Show #6153 2011-05-18 (taped 2011-02-02) Regular

Contestants

Flora Peir — a newspaper editor from New York, New York

Gary Rosche — a county tax clerk from Durham, North Carolina

Lisa Bloomberg — a medical student from Minneapolis, Minnesota (whose 1-day cash winnings total $35,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lisa $2,600 $3,000 $17,400 $20,000
2-day champion: $55,000
$16,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Gary $3,600 $3,900 $2,300 $4,598
3rd place: $1,000
$3,800
13 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
Flora $2,800 $2,600 $7,200 $4,601
2nd place: $2,000
$10,200
12 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

PATRON SAINTS ALBUM OF THE YEAR GRAMMYS NURSERY RHYMES THE LANGUAGE OF PEACE Y'ALL FROM GEORGIA? SOUNDS PEACHY
$200 [21]
St. Valentine is the patron saint of these, which "the world will always welcome"
lovers
Gary
$200 [26]
1983:This singer's "Thriller"
Michael Jackson
Gary
$200 [1]
He "was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he"
Old King Cole
Flora
$200 [11]
Shalom
Hebrew
Gary
$200 [16]
Georgians Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall & George Walton all signed this document in 1776
the Declaration of Independence
Gary
$200 [6]
This botanist is in the U.S. Inventors Hall of Fame for a variety of peach he developed, not his potato
(Luther) Burbank
Flora
$400 [22]
He's the patron saint of travelers & motorists; give him a medal
St. Christopher
Gary
$400 [27]
1995:Her "Jagged Little Pill"
Alanis Morissette
Lisa
$400 [2]
He said, "What a good boy am I!"--if he's so good, why was he in the corner?
(Little Jack) Horner
Gary
$400 [12]
Salaam
Arabic
Flora
$400 [17]
From 1942 to 1961 it was the occupation of William Hartsfield, for whom Atlanta's Intl. Airport is named
mayor
Flora
$400 [7]
Available in 100 proof & 76 proof varieties, this "Southern" potent potable is a peach-flavored bourbon liqueur
Southern Comfort
Lisa
$600 [23]
This biblical husband is the patron saint of carpenters
Joseph
Gary
$600 [28]
1979:His "52nd Street"
Billy Joel
$600 [3]
"Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over" this
the candlestick
Gary
$600 [13]
Pax
Latin
Lisa
$800 [19]
This Georgia-born Secretary of State served under 2 presidents from 1961 to 1969
Dean Rusk
Lisa Gary Flora
$600 [8]
The main European producer of peaches is this nation, growing vast quantities of them in its Campania region
Italy
Lisa
$800 [24]
St. Vitus is the patron saint of these performers
dancers
Lisa
$800 [29]
1985:His "No Jacket Required"
Phil Collins
$800 [4]
Mary, Mary who grows silver bells in her garden is quite this, opposite in position or character
contrary
Gary
$800 [14]
Paz
Spanish
Gary
$1,000 [20]
In 1540 this Spaniard became the first European to explore the interior of Georgia
Hernando de Soto
$800 [9]
This sweet fruit is known as the "peach of the tropics"
the mango
Gary
$1,000 [25]
These hospital employees have their patron in St. Agatha
nurses
Gary
$1,000 [30]
2009:Her "Fearless"
Taylor Swift
Flora
$1,000 [5]
This little guy "runs through the town, upstairs and downstairs, in his nightgown"
Wee Willie Winkie
Flora
$1,000 [15]
Paix
French
Flora
DD $1,500 [18]
This Georgia native won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gary
$1,000 [10]
The word peach comes from Malum persicum, meaning "apple of" this empire
Persia
Lisa

Double Jeopardy! Round

BODIES OF WATER MOVIE DEMISES MEDICAL MATTERS PARTS OF A WHOLE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES ENDS IN "RE", NOT ER
$400 [11]
The shallowest of the Great Lakes, it was the site of a U.S. naval victory in 1813
Lake Erie
Lisa Gary
$400 [22]
In this 2010 Coen Brothers Western, Hailee Steinfeld as young Mattie finally catches up with Josh Brolin
True Grit
Lisa
$400 [6]
A temporary loss of the voice is a symptom of this, inflammation of the mucous membrane of the voice box
laryngitis
Flora
$400 [16]
Chin rest, scroll, bridge
violin
$400 [18]
"If there's one thing that has unified Democrats and Republicans, it's that we all hated the bank bailout"
Barack Obama
$400 [1]
"Slaughter" ends in -er; this other word for the killing of many ends in -re
massacre
Lisa
$800 [12]
Rising on the Langres Plateau & heading for the capital, it's the second-longest river in France
the Seine
Flora
$800 [23]
In "Legends of the Fall", "It was a good death" as he gets killed by the grizzly he wounded as a kid
Brad Pitt
$800 [7]
On a blood test, a level of 60 or above of this, the "good cholesterol", is healthy
HDL
Lisa
$800 [17]
Buoyancy compensator, emergency regulator, purge valve, air tank
scuba gear
Gary
$800 [19]
"Five years ago, our college campuses were a battleground"
Nixon
Lisa Gary Flora
$800 [2]
The name of this man-eating fairy tale monster was popularized by French author Charles Perrault
ogre
Lisa
$1,600 [14]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a diagram comparing sea level & various depths on the monitor.) Starting at sea level, hereis the Empire State Building & the world's tallest building, compared to the full depth of this oceanic trench
the Marianas Trench
Lisa
$1,200 [24]
In "Seven Pounds" this actor gets in a bathtub with a deadly box jellyfish
Will Smith
Lisa
$1,200 [8]
From the Greek for "stopper", it's a clot, as of fat or blood, that can get lodged in a blood vessel & obstruct it
embolism
Lisa
$1,200 [27]
Rotor blade, skid, horizontal stabilizer
a helicopter
Lisa
$1,600 [21]
"'Mister Sam' Rayburn is gone. Neither this house nor the nation is the same without him"
John F. Kennedy
$1,200 [3]
Composed of calcium carbonate & conchiolin, it creates the iridescent effect attributed to pearls
nacre
$2,000 [15]
Once the name of a country, this is still the name of a lake in East Central Africa with a depth of over 4,700 feet
Tanganyika
Flora
$1,600 [25]
In this film Dennis Hopper tells a Tarantino tale to Christopher Walken, who laughs, but isn't really that amused
True Romance
$1,600 [9]
The adenoids are also called the pharyngeal these
tonsils
Lisa Gary
$1,600 [28]
If the $1200 response gets in big trouble--brake loop, canopy, stabilizer
a parachute
Flora
DD $2,000 [20]
"We must guard against feverish building of vast armaments to meet glibly predicted moments of... 'maximum peril'"
Eisenhower
Lisa
$1,600 [4]
The Tyndale Bible translated a Greek passage meaning "shameful gain", as "filthy" this
lucre
Flora
DD $3,000 [13]
The name of this South American estuary means "silver river"
Río de la Plata
Flora
$2,000 [26]
Woody Harrelson kills Rodney Dangerfield in a fish tank in this movie
Natural Born Killers
$2,000 [10]
It's the 2-word term for the birth defect in which the roof of the mouth fails to close
cleft palate
Gary
$2,000 [29]
Winds, dragons, season tiles
a mah-jongg set
Flora
$2,000 [30]
"I know Congress had to... invite me & it could've been a close vote. So, Mr. VP, I appreciate you being here to break the tie"
George W. Bush
$2,000 [5]
This quality of sound distinguishes it from other sounds of the same pitch & volume
timbre
Lisa

Final Jeopardy!

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

The longest period in American history with no changes to the Constitution was from 1804 to this year

1865

Gary "What is 1865" — wagered $2,298
Flora "What is 1867?" — wagered $2,599
Lisa "What was 1865?" — wagered $2,600

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