Show #5896 2010-04-12 (taped 2010-01-20) Regular

Contestants

Amanda Lahan — an account manager from Washington, D.C.

Debbie Russell — a retired high school teacher from Mayodan, North Carolina

Morgan Saxby — a research associate from Charlottesville, Virginia (whose 2-day cash winnings total $40,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Morgan $1,800 $7,800 $24,000 $26,000
3-day champion: $66,401
$18,800
29 R (including 3 DDs), 5 W
Debbie $1,000 $2,400 $2,000 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$2,000
7 R, 2 W
Amanda $-200 $2,200 $6,600 $9,100
2nd place: $2,000
$6,600
14 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

WAR & PEAS HI, BOB GROOMING & CLEANING AIDS BAD BREAK-UP LINES IF YOU BUILD IT... THEY WILL "COMB"
$200 [1]
To combat malnutrition, in 1942 Tasmanian blue peas were added to the rations of this country's troops
Australia
Amanda
$200 [5]
Bob Hope grew up in Cleveland, Ohio but was born in this country
England
Debbie
$200 [26]
Soothing lotion meant to be applied to the face following a trimming of your stubble
aftershave
Morgan
$200 [21]
It's not me, it's a homophone for this female sheep that can weigh more than 225 pounds
a ewe
Amanda
$200 [11]
In the Middle East, the 992-foot Kingdom Center is this country's tallest building
Saudi Arabia
Morgan
$200 [16]
Underground tombs often used to hide the dead
catacombs
Morgan
$400 [2]
A Civil War song popular with Confederate troops celebrated goober peas, another name for these
peanuts
Debbie
$400 [6]
In April 1961 he played with John Lee Hooker at Gerde's Folk City in New York
Bob Dylan
Morgan
$400 [27]
Alliterative sudsing powder added to your tub water
bubble bath
Morgan
$400 [22]
This doctor wrote that dreams "are simply... realizations of wishes" & I've had a breakthrough; I wish to be single
Freud
Morgan
$400 [12]
The world's largest-capacity office building is this 29-acre structure outside Washington, D.C.
the Pentagon
Debbie
$400 [17]
A sequence of numbers or letters that opens a lock
a combination
Morgan
$600 [3]
Pea soup was a staple in the ships of this navy that beat the French & Spanish at Trafalgar
the British navy
Morgan
$600 [7]
The onscreen & offscreen antics of this "Hogan's Heroes" star inspired the 2002 film "Auto Focus"
Bob Crane
$600 [28]
In the early '60s this "directional" brand introduced aerosol deodorant
Right Guard
Debbie
$600 [23]
Our timing was all wrong, just like my '69 Camaro from this car line; you know a good mechanic?
Chevrolet
Amanda
$600 [13]
From street level you have to look up 86 floors to observe this NYC landmark's observation deck
the Empire State Building
Morgan
$800 [19]
A rooster's crest
a cockscomb
Amanda
$800 [4]
During the Revolutionary War, Congress passed a resolution making peas a part of this army's rations
the Continental Army
Amanda
$800 [8]
Known as "Bullet Bob", he won Olympic gold & a Super Bowl ring
Bob Hayes
$800 [29]
"Chilly" name for a mineral oil compound used to remove cosmetics & soothe the skin
cold cream
Debbie
$800 [24]
Sorry, I'm going to concentrate on my career & never marry, like this woman born in 1830 who wrote over 1,700 poems
Emily Dickinson
Amanda
$800 [14]
Called a "Dzong", a fortified one of these religious residences often serves as an admin. center for regions of Bhutan
a monastery
Amanda
$1,000 [20]
9-letter word for a tool used to groom a horse
a currycomb
$1,000 [10]
In the 1940s General Mills produced dried peas for these "alphabetical" (& infamous) army rations
K-rations
Morgan Amanda
$1,000 [9]
Grilled pizza is a favorite dish of this host of the Food Network's "Hot Off The Grill"
Bobby Flay
Morgan
$1,000 [30]
It's the removal of stray hairs by coating with hot paraffin & stripping it off when cooled
waxing
Morgan
$1,000 [25]
I only have eyes for this White House bigwig & ex-Congressman seen here
Rahm Emanuel
Morgan
$1,000 [15]
Hollywood's American Cinematheque is based at this theater built during the 1920s King Tut craze
the Egyptian
Amanda
DD $2,400 [18]
Someone walking on the sands hunting for curious objects
a beachcomber
Morgan

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE CENTER WHO'S THE MRS.? SEÑOR MOMENTS THE TIMES OF YOUR LIFE ARRESTING AUTHORS OVERLAPS
$400 [7]
The part of a pear with the seeds
the core
Amanda
$400 [8]
Mrs. Ben Affleck
Jennifer Garner
Amanda
$400 [14]
Nicknamed El Niño, this Spaniard started playing golf at age 3 & became club champ at 12
(Sergio) García
Morgan
$400 [1]
The commemoration of each full year's passage from the original event; if I forget mine again, my wife will kill me
an anniversary
Morgan
$400 [2]
This Irish wit did 2 years of hard labor for "gross indecency"
(Oscar) Wilde
Morgan
$400 [24]
Claw or ball-peen+Disney's Ariel
hammermaid
$800 [10]
In astronomy the barycenter is the center of mass of 2 bodies, usually one doing this in relation to the other
revolving around (or orbiting)
Morgan
$800 [9]
Mrs. Keith Urban
(Nicole) Kidman
Morgan
$800 [15]
After wandering all over the Southeast, this explorer & conquistador died in Louisiana in 1542
de Soto
Amanda
$800 [20]
This 5-letter adjective means to be late to class or in paying your club dues
tardy
Debbie Amanda
$800 [3]
This "Sometimes a Great Notion" author served time for marijuana possession
(Ken) Kesey
Morgan
$800 [25]
Cheops' ancient structure+noon
pyramidday
Amanda
$1,200 [11]
Your cells are eukaryotic, from the Greek for "nut", meaning they have a true one of these
a nucleus
Morgan
$1,200 [17]
Mrs. Freddie Prinze Jr.
(Sarah Michelle) Gellar
Morgan
$1,200 [16]
On May 22, 2004 this Crown Prince of Spain wed Letizia Ortiz, a former TV anchorwoman & a commoner (!)
Felipe
Morgan Debbie Amanda
$1,200 [21]
This ordinal "hour" on the clock refers to the last possible moment to take effective action
the eleventh hour
Morgan
$1,200 [4]
This "Junky" author was arrested for killing his wife in a drunken game of "William Tell"
(William) Burroughs
Morgan
$1,200 [26]
Overhead interior room surface+pasta type
ceilinguini
Morgan Amanda
$1,600 [12]
In "Journey to the Center of the Earth", this "great fish lizard" kills a Plesiosaurus in savage combat
Ichthyosaurus
Morgan Debbie
$1,600 [18]
Mrs. William H. Macy
Felicity Huffman
Morgan Debbie
DD $4,000 [27]
In English, this opera singer's name means "peaceful Sunday"
Plácido Domingo
Morgan
$1,600 [22]
"In the gloaming" usually refers to this 4-letter time of day
dusk
Morgan Amanda
$1,600 [5]
TMZ went on the literary beat in 2009 when this partner of Jessica Lange was busted for a DUI
Sam Shepard
Amanda
$1,600 [28]
Someone who mixes drinks at a pub+treats your skin ailments
bartendermatologist
Morgan
DD $3,000 [13]
10-letter term for the structure of the universe as explained by Ptolemy of Alexandria
geocentric
Morgan
$2,000 [19]
Mrs. Josh Brolin
Diane Lane
Amanda
$2,000 [23]
Vicennial means occurring once every this many years
20
$2,000 [6]
He was imprisoned after writing a letter critical of Stalin & wrote "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" on his experiences
Solzhenitsyn
Morgan
$2,000 [29]
Legal excuse to avoid blame+having 2 legislative branches
alibicameral
Morgan

Final Jeopardy!

NEW SPORTS

In 2008, Middlebury College in Vermont won its 2nd straight championship in this sport introduced in a 1997 novel

Quidditch

Debbie "What is snowboarding?" — wagered $1,999
Amanda "What is Quidditch?" — wagered $2,500
Morgan "what is quidditch" — wagered $2,000

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