Show #5999 2010-10-14 (taped 2010-08-09) Regular

Contestants

Anjali Chelliah Sawe — a pediatric cardiologist from New York, New York

Theo McLauchlin — a graduate student from Montreal, Quebec

Sara Wilkinson — a country club concierge from Athens, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $25,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sara $200 $600 $11,000 $20,001
2-day champion: $45,001
$11,000
14 R, 2 W
Theo $4,600 $5,600 $2,600 $4,200
3rd place: $1,000
$5,600
14 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Anjali $2,600 $5,200 $10,000 $14,799
2nd place: $2,000
$11,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE GOSPELS THAT '70s TEAM "CO" CO.s WOMEN'S FIRSTS CORN-UCOPIA ANIMATED PUZZLES
$200 [1]
He cast down 30 pieces of silver in the temple "and departed, and went and hanged himself"
Judas
Sara
$200 [7]
In 1977 Graig Nettles, Mickey Rivers & Thurman Munson wore this team's pinstripes
New York Yankees
Theo
$200 [6]
This company made the first soft drink consumed in space
Coca-Cola
Theo
$200 [16]
Georgia Neese Clark was right on the money, or at least her signature was, as the first woman in this post
U.S. Treasurer
Sara
$200 [18]
Cool Patch Pumpkins in Dixon, Calif. boasted the world's largest one of these--over 40 acres to get lost in!
a cornfield maze
Theo
$200 [25]
An '80s dance step
moonwalk
Anjali
$400 [2]
In the first chapter of Luke, she said, "my soul doth magnify the lord" & "all generations shall call me blessed"
Mary
Anjali
$400 [8]
In 1972 Jerry West, Happy Hairston & Pat Riley (yes, that Pat Riley) ran the floor for this team
the Lakers
Theo Anjali
$400 [12]
Some of the earliest revolvers by this company were the pocket, belt & holster models
Colt
Theo
$400 [17]
In 2009 Darwin's great-great-granddaughter Ruth Padel became this univ.'s first female professor of poetry
Oxford
$400 [19]
The "straight" type of this liquor is distilled from a mash of at least 51% but not more than 79% corn
bourbon
Theo Anjali
$400 [26]
You might see this written in a cemetery
rest in peace
Anjali
$800 [4]
This disciple said, "except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails... I will not believe"
Thomas
Theo
$600 [9]
L.C. Greenwood, Mel Blount & Franco Harris were on this squad's 1975 roster
the Steelers
Theo
$600 [13]
Started as a glass company, it went on to make light bulbs, television tubes &, of course, cookware
Corning
Anjali
$600 [23]
In 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in the U.S. to earn a degree in this
medicine
Theo
$600 [20]
These threadlike fibers that grow beneath the husk are used in herbal medicines & tea
corn silk
Anjali
$600 [27]
Type of business that may not be here tomorrow
fly-by-night
Sara
DD $1,000 [3]
Sin committed by the woman about whom Jesus said, "he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her"
adultery
Anjali
$800 [10]
Darryl "Chocolate Thunder" Dawkins, Joe (Kobe's dad) Bryant & Julius "Dr. J" Erving hooped it up in 1979 for this team
Philadelphia 76ers
$800 [14]
The earliest products by this company were candles, starch &, of course, soap
Colgate
$800 [24]
Not Mel Brooks' wife but this explorer was the first woman to cross the ice to the North Pole
Ann Bancroft
$800 [21]
Home to the Missouri Meerschaum Co., Washington, Missouri is hailed as this "capital of the world"
corn pipe
Anjali
$800 [28]
The earliest-known American one was noted in 1799
merry-go-round
Theo
$1,000 [5]
After finding the disciples asleep in the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus said this "indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak"
the spirit
Anjali
$1,000 [11]
Larry Csonka, Larry Seiple, Larry Little & a bunch of no-names--at least on defense--played for this '72 undefeated team
the Dolphins
Theo
$1,000 [15]
Kirkland Signature is the house brand for this membership store
Costco
Theo
$1,000 [30]
A statue of her, the first woman elected to Congress, represents Montana in the U.S. Capitol
Jeannette Rankin
$1,000 [22]
Seen here is one of the murals made with locally grown corn that has graced the Mitchell Corn Palace in this state
South Dakota
Theo
$1,000 [29]
It happens in tough economic times
corporate downsizing
Anjali

Double Jeopardy! Round

GENERAL SCIENCE CARTOON VOICES MY NAME IS HENRY, I'LL BE YOUR WRITER VARIETY PACK OHIOANS "BUCK" EYES
$400 [9]
In this type of simple machine, a version of the inclined plane, rotational force is translated into linear force
a screw
Sara
$400 [6]
Po, the title character in "Kung Fu Panda"
Jack Black
Sara
$400 [1]
I used the meter of the Finnish epic "Kalevala" as the basis for that of "The Song of Hiawatha"
Longfellow
Anjali
$400 [14]
It's a slang term for a job for musicians, or a pronged spear used for fishing or catching frogs
a gig
Sara
$400 [21]
In 1941, 50 years affer his death, a military tank was named for this Lancaster, Ohio-born general
Sherman
Theo
$400 [24]
He was a little rascal, o-tay?
Buckwheat
Sara
$800 [10]
All existing species of these have placentas except marsupials & monotremes
mammals
Anjali
$800 [7]
Fiona in the "Shrek" movies
Cameron Diaz
Anjali
$1,200 [3]
I wrote in "Tropic of Cancer", "every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race"
Henry Miller
Sara
$800 [17]
The words tanning & tannin come from an old German word for this mighty tree, once the main source of tannin
an oak
Sara
$1,200 [23]
In 1890 Ohioan Caroline Harrison became the first president general of this org. that traces members' lineages to 1776
the D.A.R. (Daughters of the American Revolution)
Anjali
$800 [25]
When it was founded in 1893, Sears was paired with this man's name
Roebuck
Sara
$1,200 [11]
This Saturnian moon is the only one in the solar system known to have clouds
Titan
$1,200 [8]
Mr. Potato Head in all 3 "Toy Story" movies
Don Rickles
$1,600 [4]
1904's "The Golden Bowl" was one of my last novels; I later became a British subject
Henry James
Sara
$1,200 [18]
This 3-word phrase describes a desperate "leap" taken by a TV show to retain ratings
jump the shark
Sara
$1,600 [29]
Born in Bowersville, he had a bestselling book in 1952 with "The Power of Positive Thinking"
Norman Vincent Peale
Sara
$1,200 [26]
They backed up country music legend Buck Owens
The Buckaroos
$1,600 [12]
In the U.S. the "stately" time divisions in the Carboniferous Period are called the Mississippian & this
the Pennsylvanian
$1,600 [15]
Carl Fredricksen in "Up"
Ed Asner
Sara
DD $2,000 [2]
Emerson encouraged me to start keeping a journal, which I did until a few months before my death in 1862
Henry David Thoreau
Anjali
$1,600 [19]
In 1931 this Hull House founder was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the first American woman so honored
(Jane) Addams
Anjali
$2,000 [30]
This Steubenville, Ohio native served Abe Lincoln as Secretary of War
Edwin Stanton
Sara
$1,600 [27]
2-word term for an enlisted man of the lowest rank
a buck private
Theo
$2,000 [13]
It's the "specific" ratio between the density of pure water & that of another substance; for gold, it's 19.3
specific gravity
Theo
$2,000 [16]
Mrs. Potts the teapot in "Beauty and the Beast"
Angela Lansbury
Sara
$2,000 [5]
My 1742 novel "Joseph Andrews" was "written in imitation of the manner of Cervantes"
Henry Fielding
$2,000 [20]
In 1954 Monaco's Prince Rainier created the Order of this family to reward those who contribute to the country's prestige
Grimaldi
Anjali
DD $3,000 [22]
This Ohioan was Teddy Roosevelt's veep & lent his name to a city in Alaska
Fairbanks
Theo
$2,000 [28]
Used as currency on the frontier in the 1700s, these deer hides gave us a slang term for a dollar
buckskins

Final Jeopardy!

COUNTRY NAMES

The only 2 countries in the world with an "X" in their names, one is found in Europe & one in the Americas

Luxembourg and Mexico

Theo "What are Luxembourg and Mexico?" — wagered $1,600
Anjali "What are Luxembourg and Mexico?" — wagered $4,799
Sara "What are Mexico and Luxembourg?" — wagered $9,001

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