Show #5490 2008-06-20 (taped 2008-03-18) Regular

Dave Simpson game 5.

Contestants

Matt Phillips — an exhibit developer from Munhall, Pennsylvania

Doris Nash — a costume shop supervisor from Ames, Iowa

Dave Simpson — a pastor from Belcamp, Maryland (whose 4-day cash winnings total $88,901)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dave $1,800 $3,600 $14,400 $28,800
2nd place: $2,000
$10,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Doris $2,800 $8,000 $25,000 $28,801
New champion: $28,801
$22,200
26 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Matt $2,800 $4,200 $7,800 $14,800
3rd place: $1,000
$7,800
15 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE 20th CENTURY MOVIE MR. & MRS. SOUNDS LIKE A GAME SHOW HOST THE BAHAMAS, BOLIVIA OR BULGARIA RAISE THE FLAG, PLEASE OH, I'VE GOT A 4-LETTER WORD FOR YOU
$200 [6]
The full popular name of this military personnel policy announced in 1993 included "Don't Pursue"
Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Doris
$200 [7]
It's the title couple played by Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie in a 2005 movie
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Doris
$200 [12]
Thisrock legend is, to our knowledge, not a secret agent
Chuck Berry
Matt
$200 [21]
An archipelago
the Bahamas
Dave
$200 [26]
Site of a famous flag raising, Mount Suribachi s found on this isle
Iwo Jima
Dave
$200 [1]
Basically jail on a ship, it's the boat compartment where prisoners are confined
brig
Doris
$400 [17]
Congress approved $50M for the celebration of this, part of which is seen here
the Bicentennial
Dave
$400 [8]
For that dude to look like a lady in this 1993 film, Robin Williams had to undergo makeup sessions 4 1/2 hours long
Mrs. Doubtfire
Doris
$400 [13]
She wasn't in Jeopardy against Gabriele Seyfert when she won a gold in figure skating at Grenoble in 1968
Peggy Fleming
Doris
$400 [22]
Has the highest population of the 3, with about 9 million
Bolivia
Doris Matt
$400 [27]
The 2 colors on this Scandinavian country's flag are blue & yellow
Sweden
Matt
$400 [2]
To decrease in strength; moon-wise, it's the opposite of wax
wane
Matt
$600 [18]
On his 70th birthday, December 21, 1949, this Soviet leader set up his own "peace prizes"
Stalin
Matt
$600 [9]
Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman) tells this character, "I think you're the most attractive of all my parents' friends"
Mrs. Robinson
Matt
$600 [14]
This mother seenheredied in a four-hour battle with the FBI in 1935
Ma Barker
Doris
$600 [23]
Member of the British Commonwealth
the Bahamas
Doris
$600 [28]
On the flag of Malawi, one of these represents the dawn of hope & independence for Africa
a sun
Doris
$600 [3]
To avoid taking unnecessary risks, "play it close to" this piece of clothing
the vest
Matt
$800 [19]
Having missed out on this ceremony at age 13, Henny Youngman had one in 180 at age 73
a Bar Mitzvah
Doris
$800 [10]
In a 1967 movie, this actor spoke the line "They call me Mr. Tibbs"
Sidney Poitier
Doris
$800 [15]
Newlyweds know that he wobbled as coach of the Jets in Super Bowl III but didn't fall down
Weeb Ewbank
Dave
$800 [24]
Uses the Lev as its unit of currency
Bulgaria
Matt
$800 [29]
The cross of this saint is seen on the flag of Scotland
St. Andrew
Doris
$800 [4]
Greek to me, it means a very small quantity (like this word's total number of consonants--one)
iota
$1,000 [20]
In April 1955, Great Britain became the garden of this man, Churchill's successor as Prime Minister
Sir Anthony Eden
$1,000 [11]
In a 1992 movie, he played comic Buddy Young Jr., "Mr. Saturday Night"
Billy Crystal
Matt
$1,000 [16]
Hefought terrorism for Reagan, Clinton & Bush I, but accused Bush II of doing a terrible job
Richard Clarke
$1,000 [25]
12% Muslim
Bulgaria
Dave
DD $2,000 [30]
It's the constellation seen on the flags of New Zealand & Australia
the Southern Cross
Doris
$1,000 [5]
The nerve of this ancient region of Europe, consisting of Cisalpine & Transalpine divisions!
Gaul
Dave

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE BIBLE BIG BROTHERS WOMEN OF THE WORLD AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS SUMO JEOPORTMANTEAU!
$400 [1]
A 1631 edition was known as "the Wicked Bible"; it had left this word out of the 7th Commandment in Exodus 20:14
not
Doris
$400 [16]
(Julie Chen of CBS'Big Brotherreads the clue.) Charlie Sheen's films with this big brother include "Men At Work" & "Young Guns"
Emilio Estevez
Matt
$400 [2]
In an email that surfaced after her murder, she said if anything happened to her, Pres. Musharraf was responsible
Benazir Bhutto
Dave
$400 [11]
Mark Twain said he began writing a new Tom Sawyer book narrated by this scamp but, sadly for us, "destroyed it"
Huckleberry Finn
Matt
$400 [26]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands between two large men holding diapers.) Quite a lot of this rich fabric goes into a "mawashi", which wraps several times around the sumo wrestler
silk
Doris
$400 [21]
A pointed fastener used on bulletin boards plus an apex
a pushpinnacle
$800 [3]
Festus interrupted a speech by this apostle claiming, "Much learning doth make thee mad"
Paul
Dave
$800 [17]
In 2008 quarterback Jordan Palmer signed with the Cincinnati Bengals to back up this big brother
Carson Palmer
Dave
$800 [7]
Only religious music was broadcast on the radio for 2 weeks after her July 26, 1952 death in Buenos Aires
Eva Peron
Doris
$800 [12]
Charles Dickens gave this family 6 children, but only named 4 of them: Martha, Belinda, Peter & Tim
the Cratchits
Doris
$800 [27]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands near a sumo match.) Sumo's ties to this native Japanese religion are symbolized in many ways; thecanopysuspended above the ring is made to resemble the roof of a shrine
Shintoism
Dave
$800 [22]
One who is possibly the perp plus a muscle in the chest
a suspectoral
Dave
$1,200 [4]
The stories of Gideon & Samson are found in this book of the Bible
Judges
Dave
$1,200 [18]
Dave Davies of this band hasn't always looked up to big brother Ray as they're known for fighting on stage
The Kinks
Doris
$1,600 [9]
Before opening her own schools, she had her own methods of teaching anthropology at the Univ. of Rome
(Maria) Montessori
Doris Matt
$1,200 [13]
In "The Big Four", Agatha Christie gave him a mysterious "twin brother" named Achille
Hercule Poirot
Doris
$1,200 [28]
(Cheryl reports again from ringside.) The object is to power your opponent out of the ring; punching & choking are not allowed and are called "kinjite", which means "forbidden" this body part
hand
Doris
$1,200 [23]
Cone-shaped dwelling plus hide-your-face game played with youngsters
teepeekaboo
Doris Matt
$2,000 [6]
According to Jeremiah, this place seems to be short of balm & physicians
Gilead
Doris Matt
$1,600 [19]
The 8th of 9 Wahlberg children, he was the "new kid" until he became big brother to Mark
Donnie Wahlberg
Matt
$2,000 [10]
In the 1980s this South African singer & political activist clicked with Paul Simon, joining him on his Graceland tour
(Miriam) Makeba
Dave
$1,600 [14]
In "Wide Sargasso Sea", West Indian author Jean Rhys wrote about the West Indian 1st wife of this "Jane Eyre" hero
Rochester
Matt
$1,600 [29]
(Jimmy reports again from the match.) Sumo wretlers take new names, sometimes ending with "kawa", meaning "river", or "yama", which is this appropriate geographical feature
mountain
Doris
$1,600 [24]
Elastic synthetic fabric plus skill & grace in physical movement
Spandexterity
DD $6,000 [5]
I Corinthians states, "As in" this man "all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive"
Adam
Dave
$2,000 [20]
Siblings Elisabeth & Andrew in this family made the 2007 film "Gracie", a tribute to their late older brother William
the Shues
Matt
DD $3,000 [8]
After her coffee plantation failed, this author got out of Africa & returned to Denmark
(Isak) Dinesen
Doris
$2,000 [15]
This author was the son of a doctor, & he made the father of his alter ego Nick Adams a doctor, too
Hemingway
Dave Matt
$2,000 [30]
(Cheryl indicates a wrestler's haircut.) Top sumo wrestlers may wear the topknot in a fan-like shape to resemble the leaf of this sacred tree
ginkgo
Doris Matt
$2,000 [25]
Annual publication with tables & forecasts plus something out of place in time
an almanachronism
Doris

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY SCIENCE

In 1824 Anglican priest William Buckland wrote a pioneering paper on Megalosaurus, a creature whose name means this

lizard

Matt "What is large lizard?" — wagered $7,000
Dave "What is giant lizard?" — wagered $14,400
Doris "What is big lizard?" — wagered $3,801

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