Show #5884 2010-03-25 (taped 2010-01-13) Regular

Regina Robbins game 3.

Contestants

Sean Burns — an assistant chorale director and test prep instructor from Hatfield, Pennsylvania

Susan Malmo — an English professor from Waddell, Arizona

Regina Robbins — an arts teacher from New York, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $57,901)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Regina $2,200 $3,400 $10,600 $21,200
3-day champion: $79,101
$10,600
11 R, 3 W
Susan $1,400 $4,400 $10,400 $20,600
2nd place: $2,000
$10,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Sean $3,800 $5,200 $10,800 $399
3rd place: $1,000
$11,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS WEAK RHYMES PHYSICS QUIZ MY NAME IS GEORGE I'M UNEMPLOYED & I LIVE WITH MY PARENTS
$200 [11]
The Palace of Nations, the League's headquarters, was built on land next to this Swiss lake
Geneva
Regina
$200 [1]
A computer nerd
a geek
Sean
$200 [14]
In air at a temperature of 32 degrees Fahrenheit, it travels 1,087 feet per second
sound
Sean
$200 [6]
This musician & 3 other lads won an Oscar for Best Music, Original Song Score for 1970's "Let It Be"
George Harrison
Susan
$200 [18]
She finished her first novel about a magical 11-year-old orphan while she was an unemployed teacher in Edinburgh
(J.K.) Rowling
Susan
$200 [23]
I'm sure Mom won't mind; I had the last chicken & garlic box of this "San Francisco treat"
Rice-A-Roni
Sean
$400 [12]
The League was dissolved in April of this year; the United Nations charter had been ratified the previous October
1946
Susan
$400 [2]
To run naked in a public place
to streak
Regina
$400 [15]
When this man developed his temperature scale in 1742, he set it where water boils at 0 & freezes at 100 degrees
Celsius
Regina Sean
$400 [7]
Meet this TV guy... his boy Elroy... daughter Judy... Jane, his wife--he never could "stop this crazy thing!"
George Jetson
Sean
$400 [19]
The website of the California DWC, the Division of Workers' this, has a link to "when I get hurt on the job"
Compensation
Regina
$400 [25]
Uh, Dad? I kinda crashed your Land Cruiser SUV made by this car co.; the 2009 model starts at nearly $65,000; I'm a little short
Toyota
Susan
$600 [13]
When established, the League had only 2 nations from Africa: South Africa & this one founded in 1847
Liberia
Sean
$600 [3]
The most striking feature on a puffin is this colorful body part
the beak
Sean
$800 [17]
Alliterative term for the state of a body in midair acted on by nothing but gravity
free-falling
Susan
$600 [8]
In 1919 this composer wrote his first successful popular song, "Swanee"
George Gershwin
Sean
$600 [20]
The nation's unemployment rate was 25% when FDR took his first presidential oath of office in this year
1933
Susan Sean
$600 [28]
Maaaaaa! We're out of this bathroom tissue Mr. Whipple always said to "Please don't squeeze"! Maaaaaa!
the Charmin
Sean
$800 [26]
In March 1920 the U.S. Senate did not ratify this treaty that created the League of Nations
the Treaty of Versailles
Regina
$800 [4]
Tall East Indian timber tree with durable, hard wood
the teak
Susan
$1,000 [24]
Named for the British physicist, Hawking radiation is a weak force emitted by these
black holes
$800 [9]
His reported salary for co-writing, directing & starring in "Good Night, and Good Luck" was $1
George Clooney
Sean
$800 [21]
"On" this state, "On" this state that adopted the first unemployment insurance law in the U.S.! Fight on for her fame!
Wisconsin
Susan
$1,000 [27]
In 1922 the League's World Court held its first session in this city
The Hague
$1,000 [5]
Originally referring to smoke, it means to smell offensively bad
to reek
Regina
DD $1,200 [16]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew drops a cork and a glass marble into two separate bowls of water.) If an object floats, it displaces water equal to its mass; if it sinks, it displaces water equal to this
its volume
Sean
$1,000 [10]
This singer guested as himself in a 1986 episode of "The A-Team"; do you really want to hurt him & not know his name?
Boy George
Regina
$1,000 [22]
In 2007 CBS Radio fired this broadcaster after his controversial comments about the women's hoops team at Rutgers
(Don) Imus
Susan

Double Jeopardy! Round

HOW'S YOUR CONSTITUTION? ATHLETIC EYEWEAR "O", 'BAMA PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES NAME THE POET DICT. ABBREV.
$400 [6]
Article VI says no test of this can be required for any public office (the Brits had had trouble with test acts)
religion
$400 [26]
In 2008 Cuba's bespectacled Dayron Robles leaped to glory with a world record in the 110-meter these
the hurdles
Sean
$400 [9]
Fittingly, this juicy-sounding "Beach" is right next to the Florida border
Orange Beach
Regina
$400 [8]
At the Smithsonian you can see this plane in which Charles Lindbergh made his historic flight across the Atlantic
the Spirit of St. Louis
Susan
$400 [1]
"Fleas": "Adam had 'em"
(Ogden) Nash
Sean
$400 [13]
A part of speech: prep.
a preposition
Susan
$800 [7]
The 8th amendment told the courts they couldn't impose excessive fines nor require excessive amounts of this
bail
Regina
$800 [27]
After wearing specs throughout an illustrious PGA career, Tom Kite had this surgery in 1998
Lasik
Sean
$800 [10]
This city's name is the singular version of a mountain range in Arkansas
Ozark
Sean
$800 [22]
The Ann Rutledge, a train that ran between Chicago & Kansas City, was named for an early love of this president
Abraham Lincoln
Susan
$800 [2]
"Day after day, day after day, / We stuck, no breath or motion; / As idle as a painted ship / Upon a painted ocean"
Coleridge
Susan
$800 [16]
Another way to shorten: contr.
a contraction
Regina
$1,200 [11]
Article III is specifically concerned with the establishment of this branch of government
the judiciary
$1,200 [28]
He's the late, graceful American star athlete seen here
Arthur Ashe
Susan
DD $1,200 [14]
Population 100, it shares its name with a Tennessee city famous in atomic history
Oak Ridge
Susan
$1,200 [23]
In 2008 Chevy offered a special 50th anniversary edition of this classic sedan
the Impala
$1,200 [3]
"I taste a liquor never brewed--/ From tankards scooped in Pearl--/ Not all the vats on the Rhine / Yield such an alcohol"
(Emily) Dickinson
Susan
$1,200 [17]
Not a comment on originality, but for etymology: der.
a derivative (derivation accepted)
Sean
DD $1,600 [12]
Article II section 2 allows the president to grant pardons except in cases of this, to which section 4 makes him liable
impeachment
Sean
$1,600 [29]
In 1977 this Miami field general became the first NFL quarterback to wear glasses on the field
Bob Griese
$1,600 [15]
In Alabama there's one just north of Tuscumbia; in California, it's a neighbor of San Francisco
Oakland
Regina
$1,600 [24]
Amtrak's Downeaster runs between Boston & this city, the largest in its state
Portland
$1,600 [4]
"One short sleep past, we wake eternally, / And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die"
John Donne
Sean
$1,600 [18]
A grammatical case: nom.
the nominative
Susan
$2,000 [20]
The constitution's last & shortest article, it spells out the ratification process
the seventh
Sean
$2,000 [21]
Population 500, it hunts in a large constellation
Orion
Regina
$2,000 [25]
In 2001 NASA's solar-powered plane named for this Greek sun god reached a record altitude of 96,863 feet
Helios
Regina Sean
$2,000 [5]
"Daddy, I have had to kill you. You died before I had time"
(Sylvia) Plath
Regina
$2,000 [19]
The mood of a verb: subj.
subjunctive
Sean

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. TOURISM

You can reach this town's convention & visitors bureau by calling 1-TOMANDHUCK

Hannibal, Missouri

Susan "What is Hannibal, MO?" — wagered $10,200
Regina "What is Hannibal, MO?" — wagered $10,600
Sean "What is Steamboat Springs?" — wagered $10,401

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