Show #5898 2010-04-14 (taped 2010-01-20) Regular

Contestants

Charlotte Hotchkiss — a laboratory animal veterinarian from Shoreline, Washington

Ian Silverman — a high school social studies teacher from San Diego, California

Arthur Christy — a forensic scientist from Suffolk, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Arthur $4,200 $4,000 $7,600 $6,608
2nd place: $2,000
$9,600
17 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
Ian $1,400 $5,000 $18,000 $16,000
New champion: $16,000
$16,600
20 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Charlotte $-400 $-200 $600 $300
3rd place: $1,000
$600
8 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

ECONOMIC TERMS ISSUE NO. 1 THE 4 BEATLES JOHN PAUL GORGE "INGO"
$200 [13]
In 2007 a family of 4 with income less than $21,203 lived below this 2-word economic term
poverty level (or poverty line)
Arthur
$200 [20]
Dated March 4, 1974, the first issue of this celebrity mag covered the Hearsts & William Peter Blatty
People
Charlotte
$200 [6]
In October 1967 John Lennon sponsored an exhibit of her work at the Lisson Art Gallery
Yoko Ono
Ian
$200 [23]
John Paul II's first foreign papal trip took him to the shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe in this country
Mexico
Ian
$200 [8]
A popular tourist attraction, Cheddar Gorge is a limestone gorge near the village of Cheddar in this country
England (Great Britain)
$200 [1]
Wild dog of Australia
a dingo
Charlotte
$400 [14]
2-word term for business between 2 countries unhindered by governmental restrictions like tariffs or quotas
free trade
Arthur
$400 [21]
Action Comics No. 1 specifies that he can leap 1/8 of a mile & hurdle a 20-story building
Superman
Arthur
$400 [7]
Paul's mum Mary succumbed to this disease, the same one that took his beloved Linda
breast cancer
Arthur Ian
$400 [24]
John Paul II is the first pope known to have entered a mosque (in Damascus) & also one of these (the great one of Rome)
a synagogue
Arthur
$400 [9]
Around 13 miles long, the Verdon Gorgein this country is ranked by some as Europe's most beautiful canyon
France
Arthur
$400 [2]
A disparaging term for a U.S. or British foreigner in Latin America
gringo
Ian
$600 [15]
This term is from the Greek for "one" & "to sell"
monopoly
Arthur
$600 [22]
The 1801 first issue said this NYC tabloid planned "to inculcate just principles in religion, morals and politics"
the Post
$600 [17]
At the concert for Bangladesh, George got this guitarist to chime in on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
Eric Clapton
Charlotte
$600 [25]
In a pilgrimage to Fatima to give thanks for being saved from one of these, the pope nearly fell victim to another one
an assassinaton attempt
Arthur Charlotte
$600 [10]
The deepest gorge in North America at about 8,000 feet, Hells Canyon is shared by Idaho & this state
Oregon
Arthur Ian Charlotte
$600 [3]
In 1958 our Johnny Gilbert hosted a musical TV version of this game
bingo
Arthur
$800 [16]
It's the study of large-scale or general economic factors, a country's total economic activity
macroeconomics
Arthur Ian Charlotte
$800 [27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Newseum in Washington, D.C.) The Newseum hasissue 1of "The North Star", named for what slaves followed to freedom; in one article, this man said he'd been "shrouded in the midnight ignorance of that infernal system of slavery"
Frederick Douglass
Ian
$800 [18]
Ringo narrated the British version of this kids' show about a train
Thomas the Tank Engine
Arthur Charlotte
$800 [26]
Born 30 miles from this Polish non-capital, the future pope enrolled in its Jagiellonian University in 1938
Kraków
Ian
$800 [11]
Jade Dragon Snow Mountain overlooks Tiger Leaping Gorge, a canyon carved by this Chinese river
the Yangtze
Arthur
$800 [4]
It's the capital of the Dominican Republic
Santo Domingo
Ian
DD $1,000 [28]
Logically enough, the 1933 cover of the first News-Week (sic) had not 1 but this many photos
7
Ian
$1,000 [19]
Ringo had a part in this 1984 movie that Paul wrote & starred in
Give My Regards to Broad Street
$1,000 [12]
Bordering Chechnya, the Pankisi Gorge is a strategic region in this nation that shares its name with a U.S. state
Georgia
Ian
$1,000 [5]
A group of western African peoples, or a 1975 movie co-starring Ken Norton
Mandingo
Arthur

Double Jeopardy! Round

HELLISH QUOTES AT THE ANCIENT ROMAN CINEPLEX HUBBLE, HUBBLE, TOIL & TROUBLE MADAM, I'M ADAMS AMERICA"NA" ONLY ONE VOWEL
$400 [21]
This poem says, "Into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell rode the six hundred"
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
Charlotte
$400 [14]
1979:Dudley Moore & Bo Derek in "___"
X (10)
Ian
$400 [23]
Approved in 1977 & projected for launch in 1983, the HST didn't get airborne until this year in which Iraq invaded Kuwait
1990
Arthur
$400 [2]
Before I was "that Yosemite photographer", I was a virtuoso pianist
Ansel Adams
Ian
$400 [1]
Sequoia was the second one the government created
a national park
Ian
$400 [7]
Silica fused at high temperatures will get you this see-through substance
glass
Charlotte
$800 [22]
Shelley wrote, "Hell is a city much like" this one--"a populous and smoky city"
London
Ian
$800 [15]
2009:Sharlto Copley in "District ____"
IX (9)
Ian
$800 [26]
An aberration in this part of the telescope was found shortly after launch; a 1993 Shuttle mission fixed it
a mirror
Arthur Charlotte
$800 [3]
In my day, I was known as a declaration signer & a Massachusetts governor, not a beermaker
Samuel Adams
Ian
$800 [9]
This reservation has over 150,000 people
Navajo
Charlotte
$800 [8]
A monster, or a way to fish by dragging a line behind a boat
troll
Arthur
$1,600 [17]
2009:Zooey Deschanel in "(____) Days of Summer"
D (500)
Arthur Ian
$1,600 [25]
A 2009 repair mission replaced 6 nickel-hydrogen these, which had lasted 13 years longer than projected
batteries
Ian
$1,200 [4]
I won a 1919 Pulitzer Prize (posthumously) for "The Education of" me
Henry Adams
$1,200 [10]
"Famous" Coney Island hot dog stand
Nathan's
Arthur
$1,200 [13]
The side of anything, or to be placed, like identical objects, on both sides of something
flank
$2,000 [18]
1997:Wesley Snipes, & Ronny Cox as the President, in "Murder at ____"
MDC (1600)
Arthur
$2,000 [24]
A 2002 mission replaced 6 of these rotational components that measure & control the way the scope points
gyroscopes
Arthur
$1,600 [5]
As president of Sinn Fein, I helped negotiate an end to the troubles in Northern Ireland
Gerry Adams
Ian
$1,600 [11]
In southwestern Mississippi, it's the oldest city on the Mississippi
Natchez
Arthur
$1,600 [19]
Robert Frost wrote a poem called "happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in" this
length
Charlotte
DD $2,600 [16]
1968:Keir Dullea in "____: A Space Odyssey"
MMI (2001)
Ian
$2,000 [6]
I'm the bestselling author of "Watership Down" & "The Plague Dogs"
Richard Adams
$2,000 [12]
In 1891 he was assigned to create an indoor game to distract an unruly class
(James) Naismith
Ian
DD $2,000 [20]
Though it has only one vowel in its name, this element's periodic table symbol is 2 vowels
gold
Arthur

Final Jeopardy!

POLITICALLY CORRECT POP CULTURE

The violence goes on, but in 2006 Time Warner TV removed depictions of this activity from old "Tom and Jerry" cartoons

smoking

Charlotte "What is beheading?" — wagered $300
Arthur "What is shooting?" — wagered $992
Ian "What are explosions?" — wagered $2,000

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