Show #5877 2010-03-16 (taped 2009-12-16) Regular

Contestants

Amanda Baber — a project assistant originally from Edmond, Oklahoma

Jayson Johnson — a systems analyst from Charlotte, North Carolina

Rachel Pildis — a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Rachel $2,600 $2,400 $11,800 $16,000
2nd place: $2,000
$14,800
15 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Jayson $3,000 $6,800 $12,600 $1,500
3rd place: $1,000
$11,200
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Amanda $3,000 $6,900 $15,300 $25,200
New champion: $25,200
$14,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN PRESIDENT: THE SOAP OPERA FILM TITLES IN FOREIGN LANDS WHERE THE WILD THINGS WERE THE SHARED LOUISIANA PARISH NAME FOOTWEAR BROKE-DOWN WORDS
$200 [6]
It was all coming apart. The VP from Maryland had resigned. Congress was coming after him. Pray with me, Henry, he said
Nixon
Amanda
$200 [16]
In Romania, this Nicole Kidman film was called "What New Magic Tricks My Wife Did"
Bewitched
Rachel Amanda
$200 [1]
In prehistoric times 10 foot tall "terror birds" ranged over much of this continent, including Patagonia
South America
Jayson
$200 [21]
Benjamin, Sir John, Aretha
Franklin
Jayson
$200 [11]
An infant's knitted or crocheted sock worn as an indoor shoe
bootie
Jayson
$200 [26]
My 1-2-3 letter is the stone of a fruit & my 4-5-6-7 is a season
pitfall
Amanda
$400 [7]
Things were good. Economy, strong. His country, at peace. But now Ken Starr was asking Reno for more power...
(Bill) Clinton
Jayson
$400 [17]
Michael J. Fox voiced this "Smart Little Mouse" in China & " "Naughty Mouse" in Egypt
Stuart Little
Jayson
$400 [2]
The shamainu or Honshu type of this canine, died out early in the 20th century
wolf
$400 [22]
Marbury v., Oscar, Square Garden
Madison
Jayson
$400 [12]
Also called zoris, they're backless rubber sandals with a thong between the first 2 toes
a flip-flop
Rachel
$400 [27]
My 1-2-3 is a basenji or borzoi and my 4-5-6-7-8-9-10 was Mike Piazza's position
dogcatcher
Jayson
$600 [8]
7 of the 15 slave states had seceded, but he simply let them go. & would he ever find the right gal to marry? (Nope)
Buchanan
Jayson
$600 [18]
This Adam Sandler football film was "Crazy Match in Prison" in Hong Kong; in Sweden, "Bonesquashing Mob--Crush 'Em"
The Longest Yard
Jayson
$600 [3]
Though specimens still exist in zoos, the Barbary lion, native to the north of this continent, is extinct in the wild
Africa
Rachel
$600 [23]
Jesse, Robert H., Stonewall
Jackson
Amanda
$600 [13]
Used in fishing and hunting, they're named for the activity of walking into water
waders
Jayson
$600 [28]
My 1-2-3-4-5 was British host David & my 6-7-8-9 means "to wound with the teeth"
frostbite
Amanda
$800 [9]
First Teapot Dome, & now Daugherty, his A.G., was on trial for shady dealings; he kept feeling that the end was near
Warren Harding
Rachel
$800 [19]
Switzerland messed with this Adam Sandler title, calling it "For Your Hair Only"; Spain had a "License to Comb"
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
$800 [4]
The Xerces Blue of this insect, native to sand dunes in San Francisco's Sunset District, became extinct in the 1940s
butterflies
Rachel
$800 [24]
Ethan, Paul, Woody
Allen
Jayson
$800 [14]
A wooden shoe traditionally worn in Holland
clog
Amanda
$800 [29]
My 1-2-3-4 is what a bad golfer yells & my 5-6-7-8-9-10 follows him on a sunny day
foreshadow
Amanda
$1,000 [10]
The President was dead. He was top dog now. & he had a Nobel Peace Prize to win, & a canal to build in Central America
Teddy Roosevelt
Jayson
$1,000 [20]
Folks in Greece know this Eddie Murphy film as "Daddies as Nannies"
Daddy Day Care
$1,000 [5]
The bulldog rat disappeared around 1900 from this Aussie-owned island named for a holiday
Christmas Island
Amanda
$1,000 [25]
Ex-Senator Chafee, Senator Blanche, Tunnel
Lincoln
Jayson
$1,000 [15]
Casual slip-on shoes with flaps on the front of the tongues sometimes used to hold a coin
a penny loafer
Amanda
DD $1,500 [30]
My 1-2-3 is active hostility between nations & my 4-5-6-7 is a gated chamber in a canal or dam
warlock
Amanda

Double Jeopardy! Round

OUR GEOMETRIC WORLD BARTENDING PICTURE BOOK TITLE ANIMALS PHILOSOPHIC IDEAS WATCHING THE DETECTIVES "MON"-OTONY
$400 [11]
Each point on this line is 1,624 miles from the North Pole
the Arctic Circle
Rachel Jayson
$400 [16]
Use the kosher type of this, not iodized, to rim glasses
salt
Jayson
$400 [1]
"The Very Hungry ____"
Caterpillar
Jayson Amanda
$400 [4]
It's the direct apprehension of knowledge without the application of reason; a woman's is said to be pretty good
intuition
Rachel
$400 [9]
From 1974 to 1980 we watched this title guy drive his sweet Firebird to his even sweeter Malibu trailer (& catch bad guys)
Rockford
Amanda
$400 [22]
Display device for a computer
a monitor
Amanda
$800 [12]
Mike Tyson & U2 have both done their thing at this arena in Memphis, Tennessee
Pyramid Arena
$800 [17]
To create a rainbow with different colored cordials, pour each one slowly over this utensil, rounded side up
spoon
Rachel
$800 [2]
"If You Give a ____ a Cookie"
Mouse
$800 [5]
The belief that we cannot know whether or not God exists
agnosticism
Rachel
$800 [10]
From 1980 to 1988 we watched this title guy drive his sweet Ferrari to his even sweeter Hawaiian pad (& catch bad guys)
Magnum
Rachel
$800 [23]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a script and declaims.) In the name of all the gods & the power of all that is in me, I declare it's another name for a soliloquy
a monologue
Rachel
$1,200 [13]
The Jan. 1, 1996 surrender of drug lord Khun Sa was a blow to the Asian trafficking area named the Golden This
Triangle
Rachel
$1,200 [18]
At a meal, a wine glass should only be filled halfway so the wine can be swirled to appreciate this 7-letter quality
bouquet
Amanda
$1,200 [3]
"Make Way for ____"
Ducklings
Rachel
$1,200 [6]
In ancient times, the 4 basic constituent elements of the physical world
wind, earth, fire and water
Jayson
$1,200 [19]
From 1963 to 1967, America watched Detective Gerard chase his quarry on this series (& rooted against him the whole time)
The Fugitive
Amanda
$1,200 [24]
It's a sequence of overlapping film clips edited for effect
a montage
Jayson
$1,600 [14]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In a 1986 confrontation, Libyan leader Khaddafi said no U.S. ships would be allowed past the mouth of the Gulf of Sidra, drawing what he called this 3-word phrase
the Line of Death
$2,000 [28]
Thistype of beer glass is named for a style of beer
pilsner
Rachel
$1,600 [29]
"Harry the Dirty ____"
Dog
Jayson
$2,000 [8]
David Hume held this view, that sense & experience are the sole foundation of knowledge
empiricism
Amanda
$1,600 [20]
In 2009 we watched this tall guy replace Chris Noth on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent"
Jeff Goldblum
Amanda
$1,600 [25]
It's another term for a nickname, Shorty
moniker
Jayson
$2,000 [15]
"Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell" this, between the Haymarket & Charing Cross Road
Leicester Square
Rachel
DD $3,000 [27]
Unlike liqueurs, this type of spirit flavored with herbs & roots is unsweetened, as you can gather from the name
bitters
Rachel
$2,000 [30]
"Is Your Momma a ____?"
Llama
DD $3,000 [7]
Look! It's this advanced ideal being described in the works of Nietzsche
superman
Jayson
$2,000 [21]
Got HBO? You can watch Jason Schwartzman play a Brooklyn writer turned P.I. on this show
Bored to Death
Amanda
$2,000 [26]
The only members of this group of mammals are the echidnas & the platypus
the monotremes
Rachel

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS AMERICANS

About him F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "In the spring of '27, something bright and alien flashed across the sky..."

Charles Lindbergh

Rachel "Who was Lindburgh?" — wagered $4,200
Jayson "Who was Hemingway?" — wagered $11,100
Amanda "Who was Charles Lindbergh" — wagered $9,900

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