Show #5915 2010-05-07 (taped 2010-04-17) Invitational

2009-2010 Million Dollar Celebrity Invitational final game 2.

Contestants

Jane Curtin — an actress fromKate & Allieand3rd Rock from the Sun(subtotal of $29,000)

Cheech Marin — an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician fromLost(subtotal of $6,600)

Michael McKean — a Grammy winner, Oscar nominee and multi-talented performer fromHairsprayandThe Pajama Game(subtotal of $31,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Michael $2,000 $2,800 $12,100 $4,100 $11,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Cheech $1,600 $3,600 $6,000 $12,000 $8,000
18 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Jane $2,000 $3,000 $10,000 $1 $11,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

LIFE WITH THE HOOD CELEBRITY MOMS HOTELS THE BIBLICAL SENSE BRANDS THAT SOUND LIKE VERBS A NEGATIVE ATTITUDE
$200 [16]
Some stories say that this member of Robin Hood's merry men was 7 feet tall
Little John
Michael
$200 [8]
No doubt you know that this No Doubt singer has sons named Kingston & Zuma
Gwen Stefani
Jane
$200 [7]
Overlooking the Old City, King David Hotel is at 23 King David St. in this city
Jerusalem
Jane
$200 [2]
His "Song" says, "the vines with the tender grape give a good smell"
Solomon
Michael
$200 [1]
This potato chip brand sounds like it's got some carpet work to do
Lay's
Cheech
$200 [22]
It's the letter you add to "no" to write "no" en francais
N
Jane
$400 [17]
This sheriff & main enemy of Robin Hood is also the chief law enforcement officer of Derbyshire
the Sheriff of Nottingham
Michael
$400 [9]
This Aussie actress had a daughter on July 7, 2008--a Monday--but named her Sunday Rose
Nicole Kidman
Cheech
$400 [13]
This Asian country originated capsule hotels like the one seen here
Japan
Jane
$400 [3]
In John 9, Jesus restores this sense to a man who had been missing it since birth
sight
Cheech
$400 [23]
Brand of diapers that means "treats with too much indulgence"
Pampers
Cheech
$400 [27]
8 isn't enough to say this 4-letter German word for "no"
nein
Michael
$600 [18]
16th century plays by Anthony Munday call this woman Matilda Fitzwater
Maid Marian
Cheech
$600 [10]
Her "Alias" is mom to Violet & Seraphina Affleck
Jennifer Garner
Jane
$600 [14]
This French word for "castle" precedes "Marmont" in the name of an upscale West Hollywood Hotel
château
Jane
$600 [4]
In Genesis he tells God, "I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked"
Adam
Cheech
$800 [25]
We wish this stain remover would keep it down
Shout
Jane
$600 [28]
A law or decree that forbids, like what the 18th Amendment established
prohibition
$800 [19]
In "Ivanhoe" this devout man is known as the Clerk of Copmanhurst & lives at a Hermitage
Friar Tuck
$800 [11]
In 2009 this rocker & rock widow lost custody of her daughter Frances Bean Cobain
Courtney Love
Cheech
$800 [15]
One of this Central American country's 5-star hotels is the Barcelo San Jose Palacio
Costa Rica
Cheech
$800 [5]
Exodus 16:31 says the taste of this bread that rained down on the Israelites "was like wafers made with honey"
manna
Michael
$1,000 [26]
This car rental company sounds like it uses torture equipment
Hertz
Cheech
$800 [29]
This prefix meaning "against" can be found before freeze, climax & depressant
anti-
Michael
$1,000 [20]
This red-clad dandy was said to be Robin Hood's nephew
Will Scarlet
Michael Cheech
$1,000 [12]
Blythe Danner is mom to this actress, a mother of 2 herself
Gwyneth Paltrow
Michael
$1,000 [21]
An Asia-based hotel chain is named for this idyllic land from "Lost Horizon"
Shangri-La
Cheech
$1,000 [6]
In Genesis 3, God warns Eve away from some fruit, saying, "Ye shall not eat of it" nor do this to it
touch it
DD $2,000 [24]
This 6-letter telecom company sounds fleet of foot
Sprint
Cheech

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE SPIRIT OF 1976 THE NEW YORK TIMESMOVIES HOW LOW CAN YOU GO? SCIENCE THEIR MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT RETRONYMS
$400 [30]
In January this then little-known governor won the Iowa Democratic Caucus
Jimmy Carter
Cheech
$400 [5]
A.O. Scott says he's not entirely joking calling this 2010 John Cusack comedy a "poignant story of 3 men, adrift in their 40s"
Hot Tub Time Machine
Cheech
$400 [6]
In a standard type of draw poker, you need a pair of these face cards also called knaves to open the betting
jacks
Jane
$400 [16]
The word rubber comes from the discovery that the stuff could be used to rub out marks made with this
pencil
Jane
$400 [11]
Van Cliburn
piano
Jane
$400 [18]
This water is directly from the faucet, distinct from bottled water or sparkling water
tap water
Jane
$800 [29]
In February the Winter Olympics opened in this Austrian mountain town
Innsbruck
Cheech
$800 [4]
The Times liked the "smoky, greasy, steam-punk rendering of Victorian London" in this 2009 Robert Downey Jr. caper
Sherlock Holmes
Michael
$800 [7]
"I went fishing just for the halibut" is one of these, which have been termed "the lowest form of wit"
a pun
Cheech
$800 [17]
As it's caused by a lack of niacin, pellagra is termed this type of deficiency disease
vitamin deficiency
Michael
$800 [12]
Dizzy Gillespie
trumpet
Cheech
$800 [25]
The name of this resin is used to describe records, to differentiate them from CDs
vinyl
Jane
$1,200 [21]
On Sept. 9 China's news agency announced the death of this "esteemed and beloved great leader"
Mao Tse-tung
Michael Cheech
$1,200 [1]
The Times said that this director tackled "Alice In Wonderland" with "his customary mix of torpor and frenzy"
Tim Burton
Michael
DD $1,000 [10]
This chemical element has the lowest melting point of any metal & that's why it's liquid at room temperature
mercury
Jane
$1,200 [19]
In parts of the Caribbean, these are on a diurnal cycle: one high, one low a day, that's it
tides
Michael
$1,200 [13]
Itzhak Perlman
violin
Cheech
$1,200 [26]
These 2 building materials are used to describe actual stores, as opposed to online retailers
bricks & mortar
Cheech Jane
$1,600 [22]
In March baseball's American League voted to award its first Canadian franchise to this city
Toronto
Cheech Jane
$1,600 [2]
"Looking every inch a heavy-metal god, with a tangle of beard and power shoulder pads", Liam Neeson is Zeus in this 2010 flick
Clash of the Titans
Michael
$1,200 [8]
An 1895 textbook calls this one-celled creature the lowest form of animal life
an amoeba
Jane
$2,000 [24]
Dmitri Mendeleyev made modern chemistry possible when he set this grouping of the elements
the periodic table
Michael
$1,600 [14]
Charlie Parker
saxophone
Cheech Jane
$1,600 [27]
No C-section? Little or no drugs? Then the childbirth was this, aptly from the Latin for "birth"
natural
$2,000 [23]
On July 2 North & South this reunited to form a republic
Vietnam
Cheech
$2,000 [3]
Reviewing "The Last Song", the Times noted, "It is likely that we can look forward to more movies starring" this teen singer
Miley Cyrus
Jane
$1,600 [9]
Heard here, it's the lowest instrument of an orchestra's brass section
a tuba
Jane
DD $2,500 [20]
It's a substance that conducts current; sodium & potassium are 2 of the ones Gatorade restores to your body
an electrolyte
Michael
$2,000 [15]
Sir James Galway
a flute
Jane
$2,000 [28]
This word is used for television that's sent over the airwaves, in contrast to cable or satellite
broadcast
Michael Jane

Final Jeopardy!

MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES

In 1949 this kingdom dropped the word "Trans" from the beginning of its name

Jordan

Cheech "What is Jordan" — wagered $6,000
Jane "What is?" — wagered $9,999
Michael "What isTransPalestine" — wagered $8,000

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