Show #5756 2009-09-28 (taped 2009-07-29) Regular

Andy Srinivasan game 2.

Contestants

Jeffrey Niblack — a government accountability office analyst from Washington, D.C.

Pat Spangler — a Ph.D. student and college instructor from Bethesda, Maryland

Andy Srinivasan — a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Andy $1,400 $3,000 $13,400 $16,400
2-day champion: $33,800
$14,600
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Pat $2,000 $2,400 $3,600 $7,100
2nd place: $2,000
$5,600
10 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Jeffrey $400 $1,600 $4,000 $1,000
3rd place: $1,000
$4,000
17 R, 7 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE APARTMENT OF ENERGY ALPHABETICALLY FIRST THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE LIKE A BIG PIECE OF PIE? THAT'S A MORAY!
$200 [13]
As in U.S. households as a whole, this warm weather appliance is my biggest user of electricity
air conditioning
Jeffrey
$200 [11]
...of the 12 months of the year
April
Jeffrey
$200 [3]
While promoting this title activity, Van Morrison added that it was "a fantabulous night to make romance"
Moondance
Pat
$200 [1]
The eye facilitates, but the actual process of seeing is performed by this organ
the brain
Andy
$200 [19]
Pillsbury has a recipe for a "magically fast" one of these; proverbially, it's "American as" one
apple pie
Jeffrey
$600 [28]
Unlike most fish, morays lack scales & the caudal, pelvic & pectoral types of these appendages
fins
Andy
$400 [14]
I'm proud my Maytag Performance Series front load this gets an Energy Star from the government
a washer
Andy
$400 [17]
...of Canada's 13 provinces & territories
Alberta
Jeffrey
$400 [4]
Cat Stevens was "being followed" by one of these in a Top 40 hit from 1971
Moonshadow
Pat
$400 [2]
Listen up, students--the amount of light entering the eye is controlled by this dilating & contracting part
the pupil
Jeffrey
$400 [25]
This French term has been americanized to refer to pie topped with ice cream
à la mode
Jeffrey
$800 [27]
Morays like to hide in all sorts of places; the oneherehas taken refuge in the tube type of this other sea creature
a sponge
Jeffrey
$600 [12]
Heating this type of bed does add a bit to the utility bill, but it's all part of my Austin Powers persona
a water bed
Jeffrey
$800 [22]
...of Dumas' Three Musketeers
Aramis
Pat Jeffrey
$600 [5]
A prism refracts white light into the visible spectrum on this seminal 1973 album cover
Dark Side of the Moon
Jeffrey
$600 [8]
Don't laugh, but behind the cornea is a chamber filled with a clear fluid called the aqueous this
humor
Pat Jeffrey
$600 [20]
The band Warrant sang that this dish would "put a smile on your face 10 miles wide"
cherry pie
Pat
$1,000 [26]
A leptocephalus, or larval moray, eats & drifts for miles with these organisms, which include protozoa & diatoms
the plankton
$800 [15]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a symbol on the monitor.) In 2007, a newsymbolwas introduced to be placed inside certain devices; waves emanating from a trefoil, a skull & crossbones & a person fleeing warn that the device is a source of this
radiation
Andy
$1,000 [23]
...of U.S. national parks (also the easternmost)
Acadia
Jeffrey
$800 [6]
At the beginning of his hit TV show, Drew Carey sang about the "Moon Over" this Cleveland suburb
Parma
Andy
$800 [9]
This vitamin is necessary for the production of visual purple; a deficiency of it leads to night blindness
vitamin A
Andy Pat
$800 [18]
When publicly admitting to a mistake, eat this 17th c. English dish of deer innards; it's delicious!
humble pie
Jeffrey
$1,000 [16]
My toaster oven saves energy by cooking the food faster, using this type of fan that circulates the hot air
a convection fan
Andy
DD $2,000 [21]
...of Snow White's 7 dwarfs
Bashful
Pat
$1,000 [7]
Sting based this "Southern" song on Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire"
"Moon Over Bourbon Street"
$1,000 [10]
These tear glands wash foreign bodies out of the eye
the lachrymal glands
Jeffrey
$1,000 [24]
Seen here are this edible item & the headgear named for it
porkpie
Pat

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE AGE OF NATIONALISM WHAT THE TV TITLE MEANS BRIT LIT COMPLETES THE PAIR STATELY FORTS THAT'S A PUZZLER
$400 [9]
In 1822 this South American country won its freedom from Portugal in a revolution by petition
Brazil
Jeffrey
$400 [4]
Literally, it's the Naval Criminal Investigative Service
NCIS
Jeffrey
$400 [1]
He often worked with an illustrator known as "Phiz", but his "Great Expectations" had no Phiz
Charles Dickens
Pat
$400 [16]
Immortal Utah Jazz combo:Stockton & _____
Malone
Andy
$400 [21]
Fort Bragg in this state is home to Delta Force
North Carolina
Andy
$400 [26]
I heard you the first time, no need to do this
repeat yourself
Jeffrey
$800 [10]
In 1893 Nathan Birnbaum coined this term for the Jewish desire for a national home
Zionism
Andy
$800 [5]
The title of this Jack Lord show refers to a certain state's entry into the Union
Hawaii Five-O
Andy
$800 [2]
Liza, heroine of W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, is one of these Londoners--she says money is"'idden awy"
a Cockney
Jeffrey
$800 [17]
In a literary movement:Sturm und ____
Drang
Pat
$800 [22]
1 of every 10 active duty soldiers in the Army is assigned to this state's Fort Hood
Texas
Andy
$800 [27]
You go for broke when you do this
shoot for the Moon
Andy
$1,600 [12]
The Grossdeutschland solution was part of the 19th century movement called pan-this-ism
Pan-Germanism
$1,200 [6]
The title of this acclaimed FX series fittingly refers to a policeman's badge
The Shield
Jeffrey
$1,200 [3]
For a greatt writer, he couldn't spell to save his life, as in his line about "the hooly blisful martir"
Geoffrey Chaucer
$1,200 [18]
Saddam's sons, both killed in a 2003 firefight in Mosul:Uday & ____
Qusay
Andy Jeffrey
$1,600 [24]
Known as the "Big Red One", the 1st Infantry Division is headquarted at this state's Fort Riley
Kansas
Andy
$1,200 [28]
Thisphrase is the title of a book by nutritionist Victor Lindlahr
you are what you eat
DD $2,000 [11]
Lajos Kossuth was representing the county of Pest when he led this country's nationalist revolt in 1848
Hungary
Andy
$1,600 [7]
This title had the last name of the "Boys" played by Wopat & Schneider, & where they lived; actually, that's pretty dead-on
The Dukes of Hazzard
Jeffrey
$1,600 [14]
In H. Rider Haggard's novel, this title pronoun is followed in the text by "-who-must-be-obeyed"
She
Pat Jeffrey
$1,600 [19]
A T.S. Eliot poem:"Mungojerrie and ____"
Rumpleteazer
Jeffrey
DD $2,000 [23]
Fort Dix in this state is bordered by McGuire Air Force Base & Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst
New Jersey
Andy
$1,600 [29]
Thishappened to Mistress Ford in "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
beaten black and blue
Andy Pat
$2,000 [13]
Scenes of popular fury in the opera "La muette de Portici" fueled this nation's 1830 revolt against Dutch rule
Belgium
$2,000 [8]
Seen literally here, this stop-motion animated series was named after an item on a Chinese take-out menu
Robot Chicken
Jeffrey
$2,000 [15]
The preface to this "Lyrical" collection by Wordsworth & Coleridge is a manifesto of Romanticism
the Lyrical Ballads
$2,000 [20]
Aviation team:Alcock & ____
Brown
$2,000 [25]
Fort Leonard Wood in this state is named for an Army Chief of Staff who also won the Medal of Honor
Missouri
Andy

Final Jeopardy!

OLD NAMES IN THE NEWS

After running pyramid schemes & spending time in federal prison, he was deported back to Italy in 1934

Carlo Ponzi

Pat "Who was Ponzi?" — wagered $3,500
Jeffrey "Who was Musollini?" — wagered $3,000
Andy "Who is Ponzi?" — wagered $3,000

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