Show #5421 2008-03-17 (taped 2007-11-28) Regular

Contestants

Kristina Caffrey — a college student from Albuquerque, New Mexico

Glen Segal — an attorney from Ladera Ranch, California

Renée Mathis — a homeschool mom from Houston, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $27,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Renée $3,200 $6,800 $17,200 $10,399
3rd place: $1,000
$16,800
25 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Glen $4,000 $5,000 $10,200 $13,700
2nd place: $2,000
$10,200
14 R, 1 W
Kristina $1,000 $4,200 $12,000 $23,000
New champion: $23,000
$9,600
13 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SHERLOCK HOLMES ELEMENTARY MY DEAR WATSON THE SIGN OF THE FOUR THE "RED" HEADED LEAGUE
$200 [26]
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859 in this Scottish city
Edinburgh
Kristina
$200 [16]
He first played Sherlock Holmes on film in 1939
(Basil) Rathbone
Renée
$200 [6]
The Bible tells us of this element being beaten into plates, cut into wires & worked into the clothing worn by Aaron
gold
Renée
$200 [11]
On Jan. 25, 1915 the first transcontinental phone call was made by this man in NYC to Thomas Watson in S.F.
(Alexander Graham) Bell
Renée
$200 [21]
At the end of World War I, the nations designated the "Big Four" were the U.S., Italy, France & this one
Great Britain
Kristina
$200 [1]
The transmission of genetic traits from parents to offspring
heredity
Renée
$600 [28]
Conan Doyle wrote a tribute in 1915 on the death of W.G. Grace, a superstar in this sport
cricket
$400 [17]
This star of "Lawrence of Arabia" voiced Sherlock Holmes for a series of cartoons in the 1980s
(Peter) O'Toole
Renée
$400 [7]
The Kennedy Space Center uses this gas, atomic No. 54 & no warrior princess, in high-intensity lights for night landings
xenon
Glen
$400 [12]
Diane Watson represents this state's 33rd district in the U.S. House of Representatives
California
Glen
$400 [22]
It's the hyphenated 4-dimensional continuum within which physical events can be located
the space-time continuum
$400 [2]
Roman "C"
hundred
Glen
$800 [29]
Sir Arthur was a spiritualist, but he faced opposition from this man who wrote "A Magician Among the Spirits"
Harry Houdini
$600 [18]
This one-time Willy Wonka took on the title role in 1975's "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother"
Gene Wilder
Renée
$600 [8]
Pu! But this element-238 doesn't stink--it powers pacemakers
plutonium
Renée
$600 [13]
Now playing on golf's senior tour, he's won 5 British Opens & 2 Masters tournaments
Tom Watson
Renée
$600 [23]
The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the Bible are War, Pestilence, Famine & this
Death
Renée
$600 [3]
Debit's opposite
credit
Renée
DD $1,000 [27]
Before he was a writer, Conan Doyle worked in this profession, like Watson
medicine
Kristina
$800 [19]
In a 1976 TV movie this "Spy Who Loved Me" actor played "Sherlock Holmes in New York"
Roger Moore
Kristina
$800 [9]
"I" know Bernard Courtois discovered this element in 1811
iodine
Renée Kristina
$800 [14]
English astronomer Frank Watson Dyson was director of this observatory from 1910 to 1933
the Royal Observatory in Greenwich
Glen
$800 [24]
It's the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet
delta
Renée
$800 [4]
Extreme hostility or aversion toward something or someone
hatred
Kristina
$1,000 [30]
Conan Doyle was partly influenced by his Dupin stories
Edgar Allan Poe
Kristina
$1,000 [20]
Before "Rain Man", he directed "Young Sherlock Holmes", in which Holmes & Watson meet as boys at boarding school
Barry Levinson
Glen
$1,000 [10]
This ductile, nonradioactive element has an atomic weight of 26.98
aluminum
Glen
$1,000 [15]
English scholar Thomas Watson is best known today for his 1581 translation of "Antigone" by this Ancient Greek
Sophocles
Kristina
$1,000 [25]
As its name suggests, it's a square dance for 4 couples
a quadrille
Renée
$1,000 [5]
Radiation at wavelengths longer than visible light & shorter than microwaves
infrared
Glen

Double Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY NAMES IRISH SONGS THE NEXT NATION IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER HERE'S A MELANGE POUR VOUS BOOKS OF THE BIBLE THE COURAGE TO "B"
$400 [1]
"The Inquest of the Final Victim Mary Kelly" is the subtitle of a book about this late 19th century Londoner
Jack the Ripper
Renée
$400 [16]
"Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, too-ra-loo-ra-li, too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, that's" one of these
an Irish lullaby
Glen
$400 [17]
Next after Turkey
Turkmenistan
Kristina
$400 [26]
George Soper, a NYC sanitation engineer, helped get her committed to an isolation center from 1907 to 1910
Typhoid Mary
Glen
$400 [2]
The third & the longest of the four Gospels is the Gospel according to him
Luke
Renée
$400 [7]
A submarine's home port, or the place where a runner is safe during a game
base
Glen
$800 [12]
Ballet music was thought an inferior genre when he was commissioned to write the music for "Swan Lake"
Tchaikovsky
Renée
$800 [19]
This title is followed by the line "Sure, it's like the morn in spring"
"When Irish Eyes Are Smiling"
$800 [18]
Next after Albania
Algeria
Renée
$800 [27]
A much-derided 1986 Newsweek story said for a 40-year-old single woman, death by a terrorist was likelier than this
marriage
Renée
$800 [3]
"Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river" comes from this Old Testament book
Exodus
Renée
$800 [8]
An adult human is supported by 206 of them
bones
Glen
$1,200 [13]
As his health grew worse from TB, he left his dentistry practice in Atlanta & moved out West
Doc Holliday
Renée
$1,200 [20]
U2 sang, "She said that I must leave her, an icy tear she froze, how could I melt the heart of a wild" this
Irish rose
Renée
$1,600 [24]
Next after Honduras
Hungary
$1,200 [28]
4-syllable singsong word meaning to waste time, especially by indecision; hello...
dilly-dally
Glen
$1,200 [4]
Immediately following Acts is Paul's Epistle to these people
the Romans
Renée
$1,200 [9]
This organization was based in part on 2 American groups, the Sons of Daniel Boone & the Woodcraft Indians
the Boy Scouts
Renée
$1,600 [14]
In July 1866 he became the U.S. Navy's first full admiral
(Admiral David) Farragut
$1,600 [21]
"Here's to James Connolly who gave one hurrah, and placed the machine guns for" this 3-word Irish battle cry
Erin Go Bragh
Renée
$2,000 [25]
Next after Russia
Rwanda
Kristina
$1,600 [29]
In March 2001 this notorious Afghan group dynamited ancient giant statues of Buddha in Bamiyan
the Taliban
Glen
$1,600 [5]
Ob-la-di ob-la-da, it's the shortest book of the Old Testament
Obadiah
Glen Kristina
DD $2,000 [10]
One of the terms of the treaty that ended this war was 3 million pounds to rebuild the Transvaal
the Boer War
Renée
$2,000 [15]
By the time her "Middlemarch" was published, she was generally recognized as the greatest living English novelist
(George) Eliot
Kristina
$2,000 [22]
"Danny Boy" is based on this traditional Irish tune popular in the 1850s
the Londonderry Air
Kristina
DD $3,000 [23]
Next after Chile
China
Kristina
$2,000 [30]
Talos was a man of bronze that this god of metalworking made for Minos
Hephaestus
Renée Kristina
$2,000 [6]
A victory ode, "The Song of Deborah" is found in this book
Judges
Glen
$2,000 [11]
This Asian capital city's Grand Palace houses the Emerald Buddha, which sits on a gilded wood throne
Bangkok
Kristina

Final Jeopardy!

BOOK TITLE REFERENCES

It "had been built... for pigs about to be butchered. Now it was going to serve as a home... for 100 American P.O.W.s"

Slaughterhouse 5

Glen "What is Slaughterhouse 5?" — wagered $3,500
Kristina "What is Slaughterhouse Five?" — wagered $11,000
Renée "What is the hanoi hilton" — wagered $6,801

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