Show #5208 2007-04-11 (taped 2007-01-30) Regular

Contestants

Tim Woodward — a teacher from Salem, New Hampshire

Karen Anderson — a private investigator from Half Moon Bay, California

Kate Zimmermann — a prosecutor from Bakersfield, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $4,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kate $0 $3,000 $11,000 $8,500
2nd place: $2,000
$11,000
14 R, 2 W
Karen $7,600 $10,200 $24,000 $22,500
New champion: $22,500
$20,400
25 R (including 3 DDs), 4 W
Tim $2,400 $4,200 $6,200 $1,399
3rd place: $1,000
$6,200
14 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

COLONIAL AMERICA WORLD CAPITALS BY AIRPORT NAME THAT POET THE "SIT"UATION ROOM ROCK ROLE
$200 [21]
In 1737 in Boston, the Charitable Irish Society held the first municipal celebration of this holiday
St. Patrick's Day
Karen
$200 [2]
Dulles
Washington, D.C.
Tim
$200 [26]
"One if by land, and two, if by sea; and I on the opposite shore will be"
Longfellow
Tim
$200 [7]
This Sioux chief led warriors in the Battle of the Rosebud
Sitting Bull
Karen
$200 [1]
For hundreds of years, the Barbary apes have rocked atop the world-famous Rock of this
Gibraltar
Karen
$200 [16]
Danny Kaye sang about "Wonderful Copenhagen" when he played this role on film in 1952
Hans Christian Andersen
Kate
$400 [22]
Thomas Jefferson laid the foundation of this home in 1769
Monticello
Karen
$400 [3]
Orly
Paris
Tim
$400 [27]
"Then Sally and I saw them run down the hall. We saw those two Things bump their kites on the wall"
Dr. Seuss
Kate
$400 [8]
It was famously torpedoed & sunk in May 1915 with a loss of nearly 1,200 lives
the Lusitania
Tim
$400 [12]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a Broadway stage.) If you know the name for a group of lions, you can guess the name of this famous rock, here on the set of The Lion King
Pride Rock
Tim
$400 [17]
(Hi, I'm Sam Waterston, and) I'm a huge fan of this American president & I've been lucky enough to play him on Broadway & in a TV miniseries
Abraham Lincoln
Karen
$600 [23]
In 1614 Presbyterian minister Alexander Whitaker baptized this daughter of Powhatan in Jamestown
Pocahontas
Kate
$600 [4]
Templehof
Berlin
Kate Karen
$600 [28]
"Don Juan's parents lived beside the river, a noble stream, and call'd the Guadalquivir"
Lord Byron
$600 [9]
Ravi Shankar is a virtuoso on it
the sitar
Karen
$600 [13]
Images carved on rocks by people of the past are a highlight of Petroglyph Nat'l Monument in this SW state
New Mexico
Kate Karen
$600 [18]
In the 1946 film "The Green Years", she played the daughter of her real-life husband Hume Cronyn
Jessica Tandy
Karen
$800 [24]
The Stamp Act was repealed soon after this Founding Father argued against it in Britain's Parliament
Benjamin Franklin
Tim
$800 [5]
Jose Marti
Havana
Karen
$800 [29]
"Reel'd from the sabre-stroke shatter'd and sunder'd. Then they rode back, but not, not the six hundred"
Tennyson
Tim
$800 [10]
12-letter term for a college course needed to be taken & passed before you can take another one
prerequisite
Karen
$1,000 [15]
You'll find this geological attraction about 280 miles from Alice Springs
Ayers Rock
Tim
$800 [19]
(Hi, I'm Christopher Meloni of Law & Order: SVU.) For some reason, Julia Roberts decided to flee from marrying me when I played her fiance Coach Bob in this 1999 film
Runaway Bride
Kate
$1,000 [25]
In 1765 this orator proclaimed that the House of Burgesses, not Britain, had the "exclusive right...to lay taxes"
Patrick Henry
Kate
$1,000 [6]
Schiphol Airport
Amsterdam
Karen
$1,000 [30]
"Who mourns for Adonais? Oh, come forth, fond wretch!"
Shelley
$1,000 [11]
This Alaskan city shares its name with a type of spruce
Sitka
Karen
DD $3,000 [14]
The Colonial Dames donated an elegant portico that was erected around this rock in 1920
Plymouth Rock
Karen
$1,000 [20]
Dorothy Comingore played a character based on actress Marion Davies in this classic 1941 film
Citizen Kane
Karen

Double Jeopardy! Round

POSSESSED HE WAS IN THE TOP 40? GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS POLITICAL NICKNAMES IT'S HARD OUT HERE FOR A PUMP 4-LETTER ABBREV.
$400 [6]
Spanish for "rich port", it was ceded to the U.S. in 1898
Puerto Rico
Karen
$400 [1]
In 1978 this comedian & "the Toot Uncommons" dug up a No. 17 hit with "King Tut"
Steve Martin
Kate
$400 [24]
Attended by 14,178 people, the largest one of these was held in Japan, not in Boston Harbor
a tea party
Tim
$400 [17]
A dictator:Il Duce
Mussolini
Karen Tim
$400 [11]
Atrial fibrillation may reduce the efficiency of this pump, especially the atrium
the heart
Tim
$400 [12]
Internet gratitude:TYVM
thank you very much
Tim
$800 [7]
A battle was fought over Midway atoll; now it's officially this peaceful type of "refuge", like for albatross
a wildlife refuge
Karen
$800 [2]
Cheech teamed with Chong for 3 Top 40s, but this "Nash Bridges" star duetted with Streisand to make the charts
Don Johnson
Karen
$800 [25]
Pictured here, Robert Wadlow, the guy in the middle, holds this world record
the world's tallest man
Tim
$800 [18]
A 19th century British prime minister:Dizzy
Benjamin Disraeli
Kate
$800 [22]
Leo Szilard & this more-famous Euro-American physicist worked together to develop a refrigeration pump
Albert Einstein
$800 [13]
Law north of the border:RCMP
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Kate
$1,600 [9]
Saipan, Tinian & Rota are the main islands in the Northern this group, made a commonwealth in 1986
Marianas
Karen
$1,200 [3]
This "Thorn Birds" star had 3 Top 40s, including the "Theme From Dr. Kildare"
(Richard) Chamberlain
Kate
DD $1,000 [28]
As of 2004, Shunpei Yamakazi of Semiconductor Energy Labs of Japan held more of these than anyone else, 3,245
patents
Karen
$1,200 [19]
A 20th century U.S. president:Poppy
George Herbert Walker Bush
$1,200 [23]
Joe Dumars could tell you that reciprocating pumps have one of these moving back & forth to regulate flow
a piston
Kate Karen
$1,200 [14]
A school near the Rio Grande:UTEP
University of Texas - El Paso
Tim
$2,000 [10]
Navassa Island was claimed with this appropriately named 1856 Act of Congress because of its bird, uh, fertilizer
the Guano Act
Karen
$1,600 [4]
Aw, Pa! "Bonanza" was the B-side of his No. 1 1964 hit "Ringo"
Lorne Greene
Karen
$1,600 [27]
Ralf Laue of Germany tossed more than 400 of these in 2 minutes, & it wasn't even on a Shrove Tuesday
pancakes
Kate
$1,600 [20]
A member of the post-WWI Big Four:Le Tigre
Georges Clemenceau
Karen
$1,600 [29]
This ancient Greek's "screw" aided in pumping water from deep in the ground
Archimedes
Kate Tim
$1,600 [15]
It includes AT&T:DJIA
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Kate
DD $2,800 [8]
This U.S. territory was named for "martyred maiden" Saint Ursula by Christopher Columbus
the Virgin Islands
Karen
$2,000 [5]
In 1958 this actor, famous as Thurston Howell III, charted with "Delicious!"
(Jim) Backus
Kate
$2,000 [26]
In 1989 this "Lord of the Dance" set a record as the world's fastest tap dancer, with 28 taps per second
Michael Flatley
Karen
$2,000 [21]
A French clergyman:The Red Eminence
(Cardinal) Richelieu
Karen
$2,000 [30]
Rotary pumps are also known as this type of pump, from the Latin for "to flee the middle"
centrifugal
Karen
$2,000 [16]
It certifies albums platinum:RIAA
Recording Industry Association of America

Final Jeopardy!

THE GREEK ALPHABET

Of the 24 letters of the Greek alphabet, it's the only one that ends in an English letter that none of the others does

Rho

Tim "What is tau? (go rams)" — wagered $4,801
Kate "What is Epsilon" — wagered $2,500
Karen "What is N" — wagered $1,500

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