Show #5591 2008-12-22 (taped 2008-10-21) Regular

Jim Stevens game 1.

Contestants

Kristin Schleicher — a graduate student from Cambridge, Massachusetts

Jim Stevens — a math teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio

Milt Hathaway — a high school librarian originally from Newport, Rhode Island (whose 2-day cash winnings total $70,002)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Milt	$-1,000	$1,800	$14,300	$28,600 2nd place: $2,000	$13,800 21 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Jim	$4,000	$5,600	$16,000	$28,601 New champion: $28,601	$15,200 24 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Kristin	$-200	$-400	$800	$600 3rd place: $1,000	$800 4 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

MOVIE MUSICALS	HELLO, DALI	PAINT YOUR WAGON	AHH, LIVER!	THE SOUND OF MUSIC	SIGNING IN THE REIGN
$200 [6] The title robot of this 2008 animated film learns about human emotion by watching a video of the 1969 film "Hello, Dolly!" WALL-E Milt	$200 [1] Salvador Dali collaborated with Philippe Halsman on a photography book devoted to this notable Dali facial feature a mustache Milt	$200 [20] If it's a circus wagon, paint it this traditional color red Jim	$200 [15] Inhalation of certain chemicals, like carbon tetrachloride, as well as boozing, can cause this liver disease cirrhosis Kristin	$200 [11] If your song sounds like a dirge, sadly, that means it sounds like a hymn at one of these events a funeral Milt	$200 [26] Lili'uokalani, former queen of this, also laid herhandto a famous song Hawaii Jim
$400 [7] This song from "The Sound of Music" mentions "brown paper packages tied up with strings" "My Favorite Things" Jim	$400 [2] Andre Breton wrote the defining manifesto for this movement that Dali espoused Surrealism Kristin	$400 [21] The Subaru Forester comes in colors like spark silver & sage this green Milt	$400 [16] Some substances made by the liver help fight disease; fibrinogen enables the blood to do this 4-letter function clot Jim	$400 [12] I think we can all agree, Three Dog Night's "Old-Fashioned Love Song" was "comin' down in three part" this harmony Jim	$400 [27] On June 15, 1215, the Magna Carta's deal wassealedby this regent John Jim
$600 [8] He played silent film star Don Lockwood, who liked the glorious feelin' of "Singin' in the Rain" Gene Kelly Kristin	$600 [3] This director admired Dali's work & used him for the dream sequences in the 1945 film "Spellbound" Alfred Hitchcock Milt Jim	$600 [22] Battle wagon is another name for a battleship, so paint it the color called battleship this grey Kristin	$600 [17] Digested food travels in the blood from this "tiny" 23-foot body part to the liver to be stored the small intestine Jim	$600 [13] If someone says my voice is this, meaning in a register too high for my normal range, that's untrue falsetto Jim	$600 [28] Here, Hassan II signs a register; perhaps it's made of the leather named for this North African country he ruled Morocco Milt
$800 [9] The title orphan joins the chorus in this song about chow in "Oliver!" "Food, Glorious Food" Milt	$800 [4] In "The Persistence of Memory", Dali shows 4 of these, some wilting, some not watches (or clocks) Milt	$800 [23] The body of a Conestoga wagon was the Prussian shade of this blue Milt	$800 [18] These bands of tissue support the liver; others of the same name hold the knee bones together ligaments Milt Jim	$800 [14] Beethoven's first piano concerto includes this effect in which the pianist slides his finger along a series of keys a glissando	$800 [29] The signature on the abdication letter seenherewas forced by Edward VIII's marriage plans with her Mrs. Simpson Milt
$1,000 [10] This guy (in a role like the one he'd played in "Cat Ballou") starred in "Paint Your Wagon" Lee Marvin Jim	$1,000 [5] In 1982 this king appointed Dali Marquis of Pubol; he then went to live at the castle there King Juan Carlos of Spain Milt Jim	$1,000 [24] A Ross Macdonald detective novel is titled "The Zebra-Striped" this vehicle that's been called the dead wagon a hearse Jim	$1,000 [19] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical diagram on the monitor.) Resting on the underside of the right portion of the liver is this small pouch that stores bile the gallbladder Milt	DD $2,000 [25] Poetically, tones are sometimes described adjectivally as this, from the Latin for "sweet" dulcet Jim	$1,000 [30] Undeterred by fuel costs, Prince Alwaleedsignsfor more Airbuses in this country's capital of Dubai the United Arab Emirates Kristin

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE & NATURE	SPORTS VENUE NICKNAMES	COUNTRIES BY CITIES	WAXING POETIC	I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW	"AE"-NCIENT CROSSWORD CLUES
$400 [2] Trees company for those who study dendrochronology using theseto determine the tree's age and history rings Jim	$400 [25] 3 feet of original bricks, now almost 100 years old, cover the start/finish line of this venue, "The Brickyard" the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Jim	$400 [7] Medellin, Cartagena, Barranquila Colombia Milt	$400 [12] One of his sonnets begins,"Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments" Shakespeare Milt	$400 [17] Neil & Buzz ditched Michael & took off for some very private lunar time in this craft the Eagle (lunar module) Jim	$400 [1] Fable-d man(5) Aesop Jim
$800 [3] The biggest bear ever, an 11-foot 1,800-pounder, became extinct around the time this age ended 12,000 years ago the Ice Age Milt	$800 [26] Both Clemson's Memorial Stadium & this SEC school's Tiger Stadium are nicknamed "Death Valley" LSU Milt	$800 [8] Ghent, Charleroi, Liege Belgium Jim	$800 [13] Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote this "burns at both ends; it will not last the night but it gives a lovely light" my candle Jim	$800 [22] Sens. Wayne Morse & Ernest Gruening were the lone nays in this 1964 vote authorizing escalation in Vietnam the Tonkin Gulf Resolution Jim	$800 [18] Virgil's epic about a prince of a Trojan(6) the Aeneid Milt
$1,200 [4] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew experiments in the Babcock Hall Dairy Plant.) The Babcock test, invented here at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, uses this potent non-potable, H2SO4, to dissolve everything in milk except the fat, so the fat content can be measured sulfuric acid Milt	$1,200 [28] This National League baseball stadium is nicknamed "the Ted", for obvious reasons Turner Field Milt	$1,200 [9] Siwa, Luxor, Al Fayyum Egypt Milt	$1,600 [15] A poem by this author asks, "Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?" T.S. Eliot Milt	$1,200 [23] He & Edmund Hillary snuck out of camp & got high together May 29, 1953 (Tenzing) Norgay Jim	$1,200 [19] Sea between Greek peninsula & Asia Minor(6) the Aegean Kristin
$1,600 [5] In science a big M can mean mach, & a little m this, as in Einstein's most famous equation mass Milt	—	$1,600 [10] Mazar-e Sharif, Jalalabad, Herat Afghanistan Milt	$2,000 [16] This Quaker poet wrote of a "barefoot boy, with cheek of tan" John Greenleaf Whittier	$1,600 [24] Edmond Dantes & the Abbe Faria share a dungeon, a tunnel & a dream in this Dumas work The Count of Monte Cristo Jim	$1,600 [20] Philosophic study of taste & beauty(10) aesthetics Jim
DD $2,500 [6] (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Stanford Accelerator Center.) Particle accelerators come in 2 types, circular, & this one here at Stanford, in which particles approach the speed of light, as they zip along a 2-mile track linear Milt	—	$2,000 [11] Jaffna, Kandy, Moratuwa Sri Lanka	DD $4,000 [14] Byron's 1814 ode to him says,"Nor till thy fall could mortals guess Ambition's less than littleness!" Napoleon Jim	$2,000 [27] Martha & 2 males, the last of these birds, had time alone at the Cincy zoo; too bad they didn't make the most of it the passenger pigeon Milt Jim	$2,000 [21] Athenian drama king(9) Aeschylus Milt

Final Jeopardy!

ALMA MATERS

Former governor & onetime presidential hopeful Mitt Romney earned his B.A. in 1971 from this university

BYU (Brigham Young University)

Kristin "What is Tufts?" — wagered $200

Milt "What is Brigham Young University?" — wagered $14,300

Jim "What is BYU?" — wagered $12,601

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