Show #4889 2005-12-08 (taped 2005-09-20) Regular

Contestants

LeeAundra Temescu — a communications coach originally from Troy, Michigan

Michael Salerno — a law student from New York, New York

James Quintong — a sportswriter from Atlanta, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $4,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
James $2,200 $3,600 $10,000 $14,000
2nd place: $2,000
$10,000
14 R, 3 W
Michael $-400 $3,000 $6,000 $11,601
3rd place: $1,000
$6,200
12 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
LeeAundra $1,200 $3,800 $11,600 $20,001
New champion: $20,001
$12,600
17 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

STREET SMARTS "J" WALKING THROUGH HISTORY THE PAULY SHORE FILE YOUR FINANCIAL HEALTH THANKS DROP AN O
$200 [11]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a New York City street.) At the heart of Midtown, you'll find this street that became a Billy Joel album title
52nd Street
$200 [2]
On Dec. 1, 1804 this Martinique-born beauty & an emperor-to-be had their second wedding
Napoleon & Josephine
James
$200 [1]
Along with David Schwimmer, Lenny Kravitz, Angelina Jolie & Nicolas Cage, Pauly attended this ritzy H.S.
Beverly Hills High
LeeAundra
$200 [21]
Propecia makes this company, MRK, the hair apparent
Merck
LeeAundra
$200 [13]
According to this title Shakespeare character, "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is, to have a thankless child"
King Lear
LeeAundra
$200 [16]
Chimney residue, & a drunkard
soot & sot
Michael
$400 [12]
You'll pass the New London Theatre walking from Aldwych to High Holborn along this lane
Drury Lane
$400 [7]
Zedekiah was the last king of this southern kingdom
Judah
LeeAundra
$400 [3]
Pauly once had his own TV show titled "Totally Pauly" on this youth-skewing cable TV network
MTV
James
$400 [24]
This company, PFE, had nothing to be depressed about with Zoloft
Pfizer
Michael
$400 [14]
It precedes "of rainy afternoons, swingy Harlem tunes, & motor trips & burning lips & burning toast & prunes"
"Thanks For The Memory"
LeeAundra
$400 [17]
A rope tied with a running knot, & a certain body part
noose & nose
Michael
DD $600 [25]
The Boston Common fronts on this street, also the name of a nearby hill
Beacon Street
Michael
$600 [8]
The post-Civil War laws nicknamed these enforced racial segregation in the south
Jim Crow laws
LeeAundra
$600 [4]
In this film, Pauly & Sean Astin play a couple of kids who thaw out a caveman & try to use him to be cool
Encino Man
James
$600 [28]
These 2 names precede "Squibb" in the name of the Excedrin maker symbolized BMY
Bristol-Myers
James
$600 [15]
One of Ronald Reagan's last official acts as president was writing a thank you note to this British leader
Margaret Thatcher
Michael
$600 [18]
The cut in a board meant for the tongue, & a small forested area
groove & grove
$800 [26]
Columbus, Ohio's main drag is called this, more often the British term for a city's main street
High Street
$800 [9]
This beleaguered politician died July 31, 1875 in Carter County, Tennessee
Andrew Johnson
James LeeAundra
$800 [5]
In a 1999 TV movie Pauly brought to life this controversial 1960s comedian
Lenny Bruce
James
$800 [29]
This company, GSK, can breathe easier with Flovent HFA
GlaxoSmithKline
Michael
$800 [22]
In a newspaper editorial, Francis Church wrote, "Thank God, he lives, and he lives forever"
Santa Claus
James
$800 [19]
A single-masted type of ship, & food fit for swine
sloop & slop
LeeAundra
$1,000 [27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a street in Cairo, Egypt.) Cairo's main thoroughfare, it would be the perfect street on which to drive a Rolls-Royce convertible
the Corniche
$1,000 [10]
After losing the English throne, this Catholic king went to Ireland & lost the Battle of the Boyne in 1690
James II
Michael LeeAundra
$1,000 [6]
The 2005 series "Minding the Store" showed Pauly running this club once run by his mother, Mitzi
The Comedy Store
James
$1,000 [30]
This company, AZN, can help to heal your broken heart with Crestor
AstraZeneca
LeeAundra
$1,000 [23]
This British naval commander's dying words were, "Thank God, I have done my duty"
Nelson
LeeAundra
$1,000 [20]
Sag from weakness, then fall
droop & drop
Michael

Double Jeopardy! Round

ISLAM SMALL SCREEN CRITTERS WORLD UNIVERSITIES TREES BUILDING CHARACTER "CAT" GOT YOUR ANSWER
$400 [12]
Sunni Muslims believe that this man didn't choose a successor but left the decision to the community
Muhammad
Michael
$400 [11]
This title TV critter weighed in at a "gentle" 650 pounds
Gentle Ben
LeeAundra
$400 [6]
This part of the University of Paris was founded by & named for a French theologian in 1253
the Sorbonne
LeeAundra
$400 [8]
The bark of this type of oak is used for a variety of purposes, including bottle stoppers & bulletin boards
cork
Michael
$400 [18]
A character in this Hemingway work admits, "I am too old to club sharks to death"
The Old Man and the Sea
LeeAundra
$400 [1]
A saying or expression popularized through repeated use by a real person or character
a catchphrase
James
DD $600 [13]
The first one of the 5 of these is at fajr, "dawn"; the last at isha, "evening"
prayers
Michael
$800 [14]
On TV in the 1950s, young Jeff Miller was the first boy who owned this dog
Lassie
LeeAundra
$800 [7]
This British university's first college was Peterhouse, founded in 1284; Trinity Hall & others followed
Cambridge
James Michael
$800 [9]
Some wicker furniture is made from the black or basket species of this family of trees, Salicacaea
the willow
$800 [19]
In this Twain tale, Tom Canty is a dead ringer for the future king of England
The Prince and the Pauper
Michael
$800 [2]
To yowl or argue loudly, like a feline in heat
caterwaul
LeeAundra
$1,200 [15]
Shahid translates as this type of person named for his manner of death & buried in the clothes he died in
a martyr
LeeAundra
$1,200 [28]
He's the Warner Brothers hero seen here
Speedy Gonzales
James
$1,200 [23]
One of this nation's largest private universities is the University of the East on Luzon
the Philippines
James
$1,200 [10]
This "quaking" tree has the widest natural range of any American tree, from the Yukon to the Rio Grande
the aspen
DD $1,000 [22]
In this novel, Hugh Conway finds out he's been recruited to replace a very old High Lama
Lost Horizon
LeeAundra
$1,200 [3]
Including the areas of Barcelona & Tarragona, it's an autonomous region of Northern Spain
Catalonia
LeeAundra
$1,600 [16]
Observant Jews buy only kosher meat; observant muslims, only meat that's this rough equivalent
halal
Michael
$1,600 [27]
Appropriately, this was the name of the Jetson's dog
Astro
James
$1,600 [24]
This Montreal school was established in 1829 at Burnside Place, the estate of its founder & namesake
McGill
James
$1,600 [29]
The leaves of a Brazilian palm tree provide this hardest natural wax used in automotive waxes
carnauba
James
$1,200 [20]
Jack Dawkins is the real name of this nimble pickpocket who befriends Oliver Twist
the Artful Dodger
James
$1,600 [4]
A native American tribe of the Carolinas, it's also a variety of grape
Catawba
James
$2,000 [17]
An Islamic term for blessing, it's the last name of controversial writer Amiri, formerly Leroi Jones
Baraka
$2,000 [26]
In this '50s sitcom a banker was haunted by 2 human ghosts & a booze-loving St. Bernard named Neil
Topper
LeeAundra
$2,000 [25]
Holland's oldest university, the State University of Leiden, was founded in 1575 by this father of the Dutch Republic
William of Orange
$2,000 [30]
The baobab tree is also known by this "simian food" name
the monkey bread tree
$1,600 [21]
Harry Haller is the troubled loner in this man's "Steppenwolf"
Hermann Hesse
LeeAundra
$2,000 [5]
"Terrible Swift Sword" & "A Stillness at Appomattox" are 2 of this historian's books on the Civil War
Bruce Catton

Final Jeopardy!

POLITICAL LINGO

Senate Rule 22 governs this; Clinton called it "posturing to prove... a minority can paralyze the federal government"

filibusters

Michael "What is a Fillibuster" — wagered $5,601
James "What is a filibuster?" — wagered $4,000
LeeAundra "What is fillibuster" — wagered $8,401

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