Show #5344 2007-11-29 (taped 2007-08-21) Regular

Lisa Klink game 4.

Contestants

Adam Swensek — an attorney from New Orleans, Louisiana

Angela Janis — a resident physician from Madison, Wisconsin

Lisa Klink — a TV writer from Los Angeles, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $47,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lisa $5,800 $7,800 $11,800 $5,700
4-day champion: $53,100
$15,800
21 R, 2 W (including 2 DDs)
Angela $400 $1,900 $1,500 $1,482
3rd place: $1,000
$1,600
6 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Adam $-200 $1,000 $8,600 $3,100
2nd place: $2,000
$8,600
14 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

ASIAN HISTORY GRAMMY'S RECORD OF THE YEAR DA PLANE! DA PLANE! PULP NURSERY RHYME "CON" GAME STUPID ANSWERS
DD $100 [29]
In 1782, when Chao Phraya Chakri became King Rama I, he moved his capital across the river to this city
Bangkok
Angela
$200 [15]
1966:"Strangers in the Night"
Frank Sinatra
Lisa
$200 [11]
The first commercial plane flights out of the U.S. were in 1920 between Key West & this nearby country
Cuba
Lisa
$200 [21]
This title dame was eatin' curds & whey when the spider came in; she ran into my arms, but I knew she was trouble
Little Miss Muffet
Adam
$200 [6]
Fertilization leading to pregnancy
conception
Lisa
$200 [1]
Geneva is the capital of this Swiss canton
Geneva
Adam
$200 [26]
In the 13th century, this grandson of Genghis Khan annexed China & became known as Shih Tsu of the Yuan Dynasty
Kublai Khan
$400 [17]
1978:"Just The Way You Are"
Billy Joel
Lisa
$400 [12]
Of 14, 18 or 24 hours, the scheduled length of the world's longest nonstop flight, from Singapore to NYC
18
Angela Adam
$400 [22]
Some of it was hot; some, cold. I guessed this food had been in the pot for 9 days, like the coffee in my office
porridge
Adam
$400 [7]
Groovy, baby, a pair of these are heard here
conga drums
Lisa Adam
$400 [2]
It's the name of the donkey voiced by Eddie Murphy in the "Shrek" movies
Donkey
Adam
$400 [27]
In December 1946 he attacked the French at Tonkin, beginning a war that ended 8 years later
Ho Chi Minh
$600 [18]
1992:"Tears In Heaven"
Eric Clapton
Lisa
$600 [13]
Flying at the then-incredible speed of 575 mph, the Boeing 707 began commercial flight service in this decade
1950s
$600 [23]
He'd "called for his pipe" & bowl. I knew his 3 fiddlers'd bolt at the sight of my .44. It was time to make my move
Old King Cole
Adam
$600 [8]
From the Latin for "contact", this adjective is used to describe diseases transmitted from person to person
contagious
Lisa
$600 [3]
26 nations united to draw up a Jan. 1, 1942 declaration that led the way for the creation of this in 1945
United Nations
Lisa
$600 [28]
In 1739 the Peacock Throne, built for Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, was stolen by these people
Persia / Iran
$800 [19]
1973:"Killing Me Softly With His Song"
Roberta Flack
Angela
$800 [14]
A subsidiary of AMR Corporation, this airline is the world's largest, with more than 1,000 planes & 4,000 flights daily
American Airlines
$800 [24]
She was desperate. I said for $50 a day, plus expenses, I'd track down her sheep, even if she didn't know where to find 'em
Little Bo Peep
Angela
$800 [9]
Clear soup made from boiling meat or bones
consommé
Lisa
$800 [4]
Robert Urich played Las Vegas P.I. Dan Tanna on this series
Vega$
Lisa
$1,000 [30]
In the 1920s the Kemalists opposed the Sultan in this country & eventually prevailed
Turkey
$1,000 [20]
1995:"Kiss From A Rose"
Seal
Lisa
$1,000 [16]
The first commercial passenger trans-Atlantic service was by Pan Am in 1939 between NYC & this French port
Marseilles
$1,000 [25]
Not in the meadow or the corn; word on the street had him "under the haystack fast asleep". I always hated musicians
Little Boy Blue
$1,000 [10]
French term for a doorkeeper, or a helpful person at a hotel
concierge
Lisa
$1,000 [5]
Young lawyer Mitch McDeere realizes that the mafia controls his law firm in this novel
The Firm
Lisa

Double Jeopardy! Round

WHERE AM I? FROM PAGE TO SCREEN SCIENCE FACTION HARD RHYME TIME WHAT A SCOOP! YOU'RE GOING TO WIN A PULITZER!
$400 [1]
(Jon of the Clue Crew stands next to an ornate clock in a glass case.) I'm here in the only surviving apartment that Mozart lived in, in this world capital; it's now a museum devoted to him
Vienna
Angela
$400 [11]
Oh, Rochester! William Hurt was in the 1996 version of this oft-filmed Bronte classic
Jane Eyre
Lisa
$400 [16]
ANZAAS is these 2 countries' Association for the Advancement of Science
Australia & New Zealand
Lisa
$400 [21]
Threshers' & hammerheads' recreation areas
sharks' parks
Lisa
$400 [26]
This treat of ice cream, syrups & other toppings was probably named for a day of the week
a sundae
Angela
$400 [6]
Julia Keller won in 2005 for her reporting on a 10-second event: the destruction of Utica, Illinois by this
tornado
Angela Adam
$800 [2]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reads from a European riverbank.) Since 1209, a church has stood on this same spot; today, St. Peter's is a landmark in this middle of the three Baltic states
Latvia
Adam
$800 [12]
(Hi, I'm Sean Hayes.) I got one of my first big breaks when I was cast in the film "A & P", based on a story by this "Rabbit, Run" author
John Updike
Adam
$800 [17]
This newspaper, the CSM, was established in 1908
The Christian Science Monitor
Adam
$800 [22]
A Crayola made from synthetic fabric
a rayon crayon
Adam
$800 [27]
These are the cookies in the cookies & cream ice cream at Baskin-Robbins
Oreos
Angela
$800 [7]
In 2007 "Counter Intelligence" columnist Jonathan Gold became the first critic of these to win a Pulitzer
restaurants
Lisa
$1,200 [3]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew also reads from a European riverbank.) Prazsky Hrad, a castle that shares its name with the city it's in, is the seat of the president of this country
the Czech Republic
Adam
$1,200 [13]
69 years apart, Lillian Gish & Demi Moore got an "A" for effort for starring in films based on this classic novel
The Scarlet Letter
Lisa
$1,200 [18]
The "S" in UNESCO is for "scientific"; this is what the "E" is for & remember, it's an adjective, not a noun
educational
Adam
$1,200 [23]
A cordovan bird plume
a leather feather
Lisa
DD $1,000 [10]
Russell Jones won for his reporting about Soviet repression from this capital in 1956
Budapest
Lisa
$1,600 [4]
(Jon of the Clue Crew stands on yet another European riverbank.) I'm at the Crane over the Motlawa River, once used to load cargo & put up masts in this Polish ship-building city
Gdańsk
Adam
$2,000 [15]
Fitzgerald didn't finish this novel, so screenwriter Harold Pinter had to come up with an ending for the 1976 film
The Last Tycoon
Lisa
$1,600 [19]
The NAS, or this, consists of about 2,000 U.S. scientists elected for life for their research achievements
the National Academy of Sciences
Angela
$1,600 [24]
A object that disperses light into a spectrum, creating opposed factions
a prism schism
Adam
$1,200 [8]
This paper won in 1993 for public service for coverage of Hurricane Andrew & its aftermath
The Miami Herald
Adam
$2,000 [5]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands next to a military helicopter.) I'm at Kadena Air Base on this island, the largest in the Ryukyu Islands
Okinawa
DD $3,000 [14]
Marilyn Monroe longed to play Grushenka in the 1958 film of this Dostoyevsky saga, but Maria Schell got the part
The Brothers Karamazov
Lisa
$2,000 [20]
It's the first "A" in the IAEA, to which almost 150 nations belong
Atomic
Adam
$2,000 [25]
A judge who insists on strict correctness
a purist jurist
$1,600 [9]
The first 2 Pulitzers for writing these, to the N.Y. Tribune & Louisville Courier Journal, didn't name the authors
editorials
Lisa

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY BOOKS

"Political power... is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another" is from this work

The Communist Manifesto

Angela "What is" — wagered $18
Adam "What is Das Kapital?" — wagered $5,500
Lisa "What is The Prince?" — wagered $6,100

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