Show #5945 2010-06-18 (taped 2010-02-17) Regular

Paul Kursky game 3.

Contestants

Katherine Thompson — a graduate student of psychology from New York, New York

Jon Zerolnick — a nonprofit policy researcher from Los Angeles, California

Paul Kursky — a copywriter from San Francisco, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $39,301)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Paul $1,800 $3,400 $10,600 $12,500
3-day champion: $51,801
$11,200
13 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Jon $2,000 $1,600 $6,200 $2,200
2nd place: $2,000
$7,200
12 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Katherine $1,000 $3,400 $1,000 $1,899
3rd place: $1,000
$3,000
13 R, 7 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

CLASSIC NOVELS' ORIGINAL TITLES WHO'S YOUR DADDY? USUALLY INCORRECTJEOPARDY!RESPONSES LIVING THINGS THE SHORT LIST "EAK" FOR YOURSELF
$200 [17]
Try a little "Tenderness", the original title of this scandalous D.H. Lawrence work
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Katherine
$200 [1]
"Two and a Half Men" star Charlie
Martin Sheen
Jon
$200 [6]
If you do not possess this Hasbro game with 6 murder suspects & 6 weapons, you can say "I don't have a..."
Clue
Katherine
$200 [15]
These "laboring" honeybees who serve the queen are all female
worker bees
Jon
$200 [7]
At 5 foot 4, this 4th president was the shortest
(James) Madison
Paul
$200 [25]
A crack that allows something to escape from a container
a leak
Jon
$400 [18]
It took over 1,000 pages but "All's Well That Ends Well" was the first title of this Tolstoy epic
War and Peace
Jon
$400 [2]
Reggae artist Ziggy
Bob Marley
Paul
$400 [10]
It's the literal translation of the French phrase "Je n'ai aucune idee"
I have no idea
Paul
$400 [16]
From the Greek for "racing", it's the term used for a one-humped camel
dromedary
Katherine
$400 [8]
He stood only 4 foot 11, but rode tall in the saddle, winning the Kentucky Derby 4 times before his 2003 death
Willie Shoemaker
$400 [26]
Followed by "out", it means to lose one's cool
freak
Katherine
$600 [19]
Dawn first broke on this Hemingway novel with the working title "Fiesta"
The Sun Also Rises
Paul
$600 [3]
Former NHL Canadian right winger & scoring giant Brett
Bobby Hull
Katherine
$600 [11]
He was the oddly named third baseman in Abbott & Costello's "Who's on First?" routine
I Don't Know
Jon
$600 [21]
Washington's state fish is the steelhead variety of this
a trout
Paul
$600 [9]
She wasn't called "Little Sure Shot" for nothing; this sharpshooter was only 5 feet tall
Annie Oakley
Katherine
$600 [27]
The period of greatest productivity
peak
Katherine
DD $600 [20]
This small-town Sinclair Lewis novel began as "The Village Virus"
Main Street
Paul
$800 [4]
"No Country for Old Men" co-star Josh
James Brolin
Paul
$800 [12]
This 3-letter palindrome can be used as an exclamation of surprise or on simply not hearing something
huh
$800 [22]
A puffball, part of this biological kingdom, is named for the way it releases spores
a fungus
$800 [14]
Just over 5 feet, this senator who debated Lincoln was nicknamed "The Little Giant"
(Stephen) Douglas
Katherine
$800 [28]
To cause to happen, like vengeance
wreak
Katherine
$1,000 [30]
This early James Joyce literary portrait was going to be "Stephen Hero"
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Paul
$1,000 [5]
Season 9 "Dancing with the Stars" star Ashley
George Hamilton
$1,000 [13]
To quote the old joke, "What did the tree say when the lumberjack asked him a question? I'm" this word
stumped
Jon
$1,000 [23]
Thisendangered small cat of the Americas is making a comeback
the ocelot
Katherine
$1,000 [24]
On film, this actress said, "I am big, it's the pictures that got small", but at barely 5 feet, she wasn't big at all
Gloria Swanson
Jon
$1,000 [29]
An escape from danger, especially a narrow one
squeak
Katherine

Double Jeopardy! Round

LAKES & RIVERS TV MILLIONAIRES--WHO PLAYED 'EM? TELL TCHAIKOVSKY THE NEWS HERE, KING! "SIT"! STAY!
$400 [6]
Over millions of years, it carved out the Grand Canyon
the Colorado
Katherine
$400 [21]
J.R. Ewing
Larry Hagman
$400 [11]
Sorry, Pete, your music was great but Reisinger's choreography of this ballet was uninspired, despite Karpakova as Odile
Swan Lake
Paul Katherine
$400 [17]
Around 1332 B.C. this pre-teen became king of Egypt; his reign was kinda meh, but the stuff he left behind... wow!
Tutankhamen
Katherine
$400 [12]
I'm absolutely sure it means pertaining to the north pole of a magnet
positive
$400 [1]
The Fairmont Hotel is located at the only spot where all of this city's cable car lines meet
San Francisco
Jon
$1,200 [8]
This largest African lake is the chief source of the Nile River
Victoria
Paul
$800 [22]
C. Montgomery Burns
Harry Shearer
Jon
$1,200 [27]
The music for this ballet is great; ignore the critics who don't like children in leading roles & the Christmas setting
The Nutcracker
Paul
$800 [18]
Alfonso XIII, Philip V & Charles III ruled this country; they'll always be kings of...
Spain
Jon Katherine
$800 [13]
This instrument can have 9 or more sympathetic strings
a sitar
Paul
$800 [2]
Next to the Wynn Las Vegas are the 2,034 suites of this French-named resort
the Encore
Jon Katherine
$1,600 [9]
Seen here, Fannette Island, formerly known as Emerald Isle, is the only island in this California/Nevada lake
Tahoe
Jon
$1,200 [23]
Thurston Howell III
(Jim) Backus
Jon
$1,600 [28]
Don't fret that the czar's only comment was "Very nice"; the music for this 1890 fairy tale ballet is danceable & enchanting
The Sleeping Beauty
DD $1,000 [20]
After ruling for 50 years, George I was assassinated on March 18, 1913 & Constantine I became king of this country
Greece
Jon
$1,200 [14]
It can mean easily pained, delicate or having a low threshold of feeling
sensitive
$1,200 [3]
11 presidents, starting with Benjamin Harrison in 1891, have stayed at the Hotel del Coronado, near this city & Navy hub
San Diego
Katherine
DD $2,000 [7]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Of the five Great Lakes, Superior is the farthest north; this one is the farthest south
Lake Erie
Katherine
$1,600 [24]
Jonathan Hart
Robert Wagner
$2,000 [29]
You need money; write this piece for the opening of a cathedral on the 70th anniversary of Russia's defeat of Napoleon
the "1812 Overture"
$1,200 [19]
Christian X, king of this country, rode his horse in the capital daily even after the 1940 Nazi invasion, inspiring his citizens
Denmark
Paul
$1,600 [15]
3-syllable word meaning to wait to act because of fear or indecision
hesitate
Paul
$1,600 [4]
Winter, spring, summer & fall, this Boston hotel at 200 Boylston Street overlooks the Public Garden & Beacon Hill
the Four Seasons
Katherine
$2,000 [10]
The northern tip of this long lake on the border between Vermont & New York extends into Quebec
Lake Champlain
Paul
$2,000 [25]
Blake Carrington
John Forsythe
$2,000 [26]
The Vikings briefly conquered the country of this ruler during his 978 to 1016 reign; unready or not, here he comes!
Aethelred
Katherine
$2,000 [16]
Made up of disparate parts, or a solid propellant made of a mixture of fuel & oxidizer
composite
Paul
$2,000 [5]
The "Live Like Eloise Package" at this NYC hotel includes a night in a suite & a copy of a Kay Thompson book
the Plaza

Final Jeopardy!

SPORTS VENUES

Built in 1914 & named for the club's owner in 1926, it's the oldest National League ballpark still in use

Wrigley Field

Katherine "What is Wrigley Field?" — wagered $899
Jon "What is Shea Stadium?" — wagered $4,000
Paul "What is Wrigley Field?" — wagered $1,900

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