Show #4950 2006-03-03 Regular

Contestants

Kim Clemmer — a PC technician from Leesburg, Florida

Deborah Melman-Clement — a writer and entrepreneur from Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Jack Deschauer — a public relations professional from Arlington, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jack $2,400 $4,000 $4,000 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$5,600
14 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Deborah $1,200 $2,400 $6,800 $3,199
New champion: $3,199
$8,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Kim $1,000 $3,600 $5,200 $2,399
2nd place: $2,000
$7,200
15 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

STATE CAPITAL BIRTHPLACES CLASSIC SPORTS COMMERCIALS LIFE OF PIE THAT IS LIKE SO LAST CENTURY DANCE "N" THE BEGINNING
$200 [6]
Surfer & Olympic swimmer Duke Kahanamoku
Honolulu
Jack
$200 [1]
Horses of this breed "usually go for two" playing football in a Budweiser spot
Clydesdales
Deborah
$200 [21]
"Joy of Cooking" laments the disappointment of this pie topping, stiffly beaten egg whites & sugar, when it puddles
meringue
Deborah
$200 [16]
Nikita Khrushchev was a shoe-in... make that a shoe off at a meeting of this organization on Oct. 12, 1960
the United Nations
Deborah
$200 [26]
In this "national" folk dance, you dance around the brim of a sombrero
the Mexican hat dance
Kim
$200 [11]
He's the rock 'n' roll guitar legend who infected us with 1977's "Cat Scratch Fever"
Ted Nugent
Deborah
$400 [7]
Former senator Barry Goldwater
Phoenix
Kim
$400 [2]
Yao, Yogi & "yo" all played a part in an ad for this credit card company
Visa
Deborah
$400 [22]
The sour types of this fruit, like the Montmorency, make excellent pies
cherries
Kim
$400 [17]
1965 amendments to the Social Security Act, titles 18 & 19, created these 2 huge healthcare programs
Medicare & Medicaid
Kim
$400 [27]
You may feel like you're between heaven & hell when you bend over backward to do this under-the-stick dance
the limbo
Deborah
$400 [12]
In 1016 Olaf II Haraldsson effectively became its king & later its patron saint
Norway
Deborah
$600 [8]
Bestselling author Margaret Mitchell
Atlanta
Kim
$600 [3]
Young Michael Jordan matches up against older Michael Jordan in a clever commercial for this beverage
Gatorade
Jack
$600 [23]
An old rhyme says that this "without some cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze"
apple pie
Kim
$600 [18]
A patent for the first successfully manufactured electric razor was issued to this man in November 1928
Jacob Schick
Jack Deborah
$600 [28]
"Bring in 'da noise, bring in 'da funk", bring in Savion Glover, famous as a performer of this type of dance
tap dance
Jack
$600 [13]
Nocturnal avian name of the F-117A fighter seen here
the Nighthawk
Jack
$800 [9]
Senator Patrick Leahy
Montpelier
Jack Kim
$800 [4]
In an ad for Nike, these 2 Americans played an epic game of tennis through the streets of NYC
Andre Agassi & Pete Sampras
Jack
$800 [24]
This Southern pie with an insect name really is green & often has a cookie-crumb crust
grasshopper pie
Jack
$800 [19]
Adman Hal Riney came up with the 1984 Reagan slogan "It's" this "again in America"
morning
$800 [29]
I always get a kick out of this dance that's performed to the music heard here
the can-can
Jack
$800 [14]
Its "Image Awards" go to those who contribute positive images of people of color in film, TV & theater
the NAACP
Kim
DD $1,600 [10]
Confederate Civil War general George Edward Pickett
Richmond
Jack
$1,000 [5]
In Miller Lite ads, he was inevitably moved to the worst seat in the house while saying, "I must be in the front row"
Bob Uecker
Jack
$1,000 [25]
It's the "structural" name for the top crust of a pie that has strips of dough in a crisscross pattern
lattice
Kim
$1,000 [20]
Composed around 1905, this Debussy symphonic work contains the movement "Play of the Waves"
La mer
$1,000 [30]
Mayim, a popular folk dance from this country, means "water" in the native language
Israel
Deborah
$1,000 [15]
In 612 B.C. rebel armies systematically burned & destroyed this ancient Assyrian capital
Nineveh

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC NEW HAMPSHIRE A MICHAEL DOUGLAS FILM FESTIVAL NATURAL BORN KILTERS RATING SCALES A LITTLE WINE A NICE "VIN"TAGE
$400 [26]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Bretton Woods Mountain Resort in New Hampshire.) In 1944 the Washington Mountain Resort in Bretton Woods hosted theconferencethat set up these two major international financial institutions
the International Monetary Fund & the World Bank
$400 [1]
1987:"It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation"
Wall Street
Jack
$400 [21]
A true Pittsburgh Steeler, he was born in Dunfermline, Scotland in 1835
Andrew Carnegie
Deborah
$400 [16]
On the explosivity index for these, Krakatoa got a 6 but Tambora in 1812 rated a 7
volcanoes
Jack
$400 [6]
This sheep-raising region of northeastern France is synonymous with a type of white sparkling wine
Champagne
Kim
$400 [11]
Athletes Testaverde or Del Negro
Vinny
Jack
DD $400 [29]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the State House in Concord, NH.) The State House has aportraitof this youngest speaker of the New Hampshire House; he was later president of the United States at age 48
Franklin Pierce
Deborah
$800 [2]
1987:"She keeps calling the apartment... I'm scared, Jimmy, and I don't want to lose my family"
Fatal Attraction
Deborah
$800 [22]
Kirriemuir, Scotland must have seemed like Neverland to this author born there in 1860
(James) Barrie
Deborah
$800 [17]
A Gemological Institute of America scale for these runs from D, colorless, to Z, light yellow
diamonds
Kim
$800 [7]
Spanish mission padres introduced wine grapes to this valley where vineyards like Robert Mondavi are based
Napa
Kim
$800 [12]
A dilute acetic acid made by fermenting wine, beer or cider
vinegar
Kim
$800 [27]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Portsmouth, NH.) Washington was too warm, so in 1905, Portsmouth was the site of the negotiations & treaty signing ending this war
the Russo-Japanese War
Deborah Kim
$1,200 [3]
1995:"The White House is the single greatest home-court advantage in the modern world"
The American President
Jack
$1,200 [23]
Of the last 5 British prime ministers, the one born in Scotland
Tony Blair
$1,600 [19]
Zero on the Danjon Scale of these events means Earth's satellite is nearly invisible
lunar eclipses
Jack Kim
$1,200 [8]
Soon after becoming the first winemaker in the Bible, he became the first Biblical man to get drunk
Noah
$1,200 [13]
The act of proving someone or something is blameless
to vindicate
Jack
$1,200 [28]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, NH.) The home of this orator & statesman who won the case of McCulloch v. Maryland in 1819 still stands in Portsmouth
Daniel Webster
$1,600 [4]
1993:"I am not a vigilante. I'm just trying to get home to my little girl's birthday party"
Falling Down
Deborah
$1,600 [24]
He was born in East Lothian, Scotland in 1848, & his "Declaration" supported the creation of the State of Israel
Balfour
Deborah
DD $2,000 [18]
Zero is "exclusively heterosexual" on a scale for men that's named for this scientist
Kinsey
Kim
$1,600 [9]
From the Latin for "cup", it's the special cup used in Catholic churches to hold consecrated wine during a mass
a chalice
Deborah
$1,600 [14]
An archaic adjective meaning able to be defeated or conquered
vincible
$2,000 [30]
(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Mt. Washington in New Hampshire.) Mt. Washington was named in 1784; Adams, Madison, & the other peaks in this range had to wait until 1820
the Presidental Range
Kim
$2,000 [5]
1996:"Lions don't do this... they're doing it for the pleasure"
The Ghost and the Darkness
$2,000 [25]
A part of this philosopher's human nature was to be born in Edinburgh in 1711
David Hume
Deborah
$2,000 [20]
The universe's background radiation is about 3 on this temperature scale
the Kelvin scale
Kim
$2,000 [10]
To wash down your seafood in Spain, order a glass of Manzanilla, one of these fortified wines
sherry
Jack Kim
$2,000 [15]
Over 16,000 feet high, this "Massif" is the highest peak in Antarctica
Vinson Massif
Kim

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN LITERATURE

This 1906 novel says, "Now & then a visitor wept, to be sure; but this slaughtering machine ran on, visitors or no..."

The Jungle

Jack "What is Slaughterhouse Five?" — wagered $4,000
Kim "What is Slaughterhouse 5?" — wagered $2,801
Deborah "What is an American Tragedy" — wagered $3,601

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