Show #5895 2010-04-09 (taped 2010-01-20) Regular

Contestants

Jack Aponte — a non-profit technology consultant from Brooklyn, New York

Sarah Sumadi — a director of volunteers at a community center from Chicago, Illinois

Morgan Saxby — a research associate from Charlottesville, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $32,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Morgan $6,600 $11,000 $22,200 $8,000
2-day champion: $40,401
$26,400
32 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 2 DDs)
Sarah $0 $-400 $2,800 $4,799
2nd place: $2,000
$2,800
7 R, 3 W
Jack $1,400 $1,600 $400 $338
3rd place: $1,000
$400
9 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE 1920s SPORTS TALK A SEAFOOD GUIDE BIBLICAL BAD STUFF KNIT IT IT'S A "BUST"!
$200 [1]
Sled-dog teams that delivered serum during a 1925 diphtheria epidemic saved the town of Nome in this state
Alaska
Jack
$200 [16]
In baseball's American league, it's a player whose only job in the game is to bat for the pitcher as many times as needed
the designated hitter
Jack
$200 [21]
Popular with sushi lovers, the Atlantic bluefin this has been overfished for decades & may face extinction
tuna
Morgan
$200 [2]
Abimelech, Lamech & Cain all commit this crime
murder
Jack
$200 [26]
Orenburg in Russia is famous for knitted these, scarf-like square covers for the head & shoulders in cold winters
babushka
Morgan
$200 [11]
A breaker of wild horses
a bronco buster
Morgan
$400 [7]
In 1928 presidential candidate Al Smith went against his party's position by opposing this amendment
the 18th Amendment
Morgan
$400 [17]
Begun in 1877, it's the oldest of tennis' 4 grand slam tournaments
Wimbledon
Morgan
$400 [22]
Fishing for the slimehead, better known as the orange this, also catches & kills threatened species of deep sea sharks
roughy
Morgan
$400 [3]
This 7th of the 10 plagues returned in Munich in 1984, damaging 250,000 cars & costing $1 billion
hail
Jack
$400 [27]
Gentlemen, if you don't feel like making your own "skinny knit" these, J. Crew sells them
ties
Morgan
$400 [12]
Last-ditch Senate maneuver
a filibuster
Jack
$600 [8]
No autopsy was done after this president died in San Francisco August 2, 1923; the doctor just said it was apoplexy
Harding
Morgan
$600 [18]
The Staples Center in Los Angeles is home court to these 2 NBA teams
the Lakers and the Clippers
Sarah
$600 [23]
High-market demand has caused overfishing of the Patagonian toothfish, what we call this Chilean fish
a sea bass
Morgan
$600 [4]
For rebelling against Moses & Aaron, Dathan & Abiram were swallowed up by this
the earth
Sarah Jack
$600 [28]
This round Jewish skullcap may be hand-knitted for special occasions
a yarmulke
Morgan
$600 [13]
A close-fitting, often strapless bodice
a bustier
Sarah
$800 [9]
Among the fads of the 1920s were crosswords, dance marathons & this Chinese game that uses tiles
mah-jongg
Morgan
$800 [19]
42-pound polished stones with a handle on top are slid on ice in this sport
curling
Morgan
$800 [24]
Seafloor habitat can be damaged in harvesting this religious-sounding creature also called lawyerfish
a monkfish
Morgan
$800 [5]
Daniel tells Belshazzar, ruler of this kingdom, you've "lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven"
Babylon
Jack
$800 [29]
Make that scarf for your nephew look fancy with these on the end, from the Old French for "clasp"
tassels
$800 [14]
Black & Decker introduced this helpful household item in 1979
a DustBuster
Morgan
DD $2,800 [10]
The USA's first woman governor, Nellie Tayloe Ross, governed this "Equality State" from 1925 to 1927
Wyoming
Morgan
$1,000 [20]
What was originally the Houston Oilers is today this NFL team
the Tennessee Titans
Jack
$1,000 [25]
AKA St. Peter's fish, it suits us to a "T", having a low environmental impact when raised on U.S. farms
tilapia
Sarah
$1,000 [6]
Moloch, Ashtoreth & Baal were all Canaanite these
gods
Morgan
$1,000 [30]
A sweater called this-knit is made by repeatedly crossing one group of stitches over another for a ropy look
cable-knit
Jack
$1,000 [15]
To "come on like" this is to do something with great speed or force
gangbusters

Double Jeopardy! Round

"C" IN SCIENCE CELEBRITY MEMOIRS COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES LITERARY MATH LOOK OUT BELOW! WINNING WORDS
$400 [2]
No kidding, the name of this type of wispy cloud is from the Latin for "curl"
cirrus
Morgan Sarah
$400 [1]
In chapter one of "On The Line", she says, "I saw a picture once of Venus pushing me in a stroller on the tennis court..."
Serena Williams
Morgan
$400 [14]
A Maverick preacher & a swashbuckling Civil War General founded Drake University in this capital of Iowa
Des Moines
Morgan
$400 [9]
Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-" times Verne's "Leagues Under the Sea"
100,000
Morgan
$400 [25]
At last, we've come upon this city & its famous Cathedral
Moscow
Sarah
$400 [21]
North Korea has an arch of this that's bigger than the one in Paris
Triumph
Jack
$800 [5]
It's another name for a canine tooth
a cuspid
Morgan
$800 [3]
"The Time Of My Life" is the memoir this late actor wrote with his wife Lisa Niemi
Patrick Swayze
Sarah
$800 [15]
www.goducks.com is the official website for this West Coast school's athletics
(University of) Oregon
Morgan Jack
$800 [10]
Christie's "Little Indians" minus Tolkien's "Towers"
8
Morgan
$800 [26]
I can almost hear the music coming from this building down under
the Sydney Opera House
Jack
$800 [22]
It's said that to this person, like Mr. Borge or Mr. Garber, "belong the spoils"
the victor
Sarah
$1,200 [6]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew performs a physics demonstration.) When I swing a bucket of water, it doesn't spill because of this force that pulls it in the center & keeps it from following its path of inertia
centripetal force
Morgan Sarah
$1,200 [4]
This D-List comedian modestly titled her memoir "Official Book Club Selection"
(Kathy) Griffin
Morgan
$1,200 [16]
This University of California campus graduates more than 2,000 Banana Slugs annually
Santa Cruz
Morgan
$1,200 [11]
Bradbury's "Fahrenheit" minus Garcia Marquez' "Years of Solitude"
351
Morgan
$1,200 [28]
Look way down there--it's this Cascade Mountains body of water
Crater Lake
Morgan
$1,200 [23]
The items held by the fans seenhereindicate they are celebrating this type of decisive win
a sweep
Morgan
$1,600 [7]
The earliest period of the Paleozoic Era, it extends from about 542 to 488 million years ago
Cambrian
Jack
$1,600 [19]
The daughter of a rock legend, this former teen star told of her life of addiction in 2009's "High on Arrival"
Mackenzie Phillips
$1,600 [17]
In the '40s Enrico Fermi built a nuclear pile on a squash court at the University of this city
Chicago
Morgan
$1,600 [12]
Hanff's "Charing Cross Road" plus Heller's "Catch-"
106
$1,600 [29]
How fortunate that we're about to make landfall on this peninsula at the southwest tip of Africa
the Cape of Good Hope
Morgan
DD $2,000 [24]
It means to win; when it precedes "upon", it means to persuade
prevail
Morgan
DD $4,000 [8]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew does a demonstration with some falling water.) The two streams of water form one, because water molecules are so attracted to each other that when they come near, they stick together, a uniting action known as this
cohesion
Morgan
$2,000 [20]
"Shooting Stars" tells of his meteoric rise from high school ball to one of the highest paid players in the NBA
LeBron James
Morgan
$2,000 [18]
Colby College in Waterville in this state was originally a literary & theological institution
Maine
Sarah
$2,000 [13]
Pynchon's "Crying of Lot" divided by Hawthorne's "House of... Gables"
7
Morgan
$2,000 [27]
We're heading straight for this Cambodian landmark that was built to honor Vishnu
Angkor Wat
Morgan
$2,000 [30]
The hymn title these "Kings Their Titles Take" was the only phrase Dr. Spooner admitted spoonerizing
conquering

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE

In chapter 10, "The whole mystery of the handkerchiefs, and the watches, and the jewels... rushed upon" this title boy's "mind"

Oliver Twist

Jack "Who is David Copperfield" — wagered $62
Sarah "Who is Oliver Twist" — wagered $1,999
Morgan "Who is Peter Pan" — wagered $14,200

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