Show #5607 2009-01-13 (taped 2008-11-11) Regular

Champion Update #2: Eddie Timanus.

Contestants

Shawn St. Clair — a warehouse manager from Hazel Crest, Illinois

Samantha Lubrani — a Spanish interpreter from Torrance, California

Jack McPherson — a bookseller from Mount Ida, Arkansas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $31,200)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Jack	$600	$3,200	$11,200	$700 3rd place: $1,000	$10,600 19 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Samantha	$1,800	$4,400	$10,400	$16,000 New champion: $16,000	$10,400 16 R, 2 W
Shawn	$3,200	$4,800	$10,800	$15,000 2nd place: $2,000	$12,400 16 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD PLACE NAMES	MAKE YOUR PITCH	MAMMALS	ALSO A SUPERHERO	WE WAX PHILOSOPHIC	TEXT MESSAGING
$200 [1] Ah, can you smell it? The name of this former British colony is Chinese for "fragrant harbor" Hong Kong Shawn	$200 [11] A team's most reliable relief pitcher is called this, as he slams the door on the opposition a closer Jack	$200 [6] It's the tallest of all land quadrupeds the giraffe Jack	$200 [26] A 1903 G.B. Shaw play is called "Man And" him Superman Jack	$200 [21] Enjoy the simple things, like a sunny day; in 1913 this "morbid" California region hit a balmy 134 degrees Death Valley Samantha	$200 [16] I send you "H&K", these 2 proofs of my love hugs & kisses Jack
$400 [2] Mountain ranges in the U.S., Mexico & the Philippines all have this name meaning "mother mountain" Sierra Madre Samantha	$400 [12] (Jon of the Clue Crew holds a baseball with his fingernails.)Here'sthe grip for this pitch, a Tim Wakefield specialty; his only goes about 65 miles per hour, but he's won more than 170 games a knuckleball Samantha	$400 [7] This horned mammal is the largest odd-toed ungulate the rhino Jack	$400 [27] Some might say Polyphemus of this race was rude in eating Odysseus' men, so Odie blinded him Cyclops Jack	$400 [22] Folks come & go, but pals like this, who fill a man's face with birdshot on a quail hunt in Feb. 2006, you remember forever Dick Cheney Samantha	$400 [17] "CYT" means this, regarding the next time I'll grace you with my visage see you tomorrow Jack Shawn
$600 [3] (Jon of the Clue Crew points to a spot on the globe.) Appropriately, Australia--locatedherenear the bottom of the globe--gets its name from a Latin word meaning this south Shawn	$600 [13] The ball got by the catcher & the runner's in from third--it was the hurler's fault & will be scored as this a wild pitch Jack Shawn	$600 [8] It's the largest living deer species in the world the elk (or moose) Jack	$600 [28] This Black Sabbath song says, "He was turned to steel in the great magnetic field" "Iron Man" Shawn	$600 [23] Life's wandering road may take you to this 555-foot-high obelisk at 15th & Constitution Avenue NW in D.C. the Washington Monument Jack	$600 [18] "KIT" tells a pal to do this, though he may be far away keep in touch Shawn
$800 [4] The name of this Indonesian island is believed to come from a word for barley, not coffee Java Jack	$800 [14] Add 1 letter to the illegal spitter to get this pitch that drops suddenly a splitter Shawn	$800 [9] This scaly mammal of the order Edentata is related to the sloth & the anteater the armadillo	$800 [29] If you're driving & one of these pointing to the right lights up, turn right! a Green Arrow Jack	$800 [24] Beauty's in the eye of the beholder; one may behold this Iowa man's 1931 painting "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" Grant Wood Jack	$800 [19] "EM?", you really expect me to believe you don't know "EM?" stands for this? Excuse me!
$1,000 [5] This 5,700-square-mile national park in Tanzania means "great open place" Serengeti Shawn	$1,000 [15] Once the batter's seen the heat, time to fool him with this, named for the difference in the speed of the pitch a changeup Samantha	DD $1,000 [10] This medium-sized, distinctly marked cat of Asia has the scientific name Neofelis nebulosa clouded leopard Jack	$1,000 [30] Nondescript name of the Volkswagen seen here the Thing Samantha	$1,000 [25] To everything, there is a season: he was the first president who was limited to 2 full terms of office by the Constitution Eisenhower Shawn	$1,000 [20] Careful! "P911" is a text message alert about the looming presence of one of these a parent Samantha Shawn

Double Jeopardy! Round

JEFFERSON DAVIS	NOT TO BE CONFUSED: ACTING EDITION	FIELDS OF STUDY	FRUITS & VEGETABLES	LITERARY FIRST LINES	THE "A" LIST
$400 [1] Jefferson Davis was elected to a 6-year term as President of the CSA early in this year 1861 Jack	$400 [18] William Daniels was a snooty doc on "St. Elsewhere" & Anthony Daniels played this snooty character in "Star Wars" C-3PO Shawn	$400 [4] Oncology cancer Samantha	$400 [9] This breakfast fruit comes in 3 different flesh colors: red, pink & white (which is actually yellow) grapefruit Samantha	$400 [14] "Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony" The Maltese Falcon Jack	$400 [26] Don't go to a shopping mall if you've got this fear of public spaces agoraphobia Jack
$1,200 [3] A West Point graduate, Davis fought for the U.S. in this 1840s conflict the Mexican War Samantha	$800 [19] Bill Paxton was in "Titanic"; this other Bill played the president in "Independence Day" Pullman Shawn	$800 [5] Petrology rock(s) Jack Samantha	$800 [10] This shortcake staple is rich in Vitamin C, with about 90 milligrams per serving strawberries Samantha	$800 [15] "Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house" Rosemary's Baby	$800 [27] Watch out for these sudden movements of snow--a 250-mile-an-hour one happened in the U.S. in 1980 an avalanche Jack
$1,600 [16] Davis' vice president was this former U.S. representative from Georgia Alexander Stephens Jack	$1,200 [20] This star of "School of Rock" says he & Philip Seymour Hoffman once read for the same roles (Philip got the parts) (Jack) Black Shawn	$1,200 [6] Viticulture or oenology vineyards, grape-growing Samantha	$1,200 [11] Up to 88% of this green-skinned fruit's calories are fat the avocado Samantha	$1,200 [23] "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714 , the finest bridge in all Peru broke" The Bridge of San Luis Rey Jack	$1,200 [28] From the Latin for "to set forth", it means fitting or at the right time apropos Shawn
$2,000 [17] From 1853 to 1857 Davis served as this president's Secretary of War Pierce Shawn	$1,600 [21] Sam Neill was in 2 "Jurassic Park" films; lookalike Hugo Weaving was the menacing Agent Smith in this trilogy The Matrix Shawn	$1,600 [7] Epistemology knowledge Jack	$1,600 [12] Dishes a la Florentine are traditionally presented on a bed of this vegetable spinach Samantha	$1,600 [24] "Except for the Marabar Caves ...the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary" A Passage to India	$1,600 [29] In the Bible he had a whale of a time as the husband of Jezebel Ahab Samantha Shawn
DD $2,400 [2] Like Lincoln a few months later, Davis was born in a log cabin in this state Kentucky Jack	$2,000 [22] Erika Christensen was in "The Upside of Anger"; this lookalike was the "me" in "The Prince & Me" Julia Stiles	$2,000 [8] Mycology fungus Samantha	$2,000 [13] The Italian plum is one variety of this member of the nightshade family tomatoes Samantha Shawn	$2,000 [25] "A screaming comes across the sky" Gravity's Rainbow	DD $1,600 [30] An historical duchy in Southwestern France between Bordeaux & the Pyrenees Aquitaine Shawn

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC ROYAL RELATIVES

This wife of Henry VIII was the aunt of the powerful Holy Roman Emperor Charles V

Catherine of Aragon

Samantha "Who is Catherine of Aragon?" — wagered $5,600

Shawn "Who was Catherine of Aragon?" — wagered $4,200

Jack "Who was Anne of Cleves?" — wagered $10,500

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