Show #5347 2007-12-04 (taped 2007-08-28) Regular

Contestants

Keith Thorell — an attorney from Altadena, California

John O'Leary — a middle school history teacher from Walpole, Massachusetts

Heather Mathewson Rainville — a business analyst from Pittsboro, North Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Heather $1,400 $2,900 $4,900 $2,199
3rd place: $1,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home Game System
$8,400
13 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs)
John $1,000 $600 $3,800 $5,000
2nd place: $2,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home Game System
$3,800
11 R, 2 W
Keith $1,200 $3,200 $12,800 $12,000
New champion: $12,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home Game System
$13,600
18 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE BIG APPLE COMPOSERS ON FILM A SHAPELY CATEGORY SALMON CHANTED "EVE"NING
$200 [3]
There's an annual footrace up its 86 flights of stairs
the Empire State Building
John
$200 [1]
Kevin Klinein "De-Lovely"
(Cole) Porter
Keith
$200 [26]
Often stuffed & baked, conchiglioni is jumbo pasta shaped like these
shells
Keith
$200 [8]
"Fish ladders" help salmon travel upstream over these man-made obstructions
dams
John
$200 [13]
In a children's playground chant, they're the 2 things that will "break my bones, but names will never hurt me"
sticks & stones
John
$200 [16]
Dangerous ones include hemorrhagic & scarlet
fever
Heather
$400 [4]
On the NYC subway this train will also take you to Harlem, but then it splits off & heads for Yankee Stadium
the B train
$400 [2]
Cary Grantin "Night and Day"
Cole Porter
$400 [27]
Something that's cordate is shaped like this, my love
a heart
Heather
$400 [9]
World Book says this country leads the world in salmon fishing, with more than 450,000 tons caught each year
the United States
John Keith
$400 [14]
This musical instrument consists of a chanter, several drones & an air sack
a bagpipe
John
$400 [17]
In a hit song by the Monkees, "Then I saw her face, now I'm" one of these
a believer
Keith
$600 [5]
In 1865 NYC, already home to 800,000, finally abandoned this type of fire department
volunteer
Keith
$600 [23]
James Cagneyin "Yankee Doodle Dandy"
George M. Cohan
Heather
$600 [28]
It's the more common 4-letter name for a regular hexahedron
a cube
Heather Keith
$600 [10]
The roe of the chum salmon is a popular source for the red variety of this
caviar
John
$600 [15]
Their chant in "Macbeth" begins, "Double, double, toil and trouble"
the witches
Heather
$600 [18]
In 1905 this former U.S. president remarked, "Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote"
Grover Cleveland
John
$800 [6]
One of NYC's most famous seafood joints is the bar for these bivalves in Grand Central
oysters
Heather
$800 [24]
James Cagneyin "The Seven Little Foys"
George M. Cohan
$800 [29]
Dendroid means shaped like a tree; dentiform means shaped like this
a tooth
Heather
$800 [11]
Salmon are members of the same family as the speckled or brook variety of this fish
trout
Keith
$800 [21]
The Kol Nidre prayer is chanted by the cantor on the eve of this Jewish day of atonement
Yom Kippur
Heather
$800 [19]
A bracketed projecting beam supported on only one end, or a type of bridge
a cantilever
Heather
$1,000 [7]
Artsy types like Maya Lin & Art Spiegelman find inspiration in this area that gets its name from its northern border
SoHo (South of Houston)
Keith
$1,000 [25]
Toralv Maurstadin "Song of Norway"
Edvard Grieg
$1,000 [30]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew points out a four-sided shape on the monitor.) In geometry, I'm sure you've come across this shape: it's a plane figure with 2 parallel & 2 non-parallel sides
a trapezoid
Keith
$1,000 [12]
Weighing up to 100 pounds, this large type of salmon shares its name with a warm, dry wind
chinook
John Keith
DD $1,500 [22]
Named for a 6th century pope, these a capella songs might have earned a Papal's Choice Award
Gregorian chants
Heather
$1,000 [20]
It's the "A" in JA, the youth organization begun in 1919 to teach young people about American business
Achievement
John Keith

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC NAMES WHAT A CHARACTER! GEOLOGY HOME, SWEET HOME NAME THE POET CROSSWORD CLUES "B"
$400 [16]
In 312, emboldened by the sight of a cross in the sky, this man defeated the Emperor Maxentius & seized Rome
Constantine
Keith
$400 [21]
Well, goll-ly! He left his job & home in Mayberry to join the Marine Corps
Gomer Pyle
Heather
$400 [11]
The Mercalli scale measures the intensity of these from I to XII
earthquakes
$400 [6]
Scout out the home Kit Carson shared with his lovely bride in Taos in this state
New Mexico
Keith
$400 [26]
"The caged bird sings / With a fearful trill / Of things unknown / But longed for still"
Maya Angelou
John
$400 [1]
A baby belch(4)
burp
Keith
$800 [17]
In 1955 Ngo Dinh Diem became the first president of this country that no longer exists
South Vietnam
John
$800 [22]
On "The Addams Family", he was married to Morticia
Gomez
Keith
$800 [12]
Geysers aren't common; major centers include Yellowstone, Iceland & this country's North Island
New Zealand
Keith
$800 [7]
Doris Duke never had to rough it at Rough Point, her 105-room estate in this ritzy Rhode Island town
Newport
Heather
$800 [27]
"Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim'rous beastie, / O, what a panic's in thy breastie!"
Rabbie Burns
Heather
$800 [2]
It precedes dance, laugh or flop(5)
belly
John
$1,200 [18]
This Apache tried to keep peace with the palefaces, but after his death, his son joined with the militant Geronimo
Cochise
$1,200 [23]
(Hi, I'm Martin Short, and) I first introduced this pointy-haired nerd on SCTV; he later had his own cartoon series, & Pat Sajak was his big hero--but don't tell Alex
Ed Grimley
John
DD $800 [14]
This 9-letter geologic science is the study of the movement & distribution of all the Earth's waters
hydrology
Keith
$1,200 [8]
People in this job never had an official home until "Number One Observatory Circle" was chosen in the '70s
the vice president
Heather
$1,200 [28]
"There was an old man with a beard, / Who said, 'It is just as I feared!'"
Edward Lear
$1,200 [3]
Bestselling book that has its own "belt"(5)
Bible
Heather Keith
$1,600 [19]
Margaret Roper, who died in 1544, is said to have been buried with the head of this "Utopia" author, her father
Saint Thomas More
$1,600 [24]
During a dream sequence, it was revealed that this Richard Dean Anderson character had the first name Angus
MacGyver
Keith
$1,200 [13]
This rock can be formed by the accumulation of shells or coral, but not from citrus fruit
limestone
Keith
DD $2,000 [9]
Ralph Waldo Emerson owned a Concord home nicknamed this; Hawthorne rented it & wrote some "Mosses from" it
the Old Manse
Heather
$1,600 [29]
"A little learning is a dang'rous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring"
Alexander Pope
$1,600 [4]
A throng, often "of beauties"(4)
bevy
Keith
$2,000 [20]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands outside the Imperial Palace in Vienna, Austria.) Today, the Imperial Palace is home to Austria's head of state, the president; in Mozart's time, it was home to the head of state, this archduchess
Maria Theresa
$2,000 [25]
Hardcore fans of "Gilligan's Island" known that this character's real name is Roy Hinkley
the Professor
Heather
$2,000 [15]
A 6-mile-wide caldera, or volcanic crater, is a highlight of La Palma in this Spanish Island group off Africa
the Canaries
$2,000 [10]
As a bachelor in the 1970s, Prince Charles romanced Camilla at Broadlands, the home of this lord, his great-uncle
Mountbatten
Keith
$2,000 [30]
"Drink to me only with thine eyes, / And I will pledge with mine"
Ben Jonson
$2,000 [5]
Mr. Bumble's occupation in "Oliver Twist"(6)
beadle

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. POLITICS

Since 1960, only Massachusetts & this state have produced more than one of the 10 Democratic presidential nominees

Minnesota (Hubert Humphrey & Walter Mondale)

John "What is Minnesota" — wagered $1,200
Heather "What is New York?" — wagered $2,701
Keith "What is New York" — wagered $800

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