Show #5735 2009-07-10 (taped 2009-03-25) Regular

Jon Cannon's last appearance as a member of the Clue Crew.

Contestants

Kathleen O'Day — a home decor product manager from Oakdale, Minnesota

Peter Wiscombe — a computer engineer from High Point, North Carolina

Alyssa McRae — a gift card production designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (whose 3-day cash winnings total $50,402)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Alyssa $1,000 $2,400 $10,800 $4,001
2nd place: $2,000
$10,800
13 R, 3 W
Peter $5,400 $5,800 $19,200 $16,799
New champion: $16,799
$22,400
30 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Kathleen $-600 $200 $2,000 $3,998
3rd place: $1,000
$3,000
7 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

BALLET THE NIFTY 1930s YOU NEED A DRINK ZIP IT! THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WHEN DOUBLE DOUBLE "O"
$200 [16]
This Shakespeare play inspired Jose Limon to create "The Moor's Pavane", & he danced the lead role himself
Othello
Peter
$200 [21]
This future baseball giant first said "Hey!" to the world when he was born in Alabama in 1931
Willie Mays
Alyssa
$200 [1]
George Washington was a fan of this holiday drink but used whiskey & brandy as well as rum
egg nog
Peter
$200 [6]
To 58102, to send it to this biggest North Dakota city, you betcha
Fargo
Alyssa Peter
$200 [23]
...the 9/11 attacks occurred
Tony Blair
Alyssa
$200 [11]
I'll have this Chinese dish of sliced chicken stir-fried with mushrooms & vegetables, to go
moo goo gai pan
Peter
$400 [17]
We're not toying with you: one of Andersen's fairy tales inspired the ballet "The Steadfast Tin" this
Soldier
Peter
$400 [22]
1934 was the first year for this Oscar category, & the winner was "The Continental"
Best Song
Alyssa Kathleen
$400 [2]
To be patriotic during WWII, this soda invented in 1898 adopted red, white & blue colors, still on its logo today
Pepsi
Kathleen
$400 [7]
To 99501, to send it to this largest Alaska city
Anchorage
Peter
$400 [24]
...Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands
Margaret Thatcher
Peter
$400 [12]
Hello... Hey you... Over there! This chocolate drink has been around since the '20s
Yoo-hoo
Alyssa Peter
$600 [18]
In "Western Symphony", dance hall girls & cowboys cavort to classic tunes like this "River Valley"
"Red River Valley"
Kathleen
$600 [28]
This ski-nosed comic broke out of Vaudeville & made his Broadway acting debut in the 1933 musical "Roberta"
Bob Hope
Peter Kathleen
$600 [3]
A person used to be smashed onto a new boat as a sacrifice; this effervescent drink is less painful
champagne
Peter
$600 [8]
To 86538, to send it to this Arizona town that was "too tough to die"
Tombstone
Peter
$600 [25]
...World War II ended in Europe
Churchill
Alyssa
$600 [13]
George H.W. Bush derided Ronald Reagan's fiscal policies as this type of "economics"
voodoo
Peter
$800 [19]
It's the "little" French surname of choreographer Roland of the Ballets de Paris
Petit
Alyssa
$800 [29]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Tavern on the Green.) Tavern on the Green opened as a restaurant in 1934; this New York City mayor opened the door with a brass key & sampled the cuisine
LaGuardia
Peter
$800 [4]
To make this 4-letter drink, the rice has to be milled because the starch, which ferments, is in the center of the rice
sake
Alyssa
$800 [9]
To 93308, to send it to this California city that gave its name to a country music "Sound"
Bakersfield
$800 [26]
...World War II broke out
Neville Chamberlain
Peter
$800 [14]
Don't get on that alien ship; "To Serve Man" is one of these kitchen helpers!
a cookbook
$1,000 [20]
The jazzy ballet "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" was originally part of the Broadway musical "On Your" these
Toes
DD $2,600 [30]
Agatha Christie set Hercule Poirot afloat on a boat called the Karnak in this exotic 1937 novel
Death on the Nile
Peter
$1,000 [5]
White & red wines differ in that the stems & these 2 other parts of the grape are not used for white
the skins & the seeds
Peter Kathleen
$1,000 [10]
To 97405, to send it to this Oregon college town, home of the Ducks
Eugene
Peter
$1,000 [27]
...Queen Victoria was anointed Empress of India
Benjamin Disraeli
Peter
$1,000 [15]
The plan has no risk, it can't fail, it can only be described as this
foolproof
Peter

Double Jeopardy! Round

NOVEL-TIES SUNDAY NIGHT TV FAMOUS TRIALS GOULASH LET'S GO FOR A "SPIN" AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN
$400 [11]
In 1905 this still-controversial Twain book was banned because a character said sweat instead of perspiration
Huckleberry Finn
Peter
$400 [1]
In 1995 there was "Cybill", "Mad About You" & this series, "The New Adventures of Superman"
Lois & Clark
Peter
$400 [6]
Exhibits in her 1893 trial in New Bedford, Mass., included her parents' skulls & the head of a hatchet
Lizzie Borden
Alyssa
$400 [16]
Streets in this Kansas town include Wyatt Earp Boulevard & Gunsmoke Street
Dodge City
Peter
$400 [21]
"Melrose Place" was one for "Beverly Hills 90210"
a spin-off
Kathleen
$400 [26]
Thislarge Italian island was once ruled by the House of Savoy
Sardinia
Peter Kathleen
$800 [12]
The title of this 1813 Austen novel comes from the second chapter of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
Pride and Prejudice
Kathleen
$800 [2]
In 1976 CBS's Sunday night lineup was "60 Minutes", "Sonny & Cher", then "Who loves ya, baby?", this detective
Kojak
Peter
$800 [7]
Stabbed during his capture at Harpers Ferry, this abolitionist spent most of his 1859 trial lying on a cot
John Brown
Peter
$800 [17]
This word, the first half of a familiar pair, refers to goods found floating in the sea from a shipwreck
flotsam
Peter
$800 [22]
Here are the rules: if the soda container stops rotating & faces you, it's time to pucker up
spin the bottle
Alyssa
$800 [27]
After World War I, France was given a League of Nations mandate over this country
Lebanon
Alyssa Peter Kathleen
$1,200 [13]
1904's "Betty Zane" was his first published novel--makes sense
Zane Grey
Peter
$1,200 [3]
Choices from 1955 included "You Asked for It", "G.E. Theater" & this movie director "Presents"
Alfred Hitchcock
Alyssa
DD $1,000 [9]
After his 1633 sentencing, he said he must "abandon the false opinion that the sun is the center of the world"
Galileo
Peter
$1,200 [18]
A cousin of Paul Bunyan, this "Mountain State"'s woodsman Tony Beaver had 2 oxen named Hannibal & Goliath
West Virginia
Peter
$1,200 [23]
It can be a yarn maker, or a woman who never married
a spinster
Alyssa
DD $1,000 [29]
Once part of the Roman Empire, this nation was part of the Ottoman Empire for 400 years
Albania
Kathleen
$1,600 [14]
Her crime novels include "Cause of Death" & "Cruel & Unusual"
Patricia Cornwell
$1,600 [4]
In 2000, at 8:00 you could have watched "The Simpsons", "Steve Harvey" or this heavenly show with Roma Downey
Touched by an Angel
Alyssa
$1,200 [8]
At her 1976 bank robbery trial, this heiress' lawyer used a brainwashing defense; the jury didn't buy it
Patricia Hearst
Peter
$1,600 [19]
This Christian martyr is said to have rescued the daughter of a king & slain the dragon victimizing a Libyan town
Saint George
$1,600 [24]
It's the rotating skid of a car losing control
a spinout
Peter
$1,200 [28]
In 1993, limited autonomy was granted to this coastal areathat's home to 1.5 million people
the Gaza Strip
Kathleen
$2,000 [15]
It's the numerical title of the Bret Easton Ellis novel made into a 1987 Robert Downey, Jr. film
Less than Zero
Alyssa
$2,000 [5]
From 1959 until 1963 the lead-in for "Ed Sullivan" was this Jay North sitcom about a mischievous boy
Dennis the Menace
Alyssa
$2,000 [10]
The first of 12 trials held in this city in the late 1940s led to the convictions of Hermann Goering & 18 other Nazis
Nuremberg
Peter
$2,000 [20]
This French glassmaker that shares its name with a card game is known among collectors for its paperweights
Baccarat
$2,000 [25]
The bowman on a yacht is there to set this sail
a spinnaker
Peter
$2,000 [30]
It's made up of three mainislands& has a combined land area smaller than Philadelphia
Malta

Final Jeopardy!

THE CALENDAR

This U.S. event was set after the harvest, on a day when rural folk could get there without having to travel on Sunday

Election Day

Kathleen "What is election day." — wagered $1,998
Alyssa "What is Thanksgiving?" — wagered $6,799
Peter "What is Thanksgiving" — wagered $2,401

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