Show #5763 2009-10-07 (taped 2009-08-11) Regular

Contestants

Kim Taylor — a professor and scientist from Falls Church, Virginia

Noam Osband — a Ph.D. student in anthropology from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Nirav Shah — an attorney from Brooklyn, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Nirav $4,200 $7,800 $16,000 $6,000
3rd place: $1,000
$9,800
18 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Noam $2,800 $5,400 $12,900 $25,799
New champion: $25,799
$12,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Kim $600 $3,200 $24,800 $20,800
2nd place: $2,000
$24,800
24 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE TERMS OOPS IN SPORTS MADISON AVE. MENAGERIE INFLATABLE CINCINNATI REDS
$200 [14]
Atomic weight is one stat for each of these, a substance that can't be decomposed to a simpler substance
an element
Nirav
$200 [2]
This longtime Green Bay Packer is the only QB to throw more than 300 career interceptions
Brett Favre
Nirav
$200 [11]
In one ad, 3 frogs with a possible drinking problem croaked out the name of this beer as they stole a case of the stuff
Budweiser
Noam
$200 [17]
In the event of a car crash, the rapid expansion of nitrogen gas is used to inflate these emergency devices
air bags
Kim
$200 [25]
Appropriately, Cincinnati is found on this river
the Ohio River
Nirav Kim
$200 [1]
Head to Moscow's Red Square to see this man on display in his mausoleum
Lenin
Noam
$400 [18]
Heavier objects have more this, the tendency of an object to resist a change in its state of motion
inertia
Nirav
$400 [3]
The 2009 French Open women's final ended with a whimper, Dinara Safina's seventh of these serving mistakes
a double fault
Nirav Noam
$400 [12]
A dog of this breed became famous for saying, "Yo quiero Taco Bell"
a chihuahua
Noam
$400 [19]
In an angioplasty, a balloon is inflated to clear a blocked one of these
an artery
Kim
$400 [27]
In 1837 William Procter formed a business partnership in Cincinnati with this man, his brother-in-law
(James) Gamble
Kim
$400 [7]
Despite being red, coats worn in this controversial English sport are called pinks after a tailor who invented them
fox hunting
Nirav
$600 [20]
Rhyming term for the response by animals when they encounter a threat
fight or flight
Kim
$600 [4]
In 1968 Roberto de Vicenzo's signing of an incorrect scorecard knocked him from a playoff at this Augusta event
the Masters
Nirav Noam
$600 [13]
It's the 2-word catchphrase said to an apparently suicidal animated tuna who wanted to be put in a StarKist can
"Sorry, Charlie!"
Kim
$800 [24]
This term for a small, inflatable boat dragged behind a yacht comes from the Hindi for "small boat"
dinghy
Noam
$600 [28]
What's now Cincinnati was part of this territory, the first possession of the United States
the Northwest Territory
Kim
$600 [8]
Colorful 1960s song heard here
"Roses Are Red (My Love)"
$800 [21]
Alkalis are strong these, which turn litmus paper from red to blue
bases
Kim
$800 [5]
Honus Wagner made 825 of these in his career, including 60 in 1905; good thing he hit .363 that year
errors
Nirav
$800 [15]
In 2001 Tom Hanks' brother Jim began voicing Geoffrey, spokes-giraffe for this children's play store
Toys "R" Us
Noam
DD $1,000 [23]
Usually attached to an inflatable cuff, a sphygmomanometer measures this
blood pressure
Nirav
$800 [29]
Dr. Albert Sabin developed this vaccine at the University of Cincinnati medical school
polio
Noam
$800 [9]
It's the fort over which Francis Scott Key witnessed "the rockets' red glare"
Fort McHenry
Nirav
$1,000 [22]
If it's not transparent, or even translucent, but quite impenetrable to light, it's this
opaque
Nirav
$1,000 [6]
On "Reading to Succeed" night, this NBA home team's fans got a poster of a player in a "Woves" (not a "Wolves") jersey
Minnesota Timberwolves
Nirav
$1,000 [16]
Boy, ah say, boy, this big Warner Bros. bird hawked for the Colonel & KFC; now go away, boy, ya bothah me!
Foghorn Leghorn
Nirav
$1,000 [26]
Also called puffers, these fish are known for their ability to inflate themselves for defensive purposes
blowfish
Kim
$1,000 [30]
In 1990 a Cincinnati museum faced obscenity charges after exhibiting the work of this photographer
(Robert) Mapplethorpe
Noam
$1,000 [10]
The Red Sea was formed about 20 million years ago when this peninsula broke away from Africa
the Arabian Peninsula
Nirav Noam

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE VICTORIANS MOVIE BIO DOUBLE THE BOOK OF JOHN THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME BIBLICAL BOTANY "SEE" HERE
$400 [1]
The plight of the poor was shown in works like "Horrible" this city & "The Bitter Cry of Outcast" this city
London
Kim
$400 [10]
Willem Dafoe in 1988, Jim Caviezel in 2004
Jesus
Noam
$400 [26]
This "Pilgrim's Progress" author wrote his autobiography, "Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners", while in prison
John Bunyan
Kim
$400 [16]
Types of this shape include right, oblique & isosceles
a triangle
Noam
$400 [21]
The first Temple of Solomon was built from this wood of Lebanon
cedar
Nirav
$400 [6]
A tenant with a rental contract
a leasee
Kim
$800 [2]
Prominent feature of women in pre-Raphaelite paintings; model Lizzie Siddal's was said to have filled her coffin
long hair
Kim
$800 [11]
Cate Blanchett in 1998, Judi Dench in 1998
Queen Elizabeth I
Noam
$800 [27]
He departed from legal thrillers with "Bleachers", about the impending death of a high school football coach
John Grisham
Nirav
$800 [17]
A honeycomb is an example of a tessellation; these shapes fit together perfectly to cover a frame in the beehive
a hexagon
Noam
$800 [22]
Socrates could warn you about turning "the fruit of righteousness" into this poisonous herb
hemlock
Kim
$800 [7]
Last name of thefolk figuredepicted here
Appleseed
Kim
$1,200 [3]
The Broadwood co. led the world in making these instruments & no, they didn't prudishly cover the legs
pianos
Kim
$1,200 [12]
Henry Fonda in 1939, Raymond Massey in 1940
Abraham Lincoln
$1,600 [29]
His "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions" says, "Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee"
John Donne
Nirav
DD $1,500 [18]
Each side of this Virginia structure is 921 feet long; it's almost a mile in circumference
the Pentagon
Noam
$1,200 [23]
Jacob took idols & hid them under this mighty tree where, we assume, little idols don't grow
an oak
Kim
$1,200 [8]
Style of chicken or other meat stewed in gravy with vegetables
fricassee
Kim
$1,600 [4]
The year Her Majesty came to the throne, Birmingham & Manchester were first linked by this
the railway
Kim
$1,600 [13]
Robert Downey Jr. in 1992, Eddie Izzard in 2001
(Charlie) Chaplin
Kim
$2,000 [30]
He followed up "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus" with "Children Are from Heaven"
John Gray
Kim
$1,600 [19]
Start counting sides: it's the shape seen here
a nonagon
Nirav Kim
$1,600 [24]
In Exodus, the Lord told Moses, not the 3 kings, to bring this gum resin that was used in embalming
frankincense
Kim
$1,600 [9]
One who directs the work of laborers
an overseer
Noam
$2,000 [5]
"The Great White Hand or the Tiger of Cawnpore" was one of many novels written about this 1857-58 uprising
the Indian Mutiny
Kim
$2,000 [15]
Philip Seymour Hoffman in 2005, Toby Jones in 2006
Truman Capote
Nirav
DD $7,000 [28]
In 2008 he tinkered & tailored with "A Most Wanted Man", his latest thriller
John le Carré
Nirav
$2,000 [20]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animation of conic sections on the monitor.) A cut parallel to the base of a cone gives us a circle; an angular cut above the base creates an ellipse; & an angular cut through the base makes this shape
a parabola
Nirav Noam
$2,000 [25]
Absinthe lovers are forewarned in Amos about "Ye who turn judgment to" this bitter, aromatic plant
wormwood
Kim
$2,000 [14]
In ancient times the Sanhedrin was made up of mostly people from this Jewish group
the Pharisees
Kim

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN HISTORY

He was the only member of the Warren Commission who would later face would-be assassins himself

Gerald Ford

Noam "Who is Ford?" — wagered $12,899
Nirav "Who is J. Brady?" — wagered $10,000
Kim "Who is Ronald Reagan?" — wagered $4,000

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