Show #5153 2007-01-24 (taped 2006-11-15) Regular

Contestants

Emily Seftel — a journalist from Phoenix, Arizona

Su Kim — an accountant from Elgin, Illinois

Freddy Bee — a teacher from La Verne, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Freddy $3,200 $4,200 $8,600 $600
2nd place: $2,000
$8,600
10 R, 1 W
Su $800 $4,000 $21,200 $17,700
New champion: $17,700
$22,400
28 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Emily $600 $3,400 $8,200 $200
3rd place: $1,000
$9,000
12 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

BASIC SCIENCE HOLLYWOOD THRILLER PREVIEWS? LET'S TAKE A PEAK MAYORS IT DON'T MEAN A "THING" IF IT AIN'T GOT THAT SWING
$200 [6]
In North America, these tiny birds are the main birds that pollinate flowers
hummingbirds
Su
$200 [16]
Last year it was Da Vinci; this fall it's nothing but dots & dashes with the...
the Morse Code
Su
$200 [1]
This peak in the Black Hills is 5,725 feet above sea level, or a little over 95 times the height of Washington's head
Mount Rushmore
Emily
$200 [11]
The last 2 Latinos elected mayor of this huge U.S. city are Cristobal Aguilar (1872) & Antonio Villaraigosa (2005)
Los Angeles
Emily
$200 [21]
Zip, nada, el zilcho
nothing
Su
$200 [26]
An athlete who is "swinging for the fences" is playing this sport
baseball
Emily
$400 [7]
Nitrogen makes up around 78% of the atmosphere; this gas, only about 20%
oxygen
Emily
$400 [17]
Finally, this 1963 Betty Friedan book hits the theaters--and wait 'til you see the car chases
The Feminine Mystique
Su
$400 [2]
Venezuela's highest peak is named for this man; there's a bronze bust of him at the summit
(Simon) Bolivar
Freddy
$400 [12]
After this 1906 disaster, Mayor Eugene Schmitz authorized the summary execution of looters
the San Francisco earthquake
Freddy
$400 [22]
A ring for a baby's incisors
teething
Freddy
$400 [27]
It's the activity you're participating in if you're instructed to "swing your partner, do-si-do"
square dancing
Su
DD $800 [8]
At last count, this planet in our solar system had 63 known moons
Jupiter
Emily
$600 [18]
First she was Pam Ewing on "Dallas"; now her name is the must-see film of the year. This summer, she is "The..."
Victoria Principal
Su
$600 [3]
This state's 11,031-foot-high Deseret Peak overlooks Rush Valley
Utah
Emily
$600 [13]
Actress Melina Mercouri ran unsuccessfully for mayor of this foreign city, a post her Grandpa held for 30 years
Athens
Freddy
$600 [23]
Giving a portion of one's income, typically 10%, to one's church
tithing
Freddy
$600 [28]
This rock band sang, "We are the sultans of swing"
Dire Straits
Su
$800 [9]
8 years before "The Origin of Species" was published, this British naturalist wrote a paper on barnacles
Darwin
Su
$800 [19]
This emotional bond to a captor by a hostage due to stress & need for survival is the psychothriller of the summer!
the Stockholm Syndrome
Su
$800 [4]
Canada's highest peak, Mount Logan, lies in the St. Elias Range in the SW corner of this territory
the Yukon
Freddy
$800 [14]
In New Orleans' first post-Katrina mayoral election, this man held on to his job
(Ray) Nagin
Su
$800 [24]
Raiment or apparel
clothing
Emily
$800 [29]
"Swing Time" was the sixth film to team this pair of legendary dancers
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
Emily
$1,000 [10]
At the Earth's surface, this force produces acceleration of about 32 feet per second per second
gravity
Freddy
$1,000 [20]
In Australia, water is going down drains backwards (to us). This fall, Mel Gibson takes on the reason why--this "Effect"
Coriolis
Su
$1,000 [5]
The name of this volcano in Martinique is from the French for "bald mountain"
Mount Pelee
Su
$1,000 [15]
At age 31, though looking more like 13, this future presidential candidate was Cleveland's mayor
Dennis Kucinich
$1,000 [25]
"In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking", now heaven knows, this
"Anything Goes"
Emily
$1,000 [30]
Cool, Daddy-O! The 1939 autobiography by this bandleader was titled "The Kingdom of Swing"
Benny Goodman
Su

Double Jeopardy! Round

PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING DRAMAS SCORING 1807 FOR THE BIRDS BACH IN THE SADDLE CROSSWORD CLUES "D"
$400 [1]
The Pulitzer folks gave "A Delicate Balance" by this playwright a 1967 "Woolf" whistle
Albee
Su
$400 [12]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew indicates a bowling scorecard on the monitor.) In bowling, you score a spare by adding 10 to the number of pins knocked down in this
the first ball of the next frame
Su
$400 [8]
Following his victory in the Battle of Friedland in June, he forced the capitulation of the Russian Empire
Napoleon
Su
$400 [19]
The canvasback is a wild North American variety of this bird
a duck
Freddy Su
$400 [24]
In his youth, Bach played this instrument in church & later was a virtuoso consulted in their crafting
an organ
Su
$400 [6]
One who gives blood(5)
a donor
Su
$800 [2]
David Mamet won in 1984 for this salesman drama whose title includes 2 4-letter words
Glengarry Glen Ross
Emily
$800 [13]
In this sport you score a point for each 42-pound stone closer to the tee than the opponent's nearest stone
curling
Emily
$800 [15]
In September he was acquitted of treason against the U.S.
Aaron Burr
$800 [20]
The genus for this American bird is Turdus; ah, to see the first Turdus of spring
a robin
Su
$800 [25]
Bach often paired a prelude with this form in which a theme is stated, repeated & varied with contrapuntal lines
a fugue
Su
$800 [7]
Conversation for 2 people(8)
a dialogue
Freddy
$1,200 [3]
In 1928 this playwright had a "Strange Interlude"
O'Neill
Su
$1,200 [14]
(Jon of the Clue Crew indicates a baseball scorecard on the monitor.) In baseball, a player singled, stole second, went to third on an error by the second baseman, but was gunned down at home by this player
the right fielder
Emily
$1,200 [16]
Later to lead the revolutionary Redshirts, he was born on the Fourth of July
Garibaldi
Su
$1,200 [21]
One of the 2 U.S. states with a bird in its official state nickname
(One of) Iowa or Louisiana
$1,200 [26]
Bach was a composer of great reknown in this musical era that takes its name from "imperfect pearls"
Baroque
Su
$1,600 [10]
Fate or kismet(7)
destiny
Su
$1,600 [4]
In 1989 her "Heidi Chronicles" was the story of the night; sadly she passed away in 2006
Wasserstein
Su
$1,600 [30]
Figure skating has scrapped the old system, where this number was perfect, for a new one with triple-digit scores
6
Su
$1,600 [17]
In August, this Robert Fulton-built steamship left NYC for Albany on the Hudson River
the Clermont
Su
$1,600 [22]
This long-legged wading bird of the genus Platalea is named for its prominent flatware-like bill
the spoonbill
DD $2,000 [27]
A count's insomnia prompted these pieces that were to be played by a 14-year-old harpsichordist
the Goldberg Variations
Su
DD $2,000 [9]
France's patron saint(5)
Denis
Su
$2,000 [5]
In 1938 this playwright's "Our Town" had some Pulitzer with the voters
(Thornton) Wilder
Su
$2,000 [29]
(Jon indicates a tennis score on the monitor.) In scoring a tennis set, the number in parentheses means the losing player got just two points in this
the tiebreak
Su
$2,000 [18]
In July, Jacobitism ended with the death of Henry Benedict, the last claimant of this royal family to the British throne
the Stuarts
Freddy
$2,000 [23]
The Rainbow variety of this parakeet relative is seen here
a lorikeet
$2,000 [28]
From the Latin for "to sing", only 202 of the 295 of these that Bach wrote in Leipzig survive
cantatas
Freddy
$2,000 [11]
Horn of Africa country(8)
Djibouti
Emily

Final Jeopardy!

FOREIGN CURRENCY

This currency of Costa Rica gets its name from the first European to see the nation

the Colon

Emily "What is Balboa" — wagered $8,000
Freddy "What is a Balboa" — wagered $8,000
Su "What is Pizarro" — wagered $3,500

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