Show #5495 2008-06-27 (taped 2008-03-19) Regular

Contestants

Michael Arjona — an economics teacher from Kennesaw, Georgia

Jean Whitcomb — a teller supervisor from Kalamazoo, Michigan

Dorothy Farrell — a researcher originally from Brooklyn, New York (whose 3-day cash winnings total $64,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dorothy $2,000 $5,600 $9,800 $9,800
2nd place: $2,000
$12,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Jean $3,200 $3,600 $15,400 $21,201
New champion: $21,201
$15,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Michael $1,200 $4,200 $10,600 $1,599
3rd place: $1,000
$10,600
14 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE 5-YEAR PLAN SINGERS' SIGNATURE SONGS SHAKESPEAREAN NAME ROUNDUP DOWN ECUADOR WAY SCIENCE & NATURE "D" TALKS
$200 [18]
The AP's Edward Kennedy was fired for prematurely reporting this happy event of May 1945
V-E Day (or Germany's surrender)
Michael
$200 [2]
"My Heart Will Go On"
Celine Dion
Jean
$200 [7]
This chef was born one dreamy midsummer in Austria in 1949
Wolfgang Puck
Michael
$200 [26]
It's the capital city of 1.8 million
Quito
Jean
$200 [1]
Mesquite can send these down 60 feet to reach moisture
roots
Jean
$200 [13]
A house divided into 2 separate but equal living units
a duplex
Michael
$400 [19]
In 2005 an ex-Klan member was found guilty in the deaths 41 years before of 3 civil rights workers in this state
Mississippi
Michael
$400 [3]
"Margaritaville"
Jimmy Buffett
Jean
$400 [8]
This modern dance pioneer lost her 2 children to a 1913 auto accident before dying in one herself
Isadora Duncan
Dorothy
$400 [27]
These islands made famous by Darwin became a part of Ecuador in the 19th century
Galapagos
Dorothy
$400 [12]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew lights a peanut on fire.) The oil in the peanut is almost 100 percent fat, which burns & produces energy, a process that's measured by this unit
a calorie
Michael
$400 [14]
To unearth by dragging along the bottom of a body of water
dredge
Michael
$600 [20]
A Jan. 9, 1905 march & massacre in this country started a revolutionary year--a taste of things to come
Russia
Michael
$600 [4]
"I Am Woman"
Helen Reddy
Jean
$800 [10]
This prime minister left the Likud party in 2005 to form a new centrist party, Kadima
Ariel Sharon
$600 [28]
In March 2008 Ecuador mobilized its troops in response to anti-rebel actions by this neighbor
Colombia
Dorothy Jean
$600 [23]
This physics term refers to the study of the effects of extremely low temperatures
cryogenics
Dorothy
$600 [15]
A 1961 Disney film greatly contributed to an increase in this dog breed's popularity
Dalmatian
Dorothy
$800 [21]
The despotic Ferdinand, restored to the throne of Naples in 1815, declared himself King of the 2 these
Sicilies
$800 [5]
"Redneck Woman"
Gretchen Wilson
Jean
DD $1,000 [9]
This "King" of the Sitcom based Archie Bunker on his father & Maude on his wife
Norman Lear
Dorothy
$800 [29]
In July 1822 the city of Guayaquil was the site of an historic meeting between Jose de San Martin & this liberation leader
Simon Bolivar
Michael
$800 [24]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew puts salt & pepper in beakers of water.) The molecular structure of salt allows it to dissolve in water; the pepper will only disperse, creating this type of mixture, from the Latin for "hung up"
a suspension
$800 [16]
In the aristocratic pecking order, he's directly below a prince
a duke
Jean
$1,000 [22]
In a 1985 victory for Margaret Thatcher, these workers went back to work after a strike of nearly a year
coal miners
Dorothy
$1,000 [6]
"Day-O"(The Banana Boat Song)
Harry Belafonte
Jean
$1,000 [11]
She went to medical school at Johns Hopkins before hosting a literary group & hanging out with Hemingway
Gertrude Stein
$1,000 [30]
Ecuador's longest border is with this country to the south & east
Peru
Michael
$1,000 [25]
In 1955 physicists Owen Chamberlain & Emilio Segre discovered the antiproton, which has this kind of charge
negative
Dorothy
$1,000 [17]
To absorb nutrients, or a collection of published material
digest

Double Jeopardy! Round

JOHN STEINBECK OF MICE & MEN THE PEARL THE GRAPES OF WRATH "EAST" OF EDEN
$400 [11]
She revived her book club in 2003 by selecting Steinbeck's "East of Eden" & its sales skyrocketed
Oprah Winfrey
Dorothy
$400 [16]
In "Anchors Aweigh", not Tom but Gene Kelly was the man who cut a rug with this animated mouse
Jerry
Dorothy
$400 [26]
A knotted strand of this material is the traditional cord on which pearls are strung
silk
Dorothy
$400 [21]
This is a white wine flavored with herbs; add it to gin & you've got a martini
vermouth
Michael
$400 [6]
Egon Krenz was briefly the head of this country during the fall of the Berlin Wall
East Germany
Jean
$400 [1]
Guarding the entrance to the Garden of Eden are cherubim & a flaming one of these weapons
a sword
Dorothy
$800 [12]
Steinbeck's "The Moon Is Down" is based on this Scandinavian country's resistance against Nazi occupation
Norway
Dorothy
$800 [17]
After men take away his mother, this Disney title character teams up with Timothy Mouse
Dumbo
Jean
$800 [27]
"La Peregrina" is a famous pearl bought by this man in 1969 & given to Elizabeth Taylor
Richard Burton
Jean
$800 [22]
Brought to Calif. in the 1850s, this alphabetically late grape is used as a base for sparkling wines
Zinfandel
$800 [7]
Hanukkah is sometimes called this "of Lights"
the Feast of Lights
Jean
$800 [2]
This astrophysicist won the Pulitzer Prize for exploring the human brain in "The Dragons of Eden"
Carl Sagan
$1,200 [13]
"The Grapes of Wrath" was based on a series of articles Steinbeck wrote for this California city's News
San Francisco
$1,200 [18]
Mr. Jingles, a pet mouse living on death row, is resurrected by John Coffey after being killed by a guard in this film
The Green Mile
Dorothy
$1,200 [28]
In early China, cultured pearls were created by placing a lead object shaped like this religious figure in a mussel
Buddha
Jean
$1,200 [23]
Red grapes' skins are removed early on to give the pink color to this type of wine, such as tavel
a rosé
Michael
$1,200 [8]
This holiday may take its name from the name of the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring
Easter
Michael
$1,200 [3]
One legend says that Eve took one of these lucky quadrifoliate plants from Eden
a four-leaf clover
Jean
$1,600 [14]
Steinbeck's "Cup of Gold" told the tale of this British pirate whose name lives on in bottles of rum
Captain (Henry) Morgan
Michael
$1,600 [19]
Nehemiah Persoff voiced Papa Mousekewitz in this 1986 film
An American Tail
Jean
$1,600 [29]
This 5-letter substance is secreted by the mollusk to create a pearl
nacre
Dorothy
$1,600 [24]
Called the world's premier red wine grape, it's dominant in the Bordeaux region
Cabernet Sauvignon
$1,600 [9]
A single-celled organism that ferments sugars & carbohydrates
yeast
Jean
$1,600 [4]
In this John Milton work, the angel Michael leads Adam & Eve out of the Garden of Eden
Paradise Lost
Jean
$2,000 [15]
Steinbeck's narrative of his road trip in search of America was titled "Travels with" this dog
Charley
Dorothy
$2,000 [20]
Nathan Lane & Lee Evans are 2 men who inherit a house plagued by a crafty rodent in this 1997 film
MouseHunt
Jean
DD $3,000 [30]
This adjective for pearls of irregular shape also describes artists such as Hyacinthe Rigaud
baroque
Dorothy
$2,000 [25]
Any of this fortified wine "in a storm"; to make it, a neutral grape alcohol is added partway through fermentation
port
Jean
DD $1,800 [10]
It's from the Old French for "wild creature"
a beast
Jean
$2,000 [5]
When Columbus came upon this Venezuelan river, he thought he'd found the entrance to the Garden of Eden
the Orinoco
Michael

Final Jeopardy!

THE U.S. POPULATION

With about 5 people per square mile, it's the most sparsely populated of the lower 48 states

Wyoming

Dorothy "What is Wyoming?" — wagered $0
Michael "What is Montana?" — wagered $9,001
Jean "What is Wyoming?" — wagered $5,801

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