Show #5527 2008-09-23 (taped 2008-07-16) Regular

Contestants

Elza Reeves — a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky

Mike Bindis — a graduate student originally from Garfield Heights, Ohio

Tom Witek — a high school math teacher from Gurnee, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $51,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tom $2,000 $4,000 $8,200 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$16,400
22 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs)
Mike $800 $800 $7,600 $1
2nd place: $2,000
$7,600
10 R, 1 W
Elza $3,800 $8,000 $16,400 $16,400
New champion: $16,400
$16,200
21 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

GRAMMAR CLOSING WORDS IN THE CINEMA MY OFF-SHOW WARDROBE 5 PEOPLE WHO'VE NEVER BEEN IN MY KITCHEN A LINE IN THE SAND
$200 [1]
In the sentence "It was as if an occult hand had been at work", "occult" is this part of speech
an adjective
Tom
$200 [6]
1964:"Eliza? Where the devil are my slippers?"
My Fair Lady
Tom
$200 [11]
I still have this artsy rhyming type of shirt seen here from the time I toured with The Dead back in '73, man
tie-dye
Elza
$200 [12]
In January 1999 Ted Kennedy & John McCain were sworn in as jurors in this man's trial
Bill Clinton
Mike
$200 [24]
This 18th c. line & its extensions westward became the boundary between Northern & Southern states
the Mason-Dixon line
Tom
$200 [19]
This bird rearranges its eggs in the sand--hence the belief it's burying its head
an ostrich
Tom
$400 [2]
As in this clue, ending a sentence with one of these is a practice some don't agree with
preposition
Tom
$400 [7]
1961:"Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool.""So do you, Fast Eddie"
The Hustler
Tom
$400 [17]
I'm kickin' it island-style in these geographically named shorts I sport here
Bermuda
Elza
$400 [13]
Known as the "White Mouse", New Zealand spy Nancy Wake was the Allies' most decorated woman in this war
World War II
Elza
$400 [25]
The Yamanote Line, this city's busiest train line, carries more than 3.5 million people a day
Tokyo
Elza
$400 [20]
This fanged, hairy spider of the Southwest desert can live up to 30 years
a tarantula
Tom
$600 [3]
"As the sun set" is known as a "sentence" this
fragment
Tom
$600 [8]
1979:"This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off. Come on, Cat"
Alien
Elza
$600 [18]
Hey, there, Daddy-O--it's the rhymin' name of the threads I'm stylin'here
a zoot suit
Tom
$600 [14]
On April 9, 2005 England celebrated the happy nuptials of Prince Charles & this woman
Camilla Parker Bowles
Tom Mike
$600 [28]
In the 1930s Germany built fortifications called the Siegfried Line on the west side of this river
Rhine
Tom
$600 [21]
The name of this wild canine now found across the U.S. comes from an Aztec word
coyote
Elza
$800 [4]
As necessary to complete the idea, the last 3 words of "I like men who bake bread" form a restrictive type of this
clause
Tom
$800 [9]
1975:"I used to hate the water.""I can't imagine why"
Jaws
Elza
$800 [26]
It's the '70s casual attire I'min here--I burned all the real pics of me in one
a leisure suit
Mike
$800 [15]
In 1976 Judy Rankin became the first woman to win more than $100,000 in a year playing this pro sport
golf
Elza
$800 [29]
The Curzon Line, proposed in 1919, became essentially the boundary between Poland & this country in 1945
Russia (the Soviet Union)
Mike Elza
DD $1,000 [22]
Russian thistle is also called this, since the plant detaches from its base & scatters seeds as it rolls
tumbleweed
Elza
$1,000 [5]
It's best to use this type of voice when possible; "Bob ate the pie" is good... "The pie was eaten by Bob", not so much
active
Elza
$1,000 [10]
1968:"Boys, let's watch the cigarette butts, shall we? This is my house, not a pigsty"
The Odd Couple
$1,000 [27]
I think this '50s fashion seenherelooks good on me--hey, who are you to judge?
a poodle skirt
Elza
$1,000 [16]
Alois is the middle name of this current U.S. governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger
$1,000 [30]
In 1949 Israel & Jordan created the Green Line between them, determining the boundary of this troubled area
the West Bank
Tom
$1,000 [23]
This desert insect was part of Egyptian cosmogony; it was the Sun, & its rolled food was the Earth
a scarab beetle
Tom

Double Jeopardy! Round

BRITISH AUTHORS POP SINGERS ALL ABOUT ARTISTS BUSINESS LAND OF THE DICTATOR ____ OF ____
$400 [1]
He made recordings reading from some of his own works, including "Poems and Songs of Middle-earth"
Tolkien
Elza
$400 [26]
Despite her name, this woman who replaced Kim Hill in the Black Eyed Peas has never been married to Prince Andrew
Fergie
Elza
$400 [13]
To honor peace, Jean Verame painted some 4 mi. of Sinai Desert boulders blue; this intl. org. donated the paint
the United Nations
Mike
$400 [21]
Valero Energy is tops in the U.S. in this fuel-producing activity, with capacity of 3.1 bil. bbl. of oil a day
refining
Mike
$400 [3]
Robert Mugabe
Zimbabwe
Tom
$400 [8]
Date of the next federal holiday after Memorial Day
Fourth of July
Elza
$800 [2]
As a youth, this "War of the Worlds" author studied biology under the great scientist Thomas H. Huxley
H.G. Wells
Tom
$800 [27]
The 2008 "American Idol" finale featured a medley of his hits, including "Father Figure"
George Michael
Elza
$800 [17]
Damien Hirst decorated a cast of a skull with 8,601 of these gems & sold the darn thing for $100 million
diamonds
Mike
$800 [22]
Add 2 letters to the name of a soft drink to get this company that also owns Tropicana & Frito-Lay
PepsiCo
Elza
$800 [4]
Manuel Noriega
Panama
Mike
$800 [9]
This classic from 1939 features a load of Joads, including Ma, Pa & Tom
The Grapes of Wrath
Elza
$1,200 [14]
His first novel, "Lord of the Flies", was rejected by 21 publishers before Faber & Faber bought the book
(William) Golding
Tom
$1,200 [28]
The globe she posed with for the May '08 cover of Vanity Fair was auctioned off for her charity, Raising Malawi
Madonna
Mike
$1,200 [18]
Pietro Torrigiano is remembered not so much for his art as for breaking this fellow Florentine sculptor's nose
Michelangelo
Tom
$1,200 [23]
Seen here is part of the logo of IP, short for International this
Paper
Tom Elza
$1,200 [5]
Anastazio Somoza
Nicaragua
Tom
$1,200 [10]
This 36-mile-long body of water separates southernmost Spain from the northern coast of Africa
the Strait of Gibraltar
Tom
$2,000 [16]
His short story "Rain" was inspired by a missionary & a prostitute who were passengers aboard his ship on a trip to Samoa
(Somerset) Maugham
Tom
$1,600 [29]
"Vagabond Ways" was a 2000 CD from this singer who'd been the "loyal" girlfriend of Mick Jagger in the '60s
Marianne Faithfull
Elza
$1,600 [19]
Jean-Paul Sartre was so moved by this artist's mobiles that he called them "the perceptible symbol of nature"
(Alexander) Calder
Mike
$1,600 [24]
Bigger than PETCO, this leash & litter-box retailer also operates "Doggie Day Camps"
PetSmart
Mike
$1,600 [6]
Milton Obote
Uganda
Tom
$1,600 [11]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew waves a reflective stick through a projected image.) Even when a projected image appears to be gone, you can still see it when I wave this stick because of this phenomenon in which the light detectors in the eye send signals to the brain
the persistence of vision
DD $3,000 [15]
She opened a 1938 novel with the line "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again"
Daphne du Maurier
Tom
$2,000 [30]
"I don't wanna be a loser", cried this girl singer in 1964; well, it's her party
Lesley Gore
Elza
$2,000 [20]
Last name of the artistic American siblings Rembrandt & Raphaelle; it has a nice "ring" to it
Peale
$2,000 [25]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a vintage electronics product at Sony Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.) When it was launched in 1979, this Sony product was to have a different name in each country, like the "Soundabout" in the U.S. & the "Stowaway" in England
the Walkman
Tom
$2,000 [7]
Charles Taylor
Liberia
Tom
DD $5,200 [12]
In 1950 Scottish nationalists stole this object from under the coronation chair at Westminster Abbey
the Stone of Scone
Tom

Final Jeopardy!

TENNIS

This Grand Slam stadium is named for a WWI pilot who pioneered the use of machine guns on fighter planes

Roland-Garros Stadium

Mike "What is Arthur Ashe?" — wagered $7,599
Tom "What is Rickenbacker?" — wagered $8,200
Elza "What is Messerschmidt?" — wagered $0

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