Show #5793 2009-11-18 (taped 2009-09-30) Regular

Contestants

Jarret Izzo — a musician from East Amherst, New York

Drusha Mussmann — a homemaker from Spencerville, Indiana

Chris Rodrigues — a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts (whose 3-day cash winnings total $41,498)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Chris $3,000 $3,000 $10,200 $20,200
2nd place: $2,000
$10,200
19 R, 4 W
Drusha $1,800 $2,600 $5,990 $990
3rd place: $1,000
$4,600
9 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Jarret $3,400 $5,600 $14,400 $20,401
New champion: $20,401
$13,400
18 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN CITIES I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? COMPANY CARS 20th CENTURY INNOVATION GET SOME HELP MIXED "NUT"S
$200 [2]
"Earthquake City" & "Baghdad by the Bay" are 2 nicknames of this California city
San Francisco
Drusha
$200 [3]
Cool cats know all the words to this Jimmy Buffett song that comes with a "big kosher pickle & a cold draft beer"
"Cheeseburger In Paradise"
Jarret
$200 [8]
For some FCX Clarity, hop in this company's Civic hybrid
Honda
Chris
$200 [21]
It was not J. Edgar but William Hoover whose name went on these household items
vacuum cleaners
Chris
$200 [13]
Waylon Smithers tends to the every need of this zillionaire on "The Simpsons"
Montgomery Burns
Jarret
$200 [1]
Let's get down to the essential components of an item or problem, this hardware pair
nuts & bolts
Jarret
$400 [4]
The U.S.A.F. Academy is located outside this Colorado city home to the main U.S. Olympic Training Center
Colorado Springs
Jarret
$400 [20]
The "Cheeseburger Bill" tried to protect companies from consumer lawsuits claiming this & associated problems
obesity
Chris Drusha
$400 [9]
Some say this company's CC is as fast as a Rabbit
Volkswagen
Chris
$400 [22]
The modern oil-pumping unit was developed by W.C. Trout of Lufkin Industries, based in this state
Texas
Chris
$400 [14]
"You rang?" was one of the few utterances by the manservant named Lurch on this wacky show
The Addams Family
Jarret
$400 [16]
They're also called Filberts, after a 7th century French saint
hazelnuts
Drusha
$600 [5]
Many visitors to the Big Apple fly into this city's Liberty Airport, maybe on Continental
Newark
Jarret
$600 [28]
This alliterative food brand offers its "assistance" with a Double Cheeseburger Macaroni
Hamburger Helper
Jarret
$600 [10]
Bust out a Venza diagram & drive its Camry Solara
Toyota
Chris
$600 [23]
The Kliegl Brothers gave the movie industry this, though their name lost the second "L" along the way
Klieg lights
Chris
$600 [15]
Alfred Pennyworth is this superhero's butler & confidante
Batman
Drusha
$600 [17]
To complete NASCAR pit stops in under 15 seconds, the 5 of these are pre-attached to each wheel
a lugnut
Chris
$1,000 [7]
In 1882 the Knights of Columbus was founded in this "new" Connecticut city
New Haven
Chris
$800 [29]
White Castle makes these itty-bitty cheeseburgers that sound like baseball players trying to steal bases
sliders
Chris
$800 [11]
Charger out of the garage in its Avenger
Dodge
Chris
$800 [24]
Polio victims were kept alive by the 1920s invention of the tank respirator, better known as the iron this
the iron lung
Jarret
$800 [26]
Go ask Alice if you want to know that Ann B. Davis played the housekeeper Alice on this family sitcom
The Brady Bunch
Chris
$800 [18]
Grenada is a leading producer of this tropical spice
nutmeg
Jarret
DD $1,400 [6]
"Cross and Sword", Florida's official state play, was created to reenact this city's founding in 1565
St. Augustine
Jarret
$1,000 [30]
This"Top Chef" host raised pulses with a finger-licking assault on a Carl's Jr. Western Bacon Cheeseburger
Padma Lakshmi
Chris
$1,000 [12]
We wonder if its Aveo comes in Cobalt
Chevy
Drusha
$1,000 [25]
Developed by MIT's Harold Edgerton, this "scope" was used to observe moving objects (as on a dance floor?)
a strobe (stroboscope)
Drusha
$1,000 [27]
Not only did she play the nanny on "The Nanny", she created the show as well
Fran Drescher
Chris
$1,000 [19]
It's not an insane asylum--it's the critter seen here
a nuthatch
Chris Drusha

Double Jeopardy! Round

ART HISTORY IN MY NETFLIX QUEUE 1969 HAPPY CAMPERS THE GRAND FINAL"E" NAME THE POEM
$400 [10]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) To produce the optical effect he wanted, this artist painted aborder, now partially obscured by the frame, using the complementary colors that are next to it in the painting
(Georges) Seurat
Jarret
$400 [20]
Subtitled "I Want to Believe", the second film based on this eerie TV series
The X-Files
Chris
$400 [5]
On January 20 he was sworn in as president of the United States
Richard Nixon
Chris
$400 [1]
How sweet to breathe the fresh, chocolaty air at this Conewago campground in Pennsylvania
the Hershey Campground
Drusha
$400 [15]
If you broadcast an A&Q show called "Peopardy!" hosted by Alex Lebek, you may get a this & desist letter from us
cease
Chris
$800 [25]
"I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference"
"The Road Not Taken"
$800 [11]
In "Mr. and Mrs. Andrews", a double portrait by this British painter, it's the young woman who wears blue
Gainsborough
Drusha
$800 [21]
This 1994 Tarantino film about hitman Vincent Vega's journey through Los Angeles
Pulp Fiction
Jarret
$800 [6]
On July 20, 1969 some 600 million people around the world were glued to their TV sets watching this
the man landing on the Moon
Chris
$800 [2]
Happy campers can be found at the sites named this, like the park where Yogi Bear plotted to steal picnic baskets
Jellystone Park
$800 [16]
Type of song heard on Chicago's 94.7 FM, especially if it's "golden"
an oldie
Chris
$1,200 [26]
"Rats! They fought the dogs, and killed the cats, and bit the babies in the cradles"
"The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
Drusha
$1,200 [12]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Edward Hicks' "Peaceable Kingdom" depicts a verse by Isaiah that begins,"The wolf shall dwell with the lamb"; the meaning is amplified by the inclusion of this Quaker colony founder making a treaty with Native Americans
(William) Penn
Jarret
$1,200 [22]
"She Wore a Yellow Ribbon", starring this man as Captain Nathan Brittles
John Wayne
Chris
$1,200 [7]
He was sentenced to death for the murder of Robert Kennedy; the sentence was later changed to life in prison
Sirhan Sirhan
Jarret
$1,200 [3]
This Calif. natl. park's Lodgepole Campground is 2 miles from the Giant Forest, home of the General Sherman tree
Sequoia
Drusha
$1,200 [17]
A woman whose marriage was legally ended
a divorcée
Chris
DD $2,990 [27]
"At length did cross an albatross, through the fog it came"
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Drusha
$1,600 [13]
An allegorical masterpiece by Delacroix is called this symbolic lady "Leading the People"
Liberty
Drusha
$1,600 [23]
This 2007 release in which Texas congressman Tom Hanks deals covertly with Afghan rebels
Charlie Wilson's War
Jarret
DD $2,000 [8]
Though it made its maiden flight in March, it didn't break the sound barrier until October
the Concorde
Jarret
$1,600 [4]
The largest KOA site is near this ginormous freshwater lake in Florida
Lake Okeechobee
Jarret
$1,600 [18]
Begorra! Sure & 'tis an Irish accent this word is meaning
a brogue
$2,000 [14]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Undertaken as a guide to show a sculptor the best view, the triple portrait of this minister to France's Louis XIII gives us a glimpse of the Order of the Holy Spiritthat he wore
(Cardinal) Richelieu
Chris
$2,000 [24]
All 3 seasons of this show with Jason Bateman trying to hold the Bluth family together
Arrested Development
Jarret
$2,000 [9]
It was the bitter end for these artificial sweeteners, recalled after they were linked to cancer in rats
the cyclamates
Jarret
$2,000 [19]
Meaning "embodied in human form", it sometimes follows "evil"
incarnate

Final Jeopardy!

THE 18th CENTURY

If the Earl of Chesterfield hadn't gotten England to adopt this, he'd have died March 13 instead of March 24, 1773

the Gregorian Calendar

Drusha "What is the Julian Calendar?" — wagered $5,000
Chris "What is the Gregorian Calendar?" — wagered $10,000
Jarret "What is the Gregorian Calendar?" — wagered $6,001

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