Show #6040 2010-12-10 (taped 2010-09-14) Regular

Contestants

Eugene Henderson — a retail assistant manager from San Francisco, California

Sandra McClellan — a granny nanny from Arlington, Texas

Liz Maziarz — an English professor and mom from Seattle, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Liz $1,400 $2,200 $9,800 $800
2nd place: $2,000
$9,800
12 R, 1 W
Sandra $2,200 $3,800 $12,200 $4,199
New champion: $4,199
$11,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Eugene $3,400 $4,900 $10,100 $199
3rd place: $1,000
$12,400
16 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

REAL NAMES OF CELEBS LAST NAME'S THE SAME VWLLSS VGTBLS ZOO LAND "ER" THE GREATEST IN SPORTS WITH MIKE & MIKE
$200 [1]
The former Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg, also the ex-"Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman", goes by this name
Jane Seymour
Sandra
$200 [10]
Original moonwalker Neil & biker Lance
Armstrong
Sandra
$200 [4]
SPRGS is called the aristocrat of vegetables
asparagus
Sandra
$200 [15]
Rostov-on-Don zoo
Russia
$200 [21]
To remove a recorded signal from a tape
erase
Sandra
$200 [26]
(Mike and Mike in the ESPN studio deliver the clue.)"The most amazing Olympic event ever? It's the U.S. hockey team's "Miracle on Ice" in 1980.""Well, that was a good one, but what about this man's 4-gold-medal-winning performance in Berlin in 1936 that gave Hitler fits"
Jesse Owens
Eugene
$400 [2]
This actor born Alphonso D'Abruzzo got plenty of "M*A*S*H" notes
Alan Alda
Sandra
$400 [11]
Oracular Omaha resident Warren & "Margaritaville" resident Jimmy
Buffett
Eugene
$400 [5]
NDV is Belgian
endive
Eugene
$400 [16]
Nehru zoological park
India
Liz
$400 [22]
To wear away, geologically speaking
erode
Sandra
$400 [27]
(Mike and Mike in the ESPN studio deliver the clue.)"The best sports innovation in the last 50 years has got to be the addition of the 3-point play to basketball it opens up the whole court""Nope, sorry, it's actually the use of this immediate rebroadcasting of a game segment (for all us guys who missed it while we were in the bathroom)"
instant replay
Liz
$600 [3]
The last name's the give--this English dame & actress was born Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov
Helen Mirren
Liz
$600 [12]
Current defense secretary Robert M. & Microsoft-y Bill
Gates
Sandra
$600 [6]
JCM is a Mexican root
jicama
Sandra
$600 [17]
Hai Bar Carmel nature reserve
Israel
Sandra
$600 [23]
9-letter adjective meaning incorrect or mistaken
erroneous
Sandra
$600 [28]
(Mike and Mike in the ESPN studio deliver the clue.)"The greatest NBA player ever--it's got to be Michael Jordan with his 6 championships""No way, it's this superstar who scored more than 50 points in a game 118 times"
Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain
$800 [8]
The Chronicles of Mark Vincent led to a name change for this buff "Fast & Furious" movie star
Vin Diesel
Eugene
$800 [13]
Civil rights leader Jesse & Laker leader Phil
Jackson
Eugene
$800 [7]
The sharp-flavored leaves of RGL are used in salad
arugula
Liz
$800 [18]
Tennoji zoo
Japan
Eugene
$800 [24]
A short journey made to accomplish an object or task
an errand
Sandra
$800 [29]
(Mike and Mike in the ESPN studio deliver the clue.)"When it comes to controversy, not much can top the Black Sox scandal of 1919""Not much true--but for me, nothing is as bad as in 1989 when this record-breaking player was banned from baseball for gambling on games while still a manager"
Pete Rose
Eugene
$1,000 [9]
The voice of Marlin in "Finding Nemo", he was born with the name Albert Einstein
Albert Brooks
$1,000 [14]
South Carolina senator Lindsey & quarterback Otto
Graham
Eugene
$1,000 [20]
RDCCH is a reddish-leaved plant from Italy
radicchio
Eugene
DD $2,300 [19]
Attica zoological park
Greece
Eugene
$1,000 [25]
Literary adjective meaning "former"
erstwhile
Sandra Eugene
$1,000 [30]
(Mike and Mike in the ESPN studio deliver the clue.)"One of the greatest last-second stunners in college sports was Doug Flutie's Hail Mary pass to beat Miami""Stunning, yes, but not nearly as stunning for me as when coach Jim Valvano & this college basketball team defeated Houston at the buzzer in 1983"
North Carolina State

Double Jeopardy! Round

MATH TERMS ANAGRAMMED NOTABLES THE WAR OF ART STAIN REMOVAL LITERARY ISLAND HOPPING CROSSWORD CLUES "L"
$400 [20]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on a monitor) Acirclehas 2 foci that coincide in a single point. If we separate the foci, we can drawthis7-letter conic section
an ellipse
Sandra
$400 [13]
An Italian political philosopher:AH, CIVIL MALE
Machiavelli
Liz
$400 [12]
The 1869 Civil War lithograph seenheredetails the last meeting of this general & Jackson
(Robert E.) Lee
Sandra
$400 [11]
After cleaning carpet stains with this, use the rest to make a gin fizz & enjoy your clean rug
club soda
Liz
$400 [6]
Amity is a city, not an island, in this Peter Benchley thriller; it is on Long Island, however
Jaws
Eugene
$400 [1]
Racing sled(4)
luge
Sandra
$800 [27]
The quad, a place where you might throw frisbees, is short for this mathematical term
quadrangle
Liz
$800 [14]
A 20th century vice president:GROW A SPINE
Spiro Agnew
Eugene
$800 [19]
Around 1492 he created the marble "Battle Of The Centaurs"; no ceiling on his genius!
Michelangelo
Sandra
$800 [18]
Hydrogen peroxide can help with this, the only stain that gets its own single word in the Random House Dictionary
blood
$800 [7]
Dementors guard this island prison in a series of novels
Azkaban
Liz
$800 [2]
Minotaur's maze(9)
labyrinth
Eugene
$1,200 [28]
(Jimmy shows a logical proposition on a monitor.) Used in propositional logic problems & often read, for example, as "P if and only if Q", the symbolheredenotes this term
biconditional (or equivalence)
Eugene
$1,200 [15]
A Spanish explorer:ONE OLD PENCE
Ponce de Leon
Sandra
$1,200 [21]
This 17th c. Flemish man got mythical with "Minerva Protects Pax from Mars ('Peace and War')"
Peter Paul Rubens
$1,200 [24]
For nail polish stains, carefully use this solvent--logically, often the key ingredient in nail polish remover
acetone
Liz Sandra
$1,200 [8]
Isla Nublar off the coast of Costa Rica is the setting for this 1990 Michael Crichton book
Jurassic Park
Sandra
$1,200 [3]
To set free from oppression(8)
liberate
Eugene
$1,600 [16]
A dynamite inventor:FABLED LONER
Alfred Nobel
Eugene
DD $2,000 [22]
A dismembered hand clutching a sword in black & white is part of this 1937 work inspired by the bombing of a city
Guernica
Sandra
$1,600 [25]
Heloise suggests getting this off clothing (not the bottoms of theater seats) by hardening it using an ice cube
chewing gum
Sandra
$1,600 [9]
Alistair MacLean wrote of this German-controlled Greek island & the men sent to destroy a gun battery there
Navarone
Sandra
$1,600 [4]
It rocks Chicago's Grant Park in summer(12)
Lollapalooza
Eugene
$2,000 [17]
An ancient playwright:PI RESIDUE
Euripides
Liz
$2,000 [23]
This man's 1799portraitof Napoleon crossing the Alps is seen here
Jacques-Louis David
Liz
$2,000 [26]
If someone in your home is this kind of "monkey", you may have to remove this from clothes using talcum powder
grease
Liz
$2,000 [10]
The novelization of a play says this "land" is "always more or less an island"
Neverland
$2,000 [5]
Gem cutter(8)
lapidary
Liz

Final Jeopardy!

MOVIES & LANGUAGE

A 2010 article from Slate called this language created by Paul Frommer "the new Klingon"

Na'vi

Liz "What is the language from Avatar?" — wagered $9,000
Eugene "What is Muggle?" — wagered $9,901
Sandra "What is Avatar?" — wagered $8,001

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