Show #5636 2009-02-23 (taped 2009-01-20) Regular

Contestants

Kenneth Burns — a newspaper editor from Madison, Wisconsin

Jerome Socolof — a graduate student originally from Ilion, New York

Jeanie Welch — a retired librarian from Charlotte, North Carolina (whose 2-day cash winnings total $25,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jeanie $600 $2,600 $10,800 $21,001
2nd place: $2,000
$12,400
14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Jerome $1,400 $4,200 $10,200 $5,100
3rd place: $1,000
$10,200
13 R, 0 W
Kenneth $3,400 $6,800 $21,600 $21,600
New champion: $21,600
$20,800
25 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

SHADES OF BLUE TOP 10 YAHOO! SEARCHES TYPING TEST POISONING PIGEONS IN THE PARK
$200 [6]
In 2003 Crayola retired teal blue & added a color named wild blue this
yonder
Jeanie
$200 [11]
No. 1: "Womanizer" from her "Circus" album scored this pop goddess her first chart topper in nearly a decade
(Britney) Spears
Kenneth
$200 [16]
Of the letters in the bottom row, the last alphabetically
Z
Kenneth
$200 [21]
She may have tried out different poisons on prisoners before deciding on an asp for herself in 30 B.C.
Cleopatra
Jerome
$200 [26]
4-letter alternate name for a small pigeon
dove
$200 [1]
In Massachusetts a national park honors these "men" who famously fought on April 19, 1775
minutemen
Jerome
DD $200 [9]
Saint Tropez & Cannes are on a coast named for this color
the azure coast
Jeanie
$400 [12]
No. 9: She voiced Tigress in "Kung Fu Panda" & reportedly got $14 million from People magazine for baby pics
Angelina Jolie
Jerome
$400 [17]
Of the letters in the bottom row, the second-to-last alphabetically
X
Jerome
$400 [22]
Sentenced to death by poison for corrupting the youth of Athens, he took the fatal swig in 399 B.C.
Socrates
Kenneth
$400 [27]
Rock pigeons were domesticated in this kingdom around 3000 B.C.
Egypt
Jeanie
$400 [2]
This national park extends from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay
the Everglades National Park
Jeanie
$400 [7]
Made from lapis lazuli, this deep blue pigment sounds like a super gung-ho member of the USMC
ultramarine
$600 [13]
No. 4: This 15-year-old's apology for her Vanity Fair shoot probably boosted Yahoo! searches
Miley Cyrus
Kenneth
$600 [18]
In the top row, the pronoun formed by the letters between "Q" & "R"
we
Jeanie Jerome
$600 [23]
When this randy U.S. president died suddenly in Frisco after a trip to Alaska, rumors swirled his wife had poisoned him
Warren G. Harding
Jeanie
$600 [28]
The Palmetto pigeon plant in Sumter, S.C. is the USA's largest farm for these young pigeons
squabs
Jeanie
$600 [3]
A state park in Burnet County, Texas appropriately bears the name of this breed of cattle
longhorn
Kenneth
$600 [8]
Now largely synthetic, this plant dye traditionally put the blue in blue jeans
indigo
Jeanie
$800 [14]
No. 2: Drama cravers turned to Yahoo! after an "explosion" hurt this company's chairman, Vince McMahon
World Wrestling Entertainment
Jeanie
$800 [19]
In the top row, the third & fourth letters from the left spell this part of a hospital
ER
Jerome
$800 [24]
Her son, the potential Louis XVII, died in prison amid rumors that he was poisoned
Marie Antoinette
Kenneth
$800 [29]
Homing pigeons used to send messages are called these
carrier pigeons
Jerome
$800 [4]
A state park named for this Native American woman is just 20 miles from downtown Richmond, Virginia
Pocahontas
Jerome
$1,000 [10]
Containing the name of a defunct kingdom, this iron blue tint was discovered by a color-maker in 18th century Berlin
Prussian
Kenneth
$1,000 [15]
No. 7: Last name Uzumaki, this manga graduate of the Ninja Academy has games, comics & legions of fans
Naruto
$1,000 [20]
Of the letters in the home row, it's the only vowel
A
Kenneth
$1,000 [25]
This Mongol conqueror became the leader of his people after his father, Yesugei, was poisoned by Tatars
Genghis Khan
Kenneth
$1,000 [30]
This type of once-abundant pigeon was hunted to extinction in the U.S. in the early 1900s
the passenger pigeon
Jeanie
$1,000 [5]
Enjoy the many treasures of this state on a visit to Jean Lafitte National Historic Park & Preserve
Louisiana
Kenneth

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCULPTURE SPRINGSTEEN SONGS IN OTHER WORDS LIVIN' LIBIDO LOCA "S"-ENTIAL KNOWLEDGE LITERARY OPENING LINES GREEN LIVING
$400 [11]
This painter of ballerinas began sculpting them around 1880; "Little Dancer of Fourteen" was his most famous
(Edgar) Degas
Kenneth
$400 [6]
"Hatched for Sprinting"
"Born to Run"
Jerome
$400 [21]
In 1764 this Russian empress made Stanislaw Poniatowski, an ex-lover devoted to her, King of Poland
Catherine the Great
Kenneth
$400 [16]
2-word term for a weapon, like a pistol or sword, worn at the waist
side arm
Kenneth
$400 [1]
Jules Verne:"Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens"
Around the World in Eighty Days
Kenneth
$400 [26]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a piece of rough fuzz.) Levi Strauss would be proud of the use of this recycled, chemical-free cotton material used in the insulation in the walls to reduce energy costs
denim
Jerome
$800 [12]
An Ogdensburg, New York museum devoted to this sculptor includes his 1895 work "The Bronco Buster"
Remington
Kenneth
$800 [7]
"Famished Cardiac Organ"
"Hungry Heart"
Kenneth
$800 [22]
In 1836 this 27-year-old U.S. poet married Virginia Clemm, his underage cousin; every bit of that just ain't right
(Edgar Allan) Poe
Jeanie
$800 [17]
Radio reception & transmission with waves 10 to 200 meters long
shortwave
Kenneth
$800 [2]
Lee:"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow"
To Kill A Mockingbird
Kenneth
$800 [27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands outside on the porch and the camera pans up.) Thephotovoltaic systemon the roof provides shade & produces 75% of the home's power all from waves toward the violet end of this
the light spectrum
Kenneth
DD $1,000 [15]
On June 23, 1923 he began carving on Stone Mountain, completing Robert E. Lee's head within 7 months
Gutzon Borglum
Jeanie
$1,200 [8]
"Me, Ablaze"
"I Am On Fire"
Kenneth
$1,200 [23]
This writer's relationship with Alfred Douglas was fine with him, but it drove Al's dad, Marquess of Queensberry, nuts
Oscar Wilde
Jeanie
$1,200 [18]
In the NFL, a team that scores in the 61st minute of play wins in this type of overtime
sudden-death
Kenneth
$1,600 [4]
Kafka: "Someone must have slandered Josef K., for...without having done anything wrong, he was arrested"
The Trial
Kenneth
$1,200 [28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew is in the kitchen.) Garbage goes in, & out comesfertilizerfor your garden with a device that holds this decaying organic matter not normally found in the kitchen
a composter
Jerome
$1,200 [13]
Giovanni Bernini sculpted "Apollo and" this nymph for Cardinal Borghese in the 1620s
Daphne
$1,600 [9]
"Splendorous 24-Hour Periods"
"Glory Days"
Kenneth
$1,600 [24]
Wife No. 5, she wed Henry VIII in 1540; she must've lost her head fooling around on him; oh wait, she did
Catherine Howard
Jeanie
$1,600 [19]
The hyphenated economic theory that cutting taxes can actually boost revenue
supply-side
Kenneth
DD $2,000 [3]
Bradbury:"It was a pleasure to burn"
Fahrenheit 451
Kenneth
$1,600 [29]
(Sara of the Clue Crew stands in a stairwell.) Providing almost twice the insulation of treated glass, thepanesare glazed polycarbonate, this type of material
a plastic
$1,600 [14]
"The Dinner Party" by this sculptor who shares her name with an Ill. city has 39 place settings for 39 historical women
Judy Chicago
Jeanie
$2,000 [10]
"Loud, Booming Street"
"Thunder Road"
$2,000 [25]
In 1974 Rep. Wilbur Mills' affair with this alliterative stripper was the talk of the Potomac River Tidal Basin
Fanne Foxe
Jeanie
$2,000 [20]
Also called a varying hare, this North American rabbit is named for the size of its feet
a snowshoe hare
Jeanie
$2,000 [5]
Rushdie:"'To be born again,' sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'First you have to die"'
The Satanic Verses
Jerome
$2,000 [30]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew looks up at the lights.) Thebulbsabove generate less heat, can last ten years & use 1/10 the power of incandescent bulbs; they're known as LEDs, short for this
light-emitting diodes
Jerome

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD RIVERS

With 4, more national capitals are located on this river than any other river in the world

the Danube

Jerome "What is the Nile?" — wagered $5,100
Jeanie "What is the Danube?" — wagered $10,201
Kenneth "What is the Nile" — wagered $0

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