Show #5366 2007-12-31 (taped 2007-10-16) Regular

Dan Pawson game 3.

Contestants

Leslie "Lefty" Scott — a senior word processing typist originally from Smithfield, Rhode Island

Heather Doyle — a high school English teacher from St. Louis, Missouri (whose 1-day cash winnings total $26,800)

Dan Pawson — a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts (whose 2-day cash winnings total $36,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dan $3,400 $4,800 $14,900 $26,000
3-day champion: $62,500
$18,400
24 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Heather $1,800 $3,400 $13,000 $13,399
3rd place: $1,000
$13,000
15 R, 0 W
Leslie $800 $5,000 $12,600 $22,600
2nd place: $2,000
$12,400
14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

"X" IN THE CITY CELEBRITY AKA THE INTERNET ANIMALS MY DREAM HOUSE 5-LETTER WORDS
$200 [15]
It's the capital of Nova Scotia
Halifax
Dan
$200 [7]
It's the real last name of Nicolas Cage--& of his famous uncle
Coppola
Dan
$200 [1]
Use your digital jukebox software to connect to this No. 1 online music store
iTunes
Dan
$200 [20]
One in every 6 known bird species makes its home in this rainforest
the Amazon
Heather
$200 [26]
In this style of pre-Revolutionary Americans, I like the Southernversionwith brick exterior & side chimneys
Colonial
Leslie
$200 [6]
You probably made your first entrance through this "canal"
the birth canal
Heather
$400 [16]
For over 75 years, a shrimp festival & blessing of the fleet have kicked off shrimping season in this Mississippi city
Biloxi
Leslie
$400 [10]
Destiny Hope Cyrus, Billy Ray's kid & star of TV's "Hannah Montana", now goes by this first name
Miley
Heather
$400 [2]
Names for this keyboard symbol include "cat's tail" in Finnish & "Strudel" in Hebrew
the @ sign
$400 [22]
Sputniks 5, 6, 9 & 10 also carried these animals into space, & most were recovered alive
dogs
Leslie
$400 [27]
I'll entertain royally with a house in this style named for a 19th c. queen, with its welcoming front porch
Victorian
Heather
$400 [8]
A command to your pooch to retrieve something
fetch
Dan
$600 [17]
Famous for temple ruins, this city on the site of Thebes has been called "The World's Greatest Open-Air Museum"
Luxor
Leslie
$600 [11]
Yes Sir, his real name is Reginald Dwight
Elton John
Heather
$600 [3]
Ordinary analog phone lines that deliver a low-cost broadband data connection use this 3-letter technology
DSL
Dan
$600 [23]
Got one of these odorous animals also known as a polecat as a pet? Call your humane society to make sure it's legal
a skunk
Dan
$600 [28]
Thisis it: the classic L shape & low-pitched gable roof of this house named for a Western dwelling
a ranch house
Leslie
$600 [9]
You have one of these, aka a heartbeat, I assume
pulse
Heather
DD $1,000 [18]
Averages for this U.S. city are 7.66 inches of rain, a daily high temperature of 85, & 325 sunny days per year
Phoenix
Leslie
$800 [12]
The movies' original "Alfie", he was originally named Maurice Micklewhite
Michael Caine
Dan
$800 [4]
This 4-letter certification is given for equipment that uses the IEEE 802.11 standard
Wi-Fi
$800 [24]
Critters of the Pleistocene epoch include the mammoth & this "breast tooth" relative
mastodon
Dan Leslie
$800 [29]
Why hold back--tower, stone, ornamentation, I want a home in the style of one of these French mansions
a château
Leslie
$800 [13]
To perform this kids' activity "inside the lines" is to conform; to do it "outside the lines" is to be a free spirit
color
Leslie
$1,000 [19]
Love to shop? This largest South Dakota city has the largest shopping center between Denver & Minneapolis
Sioux Falls
Dan Leslie
$1,000 [21]
When she's "got mail", we wonder if it's addressed to Margaret Hyra
Meg Ryan
Dan
$1,000 [5]
Tim Berners-Lee helped create the World Wide Web at this particle physics lab near Geneva
CERN
$1,000 [25]
"Dachs", as in "Dachshund", is German for this burrowing animal
the badger
$1,000 [30]
I'm going to use this smallish lot economically, putting up this kind of house with tiers only one half-story apart
a split-level
Heather
$1,000 [14]
A form of matter--solid, liquid or gas
state (phase accepted)
Dan

Double Jeopardy! Round

PATRONS OF THE ARTS THE BLUES GREAT ALEXANDERS APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES ASSASSIN & VICTIM UNDER THE "C"
$400 [6]
7 National Medals of Arts have gone to corporate patrons of the arts, like Exxon, Sara Lee & this card company
Hallmark
Dan
$400 [25]
They play their major league home games at Rogers Centre
the Blue Jays
Dan
$400 [9]
Pull out a sawbuck & you'll see his portrait
Alexander Hamilton
Leslie
$400 [20]
As a verb, it means to squeeze, like a baby's cheek; as a noun, a small quantity, like salt
pinch
Dan
$400 [15]
Marcus Junius Brutus et al.(44 B.C.)
Julius Caesar
Dan
$400 [1]
The modern Hebrew & Arabic alphabets consist only of these types of letters
consonants
Dan
DD $500 [8]
In 1603 Shakespeare's company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, switched to royal patronage & to this name
the King's Men
Dan
$800 [26]
In the movie version of "Devil in a Blue Dress", he played detective Easy Rawlins
Denzel Washington
Heather
$800 [10]
Some of the moons of Uranus are named for characters created by this British poet & essayist
(Alexander) Pope
Heather
$800 [21]
A bunch of honeybees on the move
a swarm
Heather
$800 [16]
James Earl Ray(1968)
Martin Luther King Junior
Dan
$800 [2]
It's the South American national capital city that fits the category
Caracas
Heather
$800 [7]
Gustave Caillebotte was the main backer of several of these exhibitions, & his own work is kind of in that style
Impressionist
Dan
$1,200 [27]
"Beverly Hills Buntz" was a spin-off of this cop show
Hill Street Blues
Dan
$1,200 [11]
In 1990 Russia restored citizenship to this Nobel Prize-winning author of "Cancer Ward"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Leslie
$1,200 [22]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew begins a dare cocktail.) Two of the smallest bartender measures are these 2 that rhyme--one for a pure flavoring like Tabasco & one for liquid like soda
dash & splash
Heather
$1,200 [17]
Leon Czolgosz(1901)
McKinley
Dan
$1,200 [3]
Cheese is this part of milk separated from the whey
the curd
Dan
$1,600 [14]
Luciano of this colors-ful Italian clothing company is a noted arts patron through a center called Fabrica
Benetton
Heather
$1,600 [28]
To join this troupe seen here, you have to have percussion & acting skills--& be able to let your ego go!
the Blue Man Group
Dan
$1,600 [12]
He took a break in his military career to become Nixon's Chief of Staff
(Alexander) Haig
Dan
$1,600 [23]
This synonym for "killed" also means a large quantity
a slew
Heather
$1,600 [18]
Yigal Amir(1995)
Yitzhak Rabin
Dan
$1,600 [4]
We're climbing past 10,000 feet on our way to this, the flight level we'll maintain en route, 35,000 feet
the cruising altitude
Dan
$2,000 [30]
As well as the Sistine Chapel, named for Sixtus, Pope Paul III got Michelangelo to fresco this chapel, named for himself
the Pauline Chapel
$2,000 [29]
As temptress Lola Frohlich, she sang "Falling In Love Again" in the 1930 film "The Blue Angel"
Marlene Dietrich
Leslie
$2,000 [13]
Once an artist for the National Police Gazette, he really got moving with his "mobile" sculptures
Calder
Heather
$2,000 [24]
This French word for a slight trace, as of a particular flavor, means "suspicion"
soupçon
Leslie
DD $3,000 [19]
Nathuram Godse(1948)
Mohandas Gandhi
Dan
$2,000 [5]
Found in South Africa in 1905, this 3,106-carat diamond went to Amsterdam for cutting
the Cullinan
Leslie

Final Jeopardy!

POETRY

In a poem about this battle, Robert Browning wrote, "To Akropolis! Run, Pheidippides, one race more"

the Battle of Marathon

Leslie "What is Marathon?" — wagered $10,000
Heather "What is the Battle of Marathon?" — wagered $399
Dan "What is Marathon?" — wagered $11,100

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