Show #5870 2010-03-05 (taped 2009-12-15) Regular

Vijay Balse game 2.

Contestants

Miriam Carson — a teacher from Mountain Top, Pennsylvania

Todd Aiello — an actor and office worker from Chicago, Illinois

Vijay Balse — a chemical engineer originally from Bombay, India (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Vijay $8,000 $9,000 $17,400 $27,601
2-day champion: $56,402
$15,200
16 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Todd $1,000 $4,600 $13,800 $27,595
2nd place: $2,000
$15,800
18 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Miriam $1,400 $4,000 $7,600 $14,600
3rd place: $1,000
$7,600
18 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE DIEDS OF MARCH FEMALE SINGERS THE LURE OF FISHING MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS WHAT AM I GOING TO WEAR? "OID" VEY
$200 [12]
He died in Vienna March 26, 1827, during a thunderstorm like the one depicted in his Pastoral Symphony
Beethoven
Miriam
$200 [3]
This "Hollaback Girl" took a cinematic turn, playing Jean Harlow in "The Aviator"
Gwen Stefani
Miriam
$200 [26]
4-letter term for living creatures, such as worms, attached to a hook to entice fish
bait
Miriam
$200 [7]
David Herbert
(D.H.) Lawrence
Vijay
$200 [19]
1st popular in the 1960s, these pants are named for the area below the waistline where they embrace the body
hip-huggers
Miriam
$200 [1]
It might be crewel to tell you that the Bayeux Tapestry is an example of this kind of needlework
embroidery
Miriam
$400 [13]
Death defeated him March 16, 1971, 23 years after Truman did
(Thomas) Dewey
Vijay
$400 [17]
"The Emancipation of Mimi" & "E=MC2are albums from this multi-octave gal
Mariah Carey
Todd
$400 [27]
An auger is the device used to cut holes for this kind of fishing
ice fishing
Todd
$400 [8]
Henry Louis
(H.L.) Mencken
Vijay
$400 [20]
Every woman should have one of these, LBD for short
a little black dress
Todd
$400 [2]
A humanoid robot
android
Todd
$600 [14]
This Scotsman died March 11, 1955, 10 years after he won a Nobel Prize for his 1928 discovery of penicillin
(Sir Alexander) Fleming
Todd
$600 [18]
This "lady" took her stage name from a Queen song after she was likened to Freddie Mercury
Lady Gaga
Miriam
$600 [28]
Possiblesubjectsfor an entomologist, or the fishing accessory seen here
flies
Miriam
$600 [9]
Phyllis Dorothy
(P.D.) James
Vijay
$600 [23]
Complete the look of the powder blue tuxedo with a ruffled one of these detachable false shirt fronts
a dickey
Todd
$600 [4]
For spreading this disease, food handler Mary Mallon spent the last 23 years of her life in detention
typhoid
Vijay
$800 [15]
Crispus Attucks, an African American, was one of 5 men killed in this Beantown event March 5, 1770
the Boston Massacre
Miriam
$800 [21]
Last name Kilcher, she restyled herself as a country singer in 2008 with the album "Perfectly Clear"
Jewel
Todd
$800 [29]
Often made of cork, it's a float attached to your line to suspend it at a set depth
a bobber
Miriam
$1,000 [11]
Howard Phillips
(H.P.) Lovecraft
Vijay
$800 [24]
Making a comeback for women in 2009, these 5-letter pants, aka genie pants & worn by MC Hammer, were too legit to quit
harem pants
Miriam
$800 [5]
Take these anabolic lipids only under a doctor's supervision
steroids
Vijay
$1,000 [16]
This British statesman whose 1917 declaration supported a Jewish homeland died in England March 19, 1930
(Arthur James) Balfour
Vijay
$1,000 [22]
With a name like a Wild West outlaw, she set off some alarms with her 2009 country-pop tune "Blue Jeans"
Jessie James
$1,000 [30]
This synonym for a fisherman is in the title of Izaak Walton's classic 1653 book on the subject
an angler
Todd
DD $3,000 [10]
Edward Morgan
(E.M.) Forster
Vijay
$1,000 [25]
The name of this Tyrolean get-up is German for "leather trousers"
Lederhosen
Miriam
$1,000 [6]
Because it carries 2 sets of chromosomes, a zygote is this type of cell
diploid
Vijay

Double Jeopardy! Round

OPERA A "D" IN GEOGRAPHY A MOVIE BEFORE, THEN DINNER AFTER I AM SAM BEASTLY HOMONYMS THE TOYOTA GRAND PRIX OF LONG BEACH
$400 [1]
In Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Maid of Pskov", this notorious 16th c. czar destroys the city of Novgorod
Ivan (the Terrible)
Miriam
$400 [14]
O'Casey & Yeats were both born in this capital
Dublin
Miriam
$400 [4]
Brat Pack detention in a 1985 film leads to a meal with 3 slices of toast, turkey, bacon & mayo
The Breakfast Club Sandwich
Todd
$400 [9]
Mathew Brady learned about daugerreotypes from this coded inventor
Samuel Morse
Todd
$400 [19]
Pulled behind a truck
towed (toad)
Miriam
$400 [26]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach, CA.) The Grand Prix was once an F1 event; 2009 is the first time it's part of this series, whose name is derived from a big May race with cars bigger & some say faster than F1
Indycar
Todd
$800 [2]
In "Maria Stuarda", this queen signs Mary Stuart's death warrant after being called a bastard
Queen Elizabeth I
Todd
$800 [15]
This German city is on the Rhine River about 20 miles north of Cologne
Dusseldorf
Vijay Miriam
$800 [5]
Charlton Heston goes crazy when he finds out a revolutionary new foodstuff is "haricots verts" in French
Soylent Green Beans
$800 [10]
The government ordered 1,000 pistols from him during the Mexican War
Samuel Colt
Miriam
$800 [20]
Bread begins as this
dough (doe)
Miriam
$800 [27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew gets lowered in a racecar at the Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach, CA.) You or AAA change tires with a mechanical jack; at the Long Beach Grand Prix, they use this more powerful type, from the Greek for "wind", built into the car's body
pneumatic
Vijay
$1,600 [24]
This Gian Carlo Menotti TV opera features a crippled boy, his mother & 3 kings: Kaspar, Melchior & Balthazar
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Miriam
$1,200 [16]
It occupies 18,600 square miles in the West Indies & shares its island home with another nation
the Dominican Republic
Miriam
$1,200 [6]
War is afoot in this Marx Brothers classic about the daily changing of broth at a restaurant
Duck Soup du Jour
Todd
$1,200 [11]
He went to a J.C. Penney management training program; later he opened his own five-&-dime store in Arkansas
(Sam) Walton
Vijay
$1,200 [21]
Too sick, can't speak
hoarse (horse)
Todd
$1,200 [28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach, CA.) There's no smell of gasoline in the air; the cars run on 100% this 100% biodegradable fuel
ethanol
Todd
DD $2,000 [3]
On Feb. 26, 1776 a fire destroyed Milan's Royal Ducal Theatre; this replaced it
La Scala di Milano
Todd
$1,600 [17]
This Scottish river flows into the North Sea at Aberdeen
the Dee
Miriam
$1,600 [7]
Stephen King's tale of Nebraska young 'uns who go homicidal when a frankfurter is battered & put on a stick
Children of the Corn Dog
Todd
$1,600 [12]
His diary gives a picture of Restoration London from Jan. 1, 1660 to May 31, 1669
(Samuel) Pepys
Vijay Miriam
$1,600 [22]
Trendy hair gel
mousse (moose)
$1,600 [29]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach, CA.) The two basic types of United States auto racing are stock car & this type, named for the exposure of the wheels; with no fenders, drivers are more careful to avoid collisions than in NASCAR
open-wheeled vehicles
$2,000 [25]
This Johann Strauss opera has appeared in several English versions, including "Night Birds" & "Rosalinda"
Die Fledermaus
$2,000 [18]
Once part of the French Protectorate of Somaliland, this nation gained its independence in 1977
Djibouti
Todd
$2,000 [8]
"Larger" than life animated tale from Roald Dahl served as a dessert that sounds like it should be for shoe menders
James and the Giant Peach Cobbler
Todd
DD $2,000 [13]
In the 1610s this explorer was made a commandant of New France
(Samuel de) Champlain
Vijay
$2,000 [23]
Blood pumper
heart (hart)
Vijay
$2,000 [30]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach, CA.) The area between the track & the pit lane is called this 12-letter zone; it's the action the driver has to do from over 200 to 60 miles per hour, the top speed in the pits
the deceleration zone
Miriam

Final Jeopardy!

PLAYS

Dialogue from this play: "He didn't say for sure he'd come." "And if he doesn't come?" "We'll come back tomorrow"

Waiting for Godot

Miriam "What is Waiting for Godot?" — wagered $7,000
Todd "What is Waiting for Godot" — wagered $13,795
Vijay "What is "Waiting For Godot?"" — wagered $10,201

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