Show #4567 2004-06-15 (taped 2004-03-02) Regular

Ken Jennings game 10.

Contestants

David Steinhardt — a writer from Quarry Hill, Vermont

Karen Gasperino — an administrative assistant from Las Vegas, Nevada

Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 9-day cash winnings total $291,158)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ken $6,400 $10,400 $35,000 $50,000
10-day champion: $341,158
$32,600
40 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Karen $800 $1,600 $2,000 $3,000
3rd place: $1,000
$2,000
5 R, 1 W
David $600 $2,200 $5,800 $5,800
2nd place: $2,000
$5,800
9 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

NATION"Z" HOME, SWEET TELEVISION HOME FASHION CELEBRITY AILMENTS THE NAME GAME 3-LETTER WORDS
$200 [1]
This country has numerous national parks including Fiordland, Tongariro & Abel Tasman
New Zealand
Ken
$200 [6]
Send mail to this critter c/o the Ranger's Station, Jellystone Park
Yogi Bear
Ken
$200 [26]
The lowest button of this sleeveless part of a 3-piece suit is left open, which some trace to Edward VII's large royal gut
the vest
Ken
$200 [14]
In the 1960s Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with a disease named for this famous athlete
Lou Gehrig
Ken
$200 [11]
"Gilligan's Island" resident who is Barbie's little sister
Skipper
Ken
$200 [17]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew punches in from Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn.) Terms for boxing punches include uppercut, hook & this 3-letter word
jab
Ken
$400 [2]
South America's largest known petroleum deposits lie in this country's Maracaibo Basin
Venezuela
Karen David
$400 [7]
Sometime in the 23rd century & somewhere in the Alpha Quadrant, Lt. Uhura makes her home on this vessel
the Enterprise
David
$400 [27]
Style.com reports some of these shown by Gaultier "were short enough to be belts"
miniskirts
Ken
$400 [22]
(I'm Jerome Bettis of the NFL.) As a sufferer from this condition, I've testified on Capitol Hill about the need to keep inhalers on the market
asthma
Ken
$400 [12]
Stooge name of Elizabeth Taylor's last husband
Larry
Karen
$400 [18]
It's the elongated core in which the grains of an ear of corn are embedded
cob
Ken
$600 [3]
Its Latin name, Helvetia, appears on its coins & stamps
Switzerland
Ken
$600 [8]
Micky, Mike, Davy & Pete all lived together at 1334 N. Beechwood Dr. in Los Angeles on this show
The Monkees
Ken
$800 [29]
In the 1800s the height of these posed a storage problem until Antoine Gibus made them collapsible
top hats
David
$600 [23]
Hepatitis C is not named for this sufferer, the C in the singing group CSN
David Crosby
Ken
$600 [13]
Santa's reindeer promoted by Josephine the Plumber
Comet
David
$600 [19]
These 23-letter words form the name of a synonym for rap music
hip hop
Ken
$800 [4]
It was once known as Portuguese East Africa
Mozambique
Ken
$800 [9]
A lavish gadget-laden railroad car called the "Nimrod" housed & transported this show's heroes
The Wild Wild West
Ken
$1,000 [30]
Thisclassic pattern with a dental name always comes back into fashion
houndstooth
Ken
$800 [24]
Musician Michael Wolff suffers from this, inspiring his wife Polly Draper to write the film "The Tic Code"
Tourette's syndrome
Karen
$800 [15]
Dumas Musketeer who got his own fragrance in 1964
Aramis
Ken
$800 [20]
A confused & noisy clamor
din
David
$1,000 [5]
The Baykonur Cosmodrome, Russia's space-launch facility, is actually in this nation
Kazakhstan
Ken
$1,000 [10]
A Depression-era family live on their own mountain in Jefferson County, Virginia on this show
The Waltons
Ken
DD $1,800 [28]
Some people mentally add "L-Y" to this brand of super-comfy Australian sheepskin boots
Ugg
Ken
$1,000 [25]
Kathleen Turner is a sufferer of & spokesperson about R.A., short for this
rheumatoid arthritis
$1,000 [16]
'N Sync member or an illiterate 6th century Byzantine Emperor who had to use a stencil to sign his name
Justin
Ken
$1,000 [21]
From the Latin for "nothing", it's nothing, nada, zip, zero
nil
Ken

Double Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS AMERICANS HITS OF THE '60s LAST WORDS MIND YOUR SCIENCE "P"s & "Q"s PHOTOGRAPHY SCRAMBLED STATE CAPITALS
$400 [17]
He once promised, "As long as there is imagination left in the world" his theme park would never be completed
Walt Disney
Ken
$400 [1]
In 1967 Aretha Franklin proved she could S-P-E-L-L with this song, one of the biggest solo hits of her career
"Respect" ("R-E-S-P-E-C-T" accepted)
Ken
$400 [7]
According to his lawyer, Joe DiMaggio died with this woman's name on his lips
Marilyn Monroe
Ken
$400 [16]
It's nothing to write home about, but the hollow spines on a hedgehog are called these
quills
Karen
$400 [28]
Use this device with telescoping legs when slow shutter speed requires a steady camera
tripod
Ken
$400 [3]
OXEN HIP
Phoenix
Ken
$800 [19]
Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle! They're the opposing minds seenhereduring the 1925 Scopes trial
Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan
Ken
$800 [2]
In 1963 Bobby Vinton had 2 consecutive top 3 hits with this color in the titles
blue
David
$800 [12]
Book that ends, "...Aunt Sally, she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before"
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
David
$800 [18]
You may have noticed that this planet isn't on the same ecliptic plane as the others in the solar system
Pluto
David
$800 [29]
Popular in the 1800s, itwas produced on a sheet of metal, but not the one in its name
tintype
$800 [8]
IN SLANG
Lansing
Ken
$1,200 [20]
Helen Keller's "Miracle Worker", this teacher was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2003
Annie Sullivan
David
$1,200 [4]
Producer Phil Spector played the guitar solo on this R&B vocal group's 1963 Top 10 hit "On Broadway"
The Drifters
$1,200 [13]
At the end of this 1960 Billy Wilder comedy, Shirley MacLaine settles down to a card game & says, "Shut up and deal!"
The Apartment
Ken
$1,200 [23]
The eggs of the Japanese species of this small game bird were studied on the Mir Space Station
quail
Ken
$1,600 [27]
A flaw in some pictures, here it's used for artistic effect above the subject's head
lens flare
Ken
$1,200 [9]
OILY MAP
Olympia
Ken
$1,600 [21]
California governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. went by the name Jerry; his father, also governor, went by this nickname
Pat
Ken
$1,600 [5]
Its lyrics include "We always take my car 'cause it's never been beat, and we've never missed yet with the girls we meet"
"I Get Around"
Ken
DD $1,600 [14]
This 1892 Leoncavallo opera ends with "La commedia e finita", or "The comedy is finished"
I Pagliacci
Ken
$1,600 [24]
The Titanic sank with its artifacts to 12,500 feet, where this is measured at about 380 atmospheres
pressure
Ken
$2,000 [26]
In darkroom chemicals, this one is used to arrest the action of the developer
a stop bath
Ken Karen
$1,600 [10]
ILL SHAVEN
Nashville
$2,000 [22]
In 1917 this Montanan became the first woman member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Jeannette Rankin
Ken
$2,000 [6]
In 1968 the Lemon Pipers asked us to "Listen while I play" this colorful title instrument
the green tambourine
Karen
$2,000 [15]
This president's last words referred to his wife: "I know that I am going where Lucy is"
Rutherford B. Hayes
Ken David
$2,000 [25]
Sadly, James Joyce died before these hypothetical particles were named for a word he used in "Finnegans Wake"
a quark
David
DD $5,400 [30]
He first took an interest in photography during a family trip to Yosemite in 1916
Ansel Adams
Ken
$2,000 [11]
MACK RIBS
Bismarck
Ken

Final Jeopardy!

CLASSIC LITERATURE

"Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man..." is the epigraph to this 1818 novel

Frankenstein

Karen "What is Frankenstein?" — wagered $1,000
David "What is Frankenstein? [picture of Frankenstein's monster]" — wagered $0
Ken "What is Frankenstein?" — wagered $15,000

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