Show #5676 2009-04-20 (taped 2009-02-17) Regular

Contestants

Anthony Resnick — a law student originally from Butler, Pennsylvania

Stefanie Tomko — a software project manager from Bellevue, Washington

Kevin Joyce — a customer service representative from Leominster, Massachusetts (whose 3-day cash winnings total $111,299)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kevin $2,800 $2,000 $7,800 $4,000
2nd place: $2,000
$13,200
20 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Stefanie $1,800 $900 $11,000 $20,800
New champion: $20,800
$12,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Anthony $2,200 $7,200 $11,600 $1,199
3rd place: $1,000
$11,600
15 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

BEHIND THE SEUSS-IC THE CELEBRITY BLING BIZ NAME THEIR ISLAND CHAIN SECRET SERVICE CODE NAMES 2009 NOT LITERALLY FOREIGN LANGUAGE
$200 [18]
With talk of "Dick and Jane" books being too boring for kids to learn, Seuss delivered this purr-fect big seller in 1957
The Cat in the Hat
Anthony
$200 [26]
A 4-leafed one of these has been lucky for Heidi Klum; it's a symbol of her jewelry collection
a clover
Stefanie
$200 [1]
Niihau &Lanai
the Hawaiian Islands
Stefanie
$200 [7]
Joe Biden--Your average Boston NBA player
Celtic
Kevin
$200 [6]
Your friend didn't "literally fall off the face of the Earth"... unless he can defy this force that keeps him grounded
gravity
Anthony
$200 [9]
It's not nice to give someone the "cold" this, epaule in French
shoulder
Stefanie
$400 [19]
An editor bet that Seuss (would not) could not write a book using 50 words or less; the result was this story
Green Eggs and Ham
Kevin
$400 [27]
Erica Kane would kill for the glamorous jewelry that this star who plays her sells on HSN
Susan Lucci
Anthony
$400 [2]
St. John &St. Thomas
the U.S. Virgin Islands
Stefanie
$400 [14]
Michelle Obama--Not too shabby an art period
Renaissance
Anthony
$400 [8]
No, if you're "literally climbing the walls" you'd be this boyfriend of Mary Jane Watson
Spider-Man (or Peter Parker)
Stefanie
$400 [10]
This Russian word for "big" is also the name of a big ballet company
the Bolshoi
Kevin
$600 [22]
No character had ever burped in a children's book before, so the one in this Seuss tale caused quite a "shell" shock
Yertle the Turtle
Stefanie
$600 [28]
Some of this comedienne's line of QVC jewelry has interchangeable parts (will interchangeable noses be next?)
Joan Rivers
Anthony
$600 [3]
Unimak &Unalaska
the Aleutian Islands
Stefanie
$600 [15]
Barack Obama--This "R" word; how mavericky
Renegade
Anthony
$600 [20]
You're "literally going to pieces"? Use this adhesive that stuck a worker's hard hat to a beam in an old ad
Krazy Glue
Kevin
$600 [11]
This term for a karate instructor means "doctor" or "teacher" in Japanese
sensei
Kevin
$1,000 [24]
Some libraries took this book with the Yooks & Zooks off the shelf for its references to the Cold War
The Butter Battle Book
$800 [29]
Her mom, Candy, is famous for wearing expensive gems, but this "90210" alum's jewelry line is affordable
Tori Spelling
Kevin Stefanie
$800 [4]
New Providence &Turks & Caicos
the Bahamas
Kevin
$800 [16]
Jill Biden--Nice pants; ask Laura Petrie
Capri
$800 [21]
No, if you were "literally rolling in money" you'd be wriggling in a pile of C-notes (these)
hundred-dollar bills
Anthony
$800 [12]
Hebrew for "a sitting", it's an Orthodox Jewish college
yeshiva
Kevin
DD $1,500 [23]
This book sells about 300,000 copies each year because so many people give it to college & high school graduates
Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Stefanie
$1,000 [30]
"The Simple Life" of this waiflike celeb includes a line of jewelry named for her little daughter Harlow
Nicole Richie
Anthony
$1,000 [5]
San Cristobal &Guadalcanal
the Solomons
$1,000 [17]
Sasha Obama--It's not just a movie sled anymore
Rosebud
Kevin Anthony
$1,000 [25]
I should "literally grab the bull by the horns"? What am I, this performer, from the Spanish "to kill"?
a matador
Stefanie Anthony
$1,000 [13]
"Once a jolly swagman camped by" this, Australian for a stagnant pool or backwater
billabong
Anthony

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE OZONE LAYER FILL IN THE SONG TITLE BIBLICAL RHYME TIME LIKE A VIRGIL MOVERS & SHAKERS 4 "N" LANGUAGE
$400 [25]
Ozone absorbs these harmful rays in a self-perpetuating cycle
UV rays
Anthony
$400 [1]
Madonna as Evita:"D.C.F.M.A."
"Don't Cry For Me Argentina"
Kevin
$400 [7]
The most prominent of the Apostles' warming devices
Peter's heaters
$400 [18]
Last name of Virgil, Morgan & Wyatt, famous for their gunplay at the O.K. Corral
Earp
Stefanie
$400 [12]
In 1971 oilman Robert McCulloch moved London Bridge to this U.S. state
Arizona
Kevin
$400 [2]
In Roman numerals it's XCIX
ninety-nine
Kevin
$800 [27]
In 1995 the Nobel Prize in this field went to 3 men for their studies of the formation & decomposition of the ozone layer
chemistry
Stefanie
$800 [16]
Katy Perry:"I.K.A.G."
"I Kissed a Girl"
Kevin
$800 [8]
A son of Isaac's teetertotters
Esau's see-saws
Kevin
$800 [19]
In the "Aeneid", the Roman poet Virgil quipped, "I fear" them "even when they bring gifts"
Greeks
Kevin
$800 [13]
A 1737 300,000 were killed in this city, once India's capital, by an earthquake--or it may have been a cyclone
Calcutta
Kevin
$800 [3]
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi developed this 2-word deep-relaxation technique in the 1950s
transcendental meditation
Kevin
$1,200 [28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew indicates a monitor.) Two atoms of this element create a stable bond; when three of them bond, they form the unstable ozone molecule
oxygen
Anthony
$1,200 [21]
Kelly Clarkson:"S.U.B.G."
"Since U Been Gone"
Kevin
$1,200 [9]
"Perfect & upright" man's spherical models of the earth
Job's globes
Stefanie
$1,200 [20]
Virgil Thomson's opera about this 19th century romantic poet & libertine premiered at Juilliard in 1972
Byron
Anthony
$1,200 [14]
1908's Messina earthquake & tsunami ravaged the south of this country
Italy
Kevin
$1,200 [4]
This phrase is the focal point of a dispute, be it a femur or ulna, or not
bone of contention
Kevin
$1,600 [29]
Abbreviated CFCs, these release chlorine, which binds to ozone, destroying it
chlorofluorocarbons
Stefanie
$1,600 [22]
Alicia Keys:"N.O."
"No One"
$1,600 [10]
Abraham's nephew's square, granny & clove hitches
Lot's knots
Stefanie
$1,600 [23]
In 1965 this second American in space became the first to return to space
Virgil "Gus" Grissom
Kevin
$1,600 [15]
In 1682 he moved his court to Versailles
Louis XIV
Anthony
$1,600 [5]
A personal valet is popularly referred to by this 2-word term
gentleman's gentleman
DD $2,500 [30]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew indicates a cross-section of the atmosphere on the monitor.) Making life on Earth possible, 90% of the world's ozone is found in this layer of the atmosphere
the stratosphere
Stefanie
$2,000 [26]
Taylor Swift:"T.O.M.G."
"Teardrops On My Guitar"
$2,000 [11]
Verified facts of Naomi's daughter-in-law
Ruth's truths
Kevin
$2,000 [24]
Virgil Adams is the father of this Booth Tarkington title woman
Alice Adams
Stefanie
DD $5,400 [17]
Roberto Clemente died flying supplies to this quake-stricken country in 1972
Nicaragua
Kevin
$2,000 [6]
Edgar Allan Poe used this 16-letter word for the sound "that so musically wells from the bells, bells, bells..."
tintinnabulation
Kevin

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN LEGENDS

Chippewa legend says Nanabojo grew angry at this person for tearing up trees & beat him to death with a fish

Paul Bunyan

Kevin "Who is Hiawatha?" — wagered $3,800
Stefanie "Who is Paul Bunyan?" — wagered $9,800
Anthony "Who is Little Hiawatha?" — wagered $10,401

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