Show #6063 2011-01-12 (taped 2010-09-29) Regular

Contestants

Elisabeth Karlin — a playwright from New York, New York

Tom Toal — an orthopedic surgeon from Lake Oswego, Oregon

Sally O'Rourke — a freelance copywriter originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana (whose 1-day cash winnings total $33,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sally $1,800 $4,000 $20,000 $6,399
3rd place: $1,000
$20,000
21 R, 2 W
Tom $1,400 $5,000 $19,600 $12,200
New champion: $12,200
$14,600
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Elisabeth $3,200 $4,800 $11,800 $11,800
2nd place: $2,000
$9,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

WATCHMAKER, WATCHMAKER A HOST OF TV HOSTS BODY LANGUAGE WE WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK HALL-ELUJAH! IT'S REIGNING MEN
$200 [24]
In 1924 England's John Harwood patented a watch that could do this to itself thanks to an internal swinging weight
wind itself
Elisabeth
$200 [11]
Julie Chen hosts this reality show in which strangers live together & the cameras record every moment
Big Brother
Sally
$200 [6]
Come on, champ, you have to be brave & "keep a stiff" this
an upper lip
Sally
$200 [1]
All rise & name this national anthem heard here
"O Canada"
Sally Elisabeth
$200 [16]
The Mars Pathfinder Sojourner rover, AIBO & R2-D2 are inductees in the hall of fame for these
robots
Sally
$200 [18]
According to World Book, France's Louis XVI "often relied on her poor advice"
Marie Antoinette
Sally
$400 [27]
NASA engineer Peter Petroff designed the 1971 Pulsar, the first watch of this type
a digital watch
Tom
$400 [12]
Phil Keoghan hosts this show in which teams of 2 travel the globe to compete for cash
The Amazing Race
Elisabeth
$400 [7]
It's an honest & sincere talk between 2 people (& their cardiac muscles)
a heart to heart
Tom
$400 [2]
Christmas comes early when this tune comes whistling in
"Greensleeves"
Elisabeth
$400 [17]
Stephen F. Austin, John H. Rogers & John Coffee Hayes are Lone Star lawmen in this group's hall
the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame
Tom
$400 [19]
In 1978 this Spaniard became the first crowned monarch to make an official visit to China
Juan Carlos
Elisabeth
$800 [28]
In 1908 Hans Wilsdorf coined this name for his brand of Swiss luxury watches; no one knows what it means
Rolex
Sally
$600 [13]
(Hi, I'm Tom Bergeron.) Bob Saget was the original host & I'm the current host of this comedy TV show that made its debut in 1989
America's Funniest Home Videos
Sally
$600 [8]
Someone as naive or innocent as a newborn baby is said to be this "moist" phrase
still wet behind the ears
$600 [3]
The show's not over, but here's this tune anyway
"Taps"
Sally
$600 [23]
In 2006 Cesar Chavez, John Muir & the Hearst family were among the inaugural inductees in this state's H.O.F.
California
Tom
$600 [20]
On May 26, 1896 he was crowned czar in Moscow: for him it was pretty much downhill from there
Nicholas II
Tom
$800 [14]
The third & newest host of NBC's "Late Night", this "SNL" alum sang Springsteen as host of the Emmys in 2010
Jimmy Fallon
Sally
$800 [9]
When vou're idle or just plain bored, you do this with your pollex digits, literally or figuratively
twiddle your thumbs
Elisabeth
$800 [4]
"Colonel Bogey March", heard here, was popularized by this 1957 war movie
Bridge on the River Kwai
Elisabeth
$800 [25]
Anatoly Karpov, Emanuel Lasker & Boris Spassky are members of the world this hall of fame
the chess hall of fame
Tom
$800 [21]
He walked out on his country's production of Oliver (Cromwell) but came back to be proclaimed king in May 1660
Charles II
Sally Tom
$1,000 [15]
This "redneck" comic hosts "Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?"
(Jeff) Foxworthy
Sally
$1,000 [10]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in front of a diagram of a human skeleton.) To attack where someone is most vulnerable is to go for one of these large veinshereor here
go for the jugular
Elisabeth
$1,000 [5]
We provide you the best in classical whistling with this piece heard here
(Vivaldi's) The Four Seasons
Tom
$1,000 [26]
"Car Talk", "The Romance of Helen Trent" & "All Things Considered" are programs in the Nat. this H.O.F.
radio
Tom Elisabeth
$1,000 [22]
Known for victory costing more than its worth, he was king of Macedonia, lost the throne, got it back, then got killed
Pyrrhus
Tom

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC SHIPS CANDIED CAMERA STATE SANDWICH CALCIUM-RICH FOODS FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE WORDS BEFORE BALL
$400 [13]
In 1779 he took command of the Bonhomme Richard
John Paul Jones
Tom
$400 [12]
Oliver Reed stopped at the bar as Athos in this 1973 film; 20 years later Kiefer Sutherland made the cut
The Three Musketeers
Tom
$400 [6]
It's sandwiched between Mississippi & Georgia
Alabama
Sally
$400 [11]
Resembling the pit of a peach, this nut contains more calcium than any other nut
almonds
Elisabeth
$400 [1]
"L.H.O.T.P"by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House on the Prairie
Elisabeth
$400 [25]
It's 12 inches
a foot
Tom
$800 [14]
The first luxury liner with this name was scrapped in 1972 after it burned & sank in a Hong Kong harbor
the Queen Elizabeth
Sally Elisabeth
$800 [15]
You're on a "roll" if you can tell us that Bill Murray told Dustin Hoffman, "don't play hard to get" in this movie
Tootsie
Elisabeth
$800 [7]
It's sandwiched between California & Utah
Nevada
Tom
$800 [19]
These fish named for an island in the Mediterranean are high in calcium--if you eat their tiny bones
sardines
Sally
$1,200 [3]
"S.C."by William Styron
Sophie's Choice
Elisabeth
$800 [26]
In the song "a tisket a tasket", it was green & yellow
a basket
Tom
$1,200 [22]
The first steamship to cross the Atlantic was the SS this, named for the Georgia port city from which it set sail
Savannah
Tom
$1,200 [16]
Jack Nicholson plays the president in this Tim Burton tale with a candy bar in its title
Mars Attacks!
Sally
$1,200 [8]
It's the cheesy filling between Illinois & Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Wisconsin
Tom
$1,200 [29]
Integral to many Creole dishes, this green pod is related to cotton & is high in calcium
okra
Elisabeth
$1,600 [4]
"N.N."by Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby
Sally
$1,200 [27]
A simultaneous discharge of rifles
a volley
Tom
$1,600 [23]
Capturedherein National Geographic footage is this sunken German battleship, located in 1989
the Bismarck
Tom
$1,600 [17]
This title conflict of a 1988 film takes place at St. Trinity's school
The Chocolate War
Sally
$1,600 [9]
It's sandwiched between Oregon & Wyoming
Idaho
Sally Tom
$1,600 [21]
This tart vegetable that looks like pink celery is often used in pies, which is why it's also called pieplant
rhubarb
Tom
$2,000 [5]
"T.T.O.T.S."by Henry James
The Turn of the Screw
Tom
$1,600 [28]
As in ammonia, this type of compound reacts with an acid to form a salt
a base
Sally
DD $7,000 [24]
In 1839 Joseph Cinque led the revolt against Spaniards aboard this slave ship
the Amistad
Tom
$2,000 [18]
Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi & Adam Sandler were these title guys in a 1994 movie, just like a colorful candy
Airheads
Sally
$2,000 [10]
It's sandwiched between Minnesota & Missouri
Iowa
Sally
$2,000 [20]
When cooked, this 8-letter cauliflower cousin can have as much Vitamin C as an orange & as much calcium as milk
broccoli
Sally
DD $3,000 [2]
"T.A.O.H."by Barack Obama
The Audacity of Hope
Elisabeth
$2,000 [30]
Pebble, Long or Myrtle, individually
beach
Sally

Final Jeopardy!

COMPUTER SCIENCE

John Tukey coined this compound word in 1958 saying it was as important as "tubes, transistors, wires, tapes..."

software

Elisabeth "Whatwire fidelitywi-fi" — wagered $0
Tom "What is ?" — wagered $7,400
Sally "What is the motherboard?" — wagered $13,601

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