Show #5779 2009-10-29 (taped 2009-09-29) Regular

Christine Valada game 4.

Contestants

Sara Kniffen — a graduate student from Vermillion, South Dakota

Ed Perez-Giz — a tutor from New York, New York

Christine Valada — a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York (whose 3-day cash winnings total $54,403)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Christine $2,600 $5,400 $9,600 $14,300
4-day champion: $68,703
$10,200
16 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Ed $1,200 $3,600 $9,600 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$11,200
17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Sara $1,200 $2,800 $2,400 $2,400
2nd place: $2,000
$4,400
13 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

METAFICTION MOBISODES TEA 'N T WHICH CAME FIRST? I FEEL LIKE SUCH AN IDIOM THE E.U.
$200 [9]
"The Wind Done Gone" re-envisions this novel from the viewpoint of a slave of Scarlett O'Hara's
Gone with the Wind
Sara
$200 [25]
"Chris-tuh-fuh"'s girlfriend Adriana took a ride she ain't comin' back from on this show; join the club, Adriana
The Sopranos
Sara
$200 [17]
Wired magazine asked & answered the question "How much is all the tea" here "actually worth?" $1,590,653,400
China
Christine
$200 [12]
Floppy disk, abacus, adding machine
an abacus
Christine
$200 [6]
It means to be daring or risky
throw caution to the wind
Ed
$200 [1]
Most of the EU's important offices, including the Council of the European Union, are HQed in this Belgian city
Brussels
Ed
$400 [21]
J. M. Coetzee's novel "Foe" reimagines this novel, but with a woman shipwrecked on the deserted isle
Robinson Crusoe
Ed
$400 [26]
In a 2-parter from the first season of this show, D.A.s Stone & Robinette take on the Masucci family
Law & Order
Christine
$400 [18]
A U.S. government security with maturity 1 year or less is called this, 5 letters total
a T-bill
Ed
$400 [13]
Silly Putty, yo-yo, Cabbage Patch Kids
a yo-yo
Sara
$400 [7]
To find a reasonable compromise
strike a happy medium
Sara
$400 [2]
A major trading crisis emerged in the EU in 1996 when British beef was banned due to this
mad cow disease
Christine
$600 [22]
This 1922 novel recasts the hero of Homer's "Odyssey" as an ad salesman in 1904 Dublin
Ulysses
Ed
$600 [27]
In a 1970s cop show, this David Soul character is kidnapped after romancing a mafioso's ex-girlfriend
Hutch
Christine Ed Sara
$600 [19]
A tea plant matures in 3 to 5 years & produces a growth of new shoots called this; a royal one is great in poker
a flush
Ed
$600 [14]
Phonograph, pinball machine, transistor radio
a phonograph
Christine
$600 [8]
This idiom, meaning to show extreme modesty, has its origin in the Bible's book of Matthew
hiding your light under a bushel (keeping your light underneath a bushel accepted)
Christine
$600 [3]
The EU was formed by the Maastricht Treaty, signed in 1992 at Maastricht in this Benelux country
the Netherlands
Ed Sara
$800 [23]
This 1971 John Gardner work retells "Beowulf" from the perspective of the monster
Grendel
Christine
$800 [28]
Guest star Sylvester Stallone helps James Caan deal with some lowlifes on a 2005 episode of this show
Las Vegas
Ed
$800 [20]
In medical speak, "T & A" is this operation "& adenoidectomy"; keep it medical, folks!
tonsillectomy
Sara
$800 [15]
Velcro, safety pin, sewing machine
a safety pin
Christine
$800 [10]
To not spend more than absolutely necessary
to pinch pennies
Sara
$800 [4]
An early forerunner of the EU was the EEC, which stood for this
the European Economic Community
Ed
$1,000 [24]
Jean Rhys' "Wide Sargasso Sea" tells the story of Bertha Mason, the madwoman locked in the attic in this Bronte work
Jane Eyre
Ed
$1,000 [29]
In the 9-episode arc that started this show, Vinnie (Ken Wahl) infiltrates a New Jersey mob family
Wiseguy
$1,000 [30]
Seen here, this instrument is used in mechanical drawing
a T square
Christine
$1,000 [16]
Telephone, typewriter, home video recorder
the typewriter
Christine
$1,000 [11]
It means to be physically overdeveloped to the point of hindrance
to be muscle-bound
Ed
DD $1,600 [5]
Of the 27 full members of the EU, this nation is first alphabetically
Austria
Ed

Double Jeopardy! Round

CLASSICAL MUSIC MOVIES BY THE NUMBERS MOST POPULOUS CITY IN THE STATE A DATE SEMITIC LANGUAGES THE "EU"
$400 [17]
Brahms' Opus 11 is one of these, but to play it at your beloved's window, you'd need to bring an orchestra
a serenade
Sara
$400 [1]
Richard Lester directed both "The Three Musketeers" & this 1974 follow-up
The Four Musketeers
Christine
$400 [6]
Washington
Seattle
Ed
$400 [11]
First, for you, a corsage... & for me, a boutonniere, which the Brits call this because that's where you put it
a buttonhole
Sara
$400 [12]
Jim Caviezel learned to speak this Semitic language for his role in "The Passion of the Christ"
Aramaic
Ed
$400 [19]
An expression substituted for one that might be considered offensive
a euphemism
Ed
DD $600 [24]
Halloween concerts often include this, Opus 40 by Saint-Saens, with a xylophone imitating rattling bones
the Danse macabre
Christine
$800 [2]
In this 1955 film Marilyn Monroe says,"When it's hot like this, you know what I do? I keep my undies in the icebox!"
The Seven Year Itch
Sara
$800 [7]
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Sara
$800 [13]
For you, my dear, I've ordered grouper en papillote, which has been expertly baked in a sheath of this
paper (or parchment)
Christine
$800 [25]
Tigrinya is mainly spoken in these 2 "E" countries of East Africa
Ethiopia & Eritrea
Sara
$800 [20]
Archimedes exclaimed this after finding a method for determining the purity of gold
eureka
Ed
$800 [18]
LSO for short, it has recorded such works as Mahler's 8th, Sibelius' 2nd, "Layla" & "King Of Pain"
the London Symphony Orchestra
Ed
$1,200 [3]
In this 1984 film Molly Ringwald's family is preoccupied with her sister's wedding & forgets Molly's birthday
Sixteen Candles
Sara
$1,200 [8]
Vermont
Burlington
Christine
$1,200 [14]
Giving personal details makes you charmingly do this 5-letter word, also used for the white Zinfandel you're drinking
blush
$1,600 [27]
The Arabic hamza, seen here, represents this type of stop in which you close up a gap between your vocal cords
a glottal stop
Sara
$1,200 [21]
It's the controversial theory of improving the human race by selective breeding
eugenics
Christine
$1,200 [22]
In 1864 this opera composer wrote an "Homage March" for brass band to honor his patron King Ludwig
Wagner
$1,600 [4]
The tagline to this 1970 Jack Nicholson film declares, "He rode the fast lane on the road to no where"
Five Easy Pieces
Christine
$1,600 [9]
Missouri
Kansas City
Ed Sara
$1,600 [15]
Night has fallen, but we can play glow-in-the-dark this game at the putting edge
mini-golf (or putt-putt)
Ed
DD $2,000 [26]
People who spoke Semitic languages include these great seafarers whose alphabet led to ours
the Phoenicians
Sara
$1,600 [23]
In 1829 Mendelssohn led the first "St. Matthew Passion" since the death of this composer of the work in 1750
Johann Sebastian Bach
$2,000 [5]
The title of this 1935 Hitchcock film starring Robert Donat & Madeleine Carroll refers to a spy organization
The 39 Steps
Christine
$2,000 [10]
Ohio
Columbus
Christine Sara
$2,000 [16]
Our whirlwind tour ends when you come up & see these, made from acid-incised plates
my etchings
Christine

Final Jeopardy!

THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA

1 of the 2 1-word plays, winners in 2001 & 2005, which both became movies; if you have one, you want the other

(1 of) Proof & Doubt

Sara "What is Doubt?" — wagered $0
Ed "What is Time" — wagered $9,600
Christine "What is Proof?" — wagered $4,700

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