Show #5812 2009-12-15 (taped 2009-11-04) Regular

Contestants

Naomi Schwer Bricker — a librarian from New York, New York

Saif Rathore — an M.D.-Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut

Jennifer Montgomery — a jazz radio station development director from Encinitas, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jennifer $3,800 $7,200 $18,200 $8,799
2-day champion: $28,799
$20,200
22 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Saif $1,000 $200 $3,000 $100
3rd place: $1,000
$3,000
9 R, 4 W
Naomi $3,000 $4,200 $13,800 $6,300
2nd place: $2,000
$13,800
21 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

STATE FACTS MUSICAL NAME ORIGINS MIX-OLOGISTS FILL IN THE PLAY TITLE INBLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY TRANSLATE THE PORTUGUESE
$200 [1]
Its state tree, a certain blue spruce, was discovered on Pikes Peak
Colorado
Naomi
$200 [22]
The palindromic name of this Scandinavian band comes from the 4 members' first names
ABBA
Naomi
$200 [17]
Go to him if you can't go:SUITOR LOG
urologist
Naomi
$200 [9]
Thornton Wilder's"O.T."
Our Town
Jennifer
$200 [4]
"The malicious burning of someone else's dwelling house or outhouse" (glad the outhouse is protected, too)
arson
Jennifer
$200 [2]
Ola
hello
Jennifer
$600 [6]
The honeybee, its state insect, is a reference to deseret, a Book of Mormon word meaning "honeybee"
Utah
Jennifer
$400 [23]
This Mark Knopfler band chose its name to reflect the musicians' bad financial situation
Dire Straits
$400 [18]
He's all in your mind:GLITCH SOP SOY
psychologist
Saif
$400 [13]
Neil Simon's"B.B.M."
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Naomi
$400 [27]
"The fact of having or holding property in one's power" (it's not 9/10 of Black's, it's only 1 entry)
possession
Naomi
$400 [3]
Adeus
good-bye
Saif
$800 [7]
Its motto is as tough as granite: "Live free or die"
New Hampshire
Jennifer
$600 [24]
He had the same real name as one of The Monkees, so this "Space Oddity" man named himself after a knife
David Bowie
Jennifer
$600 [19]
He can see inside of you:GOT ARID SOIL
radiologist
Saif
$600 [14]
David Mamet's"G.G.R."
Glengarry Glen Ross
Naomi
$600 [28]
This 3-word term is an "unpreventable event caused exclusively by forces of nature"
act of God
Naomi
$600 [10]
Por favor
please
Saif
DD $1,000 [5]
It's the only U.S. state with a 1-syllable name
Maine
Jennifer
$800 [25]
This Australian metal band saw their name on an appliance & only knew it had something to do with electricity
AC/DC
Saif
$800 [20]
Have a heart:DRASTIC IGLOO
cardiologist
Jennifer
$800 [15]
Anton Chekhov's"U.V."
Uncle Vanya
Naomi
$800 [29]
"An accused person's formal response... to a criminal charge"
a plea
Naomi
$800 [11]
Obrigado
thank you
Jennifer
$1,000 [8]
Though endangered, the nene is its state bird
Hawaii
Naomi
$1,000 [26]
This "Boys Are Back In Town" band was named for a female robot in a comic strip, not from the nickname of the Model T
Thin Lizzy
Saif Naomi
$1,000 [21]
He'll get on your nerves:STURGEON OIL
neurologist
Jennifer
$1,000 [16]
John Osborne's"L.B.I.A."
Look Back in Anger
Naomi
$1,000 [30]
"The initial step in... prosecution whereby the defendant is brought before the court to hear the charges"
an arraignment
Jennifer Naomi
$1,000 [12]
Sim
yes

Double Jeopardy! Round

STATE FACTS FLOWER GIRLS NOTABLE AMERICANS IT'S A GAS BIBLE "R"OSTER DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS
$400 [14]
As of 2007, it begins at 2 A.M. on the second Sunday in March & ends at 2 A.M. on the first Sunday in November
Daylight Savings Time
Jennifer
$400 [7]
Bo & Luke Duke's scantily clad cousin
Daisy Duke
Jennifer
$400 [21]
The first American-born winner of this Nobel was Robert Millikan, for his study of the elementary electric charge
Physics
Saif
$400 [26]
One of the main jobs of red blood cells is to carry this gas from the lungs to the body's tissues
oxygen
Naomi
$400 [2]
In Acts, after Peter knocks at a door she forgets to let him in; Carlton the doorman could've helped
Rhoda
Jennifer Naomi
$400 [1]
In the arena form of this sport, the field is only 50 yards long
football
Naomi
$800 [17]
Sofia is the capital of this country on the Balkan Peninsula
Bulgaria
Saif
$800 [8]
On TV's "The Golden Girls", this was Betty White's character
Rose Nylund
Naomi
$800 [22]
Sing the song of this poet, one of the Roughs, seen here
Walt Whitman
Naomi
$800 [27]
In the Sun hydrogen gas is transformed by a series of atomic reactions into this other gas
helium
Saif
$800 [3]
This name for a son of Leah means "behold a son" in Hebrew; it has nothing to do with a sandwich
Reuben
Jennifer
$800 [9]
You're blushing--I hope I haven't done this to you by telling that story from when you were 6
embarrassed
Naomi
$1,200 [18]
It is both National Poetry Month & National Humor Month
April
$1,200 [13]
Ms. Graham of "Swingers" & "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me"
Heather Graham
Naomi
$1,200 [23]
A plaza in San Francisco is named for this politician who was a city supervisor when he was slain in 1978
(Harvey) Milk
Jennifer
$1,200 [30]
Rising too fast from deep water forces nitrogen gas into the blood, causing this condition in scuba divers
the bends
Jennifer
$1,200 [4]
Infertile for the first 20 years of her marriage to Isaac, she later had the twins Jacob & Esau
Rebekah
Saif Naomi
$1,200 [10]
The fresh type of this pizza cheese comes packed in whey or water
mozzarella
Jennifer
$1,600 [19]
This great statue of Giza has the Arabic name Abu al-Awl, "father of terror"
the Sphinx
Saif
$1,600 [15]
Mrs. Herman Munster
Lily
Jennifer
$2,000 [25]
This American lyricist collaborated with Frederick Loewe on the song "The Rain In Spain", among others
(Alan Jay) Lerner
Naomi
$1,600 [29]
Firedamp, basically me than e, is most often found in these places
coal mines
Saif
$1,600 [5]
All trouble faded away for her as she wandered slowly through the Fields of Boaz
Ruth
Naomi
$1,600 [11]
Unlike a close relative, the blue-winged variety of this Aussie bird doesn't "laugh" but cackles
kookaburra
Jennifer
$2,000 [20]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a geometric diagram on the monitor.) A tangent is a line that touches a circle at one point; a line that intersects at two points is called this
a secant
$2,000 [16]
Pug-faced Slytherin student Parkinson, who's keen on Draco Malfoy
Pansy
Jennifer
DD $3,000 [24]
He chaired the commission that investigated the deaths of JFK & Lee Harvey Oswald
(Earl) Warren
Jennifer
$2,000 [28]
The first use of this elemental gas as a weapon was by the Germans at the Second Battle of Ypres
chlorine
Saif
$2,000 [6]
One of the 7 archangels, he's not a painter, but rather presides over the spirits of men in the afterlife
Raphael
Jennifer
DD $4,000 [12]
These French-speaking people make up about 30% of Belgium's population
Walloons
Jennifer

Final Jeopardy!

NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS

This bird is known for its size (5 feet tall), its call (carries 2 miles) & its rarity; in 1941 there were only 21 in the wild

the whooping crane

Saif "What is aHeron?condor?" — wagered $2,900
Naomi "What is The California Condor?" — wagered $7,500
Jennifer "What is a California Condor?" — wagered $9,401

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