Show #5049 2006-07-20 Regular

Celeste DiNucci game 1.

Contestants

Celeste DiNucci — a grad student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Jim Mainguy — a customer service representative from North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Inie Park — a research associate from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,800)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Inie	$1,600	$1,600	$3,300	$1,799 3rd place: $1,000	$4,400 8 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Jim	$1,800	$3,600	$2,400	$4,800 2nd place: $2,000	$2,400 11 R, 4 W
Celeste	$1,000	$5,200	$12,800	$10,600 New champion: $10,600	$17,600 23 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

1806	LET'S START A CLUB	AROUND THE PLAYBOY MANSION	BOOK SEQUELS?	CONVERSION	ABBREVIATED U.S. STATES
$200 [26] A decree by this man in 1806 dissolved the 1,000-year-old Holy Roman Empire Napoleon	$200 [1] (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the manufacturing facilities of Ping Hdqtrs in Phoenix, AZ.) At Ping, the first step of making golf irons is injecting hot wax into a mold of this malleable, silver-white metallic element aluminum Inie	$200 [8] Hugh Hefner moved full time to the Playboy Mansion West in 1975 after years of living in this hometown Chicago Jim	$200 [3] Arthur Dimmesdale returns (difficult, as he died in the first book) in this 19th c. author's "The Chartreuse Number" Hawthorne Inie Celeste	$200 [10] Chevy says its Avalanche can convert "from a full-size SUV to" this type of truck "in less than a minute" a pickup truck Jim	$200 [17] Also a preposition, the abbreviation for this Midwestern state can mean "popular" or "fashionable" Indiana, IN Celeste
$400 [27] In 1806 this man published his first American English dictionary Webster Celeste	$400 [2] (Sarah reads from the foundry of Ping Hdqtrs in Phoenix, AZ.) About 10% of clubs that are cast for Ping are for this type of golfer, like Phil Mickelson or Mike Weir a left-handed golfer Jim Celeste	$400 [9] Behind the Playboy Mansion's grotto is a pond for these bright Japanese carp koi Celeste	$400 [4] Guy Montag is back, & those books are gonna pay in this author's "Celsius 232.78" Ray Bradbury Inie Jim	$400 [11] In 426 A.D. the Parthenon was converted into a Christian church; around 1460 it was converted into one of these a mosque Celeste	$400 [18] Put "17" with the abbreviation for this state & you get an MPAA movie rating North Carolina, NC Celeste
$600 [28] This future president shot Charles Dickinson dead in an 1806 duel & took a bullet for his trouble Jackson Celeste	$600 [22] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a golf club in the factory of Ping Hdqtrs in Phoenix, AZ.) Anundercutin this part of the G5 club is known by a painful dental term & helps make the club more chunk-resistant a cavity	$600 [15] At the mansion in 2005, Southern belle Tiffany Fallon received this honored title Playmate of the Year Jim	$600 [5] Natty Bumppo discovers there's "The Penultimate Iroquois" in this man's 1820s sequel James Fenimore Cooper	$600 [12] The device called a DAC is a "digital-to-" this "converter" analog	$600 [19] The abbreviation for this state is one of the 3 basic parts of the human psyche, according to Freud Idaho, ID Celeste
—	$800 [23] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew lets off some steam in the foundry at Ping Hdqtrs in Phoenix, AZ.) One of the final steps is pouring this 2-word, rust-resistant alloy at about 2,975 degrees Fahrenheit to cast it as the club head stainless steel Jim	$800 [16] At the Playboy Mansion, see one of the largest privately owned groves of these trees, Sequoia sempervirens redwoods Celeste	$800 [6] Edmond Dantes gets a promotion in this author's 19th c. sequel "The Fresh Prince of Monte Cristo" Alexandre Dumas Jim	$800 [13] Rumpelstiltskin had the ability to spin this into gold straw Celeste	$1,000 [21] Put the abbreviation for this state with "scan" & you get a computerized diagnostic medical technique Connecticut, CT Jim
—	$1,000 [24] (Sarah of the Clue Crew selects a putter fresh off the factory line at Ping Hdqtrs in Phoenix, AZ.) With a big sweet spot, a Ping putter has high M.O.I., or "moment of" this, meaning it doesn't twist much on impact inertia	$1,000 [25] At the Mansion is a frieze showing this Roman dawn deity "scattering flowers before the chariot of the sun" Aurora	$1,000 [7] Jose Arcadio Buendia is back a-buildin' in this author's 1960s book "25 More Years of Me-Time" Gabriel García Márquez Inie	$1,000 [14] Chase's MasterCard charges an extra 1% for converting these, like riyals, on your bill foreign currencies Inie	DD $1,200 [20] The 2 states whose abbreviations are informal words for father & mother Pennsylvania, PA & Massachusetts, MA Celeste

Double Jeopardy! Round

BRITISH POETS	COAL RIDGE	MARVEL	POPE	TED'S HUES	WORD'S WORTH
$400 [1] Some of this Bombay-born man's better-known poems are "Danny Deever" & "Mandalay" Kipling Jim	$400 [26] Coal dust is very explosive, so mines are sprayed with "dust" from this common calcium-rich sedimentary rock limestone Jim	$400 [16] "Mr. McGee, don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry" is a line from this "muscular" 1970s TV show The Incredible Hulk Celeste	$400 [21] In 1978 he became the first pope under the age of 60 to be elected in more than 130 years John Paul II Jim	$400 [11] Ted is envious of Libya's flag because it has just this one color green Inie	$400 [6] 4 letters, score 22:Type of show you're on quiz Celeste
$800 [2] This poet baron who fought for Greek independence also fought Lord Elgin's removal of the Greek marbles Lord Byron Celeste	$800 [27] The "hard" glossy black coal that's mined with the highest fixed carbon content is this type anthracite Celeste	$800 [17] Hey bub, this X-Man had adamantium claws, rad muttonchops & probably preferred U. of Michigan teams Wolverine Inie	$800 [22] Pope Leo X famously excommunicated this reformer in 1521 Martin Luther Celeste	$800 [12] Ted was accused of being this type of journalist after writing sensational headlines yellow Inie Jim	$800 [7] 3 letters, score 15:Wilmer Valderrama knows it "tops" some Moroccans fez Celeste
$1,200 [3] As a group, Coleridge, Wordsworth & Southey are often known by this "aquatic" term the "Lake Poets" Celeste	$1,200 [28] It's the condition also known as anthracosis, associated with coal miners black lung Inie	$1,200 [18] Some critics decided mourning became Jennifer Garner when she played this title character in 2005 Elektra Celeste	DD $1,100 [24] Vatican apartments originally built for Alexander VI are named for this power-hungry family of his the Borgias Inie	$1,200 [13] This color "shift", a change observed in spectral lines, gives astronomers like Ted a good idea of galactic motion red Celeste	$1,200 [8] 6 letters, score 23:Named for a Greek God, it's a gentle breeze from the west zephyr
$1,600 [4] The "Churchyard Poets" are so named because they follow in the shadow of this Brit's 1750 elegy Thomas Gray Celeste	—	$1,600 [19] This hero used Dr. Donald Blake & Sigurd Jarlson as aliases & tips the scales at a thunder-god-like 6'6", 640 pounds Thor Jim	$1,200 [23] A Vatican mass in 2006 honored the 500 years of this colorfully attired group's service to the pope the Swiss Guard Inie	$2,000 [15] Ted's fond of the orange shade of this color, Latin for "little worm", used to paint the Golden Gate Bridge vermillion Celeste	$1,600 [9] 8 letters, score 26:Eponymous adjective describing Sancho Panza's boss quixotic Celeste
$2,000 [5] This poet/playwright published his folio of works in 1616, a full 7 years before Shakespeare's Ben Jonson Celeste	—	$2,000 [20] This Marvel superhero is King of Atlantis Sub-Mariner Jim	$2,000 [25] In 787, during Pope Adrian I's reign, the 2nd Council of this "creed" city tried to resolve the iconoclatic controversy Nicaea Inie Celeste	DD $5,200 [14] Ted was in Ankara when he learned this bluish hue's name was derived from a Western Asian republic turquoise Celeste	$2,000 [10] 6 letters, score 24:Composed of silicon dioxide, it's the most abundant mineral on Earth's surface quartz Inie Jim

Final Jeopardy!

EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

This co-principality is considered to have had the last remnant of Medieval Europe's feudal system

Andorra

Jim "What is Andorra?" — wagered $2,400

Inie "What is Schleswig-Holstein?" — wagered $1,501

Celeste "What is Monaco?" — wagered $2,200

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