Show #5754 2009-09-24 (taped 2009-07-29) Regular

Contestants

Christopher Nold — an economics and film studies student from Louisville, Kentucky

Rachel Landau — a museum night security guard from Chicago, Illinois

Joann Mariani — a high school English teacher from Brooklyn, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joann $1,800 $5,200 $8,400 $99
2nd place: $2,000
$8,400
15 R, 2 W
Rachel $800 $400 $-2,000 $-2,000
3rd place: $1,000
$-2,000
1 R, 3 W
Christopher $6,400 $11,300 $13,000 $23,000
New champion: $23,000
$16,800
30 R (including 1 DD), 8 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

CHINA IN THE MUSEUM MOVIE MISSING LINKS GETTING SHIFT-Y WITH YOUR KEYBOARD HELLO, WALLS ROAD RELATED ONLY IN AMERICA
$200 [26]
The British Museum has mysterious tubes called cong, carved of this green gemstone cherished in China
jade
Joann Christopher
$200 [1]
Down and Out in ____ ____ Cop
Beverly Hills
Christopher
$200 [10]
This punctuation mark over the 1 is just so darned exciting
the exclamation point
Joann
$200 [21]
In Joshua 6:20 "The wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into" this city
Jericho
Joann
$200 [6]
Also called a frontage road, this type of access road runs parallel to a freeway or highway
a service road
Christopher
$200 [16]
It's equal to 4,840 square yards
acre
Christopher
$400 [27]
Washington's Freer & Sackler Galleries have exquisite nature paintings by Bada Shanren, a monk of this religion
Buddhism
Joann Christopher
$400 [2]
Lilies of the ____ of Dreams
Field
Christopher
$400 [11]
Email would be a near-impossibility without this item over the 2, aka an asperand
an at sign
Christopher
$400 [22]
Built in 1982, the 2 walls of this memorial are 245 feet long & meet at an angle of 125º
the Vietnam War Memorial
Christopher
$400 [7]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.) The Venn diagram represents consonants & vowels; sometimes "Y" in the middle is this mathematical set that the two larger sets have in common
the intersection
Christopher
$400 [17]
A female horse
mare
Joann Rachel
$600 [28]
Beijing's Palace Museum has spectacular but fragile kesi, tapestries of this rich fabric
silk
Joann
$600 [3]
There Will Be ____ Diamond
Blood
Joann
$600 [12]
This item over the "slash" is used to enhance interrogation
the question mark
Christopher
$600 [23]
The John Lennon wall seenhereis in this Czech capital
Prague
Christopher
$600 [8]
"Enthusiasm" for this 4-letter street rim that helps to form the sidewalk has been minimal at best
curb
Christopher
$600 [18]
This fatty part of milk is also slang for "to defeat decisively"
cream
Joann
$800 [29]
(Alex reports from Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.) The ROM's Asia collection includes thetombof Zu Dashou, a general who, in the early 1600s, helped defend this dynasty against Manchu attacks
the Ming Dynasty
Joann
$800 [4]
Pumping ____ Man
Iron
Christopher
$800 [13]
Roger Maris was all-too-familiar with this item over the 8
the asterisk (asterik accepted)
Christopher
$1,000 [25]
A biographer said he "was the first to build a wall, 80 miles long, to separate the Romans from the Barbarians"
Hadrian
Christopher
$800 [9]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a number sequence on the monitor.) In the mathematical sequence here, 4 is termed this, just like the paved strip down the center of a highway
the median
Rachel
$800 [19]
Spicy name for a spiked weapon of war used during the Middle Ages
mace
Christopher
$1,000 [30]
Taipei's National Palace Museum's collection of this visual art form includes "poem in seven-character verse"
calligraphy
$1,000 [5]
Five Easy ____ of April
Pieces
Christopher
$1,000 [14]
I don't mean to be diacritical, but this mark is found above tab right now, not mañana
the tilde
Christopher
DD $2,500 [24]
It was first erected on the night of Aug. 12-13, 1961, the result of a governmental decree
the Berlin Wall
Christopher
$1,000 [15]
In an Eagles song, "Life in" this title place will "surely make you lose your mind"
the fast lane
Joann
$1,000 [20]
The highest point or summit
acme
Joann

Double Jeopardy! Round

BYRON TOP 40 MATH PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE HISTORY SCIENCE "L"IST YE OLDE JOBBE FAIRE BEYOND MEASURE
$400 [4]
In 1809, at the age of 21, Byron took his seat in this parliamentary body
the House of Lords
Christopher
$400 [11]
The Commodores' "Times A Lady" divided by Paul Simon's "Trick Pony"
3
Joann
$400 [1]
Some reports have this 16th century British king weighing in at 400 lbs., so calling him "Pork Chop", even lovingly... bad idea
Henry VIII
Christopher
$400 [12]
Alpha Centauri is 4.35 of these away from us
light years
Joann
$400 [21]
We need 3 hufflers, who excel in their ability to quickly move these through a series of locks
ships (or boats)
Christopher
$2,000 [26]
Jeremy Bentham's utilitarianism conceptualized hedons, which were measures of this feeling
pleasure
Christopher
$800 [7]
In 1823 Byron gave 4,000 pounds of his own money to the Greek fleet to prepare it for war against this occupying empire
the Ottoman Empire
Christopher
$800 [17]
The Proclaimers' "I'm Gonna Be" this many "(Miles)" plus Paul Simon's "Ways To Leave Your Lover"
550
Joann
$800 [2]
In 490 B.C. Miltiades' runner pouts & says he's only going to run 1 mile & walk the other 24 from Marathon to here
Athens
Rachel Christopher
$800 [13]
The major source of this treatment for bipolar disorder is mined in North Carolina
lithium
Christopher
$800 [22]
If you're good at making casks or barrels, we'd certainly like to hang with you, Mr. this job
cooper
DD $3,000 [27]
A mickey, used to measure movement of this computer part, equals 1/200th of an inch
a mouse
Christopher
$1,200 [8]
This church refused to accept Byron's body for burial in 1824, but a memorial to him was placed on its floor in 1969
Westminster Abbey
Christopher
$1,200 [18]
Stevie Nicks' "Edge Of" this minus The Crests' this many "Candles"
1
Christopher
$1,200 [3]
In 1944 this "Desert Fox" was implicated in a plot to kill Hitler; actually, that's just aggressive-aggressive
Rommel
Joann
$1,200 [14]
This 11th letter of the Greek alphabet is used to symbolize wavelengths
lambda
Christopher
$1,200 [23]
Day-O! This job was for those who secured payments for goods on credit, like bananas maybe
tallyman
Joann
$1,600 [9]
Byron set "Beppo" in this Italian city, writing, "At the moment when I fix my story, that sea-born city was in all her glory"
Venice
Christopher
$1,600 [19]
Murray Head's nights "In Bangkok" minus Brewer & Shipley's tokes "Over The Line"
0
Joann
$1,600 [5]
He could've said, "I'm sure Clement will do a good job--for an Oxford man" after Attlee beat him to become prime minister
Churchill
Christopher
$1,600 [15]
You deserve to be crowned if you know that sassafras, avocado & cinnamon are all part of this family
the laurel family
Christopher
$1,600 [24]
If you want a job as a wainwright, you better know how to fix these
wagons
Rachel Christopher
$2,000 [10]
In 1810 Byron visited the site of Troy & swam this strait, imitating Leander
the Hellespont
Christopher
$2,000 [20]
The Byrds' this many "Miles High" times Eddie Money's this many "Tickets To Paradise"
16
Christopher
$2,000 [6]
Lee's "Eyes of the Army", this gen. must've had something better to do when his cavalry was late for Gettysburg
Jeb Stuart
Christopher
$2,000 [16]
Types of these devices include diode, solid state & gas
lasers
DD $2,500 [25]
A warrener in days of yore was responsible for the keeping of these animals for meat
rabbits
Christopher

Final Jeopardy!

FROM PAGE TO SCREEN

A 13-page document typed on April 18, 1945 with the names of 801 men inspired a 1982 book & this 1993 film

Schindler's List

Joann "What is Pearl Harbor" — wagered $8,301
Christopher "What is Schindler's List?" — wagered $10,000

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