Show #5473 2008-05-28 (taped 2008-02-20) Regular

Larissa Kelly game 7.

Contestants

Nan Reiner — an attorney from Alexandria, Virginia

Pat Roche — a trainer from East Greenbush, New York

Larissa Kelly — a grad student from El Cerrito, California (whose 6-day cash winnings total $222,597)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Larissa $800 $200 $1,800 $1,800
3rd place: $1,000
$13,800
19 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs)
Pat $2,400 $4,200 $12,800 $13,700
New champion: $13,700
$11,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Nan $800 $4,400 $5,600 $7,599
2nd place: $2,000
$5,600
14 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

ZOOLOGY FOOTBALL COACHES FIRST NAMES CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS RANKS & TITLES WORDS IN ALEX TREBEK
$200 [1]
Strains of the Norway species of this animal are the ones used in labs
rats
Pat
$200 [2]
Nickname of Glenn Warner, who coached such All-Americans as Jim Thorpe & Ernie Nevers
Pop
Pat
$200 [13]
Diddy's real first name, it's on his clothing line
Sean
Larissa
$200 [11]
Not surprisingly, this magician claims as his favorite book the Charles Dickens novel that bears his name
David Copperfield
Larissa
$200 [26]
It's the 2-word title for the head of a parliamentary government
prime minister
Larissa
$200 [16]
A hatchet is a small one
an axe
Pat
$400 [7]
The turkey type of this bird has an exceptional sense of smell for detecting carrion on the ground
the vulture
Nan
$400 [3]
This longtime Alabama coach won 328 games in his 38-year career
Paul "Bear" Bryant
Pat
$400 [22]
Barack, related to the Hebrew Baruch, means this
blessed
Nan
$400 [12]
High on Eva Marie Saint's list is a biography of this man who directed her in "On The Waterfront"
Elia Kazan
Nan
$400 [27]
Going down the ranks of the Royal Navy, remember your 3 C's: commodore, captain, this
commander
Larissa
$400 [17]
Cenozoic, for example
era
Nan
$600 [8]
The fact that this lizard's name is from the Greek for "ground lion" never changes
chameleon
Larissa
$600 [4]
Don Shula & this Dallas Cowboys coach both coached a record 36 postseason games in the NFL
Tom Landry
Pat
$600 [23]
Chancellor Dollfuss & composer Humperdinck shared this name
Engelbert
Nan
$600 [14]
Lauren Bacall said his "All The Pretty Horses" was "the most beautiful writing I have read in years"
Cormac McCarthy
Larissa
$600 [28]
These high-ranking counselors to the pope must also be bishops
cardinals
Nan
$600 [18]
French visorless cap
a beret
Nan
$800 [9]
The common type of this marsupial has coarse, thick fur, while that of the hairy-nosed is short & silky
a wombat
Larissa Pat Nan
$800 [5]
This Nebraska coach averaged more than 10 victories a season for 25 years
Tom Osborne
Pat
$800 [24]
This name means "illustrious", as lawyer Darrow was
Clarence
Pat
$800 [15]
Author Sandra Brown says the book that had the most impact on her was this author's "Mila 18"
Leon Uris
Nan
$800 [29]
As one of these enlisted ranks in the army, your grade is E-1 or E-2; as a first class one, it's E-3
private
Larissa
$800 [19]
The shaft around which a wheel rotates
an axle
Pat
$1,000 [10]
Indians prized the eulachon, also called this kind of "fish", because it was so oily it could be burned like one
a candlefish
$1,000 [6]
This team's Marv Levy is the only coach to lead his team to 4 straight Super Bowl appearances
the Buffalo Bills
Pat
$1,000 [25]
19th century English illustrator Greenaway, or 19th century American author Chopin
Kate
Nan
$1,000 [21]
R.L. Stine said the works of this author, including "Dandelion Wine", changed his life
Ray Bradbury
Larissa
DD $4,000 [30]
It's a member of the lowest rank of the French Legion of Honor: just ask Maurice
chevalier
Larissa
$1,000 [20]
Bird bill
beak
Larissa

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE THUNDERBIRDS RECENT CINEMA INTERNATIONAL FACTS HEY, J.J.! DUTCH ROYALTY THE "PH" FACTOR
$400 [11]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew walks by a fighter jet in Las Vegas, Nevada.) The Thunderbirds are the elite demonstration team of this armed service, & were created just 6 years after the service came into being
the Air Force
Pat
$400 [1]
About this 2008 release, Roger Ebert wrote, "Godzilla meets the Queasy-cam"
Cloverfield
Larissa
$400 [6]
The world-leading population density of 43,000 people per square mile in this tiny country includes Prince Albert II
Monaco
Larissa
$400 [16]
He's given eulogies for Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks & Lou Rawls
Jesse Jackson
Nan
$400 [24]
On Nov. 2, 1997 Prince Maurits & his future wife ran in this famed Manhattan race
the New York Marathon
Larissa
$400 [22]
This ancient people's territory included the cities of Ekron & Gath
the Philistines
Larissa
$800 [12]
(Sarah reports from the rear seat of a jet.) We won't go there today, but the Thunderbirds can reach ceilings of about 50,000 feet & fly 1500 miles per hour, roughly 2 on this scale
Mach
Pat
$800 [2]
In this Disney comedy, an animated princess played by Amy Adams is banished to a place far, far away...reality
Enchanted
$800 [7]
The Indian city of 10,000,000 now known as Mumbai was once known as this
Bombay
Larissa
$800 [17]
She belted out "Ball and Chain" at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival & was launched to stardom
Janis Joplin
Pat
$800 [29]
The wife of young Prince Bernhard shares this first name with one of the original Mousketeers
Annette
Larissa
$800 [28]
Usually, this 5-inch body part is open to allow passage of air to & from the lungs
the pharynx
Nan
$1,600 [14]
(Sarah sits in the cockpit of a grounded fighter.) Abbreviated HUD, this type of display projects vital avionics information at eye-level in front of the pilot of an F-16 for easy viewing
a head-up display
$1,200 [3]
This actor made his debut as a director with "Gone Baby Gone" which starred his brother Casey
Ben Affleck
Pat
$1,200 [8]
The line of latitude with this number of degrees lies halfway between the Equator & the North Pole
45
Larissa Pat
$1,200 [18]
In the '50s, hebecame friends with another innovative alliterative artist, Robert Rauschenberg
Jasper Johns
Nan
$1,600 [21]
Don't cry for Princess Maxima, wife of the heir to the Dutch throne; she was born in this South American country
Argentina
Nan
$1,200 [27]
In gas station names, Union is 76; this is 66
Phillips
Nan
$2,000 [15]
(Sarah reports from the air one more time.) Pulling up to 7.5 Gs, a popular solo move by the Thunderbirds is a reversed one of these terms, named for a German WWI flying ace
the Immelmann turn
Pat Nan
$1,600 [4]
"National Treasure: Book of Secrets" climaxes at this national monument, under which is a fabled city of gold
Mount Rushmore
$1,600 [9]
In January 2008 it was checkmate for this former chess champ who passed away in Iceland, his adopted country
Bobby Fischer
Larissa
$1,600 [19]
In 2001 his change of political affiliation tipped the balance of power in the Senate
Jim Jeffords
Pat
$2,000 [26]
The Queen's official birthday is still celebrated on April 30, the birthday of this predecessor of Queen Beatrix
Queen Juliana
Nan
$1,600 [23]
Artificial female ones of these are used to bait traps to capture male beetles
pheromones
Pat
DD $3,000 [13]
(Sarah and the squadron perform precision maneuvers.) Not as easy as it sounds, while making a complete rotation on our longitudinal axis, Colonel Skelton & I are executing this type of roll
a barrel roll
Pat
$2,000 [5]
In 2007 Tom Hanks played this Texas congressman who secretly helped supply the Afghan freedom fighters in the 1980s
Charlie Wilson
Larissa
$2,000 [10]
Greece's first national park is this one named for a massif
Mount Olympus
Pat
$2,000 [20]
"Down By Law" & "Broken Flowers" are features by this independent-minded movie director
Jim Jarmusch
Larissa
DD $8,000 [30]
Since 1984, the Queen's place of work has been Noordeinde Palace in this city
The Hague
Larissa
$2,000 [25]
To Wittgenstein, the problems of this field for which he is best known are largely confusions of language
philosophy
Larissa Pat

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY LEADERS

He said, "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last"

Winston Churchill

Larissa "Who is Churchill?" — wagered $0
Nan "Who was Winston Churchill?" — wagered $1,999
Pat "Who is W. Churchill?" — wagered $900

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