Show #5885 2010-03-26 (taped 2010-01-13) Regular

Regina Robbins game 4.

Contestants

Huat Lim — a premedical student from Seattle, Washington

Kerry Smith — a baking and pastry art student from Midland, Michigan

Regina Robbins — an arts teacher from New York, New York (whose 3-day cash winnings total $79,101)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Regina $5,600 $7,400 $17,800 $11,599
4-day champion: $90,700
$19,000
25 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Kerry $600 $4,000 $12,000 $10,000
2nd place: $2,000
$13,000
16 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Huat $1,400 $2,400 $6,800 $1,500
3rd place: $1,000
$6,800
11 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN CAPITAL HAIKU GOOD BAD GUYS ON TV FRENCH COOKING LAST OF A DYING BREED LOGOS MUSICAL WORDS
$200 [8]
Famed for 7 hills / A forum for discussion / All roads lead to here
Rome
Regina
$200 [1]
Homer Simpson: "You're the richest guy I know"; this man: "Yes, but I'd trade it all for a little more"
(Montgomery) Burns
Huat
$200 [26]
This paper-thin creation, whether savory or sweet, means "pancake" in French
crepe
Regina
$200 [18]
"Last sightings" of this flightless bird were reported in 1662, 1674 & 1681
the dodo
Regina
$200 [2]
For just $50, this shoe company purchased the photo of the soft-eyed basset hound that would become its logo
Hush Puppies
Kerry
$200 [16]
It's a bony growth on certain animals & an instrument that really blows
a horn
Kerry
$400 [9]
Romantics all know / Rude waiters cannot obscure / "City of Light"'s glow
Paris
Regina
$400 [7]
Played by Carlos Bernard, Tony Almeida was good, then bad, then good, then really bad on this Fox drama
24
Huat
$400 [27]
A pastry shell filled with eggs, cream & other ingredients, this dish originated in the Alsace-Lorraine region
quiche
Regina
$400 [19]
It's not so gr-r-reat that the last known member of the Balinese species of this big cat was killed in 1937
a tiger
Kerry
$600 [4]
This brand of athletic wear uses the logo seen here
Under Armour
Kerry
$400 [17]
Thistype of file looks like the bellows of the same-named instrument
an accordion
Huat
$600 [10]
Pole dancing is big / A '44 uprising / Let's make a pact here
Warsaw
Regina
$600 [13]
In 1997 James Marsters rocked a Billy Idol look as Spike, a bloodsucker on this show
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Regina
$600 [28]
This seafood stew of Marseilles was originally cooked on the beach by fishermen
bouillabaisse
Regina
$600 [20]
The last quagga, a species of this with stripes limited to its head, died at the Amsterdam zoo in 1883
a zebra
Regina
$800 [5]
This brand of luggage & handbags uses the simian logo seen here; some purses come with Furry Monkey key chains
Kipling
Huat
$600 [23]
A piece of music, or a short school essay
a composition
Huat
$800 [11]
Slavic to the grind / here comes the Ukraine again / please, try the chicken!
Kiev
Kerry
$800 [14]
The Showtime website for this title character calls him "America's favorite serial killer"
Dexter
Regina
$800 [29]
This specialty of Alsace & Perigord is goose liver marinated in port & seasonings
paté foie gras
Kerry
$800 [21]
The last wild wisent, also called the European variety of this plains animal, was killed in the Caucasus in 1927
a bison
DD $1,000 [3]
Fittingly, this brand known for its vintage-inspired jeans uses a 4-leaf clover as its logo
Lucky
Kerry
$800 [24]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew performs a science experiment.) Electricity will only light the fluorescent bulb to where I put my hand, because like copper or an orchestra leader, my body is acting as this
a conductor
Regina
$1,000 [12]
Good King Wenceslas / Bohemian lifestyle / Czech out its churches
Prague
Regina
$1,000 [15]
J.K. Simmons just plain scared the heck out of us as Vern, prisoner 92S110 on this HBO drama
Oz
Regina
$1,000 [30]
As the name says, this classic dish is chicken cooked in red wine
coq au vin
Kerry
$1,000 [22]
"Booming Ben", the last Heath hen, stopped booming in 1932 on this big Massachusetts island
Martha's Vineyard
Regina
$1,000 [6]
You can check out celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe's picks at this fresh web site whose logo is seen here
Piperlime
Regina
$1,000 [25]
A laser printer writes on a photoconductive revolving this; it shares its name with a percussion instrument
a drum
Kerry

Double Jeopardy! Round

I'M GETTING TOO OLD FOR THIS STUFF REMINDS ME OF MY FIRST MARRIAGE GRAY LIKE MY PERSONALITY I SPEAK MANY TONGUES GOD BLESS YOU & ALL WHO SAIL WITH YOU
$400 [11]
At a ball, Mr. Elton annoys Jane Austen's Emma by saying he is too old to do this
dance
Huat
$400 [2]
Bruce Willis is on good terms with Ashton Kutcher & this woman, first wife of both Bruce & Ashton
Demi Moore
Kerry
$400 [21]
Elisha Gray was involved in a legal battle with Alexander Graham Bell over the invention of this device
the telephone
Regina
$400 [16]
Shhhhh... Johnny's taking one of these afternoon naps, from the Spanish for "sixth hour"
a siesta
Kerry
$400 [26]
Eriu is a celtic fertility goddess of this island named for her; Eire & Erin are corruptions of her name
Ireland
Kerry
$400 [1]
On Sept. 20, 1519 this Portuguese navigator headed west on a trip around the world
Magellan
Regina
$800 [12]
In the Bible, she tells daughter-in-law Ruth to leave her, "For I am too old" to have a husband
Naomi
Regina
$800 [3]
The public was surprised by Lyle Lovett's marriage to this actress; it was a first marriage for both
Julia Roberts
Kerry
$800 [22]
A shade of gray is named for this heavily armored class of warship
battleship
Kerry
$800 [17]
So long, farewell, good-bye; or if you prefer, you can say it this way in Japanese
sayonara
Regina
$800 [27]
The Angolan sea god Kianda is the guardian of this nearby ocean & all its creatures
the Atlantic Ocean
$800 [5]
He served at the Civil War Battle of New Orleans before becoming the USA's greatest Spanish-American War naval hero
Admiral Dewey
DD $1,500 [13]
He said, "Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for posterity" & at 83 designed an arboretum for UVa [the University of Virginia]
Thomas Jefferson
Regina
$1,200 [4]
Perhaps David Justice's first marriage, to this Oscar winner & Bond girl, was "Jinx"ed
Halle Berry
Huat
$1,200 [23]
Harold Gray created this comic strip that featured a frizzy-haired girl & a bald billionaire
Little Orphan Annie
Regina
DD $1,500 [18]
Also the name of a pasta sauce, this 5-letter Italian word can mean please, thank you, or excuse me
prego
Regina
$1,200 [28]
A Roman goddess of birth & newborns, Deverra was symbolized by one of these, used to sweep away evil
a broom
Regina
$1,200 [6]
A British Columbia city is named for this man who in 1793 surveyed the coast there
Vancouver
Huat
$1,600 [14]
Hemingway's hero Santiago thinks, "I am too old to club" these "to death. But I will try it"
the sharks
Huat
$1,600 [9]
Her first hubby was Billy Smith; she was a topless dancer when she met No. 2, oilman J. Howard Marshall, 60+ years her senior
Anna Nicole Smith
Regina
$1,600 [24]
Thomas Gray is best remembered for his "Elegy Written In A Country" one of these
a churchyard
Kerry
$1,600 [19]
Bwana means "sir" in this African language
Swahili
Huat
$1,600 [29]
The creator god Vairacocha of these people of Peru traveled the world teaching man all the arts & sciences
the Incas (Incans accepted)
Huat
$1,600 [7]
This missionary traveled down the Mississippi River with Louis Jolliet & reported the first accurate data on its course
Marquette
Kerry
$2,000 [15]
Nestor says wistfully that his days of wrestling & spear-throwing are behind him in Book 23 of this work
the Iliad
Regina Kerry
$2,000 [10]
She eloped with James DeBarge at age 18; the marriage was soon annulled & she moved back in with her parents
Janet Jackson
Regina
$2,000 [25]
In an expression from the French, someone wielding power behind the scenes is a "gray" this
eminence
Regina
$2,000 [20]
Literally "war name", this French term refers to a pseudonym adopted in times of conflict
nom de guerre
Regina
$2,000 [30]
In pre-Islamic times Qaynan was a protector god of blacksmiths on this peninsula
the Arabian Peninsula
Huat
$2,000 [8]
During World War II, newspapers gave Admiral William Halsey this animal nickname
Bull
Huat

Final Jeopardy!

PHRASE ORIGINS

In 1945 George Orwell coined this 2-word phrase for "an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity"

cold war

Huat "What is police state?" — wagered $5,300
Kerry "What is big brother?" — wagered $2,000
Regina "What is Neoclassical?" — wagered $6,201

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