Show #5864 2010-02-25 (taped 2009-12-08) Regular

Contestants

Ben Auer — a law clerk from Savannah, Georgia

Rhonda Scarborough — an arts administrator from Cincinnati, Ohio

Tom Toce — an actuary from New York, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $39,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tom $1,200 $4,800 $5,200 $4,799
2nd place: $2,000
$5,200
16 R, 4 W
Rhonda $1,600 $1,400 $5,600 $1,200
3rd place: $1,000
$6,200
10 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Ben $6,000 $6,600 $12,700 $11,202
New champion: $11,202
$16,200
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

ELEPHANTS IN LITERATURE OSCAR WINNERS RHYME TIME BREAKFAST AT EPIPHANY'S VEAL OR NO VEAL MIND THE "GAP" THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
$200 [6]
Tantor the elephant is a childhood companion of this Edgar Rice Burroughs character
Tarzan (of the apes)
Rhonda
$200 [3]
Pacino's female pals
Al's gals
Ben
$200 [16]
Epiphany commemorates 3 events, including the visit of this group to Bethlehem
the Magi
Tom
$200 [21]
This traditional Austrian dish named for the country's capital is a breaded cutlet of veal
Wiener schnitzel
Tom
$200 [10]
A temporary measure
stopgap
Tom
$200 [26]
In 1940 this composer gave the Boy & Girl Scouts all future royalties from the song "God Bless America"
(Irving) Berlin
Tom
$400 [7]
In "The Elephant's Child", Rudyard Kipling explained that a crocodile attack caused the elephant to get this body part
its trunk
Ben
$400 [4]
Penn's pair of baby deer
Sean's fawns
Tom
$400 [17]
Epiphany also celebrates this ceremony performed for the baby Jesus
baptism
Rhonda Ben
$400 [22]
There's no veal in boxty, Irish pancakes made from these tubers
potatoes
Rhonda
$400 [11]
Asian island fortress surrendered by the British in 1942
Singapore
Rhonda
$400 [27]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Boy Scouts of America at Camp Winton.) To be a first class scout, you have to able to find directions; one way is to place astickin the ground & wait for the afternoon shadow, which will point this way
east
Tom Rhonda
$600 [8]
Throughout a 1954 book, this elephant repeats, "A person's a person, no matter how small"
Horton
Rhonda
$600 [1]
Actress Hilary's financial institutions
Swank's banks
Rhonda
$600 [18]
Rounding out the 3 events celebrated on Epiphany is this ceremony where Jesus performed his first miracle
the wedding at Cana (turning water into wine accepted)
Tom Ben
$600 [23]
The New York Times Cook Book's recipe for this Greek dish of ground meat & eggplant calls for lamb or beef, not veal
moussaka
Tom Rhonda
$600 [12]
It's that yawning gulf between the old & the young
a generation gap
Tom Rhonda
$600 [28]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Boy Scouts of America at Camp Winton.) A popular scouting activity is the throwing of this type of hatchet or axe native to North America
a tomahawk
Tom
$800 [9]
Created by Jean de Brunhoff, this pachyderm, who wears a green suit & a bowler hat, leaves the jungle & moves to Paris
Babar
Ben
$800 [2]
Dunaway's "no" votes
Faye's nays
Ben
$800 [19]
In Catholicism, Epiphany is more important than Christmas, joining Pentecost & this most holy of days
Easter
Ben
$800 [24]
Made of browned, shredded beef or pork, not veal, this Mexican dish is Spanish for "little meats"
carnitas
Ben
$800 [13]
Unit of resolution for your digital camera
mega-pixels
Ben
$800 [29]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Boy Scouts of America at Camp Winton.) A traditional skill in scouting is knowing how to build a fire; one good method is named for this Native American shelter
a tepee
Ben
$1,000 [15]
Pooh is always worried that woozles & these elephantine creatures will steal his honey
heffalumps
Ben
$1,000 [5]
Ms. Thompson's quandries
Emma's dilemmas
Ben
DD $2,000 [20]
This Shakespeare play title refers to Epiphany Eve
Twelfth Night
Ben
$1,000 [25]
The name of this popular Italian dish of braised veal shanks means "bone hole"
osso buco
Tom
$1,000 [14]
Greek term for spiritual, not sensual, love
agápe
Ben
$1,000 [30]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Boy Scouts of America at Camp Winton.) The first Boy Scout to go on to be the president was this man who in a youthful letter to his father Joe asked for a bigger allowance to buy canteens & other scout supplies
Kennedy (JFK)
Tom

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE BEATLES A DAY IN THE LIFE BLACK BIRD BABY, YOU CAN DRIVE MY CAR HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE HELLO GOODBYE
$400 [3]
This song with a simple desire is significant as The Beatles' first chart topper in America
"I Want To Hold Your Hand"
Tom
$400 [16]
May 2, 1863:He sends Stonewall Jackson on a brilliant attack at Chancellorsville
Robert E. Lee
Ben
$400 [21]
One of the world's largest birds, this Californiaaviancan glide as far as 10 miles without beating its wings
a condor
Tom
$400 [11]
Baby, you can drive this company's Forester, which was Motor Trend's 2009 sport/utility of the year
Subaru
Ben
$400 [6]
This city's pink & white marble Palazzo Ducale, or Doge's Palace, stands on the Grand Canal
Venice
Ben
$1,600 [26]
"Saluton" & "Gis Revido" are hello & goodbye in this international language
Esperanto
Tom
$800 [2]
John Lennon said this 1965 movie title tune was one of his favorites, in part because he wrote it about himself
"Help!"
Tom
DD $500 [20]
Nov. 4, 1954:Gives his speech as the 1952 Nobel Prize winner; in 1952, hewas busy with his humanitarian work in Africa
(Albert) Schweitzer
Ben
$1,200 [24]
Really more of a scavenger, this beautiful bird was turned into a thief by Rossini
the magpie
$800 [12]
Consider going green, baby, by driving this hybrid model seen here
a Prius
Ben
$800 [7]
Visitors to Warminster, England should go to this ancient rock circle site 15 miles east
Stonehenge
Rhonda
$2,000 [25]
At a Chinese restaurant, greet your server with this 5-letter Mandarin word for hello
nihao
$1,200 [1]
In 1964 it was all about "me" with The Beatles--the lads had these 2 No. 1 hits with "me" in the title
"Can't Buy Me Love" & "Love Me Do"
$800 [17]
Nov. 16, 2004:Elected Senate minority leader; the minority has since become the majority
Harry Reid
Ben
$1,600 [23]
The razorbill, seen here, is a member of this flightless family of which the great one went extinct around 1844
the auk
Tom
$1,200 [13]
Baby, you can take the whole family on a really long trip in this Honda minivan
an Odyssey
Ben
$1,200 [8]
It might be quite a "jar" to Americans visiting this Dutch city that there's a museum devoted to the Pilgrims
Leiden
$1,600 [4]
Opening this 1967 song with bars from "La Marseillaise" helped accentuate its message of international unity
"All You Need Is Love"
Rhonda
$1,200 [18]
Aug. 29, 1946:Files a patent for an instant camera
Edwin Land
Tom Rhonda
$2,000 [22]
You crazy old guy, it's the American variety ofthis4-letter waterfowl
a coot
Tom Ben
DD $1,400 [15]
William Lyons named this luxury car for its speed, sleekness & power
Jaguar
Rhonda
$1,600 [9]
Main streets in this Tahitian city include Boulevard Pomare & Rue de General-De-Gaulle
Papeete
$2,000 [5]
"This Bird Has Flown" was the original title of this tune, the first pop song to feature a sitar
"Norwegian Wood"
Tom
$1,600 [19]
June 27, 1499:He sights Brazil, on a continent now named for him
Vespucci
Ben
$1,600 [14]
Hey, baby, it's GM's luxury car division named for the explorer who founded Detroit
Cadillac
Rhonda
$2,000 [10]
The "judgment" is that the gingerbread made in this second-largest city of Bavaria is the world's best
Nuremberg
Ben

Final Jeopardy!

SCIENTIFIC MNEMONICS

"Kings play chess on finely grained sand" is a mnemonic device used to help remember a system devised by this scientist

Carolus Linnaeus

Tom "Who is Copernicus?" — wagered $401
Rhonda "Who is Leevenhuek?" — wagered $4,400
Ben "Who is Charles Darwin?" — wagered $1,498

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