Show #5949 2010-06-24 (taped 2010-03-02) Regular

Contestants

Grant Colvin — a bookseller and trivia host from Arnold, Maryland

Janet Bradlow — an insurance agent from New York, New York

Joey Genereux — a biochemist from San Diego, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joey $4,400 $6,600 $13,800 $17,199
2nd place: $2,000
$15,800
23 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Janet $3,400 $7,000 $19,000 $27,601
New champion: $27,601
$18,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Grant $200 $1,200 $7,600 $13
3rd place: $1,000
$7,200
10 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT TIMES TABLEWARE REIMAGINED FILL IN THE TONY-WINNING PLAY TITLE THE MOVIES LET'S ALL GO TO THE LOBBY TO GET OURSELVES A TREAT
$200 [1]
Around 5000 B.C. channels were dug along the Nile for this agricultural purpose
irrigation
Joey
$200 [26]
One in the road is a division into branches
a fork
Janet
$200 [16]
1983:"____ Song Trilogy"
Torch
Janet
$200 [6]
This 2009 Quentin Tarantino film was set during World War II
Inglourious Basterds
Grant
$200 [11]
As you'd expect, their music plays 'round the clock in the lobby of the Hard Days Night Hotel in Liverpool
The Beatles
Janet
$200 [18]
This word precedes "Rancher" in the name of a brand of fruit candies
Jolly
Joey
$400 [2]
Around 1200 B.C. in the Middle East & 600 B.C. in China, the Bronze Age was replaced by this metallic age
the Iron Age
Joey
$400 [27]
Idiomatically, surgery might find you "under" this, though one isn't necessarily used
the knife
Joey
$400 [17]
1988:"M. ____"
Butterfly
Grant
$400 [7]
Maggie Gyllenhaal took over the role of Rachel Dawes in this 2008 Batman film
The Dark Knight
Joey
$400 [12]
In the lobby of Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel is a mirror said to be haunted by this blonde who died in 1962
Marilyn Monroe
Joey
$400 [19]
In 1938 Nestle added crisped rice to the chocolate & created this candy bar
the Nestlé Crunch
Grant
$600 [3]
In ancient Greece they came in 3 architectural styles & were made of stone drums stacked & joined with pegs
columns
Joey
$600 [28]
Your 3-wood when you golf, or to engage in a type of amorous behavior
spoon
Janet
$600 [23]
1958:"Sunrise at ____"
Campobello
Janet
$600 [8]
Martin Scorsese directed this 2010 film set at an isolated asylum for the criminally insane
Shutter Island
Joey
$600 [13]
While living at the Hermitage Hotel in Nashville, this pool great would hustle up opponents from the lobby
Minnesota Fats
Janet
$800 [21]
The American Licorice Company makes this brand of licorice, which also comes in black
Red Vines
Grant
$800 [4]
8,500 years ago, the Zebu or Brahman type of this animal was domesticated in Asia
cattle
Janet
$800 [29]
The one at home in baseball comes to a sharp point
a plate
Joey
$800 [24]
1985:"____ Blues"
Biloxi
Joey
$800 [9]
Shades of apartheid: an alien race is forced to live in a slum in Johannesburg in this 2009 flick
District 9
Janet
$800 [14]
The centerpiece of the Waldorf Astoria lobby is a 9-foot-tall clock created for the 1893 World's Fair in this Midwest city
Chicago
Joey
DD $1,000 [20]
These candies, chocolate-covered caramels, were supposed to be perfectly round; the name reflects that failure
Milk Duds
Grant
$1,000 [5]
In 2000 B.C. the Israelites conquered this land whose people probably gave them the Hebrew language
Canaan
Joey
$1,000 [30]
What a guy with a typical Joisey accent might call the man in charge of leading the singing in a synagogue
decanter
$1,000 [25]
1992:"____ at Lughnasa"
Dancing
Janet
$1,000 [10]
Stellan Skarsgard played the commander of the Swiss Guard in this 2009 religious action thriller
Angels & Demons
Janet
$1,000 [15]
Seen here, flowers by this contemporary glass artist adorn the lobby ceiling of the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas
Dale Chihuly
$1,000 [22]
It's the geographic-sounding name for an almond in a hard candy shell
Jordan Almonds
Janet

Double Jeopardy! Round

IRAQ'S PROVINCES POSSESSIVE ACTORS' POSSESSIONS WORLD OF SCIENTISTS DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE MORGANS? STATE THE STATE OF THE GOVERNOR "SUM", SUM, SUMMERTIME
$400 [26]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map of Iraq on the monitor.) Though Iraq already had 18 perfectly good provinces, Saddam wanted a 19th, & on August 28, 1990, declared this was it, leading to war
Kuwait
Joey
$400 [16]
Cherry stone for Angelina Jolie's life partner
Brad's pit
Joey
$400 [6]
In 1766 England's Henry Cavendish discovered this element & later showed that with oxygen, it produces water
hydrogen
Grant
$400 [21]
This comic strip doctor began his practice in 1948
Rex Morgan
Janet
$400 [9]
David Paterson
New York
Janet
$400 [1]
It can be a verb meaning to reach the top of a peak
summit
Grant
$800 [27]
Basra, Thi-Qar & Missan tried to break away in 2004 & might have made a go of it, as they have 80% of Iraq's this beneath them
oil
Janet
$800 [17]
Bird belonging to a movie "Gladiator"
Russell's crow
Joey
$800 [7]
For their work on radioactivity, they shared the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics with Antoine Henri Becquerel
the Curies
Joey
$800 [22]
It's the state animal of Vermont
the Morgan horse
$800 [10]
Mark Sanford
South Carolina
Grant
$800 [2]
From the Latin for "with highest praise", it's the best way to graduate
summa cum laude
Joey
$1,600 [29]
Logically enough, it's the province where Iraq's capital is located
Baghdad
Joey
$1,200 [18]
Breakfast meat belonging to the movies' "Hollow Man"
Kevin's bacon
Joey
$1,200 [8]
Dutch botanist Hugo de Vries was noted for his mutation theory & for rediscovering this man's laws of heredity
(Gregor) Mendel
Joey Janet
$1,200 [23]
He co-starred in "Dragnet" & later in "M*A*S*H"
Harry Morgan
Janet
$1,200 [12]
Sonny Perdue
Georgia
Joey
$1,200 [3]
A pit or well in which liquid, often yucky, is stored
a sump
Grant
DD $2,000 [28]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of Iraq on the monitor.) Sulaymaniyah Province, dominated by this ethnic group, is friendly ground for Americans--just don't get too close to Iran, as three hikers did in 2009
the Kurds
Janet
DD $2,000 [19]
Rule of conduct by which 2004's "Alfie" lives
Jude's law
Joey
$1,600 [11]
Hungary's Roland Eotvos introduced the concept of the surface type of this, a phenomenon in liquids, at the molecular level
tension
Joey
$1,600 [24]
It's home to West Virginia University
Morgantown
Joey Grant
$1,600 [14]
Tim Pawlenty
Minnesota
Joey
$1,600 [4]
It's also known as straw hat theater
summer stock
$2,000 [30]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map of Iraq on the monitor.) Hilla Province was renamed as part of a program urging Iraqis to take pride in their ancient past; it became this, after the city of Nebuchadnezzar, whose ruinsstand there
Babylon
Joey
$2,000 [20]
Walking stick for 1966's "Alfie"
Michael's cane
Janet
$2,000 [13]
After 6 years in exile in Gorky, this physicist & human rights activist was allowed to return to Moscow in 1986
Andrei Sakharov
Janet
$2,000 [25]
King Arthur's evil half-sister
Morgan le Fay
Joey Janet Grant
$2,000 [15]
Bob McDonnell
Virginia
$2,000 [5]
A.S. Neill shook the educational establishment with 1960's "A Radical Approach to Child Rearing" at this title school
Summerhill

Final Jeopardy!

NATIONAL PARKS

When it became a national park in 1919, it got this name used by the locals because it seemed like heaven on Earth

Zion National Park

Grant "What is ?" — wagered $7,587
Joey "What is Zion?" — wagered $3,399
Janet "What is Zion Nat'l Park?" — wagered $8,601

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