Show #5498 2008-07-02 (taped 2008-03-25) Regular

Contestants

Joe Parodi — a Spanish teacher from Thompson, Connecticut

Georgia Hiesterman — an aerospace engineer from Aurora, Colorado

Darryl Tahirali — a proposal writer originally from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Darryl $5,000 $6,400 $17,200 $28,401
2-day champion: $56,802
$17,200
25 R, 2 W
Georgia $800 $2,800 $14,200 $7,600
2nd place: $2,000
$19,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Joe $400 $2,000 $7,600 $6,000
3rd place: $1,000
$7,600
10 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

ROSEBUD PLAY IT, SAM WE'RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE IS IT SAFE? GO AHEAD, MAKE MY "DAY" I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE
$200 [5]
Appropriately, iceberg roses are this color
white
Darryl
$200 [9]
In 2007, while playing against the Cubs, he slammed his 600th home run
Sammy Sosa
Darryl
$200 [11]
We're attending the Strings in the Mountains chamber music festival in Steamboat Springs in this state
Colorado
Georgia
$200 [1]
A parasite spread by this insect sickens 300 million people a year & kills almost 3 million
the mosquito
Darryl
$200 [7]
It's the trademark name for the brand of really bright colors that was created in 1946
DayGlo
Darryl
$200 [24]
This smallest New England state is known for a specialized shake called a coffee cabinet
Rhode Island
Joe
$400 [6]
This type of rose smells like a certain brewed beverage, hence its name
the tea rose
Georgia
$400 [10]
This Emmy winner from "Law & Order" played the Oscar- nominated role of a reporter in "The Killing Fields"
Sam Waterston
Darryl
$400 [12]
We left Abilene & drove straight north on Highway 15 to Fairbury in this state
Nebraska
Darryl
$400 [2]
Christmas will not be jolly if you happen to eat the red berries from this evergreen holiday bush
holly
Joe
$400 [8]
In "My Darling Clementine", Victor Mature played this gunfighter ally of Henry Fonda's Wyatt Earp
Doc Holliday
Darryl
$400 [25]
This soft-serve chain opened in 1940 & got the shakes 9 years later
Dairy Queen
Georgia
$600 [18]
Call Orville Redenbacher: there are roses called this & "gourmet" this
popcorn
Joe
$600 [13]
One of the great stand-up comics of the 1980s, hewas sadly killed in an auto accident in 1992
Sam Kinison
Darryl
$600 [21]
We're in the Ozarks seeing a show at Andy Williams' Moon River Theatre in this bordering state
Missouri
Darryl Georgia
$600 [3]
This is in the top 3 of the most dangerous professions in the U.S.; most of the fatalities are from drowning
fishing
Darryl Georgia
$600 [16]
Also a Beatles title, it's someone who goes on an excursion in the morning & returns before bedtime, yeah
a day tripper
Darryl
$600 [26]
It's much easier for me to drink your milkshake with the new type of this simple device patented in 1937
a (flexible) straw
Darryl
$800 [19]
The rose known as "Mme. Ferdinand Jamin" became more popular in the U.S. when it was renamed "American" this
American Beauty
Georgia
$800 [14]
With more than 80, this late golf great holds the record for the most PGA tour wins
Sam Snead
Georgia
$800 [22]
We're visiting the Will Rogers Memorial in this state where the humorist is buried
Oklahoma
Georgia
$800 [4]
Though the pygmy & river varieties look comical, Africans consider this 8,000-lb. mammal extremely dangerous
the hippopotamus
Darryl
$800 [29]
In 1913 a flood in this "Birthplace of Aviation" city caused about $100 mil. in damage, & that's $100 mil. in 1913 bucks
Dayton, Ohio
Darryl
$800 [27]
Walgreens invented this shake made with barley-infused milk; the double chocolate kind is popular
a malted
Joe
DD $2,600 [20]
Fabric name for roses like the Celsiana, which haspetalsthat look like crumpled silk
a Damask rose
Georgia
$1,000 [15]
In 2002 his rendition of "What Kind Of Fool Am I?" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame
Sammy Davis Jr.
Darryl
$1,000 [23]
We've left Lawrence, Kansas for Lawrence in this state, Leonard Bernstein's birthplace
Massachusetts
$1,000 [17]
This homophonic drug cocktail was a '90s weight-loss dream but was later discovered to be a health nightmare
Fen-phen
Georgia
$1,000 [30]
Early in his career, this English chemist & physicist was an assistant to Sir Humphry Davy
Michael Faraday
$1,000 [28]
He sold milkshake machines to the McDonald Bros.' burger joint, got curious about their operation & soon made history
(Ray) Kroc
Georgia

Double Jeopardy! Round

MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE I'M WALKIN' HERE! FOLLOW THE MONEY SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND HASTA LA VISTA, BABY
$400 [8]
An elite cavalry formation made up of noblemen, the Companions were this Macedonian's shock force vs. the Persians
Alexander the Great
Georgia
$400 [6]
An undeliverable email may come back with the notation "mailer" this, a spirit of Greek myth
daemon
Darryl
$400 [13]
...& I'll be walking for a while, as this structure is more than 3,700 miles long and ends in the Gobi Desert
the Great Wall of China
Joe
$400 [18]
Barbados, Belize & Brunei all use a currency called this
the dollar
Darryl
$400 [23]
An 11-year-old is the heroine of Judy Blume's "Are You There, God? It's Me," this girl
Margaret
Georgia
$400 [1]
This airline whose name is a Hawaiian term made its first flight on July 26, 1946
Aloha
Darryl
$800 [9]
Made up of Wisc. & Indiana men, the black felt-hatted Iron Brigade lost more than 50% of its men during this war
the Civil War
Darryl
$800 [7]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew points to an anatomical animation on the monitor.) Making it hard to communicate, inflammation of the structure above the trachea is known as this
laryngitis
Georgia
$800 [14]
...from the Arno up Via Roma to see the plumbline-challenged highlight of this city
Pisa
Darryl
$800 [19]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us the money from Kyoto, Japan.) The name of this Japanese currency means "round" because of the new round coins that replaced oval & other-shaped ones in the 1870s
the yen
Joe
$800 [24]
This last name of Dorothy in the "Wizard of Oz" books is appropriate, since it is a synonym of "cyclone"
Gale
Georgia
$800 [2]
Random House gives its etymology as "Spanish: literally, to God"
adios
Darryl Joe
$1,200 [10]
The Ironsides were an elite cavalry that fought for this non-royal at the Battle of Marston Moor
(Oliver) Cromwell
Darryl
$1,600 [29]
"I telegraphed and phoned / I sent an airmail special too / Your answer was goodbye / There was even" this from the USPS
postage due
Joe
$1,200 [15]
...& now I'm running as I'm in the Festival of San Fermin in this city, & a bull named El Terrible is right behind me
Pamplona
Darryl
$1,200 [20]
Turkey still uses a currency called this, though Italy no longer does
the lira
Joe
$1,200 [25]
Asia, Australia & Europena are 3 of the children of "Mrs. Wiggs of" this title "Patch"
Cabbage
Georgia
$1,200 [3]
Heidi Klum's catchphrase on "Project Runway"
auf Wiedersehen
Darryl
$1,600 [11]
This "venerable" elite fighting force created in 1804 made Napoleon's last charge at Waterloo
the Old Guard
Darryl
DD $2,000 [28]
Stephen King would know this term for an area where cell phone reception drops out
a dead zone
Georgia
$1,600 [16]
...heeding the call of the deep, toward the Eastern Harbor in this main Egyptian seaport
Alexandria
Georgia
$1,600 [21]
Nepal, Bhutan, India & this island nation off India all use the rupee as their currency
Sri Lanka
Darryl
$1,600 [26]
In an 1881 novel, Fraulein Rottenmeier makes things rotten for this title girl
Heidi
Georgia
$1,600 [4]
There are 3 vowels in this 4-letter Italian word for "so long"
ciao
Georgia
$2,000 [12]
A group of 150 male-male pairs, the Sacred Band was an elite fighting unit of this city of Oedipus
Thebes
Joe
$2,000 [30]
The Arabic wordgirbal, "sieve", gave us this word meaning to scramble a message so it's incomprehensible
garble
Georgia
$2,000 [17]
...at the Rogundam, which is about 75 miles from Dushanbe, the capital of this former Soviet republic
Tajikistan
Georgia
$2,000 [22]
Guatemala's national currency is named after this colorful bird, seen here
the quetzal
Joe
DD $3,000 [27]
11 little girls all cried, "Boohoo! We want a Caldecott Medal, too!" when a book about her "Rescue" won a medal in 1954
Madeline
Georgia
$2,000 [5]
A 1954 James Michener book, or a 1957 film with Ricardo Montalban as Nakamura(Nakamura?)
Sayonara
Darryl

Final Jeopardy!

AFI's TOP 100 MOVIE QUOTES

This quote, No. 31 on the list, comes 2 minutes after the No. 1 quote, & is the last line of its movie

After all, tomorrow is another day!

Joe "What is Here's looking at you, kid" — wagered $1,600
Georgia "What is We'll always have Paris?" — wagered $6,600
Darryl "What isthis istomorrow is another day?" — wagered $11,201

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