Show #5547 2008-10-21 (taped 2008-08-27) Regular

Contestants

Eli Edwards — a law student from Newark, California

Mike Maheu — a high school teacher from San Diego, California

Meredith Robbins — a library media specialist from New York, New York (whose 4-day cash winnings total $48,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Meredith $3,600 $5,000 $17,000 $21,000
2nd place: $2,000
$17,000
16 R, 1 W
Mike $2,600 $6,400 $15,200 $30,393
New champion: $30,393
$15,000
22 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Eli $2,000 $5,800 $10,000 $1,500
3rd place: $1,000
$13,000
18 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

IN MEMORIAM 2008 GET THE POINT BORN TO BE MILD LIGHTNING YOUR LOAD THERE WILL BE "UD" AND THEN THERE'S BEA ARTHUR
$200 [21]
This ABC sportscaster long associated with the Olympics didn't get to see the Beijing games, as he died in June
Jim McKay
Eli
$200 [26]
Thissenator
John Kerry
Eli
$200 [11]
On July 6, 1935 he was born in Tibet for either the 1st or 14th time
the Dalai Lama
Mike
$200 [6]
The safest place to be during a thunderstorm is in a building equipped with one of these, invented by Ben Franklin
a lightning rod
Eli
$200 [1]
11 gents conferring on a plan of attack on a football field
a huddle
Eli
$200 [16]
Bea Arthur played this signature role on the small screen from 1972 to 1978
Maude
Mike
$400 [22]
He became the world's most famous beekeeper when he conquered Everest in 1953
Sir Edmund Hillary
Eli
$400 [27]
This Supreme Court justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Mike
$400 [12]
Missionary? Not impossible for him, born in Assisi in 1181 or 1182
St. Francis
Eli
$400 [7]
Of 1 in 500, in 5,000 or in 5 million, the odds of being struck in one's lifetime, according to the NOAA
1 in 5,000
Mike Eli
$400 [2]
What's that, Mr. Kane? Someone said you wanted this?
a rosebud
Meredith
$400 [17]
Bea turned out to be Larry David's real mother on a 2005 episode of this series
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Eli
$600 [23]
Sadly, we'll never again hear this comedian do his "7 words you can never say on TV" routine
George Carlin
Mike
$600 [28]
Thisedifice
the Chrysler Building
Meredith
$600 [13]
This writer began communing with nature on July 12, 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts
Henry David Thoreau
Eli
$600 [8]
This lord of Olympus punished wayward mortals & lesser gods by hurling lightning bolts at them
Zeus
Mike
$600 [3]
A person who does distasteful work; it's also in the name of an online "Report"
a drudge
Meredith Mike
$600 [18]
In 1964 Bea shot to fame as Yente the matchmaker in the original Broadway production of this musical
Fiddler on the Roof
Mike
$800 [24]
A nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, he also hosted the TV show "Firing Line" 1966-1999
William F. Buckley (Jr.)
Eli
$800 [29]
Thisassassin
John Wilkes Booth
Eli
$800 [14]
His Oct. 2, 1869 birth in Porbandar, India would change the world
(Mohandas) Gandhi
Meredith
$800 [9]
Roy Sullivan, who had this outdoorsy job, holds the Guinness record for being hit by lightning: 7 times
a park ranger
Mike
$800 [4]
10-letter term for a difficult, cantankerous person
a curmudgeon
Meredith
$800 [19]
Bea won her second Emmy for playing Dorothy Zbornak on this sitcom
The Golden Girls
Meredith
$1,000 [25]
This Oscar-winning director's very literary output included "Cold Mountain" & "The English Patient"
Anthony Minghella
Eli
$1,000 [30]
Thisship's memorial
the Arizona
Mike
$1,000 [15]
No "blockhead", this cartoonist drew his first breath in Minneapolis on Nov. 26, 1922
Charles Schulz
Eli
DD $1,200 [10]
The leading cause of indoor lightning injuries involves the use of this everyday device
the telephone
Mike
$1,000 [5]
This Bible book covers the period between Joshua's death & Saul's accession to the throne
Judges
Meredith
$1,000 [20]
In 1979 Bea hosted this late night comedy show & The Roches were the musical guest
Saturday Night Live
Mike

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE HUMAN BODY HITCHCOCK FILMS IN OTHER WORDS "M": A NATION THE MISSING DRINK I HAVE A QUESTION WHAT'VE YOU GOT THERE?
$400 [11]
The name of the hypoglossal nerve tells you it's situated under this
the tongue
Mike
$400 [1]
Romijn or De Mornay
Rebecca
Eli
DD $? [4]
This nation comprises more than 2,000 small islands in the western Pacific Ocean
Micronesia
Mike
$400 [21]
Harvey____of magnesia
milk
Mike
$400 [16]
Macbeth asks, "Is this" this "which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?"
a dagger
Eli
$400 [26]
Oh, it's the golden dollar coin, featuring this woman, that was released into circulation on January 27, 2000
Sacagawea
Mike
$800 [12]
(Jon of the Clue Crew plays with a skeleton.) The knee is the joint where thefemur, the body's longest bone, meets this large shin bone
the tibia
Mike
$800 [2]
Members of the class Aves
The Birds
Mike
$400 [3]
A tiny, hilly wedge, it lies 9 miles east of Nice, France
Monaco
Mike
$800 [22]
Heavy____skier
water
Meredith Mike
$800 [17]
Act IV of this writer's 1904 play has the line"Do you believe in fairies?" (He didn't add "Yes!")
J.M. Barrie
Meredith
$800 [27]
The cutterhereis used to remove the end of one of these before its use
a cigar
Meredith
$1,200 [13]
The name of this gland found only in men is from the Greek for "standing before"
the prostate gland
Eli
$1,200 [8]
Held, as if by some magical charm
Spellbound
Meredith
$1,200 [5]
Greece is possessive about this name, so the U.N. has a member nation called the Former Yugoslav Republic of this
Macedonia
Mike
$1,200 [23]
High____rose
tea
Mike
$1,200 [18]
"'What's to-day?' cried" this Dickens guy, "calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes"
Ebenezer Scrooge
Meredith
$1,200 [28]
So you're not neutral on having the Ranger type of this knife with a wood saw, can opener &, of course, toothpick
a Swiss Army knife
Mike
$1,600 [14]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew points to a diagram of the heart on the monitor.) Deoxygenated blood is carried back to the heart via the body's two largest veins, the superior & inferior this
the vena cava
Mike
$1,600 [9]
Duran Duran tune that means "unfavorably famous"
Notorious
Meredith
$1,600 [6]
It's slightly larger than Alaska; Siberia borders it to the north
Mongolia
Meredith
$1,600 [24]
Gastric____box
juice
Meredith
$1,600 [19]
This 1957 novel opens with the query"Who is John Galt?"
Atlas Shrugged
Eli
$1,600 [29]
Hey, it's this game system that's recently gotten "fit"--can I come over?
the Wii
Eli
$2,000 [15]
The 3 segments of the brainstem are the midbrain, pons & this, which regulates coughing & sneezing
the medulla oblongata
$2,000 [10]
Chemically, it's Al2SiO4(F, OH)2& it looks like yellow quartz
Topaz
Eli
$2,000 [7]
Armando Guebuza is the president of this African republic & former Portuguese colony
Mozambique
Meredith
$2,000 [25]
Parallel____Moresby
port
Mike
DD $3,000 [20]
In 1821 he wrote mournfully,"Where was lorn Urania when Adonais died?"
Shelley
Eli
$2,000 [30]
Nice one, eh?It's a bottle of this Canadian beer founded in 1786, North America's oldest beer brand still being made
Molson
Meredith

Final Jeopardy!

PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS

The first president to cross the Atlantic Ocean while in office, he did so to meet with other world leaders

Wilson

Eli "Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?" — wagered $8,500
Mike "Who is Wilson?" — wagered $15,193
Meredith "Who is Wilson?" — wagered $4,000

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