Show #5140 2007-01-05 (taped 2006-11-07) Regular

Contestants

Jeremy Rasmussen — a computer security consultant from Lutz, Florida

Jean Maguire — a stay-at-home mom from Danville, California

Julie Dunlevy — a technology specialist from Louisville, Kentucky (whose 3-day cash winnings total $73,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Julie $3,000 $2,800 $14,000 $14,000
2nd place: $2,000
$16,000
21 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Jean $-800 $2,200 $7,000 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$7,000
14 R, 4 W
Jeremy $2,000 $3,800 $18,200 $28,001
New champion: $28,001
$18,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY OPENINGS BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS NUMBER, PLEASE THEY RODE THE ORIENT EXPRESS OFFAL FRENCH FOOD COMPOUND WORDS
$200 [1]
"Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure... a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte"
Roots
Jeremy
$200 [8]
1980:She was a "coal miner's daughter"
Loretta Lynn
Jeremy
$200 [21]
A silver jubilee honors this anniversary
the 25th
Julie
$200 [26]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Orient Express.) This dancer who traveled Europe on the train aroused suspicion by her affair with the chief of the Kaiser Secret Service & was later executed as a spy
Mata Hari
Jean
$200 [6]
Sounds fancy, but brochettes de foies de volaille are just these chicken organs, skewered
livers
Julie
$200 [16]
To make a good first impression, a "dead fish" one of these is definitely not advised
a handshake
Jean
$400 [2]
"The great fish moved silently through the night water..."
Jaws
Julie
$400 [9]
1989:This comedian was "wired"
(John) Belushi
Jeremy
$400 [22]
To a Hungarian, this number is "hat", though an ancient Roman might ask "vi?"
6
Julie
$400 [27]
This Philadelphia-born ex-actress brunched on one of the last runs of the original train, from Nice to Monte Carlo
Grace Kelly
Jean
$400 [7]
When the French eat this organ, they call it cervelle (wonder if it makes them smarter?)
brains
Jeremy
$400 [17]
Foils & caps are used to create these different-colored strands in your hair
highlights
Julie
$600 [3]
"It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him"
Catch-22
Julie
$600 [10]
1993:Enter this "dragon"
Bruce Lee
Jean
$600 [23]
On the U.S. flag, it's the lucky number of stripes directly to the right of (& not under) the star field
7
Jean
$600 [28]
Thisboy scout founder posed as a butterfly collector and used the Orient Express to sketch Balkan military sites
Lord Baden-Powell
Jeremy
$600 [13]
Let's talk about this organ, which the French call langue
tongue
Jean
$600 [18]
Fred Flintstone could tell you that after you dig through gravel, soil, clay, etc., you hit this solid stuff
bedrock
Julie
$800 [4]
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen"
1984
$800 [11]
2004:He sang "Beyond The Sea"
Bobby Darin
Julie
$800 [24]
Bo Derek knows that Cape Verde's flag has this "perfect" number of stars
10
Jean
$800 [29]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Orient Express.) In 1944, using U.S. funds, this Swede banker rode the Orient Express on a mission of mercy to buy fake papers that helped save Hungary's Jews
(Raoul) Wallenberg
Julie Jean Jeremy
$800 [14]
In the French dish pieds et paquets, the paquets are packets of sheep's tripe & the pieds are these sheep extremities
feet (hooves accepted)
Julie Jeremy
$1,000 [20]
A pluviometer measures it
rainfall
Julie
$1,000 [5]
"Once upon a time and a very good time it wast here was a moocow..."
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Jean
$1,000 [12]
1998:He ran "without limits"
Steven Prefontaine
$1,000 [25]
Herbert P. Windschitl released a 2003 book of this many "affirmations" (just enough for Scheherazade)
1001
Jeremy
$1,000 [30]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Orient Express.) On the "Orient Express", this title gal of a 1928 novel tells her dad she's pregnant & that her hubby isn't the father; actually, it's the gamekeeper
Lady Chatterley
Jeremy
$1,000 [15]
You might queue up for queue de boeuf, a French term for this part of an ox
tail
Julie Jean
DD $2,000 [19]
"Firefly" is a compound word, & so is this term for a wingless firefly
glowworm
Julie

Double Jeopardy! Round

NAME THAT MUSICAL THE KING & I HAIR BYE BYE BIRDIE GREECE "BELL"s ARE RINGING
$400 [3]
"There Is Nothin' Like A Dame"&"Some Enchanted Evening"
South Pacific
Julie
$400 [12]
In 1788 Jacques Necker asked this king to call the Estates-General, which last met in 1614; not the king's best move
Louis XVI
Jean
$400 [2]
If you find yourself sporting this hairstyle, you've been punk'd
a mohawk
Julie
$400 [19]
Incredibly, this variety of pigeon that went extinct in 1914 was once the most abundant bird species in America
a passenger pigeon
Julie Jean
$400 [23]
Greece's easternmost border is with this country with which it has had numerous disputes
Turkey
Julie
$400 [1]
Ja, it's another name for German measles
rubella
Jeremy
$800 [4]
"Marian The Librarian"&"Seventy-Six Trombones"
The Music Man
Julie
$800 [14]
In 1969 Franco said, "Here, king" & named him Spain's head of state upon Franco's leaving office
Juan Carlos
Jeremy
$800 [13]
Colin Quinn, seeing the hair of Trump, Sharpton & this fight promoter, said they "look like the 3 stages of a forest fire"
Don King
Jeremy
$800 [20]
The large moa became extinct by the 19th century after being heavily hunted by these native New Zealand people
the Maori
Jean
$800 [27]
Make no mythtake, this 9,750-foot mountain on the border of Thessaly & Macedonia is Greece's highest
Mount Olympus
Jean Jeremy
$800 [8]
To enhance a statement or story with fictitious additions
to embellish
Jean
$1,200 [5]
"Luck Be A Lady"&"Sit Down, You're Rockin' The Boat"
Guys and Dolls
Julie
$1,200 [15]
On June 15, 1978 American-born Lisa Halaby married this Middle Eastern monarch
King Hussein of Jordan
Jean
$1,200 [16]
In the 1974 picture seen here, Julius Erving sportsthis4-letter hairstyle
an afro
Jeremy
$1,200 [21]
The cuckoo & the crake from this isolated S. Atlantic isle are now extinct; did Napoleon get the munchies?
St. Helena
Julie Jean Jeremy
$1,200 [28]
Greece is bounded on the west by the Ionian Sea, on the south by the Mediterranean Sea & on the east by this sea
the Aegean Sea
Julie
$1,200 [9]
Well, I declare! It means "before the war", like many mansions of the American South
antebellum
Jeremy
$1,600 [6]
"Climb Ev'ry Mountain"&"My Favorite Things"
The Sound of Music
Jeremy
$1,600 [24]
In 1972 King Frederik IX's oldest daughter, Margrethe, succeeded him on the throne of this country
Denmark
Jean
$1,600 [17]
Named after a French marquise, this style is created when a man brushes his hair up high from the forehead
a pompadour
Julie
$1,600 [22]
Over 5 feet tall, Pachydyptes ponderosus was a prehistoric one of these cold-weather birds
a penguin
Jeremy
DD $1,400 [30]
The site of a famous 480 B.C. battle against Persia, this mountain pass' name means "hot gates" in Greek
Thermopylae
Jeremy
$2,000 [11]
Last name of Venetian artists Jacopo, Gentile & Giovanni
Bellini
Jeremy
$2,000 [7]
"I Don't Know How To Love Him"&"Everything's Alright"
Jesus Christ Superstar
Julie
$2,000 [25]
In 324 B.C. at Ecbatana, this king lost his boyhood friend Hephaestion, by then his grand vizier
Alexander (the Great)
Julie
$2,000 [18]
This 'do is all "business in front, party in the back" (it's also a type of fish, which might tell you something)
a mullet
Jeremy
$2,000 [26]
This bird was not "great" at defending itself, & the last specimen was killed in Iceland in 1844
a (great) auk
Julie
$1,600 [29]
Home to the ancient ruined Minoan palace of Knossos, it's Greece's largest island
Crete
Jeremy
DD $3,000 [10]
Alkaloids from this poisonous plant were once used to dilate women's pupils to make them more attractive
belladonna
Jeremy

Final Jeopardy!

PRO FOOTBALL

In 1947 this team chose not to be called the "Nickels" but instead paid homage to a Western hero

the Buffalo Bills

Jean "Who are the Dallas Cowboys?" — wagered $7,000
Julie "Who are the Dallas Cowboys?" — wagered $0
Jeremy "Who are the Buffalo Bills?" — wagered $9,801

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