Show #5887 2010-03-30 (taped 2010-01-13) Regular

Contestants

Emily Cloyd — a climate scientist originally from Troy, Michigan

Stacy Braverman — a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C.

Manny Maldonado III — a high school chemistry teacher from Horizon City, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Manny $4,200 $3,800 $1,000 $801
2nd place: $2,000
$7,000
12 R, 6 W (including 2 DDs)
Stacy $2,400 $6,600 $15,000 $14,984
New champion: $14,984
$14,800
21 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Emily $600 $1,200 $400 $50
3rd place: $1,000
$400
10 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

I AM A BAD, BAD SURGEON FRANKENSTEIN MEXICAN FOOD ALSO A CAR RENTAL COMPANY WE NEED AN ANSWER "BUZZ" IN
$200 [8]
This 4-chambered double pump is gonna have to come out... What? Is that a problem?
a heart
Emily
$200 [26]
In 1910 this inventor's company produced the first film depicting the fabled monster
Thomas Edison
$200 [1]
"Joy of Cooking" calls it "classic Mexican avocado relish"
guacamole
Stacy
$200 [14]
Unit of frequency
Hertz
Stacy
$200 [21]
Asked how she survived the Titanic disaster, she reportedly replied, "I'm unsinkable"
Molly Brown
Stacy
$200 [2]
Using electric clippers to trim your hair down to the scalp results in one of these
a buzzcut
Stacy
$400 [9]
In your body, the small this is about 22 feet long & the long 5, but after the procedure, about 3; oops
the intestine
Stacy
$400 [27]
Once voiced by Bob McFadden, he's breakfast cereal's animated equivalent of Frankenstein
Frankenberry
$400 [13]
Similar to a cruller, this long, thin stick of sweet dough is fried & coated with sugar & cinnamon
a churro
Emily
$400 [17]
Owned, preserved or maintained by the federal government
National
Emily
$400 [22]
2-word reply by Calvin Coolidge to a woman who said she'd made a bet she could get more that 2 words out of him
"You lose."
Stacy
$400 [3]
It's actually a type of broad-winged hawk
a buzzard
Manny
$600 [10]
Each bronchus in the body leads to 1 of these organs, filled with millions of alveoli; how did I nick one during an eye exam?
a lung
Manny
$600 [28]
This name for Dr. Frankenstein's assistant didn't appear until the 1939 sequel "Son of Frankenstein"
Igor
Manny
$600 [4]
Ignacio Anaya is credited with creating this appetizer of tortilla chips topped with cheese and jalapenos
nachos
Stacy
$600 [18]
An itemized allotment of funds for a given period
Budget
Stacy
$600 [23]
It was John Paul Jones' response when asked to surrender his ship during a 1779 naval battle
"I have not yet begun to fight."
$600 [5]
A rapidly spinning steel disk with cutting teeth
a buzz saw
Manny
$800 [15]
The human this has 26 bones, including 7 tarsals; as your doctor, should I admit I just learned that today?
foot
Manny
$800 [29]
Mick Jagger wanted to play Dr. Frank-N-Furter in this 1975 film; Tim Curry got the role instead
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Stacy
$800 [11]
This specialty of Sonora is actually a burrito that's been fried
a chimichanga
Manny
$800 [19]
The first nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier
Enterprise
Stacy
$800 [24]
Asked what he did during this period in France of 1793 & '94, Father Emmanuel Sieyes simply replied, "I survived"
the Reign of Terror
Stacy Emily
$800 [6]
He teamed with Collins & Armstrong on a famous first
Buzz Aldrin
Stacy
$1,000 [16]
Hmm...this pear-shaped sac that stores as much as 2 ounces of bile at a time...you weren't overly fond of it, right?
the gallbladder
Manny Stacy
$1,000 [30]
This popmeister made the monster 3-D in 1973's "Flesh for Frankenstein"
Andy Warhol
$1,000 [12]
Touted as a hangover cure, this hearty soup made with tripe is popular on New Year's morning
menudo
Manny
DD $1,200 [20]
Latin for "bird"
Avis
Stacy
$1,000 [25]
When Oedipus answered its riddle, it killed itself
the sphinx
Emily
$1,000 [7]
An unguided jet-propelled missile used by the Germans against England in WWII
a buzz bomb

Double Jeopardy! Round

"W"RITERS THEY LEFT THEIR MARK AT GRAUMAN'S CHINESE THE SECOND LARGEST CITY HISTORIC FASHION ARE YOU HAVING A LAUGH? ECUADOR OF YORE
$400 [4]
This member of the Bloomsbury Group was born Adeline Virginia Stephen
(Virginia) Woolf
Stacy
$400 [21]
This little robot left its wheelmarks instead of footprints
R2-D2
Emily
$400 [9]
Ankara
Turkey
Emily
$400 [16]
This 19th century dress support is a synonym for excited activity; don't be alarmed if there's one in your hedgerow
a bustle
Stacy
$400 [1]
This "What are you doing?" website's name also refers to a type of nervous laugh
twitter
Emily
$800 [26]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands on a streetcar.) October 9th Street is so named because Guayaquil won independence from Spain on October 9, 1820; it was soon annexed by this man
Simon Bolivar
$800 [5]
This Holocaust survivor followed "Night" with "Dawn" & "Day"
(Elie) Wiesel
Stacy
$800 [22]
This singing cowboy left his footprints, his horse Trigger's hoofprints & an impression of his six-gun too
Roy Rogers
Manny Stacy
$800 [10]
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Emily
$800 [17]
This term for old-fashioned trousers ending just below the knee derives from a Washington Irving character
a knickerbocker
Emily
$800 [2]
A joke that elicits boisterous laughter is sometimes called this kind of "slapper"
a kneeslapper
Emily
$1,200 [27]
Guayaquilenos with sensitive noses were pleased when in 1910 vehicles powered by this replaced quaint horse-drawn trams
electricity
Emily
$1,200 [6]
This satirical novelist took a more serious turn with "Brideshead Revisited"
(Evelyn) Waugh
Stacy
$1,200 [23]
This WWII pin-up girl also left an imprint of one of her million-dollar legs
Betty Grable
Manny
$1,200 [11]
Ghent
Belgium
Manny
$1,200 [18]
These broad neckties got their name from the British racetrack where they were once de rigueur
ascots
$1,200 [3]
A sly laugh; pluralize & it's a candy bar
a snicker
Stacy
$2,000 [29]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Parque Histórico in Guayaquil, Ecuador.) The Malecón, or river walk, was rebuilt on a more grand scale after the 1896 fire, which some said was set on purpose to keep President Alfaro from moving the capital here to Guayaquil from this city
Quito
$1,600 [7]
His "The Day of the Locust" is considered one of the best novels about Hollywood
Nathanael West
DD $2,000 [24]
The 2 famous comedians' noses that made impressions
Jimmy Durante and Bob Hope
Manny
$1,600 [12]
Lahore
Pakistan
Stacy
$1,600 [19]
Popular in the mid-1800s, this tall type of silk hat is especially associated with Abraham Lincoln
the stove-pipe hat
Emily
$1,600 [14]
Switch out a vowel in a group of geese & you get this short spasmodic laugh
giggle
Manny
DD $4,000 [28]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows off a spiffy white hat.) Originally made in Ecuador, these were shipped from a country north of here, hence the name by which they're known
Panama hats
Manny
$2,000 [8]
He adapted "Le Morte D"Arthur" into a quartet of novels called "The Once and Future King"
(T.H.) White
Manny
$2,000 [25]
An imprint of the horn-rimmed glasses of this silent film star is next to his footprints
Harold Lloyd
Manny Emily
$2,000 [13]
Maracaibo
Venezuela
Manny
$2,000 [20]
The high-waisted dresses of the early 19th century were known as this style after the First French one, ruled by Napoleon
the Empire waist
Stacy
$2,000 [15]
This laugh, a combination of 2 words, was coined by Lewis Carroll in "Through the Looking Glass"
chortle
Manny Emily

Final Jeopardy!

NAVAL HEROES

When he was killed in battle in 1805, he was wearing a uniform coat with sewn-on replicas of his 4 orders of chivalry

Admiral Nelson

Emily "Who is John Paul Jones?" — wagered $350
Manny "Who is Horatio Hornblower?" — wagered $199
Stacy "Who is Farragut?" — wagered $16

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