Show #5712 2009-06-09 (taped 2009-03-04) Regular

Contestants

Tony Terry — an IT professional from Seminole, Florida

Kate Bilo — a TV weather anchor from State College, Pennsylvania

Baltazar Pinedo — a bilingual language development specialist from Modesto, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Baltazar $2,600 $5,200 $17,400 $25,400
2-day champion: $26,200
$18,000
26 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Kate $3,400 $3,400 $9,400 $1,300
3rd place: $1,000
$9,400
13 R, 1 W
Tony $1,600 $2,600 $12,400 $22,600
2nd place: $2,000
$11,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

"A____A" IN THE ATLAS 2 FIRST NAMES? FUN WITH LETTERS UPPERS & DOWNERS I KILLED A GUY ONCE IN FLORIDA
$200 [1]
An 1833 meteor shower is why license plates say "Stars fell on" this state
Alabama
Baltazar
$200 [6]
The original Ronald McDonald, today you know him better as the "Today" show's weather reporter
Willard Scott
Baltazar Kate
$200 [11]
In the name of military aircraft, this letter precedes 2 & 52
B
Baltazar
$200 [21]
It's the item you'll learn to master & depend on at the Army's Jump School
a parachute
Baltazar
$200 [16]
On March 15, 44 B.C. Gaius Cassius Longinus (& 20 or so other guys) took a stab at this man
Julius Caesar
Baltazar
$200 [26]
This has been the state's capital since 1824, 2 years after Florida became a U.S. territory
Tallahassee
Baltazar
$400 [2]
This country is a cluster of valleys in the Pyrenees
Andorra
Kate
$400 [7]
These days he's behind the camera directing films like "Angels and Demons" & "The Da Vinci Code"
Ron Howard
Tony
$400 [12]
These 2 letters precede Cruiser in the name of a cute car from Chrysler
P & T
Kate
$400 [22]
In 1976 news, these 1-syllable features were installed at the Lincoln Memorial
ramps
$400 [17]
On April 3, 1882 in St. Joseph, Missouri, Robert Ford took out this man with a shot to the head
Jesse James
Tony
$400 [27]
This "river of grass" in southern Florida is up to 50 miles wide & generally less than a foot deep
the Everglades
Tony
$600 [3]
This Montana city lent its name to a giant copper mining concern
Anaconda
Tony
$600 [8]
In 2009 this funnyman was back as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau in "The Pink Panther 2"
Steve Martin
Kate
$600 [13]
It's the single-letter movie role played by Judi Dench beginning with "Golden Eye"
M
Kate
$600 [23]
The V-22 Osprey aircraft flies like a turboprop but takes off & lands like this
a helicopter
Baltazar
$600 [18]
On Sept. 5, 1877 a Fort Robinson, Neb. soldier killed this "equine" Native American after his voluntary surrender
Crazy Horse
Baltazar
$600 [28]
In 1822 Isaiah Hart honored the provisional governor of Florida, later a U.S. president, in naming this city
Jacksonville
Tony
$800 [4]
The Red Fort, built by Akbar, is the second-most famous landmark in this city in India
Agra
Kate
$800 [9]
She opened her own weight loss center in 1983 after the company she was working for was sold to Nutrisystem
Jenny Craig
Kate
$800 [14]
The Roman numeral for 100
C
Tony
$1,000 [25]
The word "winch" is from Old English for this simple machine, which helps a winch lift stuff
a pulley
Baltazar Tony
$800 [19]
In 1948 Nathuram Godse killed this Asian leader who had spoken of "the willing sacrifice of the innocent"
Gandhi
Baltazar
$800 [29]
The name of this huge Florida lake is a Seminole Indian word meaning "plenty big water"
Okeechobee
Tony
$1,000 [5]
Lewis & Clark's winter home Fort Clatsop is an attraction in this Oregon city, the oldest settlement west of the Rockies
Astoria
Baltazar
$1,000 [10]
In 2003, 37 years after his death, this comedian was pardoned by N.Y.'s governor for a 1964 obscenity conviction
Lenny Bruce
Baltazar
$1,000 [15]
In American Sign Language, these threelettersthat follow each other in the alphabet look like this
U, V, W
Tony
DD $2,000 [24]
You step over a comb plate to start & end each ride on one of these
an escalator
Baltazar
$1,000 [20]
On June 28, 1914 Gavrilo Princip shot this man & his wife; there were some repercussions
Archduke Ferdinand
Baltazar
$1,000 [30]
Hey, sweetheart, it's the Florida locationseen here
Key Largo
Tony

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA 4-LETTER FILMS SCIENCE GLOSSARY WINE A LITTLE RELIGIOUS MATTERS GOOD "BI"
$400 [11]
One of the 2 plays for which Tennessee Williams won Pulitzers, in 1948 & 1955
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (or A Streetcar Named Desire )
Baltazar
$400 [22]
Its theme song says, "I'm gonna live forever, baby remember my name"
Fame
Kate
$400 [6]
It's the chemical substance that carries genetic information that determines form & functioning of all living things
DNA
Kate
$400 [1]
In the world of wine, this word refers to the year the grapes were harvested
vintage
Kate
$400 [12]
This leader's enthronement ceremony took place when he was 4, in the iron-dragon year (1940, to us)
the Dalai Lama
Baltazar
$400 [17]
This dual sports event was first included in the Winter Olympics in 1960
a biathlon
Baltazar
$800 [27]
He won Pulitzers for "Our Town" & "The Skin of our Teeth"
(Thornton) Wilder
Kate
$800 [23]
Gwyneth Paltrow starred in the 1996 adaptation of this Jane Austen novel
Emma
Baltazar
$800 [7]
This bacterium found in eggs & poultry that causes food poisoning is named for an American pathologist
salmonella
Baltazar
$800 [2]
You might enjoy a glass of this Sicilian fortified wine while cooking up the veal dish of the same name
Marsala
Baltazar Tony
$800 [13]
More than 80% of the people in Finland belong to this Protestant denomination
Lutheran
Baltazar
$800 [18]
The 47th U.S. vice president
Biden
Tony
$1,200 [28]
Horton Foote won a 1995 Pulitzer for his play "The Young Man from" this state capital
Atlanta
$1,200 [24]
It told the true story of disfigured teen Rocky Dennis; Cher played his biker mom
Mask
Baltazar
$1,200 [8]
The time it takes for 50% of a given amount of a radioactive element to decay
half-life
Tony
$1,200 [3]
Chablis & beaujolais come from this major wine-growing region in France
Burgundy
Baltazar Kate
$1,200 [14]
A student might earn an M.Div. at this type of theological school, from the Middle English for "seed plot"
a seminary
Baltazar
$1,200 [19]
"Parallel Lives" by Plutarch is an early collection of these
biographies
Kate
$1,600 [29]
"You Can't Take It With You" unless you're George S. Kaufman & this partner, who took home the prize in 1937
Moss Hart
$1,600 [25]
In this '95 thriller Al Pacino & Robert De Niro were on opposite sides of the law
Heat
Baltazar
$2,000 [10]
The transfer of a fluid from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration through a membrane
osmosis
Tony
$1,600 [4]
In the U.S. Johannisberg often appears on bottles of this white wine adopted from Germany
Riesling
Kate
$2,000 [16]
Many a saint could tell you that thaumaturgy is the power to work these
miracles
Baltazar
$1,600 [20]
An oyster, clam or mussel
bivalves
Baltazar
$2,000 [30]
It's the 3-letter title of Margaret Edson's play about a woman dying of cancer
Wit
$2,000 [26]
"Fear is the driving force" in this early Spielberg flick, originally made for TV
Duel
Baltazar
DD $3,000 [9]
The quality of richness of variety of life forms, both plant & animal, in a given environment
biodiversity
Tony
$2,000 [5]
Fume blanc was a term coined by this California vintner to play up the smoky flavors of his sauvignon blanc
Robert Mondavi
Tony
DD $3,000 [15]
Some early followers of this religion founded in England in the 1600s called themselves the Friends of Truth
the Quakers (or the Society of Friends)
Baltazar
$2,000 [21]
A prejudice, or a diagonal line across a woven fabric
a bias
Baltazar

Final Jeopardy!

SIGNS OF THE TIMES

First turned on in 1989 in Times Square, the "clock" measuring this ran out of digits in October 2008

the national debt

Kate "What is the National Defecit?" — wagered $8,100
Tony "What is the national debt?" — wagered $10,200
Baltazar "What is the National Debt?" — wagered $8,000

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