Show #5768 2009-10-14 (taped 2009-08-12) Regular

Terry Linwood game 5.

Contestants

Joey Johnson — a medical student from Atlanta, Georgia

Carin House — a quotation specialist from Evanston, Illinois

Terry Linwood — a bookseller from Plano, Texas (whose 4-day cash winnings total $99,304)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Terry $2,600 $6,700 $17,900 $23,401
5-day champion: $122,705
$17,400
21 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Carin $800 $2,400 $11,400 $1,400
2nd place: $2,000
$10,000
12 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Joey $1,000 $3,000 $11,800 $400
3rd place: $1,000
$9,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

COLUMBUS DISCOVERS THE NEW WORLD SPORTS SHORTS 2009 CHILDREN'S LIT WORLD OF DANCE IN THE MILITARY? "BAT" TOOLS
$200 [5]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Leaving Spain in August 1492, Columbus & his 90 men briefly stopped in these islands that had only recently become a Spanish possession
the Canary Islands
Terry
$200 [23]
50-1 underdog Mine That Bird stunned the world by winning this race by more than 6 lengths
the Kentucky Derby
Carin
$200 [15]
A book by Angie Sage is not called "Vampire Bat" but "Vampire" this type of annoying little kid
Vampire Brat
Terry
$200 [24]
The bossa nova
Brazil
Terry Carin
$200 [1]
The head of a large business firm may be called this naval rank "of industry"
captain
Carin
$200 [2]
Batman uses one of these truncheons, significantly larger than the ones symphony conductors use
a baton
Joey
$400 [6]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) 34 days into crossing the Atlantic, Columbus quelled a small mutiny on October 10th; just 2 days later on October 12th, he changed history forever by coming ashore on theislandhe gave this holy name
San Salvador
Joey
$400 [22]
Players from this country won every title at the world table tennis championships
China
Joey
$400 [16]
Louisa May Alcott wrote a book titled this boy-girl duo & sure enough, they go up a hill in Chapter 1
Jack and Jill
Terry
$400 [25]
The purple heather jig
Scotland
Terry
$400 [10]
It costs $50 for a 1-day pass to this American airlines "club" lounge
the Admiral's Club
Terry
$400 [3]
The caped crusader has these fuel cells in lithium & nickel-cadmium; they're never included
batteries
Joey
$600 [7]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) 12 weeks after discovering the New World, the Santa Maria was wrecked on a reef off the north coast of this large island on Christmas Day
Hispanola
Terry
$600 [21]
The Lakers defeated this Stan van Gundy-coached team for the NBA title
the Orlando Magic
Joey
$600 [17]
As the word "born" in the first sentence of this book creeped people out, E.B. White changed it to "arrived"
Stuart Little
Joey
$600 [26]
The troika
Russia
Carin
$600 [11]
It was Howard Stern's 1993 bestselling autobiography
Private Parts
Carin
$600 [4]
I'll bet you didn't know he had one of these door-busting medieval devices with a ruminant name
a battering ram
Terry
$800 [8]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) On the return journey, after becoming separated from the Pinta by a storm, the Nina made landfall back in the Old World in these islands on February 15, 1493
the Azores
Terry
$800 [13]
They knocked over the Cards' house to win a record sixth Super Bowl
the Steelers
Joey
$800 [18]
Babar's friend Zephir is just a monkey; Friday, in a book by Hester Mundis, is this closer relative to humans
a chimpanzee
Terry
$800 [20]
Before taking over for Eliot Spitzer in New York, David Paterson had this job
lieutenant governor
Joey
$800 [12]
This narrow strip of wood or metal has more uses than just to fasten down "the hatches"
a batten
Joey
$1,000 [9]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In April 1493 & amidst great pomp, Columbus announced the discovery of the New World to his patron, Queen Isabella, in this city
Barcelona
$1,000 [14]
This Dodgers slugger was suspended in may after testing positive for a banned substance
Manny Ramirez
Carin
DD $1,500 [19]
A book by Laura Ingalls Wilder's great-grandson is appropriately called this "on Rocky Ridge"
Little House
Terry
$1,000 [28]
Hyphenated term for a man in charge of a great household, as that of a sovereign
the major-domo
$1,000 [27]
Robin, bring one of these, which could be used to chop down a tree & is also a term for an overbearing gal
a battle axe
Terry

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE BIG BANG THEORY NIP/TUCK HELL'S KITCHEN HEROES THE SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR CHRONICLES TV TIME
$400 [24]
This telescope namesake's discovery of an expanding universe underpins the Big Bang theory
(Edwin) Hubble
Joey
$400 [18]
Its restoration included adding an elevator & replacing the torch, & it had to be completed by July 4, 1986
the Statue of Liberty
Terry
$400 [3]
One food encyclopedia says this chocolate cake is so named because it's "so rich & delicious... it must be sinful"
a devil's food cake
Joey
$400 [1]
A vigilant canine, or someone on the lookout for corruption or unethical conduct
a watchdog
Joey
$400 [17]
He nominated O'Connor the month before the release of a movie about the first woman on the Supreme Court
Ronald Reagan
Carin
$400 [6]
In one version of the opening credits of "The Simpsons", this character is shown to cost $243.26
Maggie Simpson
Terry
$800 [9]
The 1965 discovery of this form of cosmic background radiation helped validate the theory--& make popcorn
microwave (radiation)
Terry
$800 [20]
An Eiffel Tower eatery was moved to this city, retooled & placed across from the Pontchartrain Hotel
New Orleans
Joey
$800 [12]
Mephistopheles is a big fan of this vampiric pitchman from General Mills & his chocolate cereal
Count Chocula
Carin
$800 [16]
An image of a sacred person in the Eastern Church, or someone who is an object of great devotion
an icon
Terry
$800 [19]
In 1984 O'Connor laid down an "endorsement" test--if the govt. endorses religion it violates this amendment
the First Amendment
Carin
$800 [7]
Before CNN, Anderson Cooper hosted this reality TV show where one player secretly works against the others
The Mole
Terry
$1,200 [5]
This British astronomer who coined the phrase "Big Bang" didn't buy the theory--he didn't think it was according to...
Hoyle
Terry
$1,200 [21]
Saved by Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem about it, it's been refurbished several times & sailed again in 1997
"Old Ironsides"
Joey
$1,200 [13]
Traditionally, "angels on horseback" are these bacon-wrapped bivalves; add Tabasco for "devils"
oysters
Carin Joey
$1,200 [25]
"Have Gun Will Travel" character, or one of Charlemagne's 12 knights
paladin
Terry
$1,200 [26]
O'Connor's fancy footwork in 1992's Planned Parenthood v. Casey preserved this 1973 decision
Roe v. Wade
Carin
$1,200 [8]
From the planet Melmac, this title TV character liked to eat cats
ALF
Joey
$1,600 [4]
The first 10-43seconds after the bang are known as this German physicist's era, after which things "maxed" out
the Planck era
Joey
$2,000 [23]
Between 1978 & 1999 Pinin Barcilon restored this classic piece at Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan
The Last Supper
$1,600 [14]
Paprika is sometimes sprinkled on these appetizers that have been boiled, halved & shelled by Lucifer
deviled eggs
Terry
DD $3,000 [27]
In 2000 O'Connor attended the dedication of the federal courthouse named for her in this state capital
Phoenix
Carin
$1,600 [10]
Hey now! Hank Kingsley was the bumbling sidekick on this HBO talk show sendup
The Larry Sanders Show
Carin
$2,000 [2]
Big Bang theory predicts that the universe is filled with these "little neutral" fundamental particles
neutrinos
Terry
DD $4,000 [22]
Repairs to the paws of this over 4,000-year-old structure started around 1400 B.C.
the (Great) Sphinx
Joey
$2,000 [15]
Beelzebub loves "America's No. 1 meat spread"--this brand with a little devil on the label
Underwood
$2,000 [11]
He did the play-by-play during the "Miracle on Ice" in the 1980 Winter Olympics
Al Michaels
Terry

Final Jeopardy!

POETS

In a 1921 letter this American-born poet had "a long poem in mind... which I am wishful to finish", & he did at 433 lines

T.S. Eliot

Carin "Who is Walt Whitman?" — wagered $10,000
Joey "Who is Whitman?" — wagered $11,400
Terry "Who is T.S. Eliot?" — wagered $5,501

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