Show #4784 2005-05-26 (taped 2004-11-16) Regular

Contestants

Damon Poore — a live-in caregiver from Longview, Washington

Kate Sendegeya — a payroll manager from Antioch, California

Bob Shore — an attorney from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $26,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bob $4,200 $5,400 $25,800 $21,601
2-day champion: $47,602
$23,400
29 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Kate $200 $800 $-400 $-400
3rd place: $1,000
$-400
9 R, 4 W
Damon $0 $1,000 $10,800 $600
2nd place: $2,000
$9,200
10 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

BRITISH AUTHORS YOU'RE A DOLL! THAT'S WRITE! AROUND THE USA GROOMING AIDS ABBREV.
$200 [17]
By age 23 she had written early versions of "Sense and Sensibility" and "Pride and Prejudice"
(Jane) Austen
Bob
$200 [21]
Thiscelebrity doll comes in a gift set with a microphone and a Barbie in bobby socks
Frank Sinatra
Kate
$200 [12]
"Garabatos" in Spanish; Polly Wolly & a certain "Yankee" are dandy at these idle scribbles
doodles
Bob
$200 [1]
Spend a night on Brasstown Bald Mountain & you're at the high point of this peachy state
Georgia
Kate
$200 [2]
It's a waxed string used to clean between your teeth
floss
Bob
$200 [4]
In baseball:ERA
Earn Run Average
Bob
$400 [18]
Byron was Lord Byron from age 10; this poet had to wait until his 70s, in 1884
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Damon
$400 [22]
One accessory sold for the Bratz dolls is a stretch one of these to take them to the prom in style
a limousine
Kate
$400 [13]
A preliminary version; the Brits spell it with a "ugh", we use an "F"
a draft
Kate
$400 [3]
The Boy Scouts of America headquarters is in this state where all of George Strait's ex's live
Texas
Bob
$400 [30]
To tighten your pores, you may use one of these, from the Latin for "to draw together"
astringent
Bob
$400 [5]
To feminists:ERA
Equal Rights Amendment
Bob
$800 [20]
He explained the genesis of his masterpiece in thefollowing passage"It was on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the capital, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind."
Edward Gibbon
$600 [23]
The fur really flew in this 1996 movie remake that inspired the doll seen here
101 Dalmatians
Damon
$600 [14]
From the Latin for "to write across", it's making a written copy of dictated material
transcribe
Kate
$600 [9]
Watch out for train robbers at Tweetsie Railroad, a wild west theme park in this "Tar Heel State"
North Carolina
Bob
$600 [29]
It's a foam that helps keep the hair in place, as well as a yummy dessert
mousse
Bob
$600 [6]
A military decoration:DSM
Distinguished Service Medal
Bob
DD $1,000 [19]
This aging romantic lived to write an ode on the installation of Prince Albert as Chancellor of Cambridge
William Wordsworth
Damon
$800 [24]
Ironically, the Madame Alexander doll based on this Tolstoy heroine wore a dress with a long train
Anna Karenina
Kate
$800 [15]
This type of will is written in your own hand; it sounds like it's in 3-D
holographic
Bob
$800 [10]
Alaska's Katmai National Park contains the Valley of Ten Thousand these (cough cough)
Smokes
$800 [28]
Applicator that lent its name to a derby for women pilots
Powder Puff
Kate
$800 [7]
In fractions:LCD
least common denominator
Bob
$1,000 [26]
In 2002 Christopher Hitchens published a book called "Why" this great anti-totalitarian writer "Matters"
George Orwell
$1,000 [25]
In fall 2000 a glamorous Elizabeth Taylor doll could be purchased with this "gem" of a fragrance
White Diamonds
Damon
$1,000 [16]
Pun alert! Oscar's illegibly written text of "Lady Windermere's Fan" would be this "of the Wilde"
Scrawl
Bob
$1,000 [11]
The name of a Polynesian trickster god lives on in the name of this "Valley Island"
Maui
Kate
$1,000 [27]
In 1911 Northam Warren founded this brand, which produced the first cuticle cream
Cutex
$1,000 [8]
In genetics:DNA
deoxyribonucleic acid
Bob

Double Jeopardy! Round

CHEMISTRY MAKING WAVES THE ____ ZONE HE'S A JAMAICAN, MON DREAD "LOCK"s
$400 [3]
Of the 3 main states of matter, the one covered by Dalton's Law of Partial Pressure
gas
Bob
$400 [26]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from atop a surfboard on an artificial wave machine.) Also a 1963 hit by The Surfaris, this is one surfing move Ican easilydo myself
a wipeout
Damon
$400 [5]
Once it was a quiet place, but now the eye can hardly follow the dancing, shuffling & spiking the ball in...
the end zone
Kate
$400 [1]
In the 1960s he formed the vocal trio The Wailers with Peter Tosh & Bunny Livingston
Bob Marley
Kate
$400 [2]
A 1711 poem warned, "Fools rush in where angels" do this
fear to tread
Bob
$400 [13]
In the same direction as the properly rotating hands of a timepiece
clockwise
Bob
$800 [4]
This 4-letter word is the electrostatic attaction between atoms, James
a bond
Damon
$800 [27]
Air Cav Lt. Col. Kilgore says that "Charlie don't surf" in this 1979 film
Apocalypse Now
Bob
$800 [6]
Mr. Jones left Detroit at 9:00. One hour later he landed in Chicago--where the clock still said 9:00. He had entered...
the Central time zone
Damon
$800 [22]
Edward Seaga, Michael Manley & P.J. Patterson have all held this highest Jamaican political post
Prime Minister
Bob
$800 [18]
"It is better to be feared than loved", opined this Italian political thinker in the 16th century
Machiavelli
Bob Damon
$800 [14]
The naval isolation of a port to prevent the exit & entrance of traffic
a blockade
Bob
$1,200 [10]
The configuration of these in an atom is usually given for the ground state, not the excited state
electrons
Bob
$1,200 [28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from atop a surfboard on an artificial wave machine.) The name of this sport combines snowboarding with something you just learn to gowith
flowboarding
Kate Damon
$1,200 [7]
Peace & harmony reign in a land without ICBMs; perhaps someday, like New Zealand & Berkeley, the world will be a...
nuclear free zone
Bob
$1,200 [23]
In 1991 Jamaican pianist Monty Alexander helped her create "Unforgettable", a tribute to her father
Natalie Cole
Kate
$1,200 [19]
Don't be afraid, it's only this, the larger of Mars' 2 moons
Phobos
Bob
$1,200 [15]
The state of being married
wedlock
Bob
$1,600 [9]
Iron, cobalt & this silver-white next metal up on the periodic table share similar chemical properties
nickel
Damon
$1,600 [29]
Ol' Moondoggie knows this 5-letter term for the cord that attaches the board to a surfer via a Velcro strap
a leash
$1,600 [11]
A ship adrift in a passage between the Caribbean & the Pacific, in an area abolished 25 years ago. Where else but...
the canal zone
Bob
$1,600 [24]
Alfred Valentine is a famous Jamaican bowler in this sport, taking over 100 wickets in 36 matches
cricket
Bob
$1,600 [20]
According to Psalm 111, "The fear of " this "is the beginning of wisdom"
the Lord (God accepted)
Damon
$2,000 [17]
Socrates' last beverage
hemlock
Bob
$2,000 [8]
Number of hydrogen atoms it takes to equal the weight of one carbon atom
12
Bob
$2,000 [30]
When you're inside a wave's hollow but still riding, you're said to be in this "colorful" waiting area
the green room
$2,000 [12]
Neutral yet tense, heavily mined despite its name. When you're in neither the north or south, brace yourself for...
the demilitarized zone
Damon
$2,000 [25]
From a 300-year-old recipe Jamaican scientist Dr. Kenneth Evans helped bring this coffee liqueur to market
Tia Maria
Kate
DD $4,600 [21]
A deep philosophical & existential dread, it's the German word for "fear"
Angst
Damon
DD $4,000 [16]
Obsolete firearm type in which a piece of quartz ignites the gunpowder
a flintlock
Bob

Final Jeopardy!

MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS

Its name is from the Greek for "to bind", which in turn may come from the Egyptian shesep-ankh, "living image"

the sphinx

Damon "What are Bians" — wagered $10,200
Bob "What is Sepulchre?" — wagered $4,199

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