Show #5937 2010-06-08 (taped 2010-02-16) Regular

Contestants

Jessica Freeman — an insurance claims examiner from San Angelo, Texas

Peter Hall — a teaching artist at a museum from Brooklyn, New York

J.R. Lind — a newspaper reporter from Murfreesboro, Tennessee (whose 2-day cash winnings total $52,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
J.R. $1,000 $3,600 $11,200 $20,401
2nd place: $2,000
$11,200
19 R, 3 W
Peter $2,000 $5,000 $31,800 $36,800
New champion: $36,800
$22,200
21 R (including 3 DDs), 6 W
Jessica $2,600 $3,400 $10,200 $20,201
3rd place: $1,000
$10,200
13 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

I LOVE A SHOW TUNE FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD OLD DEUTERONOMY YOU'RE A GRAND OLD FLAG IF I WERE A RICH MAN... "S"WONDERFUL
$200 [20]
Professor 'Enry 'Iggins sings, "I've grown accustomed to her face" in a song from this show
My Fair Lady
Peter
$200 [9]
Usually roasted, squab is a young one of these birds
a pigeon
J.R. Peter Jessica
$200 [14]
A series of these ill wishes includes one on "he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person"
curses
J.R.
$200 [1]
This present country's red, white & green tricolor got a boost from an 1848 decree by the king of Sardinia
Italy
J.R.
$200 [17]
I'd say $47,500 for the 2009-10 term at this school in New Haven? No prob!
Yale
Jessica
$200 [4]
Here's the church; here's the high tower rising above it that's usually capped with a spire
a steeple
Jessica
$400 [23]
"I feel pretty, oh so pretty, I feel pretty and witty and bright" in a song from this musical
West Side Story
J.R.
$400 [10]
In a variation of Beef Wellington, Rachael Ray bakes meat, spinach & feta cheese in this Greek dough
phyllo
Jessica
$400 [27]
"Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord" from Deuteronomy is part of Maariv, evening these
prayers
J.R.
$400 [2]
The blue on Panama's flag symbolizes the Pacific Ocean and this sea
the Caribbean
Peter
$400 [18]
I'd want &/or desire to buy this item seen here; it's about 45 carats, doc
the Hope Diamond
J.R.
$400 [5]
This Georgia city, home to the Bonaventure cemetery & statues, has been called "America's most haunted"
Savannah
Peter
$600 [24]
One of this title character's big numbers is "The Music Of The Night", which he sings to Christine
the Phantom of the Opera
Jessica
$600 [11]
Sheboygan, Wisconsin began its annual festival of this sausage in 1953
bratwurst
Peter
$600 [28]
Though its name is derived from the Greek for "two", Deuteronomy is this book of the Bible
fifth
J.R. Peter
$800 [15]
This South Pacific island nation's flag was based on an idea from King George Tupou I
Tonga
J.R.
$600 [19]
I'd get a round-trip "Upper Class" ticket from NYC to Hong Kong on this man's Virgin Atlantic Airways; only $12,500!
Branson
Peter
$600 [6]
The buzz is that rocker Gordon Sumner got this nickname from wearing a favorite yellow & black sweater
Sting
Jessica
$800 [25]
A song from this show says, "Won't forget, can't regret, what I did for love"
A Chorus Line
$800 [12]
A nutritious snack & fun to pop from their pods, green soybeans go by this Japanese name
edamame
Jessica
$800 [29]
These dietary rules are detailed in Deuteronomy, like salting to remove blood
kosher rules
Peter
DD $1,000 [3]
The yellow stripe on Sao Tome & Principe's flag represents this crop; you'd think it would be chocolate brown
cocoa (or cacao)
Peter
$800 [21]
I'd say to this "Mouth of the South", you gave the U.N. $1 billion in 1997? I'm givin' 'em 10!
Ted Turner
$800 [7]
A wonderful vaccine largely for older people can help prevent this disease carried by the same virus as chicken pox
shingles
Jessica
$1,000 [26]
He wrote the song from "The Gay Divorcee" that says, "Night and day, you are the one"
Cole Porter
J.R.
$1,000 [13]
Made of coconut or almond paste, these drop cookies are especially popular at Passover
macaroons
$1,000 [30]
Verses from Deuteronomy are contained in the Mezuzah, which you can usually find on this part of the house
the doorway
Peter
$1,000 [16]
Kenya's flag features an emblem depicting a shield & spears from this tribe
the Masai tribe
Peter
$1,000 [22]
I wouldn't have paid this Dallas Mavericks owner & his pals $5.7 bil. for broadcast.com like Yahoo! did in '99; maybe 5.6 tops
Mark Cuban
J.R.
$1,000 [8]
A blushing crow rather than a crushing blow is an example of this play on words
a spoonerism
Peter

Double Jeopardy! Round

ART HEISTS WOODY ALLEN MOVIE SYNOPSES LAKE POET-RY HUEY, DEWEY OR LOUIS LISTED INTHE WORLD ALMANAC ALL YOU NEED IS "LOVE"
$400 [10]
After this painting went missing from the Louvre in 1911, people lined up just to view the empty space
the Mona Lisa
J.R.
$400 [13]
The arrival of a Spanish woman causes problems for a man & his relationships with 2 American girls
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Jessica
$400 [6]
That time of year thou may'st in me behold /The easternmost Great Lake, so we are told
(Lake) Ontario
J.R. Peter
$400 [16]
Despite the Chicago Tribune headline, he didn't defeat Truman
Thomas Dewey
J.R. Peter
$400 [24]
Born in 1982, this famous son is second in line to the British throne
Prince William
J.R. Peter
$400 [1]
Rawlings makes them for ballplayers
gloves
J.R.
$800 [12]
In 2009 "Landscape with Peasants" by Flemish painter Jan Brueghel was stolen in Namur of this country--Interpol's on it
Belgium
J.R.
$1,200 [21]
Bodyguard kills his boss' girlfriend so that the show can go on
Bullets Over Broadway
Peter
$800 [7]
In the room the women come and go /Talking of this largest Central American lake, amigo
Lake Nicaragua
J.R.
$800 [17]
"The Shadow Riders" & "The Quick and the Dead" are 2 of the many novels of the Old West by this author
Louis L'Amour
J.R.
$800 [30]
World Almanac lists his birth name (Paul David Hewson) & calls him a "musician, social activist, and philanthropist"
Bono
Jessica
$800 [2]
Split, like some hooves
cloven
Jessica
$1,200 [14]
In 1978 2 of his studies in bronze for his "Burghers of Calais" were stolen from a St. Louis museum
Rodin
Peter
$1,600 [22]
Ditzy prostitute is set up with boxer while Greek chorus weighs in on protagonist's fate
Mighty Aphrodite
Peter
$1,200 [8]
It was many & many a year ago in a kingdom by this "sea" /The 2nd & 4th largest lakes combined, can't compete with thee
the Caspian Sea
J.R.
$1,200 [18]
In 1935 Dr. Carl Weiss allegedly killed him in Louisiana
Huey Long
Peter
$1,200 [29]
The Almanac notes that the Reverend Sun Myung Moon was the founder of this church
the Unification Church
$1,200 [3]
It seceded from Yugoslavia in 1991
Slovenia
Jessica
$1,600 [15]
His"Poppies Near Vetheuil"was discovered in the back seat of a car a week after it was stolen in Zurich
Monet
J.R.
$2,000 [23]
"Sugary" biography of pimp turned jazz guitar hero; he likes to shoot rats
Sweet and Lowdown
Peter
$1,600 [9]
I hate to be a kicker, I don't want to start a fracas /It's 50 miles from Tovar & 300 from Caracas
Lake Maracaibo
J.R. Peter
$1,600 [27]
"Pops", a 2009 biography of this trumpeter, breaks the stories of his run-ins with Chicago gangsters & President Eisenhower
Louis Armstrong
Jessica
$1,600 [28]
The World Almanac says she's the "American-born widow of Jordan's King Hussein"
Queen Noor
Peter
$1,600 [4]
Careless or untidy
slovenly
Peter
DD $6,000 [19]
In 1976 she sued for the return of 3 paintings, claiming they'd been stolen from Alfred Stieglitz' gallery in 1946
Georgia O'Keeffe
Peter
DD $6,000 [20]
Abused wife seeks refuge in movie theater, falls for the fictional leading man
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Peter
$2,000 [11]
Do not go gentle into this "ursine" Canadian lake /Rage, rage against the cold; it can be just too much to take
Great Bear Lake
Peter
$2,000 [26]
This oversized cartoon duckling debuted in the 1950 release "Quack a Doodle Doo"
Baby Huey
J.R.
$2,000 [25]
Gerry Adams, born in Belfast, is listed as a leader of this political organization, "We Ourselves"
Sinn Féin
Peter
$2,000 [5]
A common name for trefoil
clover
Jessica

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. MILITARY HISTORY

This general commanded the first official American force to fight on the European continent

John Pershing

Jessica "Who was Pershing?" — wagered $10,001
J.R. "Who was Pershing?" — wagered $9,201
Peter "Who is Pershing?" — wagered $5,000

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