Show #5843 2010-01-27 (taped 2009-12-02) Regular

Contestants

James Poulos — a grad student and writer from Arlington, Virginia

Kelly Lathrop — an art historian from Landisville, Pennsylvania

Anna Tschetter — a legal assistant from Danvers, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $3,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Anna $2,000 $4,600 $3,400 $1,400
3rd place: $1,000
$3,000
12 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Kelly $-1,000 $2,400 $7,200 $2,200
2nd place: $2,000
$7,200
13 R, 3 W
James $1,800 $5,000 $11,800 $7,600
New champion: $7,600
$14,200
22 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

MEDICAL MATTERS "OO" WHO? LET'S PUNCTUATE OPERA GLOSS IT'S NO WHITE THE 7 DWARFS
$200 [16]
Hemicrania, literally "pain on one side of the head", gives us this word for a terrible pain in the head
migraine
James
$200 [5]
Before he was president, he was "The Hero of San Juan Hill"
Teddy Roosevelt
James
$200 [21]
It comes after an initial
a period
James
$200 [1]
This term for the principal female singer of an opera company is Italian for "first lady"
prima donna
James
$200 [15]
Shades of this include Dodger, steel & sky
blue
Kelly
$200 [26]
The dwarfs' self-appointed leader, he wears glasses
Doc
Kelly
$400 [17]
ADHD refers to attention deficit/ this disorder
hyperactivity
James
$400 [6]
This "60 Minutes" commentator first joined CBS in 1949 as a writer for "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts"
Andy Rooney
Anna
$400 [22]
It replaces omitted letters in a contraction
an apostrophe
James
$400 [7]
A ballabille is a section of dance music: Verdi used one in "Macbeth" to describe the dancing of them
the witches
Anna James
$400 [11]
Often used to describe a black & shiny hair color, it's also the name of a black bird
a raven
Anna
$400 [27]
This youngest of the 7 dwarfs is completely bald & speechless
Dopey
James
$600 [18]
Variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease is a human form of this fatal brain disease of cattle
mad-cow disease
Anna
$600 [4]
This man famous for his synthesizers faded out & passed away in 2005
(Robert) Moog
Kelly
$600 [23]
Sesquipedalian words on 2 lines of text are divided by this
a hyphen
Kelly
$600 [8]
A barcarolle has a lilting rhythm, suggesting the songs of these Venetian singers
gondoliers
Anna
$800 [13]
This brown pigment obtained from the secretion of the cuttlefish has a grayish-yellowish tint
sepia
Kelly James
$600 [28]
Whenever Snow White's around, he blushes & bats his long eyelashes
Bashful
Kelly
$800 [19]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows two sponges.) A sponge with larger holescan't absorb as much water the same way that this chronic disease affects the lungs, making the alveoli larger, but less efficient, at taking in oxygen
emphysema
James
$800 [2]
Long before his famous raid, he was the first pilot to fly across the U.S. in less than a day
(James) Doolittle
James
$800 [24]
When writing a time of day in the U.S., it separates the hours & minutes
a colon
James
$800 [9]
A piece of orchestral music played between 2 scenes of an opera
an interlude (or intermezzo)
Kelly
DD $1,000 [12]
Light goldenrod is also known by this name because it resembles the color of the seeds from which we get linseed oil
flax
Anna
$800 [29]
Maybe this dwarf pictured with heavy eyelids needs a cup of coffee
Sleepy
Kelly
$1,000 [20]
Central vision is affected but peripheral vision is maintained in this degeneration
macular degeneration
Anna
$1,000 [3]
Her writing includes a Wall Street Journal column & the books "On Speaking Well" & "Patriotic Grace"
Peggy Noonan
$1,000 [25]
One of these goes between independent clauses when a conjunction isn't used
a semicolon
Anna
$1,000 [10]
He coined the term "gesamtkunst, werk" to describe a "total art work" in which all the art forms combine to the same end
(Richard) Wagner
James
$1,000 [14]
According to Webster's, the serpentine shade of this color is "paler than citrine"
green
$1,000 [30]
The most rotund of the 7 dwarfs, he's just too darn cheerful
Happy
Kelly

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AN ALL-EDDIE BEFORE & AFTER THEY NAMED A CITY FOR ME IN... THIS OLD HOUSE30th ANNIVERSARY MYSTERY FICTION YOU'VE MET YOUR "MATCH"
$400 [6]
On July 14, 1789 commander Bernard de Launay opened up the gates of this & a mob stormed in
the Bastille
James
$400 [21]
A "Beverly Hills Cop" star folds up into this piece of furniture
an Eddie Murphy bed
James
$400 [16]
Dr. Bartlett Durham (1854)
North Carolina
Anna
$400 [1]
The show's very first project in 1979 fixed up a Boston areahouse from 1860 in this royal style of the time
Victorian
Anna Kelly James
$400 [26]
Although best known for his Pooh stories, he did publish "The Red House Mystery" in 1922
Milne
Anna
$400 [11]
One rally away from winning a tennis contest
match point
Anna
$800 [7]
In June 1791 this king & his family tried to escape France in what's known as the "Flight to Varennes"--no go
Louis XVI
James
$800 [22]
An '80s rocker who sang "Take Me Home Tonight" becomes a biblical cliche about the all-corrupting dollar
Eddie Money is the root of all evil
James
$800 [17]
Sedona Schnebly (1902)
Arizona
Kelly
$800 [2]
In 1998 the show worked on a home in this bay city, addressing concerns about seismic fitness
San Francisco
Kelly
$800 [27]
In 1953 she adapted her short story "Witness for the Prosecution" for the London stage
(Agatha) Christie
Anna
$800 [12]
Beyond comparison
matchless
James
$1,200 [8]
The Constitution of 1791 divided France into 83 of these political units that still exist today
departments
$1,200 [23]
Grambling State's football coach from 1941 to 1997 becomes a Defoe title character
Eddie Robinson Crusoe
Kelly
$1,200 [18]
Commodore Robert F. Stockton (1850)
California
James
$1,200 [3]
A 1993 Miami project restored ahomedevastated by this disaster the year before; note the new storm shutters
Hurricane Andrew
Anna James
$1,200 [28]
This stripper is credited with writing the 1941 mystery "The G-String Murders" with herself as the detective
Gypsy Rose Lee
Kelly
$1,200 [13]
These are given to candidates by the government, corresponding to amounts raised by a campaign itself
matching funds
James
$2,000 [10]
At her July 17, 1793 execution, this Girondist sympathizer said, "I killed one man to save a hundred thousand"
Charlotte Corday
$1,600 [24]
A hall of fame Baltimore Oriole first baseman becomes the music man who gave us "One Night in Bangkok"
Eddie Murray Head
$2,000 [20]
Lieutenant Caspar (sic) Collins (1888)
Wyoming
Anna Kelly
$1,600 [4]
This master carpenter is pure New England & even has the same name as a "Cheers" character
Norm Abram
Kelly
$1,600 [29]
A Swedish novel about a "Laughing" one of these won the 1971 Edgar Award as best mystery novel
Policeman
$1,600 [14]
Mattel now owns this popular toy car company
Matchbox
James
DD $3,000 [9]
His brother Lucien was President of the Council of 500 in the legislature & helped him gain power
Napoleon Bonaparte
James
$2,000 [25]
A "Green Acres" star goes existential (& French) as the author of "The Fall"
Eddie Albert Camus
Anna
DD $2,200 [19]
Reverend Newitt Vick (1811)
Mississippi
James
$2,000 [5]
To help revive the area, the 30th anniversary projecthomeis in Roxbury, hard hit by these seizures of houses by lenders
foreclosures
James
$2,000 [15]
At the end of the 15th century, this type of a gun's firing device was quite the innovation
the matchlock

Final Jeopardy!

THE 1960s

In 1962 the people of Perth, Australia saluted this American by turning their lights on & off at the same time

John Glenn

Anna "Who is Edison?" — wagered $2,000
Kelly "Who is JFK?" — wagered $5,000
James "Who is Morse?" — wagered $4,200

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