Show #5761 2009-10-05 (taped 2009-08-11) Regular

Contestants

Ben Flaccus — a political consultant from Washington, D.C.

Elizabeth Barrett — a business school marketing director originally from Beacon, New York

Lynn Swanbom — a newspaper copy editor from Spokane, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lynn $2,800 $3,800 $12,600 $10,700
2nd place: $2,000
$12,600
15 R, 1 W
Elizabeth $800 $2,400 $10,600 $399
3rd place: $1,000
$12,200
13 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Ben $600 $1,800 $10,400 $20,400
New champion: $20,400
$8,600
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON REAL PEOPLE IN BEATLES SONGS NOVEL QUOTES STUFF I WANT WHAT IS IT YOU DO? HOMOPHONIC PAIRS
$200 [11]
(Madam Secretary Hillary Clinton delivers the clue.) In my first address to the State Department, I said U.S. foreign policy stands on 3 legs: defense, development & this one for which State is responsible
diplomacy
Ben
$200 [21]
In "The Ballad Of" these 2, they were getting "married in Gibraltar"; you know it ain't easy
John and Yoko (Ono)
$200 [1]
This Cervantes character is "otherwise called the Knight of the Rueful Countenance"
Don Quixote
Ben
$200 [6]
Though it sounds like it, this type of massage was not developed in Stockholm
Swedish massage
Lynn
$200 [23]
Thespian
an actor
Ben
$200 [16]
The misty fog left behind by President Rutherford B.
Hayes haze
Ben
$400 [12]
(Madam Secretary Hillary Clinton delivers the clue.) In March 2009 I got the chance to meet with a female counterpart, Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa, when I visited this country
Mexico
$400 [22]
"In Penny Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass and in his pocket is a portrait of" this gal; go figure
Queen Elizabeth
$400 [2]
Novel that says, "Eliza made her desperate retreat across the river just in the dusk of twilight"
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Lynn
$400 [7]
You can't beat a circular saw from this "man"ly brand of power tools from Sears
Craftsman
Ben
$400 [24]
Lexicographer
a dictionary writer
Lynn
$400 [17]
The semicircular path taken by a biblical boat
an ark arc
Ben
$600 [13]
(Madam Secretary Hillary Clinton delivers the clue.) In 1781, the State Department's precursor, the Department of Foreign Affairs, was established for the purpose of "friendly correspondence" with other nations by this legislature
the Second Continental Congress
Lynn
$600 [28]
In "Revolution" "if you go carrying pictures of" this guy "you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow"
Chairman Mao
Ben
$600 [3]
This character says, "Having now more courage, and consequently more curiosity, I took my man Friday with me"
Robinson Crusoe
Lynn
$600 [8]
Daniel Craig's James Bond wears the Seamaster, a watch from this Greek letter company
Omega
Ben
$600 [25]
Philatelist
a stamp collector
Ben
$600 [18]
An undecorated aircraft
a plain plane
Lynn
$800 [14]
(Madam Secretary Hillary Clinton delivers the clue.) After the 1995 Conference on Women, I co-founded Vital Voices, a non-governmental organization that promotes female leadership, along with this first female Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright
Elizabeth
$800 [29]
From 1964 to 1976 Mr. Wilson & Mr. Heath, mentioned in "Taxman", held this post in England
prime minister
$800 [4]
He wrote in "Rabbit is Rich", "We are cruel enough without meaning to be"
John Updike
Elizabeth
$800 [9]
Forget the GV; I want the G550 large-cabin ultra-range jet from this company
Gulfstream
Elizabeth Ben
$800 [26]
Ichthyologist
a scientist who studies fish
Elizabeth
$800 [19]
Motionless writing paper
stationary stationery
Elizabeth Ben
$1,000 [15]
(Madam Secretary Hillary Clinton delivers the clue.) The State Department is responsible for treaties, & one of the most important is this one that helps control the spread of nuclear arms, NPT for short
the Non-Proliferation Treaty
Lynn
$1,000 [30]
"Man, you should have seen them kicking" this American poet in "I Am The Walrus"
Edgar Allan Poe
$1,000 [5]
This novel begins, "I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up"
On the Road
$1,000 [10]
How about a made to measure suit from the collezioni of this designer born in Piacenza, Italy in 1934
Giorgio Armani
$1,000 [27]
Terpsichorean
someone who dances
Elizabeth
DD $1,000 [20]
An infant wildebeest
a new gnu
Elizabeth

Double Jeopardy! Round

ITALIAN COMPOSERS DIRECTORS' LAST FEATURE FILMS MY SCENTIMENTS EXACTLY! SEA YA "GRIN" BEAR IT
$400 [16]
In 1861 this "La Traviata" composer became a member of the first Italian Parliament
Verdi
Elizabeth
$400 [26]
"The Ten Commandments"(1956)
De Mille
Elizabeth
$400 [21]
You can smell like Dr. McDreamy with Unscripted, an Avon fragrance created by this actor
Patrick Dempsey
$400 [1]
You have to descend 25,000 feet in this sea to reach the bottom of the Cayman Trench
the Caribbean
Lynn Ben
$400 [6]
Ferociously fast falcon type
a peregrine falcon
Lynn
$400 [11]
It's also been called the great white bear
the polar bear
Ben
$800 [17]
Gianandrea Gavazzeni was best known for his nearly 50 years of conducting at this opera house in Milan
La Scala
Elizabeth
$800 [27]
"Family Plot"(1976)
Alfred Hitchcock
$800 [22]
For the swashbuckler in you, there's this classic scent that bears the name of a musketeer
Aramis
Elizabeth
$800 [2]
This sea, part of the Pacific, is divided by Taiwan into East & South parts
the China Sea
Ben
$800 [7]
This derisive nickname for a non-Spanish speaker may come from the Spanish word for "Greek"
gringo
Lynn
DD $600 [15]
Also a name of an Alaskan island, this bear variety is one of the largest carnivores on Earth
the Kodiak
Elizabeth
$1,200 [18]
Hard tellin' why, after 1829's "William Tell", he wrote no more operas the last 39 years of his life
Rossini
Lynn
$1,200 [28]
"A Prairie Home Companion"(2006)
Robert Altman
Ben
$1,200 [23]
I've been fixated on this 9-letter Calvin Klein scent ever since it hit fragrance counters in the 1980s
Obsession
Elizabeth
$1,600 [4]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Maeslant Storm Surge Barrier in the Netherlands.) Projects like the Maeslant Storm Surge Barrier with its 800-foot doors prevent inundation of the Western or Low Netherlands by this sea
the North Sea
Lynn
$1,200 [8]
All usages of this word meaning "spoilsport" trace to Dr. Seuss' 1957 book
a Grinch
Ben
$800 [12]
The only bear of the Southern Hemisphere is the spectacled bear, found mostly in these mountains
the Andes
Lynn
$1,600 [19]
His last opera, "Turandot", was first performed 2 years after his death; Franco Alfano finished it for him
Puccini
Ben
$1,600 [29]
"Curly Sue"(1991)
John Hughes
Lynn
$1,600 [24]
The name of this classic scent from Nina Ricci is French for "the air of time"
L'Air du Temps
Lynn
$2,000 [5]
The Strait of Otranto links this arm of the Mediterranean with the Ionian Sea
the Adriatic
Ben
$1,600 [9]
It's what many New Englanders call a hero sandwich
a grinder
Elizabeth
$1,200 [13]
The honey bear of India & Sri Lanka is also known as this bear for its verrrrrrrrry slow movements
the sloth bear
Lynn
$2,000 [20]
In 1907, he recorded his "I Pagliacci", the first complete opera to be recorded in Italy
Leoncavallo
$2,000 [30]
"The Dead"(1987)
John Huston
$2,000 [25]
There's no mistaking this company's Brit fragrance; it has a distinct check pattern on the bottle & the box
Burberry
Elizabeth
DD $3,000 [3]
Bordered by Romania to the west, it's called Marea Neagra in Romanian
the Black Sea
Ben
$2,000 [10]
To my this, I'll have this strong feeling of embarrassment if you fail to respond
chagrin
Ben
$1,600 [14]
The "clan" of this extinct bear variety, Ursus spelaeus, lived in Europe during the Pleistocene Epoch
the cave bear
Elizabeth

Final Jeopardy!

LANDMARKS

Its creator said its parts represent our nation's founding, expansion, development & preservation

Mount Rushmore

Ben "What is Mount Rushmore" — wagered $10,000
Elizabeth "What is the U.S. Capitol?" — wagered $10,201
Lynn "What is the Statue of Liberty?" — wagered $1,900

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