Show #6006 2010-10-25 (taped 2010-08-23) Regular

Contestants

Pam Jones-Pigott — a farmers' market coordinator from Pflugerville, Texas

Reggie LaFond — a business analyst from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Ari Stern — a mathematician from San Diego, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ari $1,800 $4,000 $5,600 $9,600
3rd place: $1,000
$5,600
14 R, 4 W
Reggie $2,200 $5,200 $8,400 $13,400
2nd place: $2,000
$8,400
14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Pam $1,200 $3,200 $12,800 $16,800
New champion: $16,800
$11,600
17 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE EXECUTOR BRANCH BEST SPOKEN WORD GRAMMY ODD PLACE NAMES NONPOTENT POTABLES CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON A FEW"GUE"
$200 [21]
Thomas Jefferson's veep, he killed a famous man in a famous duel
Aaron Burr
Reggie
$200 [5]
"It Takes A Village" (1996)
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Pam
$200 [25]
Donna Summer could be the "queen of" this Illinois farming community with a musical name
Disco
Pam
$200 [8]
Gee, I could have had a Runner's Mark: Tabasco, Worcestershire, lemon & 4 ounces of this alphanumeric juice
V-8
Reggie
$200 [16]
Bowie
a knife
Pam
$200 [1]
Adjective meaning lacking clarity or distinctness
vague
Pam
$400 [22]
He shot & killed Charles Dickinson in an 1806 duel
Andrew Jackson
Reggie
$400 [6]
"Gracie: A Love Story" (1990)
George Burns
$400 [27]
Meaning 2-shelled, the name of this New Jersey town goes back to its oyster industry days
Bivalve
Pam
$400 [9]
Without this traditional liquor, a Bloody Mary becomes a Virgin Mary
vodka
Ari
$400 [17]
Thompson
a machine gun
Ari
$400 [2]
A destructive elephant away from its normal range, or Sarah Palin in the title of her 2009 memoir
rogue
Ari
$600 [23]
He personally killed a Spaniard at the Battle of San Juan Hill
Teddy Roosevelt
Pam
$600 [7]
"It's Always Something" (1989)
Gilda Radner
Pam
$600 [28]
The ghost town of Adaven is in this state; holding "Adaven" up to a mirror might help
Nevada
Pam
$600 [11]
An unfuzzy navel combines lemon juice, orange juice & this flavor fruit nectar
peach
Ari Pam
$600 [18]
Sidewinder (not the snake)
missile
Reggie
$600 [3]
A congressman refers to another, even if he thinks he's useless, as "my distinguished" this
colleague
Ari
$800 [24]
In 1754 he ordered his Virginia militiamen to fire on a group of unsuspecting Frenchmen, killing 10
George Washington
$800 [13]
"The Civil War" (1991)
Ken Burns
Reggie
$800 [29]
You can cash in if you know there's a town in Texas with this name, the Spanish word for money
Dinero
Reggie
$800 [12]
For some real zing, try Zingerade, which combines lemonade with the Red Zinger type of this
tea
$800 [19]
Walther PPK
pistol
Ari
$800 [4]
The opposite of a preface
an epilogue
Reggie Pam
$1,000 [26]
As sheriff of Erie County, N.Y., Grover Cleveland personally hanged 2 criminals, earning him the nickname "Hangman of" here
Buffalo
DD $1,000 [14]
"The Words of Gandhi"(1984)
Ben Kingsley
Reggie
$1,000 [30]
Drop the "Old" from Zachary Taylor's nickname & you'll have the name of this town in Northern California
Rough & Ready
Reggie
$1,000 [15]
The fresh fruit mocktail called a Flossy Aussie contains both kumquats & this fruit
kiwi
Reggie
$1,000 [20]
The USS Harry S. Truman
an aircraft carrier
Ari
$1,000 [10]
One foot is dragged on every step in this Caribbean dance favorite
merengue
Ari

Double Jeopardy! Round

MUMMIES OF THE WORLD PRO ATHLETES BY NUMBER WORN LAWYERS LITERARY OBITUARY SYNONYMS THINGS ARE SLOW
$400 [21]
One of the world's oldest mummies, the Detmold Child was mummified in this high S. Amer. country 3,000 years before Tut
Peru
Pam
$400 [16]
Magic Johnson, Jim Brown
thirty-two
Reggie
$400 [25]
Divorce lawyer Marvin Mitchelson coined this term for financial support after an unmarried couple splits up
palimony
Ari
$400 [11]
A popular London scientist & medical man, by suicide (though police found another man's body in his place)
Dr. Jekyll
$400 [6]
In film titles this synonym for fear is found before "of the Tongs", "of Tiny Town" & "on a Train"
terror
Ari
$400 [1]
If your computer is slow, try scanning this & then defragmenting it
your hard drive
Ari
$800 [22]
Veronica Orlovits is part of a group of mummies found in a forgotten church crypt in Pest county in this country
Hungary
Pam
$800 [17]
Moses Malone, Derek Jeter
two
Ari
$800 [26]
Flamboyant lawyer Melvin Belli was nicknamed "the king of" these civil wrongs
torts
Pam
$800 [12]
Shakespearean royal, very briefly survived by her husband & son, by poisoning, in Denmark
Queen Gertrude
Ari Pam
$800 [7]
This synonym for "tumbled" is also a Shakespearean adjective meaning "cruel", as in a type of "swoop"
fell
Ari
$800 [2]
Now that Pluto has been reclassified, this planet has the longest orbit around the sun
Neptune
Pam
$1,200 [23]
Royal mummies like Nespaqashutiwere placed inside these stone items, whose name is from the Greek for flesh-eating
sarcophagi
Ari
$1,200 [18]
Jackie Robinson, Ronnie Lott
forty-two
Reggie
$1,600 [28]
This prosecutor in the Scopes Monkey Trial fell ill & died shortly after that trial ended
William Jennings Bryan
$1,200 [13]
19th c. pickpocket gang leader, described as "a receiver of stolen goods", by execution
Fagin
$1,200 [8]
This word whose 2 syllables rhyme is a synonym for "to ambush"
waylay
Ari
$1,200 [3]
Slowpoke Rodriguez, "the slowest mouse in all Mexico", was his cousin
Speedy Gonzales
Ari
$1,600 [24]
Found in the family vault still wearing his boots, mummified German Baron von Holz died during this early 17th c. war
the Thirty Years' War
$1,600 [19]
Bobby Orr, Lou Gehrig
four
Reggie
DD $2,000 [27]
John Adams was a defense attorney for patriots like John Hancock, & for British troops accused in this 1770 skirmish
the Boston Massacre
Pam
DD $2,000 [14]
Long Island society mourns his loss. Murdered, in West Egg, by George Wilson
The Great Gatsby
Pam
$1,600 [9]
This synonym for "rich" consists of an adverb, a preposition & a verb
well-to-do
Ari
$1,600 [4]
If you bet that the slowest fishes of all are these of genus Hippocampus--go to the winner's circle
seahorses
$2,000 [30]
Preserved to accompany humans into the afterlife, cat mummies were popular in this Egyptian period named for a Greek
the Ptolemaic Period
Reggie
$2,000 [20]
Willie Mays, Jeff Gordon
twenty-four
Reggie
$2,000 [29]
This orator who argued McCulloch v. Maryland in the Supreme Court was one of the USA's most highly paid lawyers
Daniel Webster
Reggie
$2,000 [15]
This Louisiana governor & "boss" rose to ruthless demagogue, assassinated, by Adam Stanton
Willie Stark
Reggie
$2,000 [10]
A man's first name, or a word meaning "abrupt"
Curt
Pam
$2,000 [5]
Even a fountain pen was too much technology for this historian who took 20 years to write "The Civil War"
Shelby Foote

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS AMERICANS

In 1886 he published his first book, "The Trumpet and Drum", an instructional handbook with 8 compositions

(John Philip) Sousa

Ari "Who was Sousa?" — wagered $4,000
Reggie "Who is Souza?" — wagered $5,000
Pam "Who is Sousa?" — wagered $4,000

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