Show #5181 2007-03-05 (taped 2006-12-06) Regular

Contestants

Eileen Loechel — an operations manager from River Forest, Illinois

David Wlody — a physician from New York, New York

Margaret Tennison — a retired paralegal from Vienna, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Margaret $800 $1,600 $5,400 $2,798
3rd place: $1,000
$5,600
12 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
David $1,600 $4,200 $9,400 $7,999
2nd place: $2,000
$9,400
17 R, 4 W
Eileen $-400 $5,000 $20,000 $19,800
New champion: $19,800
$21,400
25 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

POLITICS PUPPET-POURRI THE WEATHER REPORT GLOBAL "WARM"ING FACT OR FICTION?
$200 [1]
The Nov. 2006 elections made this person the highest of Italian ethnicity in the order of U.S. pres. succession
Nancy Pelosi
Margaret
$200 [4]
Every Who down in Who-ville knows puppets around in this 2006 Dr. Seuss Broadway musical
How The Grinch Stole Christmas!
Eileen
$200 [22]
In a marine push, when ocean air replaces the existing air mass, this happens to the temperature
it goes down (or gets colder)
Margaret Eileen
$200 [7]
In 1979 this country's Pahlavi Dynasty was deposed & had to flee into exile
Iran
David
$200 [13]
A party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new residence
a housewarming
Margaret
$200 [12]
John Humphreys said he created the bodies seen in "Alien Autopsy", a video showing beings that "died" near this N.M. city
Roswell
Eileen
$400 [2]
In Congress, this person who keeps members in line has the highest leadership job after Majority & Minority Leader
the Whip
Margaret
$400 [25]
In the musical "Baker Street", this queen's Diamond Jubilee Parade was brought to life by marionettes
Victoria
Margaret David
DD $400 [23]
The first documented successful forecast of this was by 2 Air Force officers in 1948 in Oklahoma
a tornado
Margaret
$400 [8]
Of Dutch Guiana, French Guiana or British Guiana, the one that is still known by that name today
French Guiana
Margaret David Eileen
$400 [14]
Proverbially, if you have cold hands, you also have this
warm heart
David
$400 [18]
Tiger Woods, move over; this Asian leader claims to have shot 11 holes-in-one the first time he played golf
Kim Jong-il
David
$600 [3]
In 2000 this party nominated Ralph Nader for president; in 2004 its standard-bearer was David Cobb
the Green Party
David
$600 [26]
In Erik Sanko's puppet play "The Fortune Teller", Marionettes represent the 7 these, including wrath & gluttony
the Deadly Sins
Eileen
$600 [24]
It's officially called dense when it reduces visibility to 1/8 mile
fog
Eileen
$600 [9]
Found inside another country, this "Most Serene Republic" is also the most small republic in Europe
San Marino
Margaret
$600 [15]
Slang for a baseball player who rarely gets to play
a benchwarmer
Eileen
$600 [19]
Der Stern called its $3.8 million purchase of these "diaries" in 1983 "the biggest flop of German press history"
the Hitler Diaries
Margaret
$800 [5]
"Free" political party formed in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery
the Free Soil Party
Margaret David
$800 [27]
A puppet show called "Percy, the Poor Little Penguin" premiered at this store's Herald Square location in 2001
Macy's
Eileen
$800 [29]
This post-shower delight is always in the opposite side of the sky from the sun
a rainbow
Eileen
$800 [10]
Under 1,000 square miles in area, it borders France & has German as an official language
Luxembourg
David
$800 [16]
Adjective for a tepid temperature or a halfhearted conviction
lukewarm
Eileen
$800 [20]
This holy relic turned up at a church in Lirey, France in 1355; radiocarbon tests in 1988 raised questions
the Shroud of Turin
David
$1,000 [6]
In 2002 this Mississippian quit his post as Senate Republican Leader
Trent Lott
David
$1,000 [28]
This late, great "Law & Order" star played the puppeteer who falls in love with Lili in the 1961 musical "Carnival"
Jerry Orbach
Eileen
$1,000 [11]
The history of this European country, whose flag is seen here, goes back 4,000 years
Greece
Margaret David Eileen
$1,000 [17]
FDR died in the Little White House in this Georgia city
Warm Springs
Eileen
$1,000 [21]
Anna Anderson's preserved tissue was DNA tested in 1994 to prove that she wasn't this Grand Duchess
Anastasia
David

Double Jeopardy! Round

FRENCH HISTORY POP GOES THE CULTURE LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "S" A DROP OF IRISH WHISKEY STATUE-ESQUE IN THE DICTIONARY
$400 [1]
Provence got its name from being this empire's first province beyond the Alps
the Roman Empire
Eileen
$400 [2]
Some wondered if she'd be known as "J.Ant." after a surprise marriage, her third, to singer Marc Anthony
Jennifer Lopez
Eileen
$400 [11]
Precipitation "of Kilimanjaro"(5)
snows
Eileen
$400 [26]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Old Jameson Distillery in Dublin, Ireland.) Jameson Irish whiskey is unique in that the malted type of this ingredient is dried in a closed oven so that smoke doesn't interfere
barley
Eileen
$400 [21]
A statue of a WWII flag-raising dedicated to this military service stands near Arlington's entrance
the Marine Corps
David
$400 [16]
An interjection meaning "nonsense", it was often used by Ebenezer Scrooge
(Bah) humbug
Eileen
$800 [7]
On June 28, 1940 the British recognized this man as the leader of Free France
Charles de Gaulle
Eileen
$800 [3]
Jack Handey:"I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula and" him "away"
Superman
David
$800 [12]
Utensil for a "River Anthology"(5)
spoon
Margaret David
$800 [27]
Poteen, a term for illegally made whiskey, is the Irish equivalent of this "lunar" U.S. word
moonshine
Margaret
$800 [23]
The statue seenherefought & won by decision the right to be displayed in front of the museum inthisU.S. city
Philadelphia
David
$800 [17]
The word mustache comes from the Greek mustax, meaning "upper" this
lip
Eileen
$1,200 [8]
18th century kings ran up debts of hundreds of millions of these--not as in books, but as in units of silver currency
livres
David
$1,200 [4]
"Little skirts & stuff aside, I quite enjoyed the costumes (in 'Gladiator')", he said in 2001
(Russell) Crowe
Eileen
$1,200 [13]
"Choice" heroine of a Styron novel(6)
Sophie
David
DD $1,000 [28]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands in front of large tanks containing whiskey in Dublin, Ireland.) The whiskey goes 3 times through this purifying process, the evaporation & collection of a liquid via condensation
distillation
Margaret
$1,200 [24]
This Renaissance nude became Florence's first freestanding sculpture on a plinth since classical times
David
Margaret
$1,200 [18]
It can follow bubble, mud or sponge
bath
Eileen
DD $1,400 [10]
Henri Petain was a hero for the victory at this fortress in 1916, at a cost of over 500,000 French casualties
Verdun
Eileen
$1,600 [5]
This late comic was first cast as Sheriff Bart in "Blazing Saddles" but the studio balked due to his volatile reputation
Richard Pryor
David
$1,600 [14]
Laurence Sterne's Tristram(6)
Shandy
Eileen
$1,600 [22]
A statue in Hampshire of this "Great" king honors his 9th c. rule when he defended against a Viking invasion
Alfred (the Great)
Eileen
$1,600 [19]
In poetry, a closed one is, "A perfect judge will read each work of wit / with the same spirit that its author writ"
a couplet (rhyme later judged acceptable)
Eileen
$1,600 [9]
Beginning in the 1600s, the colony called New France was based around this river explored by Jacques Cartier
St. Lawrence
Eileen
$2,000 [6]
In 2006 at Penn commencement, Yakov Smirnoff got his Masters in positive psych & this "Nell" actress gave a speech
Jodie Foster
Eileen
$2,000 [15]
Novelist Terry, who fed us "Candy"(8)
Southern
David
$2,000 [25]
After it became popular, the statueseenherehad to be moved from the cemetery to this city's Telfair Museum
Savannah
Eileen
$2,000 [20]
A skeptic denies that anything can be known while a radical one of these denies that anything exists
nihilist
David

Final Jeopardy!

STATE CAPITALS

Located in the Central Time Zone, it's the largest city by population to have no MLB, NFL, NBA or NHL team

Austin, Texas

Margaret "What is St. Paul?" — wagered $2,602
David "What isOklahomaOklahoma City?" — wagered $1,401
Eileen "What is Des Moines?" — wagered $200

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