Show #5757 2009-09-29 (taped 2009-08-05) Regular

Andy Srinivasan game 3.

Contestants

Jessica Hawks — a stay-at-home mom from Baltimore, Maryland

Gregg Bingham — a healthcare policy consultant from Louisville, Kentucky

Andy Srinivasan — a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina (whose 2-day cash winnings total $33,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Andy $3,600 $5,800 $29,000 $20,000
3-day champion: $53,800
$29,400
27 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Gregg $2,400 $7,200 $9,200 $9,143
2nd place: $2,000
$9,200
16 R, 4 W
Jessica $1,000 $3,000 $1,400 $1,500
3rd place: $1,000
$1,400
11 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

HAUNTED AMERICA TV LAUGH LINES PRESIDENTIAL FACEBOOK PAGES CUTTING THE MUSTARD ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL SHARK TANK
$200 [9]
At Ford's Theatre, some claim to hear this assassin running up the back staircase
John Wilkes Booth
Jessica
$200 [17]
About the Pope atop a subway grate, this "Daily Show" guy: "Look at those gams! No wonder they call him Legs Benedict!"
(Jon) Stewart
Andy
$200 [1]
Hometown: Lamar, Missouri; Religious Views: Baptist
Truman
Andy
$200 [19]
Oh I wish I were in Mount Horeb, Wisc. for the National Mustard Day celebrations--this sponsor provides free hot dogs
Oscar Mayer
Gregg
$200 [4]
La cebra
the zebra
Jessica
$200 [16]
(I'm Daymond John.) You'll be just another fish in the sea if you don't understand the concept of this, also used by ranchers; like my company FUBU, it burns your identity into your customers' minds
branding
Jessica
$400 [10]
The 160-room San Jose "Mystery House" was built by the heiress to this rifle company
Winchester
Andy
$400 [18]
Kim Cattrall, on this HBO show: "I think I have monogamy. I must have caught it from you people"
Sex and the City
Gregg
$400 [2]
Education and Work: Secretary of State, Minister to U.K.; Relationship Status: Single
Buchanan
Andy
$400 [20]
Under French law, only brown or black seeds are used to make this type of mustard
Dijon
Jessica
$400 [5]
La vaca
a cow
Gregg
$400 [27]
(I'm Barbara Corcoran.) You must never stop moving to succeed as one of these, from the French for "to undertake", as I did in parlaying a $1,000 loan into a $5 billion business
entrepreneur
Jessica
$600 [11]
Woodburn, the Dover home of this state's governor, is said to have several resident ghosts
Delaware
Jessica
$600 [21]
This "D List" comic: "Her address is just Cher, California. It's like writing a letter to Santa!"
Kathy Griffin
Andy
$600 [3]
Religious Views: Quaker; Groups: Navy Vets; Favorite Music: No (expletive deleted) hippie stuff!
Nixon
Gregg
$600 [24]
Emeril's recipe for Andouille corndogs calls for them to be served with this Louisiana style of mustard
Creole mustard
Gregg
$600 [6]
El puerco
a pig
Gregg
$600 [28]
(I'm Robert Herjavec.) As a shark pup, I arrived in Canada with my family; we had 20 dollars to our name, so I've lived this alliterative success story
rags to riches
Andy
$800 [12]
Guards & visitors have reported hearing screams & cell doors clanging at this former prison aka "The Rock"
Alcatraz
Andy
$800 [22]
Debra Messing, on this show: "How could I not have known? He was Boy George for Halloween... & he's prettier than me"
Will & Grace
Andy
$800 [14]
Birthday: February 9, 1773; Political Views: Whig; Activities: Kickin' butt at the Battle of Tippecanoe
William Henry Harrison
$800 [25]
This Roman writer the Elder supposedly said that eating mustard would turn a lazy woman into an ideal wife
Pliny
Gregg
$800 [7]
El escarabajo
a scarab beetle
Gregg
$800 [29]
(I'm Kevin O'Leary.) In this type of buyout, a shark swallows up a company with borrowed money, using the company's assets as collateral
a leveraged buyout
Gregg
DD $1,800 [13]
The spirit of Marie Laveu reportedly utters voodoo curses to trespassers at a cemetery in this city
New Orleans
Andy
$1,000 [23]
Michael, on this show: "This is... Pam. If you think she's cute now, you should have seen her a couple years ago"
The Office
Jessica
$1,000 [15]
Hometown: Plymouth Notch, Vt.; Interests: Quiet time; Email: dont_email_me_i_wont_reply@whitehouse.gov
Calvin "Silent Cal" Coolidge
Gregg
$1,000 [26]
Prepared mustard gets its bright yellow color from this Asian spice that's also in curry powder
turmeric
Gregg
$1,000 [8]
El zorro
fox
Gregg
$1,000 [30]
(I'm Kevin Harrington.) Sharks do cooperate sometimes; I helped establish the Electronic Retailing Association to help promote this, the cultivation of a web of business relationships
networking
Gregg

Double Jeopardy! Round

"A" IN SCIENCE AT THE MOVIES ALTERNATE LITERARY TOMBSTONES FAITH HOPE CHARITY
$400 [16]
Glycine is the simplest one of these, the essential building blocks of all proteins
amino acid
Jessica
$400 [1]
In a 2009 comedy this Tyler Perry title character "Goes to Jail"
Madea
Gregg
$400 [26]
1892-1973:I journey to the uttermost west of "The Undying Lands" where elves, I hope, will welcome me
Tolkien
Andy
$400 [2]
Also known as the Festival of Unleavened Bread, this observance begins on the 15th of Nisan
Passover
Andy
$400 [11]
Francis Bacon opined that "Hope is a good breakfast but a bad" one of these
supper
Gregg
$400 [21]
According to the Ancient Roman playwright Terence, "Charity begins" here
at home
Jessica
$800 [17]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) Charged particles from the Sun that become trapped in the Earth's magnetic field & interact with gases in the upper atmosphere cause this phenomenon
aurora borealis
Andy
$800 [4]
Uh-huh, Jim Carrey is challenged to give an affirmative reply for a year in this release
Yes Man
Gregg Jessica
$800 [27]
1874-1963:I will always be "North of Boston" near a "Mending Wall"
(Robert) Frost
Gregg
$800 [3]
Seen here is a priest of this religion that dates back to 6th-century Japan
Shintoism
Jessica
$800 [12]
A song from "Carousel" says, "Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart and you'll never" do this
walk alone
$800 [22]
Since 1947 this branch of the U.S. military has helped collect & distribute "Toys for Tots"
the Marine Corps
Andy
$1,600 [19]
The production of antibodies is stimulated by the presence of these, like viruses, toxins & bacteria
antigen
Andy
$1,200 [5]
She plays a romantically challenged TV producer in 2009's "The Ugly Truth"
Katherine Heigl
Andy
$1,200 [28]
1903-1950:I bought the farm, animals not included
(George) Orwell
Andy
$1,200 [8]
Nataraja is the lord of the dance in this religion
Hinduism
Andy
$1,200 [13]
Hope sometimes implies doubt, but not in the burial service that speaks of "sure and certain hope of" this event
resurrection
Andy
$1,600 [24]
Don't mind the fezzes--millions of dollars are raised every year by this charitable auxiliary of the Freemasons
the Shriners
Andy
$2,000 [20]
Sediments laid down by streams during flooding form this type of plain
alluvial plain
Andy
$1,600 [6]
Will Smith has weight as an IRS agent changing the lives of others in this film
Seven Pounds
Andy
$1,600 [29]
1902-1968:The "Best Laid Plans" I ever made were for that trip with my poodle Charley
Steinbeck
Gregg
$1,600 [9]
The Punjabi city of Amritsar is home to the sacred religious center known as the Golden Temple of this religion
Sikhism
Andy
$1,600 [14]
South Carolina's state motto is "Dum spiro spero" or "While I" do this, "I hope"
breathe
Andy Gregg
$2,000 [25]
In 1971 this Beatle headlined the "Concert for Bangladesh", rock music's first major charity event
Harrison
Andy Jessica
DD $5,000 [18]
Metabolic imbalances can cause this, an electrical disturbance that alters the heartbeat
arrhythmia
Andy
$2,000 [7]
Jules Verne could not have imagined Brendan Fraser in 3-D in this action film
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Andy Jessica
$2,000 [10]
From middle Persian for "basic text", the Avesta is the main scripture of this ancient religion
Zoroastrianism
Andy
$2,000 [15]
Barack Obama's 2008 tax return shows he earned $1.5 million in royalties from this book
The Audacity of Hope
Gregg
DD $5,000 [23]
It was founded in 1887 to coordinate 22 Denver charities
the United Way
Andy

Final Jeopardy!

MUSIC HALLS OF FAME

2 of the 4 Country Music Hall of Fame acts who are also in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as performers

(2 of) Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Brenda Lee & The Everly Brothers

Jessica "Who are Johnny Cash + Elvis Presley?" — wagered $100
Gregg "Who are Elvis Presley and Traveling Wilburys" — wagered $57
Andy "Who are the Eagles + Elvis Presley?" — wagered $9,000

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