Show #5291 2007-09-17 (taped 2007-07-18) Regular

Contestants

Jennifer Gaspar Schreiner — an opera singer from Raleigh, North Carolina

Joanne Platt — a waitress from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Matt Caporaletti — an advertising account supervisor from Westwood, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $2,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Matt $-200 $1,400 $7,000 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$7,000
13 R, 4 W
Joanne $3,000 $7,600 $17,000 $4,000
New champion: $4,000
$14,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Jennifer $3,800 $6,200 $14,800 $1
2nd place: $2,000
$17,800
20 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THEATRE GHOSTS STUPID ANSWERS LOOK WHAT'S "UMP" WORLD FLAGS HISTORY AFTER
$200 [26]
Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre in this U.S. city has several ghosts, including that of an actress who fell to her death
New Orleans
Jennifer
$200 [16]
The Old Milwaukee brewing company is headquartered in this city
Milwaukee
Joanne
$200 [21]
A projecting rim on a vehicle
the bumper
Jennifer
$200 [1]
Like many countries, Albania has this bird as a symbol, & its flag shows a 2-headed one
an eagle
Joanne
$200 [7]
In 2006 FEMA & the U.S. Geological Survey sponsored a conference commemorating the 100th anniversary of this event
the San Francisco earthquake
Jennifer
$200 [6]
Long after he was a TV weatherman who predicted hail the size of canned hams, he'd work the "late" shift for CBS
(David) Letterman
Matt
$400 [27]
The man in this drab color who haunts the Drury Lane Theatre may the ghost of a man found bricked up in a wall there
gray
Matt Joanne
$400 [17]
This state is named after Thomas West, whose title was Baron De La Warr
Delaware
Joanne
$400 [22]
It begins every basketball game
a jump ball
Matt
$400 [2]
In 2006 Lesotho went for a more peaceful look, putting a hat on its flag to replace a shield & this weapon
a spear
Matt
$400 [8]
In 1785 he graduated 42nd out of 58 at his military school in Paris
Napoléon Bonaparte
Joanne
$400 [12]
In 1956, one year after winning an Oscar, she quit the business to move to Monaco
Grace Kelly
Jennifer
$600 [28]
The lady in blue seen in this Scottish city's Royal Lyceum Theatre may be the actress Ellen Terry
Edinburgh
Joanne
$600 [18]
This Washington D.C. monument stands near the Potomac, about halfway between the Capitol & the Lincoln Memorial
the Washington Monument
Joanne
$600 [23]
To baffle someone to the point of not being able to answer
to stump
Joanne
$800 [4]
In 1996, to represent unity, Ethiopia put this 5-pointed star with mystical overtones on its flag
a pentacle
Jennifer
$600 [9]
In 1869 this "wild" & crazy guy killed 2 men as acting sheriff of Ellis County, Kansas
Wild Bill Hickok
Joanne
$600 [13]
After "The Pelican Brief" in 1992, he followed up with "The Client" in 1993
John Grisham
Jennifer
$800 [29]
A ghost known as the Black Phantom used to appear in a mirror at the Empire Theatre in this city, Ringo Starr's hometown
Liverpool
Matt
$800 [19]
This river forms the southern borders of Ohio, Indiana & Illinois
the Ohio
Joanne
$800 [24]
Cooked on a griddle, it's a teatime treat with small holes on top
crumpets
Matt
DD $1,000 [3]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads the clue.) Behind the coat of arms on Portugal's flag is a navigational tool; in 1816, it was also on the flag of this other land
Brazil
Joanne
$800 [10]
In 1900 more than 200 foreigners were killed during this bloody uprising in northern China
the Boxer Rebellion
Jennifer
$800 [14]
After playing QB Paul Crewe in 1974's "The Longest Yard", he played coach Nate Scarborough in the 2005 remake
Burt Reynolds
Joanne
$1,000 [30]
Melbourne's Princess Theatre boasts the ghost of a singer who died after playing this devilish role in "Faust"
Mephistopheles
Joanne
$1,000 [20]
Founded in 1911, this Connecticut college is in the town of New London
Connecticut College
Jennifer
$1,000 [25]
Megapteran marine mammal that arches sharply as it dives
a humpback whale
Jennifer
$1,000 [5]
This large country re-adopted its old red, white & blue flag in 1991
Russia
Joanne
$1,000 [11]
A Supreme Court decision in 2000 said rights named for this man were "embedded in routine police practice"
Miranda
Jennifer
$1,000 [15]
In 1970 Eric Clapton warned us, "After" this title hour, "we're gonna let it all hang down"
midnight
Joanne

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE ARCTIC OCEAN THE BRITISH INVASION PSEUDO SPORT LIT ENERGY THE ELEMENTS "O" YES!
$400 [16]
The shortest way to sail to the Arctic Ocean from Nome, Alaska is to go north through this strait
the Bering Strait
Joanne
$400 [11]
The first track on "The Beatles' Second Album" was a Chuck Berry song that told this composer to "roll over"
Beethoven
Matt
$400 [21]
Could it be that a tipsy Johnny Bench was the inspiration for Holden Caulfield in this 1951 novel
The Catcher in the Rye
Jennifer
$400 [30]
In 1937 an explosion of this, unodorized, killed 300 people in a New London, Texas school
natural gas
Matt Jennifer
$400 [1]
Because sound travels 2.7 times faster in this gas than in air, inhaling it makes your voice higher
helium
Jennifer
$400 [6]
It's the third-largest Hawaiian isle
Oahu
Joanne
$800 [17]
The Arctic Ocean's deepest point, about 17,880 feet, lies just north of this country's Svalbard Islands
Norway
Matt Joanne
$800 [12]
"Play with Fire" from this Group's 1965 album "Out of Our Heads" featured Phil Spector on bass
The Rolling Stones
Jennifer
$800 [22]
This Mark Bowden book depicts a Mogadishu raid & a crashed helicopter crew, not Chicago hockey players
Blackhawk Down
Joanne
$800 [29]
The Sequoyah 1 nuclear reactor near Chattanooga is operated by this agency established in 1933
the TVA
Matt
$800 [2]
When pronounced another way, this element is the top story on a newscast
lead
Matt
$800 [7]
A carefully planned military attack, or a football "line"
offensive
Matt
$1,200 [18]
In the early 1770s England's Samuel Hearne became the first European to reach the Arctic Ocean overland from this bay
the Hudson Bay
Matt
$1,200 [13]
The Searchers told us that Madame Ruth had "a pad down on Thirty-fourth and Vine" where she sold this
Love Potion No. 9
Jennifer
$1,600 [24]
I picked up this Faulkner work hoping the title referred to Rex Grossman, but it was about Old Ben
The Bear
Joanne
$1,200 [26]
Itaipu, a project using this type of power, supplies about a quarter of all of Brazil's electricity needs
hydroelectric power
Matt Jennifer
$1,200 [3]
Could it be Satan this metal is named for? It comes from the German for "Old Nick"
nickel
Jennifer
$1,200 [8]
It's the O in an IPO, a corporation's first attempt to sell stock to the public
offer[ing]
Jennifer
$1,600 [19]
On August 3, 1958 this nuclear-powered submarine became the first to cross the North Pole under the ice
the Nautilus
$1,600 [14]
Reg Presley not only sang lead on this group's hit "Wild Thing", he played the ocarina as well
The Troggs
Matt
$2,000 [25]
In this Shakespeare play, the Antipholus twins don't merit gold gloves after they bobble identities
The Comedy of Errors
Matt
$1,600 [27]
Electricity can be produced by CSP, short for "concentrating" this--& it's done with mirrors
solar power
$2,000 [5]
Harold Kroto & others found this common element had a new molecular form, the Fullerene
carbon
Jennifer
$1,600 [9]
To use this "razor" named for a 14th century English philosopher means to use economy in explanation
Occam's razor
Jennifer
$2,000 [20]
The spiral tusk of this cetacean that inhabits the waters of the Arctic Ocean may reach a length of 10 feet
a narwhal
Matt Jennifer
$2,000 [15]
This quartet included Leslie Maguire, John Chadwick, & brothers Gerry & Freddie Marsden
Gerry & the Pacemakers
DD $5,000 [23]
A-Rod is truly in trouble in this time-traveling Twain text from 1889
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Joanne
$2,000 [28]
Abbreviated SPR, it's the emergency store of oil created by the U.S. government in 1977
strategic petroleum reserve
DD $3,000 [4]
This very hard metal is named for the children of Uranus & Gaea
titanium
Jennifer
$2,000 [10]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands in sunlight and shadow.) A total solar eclipse where the Moon hides the Sun is an example of this, from the Latin for "conceal", as in the mysteries of the supernatural
the occult
Joanne

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN PUBLISHING

The 1860 frontier novel "Malaeska", the first of its kind, sold 300,000 copies for total sales revenue of this

$30,000

Matt "What is one millio" — wagered $7,000
Jennifer "What is $300,000" — wagered $14,799
Joanne "What is gold" — wagered $13,000

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