Show #5524 2008-09-18 (taped 2008-08-12) Kids Week

2008 Kids Week Reunion game 4.

Contestants

Dmitry Spivak — a junior from Northwestern University

Zach Safford — a senior from Williams College

Lisa Makar — a senior from University of Maryland

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lisa $1,000 $2,000 $3,200 $3,400
3rd place: $2,500
$3,200
6 R, 0 W
Zach $4,600 $6,000 $12,800 $22,401
Winner: $25,000
$12,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Dmitry $1,200 $2,200 $11,200 $8,200
2nd place: $5,000
$10,200
13 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

KINGS & QUEENS 60 YEARS OF THE EMMYS AMERICANA FRUIT KIDS IN LIT ALL GROWN "UP"
$200 [22]
Tradition says she had herself rolled up in a rug & delivered to Caesar
Cleopatra
Zach
$200 [6]
Julia Louis-Dreyfus accepts a Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy for The New Adventures of Old Christine:"I'm not, uh, somebody who really believes in curses."In 2006 Julia Louis-Dreyfus exorcised the supposed curse of this earlier series
Seinfeld
Dmitry
$200 [9]
His innovations include the first American newspaper cartoon (in 1754) & bifocals (around 1780)
(Benjamin) Franklin
Zach
$200 [1]
Some folks think of the nectarine as this, Georgia's state fruit, without the fuzz
the peach
Zach
$200 [19]
He joined the Auror Department under Kingsley Shacklebolt at age 17
Harry Potter
$200 [14]
Chill out! Don't be this adjective meaning nervous or tense
uptight
Lisa
$400 [23]
In 1918 this country's Christian X recognized Iceland as self-governing but still under his rule
Denmark
$400 [7]
As of 2008, this Kelsey Grammer sitcom that ran from 1993 to 2004 had won the most Emmys, 37
Frasier
Lisa
$600 [11]
The first section of the boardwalk along this New Jersey seashore resort opened on June 26, 1870
Atlantic City
Zach
$400 [2]
This fruit can precede "sauce", "butter" & "-pie order"
apple
Zach
$400 [20]
This boy, about 14 years old, escapes from his alcoholic father & helps a slave who's on the run
Huckleberry Finn
Dmitry
$400 [15]
6-letter word for the costs & activities involved in maintaining something in working order
upkeep
Zach
$600 [24]
This queen reportedly referred to William Gladstone as "that dreadful old man"
Queen Victoria
$600 [8]
Here, Ellen DeGeneres paid tribute to this singer's Oscar's costume
Bjork
Zach
$800 [12]
Alexander Hamilton was the first secretary of this government department
the Treasury
Zach
$600 [3]
The Royal Ann type of this fruit is often canned or used to make maraschinos
cherries
Lisa
$600 [27]
Violet invents, Klaus remembers everything he reads & Sunny likes to bite things in this book series
A Series of Unfortunate Events
$600 [16]
It's the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet
upsilon
Dmitry
$800 [25]
This king & his family have lived at La Zarzuela palace just outside Madrid since 1962
Juan Carlos
$800 [21]
At the 59th Emmys in 2007, the Showtime show about Henry VIII & the rest of this dynasty won a costuming award
The Tudors
Zach
DD $1,000 [10]
2 of the most performed songs in the U.S. after "Happy Birthday"; both were sung March 31, 2008 at Dodger Stadium
the National Anthem & "Take Me Out To The Ball Game"
Zach
$800 [4]
Ruby & Webb are 2 varieties of this citrus fruit
the grapefruit
Zach
$800 [28]
A book by a great-great-uncle shows Jared, Simon & Mallory the hidden world around them in this series
The Spiderwick Chronicles
$800 [17]
In the 1800s W.C. Stewart advocated this type of fly casting, heading toward the river's source
upstream
Lisa
$1,000 [26]
Ancient Macedonia had 5 kings with this name; one came immediately before Alexander the Great & one immediately after
Philip
$1,000 [13]
Florida was named in honor of this holiday season, whose Spanish name includes the word florida
Easter
$1,000 [5]
Bananas are rich in this element that controls the body's fluid balance, providing more than almost any other fruit
potassium
Dmitry
$1,000 [18]
Swedish university city where Celsius & Angstrom taught
Uppsala

Double Jeopardy! Round

YOU GOT AN F MINUS! ANGELINA JOLIE U.S. RIVERS WORK ON IT CLOSE TO YOU ACCELERATOR
$400 [1]
Norse mariner Mr. Eriksson's first name, sans F, is tropical neckwear
Leif & lei
Dmitry
$400 [11]
Angelina voiced Tigress, one of the "Furious Five" in this 2008 movie
Kung Fu Panda
Zach
$400 [15]
This river of the American Southwest shares its name with a "monster" that inhabits the area
the Gila
Zach
$400 [20]
Work for a Carnival, a Princess or even Queen Mary 2 on this type of ship
cruise
Dmitry
$400 [22]
Earth's crust, Earth's mantle, Earth's core
Earth's crust
Lisa
$400 [8]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew strolls the control room of the Stanford Linear Accelerator in Menlo Park, CA.) A detector identifies each particle produced in the accelerator, computing its charge & this measurement that Einstein related to energy
mass
Dmitry
$800 [2]
A directional word for the liberal side of politics goes F-less & turns into a word meaning to allow
left & let
Lisa
$800 [12]
As Jane Smith, Angelina asks him, "Any last words?"; as John Smith, his reply... "The new curtains are hideous"
Brad Pitt
Dmitry
$800 [16]
This river is actually a strait that "falls" 326 feet from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario
Niagara
Zach
$800 [21]
Hop on an undercutter, a chain saw on wheels, to find a seam of this rock formed from peat
coal
$2,000 [23]
The thermosphere, the mesosphere, the troposphere
the troposphere
$800 [7]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Stanford Linear Accelerator in Menlo Park, CA.) In the first of several Nobel Prizes won at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the high rate of new particle production was traced to a new kind of particle, the charm type of this
a quark
Dmitry
$1,200 [3]
A clique within a larger group gets rid of its F to be a movie director's shout to start a scene
faction & action
Dmitry
$1,200 [13]
"Fox"y Angelina tells a fellow assassin to curve a bullet in this 2008 film
Wanted
Zach
$1,200 [17]
This river grows to 11 miles in width as it reaches Chesapeake Bay at Point Lookout, Maryland
the Potomac
Zach
$2,000 [24]
If you like short workdays, just sitting on this critter for 8 seconds can gain you fame with the PBR
a bull
Dmitry
$1,200 [6]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the floor of the Stanford Linear Accelerator in Menlo Park, CA.) In the 2-mile long linear accelerator, anelectromagnetic wavepushes these particles along, kind of like surfers
electrons
Dmitry
$1,600 [9]
Wrap yourself around this piece of clothing, but careful! Losing an F will leave this mark left by a healed wound
scar & scarf
Dmitry
$1,600 [14]
Angelina & this "Gone in 60 Seconds" co-star both went to Beverly Hills H.S.; both also have Oscars
Nicolas Cage
Zach
$1,600 [18]
Although 150 miles to the east, this river supplies most of San Diego's water
the Colorado
$1,600 [5]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew turns from a computer terminal at the Stanford Linear Accelerator in Menlo Park, CA.) It took 6 years to build the SLC, Stanford Linear this, to make particlessmashinto each other at high energy
Collider
DD $2,500 [10]
Lasting a short time, without an F, becomes a French cheese
brief & Brie
Dmitry
$2,000 [19]
This river was discovered in 1805 by Lewis & Clark, who called it the Lewis Fork of the Columbia River
the Snake
Zach
DD $2,500 [4]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Stanford Linear Accelerator at Menlo Park, CA.) At one end of the accelerator, particles are fired out of agunthat uses this type of negative electrode, just like the ray on your TV set
cathode
Dmitry

Final Jeopardy!

PLAYS

In a 16th century work, the feud between these 2 groups is described as an "ancient grudge"

the Capulets & the Montagues

Lisa "Who are the Capulets & Montegues" — wagered $200
Dmitry "Who are the Capulets + the Montesques?" — wagered $3,000
Zach "Who are the Capulets + the Montegues" — wagered $9,601

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