Show #5339 2007-11-22 (taped 2007-08-14) Regular

Contestants

Kate Swenson — a law student from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Carol Camper — a social work supervisor from Toronto, Canada

Bob Black — a history teacher from Canandaigua, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bob $4,000 $7,800 $4,200 $4,000
3rd place: $1,000
$4,200
13 R, 4 W
Carol $1,000 $3,400 $6,200 $9,500
2nd place: $2,000
$7,000
17 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
Kate $1,800 $1,600 $14,600 $12,600
New champion: $12,600
$13,800
19 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

FACTS & FIGURES TENNIS THE CONTINENT... LET'S MEAT FOR BREAKFAST POTLUCK THE SHORT FORM
$200 [11]
Name & number please: launched in 2004, it's 1,132 feet long, has 10 restaurants & 5 pools, & carries 2,620 passengers
the Queen Mary 2
Bob
$200 [1]
The ladies' singles trophy for this event is a sterling silver tray called the Rosewater Dish
Wimbledon
Carol
$200 [3]
...with the most countries
Africa
Carol
$200 [16]
I'm in the mood for corned beef this, from the French for "to cut up"
hash
Bob
$200 [21]
In 1977 a Tunisian immigrant became the last prisoner in France to be executed with this device
a guillotine
Carol
$200 [26]
If your internist gives you a scrip, it's short for this
prescription
Carol
$400 [12]
With more than 1 billion members, it's the largest branch of Christianity
Catholicism
Carol
$400 [2]
This feisty American's 1984 winning percentage of .965 is the best in the ATP Tour's modern era
John McEnroe
Carol
$400 [4]
...that can be typed using a single row of letters on a standard keyboard
Europe
Carol Kate
$400 [17]
I think I'll chow down on some CFS; that's Texas talk for chicken-fried this
steak
Bob
$400 [22]
Eat it, wear it, or play it--what a Greek would do with a bouzouki
play it
Carol
$400 [27]
"Frag", meaning to kill a fellow soldier, started as a short form of this term for a type of grenade
fragmentation
Carol Kate
$600 [13]
At just more than 30 days, he served the shortest term as president
William Henry Harrison
Bob
DD $400 [5]
Only 3 women have won more than 100 singles titles: Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert & this European
Steffi Graf
Kate
$600 [8]
...that extends down to about 54 degrees south latitude
South America
Bob
$600 [18]
What Americans call "Canadian" this is not truly Canadian; give me the "peameal" type, a real specialty of my homeland
bacon
Bob
$600 [23]
From the French for "chart", it's the proper term for a person who designs & prepares maps
cartographer
Carol
$600 [28]
"Buck", as in dollar, is short for this item once used in trade & barter
buckskin
Carol
$800 [14]
In 2002 a team at the University of Tokyo calculated this to 1.2411 trillion digits after the decimal point
pi
Bob
$800 [6]
It's the "ITF Team Championship for Men"
Davis Cup
Bob
$800 [9]
...with the first country alphabetically
Asia
Carol
$800 [19]
I'll have a honey glazed one of these, from the company of the same name--yep, a whole one, spiral sliced
a ham
Bob
$800 [24]
The 4 Noble Truths are the fundamental principles of this religion
Buddhism
Bob Kate
$800 [29]
A cab you drink is short for this word
Cabernet
Carol
$1,000 [15]
In 2000 an almost 4,200-square-mile iceberg broke free from this ice shelf in Antarctica
the Ross Ice Shelf
Carol
$1,000 [7]
In April 2007 Switzerland issued its very first stamp of a living person, a 1-franc stamp depicting this tennis player
Roger Federer
Kate
$1,000 [10]
...where the Latter-Day Saints believe that Zion or New Jerusalem will be built
North America
Bob
$1,000 [20]
Maybe I'll try the black pudding--that sounds a lot better than this sanguine synonym
blood pudding
Bob
$1,000 [25]
This U.S. president was called Bert for short
Herbert Hoover
$1,000 [30]
A cab you ride in is short for this word that was a carriage before it was a VW
cabriolet
Kate

Double Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN HISTORY OSCAR-NOMINATED SONGS THE SCIENCE OF LIQUOR BOOKS & AUTHORS SAINTS "U" KNOW IT
$400 [6]
In 1991 Poland's Democratic Union Party won the most seats in the House & Senate; it was formed from this trade group
Solidarity
Kate
$400 [1]
"A Whole New World"(1992)
Aladdin
Kate
$400 [30]
In cryoextraction, this is done to grapes to produce the most concentrated juice in pressing
freezing
Carol Kate
$400 [11]
In 2003 Mitch Albom had a No. 1 bestseller with "The Five People You Meet" here
Heaven
Kate
$400 [22]
St. Columba of this country was martyred in 853 after telling some Moors that Muhammad was a false prophet
Spain
Kate
$400 [16]
Here's a high-class clue: it's the last word in the kid's rhyme that begins, "I see London, I see France..."
underpants
Kate
$800 [7]
He was King of England from 1189 to 1199 but spent only 6 months there; the rest of the time, he was off fighting
Richard the Lionheart
Carol
$800 [2]
"Let's Hear It For The Boy"(1984)
Footloose
Carol
$800 [28]
Germany's Purity Law of 1516 states that German beer must contain only water, hops & this germinated grain
barley
Kate
$800 [12]
In 1947 he published his first story collection, "Dark Carnival"; the "Martian Chronicles" came 3 years later
Ray Bradbury
Bob Carol
$800 [23]
St. John Eudes promoted devotion to this sacred body part not just of Jesus but of Mary too
the (sacred) heart
Carol Kate
$800 [17]
More than 25 moons are circling it
Uranus
Kate
$1,200 [8]
From 1541 to 1784 this current capital of Slovakia served as the capital of Hungary
Bratislava
Carol
$1,200 [3]
"Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah"(1947)
Song of the South
Carol
$1,200 [26]
Zymurgy is the chemistry branch that deals with this process in which sugar is converted into alcohol
fermentation
Kate
DD $800 [14]
James Michener's "Centennial" centers on a fictional town in this state
Colorado
Carol
$1,200 [24]
Hermit monk Saint Simeon Stylites resided for decades on one of these, 60 feet tall
column
Bob
$1,200 [18]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical diagram on the monitor.) It's the 2-word term for the continuous anatomical system that contains the kidneys, the ureters, the bladder & the urethra
the urinary system
Kate
$1,600 [9]
In the 100-year period before 268 B.C., Rome annexed all of Italy below this river that flows through Turin
the Po
Kate
$1,600 [4]
"Papa, Can You Hear Me?"(1983)
Yentl
$1,600 [27]
Jameson Irish Whiskey gains its golden hue thanks partly to this acid that also helps give leather its color
tannic acid
Kate
$1,200 [13]
In Willa Cather's "O Pioneers!", the heroine Alexandra Bergson is of immigrant stock from this country
Sweden
Bob Kate
$1,600 [25]
The Pope struck a medal to celebrate the 1572 massacre of Huguenots on this saint's day
St. Bartholomew
Bob Kate
$1,600 [19]
A patentable invention must be new, non-obvious, & this, like the "arts" the constitution encourages
useful
Carol
$2,000 [10]
On Feb. 28, 1813 these 2 countries whose names rhyme teamed up against France in the Treaty of Kalisch
Russia & Prussia
$2,000 [5]
"Lose Yourself"(2002)
8 Mile
Kate
DD $3,000 [29]
After 15 years of aging, 30% of an original quantity of bourbon (the "angels' share") has been lost to this process
evaporation
Kate
$2,000 [15]
In 2007 his book "The Road" earned him a Pulitzer Prize & entry into Oprah's Book Club
Cormac McCarthy
$2,000 [21]
The order founded by this saint in Toulouse was zealous in carrying out the Inquisition
Saint Dominic (founder of the Dominicans)
Bob
$2,000 [20]
Woody Guthrie sang, "You can't scare me, I'm sticking to" this group
the union
Kate

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS NAMES

In the 19th century he created a new type of reference work, a dictionary named from the Greek for "treasury"

Roget

Bob "Who is Webster?" — wagered $200
Carol "Who is Roget?" — wagered $3,300
Kate "Who is Rogers?" — wagered $2,000

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