Show #4839 2005-09-29 (taped 2005-07-26) Regular

Contestants

Alison Beightol — a labor and delivery registered nurse from Lake City, Florida

Mark Barrett — an assistant teacher from San Francisco, California

Andy Rosenberg — a sales manager from Morristown, New Jersey (whose 2-day cash winnings total $28,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Andy $3,000 $10,000 $12,400 $7,999
2nd place: $2,000
$12,600
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Mark $2,000 $2,000 $9,900 $16,000
New champion: $16,000
$8,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Alison $1,200 $3,200 $8,000 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$8,000
10 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

POLITICAL LINGO OSCAR-WINNING SONGS "SOUTH" PARK OH, MY GODS! THEY KILT KINSEY
$200 [25]
A term for politics at the local level, or items found in your lawn
grass roots
Andy
$200 [8]
"Chim Chim Cher-ee"
Mary Poppins
Mark
$200 [14]
Sandy Koufax, when on the mound
a southpaw
Mark
$200 [3]
In one myth the decapitated head of the giant Mimir was an advisor to this Norse god
Odin
Andy
$200 [1]
He's the kilt-clad kinsmen picturedherearound 1980
Prince Charles
Mark
$200 [2]
Dr. Alfred Kinsey was born in this New Jersey city in 1894, as was Frank Sinatra 21 years later
Hoboken
Mark
$400 [26]
A GOP plan to eliminated filibusters on judicial nominees has been called this alarming "option"
nuclear
Andy
$400 [9]
"Talk To The Animals"
Dr. Dolittle
Andy
$400 [15]
This popular diet was developed to help cardiac patients lose weight
the South Beach Diet
Andy
$400 [4]
Associated with nature & plants, Xipe Totec was an important god of these North American people
the Aztecs
Alison
$400 [20]
When this actor was knighted in 1999 he wore a kilt to the ceremony
Sean Connery
Andy
$400 [13]
Caused by a deficiency of vitamin D, this bone-softening disease curved Dr. Kinsey's spine as a child
rickets
Mark
$600 [27]
In 1826, John Cam Hobhouse coined the phrase "His Majesty's" this for the party not in power
Opposition
Andy
$600 [10]
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Andy
DD $400 [16]
It's surrounded by the Philippines, Borneo & Taiwan
the South China Sea
Andy
$600 [5]
The Roman goddess of flowers, she had an herb that was said to make you pregnant if you touched it
Flora
$600 [21]
Sometimes decorated with fur, a sporran is a traditional one of these worn in front of a kilt
a pouch (or purse)
Andy
$600 [17]
Before he took up sex, Dr. Kinsey studied & became a renowned expert on the gall type of this insect
a wasp
Andy
$800 [28]
From the Latin for "all", it's the type of $388-billion spending bill Congress passed in December 2004
omnibus
Andy
$800 [11]
"Colors Of The Wind"
Pocahontas
Mark
$800 [30]
There is nothing like this musical that opened in New York in 1949
South Pacific
Andy
$800 [6]
If sometimes you feel like a "nut", check out Nut, a goddess of this ancient civilization
Egypt
Alison
$800 [22]
The Royal Stuart is a type of this, a plaid pattern on the fabric of a kilt
a tartan
Andy
$800 [18]
In 1947 Dr. Kinsey founded his institute for sex research at this Bloomington university
Indiana
Andy
$1,000 [29]
A junior member of Parliament, from the location of his or her seat
a back-bencher
Alison
$1,000 [12]
"Al Otro Lado Del Rio"
The Motorcycle Diaries
Andy
$1,000 [24]
In 2003 the name of this area was officially changed to South Los Angeles
South Central
Alison
$1,000 [7]
The sub bearing the name of this trumpeter sea god & son of Poseidon was the first to travel around the world underwater
Triton
$1,000 [23]
In 1822, when this author organized a royal visit to Edinburgh, he wore a kilt & got George IV to sport one also
Sir Walter Scott
$1,000 [19]
Completes the title of Dr. Kinsey's shocking 1948 work "Sexual Behavior in" this
the Human Male
Andy

Double Jeopardy! Round

MATH '80s TV START SPREADIN' THE NOOSE LET'S BE SECURE MONGO FOR MONGOLIA "OX" MARKS THE SPOT
$400 [11]
Number that's the greatest common factor of 15, 130 & 10,000
5
$400 [6]
1 of the 2 shows that debuted in the fall of 1988 with a Murphy in the title
Murphy Brown (or Murphy's Law )
Andy
$400 [13]
On Sept. 22, 1776, the morning after his capture by the British & with no trial, he gave the one life he had
Nathan Hale
Andy Mark Alison
$400 [23]
(Former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge gives the clue.) I introduced the threat advisory system; during my time at the DHS we were never able to go below this color, for "elevated threat"
yellow
Alison
$400 [18]
About 96 percent of Mongols are of this religion
Buddhist
Alison
$400 [1]
Since 1937, it's been the location of the U.S. gold depository
Fort Knox
Andy
$800 [12]
Slow down when you approach this type of set that contains elements common to 2 other sets
an intersection
$800 [7]
20 years after its debut, this quirky show came out on DVD in 2005 with commentary from Cybill Shepherd & Bruce Willis
Moonlighting
Mark
$800 [14]
Tradition says this Biblical figure kissed himself off on a tree that now bears his name
Judas Iscariot
Mark
$800 [24]
DHS is charged with protecting "critical" this--from subways to satellites, the systems we rely on every day
infrastructure
Andy
$800 [19]
In recent years measures taken by the Mongolian government have stabilized the tugrik, which is this
the currency
Mark
$800 [2]
A nickleodeon was an early version of this 7-letter machine
a jukebox
Mark
$1,200 [28]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands at a chalkboard.) Multiplying in scientific notation gets me a product with this exponent
9
Mark
$1,200 [8]
"Three's a Crowd" picked up where this sitcom left off
Three's Company
Mark
$1,600 [16]
Washington denied his request to be shot like a gentleman & not hanged like a spy, which he was on Oct. 2, 1780
Major John André
Mark
$1,200 [25]
(Tom Ridge reads.) I led the largest reorganization of the government since the 1940s, including bringing the Secret Service, customs, & this whole military service into the DHS
the Coast Guard
Andy
$1,200 [20]
In the 1990s the Przewalski variety of this was reintroduced to Mongolia
horse
$1,200 [3]
Seward's, it was said, was Alaska
an icebox
Alison
DD $2,300 [29]
For a line, this is defined as the ratio of vertical to horizontal distance it covers
slope
Mark
$1,600 [9]
Joe Penny played Jake; he played the Fatman
(William) Conrad
Mark
$2,000 [17]
In 1987 Spandau prison officials reported that this Nazi had hanged himself at age 93
Rudolf Hess
Andy
$1,600 [26]
Passenger screening is the responsibility of this Homeland Security agency established in November 2001
the TSA
Alison
$1,600 [21]
Founded around 1368, this Chinese dynasty drove the Mongols out of power in China that same year
the Ming
Mark
$1,600 [4]
Jenner used this bovine pathogen to make his vaccine
cowpox
Alison
$2,000 [10]
Doc Severinson performed its theme during the '80s; Ray Charles did it during the '90s
Designing Women
Alison
DD $4,600 [15]
Emerson said this man, hanged for treason on Dec. 2, 1859, would make the gallows "as glorious as the cross"
John Brown
Mark
$2,000 [27]
(Tom Ridge reads one last time.) Our front line of defense against a terrorist attack is local police & firefighters, known as "first" these
responders
Mark Alison
$2,000 [22]
In the 1200s the Mongols established this capital city with the same name as K2's mountain range
Karakoram
Andy
$2,000 [5]
Popular Western United States perennial seen here
phlox

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS ENGLISHMEN

In 2004 a top entry in a 6,000 mile albatross race was sponsored by a descendant of this man who died in 1834

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Alison "Who was ??" — wagered $8,000
Mark "Who is Coleridge" — wagered $6,100
Andy "Who was Lord Byron?" — wagered $4,401

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