Show #5728 2009-07-01 (taped 2009-03-24) Regular

Contestants

Michael Huntington — a waiter from Kansas City, Missouri

Tiffiny Fisher — a data analyst from Beaverton, Oregon

Nina Ginocchio — a school librarian from Park Ridge, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,200)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Nina	$3,600	$7,400	$21,000	$25,000 2-day champion: $44,200	$20,600 23 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Tiffiny	$600	$5,000	$7,400	$14,800 2nd place: $2,000	$7,400 13 R, 3 W
Michael	$800	$600	$-200	$-200 3rd place: $1,000	$4,200 15 R, 8 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL	MOVIE REMAKES	THIS, OR THAT	A WORLD OF MUSIC	I FEEL A BIT "ILL"	TAKE MY TEMPERATURE
$200 [1] "America! America! God shed His Grace on thee/ And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to" this shining sea Michael	$200 [22] Big problems in the Little League:"Bad _____ Bears" News Tiffiny	$200 [17] A strand of thread for knitting, or a long tale of adventure a yarn Michael	$200 [12] Carlos Gardel, "the Songbird of Buenos Aires", became a cultural icon singing the music of this dance tango Tiffiny Michael	$200 [2] An illegal device for making moonshine a still Michael	$200 [15] It has an average surface temperature of 5,600 kelvin the Sun Michael
$400 [7] "O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain/ For purple mountain majesties, above" these 3 words the fruited plain Nina	$400 [23] From Spencer Tracy to Steve Martin:"Father of the _____" Bride Tiffiny	$400 [20] To jerk by a violent twist (Ow, my back!), or a tool for twisting the head of a bolt wrench Nina	$400 [13] Rodgers & Hammerstein fans who speak German listen to "Der Konig und Ich", the Austrian cast CD of this musical The King and I Michael	$400 [3] A small frying pan a skillet Nina	$400 [18] It's equal to -459.69 degrees Fahrenheit absolute zero Michael
$600 [8] "O beautiful for patriot dream, that sees beyond the years/ Thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human" these tears Nina	$600 [24] Catch that train:"3:10 to _____" Yuma Tiffiny	$600 [21] A young hoodlum, or something used to light fireworks a punk Tiffiny	$800 [14] The name of this Mexican dance music may come from a word for "marriage", as it was performed at weddings mariachi Tiffiny	$600 [4] A sudden wave of high emotion or excitement a thrill Nina	$600 [19] Changes in the frequency of these insects' chirps can be related to changes in temperature a cricket Nina
$800 [9] "America! America! God mend thine every flaw/ Confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in" this law Nina	$800 [25] Keanu's typecast as an alien:"The Day the Earth _____ _____" Stood Still Tiffiny	$800 [29] The thick lees from sugar-cane juice used in rum distillation, or the name before "Mifflin" on "The Office" dunder Nina	$1,000 [16] The Armenian duduk is one of the instruments on this uni-named Greek musician's "Ethnicity" album Yanni Nina	$800 [5] Adjective describing a high-pitched & piercing sound shrill Nina	$800 [27] When he invented his scale, he originally made 0 the boiling point of water & 100 its freezing point; it changed later (Anders) Celsius Tiffiny Michael
$1,000 [10] "America! America! May God thy gold refine/ till all success be nobleness, and every gain" this godly word divine Michael	$1,000 [26] The remake had Ben Stiller:"The _____ Kid" Heartbreak Tiffiny	$1,000 [30] Mr. Baggins of "The Hobbit", or an archaic term for a finely tempered sword Bilbo Nina	DD $2,400 [11] The 1990 album "Unison" marked the English language debut of this chanteuse from Quebec Céline Dion Michael	$1,000 [6] A soldier's lodging place a billet Michael	$1,000 [28] From the Latin for "burn up", it's the process of rapid oxygenation & temperature rise associated with burning combustion

Double Jeopardy! Round

NEW CONGRESSMEN & GOVERNORS	INTERNATIONAL SPORTS STUFF	STOCK SYMBOL-IC	BANNED BOOKS	STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS	LEAVE BRITTANY ALONE!
$400 [22] New senator Mark Begich of this state replaced Ted Stevens Alaska Michael	$400 [13] In 1972 the ironically named Frank Shorter was the Olympic champion of this long running event the marathon Tiffiny	$400 [11] ZZ is the snooze of a symbol for this Posturepedic mattress company Sealy Tiffiny	$400 [6] This 1951 J.D. Salinger work The Catcher in the Rye Nina	$400 [1] It can be any refuge, or a small, fertile green region in the desert an oasis Nina	$400 [12] This roamin' Roman conquered Brittany in 56 B.C. Julius Caesar Nina Tiffiny
$800 [23] This state's former governor Mark Warner donned his senatorial cap in 2009 Virginia	$800 [14] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a sumo training stable in Tokyo, Japan.) Sumo wrestlers scatter this compound to purify the ring prior to each match salt Nina Michael	$800 [15] BID is the winning symbol for this auction house that held its first one in 1744 Sotheby's Nina Michael	$800 [7] Laura Ingalls Wilder's 1935 book Little House on the Prairie Michael	$800 [2] This type of down comes from the duck of the same name eider Nina	$800 [27] Brittany got its name because it was a refuge for Celts fleeing Anglo-Saxon persecution on this nearby island Great Britain Tiffiny
$1,600 [25] In New England Jeanne Shaheen defeated John Sununu to become this state's first female senator New Hampshire Nina	$1,200 [19] Al Oerter set an Olympic record in winning this throwing event in 1956... & again in 1960... & 1964... & 1968, too the discus Michael	$1,200 [16] CAKE is the delicious symbol for this restaurant chain, but there's a 45-minute wait to buy a share Cheesecake Factory Nina	$1,200 [8] Anthony Burgess' 1962 tale of juvenile delinquency A Clockwork Orange Nina	$1,200 [3] Michael Faraday introduced this term for an electrically charged atom an ion Nina	$1,200 [28] Dukes of the Montfort family struggled to keep Brittany neutral during this lengthy English-French war the Hundred Years' War Tiffiny
DD $2,000 [24] One of the two states that got new senators with the last name Udall in 2009 New Mexico (or Colorado) Michael	$1,600 [20] Born in Siberia on April 19, 1987, she signed with IMG models in 2003 & won Wimbledon in 2004 Maria Sharapova Tiffiny	$1,600 [17] PZZA is the symbol that made a lot of dough for John Schnatter & this company Papa John's Pizza Nina Michael	$1,600 [9] Giovanni Boccaccio's 1353 collection of tales The Decameron	DD $2,000 [4] A trapeze artist an aerialist Nina	$1,600 [29] In the 9th century Nomenoë, Brittany's national hero, drove out this "Bald" Frankish king's forces Charles Tiffiny
$2,000 [26] This Southern state got a new senator, Kay Hagan, & a new governor, Beverly Perdue North Carolina	$2,000 [21] Berik Kupeshov, Assan Bazayev & a guy named Lance are on the Astana cycling team, named for this country's capital Kazakhstan Michael	$2,000 [18] LVB are the initials of Beethoven & the symbol for this company that sells a Ludwig-loving instrument Steinway Michael	$2,000 [10] Daniel Keyes' 1966 novel of mouse & man Flowers for Algernon Michael	$2,000 [5] Closely related to the tuba, this instrument seenherewas invented in Germany in 1843 a euphonium Nina Michael	$2,000 [30] In the 1970s Bretons fought off government attempts to build one of these in the Commune of Plogoff a nuclear power plant Michael

Final Jeopardy!

PHRASE ORIGINS

A 19th century gambling term meaning a desirable prize, its use in reference to NYC stems from a 1921 newspaper sports column

the Big Apple

Tiffiny "What is the Big Apple?" — wagered $7,400

Nina "What is The Big Apple?" — wagered $4,000

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