Show #5842 2010-01-26 (taped 2009-12-02) Regular

Contestants

Anna Tschetter — a legal assistant from Danvers, Massachusetts

Rajeev Gorowara — a chemical engineer from Wilmington, Delaware

Andrew Fechner — a television programmer from Montclair, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $26,001)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Andrew	$2,800	$6,200	$9,800	$399 3rd place: $1,000	$9,400 18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Rajeev	$3,400	$4,000	$9,600	$799 2nd place: $2,000	$11,600 16 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Anna	$-200	$-200	$9,200	$3,400 New champion: $3,400	$9,800 14 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION LORE	COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAMERS	EURO COINS	INVESTING WITH WARREN BUFFETT	HOLD THE FORT	A IS FOR "APPL"
$200 [26] The first time African Americans marched in the parade was at Lincoln's second inauguration, in this year 1865 Andrew	$200 [8] Herschel Walker(1982) the University of Georgia Andrew	$200 [1] Greece's 2-euro coin shows Europa being abducted by this god in the guise of a bull Zeus Anna	$200 [16] Buffett had the sense to buy $600 million worth of this company the year it introduced the Sensor razor; ka-ching! Gillette Rajeev	$200 [6] A fort in New Haven was named for this Connecticut patriot who was hanged as a spy in 1776 Hale Andrew Anna	$200 [21] You do it to get admitted to Stanford apply Anna
$400 [27] This 18-time Grammy winner sang "My Country 'Tis Of Thee" at Barack Obama's inauguration Franklin Andrew	$400 [12] Troy Aikman(1988) UCLA Andrew	$400 [2] Malta's 1- & 2-euro coins depict an 8-pointed this, a symbol of Malta cross Andrew Rajeev	$400 [17] Buffett grabbed 5% of the stock in this company a few years before it introduced the gold card American Express Rajeev	$400 [7] This great Apache warrior died at Fort Sill in Oklahoma in 1910 & was buried there Geronimo Rajeev	$400 [22] A dishwasher or dryer appliance Anna
$600 [28] They're the two men seenhereon their way to the presidential inauguration Hoover and FDR Andrew Anna	$600 [13] Steve Spurrier(1966) Florida Rajeev	$600 [3] This composer appears on the reverse of Austria's 1-euro coin Mozart Andrew	$600 [18] (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a candy shop.) In 1972, the fudge loving Warren Buffett bought See's Candies for $25 million; it's yielded $1 billion in income & helps rocket the stock of this, Buffett's investment company Berkshire Hathaway Andrew	$800 [10] Fort Monmouth in this state is the headquarters of the U.S. Army Telecommunications-Electronics Command New Jersey Andrew	$600 [23] Approbation loudly expressed applause Andrew
$800 [29] His inauguration was the first to be televised Truman Rajeev	$800 [14] Joe Theismann(1970) Notre Dame Rajeev	$800 [4] Italy's 2-euro coin is artsy & classy, reproducing Raphael's portrait of this "divine" poet Dante Anna	$800 [19] Buffett calls the purchase of this insurance company one of his best investments; he first bought its stock in 1951 GEICO Rajeev	DD $1,000 [9] Fittingly, this Maryland fort was built in a star shape Fort McHenry Andrew	$800 [24] It's a strong 9-letter spirit or brandy made from apples applejack
$1,000 [30] Nicknamed "Handsome Frank", he's the only president to affirm, not swear to, the oath of office Pierce Rajeev	$1,000 [15] Johnny "The Jet" Rodgers(1972) Nebraska Rajeev	$1,000 [5] Both Monaco's & Belgium's euros feature royal personages with this name, one a king, one a prince Albert	$1,000 [20] In the '70s Buffett got into news & now has 18% of this company based in our nation's capital Washington Post Rajeev	$1,000 [11] During the 1840s Fort Smith in Arkansas was under the command of this general & future President Taylor Rajeev Anna	$1,000 [25] Small pieces of fabric stuck to a garment to form a pattern applique Andrew

Double Jeopardy! Round

LORDS	OF WAR	OF DISCIPLINE	OF THE RINGS	OF THE FLIES	OF THE DANCE
$400 [6] Lord of the Isles is one of the many titles of this heir apparent Prince Charles Rajeev	$400 [16] Matt Damon finds out he's his family's only surviving brother in this war film Saving Private Ryan Rajeev	$400 [26] Phonetics & semantics are subfields of this discipline linguistics Andrew	$400 [1] Growth rings are typically used when talking about these, like Sequoia sempervirens trees Anna	$400 [11] Musca domestica is the scientific name for this ever-present type of fly housefly Andrew	$400 [20] The jarabe tapatio is another name for this Mexican dance; you can do it around a sombrero hat dance Andrew
$800 [7] Celebrated on November 9, Lord Mayor's Day honors the mayor of this city London Anna	$1,200 [18] Johnny Depp & Forest Whitaker have supporting roles in this Best Picture Oscar winner from 1986 Platoon Andrew	$800 [27] Emile Durkheim was an important figure in this -ology closely related to cultural anthropology sociology Rajeev	$800 [2] To purify the ring used in this Japanese sport, 6 items are buried in the center, including a squid sumo wrestling Anna	DD $600 [13] The fruit fly named for this body of water was thought to be eradicated in the U.S. in 1930; oops Mediterranean Anna	$800 [22] Small wild canines are naturals at this American ballroom dance combining slow & fast steps fox trot Anna
$1,200 [8] Lord Dunmore's "War" in 1774 was an attack on Indians in what is now this "Mountain State" West Virginia Andrew Anna	$1,600 [19] The protagonist of this movie announces himself as "commander of the Armies of the North, general of the Felix Legions" Gladiator Anna	$1,200 [28] Making a plankton net & drawing a trench & seamount are 2 steps to your Boy Scout merit badge in this oceanography	$1,200 [3] The failure of these alphabetic rings was blamed for the Challenger disaster O rings Andrew	$800 [12] The structure of these is the defining difference between true flies & other insects called flies wings Anna	$1,200 [23] Perez Prado popularized this modified rumba form featured in "Dirty Dancing" mambo Andrew Rajeev Anna
$1,600 [9] Joseph Conrad tried to cover "the whole sentiment of human existence" in the title character of this 1900 novel Lord Jim	DD $2,000 [17] Familiar from Hartford Insurance ads, Lawrence the Elk also played a part in this 1978 movie The Deer Hunter Rajeev	$1,600 [29] Indiana University has the nation's first Ph.D. program in these studies that cover men's & women's roles gender studies Anna	$1,600 [4] A "fairy ring" on your lawn is composed of these mushrooms Rajeev	$1,600 [14] This African fly causes sleeping sickness in humans & a similar ailment called nagana in cattle tsetse fly Rajeev	$1,600 [24] In a "grand" one of these steps, the legs are 180 degrees apart, with a correspondingly high jump a grand jeté Anna
$2,000 [10] No one was laughing when American William Joyce broadcast Nazi propaganda under this pseudonym in WWII Lord Haw Haw	$2,000 [21] On film there were "The Guns of" this place & "Force 10 from" it Navarone Anna	$2,000 [30] This type of yoga is Sanskrit for "discipline of force" & it's better than none hatha yoga Rajeev	$2,000 [5] "Das Rheingold" is the first work in the opera series "The Ring of" these The Nibelungs Rajeev	$2,000 [15] The robber or assassin fly can be described as one of these, from the Latin for "Pillager" predator	$2,000 [25] Named for an aviator, this popular "hop" of the '20s & '30s originated in Harlem the Lindy hop Anna

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY LITERATURE

Chapter II of this novel says, "My eyes were not to be deceived. I was indeed awake and among the Carpathians"

Dracula

Anna "What is Wuthering Heights?" — wagered $5,800

Rajeev "What is Gulliver's Travels?" — wagered $8,801

Andrew "What is "The Time Machine"?" — wagered $9,401

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