Show #5592 2008-12-23 (taped 2008-10-21) Regular

Jim Stevens game 2.

Contestants

Chet Perry — a bar owner from Oakland, California

Sam Johnston — a Ph.D. student from Brooklyn, New York

Jim Stevens — a math teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jim $2,600 $6,600 $16,400 $20,401
2-day champion: $49,002
$17,400
23 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Sam $1,600 $5,200 $10,200 $16,401
2nd place: $2,000
$9,600
12 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Chet $3,200 $4,800 $6,400 $299
3rd place: $1,000
$6,400
12 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

JAMAICA, JORDAN OR JAPAN SPORTS HALLS OF FAME AMERICA'S GOT TALENT POLITICAL PARTIES FOOD & DRINK "P"ICK THIS CATEGORY!
$200 [5]
It was a Spanish possession until 1655
Jamaica
Jim
$200 [26]
On this school's home football weekends, the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend stays open longer
Notre Dame
Jim
$200 [1]
Rhode Island's Matt "The Knife" escaped from a cop's pair of these in 5 seconds flat
handcuffs
Jim
$200 [16]
Of the major U.S. political parties, this one that started around 1830 has been around the longest
the Democratic Party
Jim
$200 [10]
It's simply Spanish for "sauce"
salsa
Chet
$200 [21]
A jury is made up of a group of these of yours
peers
Sam
$400 [7]
Officially, it's a kingdom
Jordan
Jim
$400 [27]
A museum & hall of fame for this sport in Huntington Beach, Calif. includes a shrine to Duke Kahanamoku
surfing
Jim
$400 [2]
New York's Mike Cuzzacrea has run 26 marathons in just over 3 hours each--oh, while flipping one of these foods
a pancake
Chet
$400 [17]
Margaret Thatcher & John Major were both members of this political party
the Conservative Party
Jim
$400 [11]
A tradition at Vienna's Demel Coffeehouse, founded 1786, is a cup of this warm sweet beverage on New Year's Day
hot chocolate
Jim
$400 [22]
The flippers keep the sphere in play in this type of arcade game
pinball
Jim
$600 [8]
Its first contact with Europeans came around 1542
Japan
Jim
$600 [28]
The original of this trophy, a silver bowl, is on permanent display at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto
the Stanley Cup
Sam
$600 [3]
In 1999 Illinois' Scott Jeckel shot a marshmallow from his nose & Ray Perisin caught it--16 feet later--in... eww... this
his mouth
Jim
$600 [18]
In 1926 Benito Mussolini abolished all political parties except this one
the Fascist Party
Jim
$600 [12]
Valmeuse & St. Benoit are nice soft runny these
cheese
Chet
$600 [23]
From the Greek for "chief father", he's the head of a family or clan
patriarch
Chet
$800 [9]
It was once populated by a people known as the Nabataeans
Jordan
Sam
$1,000 [30]
Start your engines please & head to this Alabama city to visit the Motorsports Hall of Fame
Talladega
$800 [4]
In 1999 Florida's Gordon Cates kissed 11 of these deadly snakes in a row--& Rikki-Tikki-Tavi wasn't even there for backup
a cobra
Sam
$800 [19]
In Benin this party is called "les Verts du Benin"; in Belgium it's called "Ecolo"
the Green Party
Jim
$800 [13]
Thisitem is popular in salads, but some object because harvesting it can destroy the tree
heart of palm
Chet
$800 [24]
From Latin for "plunderer" & "spoils", they're the 2 food chain roles of a hawk & a mouse, for example
predator & prey
Sam
$1,000 [15]
Its leading exports are bauxite & aluminum
Jamaica
Chet
DD $2,000 [29]
The museum & hall of fame for this sport in St. Louis has a display of zany team shirts from the 1950s
bowling
Sam
$1,000 [6]
New Jersey's Dave Meenan covered more than 28 miles this way in 1997--beat that, Bojangles!
tap dancing
Chet
$1,000 [20]
As president, Georges Pompidou was a member of the political party named for this man who served before him
de Gaulle
Jim
$1,000 [14]
This old-timey soda fountain drink got its name from one ingredient--a little phosphoric acid
a phosphate
Jim
$1,000 [25]
7-letter adjective meaning multicolored, like some horses or birds
piebald
Chet

Double Jeopardy! Round

BEDTIME STORIES IN-FLIGHT MOVIES HEAVY EQUIPMENT HYBRIDS THE LONDON STAGE ELEMENTARY SPELLING
$400 [3]
(Adam Sandler, whose latest movie is the holiday release Bedtime Stories, reads the clue.) In an 1887 version of the bedtime story about the 3 these, it's an old woman who eats their porridge, & after she leaves the house she's arrested as a vagrant
bears
Jim
$400 [16]
In the 1980 film "Airplane!", Leslie Nielsen memorably says, "I am serious... and don't call me" this
Shirley
Chet
$400 [21]
At the end of its arm, a hydraulic shovel has one of these, bigger than one a kid would take to a beach
a bucket
Jim Chet
$400 [24]
Daedalus built the labyrinth in which this half-man, half-bull monster was kept
the Minotaur
Sam
$400 [1]
We wonder how this witty playwright would have liked "Avenue Q", the first show at the theatre renamed for him
Noel Coward
$400 [9]
Lithium, argon
liar
Jim
$800 [4]
2 yellow creatures are yawning, just look at the cover of this children's author's "Sleep Book"
Dr. Seuss
Chet
$800 [17]
Gary Oldman leads the terrorists who hijack the President's plane in this 1997 action film
Air Force One
Sam
$800 [22]
Used in this industry, an excavator made by Krupp is the largest land vehicle ever created
(strip) mining
Chet
$800 [25]
These lascivious woodland deities, a goat-man hybrid, were followers of both Pan & Dionysus
satyrs
Sam
$800 [2]
The efforts of American actor Sam Wannamaker built this theatre where you can watch Shakespeare today
the Globe
Sam
$800 [10]
Beryllium, gold
beau
Chet
$1,200 [5]
(Adam Sandler delivers the clue again.) This classic about a bunny at bedtime begins, "In the great green room, there was a telephone and a red balloon"
"Goodnight Moon"
$1,200 [18]
It's drama at Dulles International in this second John McClane adventure
Die Hard 2
Jim
$1,200 [23]
A park in Morrowville, Kansas has a replica of the first of these pushy machines, patented in 1925
a bulldozer
Jim
DD $1,000 [27]
These monsters with birds' bodies & women's faces got a nasty rep for snatching children & souls
harpies
Sam
DD $1,000 [8]
The National Theatre, launched in 1963, was housed for its first 12 years at this "venerable" venue
the Old Vic
Jim
$1,200 [11]
Sodium, sodium, sodiumsodium etc. (a child's taunt)
na na nana nana
Jim
$1,600 [6]
A boy in bed enters a fantastic dream world in this author-illustrator's "In the Night Kitchen"
Maurice Sendak
Jim
$1,600 [19]
Samuel L. Jackson has worse problems than airplane food in this 2006 thriller
Snakes on a Plane
Jim
$1,600 [29]
It's a toothed implement for breaking up plowed soil; it's also a British boarding school
a harrow
$1,200 [26]
This monster with a woman's body, like Medusa, has claws & serpents for hair, making a day at the salon a real trial
a Gorgon
Sam
$1,600 [14]
(Jon of the Clue Crew shows a map of London on the monitor.) Getting its name from its position in relation to the olderareacalled "the City", on a map this theatre district is actually in the middle of London
the West End
Chet
$1,600 [12]
Bromine, silver
brag
Jim
$2,000 [7]
(Adam Sandler shills for his Christmas release.) To show kids the world of Ancient Rome the way I do in my new movie "Bedtime Stories", try the children's version of this author's "Parallel Lives"
Plutarch
$2,000 [20]
John Lithgow was the terrified passenger in the "Twilight Zone" movie's remake of this classic episode
"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"
Chet
$2,000 [30]
It's the type of place where you'd most likely put your feller buncher through its paces
a forest (in logging)
Chet
$2,000 [28]
The name of this fire-breathing, lion-headed, goat-bodied monster has come to mean any idle fancy
the Chimera
$2,000 [15]
In 2007 these studious "Boys" were back in town in Alan Bennett's play at Wyndham's Theatre
The History Boys
$2,000 [13]
Neon, carbon, potassium
neck
Jim

Final Jeopardy!

PEOPLES OF THE WORLD

Numbering about 25 million, they're the largest ethnic group in the world with no home nation

the Kurds

Chet "What are the Aleuts?" — wagered $6,101
Sam "Who are the Kurds?" — wagered $6,201
Jim "Who are the Kurds?" — wagered $4,001

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