Show #6029 2010-11-25 (taped 2010-08-31) Regular

Contestants

Laura Button — an editor and proofreader from Alpharetta, Georgia

Matthew Warren — a computer engineer from Charleston, South Carolina

Bob Kennedy — a college linguistics instructor from Santa Barbara, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $33,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bob $200 $4,400 $15,600 $2,200
3rd place: $1,000
$14,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Matthew $1,400 $4,400 $9,200 $9,200
2nd place: $2,000
$10,200
17 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Laura $200 $3,200 $14,400 $28,800
New champion: $28,800
$13,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS THIS & THAT THE OFFICE WORKOUT THE PRINCESS BRIDE I'M GONNA "MAKE" IT! YOU'LL NEED SOME COACHING
$200 [1]
The Sixth Amendment gives you the right to "enjoy" (yep, enjoy) "a speedy and public" one of these
a trial
Bob
$200 [19]
In Exodus his wife is identified as Zipporah
Moses
Matthew
$200 [11]
The Mayo Clinic suggests sitting on an exercise ball--you'll improve this, the way you sit, starting with a straight back
your posture
Matthew
$200 [6]
With her 1993 marriage to Crown Prince Naruhito, Masako Owada became this country's empress-in-waiting
Japan
Matthew
$200 [14]
A complete, renovative beauty treatment; mine needed spackle & a trowel
a makeover
Bob
$200 [26]
Walter Alston, Sparky Anderson
baseball
Bob
$400 [2]
The Seventh Amendment gives you the right to a jury if you're suing for more than this much--2 sawbucks
$20
Matthew
$400 [20]
He was U.S. President when the stock market crashed in 1929
Hoover
Bob
$400 [12]
Practice the office version of this exercise by sitting down & standing up in rapid succession a few times a day
squats
Bob
$400 [7]
After her 1956 wedding, she & her prince drove through the streets of Monte Carlo in an open-top car
Grace Kelly
Matthew
$400 [15]
3-word term for keeping your finances in order, or joining 2 opposite extremes of a rope
to make ends meet
Matthew
$400 [27]
Tom Osborne, Marty Schottenheimer
football
Bob
$600 [3]
The First Amendment states that "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of" these 2 things
speech & the press
Bob
$600 [21]
Hephaestus was the Greek god of this; Prometheus was chained to a rock for stealing it
fire
Matthew
$600 [13]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates an office exercise.) With water bottles, you can tone these muscles in the front of the upper arms
the biceps
Laura
$600 [8]
She became Philip Mountbatten's bride in 1947
Queen Elizabeth II
Laura
$600 [16]
This adjective refers to using whatever is available to meet an urgent need
makeshift
Matthew
$600 [28]
Valery Liukin, Bela Karolyi
gymnastics
Bob
$800 [4]
The 3rd Amendment says that in time of peace, one of these can't be quartered in a house without the owner's consent
a soldier
Matthew
$800 [22]
This U.S. state is "The Magnolia State", y'all
Mississippi
Bob
$800 [24]
On your break, walk laps around the office, tracking your steps on this gadget; 10,000 a day is your goal
a pedometer
Matthew
$800 [9]
This Powhatan princess wed John Rolfe in 1614
Pocahontas
Matthew
$800 [17]
It sounds like a farm machine, but it's really a hard punch that renders an opponent unable to continue boxing
a haymaker
Matthew
$800 [29]
Lute Olson, Lenny Wilkens
basketball
Bob
DD $1,000 [5]
The 4th Amendment says "No warrants shall issue but upon" this 2-word phrase "supported by oath or affirmation"
probable cause
Matthew
$1,000 [23]
This controversial man won an Oscar for directing "On the Waterfront"
(Elia) Kazan
Laura
$1,000 [25]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates an office exercise.) It may not look like much, but pressing down on a desk for several seconds & holding is this type of static exercise, which increases muscle strength
isometric
Laura
$1,000 [10]
Single mom Mette-Marit Tjessem Hoiby wed Crown Prince Haakon in 2001, making her a princess of this country
Norway
Laura
$1,000 [18]
Matthew 5:9 says they shall be called "the children of God"
the peacemakers
Laura
$1,000 [30]
Jacques Lemaire, Scotty Bowman
hockey
Bob

Double Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPHY WE'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT LITERARY LETTER DROP PAT-POURRI PLANTS & TREES STRONG WORDS
$400 [26]
It's the colorful body of water between Korea & Shanghai
the Yellow Sea
Bob
$400 [19]
Near the end of this movie, Maverick makes one final "flyby", annoying the "air boss" of USS Kitty Hawk
Top Gun
Laura
$400 [6]
When a Twain title loses a letter, young royal Edward Tudor learns the problems of The London Times
The Prince and the Paper
$400 [8]
It's the largest Gothic-style Catholic church in the United States
St. Patrick's cathedral
Bob
$400 [13]
Varieties of this plant grown in American gardens include madonna, Korean aureum & tiger
lilies
Matthew
$400 [1]
From the Latin for "energy" or "force" comes this word sometimes paired with vim
vigor
Matthew
$800 [27]
This branch of the Nile used to flood due to seasonal rainfall in Lake Tana
the Blue Nile
$800 [20]
Thanks to Rodney Dangerfield, Judge Smails' boat The Flying Wasp meets an untimely end in this comedy
Caddyshack
Matthew
$800 [7]
A Faulkner tale about the Compson family loses a letter to focus on animal pelts
The Sound and the Fur
Laura
$800 [9]
Despite his big 1775 "Give me liberty or give me death" speech, this man was a wealthy colonial slave owner
Patrick Henry
Bob
$800 [15]
Tigers generally avoid man but enjoy the shelter of this tropical tree whose name starts with "man"
a mangrove
Laura
$800 [2]
This word for a strong man shares its name with a Georgia-Pacific paper product
brawny
Matthew
$1,200 [28]
Guyana shares the Acarai Mountains with this nation, its largest neighbor
Brazil
Bob
$1,200 [21]
This drama adapted from a book concerns the Massachusetts fishing boat the Andrea Gail
The Perfect Storm ( A Perfect Storm accepted)
Matthew
$1,200 [14]
Courageous neologisms abound when a Huxley title drops a letter
Brave New Word
Laura
$1,200 [10]
The New York Knicks retired his No. 33 jersey
Patrick Ewing
$1,600 [17]
This hardy gray-leaved shrub is so abundant in Nevada that it gave the state one of its nicknames
sagebrush
Laura
$1,200 [3]
Completed 12 labors? You may be described with this adjective, like an ancient hero who did the same
herculean
Matthew
$1,600 [29]
What was once called Muslim East Bengal is today known as this
Bangladesh
Bob
$1,600 [22]
In "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End", Davy Jones helms this ship, also the name of a Wagner opera
The Flying Dutchman
Laura
$1,600 [24]
Drop a letter from a George Eliot novel & the Tulliver siblings are unwell on a certain river
The Ill on the Floss
$1,600 [11]
In 2000 this political commentator was the Reform Party nominee for president
Pat Buchanan
Bob
DD $2,000 [16]
Ochroma pyramidale, this tree, yields a lightweight wood often used to make surfboards
balsa
Laura
$1,600 [4]
Meaning tough or resilient, this 6-letter word refers to tendons
sinewy
DD $3,200 [30]
The Gobi Desert straddles these 2 countries
Mongolia & China
Bob
$2,000 [23]
In "Waterworld" Dennis Hopper helmed this ship once piloted by Joseph Hazelwood
the Exxon Valdez
Laura
$2,000 [25]
Look out! A Thomas Hardy title loses a letter & you'll want to keep your distance from a frenzied black bird
Far from the Madding Crow
Bob
$2,000 [12]
Author of the swashbuckling naval adventure novel "Master & Commander"
Patrick O'Brian
Laura
$2,000 [18]
This chalky white "infantile" flower used in bouquets is from the genus Gypsophila, which means "lover of chalk"
baby's breath
Laura
$2,000 [5]
Post-Civil War Republicans opposed to civil service reform were called these
Stalwarts

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. PRESIDENTS

He is the only president of the United States to be awarded the Purple Heart

John F. Kennedy

Matthew "Who was Eisenhower?" — wagered $0
Laura "Who is J F. Kennedy?" — wagered $14,400
Bob "Who is George HW Bush" — wagered $13,400

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