Show #5408 2008-02-27 (taped 2007-11-13) Regular

Contestants

Jason Dizon — an attorney from Woodside, New York

Carolyn Sosnowski — a research librarian from Alexandria, Virginia

Maria Campbell — a pricing manager from San Diego, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,399)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Maria $1,800 $3,400 $3,000 $2,701
2nd place: $2,000
$4,200
9 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
Carolyn $1,600 $3,400 $2,700 $2,700
3rd place: $1,000
$3,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Jason $2,400 $6,400 $8,800 $7,800
New champion: $7,800
$8,800
16 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

EARLY AMERICA FAMILY-FRIENDLY MUSICALS A BILLION REASONS PENN. NAMES MISSING BODY PARTS 2-LETTER WORDS
$200 [7]
The British took New Netherland & New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664 & renamed them both this
New York
Carolyn
$200 [1]
One of Marie Osmond's "favorite things" was playing Maria von Trapp in a national tour of this musical
The Sound of Music
Carolyn
$200 [21]
Since 1909 his head has appeared on billions & billions of pennies
Lincoln
Carolyn
$200 [16]
In 1730 he became sole owner of the Pennsylvania Gazette; he also printed it & wrote much of it himself
Benjamin Franklin
Maria
$200 [26]
This assassin's 3rd, 4th & 5th vertebrae aren't in a Baltimore cemetery; they're at the National Museum of Health & Medicine
John Wilkes Booth
Carolyn
$200 [2]
Chinese for "Buddha" (it's not fe, fi or fum)
fo
Maria Carolyn
$400 [8]
Carpenters in this colony's city of Savannah went on strike in 1746 for better working conditions
Georgia
Carolyn
$400 [12]
In "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown", this kid famous for his security blanket sings "My Blanket And Me"
Linus
Jason
$400 [22]
According to its website, this chain serves more than a billion "finger lickin' good" chicken dinners annually
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Jason
$400 [17]
Born in Philadelphia in 1901, she would later graduate from Barnard & spend some time in Samoa
Margaret Mead
Carolyn
$400 [27]
An American urologist is said to own a very important part of this French leader who died on May 5, 1821
Napoleon
Jason
$400 [3]
It's a bird!It's a plane!It's Superego & his sidekick, Ego, suppressing this
Id
Jason
$600 [9]
The second of these legislatures drew up the Articles of Confederation
the Continental Congress
Maria
$600 [13]
Chip is a chip off the old teapot in this musical based on a Disney film
Beauty and the Beast
Jason
$600 [23]
Forbes magazine has estimated that this comic book boy is "worth" $24.7 billion
Richie Rich
Maria
$600 [18]
After the White House, he retired to his Lancaster estate, where he died a bachelor in 1868
James Buchanan
$600 [28]
This lord protector's body was once buried in Westminster Abbey; it's believed his head is buried in Cambridge
Oliver Cromwell
Jason
$600 [4]
A prefix meaning "out of", or informally, your former spouse
ex
Carolyn
$800 [10]
For "traducing the ministers", Anne Hutchinson was among the first to be "banned in" this capital
Boston
Maria
$800 [14]
This Mark Twain tale about a rich kid & a poor kid who trade places inspired a musical that opened off Broadway in 2002
The Prince and the Pauper
Maria
$800 [24]
The only event the Time Almanac has listed under 4.5 billion B.C. is this "formed"
Earth
Maria
$800 [19]
Over 15 years, he created more than 200 paintings & drawings of his Chadds Ford neighbor Helga Testorf
(Andrew) Wyeth
Jason
$800 [29]
General Lee said, "He has lost his left arm" (which was buried in Ellwood, Virginia) "but I have lost my right arm"
Stonewall Jackson
Jason
$800 [5]
It's the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet, which is very old
nu
DD $1,200 [11]
This alliterative name was given to the 1644 union of 4 Rhode Island towns
Providence Plantations
Maria
$1,000 [15]
This fictional girl known for her red braids that stick out & her unusual legwear has her own "pip" of a musical
Pippi Longstocking
Maria
$1,000 [25]
This eccentric billionaire formed an aircraft company in 1934 to design racers
Howard Hughes
Carolyn
$1,000 [20]
Before he was "in control" as Secretary of State, he was senior military adviser to Henry Kissinger
Alexander Haig
Jason
$1,000 [30]
P.T. Barnum didn't have this actress' leg to stand on when she refused his $10,000 offer for it
Sarah Bernhardt
$1,000 [6]
This Italian river begins near Mount Viso
Po
Jason

Double Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY LITERATURE TV BEFORE & AFTER AFRICAN COUNTRIES MILITARY STUFF ARCTIC ANIMALS SPELLING "BE"
$400 [11]
You'll find whaleboats not only in his masterpiece but also in his story "Benito Cereno" & his novel "Mardi"
Herman Melville
Jason
$400 [1]
ABC reality show in which celebs like Wayne Newton & Jennie Garth cha cha & waltz with the Confederate flag
Dancing with the Stars & Bars
Carolyn Jason
$400 [16]
In 1999 Thabo Mbeki became this country's democratically elected president
South Africa
$400 [26]
Deployed in 1955, the MiG-19 was this nation's first supersonic jet fighter
the Soviet Union
Jason
$400 [21]
This large bee of the genus Bombus can range from Tierra del Fuego in South America to far beyond the Arctic Circle
the bumblebee
Maria Carolyn
$400 [6]
Any insect of the order Coleoptera
B-E-E-T-L-E
Maria Carolyn
$800 [12]
In "Uncle Tom's Cabin", St. Clare, Tom's master, is killed; Tom is then sold to this brutal, drunken planter
Simon Legree
$800 [2]
Jack Bauer saddles up & joins 3 friends bringing about the end of the world
24 Horsemen of the Apocalypse
DD $700 [17]
This large country is alphabetically first of the countries in Africa
Algeria
Carolyn
$800 [27]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the LBJ Library & Museum in Austin, TX.) LBJ was the first congressman to enter active duty during WWII, & his library proudly displays the Silver Stargiven to him by this Pacific Theater commander
(Douglas) MacArthur
Maria Jason
$800 [22]
This carnivore's scientific name is Ursus maritimus
the polar bear
$800 [7]
Monk-theologian invariably described as "the Venerable"
B-E-D-E
Carolyn
DD $1,000 [15]
For 14 years, the Abbe Faria was his fellow prisoner in the Chateau d'If
Edmond Dantès, the Count of Monte Cristo
Carolyn
$1,200 [3]
Who knew that David Caruso & crew were members of this NFL football team
CSI: Miami Dolphins
Carolyn
$1,200 [18]
Bioko, an island of this "equatorial" African republic, was once known as Fernando Poo
Equatorial Guinea
Carolyn Jason
$1,200 [23]
The snowy species of this nocturnal bird of prey makes its nest on the ground, lining it with moss & feathers
a snowy owl
Carolyn
$1,200 [8]
The big beast in Job 40:15-24
B-E-H-E-M-O-T-H
$1,200 [13]
In Pedro Antonio de Alarcon's "The Three-Cornered" this, a miller thinks his wife is having an affair with the mayor
hat
Maria
$1,600 [4]
Mr. Belushi & the 3 kids ditch ABC to enact discriminatory & segregationist policies
According to Jim Crow Laws
$1,600 [19]
The capital city of this Horn of Africa nation has the same name as the country
Djibouti
$1,600 [24]
Alaska pipelines were constructed so as to allow this arctic deer unimpeded passage to feeding grounds
caribou
Maria
$1,600 [9]
A doughnut-like treat from New Orleans' Cafe du Monde
B-E-I-G-N-E-T
Maria Jason
$1,600 [14]
The last name of the title character of this Thomas Hardy novel is actually Durbeyfield
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Carolyn
$2,000 [5]
Watch as chef Gordon Ramsey uses a few choice words on Pres. Andrew Jackson's unofficial advisers
Hell's Kitchen Cabinet
Carolyn Jason
$2,000 [20]
Festus Mogae is the president of this landlocked African republic once known as Bechuanaland
Botswana
Carolyn
$2,000 [25]
Greenland right whales have the longest of these thin plates of any whale; they may reach 13 feet
baleen
$2,000 [10]
"Borstal Boy" playwright Brendan
B-E-H-A-N
Carolyn Jason

Final Jeopardy!

WORD ORIGINS

It's from the Latin for "hemp" because it was often made of hemp; add a letter & it means to take a survey

canvas

Carolyn "What is" — wagered $0
Maria "What is pol" — wagered $299
Jason "What is esimate" — wagered $1,000

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