Show #5840 2010-01-22 (taped 2009-12-01) Regular

Contestants

Darryl Konter — a public relations executive from Dunwoody, Georgia

Gila Stadler — a molecular epidemiologist from New York, New York

Ted Ahern — a health care application consultant from Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ted $4,400 $6,400 $13,200 $2,399
2nd place: $2,000
$13,200
20 R, 0 W
Gila $800 $600 $2,000 $3,000
New champion: $3,000
$5,000
9 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Darryl $3,000 $8,400 $12,000 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$13,600
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

WYATT EARP CLASSIC SITCOM EPISODES "RACE" TO THE ANSWER BIOGRAPHIES SIGNS & SYMBOLS POP QUIZ
$200 [26]
In 1878 Wyatt Earp was an assistant marshal in this city in Kansas; today, the city has a boulevard named for him
Dodge City
Darryl
$200 [1]
"Lucy & Ethel Buy the Same Dress"
I Love Lucy
Gila
$200 [16]
This jewelry item can be tennis or ankle
a bracelet
Ted
$200 [14]
A book about this author is called "The Far Side of Paradise", a reference to his 1920 novel
Fitzgerald
Darryl
$200 [11]
Athena is a goddess of wisdom, as symbolized by this creature
an owl
Ted
$200 [6]
This soda was introduced in 1886 & patented in 1887
Coca-Cola
Gila
$400 [27]
Wyatt was working as a railroad detective when John Shanssey introduced him to this sometime dentist
Doc Holliday
Darryl
$400 [2]
"There's No Witch Like an Old Witch"
Bewitched
Ted
$400 [17]
To clasp in one's arms, or to include
to embrace
Ted
$400 [15]
The cleverly titled "Milestones" is a biography of this jazz trumpeter
(Miles) Davis
Ted
$400 [12]
The shofar is this animal's horn & is a reminder of the one that Abraham sacrificed instead of Isaac
a ram
Darryl
$400 [7]
www.rootbeer.com is the website of this brand with initial success
A&W
Gila
$600 [28]
Wyatt Earp worked as a guard for this companythat was founded to handle the banking business of the California gold rush
Wells Fargo
Darryl
$600 [3]
"They Call It Potsie Love"
Happy Days
Ted
$600 [18]
A bullet whose flight can be visually observed
a tracer
Ted
$600 [23]
Historian & senator Albert Beveridge wrote a 4-volume Pulitzer-winning bio of this fourth Chief Justice
John Marshall
Darryl
$800 [21]
Gabriel, angel of the Annunciation, is usually portrayed holding this flower, a Christian symbol of virginal love
a lily
Gila
$600 [8]
An early label for this soda showed a hillbilly shooting at a revenuer running from an outhouse
Mountain Dew
Darryl
$800 [29]
A feud between the Earps & these brothers, Ike & Billy, resulted in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral
the Clantons
Darryl
$800 [4]
"The Rise & Fall of Sergeant Schultz"
Hogan's Heroes
Darryl
$800 [19]
Following a stormy trip aboard a ship at sea, Reverend John Newton wrote the words to this popular hymn
"Amazing Grace"
Ted
$800 [24]
Sadly, in 1997 Andrew Morton had a new ending to add to his commemorative edition tell-all bio of her
Princess Diana
Darryl
DD $1,000 [13]
Because of its color, the ruby is associated symbolically with this planet
Mars
Darryl
$800 [9]
In 1963 the U.S. Fifth District Court in Dallas ruled that this, with 23 flavors, was not a cola
Dr Pepper
Ted
$1,000 [30]
In the late 1870s Wyatt Earp headed for the gold rush in this mountain region in the Dakota Territory
the Black Hills
Darryl
$1,000 [5]
"Granny's Spring Tonic"
The Beverly Hillbillies
Ted
$1,000 [20]
Once part of the Ottoman Empire, this Greek island is where the "Winged Victory" statue was discovered
Samothrace
Gila
$1,000 [25]
This man who laid the groundwork for modern genetics is the subject of "The Monk in the Garden"
Gregor Mendel
Darryl
$1,000 [22]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Santiago de Compostela in Spain.) Pilgrims can find Santiago de Compostela by these shells, the symbol of St. James; one theory is that the converging lines represent pilgrims coming from all over
scallops
$1,000 [10]
The logo of this ginger ale brand once featured the outline of North America
Canada Dry
Ted

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE WORLD ALMANAC AND BOOK OF FACTS MELON-CHOLY THE SCIENCE BUG IT'S GEOGRAPHIC OVERLAPPING WORDS POP QUIZ
$400 [3]
If you're in the South Pacific on July 11, you can get a good look at a total one of these
an eclipse
Ted
$400 [9]
One food book says, "There are those who wouldn't trade a slice of" this "on a hot summer day for anything"
watermelon
Darryl
$400 [1]
Karl von Frisch won a Nobel Prize for work on animal behavior patterns, largely using the "dance' of this insect
bees
Gila
$400 [13]
In Hungary this river is known as the Duna
the Danube
Ted
$400 [26]
A large animal, as any of those "one for all and all for one" guys
a hippopotamusketeer
Ted
$400 [19]
After a 5-year hiatus from touring, this Gwen Stafani band hit the road in 2009 on a summer tour
No Doubt
Ted
$800 [4]
The July 2009 sit-down among President Obama, a Harvard prof & a Cambridge cop was dubbed this sudsy summit
the Beer Summit
Darryl
$800 [12]
Americans call an orange-fleshed melon with a netted rind this; charentais is a variety of the true one
a cantaloupe
Darryl
$800 [2]
Charles Ellington tethered a moth to this type of tunnel to divine the mechanics of insect flight
a wind tunnel
Darryl
$800 [14]
Calexico, California lies opposite this aptly named Mexican city
Mexicali
$800 [27]
Balloon-filling element No. 2 rain protector
a heliumbrella
Ted
$800 [20]
This band's official fan club is called Idiot Club (fans don't have to be American)
Green Day
Ted
$1,200 [5]
160 square rods equals 1 of this square measure (that one was in the '09 book too)
an acre
Gila
$1,200 [18]
This melon that was prized by ancient Egyptians has a name that tells you how juicy & sweet it is
honeydew
Ted
$1,200 [6]
Researchers are basing robots' sensors on these compound organs on flies
eyes
Gila
$1,200 [15]
Darien is both a mountain range & a province of this country; it's also the former name of the whole isthmus
Panama
Ted
$1,200 [28]
A famous European American born with the Apache name Goyathlay
Kissingeronimo
Ted
$1,200 [21]
Katy Perry sang "I Kissed A Girl"; this country guy sang "Kiss A Girl" (perhaps Nicole Kidman?)
Keith Urban
Darryl
$1,600 [10]
This state is big, it's fiercely independent & it has the highest percentage of people without health insurance
Texas
Gila Darryl
DD $2,000 [22]
This melon with a yellow rind is named for a Turkish town
a casaba
Darryl
$1,600 [7]
Fossil beetles near the South Pole suggest that the Antarctic was once this type of flat area, cold but with life
a tundra
Gila
$1,600 [16]
North America's deepest lake is this Canadian one with a servile-sounding name
the Great Slave Lake
Gila
$1,600 [24]
He performed "We Made You" at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, but his encounter with Bruno was more memorable
Eminem
$2,000 [11]
With over 30 million tons, China leads the world in this, a 1-word equivalent of fish farming
aquaculture
$2,000 [23]
A type of melon with a yellow skin has this name, like that of a finch
a canary melon
DD $3,000 [8]
Ants sacrificing individual good for the group is what zoologists call this -ism, from the Latin for "other"
altruism
Gila
$2,000 [17]
Much of this tiny, "serene", landlocked nation stands on Mount Titano
San Marino
Darryl
$2,000 [25]
In June 2009, listeners went crazy for this singer seen here, putting 2 of her songs in the top 10 at the same time
Lady Gaga
Darryl

Final Jeopardy!

THE CABINET

Created by the Continental Congress in 1775, this officer joined the Cabinet in 1829 but was removed from it in 1971

the Postmaster General

Gila "What is the Postmaster General" — wagered $1,000
Darryl "What was the Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare?" — wagered $11,999
Ted "What is the commander of the Navy?" — wagered $10,801

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