Show #5519 2008-09-11 (taped 2008-07-15) Regular

Contestants

Daniel Scott — a college English professor from Providence, Rhode Island

Daphne Matalene — a magazine editor from New York, New York

Laura Novak — a family doctor from Akron, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Laura $4,400 $6,000 $13,200 $17,200
2nd place: $2,000
$12,800
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Daphne $2,400 $7,400 $17,200 $26,401
New champion: $26,401
$20,000
22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Daniel $1,400 $4,200 $7,400 $14,600
3rd place: $1,000
$7,400
13 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

REDS SHAMPOO LOVE AFFAIR SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS WARREN BEATTY
$200 [1]
In a 1948 work, this commie observed, "the people are like water and the army is like fish"
Mao Zedong
Laura Daniel
$200 [4]
Johnson's Baby Shampoo promises "no more" these
tears
Laura
$200 [12]
Mr. Bingley leases an estate near the 5 unwed Bennet daughters in this 1813 novel; complications ensue
Pride and Prejudice
Laura
$200 [11]
This French palace is synonymous with splendor, & a 1998 museum exhibit was called the "Splendors of" it
Versailles
Daphne
$200 [23]
This woody grass has been known to grow 4 feet in 24 hours
bamboo
Daphne
$200 [21]
In 1990 Warren starred as this square-jawed comic book detective
Dick Tracy
Laura
$400 [2]
Born in Argentina, this commie helped take over Cuba & later died in Bolivia
Che Guevara
Daniel
$400 [7]
In the early 1960s, Procter & Gamble launched an anti-dandruff shampoo under this brand name
Head & Shoulders
Daniel
$400 [13]
This 1878 title gal has a child with her hubby Alexei but her affair with Vronsky is what gets her preggers again
Anna Karenina
Laura
$400 [17]
The First Book of Chronicles says, "Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and" this
the glory
Laura
$400 [27]
Thistype of grass is named for the plains it covers (what do I hear?--the hoofbeats of a gaucho?)
pampas grass
Laura Daniel
$400 [22]
A tagline for this 1967 Warren Beatty film said, "They're young. They're in love. They rob banks"
Bonnie and Clyde
Laura
$600 [3]
He's been lying in state in Moscow since 1924 & gets a change of clothes every 3 years
Lenin
Daphne
$600 [8]
This classic green shampoo was introduced in 1947 in a metal tube (glass bottles broke in the shower)
Prell
Laura
$600 [14]
Francesca really gets into National Geographic (well, a photographer for it, anyway) in this novel
The Bridges of Madison County
Daphne
$600 [18]
This synonym for "splendor" often refers to high intelligence, or to the shine of a diamond
brilliance
Daphne
$600 [28]
Timothy grass is considered the best grass for making this (while the sun shines, of course)
hay
Daphne
$600 [24]
L.A. Ram Warren Beatty comes back to life in the body of a recently murdered millionaire in this comedy from 1978
Heaven Can Wait
Daniel
$800 [5]
In 1940 Ramon Mercader gave this commie the axe... literally!
Trotsky
Daniel
$800 [9]
"Never wear black without the blue"--this shampoo
Selsun Blue
Laura
DD $1,000 [15]
This title medico's life is disrupted by war & his love for Lara, wife of a revolutionary; the Bolsheviks don't help, either
Doctor Zhivago
Daphne
$800 [19]
It can be the glow some people give off, or, in physics, the quality of emitting heat or light
radiance
Daphne
$800 [29]
Among the most important grasses are cereal grains, like this one seenherethat's sometimes made into meal
oats
Daphne
$800 [25]
Warren Beatty plays a disillusioned senator who falls for Halle Berry in this 1998 film
Bulworth
Daniel
$1,000 [6]
What a Christmas present! This country's last commie leader, Nicolae Ceausescu, was executed Dec. 25, 1989
Romania
Laura
$1,000 [10]
Brooke Shields & Kim Basinger are 2 of the "girls" who appeared in ads for this shampoo
Breck
Laura
$1,000 [16]
Thornfield Hall's attic holds a surprise wedding guest for this title governess, but love wins out in the end
Jane Eyre
Daphne
$1,000 [20]
Latin splendere, "to shine", gives us splendid, splendor & this adjective for "dazzling in appearance"
splendiferous (or resplendent)
Daphne
$1,000 [30]
A type of grass popular for golf greens is named for this British colony in the North Atlantic
Bermuda grass
Daniel
$1,000 [26]
Roger Ebert said this 1987 Hoffman & Beatty film was "a lifeless, massive, lumbering exercise in failed comedy"
Ishtar
Laura

Double Jeopardy! Round

TOUGH BODIES OF WATER CELEBS' ORIGINAL NAMES INSTRUMENTAL ANNUAL EVENTS ANATOMY "FOR" WORDS
$400 [7]
Turkey forms the southern border of this sea
the Black Sea
Laura
$400 [19]
NBA legend Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Laura
$400 [1]
Earl Scruggs could tell you this 5-stringed instrument originated in Africa
a banjo
Laura
$400 [9]
On the second Sunday of June, the 1967 Summer of Love is re-created at the Haight Street Fair in this city
San Francisco
Daphne
$400 [2]
As opposed to the muscular or skeletal system, the heart, blood & blood vessels are parts of this system
the circulatory system
Laura
$400 [26]
It's inevitable, there's nothing I can do to change it, it's this type of conclusion
foregone
Daphne
$800 [8]
Outlaw Rob Roy used to hang out on the bonny bonny banks of this largest Scottish lake
Loch Lomond
Daphne
$800 [22]
Pop singer Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis
Tony Orlando
Laura
$800 [14]
The reeds of this instrument are positioned to sound whether you blow or suck through the wind channels
harmonica
Laura
$800 [10]
In an annual ceremony, on Nov. 20, 2007, President Bush pardoned 2 of these named May & Flower
turkeys
Daphne
$800 [3]
A thin, tough fibrous material called the renal capsule covers the outer surface of these organs
kidneys
Daniel
$800 [27]
It can precede cookie, hunter & teller
fortune
Daphne
$1,200 [18]
Ethiopia's Lake Tana serves as the main source of this "colorful" river
the Blue Nile
Daniel
$1,200 [23]
"American Idol" heartthrob Clayton Holmes Grissom
Clay Aiken
Daphne
$1,200 [15]
Patented in 1835, this instrument was designed to provide a suitable valved brass bass for a wind band
the tuba
Daniel
$1,200 [11]
The foundation honoring this holiday says, "We inspire people to plant, nurture, and celebrate trees"
Arbor Day
Daphne
$1,200 [4]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew hangs out with a skeleton.) Allowing the lower leg to move backward & forward in the same way that a door opens & closes, the knee is considered this type of joint
a hinge
Daniel
$1,200 [28]
Food for domestic animals, it also means to search for food or provisions
forage
Daniel
DD $2,000 [20]
Major gulfs extending from this sea include the Mosquito Gulf & the Gulf of Darien
the Caribbean Sea
Laura
$1,600 [24]
Film star Thomas Mapother IV
Tom Cruise
Daphne
$1,600 [16]
The Japanese tsuzumi is just one type of this instrument that is a stretched head held taut across a shell
a drum
Daniel
$2,000 [13]
On Nov. 11, 1953 in Emporia, Kansas, this holiday was first observed under its current name
Veterans Day
Daphne
$1,600 [5]
Glucose levels in the blood are regulated by 2 pancreatic hormones: glucagon & this
insulin
Laura
$1,600 [29]
Medical jurisprudence is another name for this branch of medicine
forensic
Daphne
$2,000 [21]
This Canadian province's largest lake is Bras d'Or, a saltwater lake lying on Cape Breton Island
Nova Scotia
Daphne
$2,000 [25]
Film director Raimund Liebling, who's "wanted and desired"
Roman Polanski
Daniel
$2,000 [17]
(Jon of the Clue Crew strikes a tuning fork and then touches it to the table.) Touching the tuning fork to a larger surface makes the noise louder, the same way a piano or guitar uses this type of board for amplification
a sounding board
Laura
DD $3,000 [12]
Each June 60,000 visitors are served bowls of cereal in this Michigan city's Cereal City Festival
Battle Creek
Daphne
$2,000 [6]
A largeforeheaddoesn't indicate smartness; it indicates a large one of these bones that form the forehead
the frontal bone
Laura
$2,000 [30]
From the Latin word for "ant", it's an anthill or nest
formicary
Laura Daniel

Final Jeopardy!

LINES FROM 19th CENTURY NOVELS

"My two natures had memory in common, but all other faculties were most unequally shared between them"

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Daniel "What isDrJekyllandMrHyde?" — wagered $7,200
Laura "What is Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde" — wagered $4,000
Daphne "What is Dr. Jekyll + Mr. Hyde?" — wagered $9,201

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