Show #5417 2008-03-11 (taped 2007-11-27) Regular

Contestants

Phil Hornbostel — a physician from Sedalia, Missouri

Jason Kaczor — an insurance specialist from Syracuse, New York

Jeff Harmon — a public defender from Dunlap, Tennessee (whose 2-day cash winnings total $44,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jeff $5,700 $7,300 $8,500 $3,900
2nd place: $2,000
$6,600
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Jason $800 $2,400 $12,500 $7,999
New champion: $7,999
$15,600
18 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs)
Phil $1,600 $3,400 $3,800 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$3,800
11 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

BATTLE STATIONS TV NEIGHBORS THAT WORD'S FOREIGN TO ME WOMEN WRITERS BRITISH TIDBITS DRINK UP!
$200 [11]
He was the commander of the British fleet that defeated Napoleon's navy in 1798's Battle of the Nile
Nelson
Jeff
$200 [1]
Barney Rubble
The Flintstones
Jeff
$200 [15]
From the Persian, these garments are what you'll wear to bed
pajamas
Jason
$200 [26]
Troubled by the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, she wrote what became an immediate bestseller
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Phil
$200 [6]
The "Twist"s & turns of this author's 1842 American tour led him to meet E.A. Poe in Philadelphia
Charles Dickens
Phil
$200 [21]
The Captain Morgan brand of this potent potable can be served hot & buttered
rum
Jeff
$400 [12]
Assuring the dominance of western culture, his forces routed the Persians at Gaugamela in 331 B.C.
Alexander the Great
Jeff
$400 [2]
Ned Flanders
The Simpsons
Jeff
$400 [16]
Our navy has fleet, rear and vice types of this rank, from an Arabic word for "commander"
admiral
Phil
$400 [27]
This author created the Vampire Lestat, the "bad boy of the bloodsucking world"
Anne Rice
Jason
$400 [7]
Number 10 in line for the throne is Peter Phillips, Elizabeth II's first grandchild & the son of this princess
Princess Anne
Phil
$400 [22]
The sanguine name of this cocktail is said to be an allusion to a 16th century queen of England
a bloody mary
Jason
$800 [14]
This Carthaginian's final significant battlefield defeat was against Scipio's forces in Zama in 202 B.C.
Hannibal
Jason
$600 [3]
Gladys Kravitz
Bewitched
Jeff
$600 [18]
This verb for an artistic process applying acid to metal comes from the Dutch, & many Dutch masters were good at it
etching
Phil
$600 [28]
Recently published, "Suite Francaise" is by Irene Nemirovsky, who died in this concentration camp in 1942
Auschwitz
Phil
$600 [8]
This urbane, witty playwright began as a child actor, making his professional debut in "The Goldfish" in 1911
Noel Coward
Jeff
$600 [23]
In TV ads, Bartles & Jaymes sold these "premium" alcoholic beverages
wine coolers
Jeff
$1,000 [17]
Using archery to decimate French mounted knights, English King Edward III won this 1346 battle in France
The Battle of Crecy
Jason
$800 [4]
The Ropers
Three's Company
Jason
$800 [19]
"Summed up" in French, this list of my education & former employers will show why I'm qualified to host a TV show
resume
Jason
$800 [29]
It was curtains for Hercule Poirot in her 1975 mystery "Curtain"
Agatha Christie
Jeff
$800 [9]
This queen's father-in-law, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, was also her uncle
Victoria
Jeff
$800 [24]
This liquor that's made from agave has been called "tequila's poor cousin"
mescal
DD $2,500 [13]
William Henry Harrison's biggest battlefield victory was over Native American forces at this Indiana river
Tippecanoe
Jeff
$1,000 [5]
George Wilson
Dennis the Menace
Jason Phil
$1,000 [20]
Use your "head": this Japanese word for "group leader" was also the name of a '70s Jeep pickup truck
honcho
$1,000 [30]
She wrote the 1970 novel "Play it as it Lays" & the 2005 memoir "The Year of Magical Thinking"
Joan Didion
$1,000 [10]
This Virginia-born lady was 40 when she was elected to the British parliament in 1919
Lady Astor
$1,000 [25]
Calvados is a brandy that's made from this fruit
apples
Jason

Double Jeopardy! Round

"D" IN SCIENCE QUOTES FROM BRUCE WILLIS MOVIES STATE THE STATE WEB SLINGERS UNFINISHED OPERAS 3-LETTER WORDS
$400 [1]
It's the more common name for solid CO2
dry ice
Jason
$400 [6]
"Help!Somebody burp me before I blow up!"
Look Who's Talking
Jason
$400 [11]
To tip your coonskin cap at Daniel Boone's grave, you'll have to travel to a cemetery in this state
Kentucky
Jeff
$400 [21]
On Louis Braille's birthday, this search engine used a braille-patterned logo
Google
Jeff
DD $100 [28]
This composer finished just 3 scenes of "Olav Trygvason"; they're sometimes performed as a cantata
Edvard Grieg
Jason
$400 [16]
Your closest relatives are you "next of" this
kin
Jeff
$800 [2]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew mimics the monitor.This particular exercise strengthens & tones this large muscle that covers the shoulder
the deltoid
Phil
$800 [7]
"Once upon a time there was this person named Malcolm. He worked with children"
The Sixth Sense
Phil
$800 [12]
2 of the 4 states whose borders meet up at the "Four Corners" monument
(2 of) Colorado & New Mexico (or Arizona & Utah)
Phil
$800 [22]
Since 1997, Go Daddy.com has been registering this type of name, the fundamental part of a web address
a domain
Jeff
$400 [26]
Make an exodus from the theatre after seeing Schoenberg's incomplete opera about this man & his brother Aaron
Moses
Jason
$800 [17]
The name of this primate also means to mimic
ape
Jason
$1,200 [3]
Ah, well, it's the area of light winds & calms in equatorial regions--how depressing
doldrums
Jason
$1,200 [8]
"The army is a broadsword, not a scalpel. Trust me, Senator--you do not want the army in an American city"
The Siege
$1,200 [13]
In 1972 Barbara Jordan was elected to Congress from this state
Texas
Phil
$1,200 [23]
This social network similar to Myspace started in a Harvard dorm & originally only allowed students
Facebook
Jason
$800 [27]
Biondello hides inside a mechanical goose in Mozart's unfinished opera "The Goose of" this Egyptian city
Cairo
$1,200 [18]
Ruminate on this--it's what a cow chews the second time around
cud
Jeff
$1,600 [4]
With a diameter averaging about 7 miles, it's the smaller of Mars' 2 moons
Deimos
Jason
$1,600 [9]
About saving the world, Bruce says, "Yeah, one more thing, uh, none of them wanna pay taxes again...ever"
Armageddon
Jeff
$1,600 [14]
On May 17, 2004 this eastern state became the first to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples
Massachusetts
Jason Phil
$1,600 [24]
Use the "organizr" to help make your personal images public at this photo site that's now owned by Yahoo!
Flickr
$1,600 [29]
Let's wax philosophical & wonder why Rousseau left only fragments of his opera about Daphnis & her
Chloe
Jeff
$1,600 [19]
A male given name, it's also the Latin word for "king"
Rex
Jason
$2,000 [5]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew adds drops to a beaker.) When you add food coloring to water, the motions of the dye's molecules causes it todisperse, eventually filling the glass evenly through a process called this
diffusion (dilution accepted)
Jason Phil
$2,000 [10]
"Five billion people died in 1996 & 1997. Almost the entire population of the world. Only about 1% of us survived"
Twelve Monkeys
$2,000 [15]
Roger Sherman, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, represented this state at the Constitutional Convention in 1787
Connecticut
Jeff Phil
$2,000 [25]
Authorized by the Dept. of Commerce, all web addresses from eligible schools use (.) this
dot edu
Jason
$2,000 [30]
Smetana's "Viola", with just 365 bars of music, is based on this play
Twelfth Night
DD $3,000 [20]
The insightful E.B. White said, "The time not to become a father is eighteen years before" one of these
a war
Jason

Final Jeopardy!

SCIENCE FICTION

A recent re-issue of this Sir Arthur Conan Doyle novel includes an introduction by Michael Crichton

The Lost World

Phil "What is the 7% Solution" — wagered $3,799
Jeff "What was [Tarzan scribbled out]?" — wagered $4,600
Jason "What is ?" — wagered $4,501

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