Show #5446 2008-04-21 (taped 2008-02-12) Regular

Contestants

Brett Kirwan — a naval officer originally from Avon Lake, Ohio

Rosalind Jaffe — a bank manager from Onekama, Michigan

Gabriel Schechter — a researcher from Cooperstown, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Gabriel $2,600 $2,600 $14,600 $1,199
3rd place: $1,000
$15,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Rosalind $3,400 $4,400 $14,000 $11,000
2nd place: $2,000
$14,000
18 R, 2 W
Brett $1,800 $5,600 $8,400 $16,799
New champion: $16,799
$8,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

TRAVEL EUROPE I "LIKE" THIS SONG PRESIDENTIAL PASTIMES RHYME QUEST WHO'S FOR DESSERT? TIME FOR LEFTOVERS
$200 [3]
"Wax" nostalgic (or is that nostalgique?) at Musee Grevin, this capital's answer to Madame Tussaud's
Paris
Rosalind
$200 [16]
This Bob Seger song was used in ads for Chevy trucks
"Like A Rock"
Brett
$200 [8]
He spent time at his California ranch where he could ride horses, chop wood & play the part of a cowboy
Reagan
Gabriel
$200 [13]
A final, as in a final exam
a test
Brett
$200 [1]
In the South, the lemony cake named for this Civil War general is the perfect treat for his birthday, Jan. 19
Robert E. Lee
Brett
$200 [24]
In the nursery rhyme, they're made up of "snips & snails & puppy dog tails"
little boys
Rosalind
$400 [4]
The Barengraben, or bear pits, in this Swiss capital have entertained visitors for centuries
Bern
Rosalind
$400 [20]
Duran Duran made its Top 40 debut with this song
"Hungry Like The Wolf"
Brett
$400 [9]
Warren Harding often had a full house drinking & playing this card game into the wee hours
poker
Gabriel
$400 [14]
Better than better
best
Gabriel
$400 [2]
Let's make the chocolate candies named for this First Lady who was born in Virginia in 1731
Martha Washington
Rosalind
$400 [25]
John Harrington was flush with success in the 1590s with his invention of one of these that flushed
a toilet
Gabriel
$600 [5]
Gripsholm Castle, on an island in Lake Malaren, was built by this country's King Gustav Vasa
Sweden
Gabriel
$600 [21]
This 1965 song begins, "Once upon a time you dressed so fine"
"Like A Rolling Stone"
Rosalind
$600 [10]
As seen in thepicture, Franklin Roosevelt enjoyed stamp collecting, this nine-letter hobby
philately
Brett
$600 [15]
Repose
rest
Rosalind
$600 [17]
Feeling dramatic? Try the rich chocolate cake named for this very dramatic French actress of the 1800s
Sarah Bernhardt
Gabriel
$600 [26]
It's the term for a group of grapes, perhaps a "wild" one
a bunch
Brett
$800 [6]
Some believe the best Greek sweet wine is mavrodaphne, a specialty of this peninsula in Greece
the Peloponnesian peninsula
Brett
$800 [22]
The 2 Madonna No. 1 hits that fit the category
"Like A Virgin" & "Like A Prayer"
Brett
$800 [11]
He liked to box, wrestle & hunt & loved to play tennis; in fact, his group of advisers was known as the Tennis Cabinet
Teddy Roosevelt
Rosalind
$800 [18]
A soiree invitee (if he shows up)
a guest
Brett
DD $800 [29]
Pass the dessert that the French call Reine de Saba; we know it in English as this Biblical woman's cake
the Queen of Sheba
Brett
$800 [27]
Fights broke out in U.S. stores in 1998 between shoppers trying to buy these talking, fuzzy Hasbro toys
Furbies
Rosalind
$1,000 [7]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the Imperial Palace in Vienna, Austria.) The Imperial Chapel is home to the Wiener Sangerknaben, this world-famous group that was formed in 1498
the Vienna Boys' Choir
Gabriel
$1,000 [23]
This entertainment industry anthem was written for the Broadway musical "Annie Get Your Gun"
"There's No Business Like Show Business"
Brett
$1,000 [12]
For exercise, this president seenhereliked to swing Indian clubs
Calvin Coolidge
Rosalind
$1,000 [19]
Gusto
zest
Brett
$1,000 [30]
(Emeril Lagasse whips something up.) I'm beating egg whites to make a Down Under meringue dessert; Aussies so named the dessert because they were impressed with the floating grace of this early 20th century dancer
Pavlova
Rosalind
$1,000 [28]
A quindecennial happens every this many years
15
Gabriel Brett

Double Jeopardy! Round

PHYSICS THEATRE TEXAS BUSINESS TALK MARINE LIFE CROSSWORD CLUES "N"
$400 [16]
This one of the 3 main states of matter has no fixed shape or volume
gas
Gabriel
$400 [7]
Sean O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock" takes place in a tenement house in this capital city
Dublin
Rosalind
$400 [1]
This major league baseball team plays its home games in Arlington, Texas
the Rangers
Brett
$400 [20]
Stockholm or Madrid, or the investment money put up to start a business
capital
Brett
$400 [25]
The green type of this reptile gained protection in the 20th century because of its popular use in soup
a turtle
Rosalind
$400 [6]
One is hit on the head(4)
a nail
Rosalind
$800 [17]
I shot an arrow into the air; if not for friction, it would have formed this plane curve, from the Greek for "to compare"
a parabola
Rosalind
$800 [8]
"Kremlin Chimes" is the second play in Nikolai Pogodin's trilogy about this leader of the Russian Revolution
Lenin
Gabriel
$800 [2]
Texas' only natural lake is Caddo Lake, shared with this state to the east
Louisiana
Gabriel
$800 [21]
From the Latin for "holy", they're economic measures taken against a nation for violating international law
sanctions
Brett
$800 [27]
The black type of this fish with a woman's name is a striking addition to any aquarium
a molly
Rosalind
$800 [12]
About his jacket, critics pandit(5)
Nehru
Gabriel
$1,600 [19]
The special theory of this says that the speed of light in a vacuum is a universal constant
relativity
Brett
$1,200 [9]
This "Electra"fying playwright gets the credit for adding a third actor to Greek tragedies
Sophocles
Rosalind
$1,600 [4]
Anson Jones was the last president of this entity, serving until 1845, when it joined the U.S.
the Republic of Texas
Brett
$1,200 [22]
It's the 3-word scam in which a customer is pressured to buy more expensive items than the ones advertised
bait and switch
$1,200 [28]
Newly hatched octopi live among this group of microscopic plants & animals that float on the ocean's surface
plankton
$1,200 [13]
Nada(7)
nothing
Gabriel
$2,000 [26]
The 1963 Nobel Physics Prize went to the folks who found these have shells, with the outermost being the densest
atomic nuclei
$1,600 [10]
In 1990 this playwright won his second Pulitzer Prize, for "The Piano Lesson"
August Wilson
Rosalind Brett
$2,000 [5]
In 1976 this Texas congresswoman became the first black keynote speaker at a Dem. National Convention
Barbara Jordan
Gabriel Brett
$1,600 [23]
From the Latin for "to roll together", it's a corporation of several companies involved in a variety of businesses
conglomerate
Rosalind
$1,600 [29]
The savory silver salmon with its bright red flesh is also known by this 4-letter name
coho
Gabriel
$1,600 [14]
Country music city(9)
Nashville
Brett
DD $3,000 [18]
(Jon of the Clue Crew shows himself on the monitor, swiveling around in a chair with dumbbells in his hands, extending and contracting his arms.) When I draw my arms inward, my angular velocity increases because my angular mass decreases; the product of those two quantities is called angular this
momentum
Gabriel
$2,000 [11]
This "diminuitive" Edward Albee play was first produced on Broadway in 1964
Tiny Alice
Gabriel
DD $3,400 [3]
Several states including Texas have this cooking-utensil feature: Oklahoma, Florida & Nebraska, for example
a panhandle
Gabriel
$2,000 [24]
Abbreviated "MFN", it's the clause in an international trade agreement that grants signatory countries the same tariff rate
most favoured nation
Rosalind
$2,000 [30]
Less than half an inch long, this tiny fish is found in the Indian Ocean, not in an Asian desert
the gobi
Rosalind
$2,000 [15]
It falls daily(5)
night
Gabriel

Final Jeopardy!

MILITARY MEN

In a 1944 speech, he said, "Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge"

George Patton

Brett "Who is Patton?" — wagered $8,399
Rosalind "Who is MacArthur" — wagered $3,000
Gabriel "Who is Eisenhower?" — wagered $13,401

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