Show #5998 2010-10-13 (taped 2010-08-09) Regular

Contestants

Terry Andrews — a systems analyst originally from Decatur, Illinois

Sara Wilkinson — a country club concierge from Athens, Georgia

Suzanne Rorick — a stay-at-home mom from Stevenson Ranch, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Suzanne $200 $1,800 $9,000 $14,000
2nd place: $2,000
$9,000
11 R, 0 W
Sara $4,400 $8,600 $23,000 $25,000
New champion: $25,000
$22,000
26 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Terry $3,200 $5,200 $6,800 $800
3rd place: $1,000
$8,800
12 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

ALL ABOUT ANTARCTICA GOOD TV VS. JOHN GRISHAM BOOKS I WANT A COOKIE! ENDS IN "GI", JOE
$200 [26]
(Tom Ritchie presents the clue from Antarctica.) The 1959 Antarctic Treaty opened the continent to science & made possible such findings as this hole in the atmosphere in the 1980s
the ozone
Terry
$200 [11]
Robin Roberts & George Stephanopoulos are 2 of the anchors of this ABC A.M. offering
Good Morning America
$200 [21]
Juliet's family, they hate the Montagues
the Capulets
Suzanne
$200 [16]
Mitch McDeere heads to Memphis to practice tax law in this bestseller
The Firm
Sara
$200 [1]
This org. sells 8 varieties of its cookies, with 3 mandatory ones: Peanut Butter Sandwich, Thin Mint & Shortbread
the Girl Scouts
Sara
$200 [6]
Ancient Persian priests, like those who visited the baby Jesus
the magi
Suzanne
$400 [27]
The youngest mountain chain in Antarctica is a southward extension of this South American range
the Andes
Suzanne
$400 [12]
Julianna Margulies stars as Alicia Florrick, the title political spouse on this CBS drama
The Good Wife
Sara
$400 [22]
Home computer buyers choose between these 2 types played by Justin Long & John Hodgman in commercials
a PC & a Mac
Sara
$600 [18]
A black man murders the 2 white men who raped his daughter in this novel, Grisham's first
A Time to Kill
Sara
$400 [2]
This sandwich cookie brand also has one covered in milk chocolate & a Golden Uh-Oh with chocolate creme
Oreo
Terry
$400 [7]
A Welsh dog breed with a fox-like head
a corgi
Terry
$600 [28]
(Tom Ritchie presents the clue from Antarctica.) Port Lockroy was the start of Britain's permanent presence in Antarctica as a secret base to observe German movements during this war
World War II
$600 [13]
This spin-off from "Maude" focused on the dy-no-mite Evans family, who lived in Chicago
Good Times
Sara
$600 [23]
The rivalry between these 2 men culminated in the "Thrilla in Manila"
Ali & Frazier
Sara
$800 [19]
The direction of the verdict in a tobacco lawsuit is at stake in this 1996 novel
The Runaway Jury
Sara
$600 [3]
Hee hee! This co. offers Ready to Bake! & Simply... Chocolate Chip Cookies (& stop poking my gut!)
Pillsbury
Sara
$600 [8]
A Hindu holy man, or a Yankees great
a yogi
Terry
$800 [29]
Explorer Richard E. named an unclaimed region of Antarctica Marie this Land, for his wife
Byrd
Sara
$800 [14]
This 1985 animated TV special had the Peanuts gang perform the Broadway musical of the same name
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Sara
$800 [24]
Antonio Prohias, a Cuban refugee, spoofed the Cold War in this Mad magazine comic strip
Spy vs. Spy
Terry
$1,000 [20]
Reggie Love represents 11-year-old Mark Sway, the title character of this legal thriller
The Client
Sara
$800 [4]
Chips Deluxe & Fudge Shoppe are cookies made by this "elfin" company
Keebler
Sara
$800 [9]
From the Polish for "dumpling", it's a baked turnover with meat inside
a pierogi
Terry
$1,000 [30]
(Tom Ritchie presents the clue from Antarctica.) Lifeless boats and rusted tanks that once held the precious oil are relics of Deception Island's past: from 1906 to 1931, it was a processing center for this brutal trade
whaling
Suzanne
$1,000 [15]
This guy from "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" went on to host "How to Look Good Naked"
Carson Kressley
Terry
$1,000 [25]
A truce signed in 2003 officially ended the century-old feud between these 2 Appalachian families
the Hatfields & the McCoys
Terry
DD $1,400 [17]
Tulane law student Darby Shaw writes this title object of a 1992 Grisham page turner
The Pelican Brief
Sara
$1,000 [5]
Rhyming name of the bite-sized chocolate chip cookie brand with the "homemade recipe, homemade taste"
Famous Amos
$1,000 [10]
It's the Italian version of Louis
Luigi
Sara

Double Jeopardy! Round

"F" IN GEOGRAPHY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY THE TRIALS OF WOMANHOOD ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY FLIES & FLYING METAPHORS BE WITH YOU
$400 [1]
The cities of Antwerp & Ghent lie in this northern region of Belgium
Flanders
Suzanne
$400 [21]
The 2007 cover seenherewas drawn for "Entertainment Weekly" by this man
Matt Groening
Sara
$400 [6]
A 1913 W.V. miners' strike brought martial law, so 82-year-old Mother Jones was tried in this type of military tribunal
a court-martial
Sara
$400 [11]
This closed tube that may become inflamed is from Latin for "hanging from", as it hangs at the end of the large intestine
the appendix
Suzanne
$400 [26]
This existentialist wrote the 1943 play "Les Mouches", or "The Flies"
Sartre
Terry
$400 [14]
In a Shakespeare quote, the 5-word metaphor that precedes "and all the men and women merely players"
"All the world's a stage"
Suzanne
$800 [2]
Historically a manufacturing stronghold, it's 60 miles northwest of Detroit
Flint
Terry
$800 [22]
In 1990, the very first "E.W." cover didn't feature a movie or TV star, but this alternative country singer
k.d. lang
Sara
$800 [7]
In 1586 she insisted she had no designs on Elizabeth I's throne: she was not believed
Mary, Queen of Scots
Sara
$800 [12]
This rubbery connective tissue gets its name from a Latin word meaning "gristle"
cartilage
$800 [27]
During WWII this future U.S. president flew a Grumman Avenger & was shot down over the Pacific
George H.W. Bush
Terry
$800 [15]
This "deathly" phrase may come from a notion that those who hanged themselves pushed away what they stood on
kick the bucket
Sara
$1,600 [4]
Nova Scotia's Cobequid Bay is an arm of this much larger bay
the Bay of Fundy
Suzanne
$1,200 [23]
The title of the 2008 cover story on Tina Fey was "One Hot Mama", referring to the title of this film she starred in
Baby Mama
Suzanne
$1,200 [8]
(Legal commentator Jack Ford presents the clue from a courtroom.) After a 3-week trial in March 1951, shebecame the first woman executed by the U.S. government since alleged Lincoln conspirator Mary Surratt in 1865
Ethel Rosenberg
Sara
$1,200 [13]
The name of this gland near the stomach literally means "all flesh"
the pancreas
$1,200 [28]
Jack kills a pig & Roger kills Piggy in this 1954 work
Lord of the Flies
Suzanne
$1,200 [16]
Meaning "to use unfair means", this action was prohibited by the Marquess of Queensberry's rules
hit below the belt
Sara
DD $2,000 [3]
(Jimmy of Clue Crew shows a map of the Middle East.) In 1914, historian James Breasted coinedthis2-word term to describe the agricultural area that extends from the Nile Valley to the Persian Gulf
the Fertile Crescent
Terry
$1,600 [24]
In 2007, Reese told "E.W." about her big fall movie in which her Egyptian-born husband suffers this title transfer by force
Rendition
Sara
$1,600 [9]
Though under house arrest in this country off & on since 1989, Aung San Suu Kyi was not brought to trial until 2009
Myanmar (or Burma)
Sara
DD $1,600 [19]
The heart is completely enclosed in this membranous sac from the Greek for "surrounding the heart"
the pericardium
Sara
$1,600 [17]
As far as the Cold War goes, the Iron Curtain dealt with the Soviets & this curtain dealt with China
the Bamboo Curtain
Terry
$2,000 [5]
This Danish island group between Iceland & the U.K. is self-governing & has its own parliament, the Lagting
the Faroe Islands
$2,000 [25]
In 1996, as George Clooney hit the big screen in "From Dusk Till Dawn," he was still an "E.R." heartthrob as this doctor
Doug Ross
Sara
$2,000 [10]
The yearlong murder trial of Amanda Knox, an American student in this country, riveted Europe in 2009
Italy
Suzanne
$2,000 [20]
From the Greek for "hard", it's the dense white part of the eye
the sclera
$2,000 [18]
The Pieter Brueghel the Elder paintinghererefers to this metaphor meaning ignorance by leaders & followers
the blind leading the blind
Sara

Final Jeopardy!

BRITISH AUTHORS

His son Christopher said, my father "got to where he was by climbing upon my infant shoulders"

A.A. Milne

Terry "Who is?" — wagered $6,000
Suzanne "Who is A.A. Milne?" — wagered $5,000
Sara "Who is A.A. Milne?" — wagered $2,000

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