Show #5217 2007-04-24 (taped 2007-02-06) Regular

Contestants

Maggi McKenzie — a business analyst from Mount Juliet, Tennessee

Michael O'Hara — a director of customer service from West Hollywood, California

Laura Wimberley — a college teaching assistant originally from Wilmington, Delaware (whose 2-day cash winnings total $7,199)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Laura $1,600 $3,600 $10,000 $16,800
3-day champion: $23,999
$11,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Michael $4,600 $9,600 $18,400 $16,799
2nd place: $2,000
$16,400
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Maggi $1,800 $3,200 $2,800 $5,599
3rd place: $1,000
$2,800
12 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

LET'S COMMUNICATE TV JAILBIRDS CROSSWORD CLUES "G" OGDEN NASH-ING YOUR TEETH
$200 [1]
The 2000 Census found it to be the principal foreign language in the U.S., with more than 28 million speakers
Spanish
Maggi
$200 [8]
Barney locks himself in jail after Gomer makes a "citizen's arrest!" on a classic episode of this series
The Andy Griffith Show
Maggi
$200 [3]
An epicure, or his magazine (7)
gourmet
Michael
$200 [16]
Ogden, Utah was laid out in 1850 by this religious leader
Brigham Young
Maggi
$200 [21]
"The cow is of the boving ilk; one end is moo, the other, ____"
milk
Laura
$200 [26]
In the dentist's office, Procaine & Lidocaine are types of this
anesthetics
Maggi
$400 [2]
Karl von Frisch figured out that these insects point in a given direction while dancing, to show where food is
bees
Michael
$400 [9]
November 21, 1980: Sue Ellen's fingerprints are on the gun, so she's mistakenly arrested for shooting this man
J.R.
Laura
$400 [4]
Alaskan bay, or one of its features (7)
glacier
Michael
$400 [17]
Ogden is very close to this, the largest U.S. body of water between the Great Lakes and the Pacific
the Great Salt Lake
Laura
$400 [22]
"There is something about a martini...& to tell you the truth, it is not the ____--I think that perhaps it's the gin"
vermouth
Laura
$400 [27]
Number of teeth typically found in the fully developed adult upper jaw
16
Michael Maggi
$600 [10]
Well into WWI, it was the animal alternative to Marconi's system for sending wireless long-distance messages
pigeons
Laura
$600 [13]
November 26, 2006: Mike the plumber is arrested for murder; Edie visits him in jail & tells him she's dumping him on this series
Desperate Housewives
Maggi
$600 [5]
The Good Witch of the North (6)
Glinda
Laura
$600 [18]
At Ogden's Pioneer Days Rodeo, a "tough enough to wear" this color campaign was begun to fight breast cancer
pink
Laura
$600 [23]
"The one-l lama, he's a ____. The two-l llama, he's a beast"
priest
Laura Michael
$600 [28]
It's no fiction, it's the sensitive tissue at the center of a tooth consisting of nerves & blood vessels
the pulp
Maggi
$800 [11]
First developed in France in 1794, this system of communication's name is from the Greek for "sign bearing"
semaphore
Maggi
$800 [14]
(Hi, I'm Christopher Meloni of Law & Order: SVU.) I've been on both sides of the law--I played devious serial killer Chris Keller on this HBO prison drama
Oz
Michael
$800 [6]
Adjective for the 1890s (3)
gay
Michael
$800 [19]
Peter Skene Ogden made his name as a trapper for this company named for an eastern body of water
the Hudson Bay Company
Maggi
$800 [24]
"Oh what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are ____"
naive
Michael
$800 [29]
These canines are so-named for their position under a body part
eye teeth
Michael
$1,000 [12]
Founded in 1952, this U.S. agency's primary function is to encode & decode communications intelligence
the National Security Agency
$1,000 [15]
The inmates on this Fox series escaped from a jail called Fox River
Prison Break
Michael
$1,000 [7]
A policeman, in Paris (8)
gendarme
Michael
$1,000 [20]
Ogden was transformed to a bustling city after the "Golden Spike" ceremony of 1869 joined these 2 railways
the Union Pacific & the Central Pacific
Michael
DD $3,000 [25]
"He without benefit of ____, his fun and income soon quadruples"
scruples
Michael
$1,000 [30]
If you wear this type of metal bling, remove it before eating & brush & floss so bacteria don't build up
a grill
Laura

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES NCAA TEAM NAME'S THE SAME WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT ART STYLE ETYMOLOGY THE MANSION FAMILY HOUSE OF METAPHORS
$400 [18]
A November 2006 issue reported a higher risk of recurrent strep throat in kids who haven't had this operation
a tonsillectomy
Michael
$400 [1]
Troy University, University of Southern California
the Trojans
Laura
$400 [2]
As this state goes so goes Olympia Snowe, who has been a senator from the state since 1995
Maine
Laura
$400 [7]
This name came from the "rebirth" of classical learning after years of intellectual & cultural decline
renaissance
Maggi
$400 [27]
In Norse mythology, this god lives in a giant mansion called Bilskirnir, or "lightning"
Thor
Laura Michael
$400 [13]
Jesus said the temple has been turned into one of these "of thieves"
a den
Maggi
$800 [19]
A 2004 conference on ways to detect when a country is making these included ideas like robot spy butterflies
nuclear weapons
Laura
$800 [9]
Clemson, University of Missouri
the Tigers
Michael
$800 [3]
She was the longest-serving Attorney General in the 20th century
(Janet) Reno
Laura
$800 [8]
Initially a perjorative term, this 18th century art period name comes from the French rocaille, "rock-work"
rococo
Michael
$800 [28]
Arlington House was this man's family mansion until confiscated by the U.S. government in 1864
(Robert E.) Lee
Maggi
$800 [14]
Proverbially, "they threw everything at us but" this basin
the kitchen sink
Laura
$1,600 [21]
At age 100, the internal organs of these shelled reptiles look just like those of teenage ones
turtles
Michael
$1,200 [10]
University of Connecticut, University of Washington
the Huskies
Michael
$1,200 [4]
Hattie Caraway, the first elected female senator, represented this state, long the "Land of Opportunity"
Arkansas
$1,600 [24]
The name is this art style that emerged in the late 1950s comes from its use of a certain type of "culture"
pop art
Laura
$1,200 [29]
This author spent the last years of his life at Vailima, his mansion & plantation in Samoa
Robert Louis Stevenson
$1,200 [15]
Look in the basement for a last-place sports team, known by this rhyming term
cellar dweller
Michael
$2,000 [22]
This second fiddle among nucleic acids may be linked to types of leukemia & mental retardation
ribonucleic acid (RNA)
Laura
$1,600 [11]
BYU, University of Houston
the Cougars
$1,600 [5]
In 2002 this Kennedy family member ran for governor of Maryland; before that, she was Lt. Governor
Kathleen Kennedy (Townsend)
Maggi
$2,000 [25]
Apollinaire described a work by Erik Satie as above ordinary reality, using the word that became this art style
surrealism
$2,000 [26]
This adventurous author built Wolf House, a Calif. mansion that burned down shortly before he was to move in
(Jack) London
Michael
$1,600 [16]
In March 2006 Congress raised this metaphorical limit to around $9 trillion
the debt ceiling
Michael Maggi
DD $3,000 [20]
Scholars can't read a 10-word column found in Guatemala but know it means these people had writing in 2300 B.C.
the Mayans
Laura
$2,000 [12]
University of Wyoming, Oklahoma State University
the Cowboys
Michael
$2,000 [6]
Appointed by President Carter to 2 different posts, she was the first African-American woman in the Cabinet
Patricia Harris
Maggi
DD $3,000 [23]
In a satirical 1874 review, critic Louis Leroy used this term to describe the loose, inexact manner of painting in a gallery show
impressionism
Laura
$2,000 [17]
To get a breeze indoors, I'll do this 4-word phrase, meaning be receptive to the possibility of changing my mind
leave the door open

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS

He wrote, "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and spartan-like..."

Thoreau

Maggi "Who is Thoreau" — wagered $2,799
Laura "Who was Thoraeu?" — wagered $6,800
Michael "Who is Twain" — wagered $1,601

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