Show #5988 2010-09-29 (taped 2010-08-03) Regular

Kara Spak game 5.

Contestants

Molly Zeigler — a mom and graduate student from Buffalo, New York

Claire Bea — a legal assistant from Washington, D.C.

Kara Spak — a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois (whose 4-day cash winnings total $70,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kara $2,200 $8,600 $15,000 $13,000
5-day champion: $83,401
$13,000
21 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Claire $2,400 $3,600 $3,800 $7,600
2nd place: $2,000
$8,400
13 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs)
Molly $1,200 $1,200 $3,200 $6,399
3rd place: $1,000
$3,200
7 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY LINES SCARY STARTS A FREEZER FULL OF FOOD TRAVEL & TOURISM COLORFUL CREATURES ALLITERATION ALL AROUND
$200 [3]
The last chapter of this Charlotte Bronte novel begins, "Reader, I married him"
Jane Eyre
Kara
$200 [20]
In 1980, with "Halloween" in the bag, she starred in "The Fog", "Prom Night" & "Terror Train"
Jamie Lee Curtis
Claire
$200 [1]
"What would you do for" one of this brand's NASCAR bars with caramel ice cream, a chocolate wafer & peanuts?
a Klondike Bar
Kara
$200 [19]
The Murder & Mystery Tour in this Scottish capital begins at the Witchery restaurant at 352 Castlehill
Edinburgh
Kara
$200 [25]
During the 20th century, this largest animal on earth was nearly hunted to extinction
the blue whale
Kara Claire
$200 [14]
This 2-word term refers to someone whose tedious job requires a lot of writing & record-keeping
a pencil pusher
Claire
$400 [5]
This novel says, "the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning"
Fahrenheit 451
Molly
$400 [21]
1975 was a big year for him--he appeared in "The Devil's Rain" & got the role of TV Sweathog Vinnie Barbarino
(John) Travolta
Kara
$400 [2]
Celeste & Tombstone make tasty these
frozen pizzas
Claire
$400 [13]
In 2010 this worldwide network of vacation resorts founded by Gerard Blitz celebrated its 60ih anniversary
Club Med
Claire
$400 [26]
From its distinctive marking, this poisonous spider is also called a fiddleback (not an hourglass back)
the brown recluse
Claire
$400 [15]
John Roebling designed this NYC landmark, but working on it cost him his life
the Brooklyn Bridge
$600 [6]
The first line of this novel says, "It was Wang Lung's marriage day"
The Good Earth
Kara
$600 [22]
His first film role was in 1981's "The Burning"; the role of George Costanza would come a decade later
Jason Alexander
Kara
$600 [4]
With varieties like Blueberry & Nutri-Grain Cinnamon, these waffles from Kellogg's have you going in circles
Eggo (Eggos accepted)
Claire
$600 [11]
Key West, Florida has a Lighthouse & Keeper's Museum & a museum devoted to this novelist
Hemingway
Kara
$600 [27]
It's the only ursine species still found in California
a black bear
Claire
$600 [16]
Physicist George Smoot won a Nobel Prize for his work supporting this theory of the evolution of the universe
the Big Bang
Claire
$800 [7]
This 1852 book says, "I would rather not sell him ...I'm a humane man, and I hate to take the boy from his mother"
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Claire
$800 [23]
Long before she got "Knocked Up", she appeared in "Bride of Chucky"
Katherine Heigl
Kara
$800 [9]
I can't decide between a Swanson pot pie & one of this "famished" brand's "it's good to be full" meals
Hungry-Man
Kara
$800 [12]
From the Arabic for "journey", this type of journey might take you to Botswana's Moremi Game Reserve
a safari
Molly
$800 [28]
It's easy to see how this animal got its name
the white-tailed deer
Kara
$800 [17]
This alliterative exclamation of surprise dates back way before "Great Balls Of Fire": it goes back to the 1700s
goodness gracious
Kara
$1,000 [8]
He wrote, "All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"
Tolstoy
Kara
$1,000 [24]
After appearing in "Return to Horror High" & "Return of the Killer Tomatoes!", he luckily got a trip to the "ER"
George Clooney
Kara
$1,000 [10]
This company's Any'tizers include buffalo style hot wings & mini chicken bites
Tyson
$1,000 [18]
The beach scene at Repulse Bay is one of the attractions in this south coast "Gateway to China"
Hong Kong
Kara
$1,000 [29]
Though it may look more blue, thisis the name of the largest North American swallow.
the purple martin
DD $3,000 [30]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) To stem bleeding, use this alliterative spot where an artery lies over a bone, like in the upper arm & the top of the thigh where it meets the abdomen
a pressure point
Kara

Double Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY HISTORY MUSIC OF THE NIGHT INDIANA JONESING THE DOCTOR IS IN SACRED TO THIS RELIGION IT'S ABOUT TIME
$400 [10]
It's the city where the heroic action seenheretook place in 1989
Beijing
Claire
$400 [3]
In 1978 The Bee Gees had a case of this, a No. 1 hit that says, "Here I am, prayin' for this moment to last"
"Night Fever"
Molly
$400 [9]
Take the last train to this Indiana city founded in 1783 & named for a Revolutionary War general
Clarksville
Molly
$400 [18]
This soft drink has been around since 1885--that makes it 125
Dr Pepper
Molly
$400 [1]
The Holy Sepulchre
Christianity
Claire Molly
$400 [14]
Official written records of proceedings at a meeting
the minutes
Kara
$800 [11]
He's the man seenheretrying to reassure us in March 1981"Now, I am in control..."
Alexander Haig
$800 [4]
In 1982 this soft pop duo from Australia found that "Even the nights are better"
Air Supply
Kara
$800 [15]
This oil products company now has the naming rights to the Colts' home stadium
Lucas Oil
$800 [19]
As a child, hedreamed of being a pro athlete or a heart surgeon; lucky for us, he chose the latter
Dr. Oz
Kara
$800 [2]
The Western Wall
Judaism
Kara
$800 [23]
It's what you call an attendant or representative of a duelist
a second
Claire
$1,600 [16]
Look to the heavens & name this duffer seenherein 1971
Alan Shepard
$1,200 [5]
1993's "Tuesday Night Music Club" was her debut album
Sheryl Crow
Kara
$2,000 [8]
Born in Elwood in 1892, this folksy Republican presidential candidate lost to FDR in 1940
Wendell Willkie
$1,200 [20]
Take heart: the first children's book that he wrote was rejected by 27 publishers
Dr. Seuss
Kara
DD $1,000 [25]
The Potala Palace
Buddhism
Claire
$1,200 [24]
A unit of measure of longitude equal to 15 degrees or 1/24 of a great circle
an hour
Molly
$2,000 [17]
Hewitnessed the ends of the Earth while accompanying seven expeditions to the Arctic
Matthew Henson
Kara
$1,600 [6]
The 4 Seasons reminisced about this title month & year in the song subtitled "Oh What a Night"
Late December back in '63
Kara
$1,600 [21]
Seen here, this shoe brand named for a real doctor celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2010
Dr. Martens (Doc Martens)
Molly
$1,200 [13]
The Kaaba
Islam
$1,600 [27]
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings title fawn
The Yearling
Kara
DD $3,600 [12]
It's the year of the promised return seen here
1944
Claire
$2,000 [7]
This Sam Cooke song talks about "a place, somewhere up a New York way, where the people are so gay"
"Twistin' The Night Away"
$2,000 [22]
This compadre of Wyatt Earp graduated from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery in 1872
Doc Holliday
Claire
$2,000 [26]
From the Latin for "motion" comes this word for an indefinite but short period of time
a moment
Claire

Final Jeopardy!

GEOGRAPHIC TERMS

As their bordering countries are all this adjective, Liechtenstein & Uzbekistan are considered "double" this

landlocked

Molly "What is landlocked" — wagered $3,199
Claire "What is landlocked?" — wagered $3,800
Kara "What is great?" — wagered $2,000

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