Show #5292 2007-09-18 (taped 2007-07-18) Regular

Contestants

Shweta Kumar — a student from Lorton, Virginia

JT Nuckolls — a customer service representative from Red Oak, Iowa

Joanne Platt — a waitress from Minneapolis, Minnesota (whose 1-day cash winnings total $4,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joanne $4,400 $4,800 $10,000 $2,999
2-day champion: $6,999
$12,000
18 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
JT $2,200 $6,200 $7,000 $100
3rd place: $1,000
$7,600
16 R, 7 W (including 1 DD)
Shweta $-200 $600 $8,500 $492
2nd place: $2,000
$9,000
11 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

COP ROCK HELLO, LARRY THE RICH LIST "M"ANIMAL AFTER MASH TV SHOWS THAT BOMBED
$200 [16]
Copper is found in igneous rock at an average of about 55 ppm, ppm standing for this
parts per million
JT
$200 [6]
Larry Fortensky was her 7th different husband
Elizabeth Taylor
Joanne
$200 [21]
Unless he fires them, this Forbes list perennial is grooming his son & daughter Ivanka to take over his real estate empire
Trump
Shweta
$200 [11]
In a Rudyard Kipling story, one of these animals saves a family from a deadly cobra
a mongoose
Shweta
$200 [1]
In the two foods being consumed by Little Miss Muffet when the spider frightens her
whey
Joanne
$200 [22]
In a January 2007 episode of this series, a terrorist detonated a low-yield suitcase nuke in Valencia, California
24
$400 [17]
Though it sounds like a hair-removal treatment, this process removes impurites from copper using a charge
electrolysis
Shweta
$400 [7]
His bestsellers about the west incluse "Streets of Laredo" & "Lonesome Dove"
Larry McMurtry
Joanne
DD $600 [27]
In 2006 4 members of this family, including offspring Jim & Alice, were among the top 10 richest Americans
the Walton family
JT
$400 [12]
A rhesus or a macaque
a monkey
Joanne
$400 [2]
In the actions used to describe grabbing an image from 1 document & moving it onto another on a computer
paste
Shweta
$400 [23]
In a "Twilight Zone" episode, bookworm Henry Bemis survives a nuclear war & finds a library but then breaks these
his eyeglasses
Joanne
$600 [18]
Copper in rocks is likely to be more mobile under this type of condition, as opposed to alkaline
acidic
JT
$600 [8]
Born Lawrence Zeiger, he made his CNN debut in 1985
Larry King
JT
$600 [28]
William Jr. of this famous family is worth more that $1.8 billion; that'll buy a lot of Juicy Fruit
Wrigley
JT
$600 [13]
Seen here, this tropical flier is known for its brilliant plumage & strong voice
a macaw
JT
$600 [3]
In the pair of men who published the first of their famous namesake dictionaries in 1893
Wagnalls
Joanne
$600 [24]
The nuclear blast that caused chaos in Jericho, Kansas was detonated in this state capital to the west
Denver
JT Shweta
$800 [19]
From 1793 to 1837, this was pure copper; in 1982 its composition was changed to 97.5% zinc & 2.5% copper
a penny
JT
$800 [9]
In 2003 this wheelchair-bound publisher was a hustler for the gubernatorial votes of Californians
Larry Flynt
Joanne
$800 [29]
Forbes call this partner of Jeffrey Katzenberg & Steven Spielberg "Hollywood's richest man"
David Geffen
$800 [14]
Of the 3 animals on Ontario, Canada's coat of arms, the one that fits the category
a moose
JT
$800 [4]
In the last names of the creative team that gave us the musicals "Oklahoma!" & "The Sound of Music"
Rodgers
Joanne JT
$800 [25]
This series' Peter Petrelli had visions that he would cause a nuclear holocaust in NYC
Heroes
Shweta
$1,000 [20]
Copper can be mined using this controversial technique in which the earth above the ore is removed
strip mining
JT
$1,000 [10]
In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti got the beat & founded City Lights bookstore in this city
San Francisco
Joanne
$1,000 [30]
Start your search engines, please--in 2007 Forbes' youngest U.S. billionaire was Sergey Brin, 33 of this company
Google
JT
$1,000 [15]
We're sure you'll just love this rodent seen here
a muskrat
JT
$1,000 [5]
In the 2 items used to identify the source of a biblical quote after the book title
verse
$1,000 [26]
In a 1977 episode of this sitcom, Det. Dietrich notes that a student's physics project is a functional nuke
Barney Miller
JT

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CAPITALS NBA NICKNAMES DRUMMING THE BROWNINGS PACT OR FACTION AIN'T WE GOT PUN
$400 [1]
Budapest is the capital of Hungary; this is the capital of Romania
Bucharest
Joanne
$400 [24]
"MJ"
Michael Jordan
Joanne
$400 [21]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew sits at a drum set.) The ride cymbal is more for keeping time; this is the cymbal you hit when you want to end with a flourish
crash cymbal
JT
$400 [11]
In summer 1847 the newly-married Brownings settled in the Casa Guidi near the Pitti Palace in this city
Florence
Joanne
$400 [6]
The U.S., Canada, and Mexico signed this trade pact on Dec. 17, 1992, though it didn't go into effect until Jan. 1, 1994
NAFTA
Shweta
$400 [16]
A scholarly paper on punning restaurant names was titled "Dew Drop Inn and" this vegetable "Entertain You"
Lettuce
Joanne
DD $500 [4]
Laid out in 1874, the botanical gardens in this capital have an observatory with a statue of Tycho Brahe
Copenhagen
Shweta
$800 [28]
"Pistol Pete"
Pete Maravich
JT
$800 [22]
You can hit the drums with sticks, mallets, or these, for that whispery jazz ballad sound
brushes
JT
$800 [12]
Elizabeth attacked this horrible practice in England in her 1843 poem "The Cry of the Children"
child labor
Shweta
$800 [7]
The Kellogg-Brand pact was used as a legal basis for post-WWII war crimes trials in this Bavarian city
Nuremberg
Joanne
$800 [17]
A Presidential exhibit at the National Postal museum was called this "to the Chief"
Mail
Joanne
$800 [2]
The capital of India is not pronounced Cal-cut-ah or Cal-eh-cut, but this way
New Delhi
Shweta
$1,200 [27]
"Sir Charles"
Charles Barkley
Joanne
$1,200 [23]
(Jon of the Clue Crew sits at a drum set.) The bass drum, the lowest-pitched drum in the set, also has this other common 4-letter name
kick drum
$1,200 [13]
2 of Robert's poems, "Fra Lippo Lippi" & "Andrea del Sarto" were about Renaissance men who had this occupation
artists
Joanne JT Shweta
$1,200 [8]
A high point of German appeasement, 1938's Munich Pact was approved by this British prime minister
Neville Chamberlain
JT
$1,200 [18]
About comparing a pair of beetles, a pun-chline in "Master and Commander" is "Choose the lesser of" these
two weevils
JT
$1,200 [3]
This world capital is on the island of Java
Jakarta
$1,600 [25]
"Larry Legend"
Larry Bird
Joanne
$1,600 [14]
"Guess now who holds thee?--'Death', I said. But there, the silver answer rang--not death, but" this
Love
$1,600 [9]
In 1980 China charged Jiang Qing & fellow members of this small faction with treason
Gang of Four
JT
$1,600 [19]
(Hi. I'm Joely Fisher.) I did my first L.A. cabaret act 8 months pregnant, so I just had to call it "From Here to" this
Maternity
Shweta
$2,000 [5]
This city on the Malay Peninsula is the capital of Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur
Shweta
$2,000 [26]
"Melo"
Carmelo Anthony
JT Shweta
DD $2,000 [15]
Elizabeth returned to London a semi-invalid & spent the next 5 years confined to her room on this street
Wimpole Street
Joanne
$2,000 [10]
This political faction was organized in 1903 when it split from the Bolsheviks
Mensheviks
Shweta
$2,000 [20]
Punning on Glenn Miller, a 1985 film with Geena Davis as a vampire was called this "6-5000"
Transylvania
JT

Final Jeopardy!

MUSICAL HISTORY

It's the nursery rhyme that inspired the title of a famous musical based on a 1913 G.B. Shaw work

London Bridge

JT "What is Thumbellina?" — wagered $6,900
Shweta "What is Mary Mary?" — wagered $8,008
Joanne "What is Simple Simon" — wagered $7,001

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