Show #5155 2007-01-26 (taped 2006-11-15) Regular

Contestants

Stephen Cooper — a math teacher from Sandy Springs, Georgia

Nate Meyer — an attorney from Los Angeles, California

Su Kim — an accountant from Elgin, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $29,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Su $1,600 $4,600 $15,000 $16,401
3-day champion: $45,901
$16,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Nate $1,400 $2,600 $8,200 $16,400
2nd place: $2,000
$8,200
17 R, 4 W
Stephen $2,000 $5,200 $5,000 $8,201
3rd place: $1,000
$6,400
15 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

SINGAPORE THIS CATEGORY IS FULL OF BEANS STUPID ANSWERS 19th CENTURY NAMES HEY, "TEX"! YOU MUST BE FROM DALLAS
$200 [15]
More than 75% of Singaporeans are of this ethnicity
Chinese
Nate Stephen
$200 [6]
Disguised as a man, Mollie Bean fought with the 47th North Carolina infantry during this war
the Civil War
Nate
$200 [1]
The Great Hall in Russia's Catherine Palace is adorned with a painting called "The Allegory of" this country
Russia
Su
$200 [16]
On Aug. 16, 1812 British general Sir Isaac Brock captured this Michigan city
Detroit
Nate
$200 [10]
As a noun, it's a reader used by students for a class; an adjective, it can mean typical or classic
textbook
Nate
$200 [30]
Not Crosby or Nash but this supergroup member was born in Dallas Jan. 3, 1945
(Stephen) Stills
Nate
$400 [22]
Singapore's national flower is the Vanda Miss Joaquim, a purple species of this exotic corsage flower
an orchid
Su
$400 [7]
This retailer who lived till age 94 attributed his long life & good health to the time he spent outdoors
L.L. Bean
Su
$400 [2]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Iowa State Fair.) Will Rogers, Jeanne Crain & Pat Boone starred in different versions of this film about a family's adventures at the Iowa State Fair
State Fair
Su
$400 [17]
There's a sucker born every minute, & this showman known for saying it was born on July 5, 1810
(P.T.) Barnum
Nate
$400 [11]
The quality of a surface perceptible to the touch
the texture
Su
$400 [29]
Born Patsy Anne McClenny, she's the Dallas-born beauty seen here--yeah, that's the ticket
Morgan Fairchild
Nate Stephen
$600 [23]
With 4.4 million people in 267 square miles, Singapore is second only to Monaco in this population figure
density
Stephen
$600 [8]
He liked to boast that he was the only "law west of the Pecos"
Judge (Roy) Bean
Su
$600 [3]
Actor Byron Barr changed his name to this after playing a man named Gig Young in the 1942 film "The Gay Sisters"
Gig Young
Su
$600 [18]
In 1894 this man "Familiar" with "Quotations" compiled a "Complete Concordance to" Shakespeare
(John) Bartlett
Stephen
$600 [12]
An emulsion of synthetic rubber or plastic
latex
Stephen
$600 [28]
This Dallas-born pro golfer titled his 1982 autobiography "They Call Me Super Mex"
Lee Trevino
Stephen
$800 [24]
"Lions", actually tigers, once lived on the island, whose name means "lion city" in this ancient language of India
Sanskrit
Nate
$800 [9]
Tarleton Bean, the first curator of fishes at the Smithsonian, was a noted one of these "fish"y scientists
an ichthyologists
Stephen
$800 [4]
Every Friday, the Carillon in Duke University's chapel rings out the song "Dear Old" this
Duke
Nate
$800 [19]
New Year's Eve 1876: actress Georgiana Drew marries into this famous acting family
the Barrymores
Su
DD $1,000 [13]
As a noun, it's a false reason; as a verb, it's to fake an identity to get someone's phone records
pretext
Su
$800 [27]
It was a "family affair" whenever this Dallas-born soul man got the crowd to "Dance To The Music"
Sly Stone
Su
$1,000 [25]
Singapore gained its independence in 1965 from this nation to which it's connected by a causeway
Malaysia
Nate
$1,000 [21]
In 1981, this astronaut gave up his day job & became a painter of pictures like the one seen here
Alan Bean
$1,000 [5]
The number of legs on one of the monopods in the "Narnia" books
1
Stephen
$1,000 [20]
This Frenchman sculpted more than one statue for the NYC area: his statue of Lafayette is in Union Square
(Frédéric) Bartholdi
Su Nate
$1,000 [14]
The words preceding or following a particular word that help explain its full meaning
the context
Stephen
$1,000 [26]
Born in Dallas in 1947, he hit the pop music charts with & like a "Bat Out Of Hell"
Meat Loaf
Stephen

Double Jeopardy! Round

NOVELS FILM SCHOOL PAINTERS & PAINTINGS POTPOURRI SHE USED TO BE IN CHARGE GERMAN
$400 [2]
"The Mission Song" is the 20th novel by this author of spy thrillers like "Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy"
(John) le Carré
Stephen
$400 [11]
It's a close shave for Ice Cube when he sells this title place of business in a 2002 film
Barbershop
Nate
$400 [26]
He painted "Starry Night" in 1889 while checked into an asylum in Saint Remy
Van Gogh
Stephen
$400 [15]
As a winner of this, you may be awakened in Stockholm's Grand Hotel by Swedes in St. Lucia's Day costumes
the Nobel Prize
Stephen
$400 [1]
President Isabel Peron
Argentina
Stephen
$400 [18]
Friedrich Froebe coined this German word for pre-elementary school education (it's the same in English)
kindergarten
Nate
$1,200 [4]
Nathanael West wrote forgettable films like "Let's Make Music" & this 1939 book called the greatest of Hollywood novels
The Day of the Locust
$800 [12]
Viggo Mortensen gave up his sword & tresses to play a small town diner operator with a dark past in this 2005 film
A History of Violence
Nate
$800 [30]
Theodore Blake Bergman's painting seenhereshows Queen Victoria with this Prime Minister
Disraeli
Nate
$800 [16]
These 2 words preceded "England Inne" in the name of a romantic getaway in Stowe, Vermont
Ye Olde
Nate
$800 [5]
Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto
Pakistan
Su Nate
$800 [19]
Ads for Sam Adams have mentioned the Reinheitsgebot, the German purity law for this
beer
Stephen
DD $1,400 [3]
In this Hemingway novel, wounded WWI soldier Frederic really presses the call button of Nurse Catherine
A Farewell to Arms
Stephen
$1,200 [13]
Actually Count Laszlo de Almasy, Ralph Fiennes' character gets this title moniker in a 1996 film due to his amnesia
The English Patient
Stephen
$1,200 [29]
Like David, Edvard Munch did a painting called "The Death" of this man, but he placed him on a bed, not in a bath
Marat
Nate
$1,200 [17]
First 2 words of Variety's headline about rural audiences rejecting rural movies, preceding "Hick Pix"
Sticks Nix
$1,200 [8]
Prime Minister Edith Cresson
France
Su
$1,200 [23]
Take ein Pastille(a lozenge)if you have ein Halsschmerzen(this ailment)
a sore throat
Su
$1,600 [6]
In the Literary Arts stamp series, the vessel behind this writer recalls her famous novel "Ship of Fools"
(Katherine Anne) Porter
Stephen
$1,600 [14]
Harold Pinter wrote this movie in which Meryl Streep is both a 19th c. woman & the actress who plays her
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Nate
$1,600 [28]
In the late 1800s this Frenchman painted a feast of still lifes: "With Plate of Cherries", "With Apples" & "With Onions"
Cézanne
Su
$1,600 [20]
Thisnewsman's long career has included driving Marguerite Oswald to see her son in custody on Nov. 22, 1963
Bob Schieffer
$1,600 [9]
President Vigdis Finnbogadottir
Iceland
Nate
$1,600 [24]
You are permitted to tell us this German word for forbidden
verboten
Su
$2,000 [7]
In 1906 he needed foresight to know that he wouldn't complete the novels in his "Forsyte Saga" until 1921
Galsworthy
Su
$2,000 [22]
In this probing 1959 Preminger film, Jimmy Stewart's a lawyer defending Ben Gazzara in a murder trial
Anatomy of a Murder
$2,000 [27]
This famous Jean-Francois Millet painting shows 3 women picking up the remains left after a harvest
The Gleaners
Su Stephen
$2,000 [21]
In "Gulliver's Travels", Swift described this type of creature as "the most unteachable of all brutes"
a Yahoo
Nate Stephen
$2,000 [10]
Prime Minister Kim Campbell
Canada
Su
DD $2,000 [25]
Kleine is this adjective, as in "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"
little
Su

Final Jeopardy!

ANIMALS

The world's largest invertebrate, it plays a prominent part in an 1870 French novel & a 1954 film

the giant squid

Stephen "What is the giant squid?" — wagered $3,201
Nate "What is the Giant Squid?" — wagered $8,200
Su "What is a giant squid?" — wagered $1,401

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