Show #5882 2010-03-23 (taped 2010-01-12) Regular

Regina Robbins game 1.

Contestants

Colin McLain — a law student originally from Cape Girardeau, Missouri

Regina Robbins — an arts teacher from New York, New York

Kristian Zoerhoff — a computer engineer from Gilberts, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $34,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kristian $3,200 $7,600 $19,200 $38,399
2nd place: $2,000
$19,200
26 R, 0 W
Regina $4,400 $7,200 $20,000 $38,500
New champion: $38,500
$18,000
19 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Colin $600 $1,400 $8,200 $15,700
3rd place: $1,000
$10,200
9 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN MUSICIANS PHONING IT IN PLACES IN LITERATURE CAR CULTURE ON THE "BALL"
$200 [1]
On Oct. 23, 1956 Hungarians protested against the USSR in this capital; police fired on the crowd
Budapest
Kristian
$200 [13]
After a near-death experience, this singer converted to the Islamic faith and took a new name: Yusuf Islam
Cat Stevens
Regina
$200 [8]
It's an operator-assisted call in which charges are paid by the receiving party
a collect call
Kristian
$200 [6]
Jean Valjean's flight through Paris' sewers is one of the most famous scenes in this novel
Les Miserables
Colin
$200 [27]
Because of slow sales, this company shut down plants that made the Denali & Trailblazer SUVs
General Motors
Kristian Colin
$200 [18]
London schoolchild Paul Barker was one of these for the 2006 final between Roger Federer & Rafael Nadal
a ballboy
Regina
$400 [2]
Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia were among the republics of this country
Yugoslavia
Colin
$400 [14]
In October of 1992 "Saturday Night Live" expected this singer to merely hold up a photo of a child; they were wrong
Sinéad O'Connor
Kristian
$400 [9]
This hyphenated adjective refers to a phone call requiring no additional fee beyond the basic service charge
toll-free
Regina
$400 [7]
Chicago's Packingtown is the scene of this muckraking novel
The Jungle
Kristian
$400 [28]
The Fortwo is a model of this little putt-putt, the "intelligent" choice in low-emission transportation
Smart
Kristian
$400 [20]
Proverbially, everything, especially if it's from Madame Tussaud's
a ball of wax
Colin
$600 [3]
Iron curtain alliances included the Warsaw Pact & the CMEA, the "Council for Mutual" this type of "Assistance"
Economic
Kristian
$600 [19]
8 years after this duo was stripped of its Grammy, Rob Pilatus was found dead in a German hotel room
Milli Vanilli
Kristian
$600 [15]
Often used in business, it's a multi-person call involving 3 or more phone lines
a conference call
Kristian
$600 [10]
This house on the moors in Yorkshire had "Earnshaw" carved over the door
Wuthering Heights
Regina
$600 [29]
This Korean company recently introduced a Sonata hybrid
Hyundai
Kristian
$600 [25]
A type of hammer used for beating metal
a ball-peen hammer
Colin
$800 [4]
Russia helped this country regain control of Sofia from the Ottomans in 1878; the Communists dominated by 1948
Bulgaria
Kristian
$800 [24]
In 2000 Melissa Etheridge finally revealed who was the father of her children: this singer
David Crosby
Regina
$800 [16]
Reflecting the company's activities at its founding in 1885, it was the second "T" in AT&T
Telegraph
Kristian
$1,000 [12]
With the help of his wife O-Lan, Wang Lung goes from peasant to rich landowner in China in this novel
The Good Earth
Regina
$800 [30]
Autoweek says the Viper from this car maker is fun, intimidating & flamboyant
Dodge
Kristian
$800 [26]
This "Six Feet Under" creator's career is far from dead; he brought "True Blood" to HBO
Alan Ball
Regina
$1,000 [5]
The liberal 1968 reforms of Czechoslovakia's Alexander Dubcek are known by this "seasonal" 2-word term
the Prague Spring
Regina
$1,000 [23]
Determination prevails: after losing an arm in a car accident, Rick Allen still rocks the drums in this band
Def Leppard
Regina
$1,000 [17]
To dial international numbers from the U.S., begin with this 3-digit prefix
011
Kristian
DD $1,200 [11]
This saucy Defoe title character was born in Newgate Prison
Moll Flanders
Regina
$1,000 [22]
Since its launch in 1974, this "sport"y VW model has ruled the sales charts in Germany
the Golf
$1,000 [21]
Named foritshabit of curling up, it's the snake seen here
ball python

Double Jeopardy! Round

BODIES OF WATER MAKING OVERTURES LETTERS POLICE ABBREV. BAD GUYS HERE COME THE "COP"S
$400 [6]
The Azores are found in this ocean
Atlantic
Kristian
$400 [8]
Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture" was written as a thank you for having this conferred on him
honorary degree
$400 [9]
"I Love You, Ronnie" is a collection of letters to his wife Nancy
Ronald Reagan
Regina
$400 [7]
Whether it's CSI or CSU, the CS stands for this
crime scene
Regina
$400 [23]
In "Scarface", this actor terrorized Miami as the coke-fueled crime lord Tony Montana
Al Pacino
Kristian
$400 [26]
This element is the second-best conductor of electricity
copper
Kristian
$800 [5]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1964, activity in this arm of the South China Sea led to increased U.S. troops in Vietnam
the Gulf of Tonkin
Kristian
$800 [27]
The first music the Chicago Symphony played was this German opera master's little-known "A Faust Overture"
Wagner
Regina
$800 [10]
In a 1783 letter to Josiah Quincy, he wrote "There was never a good war or a bad peace"
Benjamin Franklin
Regina
$800 [16]
If a policeman says he wasn't greeted at the door because the occupant was DOA, he's abbreviating these 3 words
dead on arrival
Kristian
$800 [18]
Forget Hannibal Lecter; Buffalo Bill is the bad guy who keeps his victims in a pit in this movie
The Silence of the Lambs
Kristian
$800 [25]
"Feline" imitator
copycat
Kristian
$1,600 [2]
This strategically important channel connects the Persian Gulf & the Gulf of Oman
Strait of Hormuz
Kristian
$1,200 [28]
One of this composer's classic opera overtures is heard here
Mozart
$1,600 [4]
Before he began courting, he wrote in an 1845 letter, "I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett"
Robert Browning
Kristian
$1,200 [15]
The M.E. says the C.O.D. is bad clams, C.O.D. meaning this
cause of death
Kristian
$1,200 [22]
This character is the crazy, relentless killer in the "Halloween" movies
Michael Myers
Regina
$1,200 [24]
Spelled one way, it's an ad agency worker; spelled another, it's a person registering his work with the government
a copywriter/copyrighter
Kristian
DD $2,000 [1]
The Gulf of California is also known as the Sea of this man who reached that gulf in 1535
Cortez
Colin
$1,600 [29]
Do I hear a waltz in Franz von Suppe's overture "Morning, Noon and Night in" this city?
Vienna
Colin
$2,000 [12]
In 1897 she wrote, "Dear Editor: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus"
Virginia
Colin
$1,600 [13]
GSR means this kind of residue, perhaps on a perp's hand
gun shot
Kristian
$1,600 [19]
Jack Torrance is the writer & axeman who goes mad at an off-season hotel in this 1980 film
The Shining
Colin
$1,600 [20]
Christian sect principally found in Egypt
Coptics
Colin
$2,000 [3]
The Loire flows into this bay that is also called the Gulf of Gascony
the Bay of Biscay
Colin
$2,000 [30]
This "marital" Smetana opera has the zesty overture heard here
The Bartered Bride
Regina
DD $2,800 [11]
In the late '40s a mother wrote to this artist that his picture "Number Nine" looked like some of her son's finger painting
Jackson Pollock
Regina
$2,000 [14]
A criminal's method of operating (or M.O.) sounds much cooler when it's this Latin phrase
modus operandi
Regina
$2,000 [17]
Robert De Niro & Robert Mitchum both played Max Cady, out to get revenge in the 2 versions of this film
Cape Fear
Regina
$2,000 [21]
A well-known exampleof this painter's work is seen here
(John Singleton) Copley
Regina

Final Jeopardy!

THE 50 STATES

Benjamin Harrison had the admission orders shuffled, so no one knows which of these 2 states was 39th & which was 40th

North & South Dakota

Colin "What are North & South Dakota?" — wagered $7,500
Kristian "What are North & South Dakota?" — wagered $19,199
Regina "What are North & South Dakota?" — wagered $18,500

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