Show #5209 2007-04-12 (taped 2007-01-30) Regular

Contestants

Chris Dellicarpini — a screenwriter from South Huntington, New York

Jen Benedict — a grad student from Fredericksburg, Virginia

Karen Anderson — a private investigator from Half Moon Bay, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Karen $600 $1,000 $16,800 $16,900
2nd place: $2,000
$14,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Jen $2,600 $5,000 $3,000 $3,000
3rd place: $1,000
$3,000
10 R, 3 W
Chris $5,200 $6,600 $15,600 $25,199
New champion: $25,199
$16,800
22 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

EYE ON ASIA YOU'VE GOT COMPANY TITLES OF PRINCE CHARLES I FEEL "ILL" THERE ARE NO SMALL PARTS ONLY SMALL ACTORS
$200 [16]
Its national anthem includes the line "With our flesh and blood, let us build our new great wall"
China
Jen
$200 [21]
This Swiss company whose name means "little nest" is a leading producer of milk chocolate
Nestlé
Chris
$200 [26]
An easy one to begin: he's the 21st Prince of this
Wales
Jen
$200 [6]
Lozenge or tablet
pill
Jen
$200 [11]
Found in Utah, the world's largest natural bridge is named for this arch in the sky
rainbow
Chris
$200 [1]
As the coroner in this 1939 film, Meinhardt Raabe said, "She's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead"
The Wizard of Oz
Karen
$400 [17]
The most heavily fortified border in the world is between these 2 small Asian countries
North & South Korea
Chris
$400 [22]
Zeiss produces some of the finest of these for cameras, like the telephoto Planar T
lenses
Chris
$400 [27]
He's Duke of this place, also a "C"ounty in Southwest England
Cornwall
Karen
$400 [7]
Respiratory fish flap
gill
Karen
$400 [12]
Among the largest tracked vehicles, the Marion Crowlers today move these at Kennedy Space Center
Space Shuttle
Chris
$400 [2]
In between "Austin Powers" movies, this actor played Griphook the Goblin in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"
Verne Troyer
Karen
$600 [18]
The Globe & the Almaty Herald are the almighty newspapers in this largest Asian "stan"
Kazakhstan
Jen Chris
$600 [23]
This soft drink company is one of the major advertising sponsors of "American Idol"
Coca-Cola
Chris
$600 [28]
The title of Duke of Rothesay is the highest title of this country given to the heir apparent to the U.K. throne
Scotland
$600 [8]
Proverbially, don't make a mountain out of one of these
molehill
Jen
$600 [13]
Although originally a Hindu structure, Borobudur is the largest stupa or temple of this religion on Java
Buddhism
Karen Chris
$600 [3]
This Parisian-born actor was once nominated for a Golden Globe for his work on "Fantasy Island"
Hervé Villechaize
Chris
$800 [19]
Some think the floor of what's now the Arafura Sea was once a land bridge between Asia & this continent
Australia
Karen Jen
$800 [24]
These "cups" don't take their name from the Deep South but from a similarly named doll company once next door
Dixie
Karen
$800 [29]
He's the Earl of this, also a "Gunsmoke" deputy
Chester
Jen Chris
$800 [9]
A decorative ring of feathers around the neck of a bird
frill
Jen
$1,000 [15]
250 miles long, the Lambert this empties a large portion of East Antarctica's ice into Amery Ice Shelf
Lambert Glacier
$800 [4]
Zelda Rubinstein appeared as clairvoyant Tangina Barrons in this spooky 1982 Tobe Hooper film
Poltergeist
Chris
$1,000 [20]
In 2006 Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was deposed in a bloodless coup in this Asian nation
Thailand
Jen
$1,000 [25]
Now owned by Hyundai, this company's models include the Optima sedan & the Rio compact
Kia
$1,000 [30]
He's also the Earl of Carrick, just like this victor at Bannockburn 700 years before him
Robert the Bruce
$1,000 [10]
Kitchen refuse given to pigs
swill
Karen
DD $2,600 [14]
The seven rays on the crown of this heaviest statue in the world stand for the seven seas
Statue of Liberty
Chris
$1,000 [5]
Peter Dinklage didn't play the title character in this holiday film; he did come to blows with Will Ferrell, though
Elf
Jen

Double Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY AMERICANS THE THEATRE WHAT THE "L" IS IT? MONEY TALK WRITING IN FICTION 3-LETTER WORDS
$400 [26]
In 1839 he published "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque"
Poe
Chris
$400 [1]
Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" is set in 1692 in this town
Salem (Massachusetts)
Jen
$400 [11]
It's an external preparation for an ache or a pain--& Dr. Trebek's will have you feeling right as rain!
liniment
Karen
$400 [6]
The name of this currency made out of shells comes from the Algonquin for "white"
wampum
Karen
$400 [21]
In this novel, Celie wrote to her sister about her bad marriage only to find her husband kept the return letters
The Color Purple
Karen
$400 [16]
It often comes before "and miss"
hit
Chris
$1,200 [28]
In 1838 congressman Jonathan Cilley engaged in this--& not a rhetorical one--with Rep. William Graves
a duel
Chris
$800 [2]
Valentine is the last name of this "sweet" title hostess at the Fandango ballroom
Charity
Chris
$800 [12]
A traditional summer camp activity is making these cords worn around the neck
lanyards
Karen
$800 [7]
In 1848 the Philadelphia mint turned out 1,389 $2.50 pieces marked to show the gold came from this state
California
Karen
$1,200 [23]
A frustrated office drudge becomes a megalomaniac in this Russian novelist's "Diary of a Madman"
Nikolay Gogol
Karen Chris
$800 [17]
Ocular term for a new shoot on a potato
eye
Karen
$1,600 [29]
Later to dominate rail transport, this "commodore" was on the first train ever to have a passenger fatality
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt
$1,200 [3]
This murderous barber has a chair that can suddenly drop a victim via trap door into a cellar
Sweeney Todd
Jen Chris
$1,200 [13]
It's a term for a truck in Torquay
lorry
Karen
$1,200 [8]
This 2-word French phrase refers to the folks who've recently acquired their wealth
nouveau riche
Chris
$1,600 [24]
The Broadway show "Charly" was based on the journals in this Daniel Keyes novel
Flowers for Algernon
Chris
$1,200 [18]
To place wet hair in position by use of rollers & clips
set
Jen Chris
$2,000 [30]
This Illinois girl died in 1835; in 1890, she was reburied in Petersburg, Ill. to drum up tourism there
Ann Rutledge
$1,600 [4]
In a Moss Hart-George S. Kaufman comedy, Sheridan Whiteside was "The Man Who" did this
came to dinner
Karen
$1,600 [14]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the state-of-the-art Jeopardy! marine biology laboratory.) This clingingmarine gastropodis also the last name of Don Knotts's character in a 1964 marine movie
a limpet
Chris
$1,600 [9]
1996 presidential candidate last name that's also an allotment of money given to those in need
Dole
Karen
$2,000 [25]
Sue Townsend depicted adolescence in "The Secret Diary of" him "Aged 13 3/4" & its sequels
Adrian Mole
$1,600 [19]
A section of growing grass & roots cut from the ground
sod
Chris
DD $3,000 [27]
Ann Eliza Webb was one of this 19th century Utah group that's sometimes counted at 27 women
the wives of Brigham Young
Chris
$2,000 [5]
He's deaf-mute Belinda McDonald's out-of-wedlock baby boy
Johnny Belinda
Karen
$2,000 [15]
They're tart red berries traditionally served in Sweden with thin pancakes
lingonberries
Karen
$2,000 [10]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports while pointing out numbers on a video chart.) A $1000 investment made at 5% interest would have quite different returns after twenty years, based on these two different types of interest
simple and compound interest
Chris
DD $3,000 [22]
In the novel, Jonathan Harker was the first character to write about & encounter this title character
Dracula
Karen
$2,000 [20]
Animal used to represent the first sign of the zodiac
ram
Karen

Final Jeopardy!

GOVERNORS

Of the 17 state governors who became president, the most from any state, 4, were from this one

New York

Jen "What is California" — wagered $0
Chris "What is New York?" — wagered $9,599
Karen "What is New York" — wagered $100

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