Show #5488 2008-06-18 (taped 2008-03-18) Regular

Dave Simpson game 3.

Contestants

Jules Staniewicz — an investment manager from Boca Raton, Florida

Lucy Anne McKosky — a retired educator from Dayton, Ohio

Dave Simpson — a pastor from Belcamp, Maryland (whose 2-day cash winnings total $53,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dave $2,400 $7,400 $15,000 $23,601
3-day champion: $76,802
$14,800
24 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Lucy Anne $400 $1,800 $11,800 $5,800
3rd place: $1,000
$13,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Jules $1,600 $4,800 $8,400 $16,800
2nd place: $2,000
$8,400
13 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

MAKES SENSE TENNIS EDIBLE COMMON BONDS HOUSES OF THE HOLY LEAD ZEPPELIN
$200 [3]
In 2008 a homeless advocacy group reported that one in 25 of this Southern city's 300,000 residents is homeless
New Orleans
Dave Jules
$200 [1]
This American woman was the first to win 20 Wimbledon titles
Billie Jean King
Dave
$200 [11]
Irish, Brunswick, mulligan
stew
Jules
$200 [14]
Westminster Abbey
London
Dave
$200 [26]
"To eat lead" in old gangster slang meant to be exposed to these coming your way
bullets
Jules
$200 [6]
Zeppelins were named for Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin of this country
Germany
Dave
$400 [7]
Given cause of death of Adam Sandler's dad in "The Waterboy"
dehydration
Dave
$400 [2]
This Bruin won the 1971 NCAA men's tennis title & later became professional tennis' all-time tournament winner
Jimmy Connors
Dave Lucy Anne
$400 [12]
Crescent, kaiser, Parker House
rolls
Dave
$400 [15]
The Mormon Tabernacle
Salt Lake City
Dave
$400 [27]
This country is the world's main user of lead & the main recycler
the United States
Dave
$400 [20]
The first military use of Zeppelins came during this war
World War I
Dave
$600 [8]
Appropriately, Amy Freeze was this age when she became a meteorologist for WFLD in January 2007
32
Dave
$600 [4]
Arthur Ashe called this 1960s Aussie tennis star's left arm "a two-by-four with freckles"
Rod Laver
Jules
$600 [19]
Brown, beurre-blanc, bordelaise
sauces
Dave
$600 [16]
The Dome of the Rock
Jerusalem
Lucy Anne
$600 [28]
Lead ores such as galena are also the main mining sources of this precious metal often found with it
silver
Jules
$600 [21]
In 1924 this U.S. company acquired all the Zeppelin patents
Goodyear
Jules
DD $1,000 [9]
In Spanish, this bird is un pajaro carpintero
a woodpecker
Dave
$800 [5]
Born in Buenos Aires in 1970, she became a tennis pro at age 14
Gabriela Sabatini
$800 [23]
Blood, bockwurst, chorizo
sausages
Dave
$800 [17]
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine
New York City
Lucy Anne
$800 [29]
Whether in a hearing aid or a hot rod, most lead is used in these
batteries
Dave
$800 [22]
This high-flying dirigible made the first airship flight around the world in 1929
the Graf Zeppelin
Jules
$1,000 [10]
Isaac Asimov coined the word "millihelen" as the quantity of beauty it would take to do this
launch one ship
Jules
$1,000 [13]
This Californian gave birth in June 2007 & returned to the pro tour that fall
Lindsay Davenport
$1,000 [25]
Button, enoki, chanterelle
mushrooms
Dave
$1,000 [18]
Brunelleschi's Duomo of the 1420s & '30s
Florence
$1,000 [30]
The "lead" used in pencils is actually this form of carbon once thought to be a type of lead
graphite
Jules
$1,000 [24]
These 2 lighter-than air gases that lift the Zeppelin are carried in balloons called cells
hydrogen & helium
Dave

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITERATURE EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY 2007 NEWS GONE VISION WE HAVE MET THE ANIME THEY ARE "US"
$400 [6]
The full title of this Spanish novel includes "de la Mancha, El Ingenioso Hidalgo"
Don Quixote
Jules
$400 [1]
The Marne joins this river at Charenton-le-Pont, a suburb of Paris
the Seine
Jules
$400 [10]
In November, scientists said they'd found a way to reprogram skin cells to be have like these embryonic cells
stem cells
Dave
$400 [16]
In a 1978 hit, Foreigner had this malady, AKA diplopia
"Double Vision"
Dave
$400 [26]
This anime show didn't start on TV; its characters were first part of Nintendo's "Pocket Monsters"
Pokémon
Dave
$400 [21]
Protruding elephant tooth
tusks
Jules
$800 [7]
Bernard Binlin Dadie's novel "Climbie" depicts this "Ivorian" country, his homeland, during colonial times
Côte d'Ivoire (or the Ivory Coast)
Lucy Anne
$800 [2]
Nordkapp on this country's Mageroya Island is one of Europe's most northerly points
Norway
$800 [11]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Machu Picchu.) The Peruvian government has reached an agreement with this Ivy League university for the return of artifacts taken from Machu Picchu in the early 1900s
Yale
Dave Lucy Anne
$800 [17]
"The Vision of Adamnán" is one of the oldest prose works of this Atlantic island nation
Ireland
Lucy Anne
$800 [27]
This classic 5-letter anime film isn't named for director Kurosawa but rather a boy who destroys Tokyo
Akira
Dave
$800 [25]
The 2 planets in our solar system that fit the category
Venus & Uranus
Dave
$1,200 [8]
New Zealand-born Dame Ngaio Marsh became famous for her work in this field of fiction
mystery writing
Lucy Anne
$1,200 [3]
For its location on the peninsula, the Calabria region is often called this anatomical term "of Italy"
the toe
Lucy Anne Jules
$1,200 [13]
Edited by his son Christopher, "The Children of Hurin" is a tale of Middle-earth's First Age by this man
J.R.R. Tolkien
Lucy Anne
$1,200 [18]
From the French for "clearsighted", this ability is also known as second sight
clairvoyance
Dave
$1,200 [28]
In this anime TV series, Bumblebee turned into a VW Beetle; in the 2007 live-action movie, he got upgraded to a Camaro
Transformers
Dave Lucy Anne
$1,200 [24]
In court, an objection may be overruled or this
sustained
Dave
$1,600 [9]
His essay "Civil Disobedience" was delivered as a lecture & printed as "Resistance to Civil Government"
(Henry David) Thoreau
Jules
$1,600 [4]
In Spain this second-largest city is a major port on the Mediterranean Sea
Barcelona
Lucy Anne
DD $2,000 [14]
In Sept. 2007 Apple reduced the price of the 8GB this to $399, down from $599
the iPhone
Lucy Anne
$1,600 [19]
In an 1823 poem, "The children were nestled all snug in their beds while" these "danced in their heads"
visions of sugar plums
Lucy Anne
$1,600 [29]
This "lunar" Naoko Takeuchi creation is an example of a "magical girl" given powers to save the world
Sailor Moon
Dave
$1,600 [23]
Frederick the Great was its king in the 1700s
Prussia
Lucy Anne
$2,000 [12]
Some have described his "Eugene Onegin" as the first great Russian novel, although it was written in verse
Pushkin
Dave
$2,000 [5]
Germany's tallest peak, Zugspitze, lies in these Alps
the Bavarian Alps
Lucy Anne
$2,000 [15]
This American general assumed command of the multinational force in Iraq on Feb. 10, 2007
Petraeus
Jules
DD $2,000 [20]
Also the title of a 1985 movie, this Native American rite of passage or of spiritual renewal often includes fasting
vision quest
Lucy Anne
$2,000 [30]
One of the highest-grossing films in Japanese history is the anime film about this title 14th c. princess
Princess Mononoke
$2,000 [22]
Persian prophet of the 6th century B.C.
Zarathustra

Final Jeopardy!

THE ACADEMY AWARDS

In 1981 he received an honorary Oscar for his body of work; a year later, he won an acting Oscar for his final film

Henry Fonda

Jules "Who is Henry Fonda?" — wagered $8,400
Lucy Anne "Who is Laurence Olivier" — wagered $6,000
Dave "Who is Henry Fonda?" — wagered $8,601

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