Show #5549 2008-10-23 (taped 2008-08-27) Regular

Contestants

Tom Stetina — a high school math teacher from Millsboro, Delaware

Kathy Lague — a telecommunications consultant from Sudbury, Massachusetts

Mike Maheu — a high school teacher from San Diego, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $46,242)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Mike	$2,200	$1,400	$15,344	$59 3rd place: $1,000	$15,000 21 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Kathy	$1,800	$5,400	$18,300	$5,300 2nd place: $2,000	$16,600 14 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Tom	$3,400	$7,200	$14,800	$29,353 New champion: $29,353	$14,000 21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

A QUINTET OF QUOTES	MILESTONE BIRTHDAYS 2008	FIREFIGHTING	SHAKESPEARE GOES HAIKU	-ISMS	VERBS
$200 [21] "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength", wrote this Brit in a 1949 novel George Orwell Tom	$200 [11] On August 16 this "Material Girl" became a real middle-aged girl, reaching the half-century mark Madonna Mike	$200 [1] The Bombardier 415 is used in the initial attack on these alliterative menaces, dropping a mix of water & foam a forest fire Mike	$200 [4] Montague mayhem /More than 2 Verona guys /"Wherefore art thou" thee? Romeo and Juliet Mike	$200 [16] You're likely to hear "You are getting very sleepy" from someone practicing this hypnotism Tom	$200 [23] A way to cook eggs, or to take game or fish illegally poach Mike
$400 [22] In Act 1 of "The Beggar's Opera" you'll hear, "If with me you'd fondly stray, over" these "and far away" the hills Mike Tom	$400 [12] He celebrated his 30th In style with a birthday bash in NYC with wife Demi & a bunch of their friends Ashton Kutcher Tom	$400 [2] NYC bucket brigades were retired with the use of watertight hoses & of these; the 1st was in 1817 on Frankfort St. a fire hydrant Mike	$400 [7] Talk toyourself much? /I, Claudius, killed your dad /You're not mad, are you? Hamlet Mike	$400 [17] Betty Friedan was frequently called "The Mother of" this 1960s & '70s movement feminism Tom	$400 [24] This percussion instrument is also a verb that means to teach by repetition drum Tom
$600 [28] "There's only one rule... you've got to be kind" is from the works of this sometimes misanthropic author seen here (Kurt) Vonnegut (Jr.) Tom	$600 [13] On January 24 this celebrated U.S. gymnast went from a perfect 10 to the big 4-0 Mary Lou Retton Tom	$600 [3] (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a firefighting map diagram on the monitor.) Firefighters make aperimeteraround a wildfire--much of it by digging; when you hear a fire is 80% this, it doesn't mean it's 80% put out, but 80% of theperimeteris in place contained Tom	$600 [8] Whisper in my ear /Betrayed me with Cassio?! /Oomf! Oomf! Oomf! Oomf! Dead Othello Mike	$600 [18] Anthropophagy, another term for this practice, can really leave your bad taste in my mouth cannibalism	$600 [25] To sit on eggs, or to worry brood Mike Kathy
$800 [29] In an 18th c. quip, "When a man... is to be hanged in a fortnight, it" does this to "his mind wonderfully" concentrates	$800 [14] This ballet star & Carrie's love interest on "Sex and the City" turned 60 in February Baryshnikov Kathy	$800 [5] What's now just a truck, or ladder truck, was once called this, incorporating an old way to pull down buildings a hook & ladder Mike	$800 [9] Gloucester: Ow, my eyes! /Love you more than she does, Dad! /A high body count King Lear Tom	$1,000 [20] Donald Judd & Robert Morris were important figures of this "scaled-down" art movement that began in the '60s Minimalism Kathy	$800 [26] The last name of golfer Rocco, it means to help settle a dispute Mediate Tom
$1,000 [30] This teacher wrote that "the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth" Joseph Campbell Kathy	$1,000 [15] We wonder if he sang "Through the Years" when he celebrated his 70th birthday in August Kenny Rogers Mike	$1,000 [6] Smashing windows is technically called "tactical" this, from the Latin for "wind" ventilation Tom	$1,000 [10] You control weather /Are you some kindof X-Man?! /Read Miranda rights The Tempest Kathy	DD $1,600 [19] Sometime in the 6th century B.C., Lao Tzu found "the Way" & founded this religion Taoism Tom	$1,000 [27] This verb means to use another's work without permission or to attack a ship at sea to pirate Kathy

Double Jeopardy! Round

DISCOVERIES	MOVIE TAGLINES	ECONOMICS	LET'S EAT	LEADERS & LANDS	ONE-LETTER TAKE IN ORDER
$400 [1] In September 1513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa "discovered" this, though the locals had noticed it before the Pacific Ocean Tom	$400 [20] 1970:"Love means never having to say you're sorry" Love Story Tom	$400 [7] Moral hazard is the idea that if you have this, whether the auto or health kind, you'll be less careful insurance Mike	$400 [15] 11-year-old Frank Epperson first got the idea for this treat after leaving his fruit-flavored soda outside overnight a popsicle Kathy	$400 [2] Prime Minister Gordon Brown the United Kingdom Tom	$400 [14] In vitamins, this "-1" is thiamine B Mike
$800 [12] In Coloma, California, thestatueof James Marshall ispointingto the spot where he discovered this gold Mike	$800 [23] 1978:"It was the Deltas against the rules... the rules lost!" Animal House Tom	$800 [8] Theodore Levitt coined this term for the integration of markets around the world globalization Mike	$1,200 [17] This cake with coconut in its frosting isn't named for a country, but rather a chocolatier German chocolate cake Kathy	$800 [3] Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Italy Mike	$800 [27] It precedes "Pioneers!" in a literary work & "Henry" in the name of a literary man O Mike
$1,200 [13] In 1986 an ancient boat was found on the shore of this Israeli "sea"; it could be the type Jesus & his disciples took (the Sea of) Galilee Tom	$1,200 [24] 1998:"Earth. It was fun while it lasted" Armageddon Tom	$1,200 [9] The core rate of inflation excludes 2 volatile items that were extra volatile in 2008; energy is one, this is the other food Mike	$1,600 [18] This type of mozzarella is named for Asian animals brought to Europe by the Goths buffalo Mike	$1,200 [4] President Hamid Karzai Afghanistan Tom	$1,200 [28] It's the first person nominative singular pronoun I Kathy
$1,600 [22] Tycho Brahe shook up Europe with his 1573 work "De Nova Stella", about finding a new one of these a new star Mike	$1,600 [25] 1976:"His whole life was a million-to-one shot" Rocky Tom	$1,600 [10] For July 2008 this figure was 3.0 for South Dakota but 8.5 for Michigan unemployment rate Mike	$2,000 [19] Actually from the French, the name of this beef cut was noted by Samuel Johnson to have been "knighted" sirloin Kathy	$1,600 [5] President Nicolas Sarkozy France Mike Tom	$1,600 [29] The 19th letter of the alphabet, or a double curve in a road S Kathy
$2,000 [21] On Feb. 28, 1953 this English scientist walked into Cambridge's Eagle Pub & said "We've found the secret of life" (Francis) Crick Tom	$2,000 [26] 1995:"Five criminals. One line up. No coincidence" The Usual Suspects Kathy	$2,000 [11] Joseph Schumpeter said this system is maintained by the "creative destruction" of innovators & entrepreneurs capitalism Mike	DD $2,500 [16] Rumors that these snacks were named for a physicist are untrue; they're named for a town in Massachusetts Fig Newtons Kathy	DD $2,344 [6] President Viktor Yushchenko the Ukraine Mike	$2,000 [30] It precedes "Bay" on the Internet & also name the state capital spelled out by all 5 responses E & Boise Mike Kathy

Final Jeopardy!

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS

This character, created in Europe in the 19th c., has a name that can be translated as "eye of pine"

Pinocchio

Tom "Who is Pinocchio?" — wagered $14,553

Mike "Who was Philleas Fog?" — wagered $15,285

Kathy "Who is Treebeard" — wagered $13,000

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