Show #5796 2009-11-23 (taped 2009-09-30) Regular

Contestants

Patrick Pence — a GIS coordinator from Tallahassee, Florida

Cathy Sorge — an archivist from Silver Spring, Maryland

Ben Davis — a law student from Chicago, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ben $1,000 $6,000 $20,800 $31,001
2-day champion: $51,802
$21,000
24 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Cathy $0 $600 $6,600 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$6,600
9 R, 1 W
Patrick $6,200 $9,200 $15,500 $13,500
2nd place: $2,000
$14,400
22 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

SNLCELEBRITYJEOPARDY! STATES THAT END IN HAMPSHIRE WHAT COLOR IS GREEN? CURRENT BLACK PRESIDENTS SOUNDS THAT KITTIES MAKE TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE WORD THAT RHYMES WITH STAR
$200 [2]
As he did in "Anchorman", Will Ferrell sports this facial feature in the "SNL" "Jeopardy!" skits
a mustache
Ben
$200 [16]
The Franklin Pierce Law Center & Christa McAuliffe Planetarium can be found in this capital of New Hampshire
Concord
Ben
$200 [1]
God did make these, & some of them are Granny Smiths
(little green) apples
Patrick
$200 [26]
Africa's oldest democracy, this nation headed by Pres. Ian Khama is mainly made up of the Tswana people
Botswana
Cathy Patrick
$200 [11]
This sound made by lions can carry 5 miles
a roar
Patrick
$200 [21]
Proverbial food storage container where your "hand is caught" when busted for taking a bribe
the cookie jar
Ben
$400 [4]
Darrell Hammond played this Scottish actor who... nope, I can't say anything else; just name him
Sean Connery
Ben
$400 [17]
New Hampshire is bounded to the north by this Canadian province, the country's largest in area
Quebec
Patrick
$400 [3]
Lincoln Green is also called this green, where you might see it were it not for the trees
a forest
Patrick
$400 [27]
Taking over from his assassinated father in 2001, Joseph Kabila is the president of this country abbreviated D.R.C.
the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ben
$400 [12]
This sound of aggression from a domestic cat is also produced by vipers
a hiss
Patrick
$400 [22]
A 1-pound tin of premium sevruga this can go for more than $2,000
caviar
Cathy
$600 [6]
Norm MacDonald played this "Smokey and the Bandit" star who had a slight problem IDing Pat Morita's ancestry
Burt Reynolds
Ben Patrick
$600 [18]
Chartered in 1769, this Ivy League school is N.H.'s oldest & ranks among the 10 oldest U.S. colleges
Dartmouth
Ben
$600 [5]
This old song says, "Alas, my love, you do me wrong, to cast me off discourteously"
"Greensleeves"
Patrick
$600 [28]
Troubles with neighboring Somalia & Eritrea surely occupy President Girma Woldegiorgis of this country
Ethiopia
Ben
$600 [13]
In "The Maltese Falcon", Dashiell Hammett wrote, "'That will be excellent,' Gutman" did this
purred
Ben
$600 [23]
Django Reinhardt was a master of this instrument
the guitar
Ben
$800 [7]
Ben Stiller played this star of "The Firm" on a show where one category was "FOODS THAT END IN 'AMBURGER'"
Tom Cruise
Patrick
$800 [19]
New Hampshire's Squam Lakes provided the title location for this 1981 Fonda & Hepburn film
On Golden Pond
Patrick
$800 [9]
This American political party that formed in 1874 favored an increase in paper currency
the Greenback Party
Ben
DD $600 [29]
President Laurent Gbagbo heads this country that goes by its French name most of the time
Côte d'Ivoire (the Ivory Coast)
Ben
$800 [14]
This threatening sound can also mean "to become tangled"
snarled
Ben
$800 [24]
The incarnation of a god in Hindu myth, or an Internet graphical image representing a person
an avatar
Ben
$1,000 [8]
Kristen Wiig played this "Today" co-host, who, like so many of our players, brought Chardonnay on stage
Kathie Lee Gifford
Patrick
$1,000 [20]
Also the name of a "United" city in England, this city lies along the banks of the Merrimack River
Manchester
Patrick
$1,000 [10]
This play says, "Beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster"
Othello
Patrick
$1,000 [30]
President Amadou Toure has led this Saharan nation with a 4-letter name since 2002
Mali
Patrick
$1,000 [15]
Starting around 1922, this phrase meant something excellent or desirable
the cat's meow
Patrick
$1,000 [25]
This animal's scientific name is Panthera onca
jaguar
Ben

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORDS OF LOVE NEEDY NO. 1 HITMAKERS FRUIT ENDS WITH 3 VOWELS DON'T BE A PAIN A JOURNEY THROUGH ISRAEL
$400 [27]
He concludes "The Divine Comedy" with "The love that moves the sun and the other stars"
Dante
Cathy
$400 [1]
1964:"I Want To Hold Your Hand"
The Beatles
Patrick
$400 [16]
The name of this fruit, genus Prunus, can precede picker, pie & Coke
cherry
Ben
$400 [4]
Hawaiian feast
a luau
Cathy
$400 [11]
This drug marketed as Advil & Nuprin reduces pain by inhibiting chemicals that cause inflammation
ibuprofen
Ben
DD $300 [26]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Israel.)Thisruined fortress atop a mesa is where thousands of Israeli soldiers have taken an oath swearing that it shall not fall again
Masada
Patrick
$800 [28]
Marlowe rhymed, "Where both deliberate, the love is slight; who ever loved, that loved not at" this?
first sight
Ben
$800 [2]
1987:"I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)"
(Whitney) Houston
Patrick
$800 [17]
More than 50 medications are affected by the juice of this citrus fruit; its enzymes break down the meds
grapefruit
Cathy
$800 [7]
Pierre's "farewell"
adieu
Patrick
$800 [12]
To control pain, some patients try this technique in which they monitor their body functions & try to alter them
biofeedback
Cathy
$400 [21]
(Alex reports from the Western Wall in Jerusalem.) In Jewish circles, the Wailing Wall became known as the Western Wall after this 1967 war & the reunification of Jerusalem
the Six-Day War
Ben Cathy
$1,200 [23]
In "Prometheus Unbound", he wrote, "All love is sweet, given or returned. Common as light is love"
Percy Bysshe Shelley
$1,200 [3]
1956:"I Want You, I Need You, I Love You"
Elvis
Ben
$1,200 [18]
This fuzzy fruit is also a slang term meaning inform against or betray
peach
$1,200 [8]
Dresser
a bureau
Cathy
$1,200 [13]
Trigger point injections are used to treat this muscle contraction, from the Latin for "convulsion"
a spasm
Cathy
$800 [22]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew is in a boat.) You can ride in a boat reminiscent of Jesus' time on this sea, beside which he preached & performed miracles like the one of the loaves & fishes
the Sea of Galilee
Patrick
$2,000 [29]
"In her first passion woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love", he wrote in "Don Juan"
Byron
Ben
$1,600 [5]
1984:"I Want To Know What Love Is"
Foreigner
Cathy Patrick
$1,600 [19]
The liqueur creme de cassis is made with the black type of this fruit
currant
Ben
$1,600 [9]
Emmy-winning actor Bridges
Beau
Patrick
$1,600 [14]
Pain registers in one area of the outer portion of the cerebrum called the cerebral this
cortex
Patrick
$1,200 [25]
(Alex places a stone on a grave at Mount Zion Cemetery in Jerusalem.) Here in the Mount Zion Cemetery, one of the prominent graves is that of this man, a Krakow factory owner, who, in World War II, saved the lives of over 1,000 Jews
(Oskar) Schindler
Patrick
DD $3,000 [24]
Virgil's "omnia vincit amor" is translated as this
love conquers all
Patrick
$2,000 [6]
1970:"I Want You Back"
The Jackson 5
Ben
$2,000 [20]
Fraise is French for this fruit
strawberry
Ben
$2,000 [10]
Environment or setting
milieu
Ben Patrick
$2,000 [15]
There are several types of these nerve cells: some respond to temperature, some to pressure & some to pain
sensory receptors
$2,000 [30]
(Alex floats in the Dead Sea.) Floating in the Dead Sea is easy; now what keeps me buoyant? The water is nine times saltier than seawater, & it has a very high this, which is mass per unit of volume
density
Ben

Final Jeopardy!

ODD TITLES

Gilbert & Sullivan's "Mikado", not Milne, gave us this hyphenated title for a pompous functionary

grand poo-bah

Cathy "What ismajor general" — wagered $6,600
Patrick "What is tigger?" — wagered $2,000
Ben "What is a poo-bah?" — wagered $10,201

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