Show #5700 2009-05-22 (taped 2009-02-24) Regular

Justin Bernbach game 2.

Contestants

Lindsay Barnes — a journalist from Charlottesville, Virginia

Deborah Charles — a retired airline agent from Avenel, New Jersey

Justin Bernbach — a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Justin $4,200 $5,800 $15,800 $29,700
2-day champion: $51,301
$13,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Deborah $3,400 $4,700 $11,900 $7,400
2nd place: $2,000
$11,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Lindsay $1,400 $3,400 $14,800 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$13,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS AMERICANS THEIR FIRST TOP 10 SOLO HIT NUMBER, PLEASE HOW INVENTIVE ABSOLUTE ADJECTIVES THE NEW YORK TIMESTECHNOLOGY
$200 [6]
Legendary General George Armstrong Custer first saw action in this war
the Civil War
Deborah
$200 [1]
"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free"(1985)
Sting
Lindsay
$200 [7]
A goose egg
0
Deborah
$200 [16]
This Renaissance man's invention of the maritime lock allowed Milan to link with the Po river via a canal system
Da Vinci
Deborah
$200 [21]
As is often said, you can't be a little bit this, also called "in a family way"
pregnant
Lindsay
$200 [26]
(Mr. Pogue points a handheld projector at a screen.) Micro projectors are tiny, but at short range they give you a nearly cinematic experience; they use the same type of DLP technology that's replacing film in movie theaters; DLP stands for this type of light processing
digital
Lindsay
$400 [12]
He's the future governor & labor union president seenherearound 1940
Ronald Reagan
Lindsay
$400 [2]
"Cry Me A River"(2002)
Justin Timberlake
Deborah
$400 [8]
Fourscore
80
Deborah
$400 [17]
Hoping to capitalize on the popularity of Superman was one factor in naming this '70s audio product
the Walkman
$400 [22]
A nickname of Rome is this type of "City", an adjective that should not be modified
Eternal
Deborah
$400 [27]
(David Pogue reads the clue.) You can track your car, your dog or even your teenager with a Zoombak, which pinpoints their location courtesy of this space-based system
GPS
Lindsay
$600 [13]
Today found on the $10 bill, he was an aide-de-camp to Washington & also served in his cabinet
(Alexander) Hamilton
Deborah
$600 [3]
"The Heat Is On"(1984)
Glenn Frey
Justin
$600 [9]
Number of ounces in a Starbucks "venti"(hope you speak Italian)
20
Deborah
$800 [19]
Friedrich Jahn of Germany invented this gymnastics event that uses a surface 16 feet long & 4 inches wide
the balance beam
Deborah
$600 [23]
This 6-letter word for "one of a kind" should never be preceded by "very"
unique
Lindsay
$600 [28]
(David Pogue reads the clue.) A truly green product, the prototype Sony Ericsson Greenheart phone is made of recycled plastic & bioplastic from this most commonly grown U.S. grain
corn
Lindsay
$800 [14]
In 1995 astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to board this Russian space station
Mir
Justin
$800 [4]
"London Bridge"(2006)
Fergie
Lindsay
$800 [10]
A long-playing record, in RPMs
33 1/3
Justin
DD $900 [18]
Fashion designer Jacques Heim called his smallest style the Atom; rival Louis Reard named his after this atoll
Bikini
Deborah
$800 [24]
Absolute mathematical terms include parallel & this, indicated by 2 parallel lines
equal (equals accepted)
Justin
$800 [29]
(David Pogue reads the clue.) I'm holding a Blu-ray DVD player that can also download movies & TV shows from this service that's now living up to its name; its CEO has said, "There's a reason we didn't call the company DVD By Mail"
Netflix
Justin
$1,000 [15]
Though the Constitution says the U.S. can't have one of these, it was the last name of Constitution signer Rufus
King
Deborah
$1,000 [5]
"Mother And Child Reunion"(1972)
Paul Simon
Justin
$1,000 [11]
3-digit number for a gross
144
Justin
$1,000 [20]
This magnetic device was invented in China & used to find the best burial place
the compass
$1,000 [25]
It's not just unlikely, it's this, the I in the IM Force
impossible
Deborah Lindsay
$1,000 [30]
(David Pogue reads the clue.) OLED technology delivers such an incredible picture in such a thin screen because there's no backlight needed; each of these 518,400 units making up the image generates its own light
a pixel
Lindsay

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE SUPER BOWL THE DOLPHINS THE GIANTS THE JETS THE "BUC"s SOMEDAY THE SAINTS
$400 [1]
A 1979 third-round draft pick by the 49ers, this QB was Super Bowl MVP 3 times
Joe Montana
Lindsay
$400 [26]
The dolphin kick is used in competition in this sport
swimming
Lindsay
$400 [6]
"Hands of Victory", giant crossed swords made from melted guns used in the war against Iran, dominate this city's skyline
Baghdad
Justin
$400 [12]
The "Q" in QSST, a proposed 12-passenger luxury jet, stands for "quiet", as it wouldn't produce this 2-word sound
a sonic boom
Justin
$400 [7]
It's grain ground into flour, o-tay?
buckwheat
Lindsay
$400 [17]
Canonized in 1933, this French nun & visionary is the Patron Saint of Lourdes
Bernadette (Soubirous)
Justin Deborah
$800 [2]
That's right, Watson--this Steeler's catch in the waning seconds of Super Bowl XLIII won him the MVP
(Santonio) Holmes
Deborah
$800 [28]
The tucuxi, an under-4-foot dolphin, has been found swimming more than 1,500 miles up this river
the Amazon
Lindsay
$800 [19]
A giant ocean cataract, a type of this under the Denmark Strait, carries 5 million cubic meters of water per second
a waterfall
Deborah
$1,200 [14]
In the Korean War U.S. F-86 Sabre jets participated in dogfights with these Soviet fighter planes
MiGs
Justin
$800 [8]
Perhaps to keep this president from being lonely, the King of Siam offered him a herd of elephants
(James) Buchanan
Justin
$800 [18]
This saint is also the Patron Saint of shoe shiners & not just on Christmas
Nicholas
Lindsay
$1,200 [3]
This city on the Great Lakes is the only NFL city that has never hosted nor appeared in a Super Bowl
Cleveland
Justin Lindsay
$1,200 [27]
Seen here, this variety of dolphin takes its name from a distinctive facial feature
the bottlenose
Deborah
$1,200 [21]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew points to a map on the monitor.) Completely landlocked & fed by rivers like the Zhem, the Ural & the Volga, this large sea is actually a lake
the Caspian
Deborah
$1,600 [15]
The A380 from this France-based co. was designed to carry up to 840 passengers; how long does deplaning take?
Airbus
Justin
$1,200 [9]
An open 4-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with a flexible seat
a buckboard
Deborah
$1,200 [20]
He wrote to the Corinthians, "When I became a man, I put away childish things"
St. Paul
Lindsay
$1,600 [4]
The 1980 Raiders were first to win a Super Bowl after making the playoffs as this, a non-division winner
a wildcard
Justin
$2,000 [30]
In the 400s B.C. this Greek historian told the story of the rescue of the poet Arion by a dolphin
Herodotus
$1,600 [22]
If you're visiting the rocky promontory called the Giant's Causeway, you're traveling on this island
Ireland
$2,000 [16]
Each turbojet on the Northrop F-5E generates 3,500 pounds of thrust; these "kick in" to boost thrust to 5,000 pounds
afterburners
Lindsay
$1,600 [10]
Whenever Johnny & I wrestle, he climbs up to the top one of these corner-of-the-ring supports & bodyslams me
a turnbuckle
Lindsay
$1,600 [24]
On Christmas Eve in 1223, this Italian saint set up a nativity scene in Greccio, complete with live animals
St. Francis (of Assisi)
Deborah
$2,000 [5]
In 1988 he became the first African-American quarterback to start & win a Super Bowl
Doug Williams
Lindsay
DD $3,000 [29]
This research society has published the Dolphin Log for kids & the Calypso Log for adults
the Cousteau Society
Lindsay
$2,000 [23]
To see Mario Irarrazabal's giant "Hand of the Desert" statue, visit the Atacama Desert in this country
Chile
Justin
DD $3,200 [13]
Introduced in the 1980s, it's the Boeing jet whose digits add up to 20
the 767
Justin
$2,000 [11]
This monarch has a troubling dream in the Bible's Book of Daniel
Nebuchadnezzar
Justin
$2,000 [25]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral in Spain.) The Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela houses the remains of this saint--"Iago" in Spanish--the traditional evangelizer of Spain
St. James

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY POLITICS

On September 23, 1952 some 60 million people, the largest TV audience to that time, tuned in for this live address

the Checkers Speech

Deborah "What is" — wagered $4,500
Lindsay "What is the State of the Union" — wagered $14,799
Justin "What is the Checkers Speech?" — wagered $13,900

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