Show #5994 2010-10-07 (taped 2010-08-04) Regular

Contestants

Sarah Rabin Spira — a preschool director from Washington, D.C.

Mike Hodel — a bartender from Bellingham, Washington

Don Meals — an environmental scientist from Burlington, Vermont (whose 3-day cash winnings total $42,599)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Don $1,400 $3,400 $11,400 $1,999
2nd place: $2,000
$11,400
18 R, 3 W
Mike $4,200 $6,400 $2,800 $2,100
New champion: $2,100
$3,600
11 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Sarah $2,000 $3,400 $10,400 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$9,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

THEY DRIVE ON THE LEFT IF THE TV SERIES HAD A DOWNER ENDING 2012 CLUB TED THE GREAT SEAL OF THE U.S. DOUBLE D's
$200 [16]
Keep left when driving on Hokkaido & this country's other islands
Japan
Don
$200 [21]
On his last day in office, President Bartlet launches a nuclear attack on Norway; he's just never liked Norway
The West Wing
Sarah
$200 [26]
433 Eros, one of these, will pass within .178 astronomical units of Earth (that's close, astronomical units-wise)
an asteroid
Don
$200 [1]
After leaving ABC's "Nightline", he became the managing editor for the Discovery Channel
Ted Koppel
Don
$200 [9]
Francis Hopkinson, who designed the U.S. flag, suggested the seal include a shield with this many stripes
13
Mike
$200 [2]
Some say this synonym for nuptials isn't a word; it's a sentence!
wedding
Don
$400 [17]
There's no need to change sides when you drive across the border between these 2 countries at Belleek
Ireland & Northern Ireland
Mike
$400 [22]
Boss Hogg has the General Lee impounded on dozens & dozens of felony evading arrest charges, then car-crushes it
The Dukes of Hazzard
Don
$400 [27]
The Summer Olympics are set to open in this city
London
Don
$400 [7]
In 1980 he founded the first 24-hour cable news channel
(Ted) Turner
Mike
$400 [10]
The Great Seal is kept in a glass enclosure by this cabinet department
the State (Department)
Don Mike
$400 [3]
Derby rider's seat
saddle
Don
$600 [18]
Keep to the left side of the road when you visit these West Indian islands just east of Florida
the Bahamas
Sarah
$600 [23]
The one-armed man says, "It's about time I finished the job" & shoots Richard Kimble
The Fugitive
Don
$600 [28]
On December 17 members of this "college" will meet in every U.S. state
the electoral college
Sarah
$800 [14]
He penned the bestseller "God, Guns & Rock 'n' Roll"
Ted Nugent
Sarah
$600 [11]
The first design of the reverse featured a scene from this biblical book with Moses on the shore of the Red Sea
Exodus
Sarah
$600 [4]
Adjective meaning designed to elude detection
hidden
Sarah
$800 [19]
Stay well to the left in this mountainous country between India & China; Maoists ousted the monarchy in 2008
Nepal
Mike
$800 [24]
A moose eats Dr. Joel Fleischman; that's it, the whole 60 minutes, just a moose eating a guy
Northern Exposure
Mike
$800 [30]
After 62 years the U.S. is scheduled to relinquish wartime control of this nation's military
South Korea
Don
$1,000 [15]
The animated movie "The Iron Giant" was based on a children's book by this late British poet laureate
Ted Hughes
$800 [12]
The Great Seal in use today was engraved from an 1885 master made by this NYC jewelry firm
Tiffany & Co.
Mike
$800 [5]
An enigmatic word puzzle
a riddle
$1,000 [20]
If you want to drive from Klerksdorp to Roodepoort in this country, head east & hang a left at Sasolburg
South Africa
$1,000 [25]
Congress kills the O.S.I. program; Oscar Goldman is directed to recycle title gal Jaime Sommers for spare parts
The Bionic Woman
Don
$1,000 [29]
An ancient Meso-American one of these is set to reset...gulp
a calendar
Mike
DD $1,400 [8]
The international airport in Anchorage was renamed for him in 2000
Sen. Ted Stevens
Mike
$1,000 [13]
The first sketch of the Great Seal in 1776 didn't include an eagle but did include this motto later seen in its beak
E pluribus unum
Don
$1,000 [6]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) When a current doubles back on itself, a type of miniature vortex is created, a phenomenon known by this name
an eddy
Mike

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT GREEKS FOOD WORDS BOOKS' OTHER TITLES A BUSINESS IS BORN LENIN McCARTNEY
$400 [6]
Sophocles ended the story of this king "at Colonus", a village where Sophocles himself lived
Oedipus
Mike
$400 [1]
An amateur radio operator, or a type of hog meat
ham
Don
$400 [20]
Vonnegut's "The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death"
Slaughterhouse-Five
Don
$400 [28]
It was born in Seattle in 1971 & named for the first mate in "Moby Dick"
Starbucks
Sarah
$400 [10]
Vladimir Lenin was admitted to the bar & practiced this profession in Samara in 1892; many of his clients were peasants
law
Sarah
$400 [11]
As a teen, Paul composed this tune honoring his dad's music; his dad was the title age when the song came out in 1967
"When I'm Sixty-Four"
Don
$800 [7]
Born on Samos, he's the philosopher & mathematician in the illustration seen here
Pythagoras
Sarah
$800 [2]
It's an argument, maybe over whether "it's what's for dinner"
beef
Sarah
$800 [16]
Dodie Smith's "The Great Dog Robbery"
101 Dalmatians
Sarah
$800 [25]
This food chain began in 1980, when Safer Way Natural Foods merged with Clarksville Natural Grocery
Whole Foods
Don
$800 [21]
Lenin avidly read "Das Kapital" & in 1889 became a follower of this philosophy named for the book's author
Marxism
Mike Sarah
$800 [12]
Originally, the first 2 lines of this Beatles song were "she was just 17, never been a beauty queen"
"I Saw Her Standing There"
Sarah
$1,200 [8]
Leonidas' wins at this place got him the title "triple crowned" & brought him worship back home on Rhodes
Olympia
Don Mike Sarah
$1,200 [3]
To waste little by little, or a fried treat similar to a doughnut
fritter
$1,200 [17]
Thackeray's "A Novel Without a Hero"
Vanity Fair
$1,200 [26]
The first drug-store in this chain began operating out of a Chicago hotel in 1901; in 2009 the 7,000th store opened
Walgreens
Sarah
$1,200 [22]
Lenin's merciless destruction of the opposition to the Bolsheviks cleared the way for this man's dictatorship
Stalin
Sarah
$1,200 [13]
The title of Paul's 2006 classical album "Ecce Cor Meum" translates as "Behold My" this
Heart
DD $1,600 [9]
Epaminondas the Theban defeated this militaristic power in 371 B.C., sending it into decline
Sparta
Mike
$1,600 [4]
A sweet coating on some doughnuts, or to fill with glass
glaze
Don
$2,000 [19]
Cormac McCarthy's "Blood" this: "the Evening Redness in the West"
Meridian
$1,600 [27]
In 1998, after renaming their Backrub search engine, Larry Page & Sergey Brin incorporated under this name
Google
Mike
$1,600 [23]
This military group formed under Lenin officially lost its colorful name in 1946
the Red Army
Don
$1,600 [14]
During a meeting, a frustrated George Harrison said, "If we ever get out of here", inspiring a lyric in this Wings No. 1 hit
"Band On The Run"
$2,000 [5]
To hit repeatedly with short jabs, or a seasoning that can be ground fresh
pepper
Don
DD $3,000 [18]
Voltaire's "Optimism"
Candide
Sarah
$2,000 [24]
In 1917 Lenin used the slogan "all power to" these, from the Russian for "councils"
the soviets
Don
$2,000 [15]
Paul's album "Tug of War" closes with this duet that wishes for racial harmony
"Ebony And Ivory"
Mike Sarah

Final Jeopardy!

MAMMALS

One type of this aquatic animal gives milk that's 65% fat; pups are weaned in 4 days, the least of any mammal

the seal

Mike "What are whales?" — wagered $700
Sarah "What is the manatee?" — wagered $10,400
Don "What is a manatee?" — wagered $9,401

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