Show #5627 2009-02-10 (taped 2008-12-02) Regular

Contestants

Sarah Smee — a medical editor from Beltsville, Maryland

Richard Wiggs — an architect from Memphis, Tennessee

Devin Flanigan — a researcher from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Devin $1,000 $600 $7,400 $12,001
2nd place: $2,000
$6,200
11 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Richard $4,200 $6,400 $15,200 $15,200
New champion: $15,200
$16,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Sarah $2,000 $4,400 $6,000 $12,000
3rd place: $1,000
$6,000
17 R, 6 W

Jeopardy! Round

HAWAII SUPERHERO CINEMA PRESIDENTIAL BRANGELINAS KIDDY LIT SIZING IT UP FROM A TO Y
$200 [26]
In Hawaii the pu kani is one of these natural items played as a trumpet
a shell
Sarah
$200 [1]
Batman joins forces with Harvey Dent, Gotham's D.A., to fight the Joker in this 2008 flick
The Dark Knight
Sarah
$200 [19]
Began dating in 1971:Billary
Clinton
Sarah
$200 [14]
"A Bear Called" this celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008
Paddington
Devin Sarah
$200 [9]
This 7-Eleven drink product once seemed insanely huge at 32 oz.; now there's a 44-oz. "super" version
a Big Gulp
Richard
$200 [2]
The name of a brand of chocolate chip cookies includes this nautical word
ahoy
Devin
$400 [27]
3/4 of Hawaii's population lives on this island that's known as "The Gathering Place"
Oahu
$400 [3]
This X-Man has adamantium-laced, retractable claws in his forearms
Wolverine
Richard
$400 [20]
Wed in 1953:Jackjacq
the Kennedys
Sarah
$400 [15]
In "Where the Wild Things Are", he wears his wolf suit, makes mischief & is sent to bed without supper
Max
Sarah
$400 [10]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from a piano showroom.) It's a piano, like these Steinways, sized for the smaller home--a piano weighs 100 pounds per foot in length, so they're still about 500 pounds
a baby grand
Richard
$400 [5]
During the Revolutionary War, the Earl of Sandwich was First Lord of this, governing Britain's navy
the Admiralty
Devin Richard
$600 [28]
It was introduced to Hawaii in 1813, & by the 1950s the islands produced 75% of the world's supply
pineapple
Richard
$600 [4]
Talk about poor coping skills! In this 2008 action film Edward Norton turns into a monster when he's stressed
The Incredible Hulk
Sarah
$600 [21]
Got hitched in 1905:Elefrank
Roosevelt
Devin
$600 [16]
Peter Hatcher is the title character of Judy Blume's book called "Tales of a" this
a Fourth-Grade Nothing
Sarah
$600 [11]
Arithmetical term for a model who wears size 12 & up
plus-size
Devin
$800 [7]
Sadly, some divorces are filled with this, bitter animosity
acrimony
Richard
$800 [29]
(Vanna White reports from a helicopter.) (I'm on location with Wheelin Hawaii...) ...And flying over this, the world's largest active volcanic mass & the centerpiece of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Kilauea
Sarah
$800 [12]
Spider-Man battled this heavily armed villain in "Spider-Man 2"
Doc Ock (or Dr. Octopus)
Devin
$800 [22]
Married in 1848:Julysses
Grant
Richard
$800 [17]
Beverly Cleary wrote several books about Beatrice, called Beezus, & this younger sister of hers
Ramona
Sarah
$800 [24]
Term for a mortgage loan that's too big to be guaranteed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac
a jumbo
Richard
DD $1,000 [6]
In math, it's the degree of correctness of a quantity or expression
accuracy
Richard
$1,000 [30]
These winds don't bring coffee, they bring warm & muggy weather to the islands
the Kona winds
Devin
$1,000 [13]
Jason Bateman plays P.R. exec Ray Embrey, whose life is saved by the title sardonic superhero in this 2008 film
Hancock
Sarah
$1,000 [23]
Their ship came in in 1945:Barge
Bushes
Sarah
$1,000 [18]
In this Eric Carle classic, the title character eats watermelon, sausage, pie & a cupcake (& gets a tummy ache)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
$1,000 [25]
Schnauzers come in miniature, standard & this size, seen here
giant
$1,000 [8]
After that bitter divorce, you might have to pay this, spousal support
alimony
Richard

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 1930s MISHEARD LYRICS QUICK STUDY BALLET BASICS I THINK THEREFORE, "IAM"
$400 [16]
In 1933, after less than 3 years in the funnies, he married Blondie Boopadoop
Dagwood Bumstead
Richard
$400 [6]
Their "Every Breath You Take" went, "How my poor heart aches", not "I'm a pool hall ace"
The Police
Richard
$400 [18]
Etymology is the study of the origin of these--it's time to use yours
words
Sarah
$400 [23]
The pas de chat owes its name to the likeness of the movement to the leap of one of these
a cat
Richard
$400 [11]
In 1649 this "I think, therefore I am" guy went to Stockholm to teach philosophy to Queen Christina
(René) Descartes
Sarah
$400 [1]
Known as the "Sailor King", he reigned from 1830 to 1837 & was the fourth British king to have the name
William
Devin
$800 [17]
In 1936 Haile Selassie asked this world body for sanctions against Italy, which had invaded Ethiopia in 1935
the League of Nations
Devin Richard
$800 [7]
Band whose '69 hit said, "There's a bad moon on the rise", not "There's a bathroom on the right"
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Devin
$800 [19]
It's the study of crime & punishment & the management of prisons
penology
Sarah
$800 [24]
French for "feat of strength", this ballet term now refers to a display of technical skill by any artist
tour de force
$800 [12]
Upon this thinker's death in 347 B.C., the Greek philosopher Speusippus, his nephew, took over the academy
Plato
Sarah
$1,200 [3]
In 1782 King Rama I established the Chakri dynasty in the country then known by this name
Siam
Sarah
$1,600 [28]
The Century of Progress Exposition was held in this city during 1933 & 1934
Chicago
Devin
$1,200 [8]
This song's "Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night" has had many interpretations
"Blinded By The Light"
Devin
$1,200 [20]
It's the study of the glands & hormones
endocrinology
Sarah
$1,200 [25]
The number of folks who see the ballet, or the heels-together, toes-out basic ability seen in first position
the turnout
$1,200 [13]
He wrote "Civil Disobedience" as a result of being jailed for not paying his taxes as a protest against the Mexican War
Thoreau
Richard
$1,600 [4]
Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "In" this was an elegy to friend Arthur Hallam, the fiance of Tennyson's sister
"In Memoriam"
Sarah
DD $2,000 [27]
As a tie-in with the new president's programs, in 1933 Warner Bros. movies were advertised as this "in entertainment"
a New Deal in entertainment
Richard
$1,600 [9]
Song where Hendrix sings, "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky", not "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy"
"Purple Haze"
Devin
$1,600 [21]
If you know that vexillology is the study of these, we salute you
flags
Richard
$1,600 [26]
This 4-letter word refers to the configuration of the body resting or in motion; a good one is partly natural physique
line
Devin Sarah
$1,600 [14]
In "Beyond Good and Evil", this German denied the validity of an absolute & universal moral code
Nietzsche
Devin Sarah
DD $2,000 [2]
Last name of brothers George & Charles, who in 1843 secured the rights to Noah Webster's dictionary
Merriam
Devin
$2,000 [29]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Central Park in New York.) In the 1930s, before it was a lush, great lawn, an area of Central Park was home to displaced people's communities known as these, after a famous American
Hoovervilles
Richard
$2,000 [10]
This band's '78 song was "I wanna be sedated", not "I want a piece of bacon" (mmm...bacon)
The Ramones
Sarah
$2,000 [22]
Though not an -ology, it's the study of coats of arms
heraldry
Richard
$2,000 [30]
A ballet dancer asked to do a movement en cloche is supposed to look like one of these
a bell
Sarah
$2,000 [15]
While writing "Principia Mathematica", this 20th century British thinker was a lecturer at Cambridge
Bertrand Russell
$2,000 [5]
In Greek mythology, this king of Troy was the father of Paris, Hector & Cassandra
Priam
Richard

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY CORRESPONDENCE

A telegram from these 2: "Average speed...thirty-one miles. Longest fifty-nine seconds.Inform press.Home Christmas"

the Wright Brothers

Sarah "Who are O and W Wright?" — wagered $6,000
Devin "Who are the Wright Bros.?" — wagered $4,601
Richard "Who were the Wright Brothers" — wagered $0

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