Show #5875 2010-03-12 (taped 2009-12-16) Regular

Contestants

Sarah Rubin — a clinical research coordinator from Somerville, Massachusetts

Robert Knecht Schmidt — a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio

Cyd Musni — a customer care representative from Orlando, Florida (whose 2-day cash winnings total $42,398)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Cyd $3,200 $4,600 $11,000 $1,000
3rd place: $1,000
$8,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Robert $4,000 $10,600 $17,400 $12,799
New champion: $12,799
$16,200
23 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Sarah $0 $600 $2,600 $2,577
2nd place: $2,000
$4,600
7 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

1961 SONG VERBS STOCK SYMBOLS YOU'VE GOT YOUR BORDERS FOUND IN THEJEOPARDY!ATTIC 5-SYLLABLE WORDS
$200 [6]
On August 4 he was born in Honolulu, & he has the papers to prove it
Obama
Cyd
$200 [16]
Dionne Warwick:"I ____ A Little Prayer"
Say
Robert
$200 [30]
Oreos, Jell-O & Planters peanuts are treats from this company, KFT
Kraft
Robert
$200 [21]
It better stay neutral--France, Italy, Austria & Germany have it surrounded
Switzerland
Cyd
$200 [1]
On his last trip to Greece, Johnny picked up this wind instrument; someday, I'll take lessons
a pan flute
Robert
$200 [11]
From the Greek for "thief", it's someone who suffers from an irresistible impulse to steal
a kleptomaniac
Robert
$400 [7]
On January 3 the U.S. severed diplomatic relations with this nation
Cuba
Cyd
$400 [17]
Nelly, P. Diddy & Murphy Lee:"____ Ya Tailfeather"
Shake
Cyd
$400 [29]
If you're in the market for a backhoe loader (& who isn't?), CAT, this company, may have what you need
Caterpillar
Robert
$400 [22]
To the west, Louisiana; to the east, Alabama
Mississippi
Sarah
$400 [2]
If the heat goes out, we could always burn our piece of this hard, high-carbon type of coal
anthracite
Cyd
$400 [12]
As an adjective, this word can refer to a document drawn up in 1787; as a noun, it means a healthy walk
a constitutional
Robert
$600 [8]
In his January 17 farewell address, he warned about the dangers of the "military-industrial complex"
Eisenhower
Cyd
$600 [18]
Young M.C.:"____ A Move"
Bust
Robert
$600 [28]
This company's symbol is MMM; don't overthink it
3M
Robert
$600 [23]
To the east, Argentina; to the west, the Pacific
Chile
Robert
$600 [3]
Home run--the bobblehead seenhereof this former national league manager will get something on eBay, right?
(Tommy) Lasorda
Cyd
$600 [13]
Adjective for a condition not suitable for surgery
inoperable
Robert
$800 [9]
On February 9 they made their first appearance at the Cavern Club
The Beatles
Robert
$800 [19]
Crowded House:"Don't ____ It's Over"
Dream
Sarah
$800 [27]
Can you hear me now? VZ is this company
Verizon
Cyd
$1,000 [25]
To the west, Thailand; to the east, Vietnam; to the south, Cambodia
Laos
Robert
$800 [4]
Mmm, apecan log roll from this chain of restaurants with over 200 interstate locations--anyone hungry?
Stuckey's
$800 [14]
Traditionally, these waters are within 3 miles of a country's coast
territorial
Robert
$1,000 [10]
While in Paris with the Kirov Ballet, this dancer requested asylum in France
Rudolf Nureyev
$1,000 [20]
Sheryl Crow:"____ Up The Sun"
Soak
Sarah
$1,000 [26]
This energy company, XOM, gives me gas
Exxon Mobil
Robert
DD $2,000 [24]
To the south, Israel; to the east, Syria; to the west, the Mediterranean
Lebanon
Robert
$1,000 [5]
Some diehard "Jeopardy!" Democrat still has the pin seen here from this election year
1988
Robert
$1,000 [15]
This type of physics uses mathematical models & abstractions rather than experimentation
theoretical
Cyd

Double Jeopardy! Round

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES POP CULTURE LUTHER "BUR" BANK CALIFORNIA YOU SAY POTATO
$400 [29]
More than 542,000 complaints flooded this agency after the 2004 broadcast of the Super Bowl halftime show
the FCC
Cyd
$400 [1]
Olivia Colewas one of the 9 Emmy winners for this '70s broadcasting phenomenon
Roots
Cyd
$400 [30]
Martin Luther contradicted Clement VI's "Unigentus Dei Filius", this 4-letter type of document
a bull
Cyd
$400 [6]
On its southwest this nation borders the Bay of Bengal
Burma
Robert
$400 [25]
The first Spanish mission in California was established in 1769 in what is now this city near the Mexican border
San Diego
Cyd
$400 [11]
Presbyterian Minister Henry Spalding planted the first potatoes in this state in 1837
Idaho
Robert
$800 [28]
In 2008 this agency issued a warning against eating certain frozen mussel products imported from Ireland
the FDA
Cyd
$800 [2]
In "Pillow Talk" to romance Doris Day he pretends to be a Texan named Rex Stetson
Rock Hudson
Cyd
$800 [27]
Martin Luther spoke of Aristotle & this man of Ockham as "his teachers"
William (of Ockham)
$800 [7]
A plain-woven fabric of jute or hemp
burlap
Sarah
$800 [24]
The "Almanac of Famous People" lists 1 person born in this desert resort, 56 who died there, including Zeppo Marx
Palm Springs
Robert
$800 [12]
On average a potato contains 3 grams of protein, 23 grams of carbohydrates & this many grams of fat
zero
Robert
$1,200 [13]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Brookhaven National Laboratory.) Department of Energy scientists at Brookhaven are prepping cell samples for a lab that simulates the environment of space in partnership with this government agency
NASA
Sarah
$1,200 [3]
AKA Mr. Gwen Stefani, this former singer for Bush put out a solo CD in 2008 called "Wanderlust"
Gavin Rossdale
Sarah
$1,600 [19]
Luther responded to claims of heresy at a diet held in this German city in 1521
Worms
Cyd
$1,200 [8]
In this ordinal type of injury, only the epidermis is affected
a first-degree burn
Sarah
$1,200 [23]
In 1926 Zane Grey built a home on this island off Los Angeles where he spent most of the rest of his life
Catalina Island
Robert
$1,200 [14]
Use red spuds & leave the skin on & you get this dish that adds 1 letter to a classic comfort food
smashed potatoes
Sarah
$1,600 [17]
Things got more explosive at this bureau: though still abbreviated ATF, its full name includes "Explosives"
Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms
Robert
$1,600 [4]
This 2008 movie with Ed Harris & Viggo Mortensen as lawmen is a real horse opera
Appaloosa
$2,000 [20]
The 95 Theses were partly inspired by anger at the attempts to get the faithful to buy these, freeing them from punishment
indulgences
Robert
DD $2,000 [9]
This adventure author penned "Beyond the Farthest Star"
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Sarah
$1,600 [21]
The California poppy is the state's official flower & this tough critter is the official state animal
the grizzly bear
Cyd Robert Sarah
$1,600 [15]
Potatoes arrived in North America in 1621 when 2 chests of them were sent from Bermuda to this Virginia colony
Jamestown
Robert
$2,000 [18]
The Department of the Interior administers the BLM, the Bureau of this
Land Management
Robert
$2,000 [5]
During WWII this "All-American Boy" of radio drama helped track down Nazi spies & traitors
Jack Armstrong
DD $4,000 [26]
After deeming his writings heretical, Pope Leo X gave Luther 60 days to do this, from the Latin for "sing again"
recant
Cyd
$2,000 [10]
He surrendered at Saratoga on October 17, 1777
John Burgoyne
$2,000 [22]
This 10,400-foot peak in Shasta County is one of the few active volcanoes in the U.S. outside of Alaska
Lassen Peak
$2,000 [16]
More than a million died in the Irish Potato Famine that started in this 19th Century decade
1840s

Final Jeopardy!

FILM LEGENDS

His only competitive Oscar win was for Best Score in 1973 for a 1952 film in which he had starred as a washed-up comic

Charlie Chaplin

Sarah "Who is Rodney Dangerfield?" — wagered $23
Cyd "Who is Keenan Wynn" — wagered $10,000
Robert "Who is Milton Berle" — wagered $4,601

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