Show #5773 2009-10-21 (taped 2009-09-23) Regular

Contestants

George Long — an attorney from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Jen McFann — a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York

Kevin Wilson — a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 3-day cash winnings total $76,998)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kevin $-600 $2,400 $1,400 $2,799
3rd place: $1,000
$4,800
10 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Jen $3,800 $7,900 $14,300 $19,410
New champion: $19,410
$13,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
George $3,600 $5,200 $24,000 $18,000
2nd place: $2,000
$16,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

21st CENTURY WORLD LEADERS RELATED SONG TITLES WHERE IN THE WORLD IS YOUR HQ? ____ OF ____ GRANDMA WHAT BIG TEETH YOU HAVE!
$200 [16]
"Big Love" meets "The West Wing"? Pres. Jacob Zuma, who presides over this country from Pretoria, has 3 wives
South Africa
Kevin
$200 [4]
In examining her Top 40 hits, who better to "Dress You Up" than a "Material Girl"?
Madonna
Jen
$200 [9]
Lloyd's; they're big in insurance, over on Lime St.
England
Jen George
$200 [1]
Shakespeare's birthplace is alluded to in this nickname of his
the "Bard of Avon"
Jen
$200 [21]
Born in 1925, this woman had a First Daughter of the U.S. as well as 2 First Granddaughters
Barbara Bush
George
$200 [26]
This "eager" animal's 20 teeth, include 4 strong, curved front ones that never wear out, as they grow through its life
a beaver
Jen
$400 [17]
Not many world leaders could say, "My wife once dated Mick Jagger & Eric Clapton"; this French president can
Sarkozy
George
$400 [5]
This John Fogerty group gave us direction with "Down On The Corner" & "Up Around The Bend"
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Jen
$400 [10]
Hitachi Maxell, Ltd.
Japan
Jen
$400 [2]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) About 5 million years ago, the rise of this strip of land restricted the flow of water between the Atlantic & the Pacific, greatly intensifying the gulf stream
the Isthmus of Panama
Jen
$400 [22]
An Ore. grandma clocked at 103 mph in '09 said she was teaching her 10-year-old grandson the dangers of this
speeding
George
$400 [27]
"I am" this animal that uses its 39" tusks both to defend itself against polar bears & as hooks to climb on ice
the walrus
Kevin
$600 [18]
Nursultan Nazarbayev tries for make benefit glorious nation of this West-Central Asian one as its president
Kazakhstan
George
$600 [6]
He sang lead on "Three Times A Lady" & "Lady (You Bring Me Up)"; heck, he even wrote "Lady" for Kenny Rogers
Lionel Richie
Jen
$600 [11]
Royal Crown Cola International
the United States
$600 [3]
Nazi doctor Josef Mengele was called Todesengel, which means this in English
the Angel of Death
Kevin George
$600 [23]
In October 1940 this 80-year-old had a one-woman show of 35 paintings at Galerie St. Etienne in New York
Grandma Moses
Kevin
$600 [28]
This long, pointy type of tooth comes before "tooth" in the name of a fish living at depths down to 16,000 feet
a fang
Jen
$800 [19]
In 2009 this Italian P.M. demanded an apology from his wife for publicly saying she wanted a divorce; good luck with that, sir
Berlusconi
Jen
$800 [7]
Her songs: "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)"... "Just Like Jesse James"!
Cher
$800 [12]
Grupo Modelo
Mexico
George
$800 [14]
In Cuba it's called Bahia de Cochinos
the Bay of Pigs
Jen
$800 [24]
Thanks, Grandma! This British lady gave her 9-year-old grandson the rights to her play "The Mousetrap"
Agatha Christie
Kevin
$800 [29]
This pit viper seenhereinjects venom through two long, hollow teeth initsupper jaw
a rattlesnake
$1,000 [20]
Despite rumors to the contrary, this Libyan leader never trained at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst
(Mu'ammar) Gadhafi
Jen
$1,000 [8]
I'm not going to repeat myself; their greatest hits include "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" & "Money, Money, Money"
ABBA
George
$1,000 [13]
Mahindra Satyam Computer Services
India
George
$1,000 [15]
The name of this 1781-89 document continues, "and perpetual union between the states"
the Articles of Confederation
Jen
$1,000 [25]
Lucy Maud Montgomery based this "colorful" novel on living in Canada with her grandma at Cavendish
Anne of Green Gables
Kevin
DD $1,500 [30]
The mouth of this African ungulate can open 150 degrees to show its teeth; its lower canines may be more than 12" long
a hippopotamus
Jen

Double Jeopardy! Round

BATTLE DESCRIPTIONS OSCAR YOUNGEST/OLDEST NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM ARE YOU TOYING WITH ME? INITIALLY YOURS "OPE" SPRINGS ETERNAL
$400 [13]
The Viet Cong spar with the U.S. & South Vietnam on Jan. 30, 1968, the first day of the lunar new year
Tet
Kevin
$400 [7]
Oldest Supporting Actress winner:Peggy Ashcroft for this film based on an E.M. Forster work
A Passage to India
George
$400 [6]
One of his most famous paintings shows 11 magnified stars & an orange crescent moon in whorls of blue sky
van Gogh
George
$400 [1]
Now you can make full meals with this toy that's been helping kids make cakes since 1963
an Easy-Bake Oven
Jen
$400 [21]
When this director's "The Birth of a Nation" was released in 1915, tickets were an unheard of $2
D.W. Griffith
Kevin
$400 [26]
In 882 A.D. it was Marinus I
Pope
George
$800 [14]
This 1890 massacre in South Dakota ends armed conflict between the Sioux & the Army
Wounded Knee
Kevin
$800 [8]
Youngest Supporting Actor winner:Him for "Ordinary People"
Timothy Hutton
George
$800 [17]
Faces are garishly lit by gas lamp in "At the Moulin Rouge", one of his many depictions of Parisian night life
Toulouse-Lautrec
Jen
$800 [2]
Secret Strike, part of this Hasbro line, comes with a blaster gun & 2 foam darts
Nerf
George
$800 [22]
One of the founders of the NAACP was this sociologist & writer of "The Souls of Black Folk"
W.E.B. DuBois
George
$800 [27]
The impala is one of these long-legged ruminants
an antelope
Jen
$1,200 [15]
On Oct. 21, 1805 off the coast of Spain, Nelson fights French & Spanish fleets
the Battle of Trafalgar
Kevin
$1,200 [9]
Oldest Supporting Actor nominee:This alliteratively named actor for the 2007 movie "Into the Wild"
Hal Holbrook
George
$1,200 [18]
He painted "Night Fishing at Antibes", seen here, just before the outbreak of World War II
Picasso
Kevin
$1,200 [3]
The Ripstick is a hot toy from this company whose name is synonymous with kick scooters
Razor
Jen
$1,200 [23]
During WWI, this author of "The Screwtape Letters" fought in France with the Somerset Light Infantry
C.S. Lewis
George
$1,200 [28]
An astrological forecast
a horoscope
Jen
$1,600 [12]
The Kikuyu revolt in 1952 Kenya against white settlers in these uprisings
the Mau Mau Uprisings
$2,000 [11]
Youngest Supporting Actor nominee:Justin Henry for this 1979 tale of a custody battle
Kramer vs. Kramer
George
$2,000 [20]
Born into a poor Jewish family, this Russian-French artist painted the dreamy "Lovers in the Moonlight"
Marc Chagall
$1,600 [4]
You can get Troy & Gabriella dolls dressed for the prom from this TV/film series
High School Musical
Kevin
$1,600 [24]
Around 1800 this English romantic landscape painter took a studio at 64 Harley Street in London
J.M.W. Turner
$2,000 [16]
In 31 B.C. Octavian & Agrippa best Cleo & Antony on the open water
the Battle of Actium
DD $8,800 [10]
Youngest Best Actor winner:This 29-year-old in 2003 for a WWII-set film
Adrien Brody
George
DD $3,400 [19]
In Rousseau's "Sleeping Gypsy", a full moon hangs in the night sky while this animal catches the scent of the title figure
a lion
Kevin
$2,000 [5]
The Fly, the first pentop computer, is made by this company that "jumped" on the educational toys market
Leapfrog
Jen
$2,000 [25]
This poet didn't like big letters, but his first book was called "The Enormous Room"
E.E. Cummings
George

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN THINKERS

He told George Washington he hoped "the Rights of Man may become as universal as your benevolence can wish"

Thomas Paine

Kevin "Who isThomasPaine" — wagered $1,399
Jen "Who is Paine??..." — wagered $5,110
George "Who was Franklin?" — wagered $6,000

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