PBS headliner
Barney
Rich
$200 [7]
After years of trial & error, Nobel invented this explosive in 1866, making him a very rich man
dynamite
Mary
$400 [8]
The president of Gallaudet helped found the AAPD, American Association of People with these
Disabilities
Mary
$400 [28]
1960:"The ___ Seven"
Magnificent
Mary
$400 [19]
Say ahhhhhhhh! The Dalton Iceberg Tongue on this continent actually looks like a tongue
Antarctica
Rich
$400 [13]
Johnson & Johnson says it's a myth that uncovered wounds heal faster & advises using this adhesive brand
Band-Aid
Jacob
$400 [2]
These crustaceans adhere to ships' hulls
barnacles
Jacob
$400 [17]
Alfred Nobel was raised in this Russian city, then the capital, & also went to college there
St. Petersburg
Jacob
$600 [9]
As an old man in 1787, Ben Franklin took on the presidency of a "Society for Promoting the Abolition of" this
Slavery
Mary
$600 [27]
2000:"The ___ Storm"
Perfect
Jacob
$600 [22]
This world capital has the same name as a character in "Romeo and Juliet"
Paris
Rich
$600 [14]
Because it was waterproof, this popular sticky stuff may have originally been named for the bird
duct tape
Mary
$600 [3]
Step right up!Thisimpresario's ostentatious mansion was known as "Iranistan"
P.T. Barnum
Mary
$600 [18]
Nobel's will established his namesake prizes for chemistry, physics, medicine & physiology, literature & this
peace
Mary
$800 [10]
The Society Islands in French Polynesia got their name from a visit by Captain Cook & this society
the Royal Society of London
Mary
$800 [26]
1969:"The ___ Bunch"
Wild
Jacob
$800 [23]
The Greater Antilles are big islands, like Cuba; the smaller ones may get a complex with this "diminuitive" name
the Lesser Antilles
Rich
$800 [15]
Use instant glue for glass & white glue with a clamp for wood, which has these, like skin, for glue to enter
pores
Rich
$800 [5]
Aerial acrobatics popular in the Midwest after WWI
barnstorming
Rich
$1,000 [21]
In the 1850s Nobel lived in the U.S. & studied under John Ericsson, the builder of this first Union ironclad warship
the Monitor
Mary Jacob
$1,000 [11]
In 1957 Tom Hayden went off to college in Ann Arbor, where he would co-found this 1960s student organization
Students for a Democratic Society
Mary
$1,000 [25]
2005:"The ___ Gardener"
Constant
Jacob
$1,000 [24]
Adigitally enhanced mapof these bodies of water in New York State shows you how they got this name
the Finger Lakes
Jacob
$1,000 [16]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew sticks some white stuff on the bottom of a vase.) A quick, adhering substance that holds valuables in place & won't harm wood shelves is sold as this type of putty, named for the type of institution that uses it
museum putty
Rich
$1,000 [6]
Private 4-year women's college located at 3009 Broadway in Manhattan
Barnard
Jacob
DD $2,000 [20]
In 1901 the first Nobel Prizes were awarded by academies & institutes of these 2 countries
Norway & Sweden
Rich

Double Jeopardy! Round

PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS THE SONGS OF PAUL SIMON ANIMAL NAMES FASHION PRESIDENTS AT REST VERY WORD "E"
$400 [18]
He penned the lines, "They looked nervous as cats... nervous as a couple of cats on a hot tin roof"
Tennessee Williams
Rich
$400 [1]
It begins, "Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again"
"The Sounds Of Silence"
Mary
$400 [6]
You'll get 3 As for effort for knowing the name of this mammal comes from Afrikaans for "earth pig"
aardvark
Mary
$400 [26]
This Western-type tie made with a cord & a sliding clasp is also called a shoelace tie
a bolo
Mary
$400 [13]
In the family plot at Monticello
Jefferson
Mary
$400 [8]
It's the given name of NBA superstar "Magic" Johnson
Earvin
Jacob
$800 [19]
Thornton Wilder, on more than one occasion, played the stage manager in this play of his
Our Town
Jacob
$800 [2]
In "Mrs. Robinson" Simon wrote, "A nation turns its lonely eyes to" this man
Joe DiMaggio
Mary
$800 [7]
Its name comes from Greek words meaning "nose-horned"
a rhinoceros
Rich
$800 [27]
In 1966 this Algerian-born designer opened a series of boutiques called Rive Gauche
Yves Saint Laurent
$800 [14]
At his national historic site in West Branch, Iowa
Hoover
Rich
$800 [9]
This brand of natural spring water comes from the French Alps
Evian
Jacob
$1,200 [22]
His autobiographical play "Chapter Two" dealt with the death of his first wife, Joan
Neil Simon
Rich
$1,200 [3]
"Goodbye to Rosie the queen of Corona, see you, me and" him "down by the school yard"
Julio
Mary
$1,600 [21]
The name of this red-haired denizen of Borneo's rain forests is Malay for "forest man"
orangutan
Mary
$1,200 [28]
These pants for women came down to just below the knee & were named for their common use in bicycling
pedal-pushers
Mary
$1,200 [15]
At the Notch Cemetery in Plymouth, Vermont
Coolidge
Mary
$1,200 [10]
Wapiti, also known in America as this, are actually one of the largest species of deer
elk
Jacob
$2,000 [24]
In this Wendy Wasserstein play, 3 Jewish sisters from Brooklyn meet up in London to celebrate a birthday
The Sisters Rosensweig
$1,600 [4]
Simon's 1973 song about this color transparency film said "Give us those nice bright colors"
Kodachrome
Mary
DD $2,000 [25]
This large partly white sea bird derives its name in part from the Latin word for "white"
the albatross
Rich
$1,600 [29]
Several years before his topless bathing suits were the rage in 1964, women were buying his tube dresses
Rudi Gernreich
$1,600 [16]
At the Old North Cemetery in Concord, New Hampshire
(Franklin) Pierce
Rich
$1,600 [11]
(Alex delivers the clue from Sony Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, posing for the camera with Kelly.) The Sony DSCT-100's face detection feature brings out expression by controlling focus, color, flash & this, the amount of light
exposure
Rich
DD $3,000 [23]
It's the Samuel Beckett play in which "Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!"
Waiting for Godot
Rich
$2,000 [5]
In "Bridge Over Troubled Water", Simon told her to "Sail on... sail on by, your time has come to shine"
Silvergirl
Mary
$2,000 [20]
This just in... noted for its strength, this breed of horse seenherewas named for a schoolteacher
Morgan
Jacob
$2,000 [30]
This Spaniard opened his house in 1915 & counted the Duchess of Windsor & Princess Grace among his clients
Cristobal Balenciaga
$2,000 [17]
On the Capitol grounds in Nashville
James K. Polk
Mary
$2,000 [12]
This type of school course is taken for fun, or just to expand your knowledge
elective
Mary

Final Jeopardy!

SHOW BUSINESS

The wings on this, created in 1948, represent the "muse of art"; the atom represents the "electron of science"

the Emmy Award

Jacob "What is the Oscar?" — wagered $5,800
Mary "What is the Emmy?" — wagered $14,398
Rich "What is the Emmy?" — wagered $10,601

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