Show #5841 2010-01-25 (taped 2009-12-01) Regular

Contestants

Diane Haltigan — a software engineer from Norfolk, Virginia

Andrew Fechner — a television programmer from Montclair, New Jersey

Gila Stadler — a molecular epidemiologist from New York, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $3,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Gila $2,600 $6,000 $7,600 $12,600
2nd place: $2,000
$7,600
11 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Andrew $2,800 $6,000 $15,200 $26,001
New champion: $26,001
$17,200
25 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Diane $1,400 $3,400 $13,000 $9,700
3rd place: $1,000
$12,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

COUNTRIES IN SPACE U.S. FIRSTS WORD-BY-WORD BOOK SUMMARIES IT IS WHAT IT "IS" MY GIRLFRIEND SUCH A SWEETIE
$200 [1]
Using a launch site in the Gobi desert, this country became the third to send a human into orbit
China
Diane
$200 [13]
2006 research shows the first ships bringing us this shameful cargo were the Treasurer & White Lion, in 1619
slaves
Gila
$200 [11]
1726:English.Shipwreck.Giant.Tiny.Airborne.Horses
Gulliver's Travels
Andrew
$200 [6]
A single magazine put forth & circulated
an issue
Andrew
$200 [26]
Donald Duck started dating this gal pal in the 1940 cartoon "Mr. Duck Steps Out"
Daisy Duck
Andrew
$200 [21]
It's "The Great American Chocolate Bar"
Hershey's
Andrew
$400 [2]
This country named its Sina-1 satellite after a Persian philosopher
Iran
Gila
$400 [14]
In 1845 a Boston hotel became the first U.S. building to be warmed by this, also a "Pajama Game" song
steam heat
Gila
$400 [12]
1831:Paris.Mega-scoliosis.Ding-dong.Gypsy.Death.Fin
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Andrew
$400 [7]
Asian capital city just northeast of Rawalpindi
Islamabad
Andrew
$400 [27]
Superman met this love interest working at the Daily Planet
Lois Lane
Gila
$400 [22]
"Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't" when purchasing these 2 candy bars
Almond Joy and Mounds
Andrew
$600 [3]
To launch satellites, this country's Shavit rockets take the Mediterranean route to avoid hostile neighbors
Israel
Andrew
$600 [15]
Some El Pasoans say America's real first Thanksgiving was the one Juan de Onate held on arrival at this river in 1598
the Rio Grande
Diane
$600 [16]
1878:Heroine.Russia.Affair.Exile.Paranoia.Train!
Anna Karenina
Gila
$600 [8]
Ms. Duncan of dance (& unfortunately long scarves)
Isadora
Diane
$600 [28]
Shiver me timbers! She's Popeye's beanpole babe
Olive Oyl
Diane
$600 [23]
People have been puckering up with these candies since the '60s
Lemon Heads
Gila Diane
$800 [4]
This country successfully launched its VSB-30 rocket just south of the equator at Alcantara
Brazil
Gila
$800 [19]
Our country's first of these was held in a crystal palace in NYC's Bryant Park in 1853 & lost $300,000
a World's Fair
Gila
$800 [17]
1902:Congo.Upriver.Jungle.Godlike.Horror.Horror
Heart of Darkness
Andrew
$800 [9]
Half of a pair of doomed lovers, she marries King Mark, but not before falling for the guy who came to get her
Isolde
Gila
$800 [29]
She's Porky Pig's "flowery" main squeeze
Petunia
Andrew
$800 [24]
"Nobody better lay a finger on" this candy I left in my dressing room
a Butterfinger
Andrew
$1,000 [5]
This north African country once ruled by France launched its ALSAT-1 satellite from a Russian cosmodrome
Algeria
Andrew
DD $1,000 [20]
The USA's first housing projects were built in Austin in 1939 with the help of this Congressman on the rise
LBJ
Gila
$1,000 [18]
1922:Dublin.June.Writer.Bloom.Intersection.Yes
Ulysses
Diane
$1,000 [10]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in front of an illustration of blood vessels.) In a frequent cause of heart disease, blood flow to tissues is decreased by obstructed arteries, a condition called this
cardiac ischemia
$1,000 [30]
In comic books, she's been Spider-Man's girlfriend & his wife
Mary Jane Parker (or Mary Jane Watson)
Andrew
$1,000 [25]
They're the movie theater favorites seen here
Junior Mints
Andrew Diane

Double Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY SENATORS BY STATE OSCAR-WINNING SONG LYRICS MODERN ARCHITECTURAL STYLES BREAKING THE ICE WITH ICEBREAKERS MATHLETES SHAKESPEAREAN RHYME TIME
$400 [25]
John Quincy Adams
Massachusetts
Andrew
$400 [1]
"We're after the same rainbow's end--waiting 'round the bend, my huckleberry friend"
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Diane
$400 [21]
The Experience Music Projectin this city has been called "blobitecture"
Seattle
Andrew
$400 [14]
Your friend looks like Lenin--reminds me that in 1957 the icebreaker Lenin was the first surface ship powered by this
nuclear energy
Andrew
$400 [9]
In the 1730s Leonhard Euler made this delicious Greek letter the standard symbol for a familiar ratio
pi
Andrew
$400 [6]
Cordelia's dad's lagers
Lear's beers
Diane
$800 [26]
Howell Jackson, Andrew Jackson
Tennessee
Andrew
$800 [2]
" 'Cause I'm never gonna stop the rain by complainin', because I'm free, nothin's worryin' me"
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Andrew
$800 [22]
Brutalism influenced the design ofthisD.C. building, named for a long-serving law-enforcement official
the J. Edgar Hoover Building
Diane
$800 [15]
I'm just "aboot" sure you come from this country that has the icebreakers Terry Fox & Louis S. St-Laurent
Canada
Andrew
$1,200 [11]
To simplify multiplication and division, Scotsman John Napier published a book outlining these in 1614
logarithms
$800 [7]
Robin Goodfellow's formal wear
Puck's tux
Diane
$1,200 [27]
Newton Booth, Leland Stanford
California
Andrew
$1,200 [3]
"When you get caught between the moon and New York City"
Arthur
Diane
$1,200 [23]
This city's Our Lady of the Angels Cathedralis said to be a postmodern interpretation of Spanish missions
Los Angeles
$1,200 [16]
I enjoy this red Italian spirit, which has its own "club", over ice; some icebreakers can ram through ice 23 feet thick
Campari
$1,600 [12]
John Nash has a beautiful mind that contributed to this "theory" of strategic decision making
game theory
Andrew
$1,200 [8]
"Et tu Brute" speaker's playground antagonizers
Caesar's teasers
Andrew
$1,600 [28]
John Slidell, C.D.J. Bouligny
Louisiana
Andrew
$1,600 [4]
"When I was just a little girl I asked my mother what will I be"
The Man Who Knew Too Much
$1,600 [24]
High-tech architecture is on view with this Paris landmark
the Centre Pompidou
Andrew
$1,600 [17]
You were born in '69? That's the year the oil tanker/icebreaker S.S. Manhattan went through this passage
the Northwest Passage
Gila
DD $2,000 [10]
He thought, in math the last letters should stand for unknowns & the first letters for known quantities--therefore it was
René Descartes
Andrew
DD $2,000 [19]
Prospero's daughter's large Southern porches
Miranda's verandas
Diane
$2,000 [5]
"Far from the world we know, up where the clear winds blow"
An Officer and a Gentleman
$2,000 [18]
Aren't penguins cute? Think about boarding an icebreaker on a cruise to see these 2 largest species
the King and the Emperor
Diane
$2,000 [13]
In 1995, 330 years after his death, proof was found for his last theorem
Fermat
Diane
$2,000 [20]
Cressida's lover, after happiness has vanished
joyless Troilus

Final Jeopardy!

SPORTS CITIES

It's the only city whose teams won the Super Bowl & the Stanley Cup in the same calendar year

Pittsburgh

Gila "What is Pittsburgh?" — wagered $5,000
Diane "What is New York?" — wagered $3,300
Andrew "What is Pittsburgh?" — wagered $10,801

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