Show #4806 2005-06-27 (taped 2004-12-09) Regular

Contestants

Andy Sanderson — a high school English teacher from Mount Morris, New York

Sarah Johnson — a law clerk originally from Newport News, Virginia

Morgan Chase — a mathematics educator originally from Antrim, New Hampshire (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,417)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Morgan $1,200 $6,000 $14,400 $8,722
2nd place: $2,000
$14,400
24 R, 3 W
Sarah $-400 $2,000 $10,000 $8,801
New champion: $8,801
$10,200
13 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Andy $4,000 $4,800 $4,400 $200
3rd place: $1,000
$7,200
10 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

OFFICIAL STATE SEALS MOVIE CROSSWORD CLUES "G" THIRD PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ADVERTISING TANGENTIAL ETRUSCAN POTPOURRI ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES
$200 [21]
Its seal shows a map of the state with "Georgia" on one side & "Mississippi" on the other
Alabama
Morgan
$200 [4]
Multi-Oscared Mahatma movie(6)
Gandhi
Morgan
$200 [16]
This billionaire Texan ran in 1992 & again in 1996
Ross Perot
Morgan
$200 [8]
Spike Lee, Britney Spears & yours truly have sported these in advertisements for milk
mustaches
Morgan
$200 [1]
Since they peaked 2,500 years ago, you won't find many Etruscans catching jazz in this city's Preservation Hall
New Orleans
Sarah
$200 [2]
Beware of the wolf wearing this
sheep's clothing
Andy
$400 [22]
Symbols on its seal include the North Star, a moose & a pine tree
Maine
Morgan Sarah
$400 [9]
"Enormous" hit, for Hudson(5)
Giant
Morgan
$400 [17]
In 1968 this former Governor won 13.5% of the vote & carried 5 states
George Wallace
Morgan Sarah
$400 [15]
In 1888 this company's new camera was advertised with the slogan "You press the button--we do the rest"
Kodak
Morgan
$400 [11]
Historians differ on how Etruscans would have felt about this Mother Goose guy, "Born on a Monday... buried on Sunday"
Solomon Grundy
Morgan
$400 [3]
If someone isn't really as sorry as he seems, he may shed these
crocodile tears
Sarah
$600 [23]
"United We Stand" appears on the top half of Kentucky's state seal & these 3 words appear on the bottom
"Divided We Fall"
Sarah
$600 [10]
Garbo "checked in" there, in 1932(5, 5)
Grand Hotel
Sarah
$600 [18]
This man's third party candidacy in 1912 allowed Woodrow Wilson to win
Teddy Roosevelt
Morgan
$600 [28]
According to Advertising Age Magazine, 96% of North American children recognize this hamburger clown
Ronald McDonald
Morgan
$600 [12]
No Etruscan could know that 25,000 Southern casualties occured during this July 1-3, 1863 battle
Gettysburg
Andy
$600 [5]
Slang term for an indoor television antenna with 2 adjustable aerials
rabbit ears
Andy
$800 [25]
Montana's vast natural resources are represented on its seal by the Great Falls of this river
the Missouri
Andy
$800 [24]
Denzel's Civil War saga(5)
Glory
Morgan
$800 [19]
He followed Jackson into the Presidency in 1836 & 12 years later ran as a third party candidate
Van Buren
Morgan
$800 [29]
In a classic series of commercials, this company "puts you in the driver's seat"
Hertz
$800 [13]
Etruscans don't know he famously said, "I don't give 'em hell; I just tell the truth and they think it's hell"
Harry Truman
Andy
$800 [6]
It's a regular & reliable source of income, just as dependable as a certain source of milk
a cash cow
Andy
$1,000 [26]
The woman on its seal represents equal rights, since it was the first state to grant women the right to vote
Wyoming
Sarah
DD $800 [27]
Steve & Ali made one, before Kim & Alec(7)
Getaway
Sarah
$1,000 [20]
In 1924 this Wisconsin senator ran on the Progressive Party ticket & on the Socialist Party ticket
"Fightin'" Bob La Follette
Morgan
$1,000 [30]
This fast-food chain's 1985 "Herb" campaign has been called one of the most elaborate advertising flops of all time
Burger King
Morgan
$1,000 [14]
Etruscans would have loved this playwright who went from the U. of Michigan to the U. of Marilyn (Monroe)
Arthur Miller
Andy
$1,000 [7]
The name of this mischievous black bird may be used for a chatterbox or a hoarder
the magpie

Double Jeopardy! Round

CLASSICAL COMPOSERS STARS' PRODUCTION COMPANIES CORN AUTHOR'S MAIDEN NAMES START SPREADING THE "NEW"s I'M LEAFING TODAY
$400 [19]
As published, his "Eroica" symphony was dedicated to his patron Prince Lobkowitz
Beethoven
Morgan
$400 [16]
You can read a lot into the fact she named her production company Harpo
Oprah Winfrey
Morgan
$400 [9]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in a ripe cornfield in Wisconsin.) Because it feels like the fabric of the same name, thetuftat the end of an ear of corn is called this
the silk
Sarah
$400 [1]
Elizabeth Browning
Barrett
Sarah
$400 [4]
A group interview held for reporters by a political figure or famous person
a news conference
Morgan
$400 [20]
Trying to identify this vine always leaves us scratching our heads
poison ivy
Morgan
$800 [25]
He wrote "William Tell" at age 37, but no other operas during the remaining 39 years of his life
(Gioacchino) Rossini
Morgan Andy
$800 [17]
It's Irish dreamtime for this Steele, Remington Steele
Pierce Brosnan
Morgan
$800 [10]
As a thickener, this powder leaves sauces clear rather than opaque, like flour
cornstarch
Andy
$800 [2]
Laura Wilder
Ingalls
Morgan
$800 [5]
Smaller than a newspaper, it's a printed report giving news or information of interest to a special group
a newsletter
Morgan
$800 [21]
The leaf seenhereis used as a symbol of this professional sports team, eh?
Maple Leafs
Sarah
$1,200 [26]
In his 20s this "New World" symphony composer played viola in the Czech nat'l theater under Smetana
Dvorak
Andy
$1,200 [18]
This "Legally Blonde" star must be pretty intense; she called her prodction company Type A Films
Reese Witherspoon
Andy
$1,200 [11]
(Jimmy is still lost in the Wisconsin cornfield.) Henry Ford suggested running cars on this fuel made from corn; in recent years it's become a big part of our fuel supply
ethanol
Sarah
$1,200 [3]
Mary Dodge
Mapes
Sarah
$1,200 [6]
The "March of Time" was a famous series of these short films about recent historic events
a newsreel
Sarah
$1,200 [22]
We'll have to garnish your income if you misidentify the leaves of this plant
parsley
Morgan
$2,000 [28]
Around 1813 he set Goethe's "Gretchen am Spinnrade" to music
Franz Schubert
$1,600 [12]
In 1961, in ancient Mexican trash, R.S. MacNeish discovered tiny, cigarette-filter-sized ones of these
corn cobs
Morgan
$1,600 [14]
Adela St. Johns
Rogers
DD $1,600 [7]
The sheep-to-human ratio in this nation is about 10 to 1
New Zealand
Sarah
$1,600 [23]
The sight of these leaves was good news to Noah
olives
Sarah
DD $2,800 [27]
His family was Jewish but his father became a Protestant & added Bartholdy to the last name
Felix Mendelssohn
Andy
$2,000 [13]
A main constituent of corn husks & stalks is this tough cell wall material that's made into fibers like rayon
cellulose
Sarah
$2,000 [15]
Mary Rinehart
Roberts
$2,000 [8]
(R2-D2 beeps & whistles the clue.) When the original "Star Wars" became "Star Wars: Episode IV", this 3-word subtitle was added to its name
A New Hope
Morgan
$2,000 [24]
In general, you might see one of these leaves on an Army Major or a Lieutenant Colonel
an oak leaf
Morgan

Final Jeopardy!

MILITARY MEN

Last name of the first father & son to be awarded medals of honor, for service in the Civil War & WWII respectively

Arthur & Douglas MacArthur

Andy "What is Kennedy" — wagered $4,200
Sarah "What is Sherman?" — wagered $1,199
Morgan "What is duh?" — wagered $5,678

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