Show #5532 2008-09-30 (taped 2008-08-19) Regular

Contestants

Tova Perlmutter — a nonprofit executive from Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Matt Saxe — a fundraiser originally from St. Louis, Missouri

Wes Pierce — a financial planner from Anaheim Hills, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Wes $1,800 $5,400 $19,800 $19,599
2-day champion: $33,800
$19,800
25 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Matt $0 $2,800 $4,800 $2,800
2nd place: $2,000
$4,800
7 R, 3 W
Tova $4,200 $6,400 $20,000 $399
3rd place: $1,000
$15,200
21 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

"I" ON THE WORLD 1990s POP/ROCK AIRLINE CARRY-ON NO-NOs WORDS IN SEPTEMBER COLORADO WHY DON'T YOU COME TO YOUR SENSES?
$200 [9]
In ancient times, Babylonia was located in the southern part of what is now this country
Iraq
Tova
$200 [1]
Take a bow if you know that "Take A Bow" was a big hit for her
Madonna
Tova
$200 [6]
Chlorine for the pool? Nope. Used as this type of liquid chemical whitener? Also no
bleach
Wes
$200 [22]
Neil Armstrong famously took a small one
step
Matt
$200 [16]
Choosing "or bust", in Nov. 1806 Ol' Zebulon made it partway up but didn't summit this featured later named for him
Pike's Peak
Wes
$200 [2]
It's how polar bears sense a dead whale 20 miles away
smell
Wes
$400 [10]
In 1964 & 1976 this resort city in Austria hosted the Winter Olympics
Innsbruck
Tova
$400 [3]
In a 1995 hit he asked, "Have you ever really loved a woman?"
Bryan Adams
Wes
$400 [27]
Sorry, Dr. Scholl, but gel inserts for these aren't allowed
shoes
Tova
$400 [23]
Approximately 1.094 yards
meter
Tova
$400 [17]
On July 11, 1955 the first class of cadets for this academy was sworn in at its temporary location in Denver
the Air Force Academy
Wes
$400 [5]
Fantastic, groovy, "out of" this, man
sight
Tova
$600 [11]
In Roman times, this peninsula was known as Hispania
Iberia
Wes
$600 [4]
Their "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" was featured in the movie "Armageddon"
Aerosmith
Tova
$600 [28]
Funny you should ask, but no, you can't bring this electrified rod for driving livestock in your carry-on
a cattle prod
Wes
$600 [24]
A destructive insect, or just anyone annoying you
pest
Matt
$600 [18]
This architect's Mile High Center in Denver was completed in 1956; we'd like your initial reaction
I.M. Pei
Tova
$600 [14]
It's a session in which testimony is presented before a judge in a lawsuit
hearing
Tova
$800 [12]
The Bosporus Bridge links the Asiatic & European sections of this city
Istanbul
Tova
$800 [7]
In the '90s they peppered the charts with songs like "Wannabe" and "Say You'll Be There"
The Spice Girls
Matt
$800 [29]
Items like this one seen here? Not so much
a snow globe
Wes
$800 [25]
Grolsch or Molson, for example
beer
Tova
$800 [20]
Toot toot! By the late 1930s, this northwest Colorado town shipped itself out as "Ski Town, USA"
Steamboat Springs
Wes
$800 [15]
It's the sense that Simple Simon asks to use
taste
Wes Matt
$1,000 [13]
(Jon of the Clue Crew points to a Southeast Asian region on a map on the monitor.) Once referring to a region controlled by France, today it's simply the name of this peninsula that includes Thailand, Cambodia & Vietnam
Indochina
Tova
$1,000 [8]
In 1992 it was hardly the "End Of The Road" for this group, whose hit spent 13 weeks at No. 1
Boyz II Men
Wes
$1,000 [30]
Like the billy club, this leather-covered club with a rhyming name cannot be in a carry-on bag
a blackjack
Matt
$1,000 [26]
The larch
tree
Matt
DD $1,000 [21]
In 1870 this man helped young men go west by sponsoring a Colorado farming colony
Horace Greeley
Wes
$1,000 [19]
Meissner corpuscles are nerve endings thought to aid this sense
touch

Double Jeopardy! Round

MEDICINE & HISTORY 3 OR MORE WIVES BIBLE BROS FACE BOOK STOCK SYMBOL SHOPPING GOOD "P.R."
$400 [22]
When Queen Victoria's granddaughter married into the Russian royal house, this blood disease went with her
hemophilia
Matt Tova
$400 [15]
Sybil Williams, Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Susan Hunt, Sally Hay
Richard Burton
Wes
$400 [1]
David's son Adonijah asked to wed his late father's nurse; he was denied, & this brother of his had him whacked
Solomon
Matt
$400 [13]
A young woman named Latifa wrote the memoir "My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under" this Afghan group
the Taliban
Tova
$400 [3]
Fill up your basket & focus on this store:TGT
Target
Wes
$400 [8]
"Yankee" before the name of this braised beef dish means that vegetables were added during the cooking process
pot roast
Tova
$800 [26]
Montezuma's real revenge: a 1741 British expedition to conquer Mexico was devastated by this "colorful" disease
yellow fever
Wes
$800 [16]
Donna Peele, Denise Richards, Brooke Mueller
Charlie Sheen
Wes
$800 [2]
In a move that came back to haunt him, this twin brother of Jacob sold his birthright for some lentil soup
Esau
Wes
$800 [27]
Robert Louis Wilken's "The Spirit of Early Christian Thought" is subtitled "Seeking the Face of" him
God
Wes
$800 [4]
For you do-it-yourselfers:HD
Home Depot
Wes
$800 [9]
It has the domain extension .pr
Puerto Rico
Wes
$1,200 [23]
In 1996 Michael DeBakey advised this Russian to have a bypass, prolonging his presidency & life
Yeltsin
Tova
$1,200 [17]
Randall Lee Gosch, Casey Coates, Mary Steenburgen
Ted Danson
Tova
$1,200 [14]
The first called of Jesus' disciples, he was the brother of Simon Peter
Andrew
Wes
$1,200 [28]
Teen Jane Johnson realizes she was kidnapped in Caroline Cooney's "The Face on" this, where missing kids are pictured
a milk carton
Wes
$1,200 [5]
For a good deal on electronics & appliances:BBY
Best Buy
Matt
$1,200 [10]
It's a system in which one's work is evaluated by those in the same field; NIH grants are subject to dual ones
peer review
Wes
$2,000 [25]
Napoleon's invasion of Russia was partly doomed by epidemic typhus, primarily carried by bacteria on this parasite
lice
Tova
$1,600 [20]
Judy Nye, Janie Shirley Smith, Jane Fonda
Ted Turner
Matt
$2,000 [19]
Joseph had 10 half-brothers & only 1 full brother, him
Benjamin
Tova
$1,600 [29]
After penning "My Stroke of Luck", this Hollywood legend shared "90 Years of Living, Loving, & Learning" in "Let's Face It"
Kirk Douglas
$1,600 [6]
For cookbooks, cookware, cutlery & more:WSM
Williams-Sonoma
Wes
$1,600 [11]
This Latin phrase means "determined by share"
pro rata
Wes
DD $3,000 [24]
Generations of inbreeding doomed this dynasty in Spain as Charles II was both witless & childless
Hapsburg
Tova
$2,000 [21]
Melissa Lee Gatlin, Toni Lawrence, Cynda Williams, Pietra Dawn Cherniak, Angelina Jolie
Billy Bob Thornton
Wes
DD $5,000 [18]
This biblical patriarch's brothers were Haran & Nahor, & he was Lot's uncle
Abraham
Tova
$2,000 [30]
"Cover Her Face" is an Adam Dalgliesh mystery by this British woman
P.D. James
Tova
$2,000 [7]
For incense, candles & home accents:PIR
Pier 1 Imports
Wes
$2,000 [12]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew bangs Jimmy of the Clue Crew on the knee.) It's the medical term for the response elicited by a tap on a particular tendon; axons quickly carry the impulse, causing the lower leg to extend
patella reflex
Wes

Final Jeopardy!

PENINSULAR NATIONS

It's the largest country in the world without any permanent natural rivers or lakes

Saudi Arabia

Matt "What is ?" — wagered $2,000
Wes "What is Yemen?" — wagered $201
Tova "What is" — wagered $19,601

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