Show #5721 2009-06-22 (taped 2009-03-18) Regular

Contestants

Mike Bartlett — a financial aid officer and student from Tallahassee, Florida

Jennifer Klein — a business risk manager from Jacksonville, Florida

Ingrid Nelson — a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ingrid $1,800 $5,400 $11,800 $10,201
2-day champion: $27,802
$11,800
17 R, 0 W
Jennifer $4,600 $6,600 $10,200 $7,200
2nd place: $2,000
$9,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Mike $1,400 $800 $3,600 $50
3rd place: $1,000
$9,600
12 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

LIGHTEN UP ANN(E)-TASTIC! SCHOOL MOTTOES COUNTRY NAME ETYMOLOGY AS QUICK AS YOU CAN SAY... JACKIE ROBINSON
$200 [1]
Rhyming name of the dim bedtime illuminant in your child's room, possibly to ward off monsters
a night light
Ingrid
$200 [6]
She announced that 2003's "Blood Canticle" will be her final vampire novel
Anne Rice
Ingrid
$200 [11]
Many schools use this motto from Genesis 1:3, God's first spoken command
"Let there be light"
Jennifer
$200 [25]
From an explorer, Mr. Vespucci
America
Mike
$200 [18]
This word is paired with "lickety" to mean "quickly"
split
Ingrid
$200 [14]
Jackie broke pro baseball's color barrier & joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in this decade
the 1940s
Ingrid
$400 [2]
Unit of power equal to 1 ampere flowing across a 1-volt potential difference (big definition, little word)
a watt
$400 [7]
Her 16th c. cottage in Shottery, England is kept as a memorial (she never danced at the Oscars with Hugh Jackman)
Anne Hathaway
Jennifer
$400 [12]
Harvard University's motto is simply Veritas, meaning this
truth
Jennifer
$400 [27]
After seeing stilt houses on Lake Maracaibo, explorers named this country after Venice
Venezuela
Jennifer
$400 [19]
Speedy plural term for a quickly-moving section of a river
rapids
Jennifer
$400 [16]
Jackie lettered in 4 sports at this Southern California university, the only athlete ever to do so
UCLA
Mike
$600 [3]
It's the "E" in laser
emission
Ingrid
$600 [8]
This advice columnist said "Truth is Stranger"; at least she did when she wrote that book in 1968
Ann Landers
Ingrid
$600 [13]
Amor omnia vincit, or this "conquers all", is on the seal of William Woods University in Fulton, Missouri
love
Mike
$800 [29]
This African country is named from the Portuguese for "lion mountains"
Sierra Leone
Ingrid Jennifer Mike
$600 [20]
In a TV cartoon Spritle & Chim Chim often stowed away in the trunk of this title thrill-seeker's car, the Mach 5
Speed Racer
Mike
$600 [17]
Jackie won the major leagues' first of these awards for first-year players
Rookie of the Year
Ingrid
$800 [4]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew manipulates a pro light fixture.) Used to manipulate light, the shutters on a stage lamp go by this farm name; don't let them hit you on the way out
a barn door
Jennifer
$800 [9]
This college town is the seat of Michigan's Washtenaw County
Ann Arbor
Jennifer
$800 [15]
Montclair State College in New Jersey uses the motto Carpe diem, which means this
seize the day
Mike
DD $1,000 [28]
This Central American country is named for "The Savior", Jesus Christ
El Salvador
Jennifer
$800 [23]
From the Latin for "prompt", it's the Spanish word for "soon"
pronto
$800 [21]
Jackie played first base his first season, but switched to this position for the next 5 years
2nd base
$1,000 [5]
"Unlock" this 3-letter term for the principal light illuminating an actor's face
key (light)
Jennifer
$1,000 [10]
She delivered a sparkling keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
Ann Richards
Jennifer
$1,000 [26]
The University of Guam shares this motto with the State of New York; it means "higher"
Excelsior
$1,000 [30]
This new Balkan nation is named for the appearance of Mt. Lovcen or perhaps the dark forests around it
Montenegro
Jennifer
$1,000 [24]
In Newton's equation F=ma, it's what "a" stands for
acceleration
Ingrid
$1,000 [22]
In 1956 Jackie was traded to this team, but retired rather than play for his old NYC rival
the Giants
Ingrid Mike

Double Jeopardy! Round

NAME THAT BOOK POPULAR DOG NAMES IMPRISONED IN THE TOWER OF LONDON "S" WONDERFUL CZECH MATE FROM THE GERMAN
$400 [6]
"It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room"
A Room with a View
$400 [9]
If you're "Driving Miss" this, be sure to let her stick her head out the window
Daisy
Ingrid
$400 [19]
Henry Laurens, the only American imprisoned in the Tower, was exchanged for this Yorktown loser in 1781
Cornwallis
Jennifer
$400 [1]
It's the ultimate high spiked heel
a stiletto
Ingrid
$400 [24]
This former Czech president's "Letters to Olga" is a volume of correspondence he wrote to his wife while in jail
Vaclav Havel
$400 [16]
Teens are sometimes susceptible to this, a feeling of dread or anguish
angst
Ingrid
$800 [7]
"If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; if he didn't want to he was sane and had to"
Catch-22
Jennifer
$800 [12]
Like a William Styron title character, a dog with this name may have to make a "Choice"
Sophie
Ingrid
$800 [20]
At his July 6, 1535 beheading at the Tower, he said, "The King's good servant, but God's first"
Thomas More
Mike
$800 [2]
A principal religion of Japan, it has no official sacred scriptures
Shinto
Jennifer
$1,200 [28]
This Czech director & wife Martina named their twin sons Andy & Jim for Andy Kaufman & Jim Carrey
Milos Forman
$800 [17]
From the German for "double walker" comes this term for a ghostly counterpart
doppelganger
Mike
$1,200 [8]
"They roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes"
Where the Wild Things Are
Ingrid
$1,200 [13]
When followed by "Rich", this moniker becomes a legendary drummer
Buddy
Ingrid
$1,200 [21]
On Nov. 4, 1605 he was caught trying to blow up Parliament; 3 days later he signed a confession in the Tower
Guy Fawkes
Mike
$1,200 [3]
This instrument of the lute family is popular in northern India
the sitar
Mike
$1,600 [29]
This composer wrote "Cypress Trees" for Josefina Cermakova, yet later married her sister
Dvorak
Mike
$1,200 [18]
This 6-letter word refers to a replacement or substitute that is inferior
ersatz
$1,600 [10]
"I met with a gentleman so soon as I had got over the slough of despond"
Pilgrim's Progress
Jennifer
$1,600 [14]
It's the last name of the character who said, "Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings"
Bailey
$1,600 [22]
In 1305 this Scottish patriot was captured & imprisoned in the Tower; he was savagely executed a few days later
William Wallace
Mike
$1,600 [4]
A fungus & an alga in lichen is a classic example of this type of mutualism
symbiosis
Mike
DD $2,000 [25]
This writer's dad, Hermann, married Julie Lowy in 1882 & named their son after the Austro-Hungarian emperor
Franz Kafka
Mike
$1,600 [26]
Atomic number 27, this silvery metallic element is named for a cave-goblin
cobalt
Mike
$2,000 [11]
"I was in no position to criticize the Emperor Augustus, who was my maternal grand-uncle"
I, Claudius
$2,000 [15]
Name of the canine character seen here
Max
Ingrid
DD $4,000 [23]
These two cousins, both of whom married Henry VIII, were imprisoned & executed at the Tower of London
Anne Boleyn & Catherine Howard
Mike
$2,000 [5]
eBay owns this VoIP provider that's based in Luxembourg
Skype
$2,000 [30]
In 1975 this "Unbearable Lightness of Being" author & his wife Vera left oppression in Czechoslovakia
Milan Kundera
$2,000 [27]
Wagner is often associated with this 9-letter type of dominant & recurring theme
leitmotif

Final Jeopardy!

PRESIDENTS ON FILM

Filmed signing a bill into law, in 1895 he became the first U.S. president to appear on moving film

Grover Cleveland

Mike "Who isTaftMcKinleyMcKinley" — wagered $3,550
Jennifer "Who is _____?" — wagered $3,000
Ingrid "Who is Taft?" — wagered $1,599

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