Show #5880 2010-03-19 (taped 2010-01-12) Regular

Contestants

Kristian Zoerhoff — a computer engineer from Gilberts, Illinois

Sarah Bright — a radiology resident from Metairie, Louisiana

Jim Banks — a stockbroker and branch manager from Suffield, Connecticut (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,599)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jim $800 $3,200 $10,800 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$10,000
12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Sarah $4,600 $4,800 $8,000 $8,000
2nd place: $2,000
$8,000
15 R, 4 W
Kristian $3,800 $8,800 $21,700 $21,700
New champion: $21,700
$22,600
26 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC WOMEN ALLITERATIVE ACTORS AVOIDING A DISASTROUS TRIP TO EUROPE JEOPARDY!DRINKING GAMES SAFETY FIRST FINISH THE PALINDROME
$200 [6]
She met Napoleon after her husband Alexandre de Beauharnais was guillotined in 1794
Josephine
Kristian
$200 [1]
He went "Old School" as a "Wedding Crasher"
Vince Vaughn
Kristian
$200 [16]
Try not to leave this Greek landmark in any more of a shambles than it already is
the Parthenon
Jim Kristian
$200 [21]
Like actress Sally, this last name of 19th century U.S. department store owner Marshall is singular; add an "S"--imbibe
Field
Kristian
$200 [11]
The Boat U.S. foundation has a program at waterfronts to lend these & make sure they fit
lifejackets
Sarah
$200 [26]
"Dammit! I'm" this
mad
Sarah Kristian
$400 [7]
She was a teacher & administrator at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta for about 17 years until 1946
Mother Teresa
Sarah
$400 [2]
This "X-Files" star went to grad school at Yale but didn't finish his thesis
David Duchovny
Sarah
$400 [17]
Hitting Innsbruck or Salzburg in this country & saying "G'day, mate!" over & over will only confuse the locals
Austria
Sarah
$400 [22]
When naming this member of the 2nd triumvirate, don't add an "H" to his last name or you're talking about J. Lo's hubby
Mark Antony
Kristian
$400 [12]
BTSI technology makes you apply this when shifting out of park, so your 6-year-old can't drive off
the brakes
Kristian
$400 [27]
"Dennis and Edna" did this
sinned
$600 [8]
In 1956 this future Israeli prime minister adopted a new last name that means "to burn brightly" in Hebrew
Golda Meir
Sarah
$600 [3]
We were "Enchanted" by her performance as Delysia in "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day"
Amy Adams
Sarah
$600 [18]
If in Norway on July 18, don't inquire if it's a national holiday due to the birth of this traitor in 1887
(Vidkun) Quisling
Jim
$600 [23]
If you add the incorrect "S" to this last book of the Bible that tells of the opening of 6 seals, down a whole cup
Revelation
Sarah
$600 [13]
You're a lumberjack & you won't be okay if this item lacks a hand guard & throttle interlock
chainsaw
Sarah
$600 [28]
"No lemon, no" this
melon
Sarah Kristian
$800 [9]
In her will, this queen of Castile pleaded for just treatment of New World Indians
Isabella
Kristian
$800 [4]
This actor turned to directing & won an Oscar for his first effort--"Ordinary People"
Robert Redford
Jim
$800 [19]
Don't sneeze & use one of the 2 extant "originals" of this 1215 document at the British Library to wipe your nose
the Magna Carta
Kristian
$800 [24]
If you say the WCTU is the "Women's Christian" rather than the "Woman's Christian" this, take a non-alcoholic swig
Temperance Union
Kristian
$800 [14]
Uvex specializes in protecting these, as with its innovative Astrospec line
eyes
Sarah
$800 [29]
"Lived on decaf, faced no" this
devil
Kristian
DD $1,200 [10]
While attending Oxford in the 1940s, this Brit became president of the university Conservative Association
Margaret Thatcher
Kristian
$1,000 [5]
Getting caught in the wheels of a machine makes him go berserk in 1936's "Modern Times"
Charlie Chaplin
Sarah
$1,000 [20]
Loudly demanding only ketchup & no mustard at your meals in this capital of Burgundy... bad idea
Dijon
Jim
$1,000 [25]
Drink up if you say (incorrectly) this African-American author wrote "The Invisible Man"; he penned "Invisible Man"
Ralph Ellison
Jim
$1,000 [15]
Respirators can help prevent coal workers' pneumoconiosis, better known as this
black lung disease
Kristian
$1,000 [30]
"Drab as a fool, aloof as a" this
bard
Kristian

Double Jeopardy! Round

BERG-OPOLIS CHARACTER ASSASSINATION UNMANNED SPACE EXPLORATION BUGS BUNNY WHAT'S UP, "DOC"? BIBLICAL PAINTINGS
$400 [22]
The 108th mayor of New York City, he is a graduate of Johns Hopkins & Harvard Business School
(Michael) Bloomberg
Kristian
$400 [1]
Weakened by scarlet fever, Beth March was sentenced to death by this author
(Louisa May) Alcott
Sarah
$400 [16]
On March 6, 1986 Vega 1 became the first spacecraft to rendezvous with this comet
Halley's Comet
Jim
$400 [6]
One of the world's most recognizable characters, Bugs Bunny is a mascot of this movie studio
Warner Brothers
Sarah
$400 [11]
A nonfiction film about a factual event or person
a documentary
Jim
DD $500 [27]
In a fresco at the Sistine Chapel, Pietro Perugino depicted "The Giving of the Keys" to him
Peter
Kristian
$800 [21]
He "saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness"
Allen Ginsberg
$800 [2]
This writer didn't flat out say, "Roderick Usher's own house fell on him", but the implication is clear
(Edgar Allan) Poe
Jim
$800 [17]
In 1989 Magellan became the first probe launched from a Shuttle when Atlantis sent it on its way to this, Earth's twin
Venus
Jim
$800 [7]
He voiced Bugs in almost 200 cartoons over a 50-year period
Mel Blanc
Kristian
$800 [12]
A system of beliefs accepted as authoritative by a group's members
a doctrine
Kristian
$1,200 [28]
One of the most popular paintings at the National Gallery of Art is this surrealist's "The Sacrament of the Last Supper"
Dalí
Sarah
$1,200 [23]
We're quite sure that this German physicist won a 1932 Nobel Prize
Heisenberg
Kristian
$1,200 [3]
Air Force gunner Snowden catches some flak & dies in Yossarian's arms, courtesy of this author
(Joseph) Heller
Jim Kristian
$1,600 [19]
In 2005 the Huygens Probe landed on this largest moon of Saturn, revealing a world that rains liquid me than e
Titan
Jim Kristian
$1,200 [8]
This gun-toting nebbish tries to match wits with Bugs in classics like "Wabbit Trouble" & "What's Opera, Doc?"
Elmer Fudd
Sarah Kristian
$1,200 [13]
8-letter word for a waterfront location where ships are built & repaired
a dockyard
Sarah
$2,000 [26]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) In a 17th-century painting, Isaac, now blind in his old age, is blessing Jacob, who, you'll notice, is wearing gloves to hide the fact that he isn't this hairier brother
Esau
Kristian
$1,600 [24]
An Air Force base in California is named for this general, the second Air Force Chief of Staff
(Hoyt) Vandenberg
Kristian
$1,600 [4]
This novelist had Bull Meecham, aka "The Great Santini", go out in a plane crash
(Pat) Conroy
Sarah
DD $2,000 [18]
The most distant manmade object, this probe launched in 1977 may travel to interstellar space in 2020
Voyager
Jim
$1,600 [9]
Bugs Bunny officially debuted in the 1940 cartoon "A Wild" this
Hare
$1,600 [14]
A summary of legal cases scheduled to be heard
a docket
Jim
$2,000 [25]
His works of the 1950s like"Monogram"used found objects & bits of pop culture
Robert Rauschenberg
$2,000 [5]
He titled his book "Le Morte d'Arthur" for a reason; Art takes a sword to the "brain pan"
(Sir Thomas) Malory
Jim
$2,000 [20]
In 1976, within 3 months, 2 U.S. spacecraft by this name soft-landed on the surface of Mars
Viking
Kristian
$2,000 [10]
To help him defeat the Monstars, Bugs recruited basketball legend Michael Jordan in this 1996 film
Space Jam
Sarah
$2,000 [15]
This disparaging word for an out-of-the-way place comes from the Tagalog for "mountain"
boondocks
Kristian

Final Jeopardy!

1940s MUSIC HISTORY

While writing for Billboard, legendary producer Jerry Wexler coined this phrase to replace "race music"

rhythm & blues

Sarah "What is hip hop?" — wagered $0
Jim "What is Rock And Roll?" — wagered $10,799
Kristian "What is Jazz?" — wagered $0

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