Show #5677 2009-04-21 (taped 2009-02-17) Regular

Contestants

Sue Romberg — a homemaker and volunteer from Grapevine, Texas

Alex Hooper — a lawyer originally from Cedar Key, Florida

Stefanie Tomko — a software project manager from Bellevue, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Stefanie $3,000 $5,800 $14,600 $20,600
2-day champion: $41,400
$14,400
23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Alex $600 $3,200 $8,000 $7,112
3rd place: $1,000
$5,600
12 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Sue $2,000 $5,600 $15,700 $19,201
2nd place: $2,000
$14,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

WONDERS OF THE MIDWEST TV'S GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN THE BUTLER DID IT TEXAS HOLD'EM HANDS BIRTHSTONES... MEET THE BIRTHSTONES YABBA DABBA "DOO"!
$200 [1]
Spring Grove, Illinois claims the world's largest corn this, seen here
a corn maze
Stefanie
$200 [10]
He impersonated moody psychic Carnac the Magnificent
Johnny Carson
Stefanie
$200 [19]
Franz the butler is initially comedic but takes a dark turn as a Nazi sympathizer in this '60s film musical
The Sound of Music
Stefanie
$200 [24]
You've been dealt a "speed limit" if you hold a pair of these
fives
Stefanie
$200 [5]
May is green (but not with envy) with this birthstone
emerald
Sue
$200 [13]
It means to go away, or get out; it's famously paired with "23"
skidoo
Stefanie
$400 [2]
You can see a replica of a hunk of this Soviet craft; it crashed into Manitowoc, Wisc. in 1962
Sputnik
Stefanie
$400 [11]
He played wacky bachelor Jack Tripper
John Ritter
Alex
$400 [20]
Butler Thomas Rogers, as well as his wife, are murdered in her novel "And Then There Were None"
Agatha Christie
Stefanie
$400 [27]
There are "snowmen" in your mitts when holding a pair of these
eights
Stefanie
$400 [6]
In song this July birthstone precedes "Tuesday"
ruby
Sue
$400 [14]
8-letter term for the end of the world as we know it (& I feel fine)
doomsday
Stefanie
$600 [3]
Springfield, Missouri has America's only tram ride through a real one of these
a cavern
Stefanie
$600 [12]
He starred as recent immigrant Chico Rodriguez
Freddie Prinze
$600 [21]
Barrymore the butler is a red herring, as it's really Stapleton who's the killer in this Holmes mystery
The Hound of the Baskervilles
$600 [28]
A pair of these face cards is referred to as "fishhooks"
jacks
Stefanie
$600 [7]
Jim Brady was born on August 12, 1856 but April would have been more appropriate, with this as its stone
diamond
Sue
$600 [16]
Now go do this polytheistic religion practiced chiefly by West Indians that you do so well!
voodoo
Alex
$800 [4]
In northern Michigan you can see a plate of this type of pie 14 feet across--but with only 1 slice
cherry
Stefanie Alex Sue
$800 [25]
He was private investigator Dan Tanna
Robert Urich
DD $1,000 [22]
Mr. Poole the butler is concerned for the good doctor & breaks into the lab with Utterson in this novel
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stefanie
$800 [29]
A hand consisting of a 5 & 10 is nicknamed this, like a famous chain of stores
Woolworth
Sue
$800 [8]
Mother-of-this! It's June's stone, along with moonstone & alexandrite
pearl
Stefanie
$800 [17]
The folks in this musical village are awake for 24 hours, once every 100 years
Brigadoon
Sue
$1,000 [15]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from a giant apple basket.) Attractions in this midwest state include a giant rubber stamp, a giant cuckoo clock, & the almost-30-ft-high Longaberger apple basket
Ohio
Stefanie
$1,000 [26]
He played out of this world chief engineer Montgomery Scott
James Doohan
Sue
$1,000 [23]
At the end of this Kazuo Ishiguro novel, the butler Stevens regrets not being intimate & cultivating his own experiences
The Remains of the Day
Alex
$1,000 [30]
If you're holding a "magnum", you've got a pocket pair of these
fours
Sue
$1,000 [9]
Thailand & Montana are important sources of this blue September gem
sapphire
Alex
$1,000 [18]
It's the musical instrument being played here
didgeridoo
Alex

Double Jeopardy! Round

OTHER FAMOUS CANADIANS GEOGRAPHIC BANDS THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS ACRONYM EYE CHART MUSIC APPRECIATION CROSSWORD CLUES "G"
$400 [11]
From work using hypothermia for heart surgery, Wilfred Bigelow helped develop this implanted stimulator
pacemaker
Stefanie
$400 [16]
"Carry On Wayward Son","Dust In The Wind"
Kansas
Stefanie Sue
$400 [21]
A 1993 award cited John F. Burns' "courageous", coverage of the destruction of" this Bosnian capital
Sarajevo
Stefanie
$400 [1]
Do get this organization founded in 1980 & get even
Mothers Against Drunk Driving
Sue
$400 [30]
You could call Ronald Lo Presti's "suite for 8" of these instruments a "toot suite"
french horns
$400 [2]
Turkey talk(6)
gobble
Sue
$800 [12]
The Smithsonian has the alkaline battery Lewis Urry created for Eveready, which named it this
the Energizer
Alex
$800 [17]
"You're The Inspiration","Saturday In The Park"
Chicago
Sue
$800 [22]
(I'm Nicholas Kristof.) In 2006 I won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary that raised public awareness of the genocide in this region of Sudan
Darfur
Alex
$800 [7]
This1994 pact, better now, or now?
North American Free Trade Agreement
Stefanie Alex
$800 [28]
This country's national anthem, heard here, was written by cousins Rikard Nordraak & Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Norway
Stefanie Alex Sue
$800 [3]
Thumbs up or thumbs down(7)
gesture
Stefanie
$1,600 [14]
To find out who was the better game player, Chris Haney & Scott Abbot created this '80s phenomenon
Trivial Pursuit
Sue
$1,200 [18]
"More Than A Feeling","Amanda"
Boston
Stefanie
$1,200 [23]
Andrea Elliot won in 2007 for articles on a Brooklyn Muslim leader with this title, Arabic for "leader"
Imam
Alex
$1,200 [8]
Thisgovernment agency to the rescue
the Federal Emergency Management Agency
Stefanie Alex
$1,200 [26]
A narrative song of folk origin, from an old Provencal word for "dancing-song"
ballad
$1,200 [4]
Begin to sprout(9)
germinate
Sue
$2,000 [15]
This 2000 Medal of Freedom-winning economist & adviser to JFK wrote "The Affluent Society"
Galbraith
Sue
$1,600 [19]
"Ventura Highway","A Horse With No Name"
America
Stefanie
$1,600 [24]
(I'm Maureen Dowd.) In my Pulitzer-winning commentary on the Clinton scandals, I wrote that this prosecutor was playing Captains Ahab & Queeg in pursuit of the president
(Kenneth) Starr
Alex
$1,600 [9]
In 1960, Iraq co-founded this association
the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Alex
$1,600 [27]
This Romanian has so mastered the pan flute that he's been called "the reincarnation of the god Pan"
Zamfir
Sue
$2,000 [6]
Little by little(9)
gradually
Alex
DD $3,600 [13]
It was only in the spring that Izzy Sharp created this luxury chain by opening his first hotel in Toronto in 1961
The Four Seasons
Alex
$2,000 [20]
"The Final Countdown","Carrie"
Europe
Stefanie
$2,000 [25]
Anthony Lewis won in 1963 for supreme court coverage & wrote this book about the Clarence Gideon case
Gideon's Trumpet
Alex
$2,000 [10]
Thislabor organization should be coming into focus
the Service Employees International Union
Alex
$2,000 [29]
This baroque composer must have been in a fugue state when he wrote his "giant fugue" in 1739
Johann Sebastian Bach
DD $2,500 [5]
The science of good eating(10)
gastronomy
Sue

Final Jeopardy!

BOOKS ABOUT ACTORS

Stefan Kanfer's 2008 biography of this star is titled "Somebody", a nod to one of his most famous lines

Marlon Brando

Alex "Who is Tim Tebow?" — wagered $888
Stefanie "Who is Brando?" — wagered $6,000
Sue "Who is Marlon Brando?" — wagered $3,501

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