Show #5631 2009-02-16 (taped 2008-12-03) Regular

Contestants

Dan Smith — a student from Chicago, Illinois

Bing Luke — a tax lawyer from Harlem, New York

Diane Trap — a librarian and graphics specialist from Athens, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Diane $0 $2,400 $4,000 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$4,000
9 R, 3 W
Bing $2,600 $7,800 $16,800 $8,800
2nd place: $2,000
$14,200
18 R (including 3 DDs), 3 W
Dan $5,000 $7,000 $17,800 $33,601
New champion: $33,601
$17,800
26 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

1909: 100 YEARS AGO SEINFELD GOVERNMENT ACRONYMS AMERICANA "CU" LATER
$200 [26]
On February 12 this important African-American organization was formed
NAACP
Dan
$200 [2]
This Jason Alexander character: "She doesn't deserve a baby shower. She deserves a baby monsoon"
George Costanza
Dan
$200 [21]
The "E" in FEMA(Do a heckuva job responding)
emergency
Dan
$200 [1]
This national memorial in the Black Hills is also called the "Shrine of Democracy"
Mount Rushmore
Dan
$200 [7]
The name of this bird is an imitation of its call
the cuckoo
Dan
$200 [11]
During the Reign of Terror, she made wax masks of severed heads; 4 decades later, she opened her own wax museum
Madame Tussaud
Dan
$400 [27]
On June 2 Alfred Deakin became prime minister of this Commonwealth country for the third time
Australia
Diane Dan
$400 [3]
Hello, this character who said, "I'll tell you a little secret about ZIP codes--they're meaningless"
Newman
Dan
$400 [22]
The "O" in ROTC(Ten hut!)
officer
Diane
$400 [16]
The song "America, the Beautiful" says, "crown thy good with" this "from sea to shining sea"
brotherhood
Dan
$400 [8]
It's the horizontally pleated sash usually worn with a tuxedo
a cummerbund
Dan
$400 [12]
Mozart wrote variations on the melody to this "stellar" children's song; later, Jane Taylor wrote the words
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"
Dan
$600 [28]
A D.C. medical center founded in 1909 is named for this military surgeon
Walter Reed
Bing
$600 [4]
Her dance at an office party was described as "more like a full-bodied dry heave set to music"
Elaine
Dan
$600 [23]
The "D" in FDIC (Don't withdraw, you can do it)
deposit
Bing
$600 [17]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Crayola factory in Easton, Pennsylvania.) In 1958, the 64-color assortment of Crayolas debuted; the box had this new built-in feature that later earned it a place in the Smithsonian
a sharpener
Diane
$600 [9]
For 64, it's 4
a cube root
Diane Dan
$600 [13]
In 2 B.C. Emperor Augustus was given this title, "Pater Patriae"; 1,800 years later, Geo. Washington was known by it
Father of the Country
Diane
$1,000 [30]
On July 25 Frenchman Louis Bleriot became the first to cross this body of water in a plane
the English Channel
Diane
$800 [5]
This "Curb Your Enthusiasm" star provided the voice of George Steinbrenner
Larry David
Dan
$800 [24]
The 2 A's in FAA (They rhyme)
aviation administration
Dan
$800 [18]
This 4-word inscription first appeared on U.S. coins during the Civil War
In God We Trust
Dan
$800 [10]
From the Latin for "to till", it means to work land in order to raise crops
cultivate
Bing
$800 [14]
He took over Alger Hiss' job at the State Department in 1947; 14 years later he was Secretary of State for JFK
Dean Rusk
Bing
DD $2,000 [29]
On March 4 he took the White House keys from Teddy Roosevelt
Taft
Bing
$1,000 [6]
It took 97 episodes to finally reveal that this was Kramer's first name; it was also that of "Topper"
Cosmo
Dan
$1,000 [25]
The 3 words that put some "zip" in ZIP code
zone improvement plan
$1,000 [19]
She wrote the poem that says, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"
Emma Lazarus
Bing
$1,000 [20]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew indicates a cloud on the monitor.) Recognizable by the anvil shape of its upper portion, this cloud produces heavy rain & thunder
cumulonimbus
Bing
$1,000 [15]
Cavemen chipped this dark quartz rock into sharp tools & weapons; thousands of years later, it was used in firearms
flint
Bing

Double Jeopardy! Round

INTERNATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS TCMWITH ROBERT OSBORNE GAMES IN OTHER WORDS I PROBABLY COULDN'T PAINT THAT LET'S VISIT CYPRUS CONTRONYMS
$400 [7]
Chikamatsu, who wrote more than 100 plays, is so revered he is known as this British bard "of Japan"
Shakespeare
Dan
$400 [21]
(Turner Classic Movies's Robert Osborne gives the clue.) Called "Selznick's Folly", this 1939 Oscar winner cost an unprecedented $4 million to produce, had multiple directors, 50 speaking roles & 2,400 extras
Gone with the Wind
Diane
$400 [12]
A structure that crosses a river
a bridge
Diane
$400 [1]
"Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe" is one of his best-known works
Van Gogh
Bing
$400 [26]
Reflecting Cyprus' split personality & politics, these are the 2 official languages of Cyprus besides English
Greek & Turkish
Diane Bing
$400 [6]
It's the mildest type of burn but the harshest type of murder
first-degree
Dan
$800 [8]
Collier's Ency. says his 1858 play "The Vikings at Helgeland" was "bad; but...in a new and interesting way"
Ibsen
Dan
$800 [22]
(Turner Classic Movies's Robert Osborne gives the clue.) For this 1993 film, Brad Pitt practiced fly-fishing on the roof of his Hollywood apartment building, sometimes catching the hook in his head
A River Runs Through It
Dan
$800 [13]
One in Spanish
Uno
Dan
$800 [2]
In 1938 this Mexican woman raised some eyebrows with her "Self-portrait with Monkey"
Frida Kahlo
Diane
$800 [27]
Until 1960 Cyprus was a colony of this European nation
Great Britain
Diane
$800 [17]
It can mean to attach something, like with a clasp, or to detach something, like coupons
clip
Dan
$1,200 [9]
This Brit called his comedy "Hay Fever" "One of the most difficult plays to perform that I have ever encountered"
Noel Coward
Diane Bing
$1,200 [23]
(Turner Classic Movies's Robert Osborne gives the clue.) During the filming of "My Left Foot", this actor spent the entire time in a wheelchair & learned how to paint with his left foot
Daniel Day-Lewis
Dan
$1,200 [14]
A surgical procedure
Operation
Bing
$1,200 [3]
Both Manet & this close friend had works titled "Luncheon on the Grass", but the friend's painting was 15 x 20 feet
Monet
Bing
$1,200 [28]
The Famagusta Gate area is a nightlife center in this capital city
Nicosia
Bing
$1,200 [18]
If you get it on your food, it's a little bonus: if a court does it to your wages, it's anything but
garnish
Bing
$1,600 [10]
The Berliner Ensemble founded by this man in the 1940s finally made its U.S. debut in '99 with a staging of his "Arturo Ui"
Bertolt Brecht
Dan
$1,600 [24]
(Turner Classic Movies's Robert Osborne gives the clue.) Judy Holliday, reprising her stage role as ex-chorus girl Billie Dawn, beat Bette Davis & Gloria Swanson for Best Actress inthis1950 George Cukor film
Born Yesterday
Bing
$1,600 [15]
Tornado
Twister
Bing
$2,000 [5]
What an Antwerp! He painted "Het Pelsken" around 1638; how him-esque!
Rubens
Bing
$1,600 [29]
This king stopped crusading long enough to marry Princess Berengaria of Navarre on Cyprus in 1191
Richard the Lion-hearted
Bing
$1,600 [19]
This adjective describes both something that moves quickly & something that doesn't move at all
fast
$2,000 [11]
A N.Y. production of his play "People Are Living There" moved the setting from his native South Africa to N.J.
Athol Fugard
$2,000 [25]
(Turner Classic Movies's Robert Osborne gives the clue.) This 1951 Kurosawa film famously told the story of a crime from the viewpoints of a priest, a peasant & a woodcutter
Rashomon
Dan
$2,000 [16]
Famished famished river horses
Hungry Hungry Hippos
Dan
DD $3,000 [4]
During WWII posters of his paintings of "The Four Freedoms" were distributed by the Office of War Information
(Norman) Rockwell
Bing
$2,000 [30]
This archbishop was the first president of modern Cyprus, off & on from 1959 to 1977
Archbishop Makarios
DD $2,000 [20]
It can mean to withstand something (a storm, for instance) as well as to erode under it
weather
Bing

Final Jeopardy!

POP CULTURE

Also the title of one of the best-selling albums of all time, it was first seen in Russian photos taken in 1959

the dark side of the Moon

Diane "What is Sputnik?" — wagered $3,999
Bing "What is Sputnik?" — wagered $8,000
Dan "What is the Dark Side of the Moon?" — wagered $15,801

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