Show #5637 2009-02-24 (taped 2009-01-20) Regular

Contestants

Jorge Rivero — a contamination control technician from Sunrise, Florida

Kelly Rabin — an actuary from Issaquah, Washington

Kenneth Burns — a newspaper editor from Madison, Wisconsin (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kenneth $0 $2,600 $8,600 $17,200
2nd place: $2,000
$12,000
14 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Kelly $2,800 $8,200 $14,600 $4,999
3rd place: $1,000
$14,600
20 R, 0 W
Jorge $800 $3,000 $12,100 $18,100
New champion: $18,100
$11,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

DEATH OF A PRESIDENT AS LISTED IN THES.I. ALMANAC DRINK, SKIN CARE ITEM OR R&B SINGER AROUND THE WORLD BUSINESS & INDUSTRY COLORFUL TERMS
$200 [1]
He was pronounced dead at 1:00 P.M. on Nov. 22, 1963 at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas
JFK
Kelly
$200 [17]
"Stripped of title in 1967 because he refused to serve in the Vietnam War... defended title 19 times"
Muhammad Ali
Jorge
$200 [8]
Capri Sun
a drink
Jorge
$200 [13]
The youngest person to climb it was 15-year-old Temba Tseri on May 22, 2001
Mount Everest
Kenneth
$200 [2]
This food company is named for a coffee blend made for a Monterey, Ca. hotel; it means "of the mountain" in Spanish
Del Monte
Jorge
$200 [16]
It describes the "waves of grain" in "America The Beautiful"
amber
Jorge
$400 [4]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Monticello.) Thomas Jefferson, whose gravemarker makes no mention of him being president, died July 4, 1826, just hours before this former president & close friend
John Adams
Kelly
$400 [18]
"'The Yankee Clipper'... played on 10 World Series winners", career span 1936-51"
(Joe) DiMaggio
Kelly
$400 [9]
Sunny D
a drink
Kelly
$400 [14]
It begins in Lake Itasca in Minnesota & ends in the Gulf of Mexico
the Mississippi River
Kenneth
$400 [3]
In 1963 Charles Tandy bought this nearly bankrupt electronics parts supplier & made it into a top retail chain
RadioShack
Jorge
$400 [25]
If you drink enough of this color champagne, you might also see its elephants
pink
Kenneth
$600 [5]
He died of congestive heart failure at Walter Reed Army Medical Center March 28, 1969
Dwight David Eisenhower
Kenneth Jorge
$600 [21]
"Born Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Brazilian soccer player... scored 1,281 goals in 22 years"
Pele
Kelly
$600 [10]
T-Pain
R&B singer
Kenneth
$800 [19]
The first person known to be born on this continent was Emilio Palma in 1978
Antarctica
Kelly
$600 [22]
This credit card company publishes Travel & Leisure & is the world's largest issuer of traveler's checks
American Express
Kenneth
$600 [26]
Shade of red that precedes "fever" & "letter" in items you probably don't want
scarlet
Kenneth
$800 [6]
He lived for about 80 days following his shooting, dying of blood poisoning September 19, 1881
Garfield
Kelly
$800 [28]
"Tennis player. First black man to win U.S. Open (1968, as an amateur), Australian Open (1970)"
(Arthur) Ashe
Kelly
$800 [11]
Aveeno
skin care item
Kenneth
$1,000 [20]
The country with the most volcanoes is this nation that felt a huge eruption in 1883
Indonesia
Jorge
$800 [23]
Big Brother could tell you this term for a corporation that controls another company, like AMR does for American Airlines
a parent (or holding) company
Kelly
$800 [27]
It can describe bad journalism, or being cowardly
yellow
Jorge
$1,000 [7]
Hoping to say a final farewell to this friend, Sam Houston showed up at his Hermitage home minutes too late
Andrew Jackson
Kelly
$1,000 [30]
"Golfer. 'The Shark'... won two British Opens (1986, '93) but is more famous for his heartbreaking losses"
(Greg) Norman
Kelly
$1,000 [12]
Neneh Cherry
an R&B singer
Jorge
DD $1,400 [15]
This Southern Hemisphere nation was named after a southwestern province of the Netherlands
New Zealand
Kenneth
$1,000 [24]
This company began selling apple butter in 1900; it had to be good--a full line of jams & jellies followed
Smucker's
Kenneth
$1,000 [29]
Environmentally sound, or unripe
green
Kelly

Double Jeopardy! Round

HAVE A HEART WITH DR. OZ ANIMATED VOICES THE MUSIC MAN'S INSTRUMENT FUN STUFF IN THE NAVY "C" DUTY
$400 [12]
(Dr. Oz delivers the clue holding a real heart.)Thisvalve, whose name is from the Latin for "three points", prevents the backflow of blood from the right ventricle into the right atrium
the tricuspid
$400 [11]
Maybe leaving NBC late night in 2009 will help open his schedule to guest again as Kitty on "South Park"
(Jay) Leno
Kelly
$400 [6]
John Coltrane
the saxophone
Kelly
$400 [13]
A historic flight in one of these went over Paris Nov. 21, 1783; today many fly in them for fun
a hot air balloon
Kelly
$400 [19]
In navy slang a flattop is this type of modern warship
an aircraft carrier
Jorge
$400 [4]
John Jay Shipherd, Charles Tufts & Matthew Vassar all helped found this type of institution
colleges
Jorge
$800 [18]
(Dr. Oz delivers the clue, again holding a squishy human heart.) The sinoatrial node on the back wall of the right atrium, here, sends out electrical signals to regulate the heartbeat & is also known as this, like a mechanical device implanted to do the same thing
a pacemaker
Kelly
$800 [27]
On "Futurama" this pol warned of the universe's destruction, "and as an environmentalist, I'm against that"
Al Gore
Jorge
$800 [5]
Benny Goodman
clarinet
Kenneth
$800 [14]
At NYC's Tisch Children's Zoo, a Vietnamese pot-bellied this is available for petting
pig
Kenneth
$800 [20]
It's the lowest rank of admiral in the U.S. navy
rear admiral (lower half)
Kelly
$800 [7]
You auto know this small Michigan city that rests on the lake of the same name
Cadillac
DD $1,500 [24]
(Dr. Oz holds two fingers to his neck.) When you check your pulse by placing two fingers on the side of your neck, you'refeeling these arteries that supply the brain & face
the carotid arteries
Jorge
$1,200 [28]
Voiced by this "Frasier" guy, Sideshow Bob says his "Die Bart, Die" tattoo is "German for 'The Bart, The"'
Kelsey Grammer
Kelly
$1,200 [3]
Herb Alpert
the trumpet
Kelly
$1,600 [16]
Total number of cards used to play Old Maid (without any jokers)
51
$1,200 [21]
The U.S. Navy's Pacific fleet is headquartered in this harbor
Pearl Harbor
Kelly
$1,200 [8]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.) An inflammation of the membrane that lines the eye is this medical condition, commonly known as pink eye
conjunctivitis
Kenneth
$1,600 [25]
(Dr. Oz delivers the clue from his office, with some product placement on his desk.) This severe constricting pain in the chest is a symptom of coronary artery disease, but 50% of heart attack patients never experience it
an angina
Kenneth
$1,600 [29]
"You got lucky"--this Heartbreaker voiced Lucky in a "King of the Hill" episode titled "Tears of an Inflatable Clown"
Tom Petty
Kenneth
$1,600 [2]
Jascha Heifetz
the violin
Jorge
DD $2,000 [15]
In 1901 Alexander Graham Bell began building tetrahedral box ones of these with the goal of lifting people
kites
Kenneth
$1,600 [22]
In 1992 Darlene Iskra took an opportune time to become the Navy's first female one of these, on the USS Opportune
captain
$1,600 [9]
The constellation Sagittarius is represented by this mythological creature
the Centaur
Jorge
$2,000 [26]
(Dr. Oz holds a small wire mesh tube.)Thesewire mesh tubes are used to prop open an artery during balloon angioplasty & expand & lock into place as the balloon is inflated
a stent
Jorge
$2,000 [30]
In 1976 this singer "Fell to Earth"; in 2007, he fell below the waves, as Lord Royal Highness on "SpongeBob"
David Bowie
Jorge
$2,000 [1]
Lionel Hampton
vibraphone
Kenneth Jorge
$2,000 [17]
Sports car video game that's "great touring" in Italian
Gran Turismo
Jorge
$2,000 [23]
The roots of the Navy SEALs are in UDTs, short for underwater teams that specialize in this explosive activity
demolition
Jorge
$2,000 [10]
It's his late-16th-century handiwork, seen here
Caravaggio

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN NOVELISTS

"What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after", he wrote in 1932

Ernest Hemingway

Kenneth "Who is Hemingway" — wagered $8,600
Jorge "Who is E. Hemingway" — wagered $6,000
Kelly "Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?" — wagered $9,601

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