Show #5731 2009-07-06 (taped 2009-03-25) Regular

Contestants

Joe Webb — an American lit doctoral student from St. Louis, Missouri

Jessica Harry — an attorney originally from Jackson, Wisconsin

Chris Hernandez — a biology student originally from Wharton, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Chris $2,800 $4,800 $14,400 $28,799
2nd place: $2,000
$14,400
18 R, 1 W
Jessica $1,800 $5,000 $11,000 $15,000
3rd place: $1,000
$11,000
17 R, 2 W
Joe $-600 $-1,200 $16,400 $28,801
New champion: $28,801
$15,800
14 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

JAMES BOND DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER MOONRAKER A QUANTUM OF SHOELACE DOCTOR, NO 4 I's ONLY
$200 [1]
A 1948 Olympic silver medalist in weightlifting, Harold Sakata played Oddjob, henchman to this title villain
Goldfinger
Joe
$200 [2]
Bo Derek probably knows diamonds rate this on the Mohs scale, which measures hardness
10
Chris
$200 [26]
For the Moon this process is the opposite of waning
waxing
Jessica
$200 [7]
The shoestring type of this sweet treat usually comes in red or black
licorice
Joe
$200 [16]
...those aren't freckles, it's this disease; see Koplik's spots inside the cheeks? A rash will appear in a few days
the measles
Chris Jessica
$200 [8]
A U.S. state
Mississippi
Chris
$600 [19]
Orson Welles played "Le Chiffre" in the campy 1967 version of this Bond film
Casino Royale
Jessica
$400 [3]
Sanguinary term for a diamond sold to finance military operations
a blood diamond
Chris
$400 [27]
In 1959 the Soviet Union launched the second craft appropriately bearing this name & crashed it into the Moon
Luna
Jessica
$400 [9]
You might be on a "shoestring" one of these allotments of funds, from the Latin for "leather bag"
a budget
Joe
$400 [17]
...it's rhinoplasty, surgery to change the structure of this, but the patient doesn't want a horn
the nose
Joe
$400 [10]
Precedes Tavi in the name of a furry Kipling character
Rikki-Tikki
Jessica
$800 [20]
The title of this film with Timothy Dalton & Carey Lowell explains why Bond gets away with murder
Licence to Kill
Chris
$600 [4]
Astronomers gave this Beatles-inspired name to BPM 37093, a white dwarf star with a 2,500-mile-wide diamond core
Lucy
Chris
$600 [28]
When translated into English, the names of this planet's moons are fear & terror
Mars
Chris
$600 [14]
Nicknamed 'Trane, this sax-y jazzman once quipped, "You can play a shoestring if you're sincere"
John Coltrane
Jessica
$600 [23]
...his arm doesn't have to come off; he just has lateral humeral epicondylitis, this "sporty" affliction
tennis elbow
Jessica
$600 [11]
The Mayo Clinic says as many as 80% of adults have this periodontal disease
gingivitis
Chris
DD $1,000 [18]
This title was a reference to Sean Connery's 1971 insistence that he'd played Bond for the last time
Never Say Never Again
Joe
$800 [5]
The slogan "A diamond is forever" was coined in 1947 by an ad exec for this South African commercial giant
De Beers
Chris
$800 [29]
They are the 2 planets in our solar system that have no known moons
Mercury & Venus
Jessica
$800 [15]
That plastic or metal tip at the end of your shoelace is called this
an aglet
$800 [24]
...that's not Bart Simpson; the yellowed skin, enlarged liver & loss of appetite indicate this 9-letter disease
hepatitis
Chris Jessica
$800 [12]
We could go on forever about this luxury division of Nissan
Infiniti
Jessica
$1,000 [21]
"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was the only film to feature him as Bond
(George) Lazenby
Jessica
$1,000 [6]
This state park in Arkansas is the USA's only diamond-producing site open to the public
Crater of Diamonds State Park
$1,000 [22]
This unlicensed Puritan preacher & "Pilgrim's Progress" author made shoelaces in prison
John Bunyan
Jessica
$1,000 [25]
...parietal bones aren't in the leg, they're at the top of this 5-letter bony structure; you did finish med school, right?
the skull
$1,000 [13]
Reducing or making smaller, like one might do to an Internet browser window
minimizing
Joe

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE MATERIAL WORLD CAN'T GET ENOUGH BROADWAY "SAN" CITY ORDER IN THE SUPREME COURT POET-TREE RHYME TIME
$400 [26]
The traditional hula is danced in skirts made of leaves; skirts made of this came from the Gilbert islands
grass
Joe
$400 [17]
ABBA-solutely fabulous! In 2008 it passed "Hello, Dolly!" to become the 16th longest-running show in Broadway history
Mamma Mia!
Joe
$400 [3]
It's home to the Castro, the Presidio & the Giants
San Francisco
Jessica
$400 [16]
When named to the court in 1897, Joseph McKenna brushed up at this type of school at Columbia University
a law school
Chris
$400 [1]
In 1923 he wrote, "Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though"
Robert Frost
Jessica
$400 [8]
The aches of Abel's older brother
Cain's pains
Jessica
$800 [27]
In building, you get a rough look with beton brut, this material left just as it was poured
cement
Chris
$800 [19]
This actor who saw plenty of carnage as Tony Soprano starred on Broadway in "God of Carnage" in 2009
James Gandolfini
Jessica
$800 [4]
It's the capital of El Salvador
San Salvador
Chris
$800 [18]
Going from a temp job to permanent employment, he's the only president who also served on the Supreme Court
Taft
Chris
$800 [2]
"A tree whose hungry mouth is prest against the earth's sweet flowing breast" is one of his lines from "Trees"
Joyce Kilmer
$800 [9]
A porcine hairpiece
a pig wig
Chris
$1,200 [28]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a pink rock sample at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum.) Because of its softness, rhodochrositeis not used in jewelry, but it's highly valued for its color; the name means this, also glasses used by optimists
rose-colored
Jessica
$1,200 [23]
In 2009 Jeremy Irons trod the boards in a play named for this "-ism"--we hope it makes a lot of Monet
Impressionism
Jessica
$1,200 [5]
City that was Davy Crockett's final frontier
San Antonio
Joe
$1,200 [20]
In September 1991 Clarence Thomas was the subject of a contentious confirmation hearing before this committee
the Senate Judiciary Committee
Chris
$1,200 [13]
"The woods decay, the woods decay and fall... and after many a summer dies the swan", wrote this lord in 1860
Tennyson
Joe
$1,200 [10]
Your bill for taking a taxi
a cab tab
Chris
$1,600 [29]
The word serigraphy, a type of printing, comes from the Latin for this fabric
silk
$1,600 [24]
Angela Lansbury played the happy medium Madame Arcati in the 2009 revival of this Brit's "Blithe Spirit"
Noel Coward
Joe
$1,600 [6]
There's a park named for JFK in this capital of Costa Rica
San José
Chris
DD $1,200 [22]
One of the few decisions made in the summer was in the case United States v. this person in 1974
Richard Nixon
Joe
$2,000 [15]
"Who has seen" this? "Neither you nor I: but when the trees bow down their heads," it "is passing by"
the wind
$1,600 [11]
A group of 3 under the zodiac sign of the lion
the Leo trio
Jessica
$2,000 [30]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a washi, or paper, factory in Kyoto, Japan.)Thismaterial from plant cell walls is the basis of papermaking; soaking fibers in a strong solution dissolves more of it, resulting in softer washi
cellulose
Chris
$2,000 [25]
Geoffrey Rush & Susan Sarandon hit Broadway in 2009 in a revival of this Romanian-born absurdist's "Exit the King"
Ionesco
Joe
$2,000 [7]
With a population of less than 5,000, it's one of the smallest capitals in Europe & is in one of the smallest nations
San Marino
Joe
$1,600 [21]
Her marriage to Texas oilman J. Howard Marshall became a Supreme Court ordeal in 2006
Anna Nicole Smith
Joe
DD $4,000 [14]
In a famous ode Keats called this bird "light-winged Dryad of the trees"
a nightingale
Joe
$2,000 [12]
A glass handgun made by Waterford
a crystal pistol
Joe

Final Jeopardy!

NAPOLEON

Napoleon died before some of his officers could sneak him to this U.S. state where his death mask now resides

Louisiana

Jessica "What is Louisiana?" — wagered $4,000
Chris "What is Louisiana?" — wagered $14,399
Joe "What is Louisiana?" — wagered $12,401

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