Show #6283 2012-01-04 (taped 2011-11-02) Regular

Dave Leach game 5.

Contestants

Jaldhar Vyas — a software developer and Hindu priest from Jersey City, New Jersey

Nicholas Campiz — a graduate student in geography from Gainesville, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,200)

Dave Leach — a software analyst from Atlanta, Georgia (whose 4-day cash winnings total $60,884)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dave $3,400 $7,200 $19,100 $17,170
5-day champion: $78,054
$18,800
28 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Nicholas $1,800 $1,800 $5,000 $4,000
2nd place: $2,000
$5,000
5 R, 1 W
Jaldhar $2,200 $5,200 $5,600 $1,200
3rd place: $1,000
$3,800
14 R (including 1 DD), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

OLD KING COAL SCRIPT DOCTORS NAMETH THE BIBLE BOOK ODDITIES THE MAIN ALCOHOLIC INGREDIENT BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS
$200 [6]
This European adventurer reported that coal was widely used in the 13th century Far East
Marco Polo
Dave
$200 [21]
1965:Omar Sharif as this sensitive-yet-philandering Russian doctor
Doctor Zhivago
Jaldhar
$200 [26]
"Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste"
Exodus
Dave Jaldhar
$200 [16]
A 2004 contest saw "Brain Freeze" beat out "Growling Stomach" & "Tennis Elbow" to be added to this electric game
Operation
Dave
$200 [11]
...in a screwdriver
vodka
Dave
$200 [1]
"The straw that broke" this creature's "back"
the camel
Dave
$400 [7]
Coal mining was made safer by the 19th c. invention of the safety this, which wouldn't ignite me than e
a lantern (or lamp)
Dave
$400 [22]
2004:Alfred Molina as this heavily armed enemy of Spider-Man
Doctor Octopus
Jaldhar
$400 [27]
"And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake"
Revelation
Dave
$400 [17]
Raise a glass to Angela Mount, who had her olfactory system insured for 10 million pounds while working evaluating this
wine
Jaldhar
$400 [12]
...in a boilermaker, along with beer (rye works fine)
whiskey
Dave
$400 [2]
"A fine kettle of" these
fish
Jaldhar
$600 [8]
In the 13th century a duty of one farthing was assessed on coal unloaded at Billingsgate in this city
London
Jaldhar
$600 [23]
1964:Peter Sellers as this German scientist who helped us love the bomb
Dr. Strangelove
Dave
$600 [28]
"Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne" (in First this)
Kings
Jaldhar
$600 [18]
In 1986 a judge told the Library of Congress to resume producing pictureless Braille editions of this magazine
Playboy
Dave
$600 [13]
...in a Tom Collins: the dry type of this
gin
Dave Jaldhar
$600 [3]
"Mad as a wet" this bird
a hen
Dave
$800 [9]
Britannica says coal "was the basic energy source that fueled the" this "of the 18th and 19th centuries"
the Industrial Revolution
Jaldhar
$800 [24]
1974:Gene Wilder as this doctor trying to live down the family name
Dr. Frankenstein
$1,000 [30]
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction"
Proverbs
Dave
$800 [19]
Its nose is missing, but part of the beard of this ancient statue is in the British Museum
the Sphinx (the Great Sphinx of Giza)
Dave
$800 [14]
...in a Gauguin
rum
$800 [4]
"A" this "of a different color"
a horse
Dave Nicholas
$1,000 [10]
In the 1300s the Southwest Indian tribes named for these dwellings used coal in pottery making
pueblos
Nicholas
$1,000 [25]
2005 & 2007:Julian McMahon as this comic book doctor who was struck by cosmic waves
Doctor Doom
Jaldhar
DD $2,600 [29]
"They bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him"
Job
Jaldhar
$1,000 [20]
From 2007 to 2011 the president, V.P. & prime minister all had the same family name in this country of Indochina
Vietnam
$1,000 [15]
...in a Rob Roy; vermouth's along for the ride, too
scotch
$1,000 [5]
"Killing the fatted" one
a calf
Jaldhar

Double Jeopardy! Round

GREAT ARTS 19th CENTURY CONGRESSMEN "G-P-S" ISLANDS IN THE STREAM, SEA OR OCEAN COLLECTIONS PULL A MUSCLE
$400 [4]
He & Paul Simon had their first hit under the names Tom & Jerry
(Art) Garfunkel
Dave
$400 [25]
It wasn't "The Devil and" him repping Massachusetts in the House from 1823 to 1827--it was just him
(Daniel) Webster
Dave
$400 [2]
During adolescence, you might feel these in your limbs, also the title of an '80s sitcom
growing pains
Jaldhar
$400 [1]
Koror &Guadalcanal
the Pacific Ocean
Dave
$400 [13]
Doug Arbittier's collection of medical antiques in York, Pa. includes colorful jars that held these bloodsuckers
leeches
Dave
$400 [19]
You don't have to be self-absorbed to do the endless crunches needed to develop these
abs (in self- abs orbed)
Jaldhar
$800 [9]
Hey, hey, Ralphie boy--he was up to his knees in the sewers as Ed Norton on "The Honeymooners"
(Art) Carney
Dave
$800 [26]
No debate--this Illinois man, "The Little Giant", was elected to the House in 1843 & the Senate in 1847
(Stephen) Douglas
Dave
$800 [3]
These trousers are modeled after those worn by South American cowboys
gaucho pants
Jaldhar
$800 [8]
Majorca &Malta
the Mediterranean Sea
Jaldhar
$800 [14]
This talk show host's car collection ranges from a 1906 Stanley Steamer to a 2006 Corvette
Leno
Dave
$800 [22]
When you dealt that card I acted as if this type of muscle, one of the body's 3 main types, had stopped working
cardiac (in card I ac ted)
Dave
$1,200 [10]
This big band leader was married 8 times, including nuptials with hotties Lana Turner & Ava Gardner
Artie Shaw
DD $2,000 [27]
In his diary, he wrote "My election as president... was not half so gratifying" as his later election to Congress in 1830
John Quincy Adams
Dave
$1,600 [6]
This navigational device continuously indicates true north
a gyrocompass
Jaldhar
$1,200 [18]
Mahe &Sri Lanka
the Indian Ocean
Dave
$1,200 [15]
A chrome pop-up one from the 1950s was the first in Jens Veerbeck's collection of about 600 of these kitchen appliances
toasters
Dave
$1,200 [23]
Her boyfriend is a NYC lawyer--a Gotham stringbean who never stretches out this leg muscle
hamstring (in Got ham string bean)
Dave
$1,600 [11]
This "holy" Washington Redskins wide receiver was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2008
(Art) Monk
Nicholas
$2,000 [7]
Oceanography & volcanology are part of this branch of geology
geophysics
Nicholas
$1,600 [20]
Gotland &Bornholm
the Baltic Sea
Nicholas
$1,600 [16]
Ralph Isham was more interested in his mss. than his mrs.--his passion was collecting these, including James Boswell's
manuscripts
Jaldhar
$1,600 [24]
The anatomy prof brought in a human model to identify this shoulder muscle
the deltoid (in mo del to id entify)
$2,000 [12]
This stop-motion animator created Gumby & Pokey
(Art) Clokey
Dave
DD $3,500 [5]
Horripilation is the medical term for this skin condition
goose bumps (goose pimples accepted)
Dave
$2,000 [21]
New York State's Grand Island &Three Sisters Islands
the Niagara River
Nicholas Jaldhar
$2,000 [17]
This editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland turned his L.A. mansion into a museum of sci-fi memorabilia
Forrest Ackerman

Final Jeopardy!

1930s NOVELS

An audio version of this anti-war novel by a once blacklisted author has introductions from Cindy Sheehan & Ron Kovic

Johnny Got His Gun

Nicholas "What is All Is Quiet on the Western Fron" — wagered $1,000
Jaldhar "What is All quiet on the Westernfrontfront" — wagered $4,400
Dave "What is All Quiet on the Western Front?" — wagered $1,930

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