Show #5965 2010-07-16 (taped 2010-03-09) Regular

John Krizel game 1.

Contestants

Leslie Williams — a computer systems administrator from Phoenix, Arizona

John Krizel — a green community program coordinator from Beckley, West Virginia

Van Lane — an ATM support technician from Denver, Colorado (whose 3-day cash winnings total $69,128)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Van $200 $-400 $13,000 $1,000
3rd place: $1,000
$11,400
17 R (including 2 DDs), 8 W (including 1 DD)
John $3,000 $5,800 $17,800 $26,001
New champion: $26,001
$17,800
22 R, 2 W
Leslie $2,000 $3,200 $4,400 $8,400
2nd place: $2,000
$4,400
11 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

MUSEUMS CONAN THE DOCUMENTARIAN A CAPSULE CATEGORY AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARYPREFERRED PLURALS A MAJOR IN HISTORY A MINOR IN LITERATURE
$200 [20]
The Amsterdam house where this diarist & her family hid during WWII has been a museum since 1960
Anne Frank
John
$200 [9]
In a 2004 film Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but food from this chain for a month; a noble warrior, Spurlock is
McDonald's
John
$200 [26]
Let's prep one of these--cell phone, credit card, Fritos; that should tell folks in 2110 what our society was like
a time capsule
John
$200 [15]
Thief
thieves
Leslie
$200 [1]
Hired to design this area in 1791, Major Pierre L'Enfant turned into a major pain & was fired a year later
Washington, D.C. (the District of Columbia)
John
$200 [5]
In a classic story this little girl is sent to bring food & drink to her grandmother, but a wolf has gotten there first
Little Red Riding Hood
Leslie
$400 [21]
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology is at this Cambridge, Massachusetts institution
Harvard
Leslie
$400 [10]
In this film, Al Gore said, "What we take for granted might not be here for our children", yet he never beheads his foes
An Inconvenient Truth
Van
$400 [27]
The bathysphere was a spherical steel capsule built for exploring this
the ocean
John
$400 [16]
Son-in-law
sons-in-law
John
$400 [2]
During this war Major Martin R. Delany became the U.S. Army's first black field officer
Civil War
Van
$400 [6]
Richard Rowe's 1869 adventure tale "The Boy in the Bush" follows the exploits of a 14-year-old settler in this country
Australia
Leslie
$600 [22]
The Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site includes Booker T. Washington's home & a museum devoted to this peanut guy
George Washington Carver
Van John
$600 [12]
This man spent an entire film trying to talk to GM chairman Roger Smith; talk to a foe, & not smite him? Confusing!
Michael Moore
Van
$600 [28]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA.) Russia filled this Resurs 500 space capsule with greetings to the American people & launched it in 1992 to commemorate this man's voyage
Christopher Columbus
Van John Leslie
$600 [17]
Axis
axes
Van
$600 [3]
In 1990 this man moved into No. 10 Downing Street & lived there for the next 7 years
John Major
Van
$600 [7]
This "Little Lord" in an 1886 book had long curls just like the author's son Vivian
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Leslie
$800 [24]
The Tate Gallery & the Tate Modern are in this city
London
John
$800 [13]
2 high school basketballers were the subjects of this 1994 Oscar-nominated film; that game is boring without swords
Hoop Dreams
John
$800 [18]
An insect's antenna
antennae
John
$800 [4]
In 1876 this U.S. Army major with a singular name published his "Rules of Order"
(Major Henry) Robert
Leslie
$800 [8]
This Swedish girl's "hair, the color of a carrot, was braided in two tight braids that stuck straight out"
Pippi Longstocking
John
$1,000 [25]
New York City has many museums, like Columbus Circle's MAD, the Museum of Arts & this
Design
Van
$1,000 [14]
This man traveled the world asking about God in "Religulous"; if he says there is no Crom, I might be very upset...
Bill Maher
John
$1,000 [19]
Passerby
passersby
Van
DD $1,000 [11]
William Dunlap, "the Father of American Drama", wrote a hit 1798 play about this British major who was hanged
Major John André
Van
$1,000 [23]
In a 17th century children's tale, the captain of the Unicorn sells this boy's cat to the king of Barbary
Dick Whittington

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE WEST INDIES SITCOMS BY EPISODE ROUND IT OFF DOCTOR WHO WATERCOLORS "HY" FIVE
$400 [1]
The West Indies' leading crop, it was introduced to the region in 1506 in Santo Domingo
sugar
Van
$400 [9]
"Dunder Mifflin Infinity"
The Office
John
$400 [26]
Pi
3
John
$400 [19]
...identified a neurological disorder he called "shaking palsy" in 1817
Parkinson
Van
$400 [6]
One of his "Birds of America" is seen here
Audubon
Leslie
$400 [14]
Mark my words, it often connects parts of a compound word
a hyphen
Leslie
$800 [2]
Buck Island Reef Natl. Monument in this U.S. territory has an underwater trail where snorkelers can view the coral
the Virgin Isles
Van Leslie
$800 [10]
"The Passion of the Christine"
The New Adventures of Old Christine
John
$800 [24]
A marathon (in miles)
26
Van
$800 [20]
...wrote a classic anatomy textbook first published in 1858
(Henry) Gray
Van
$800 [7]
The watercolorseenheredepicts this world heritage site
the Acropolis
Van John Leslie
$800 [15]
This kind of syringe has a thin hollow needle that injects solutions subcutaneously
a hypodermic needle
Van
$1,600 [4]
The flag of this small nation has 3 green diamonds in the shape of a "V", but no letter "G"
St. Vincent & the Grenadines
Van
$1,200 [11]
"Everybody Hates the Ninth-Grade Dance"
Everybody Hates Chris
Van John
$1,200 [27]
Tropic of Cancer (in degrees north latitude)
23
Van
$1,600 [22]
...was physician to Louis XVI's brother's guards but is a bit better known for getting stabbed in a bathtub
Jean-Paul Marat
$1,200 [8]
The watercolor seenhereis a portrait of this artist
Van Gogh
John
$1,200 [16]
This part of a right triangle derives its name from Greek words meaning "to stretch under"
the hypotenuse
John
DD $2,000 [3]
3 main groups make up the West Indies: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles & this nation north of Cuba
the Bahamas
Van
$1,600 [12]
"Alan Harper, Frontier Chiropractor"
Two and a Half Men
Van
$1,600 [29]
The circumference of the Earth (in thousands of miles this time)
25,000
Leslie
$2,000 [23]
...ran Harvard's medical school & fathered a Supreme Court Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes
$1,600 [25]
This sculptor did awatercolorof asubjectthat was close to his heart
(Frederic Auguste) Bartholdi
John Leslie
$1,600 [17]
Grown in a variety of colors, they're the large, showy flowersseen here
hydrangeas
Van
$2,000 [5]
In 1983 a coup against Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of this "Nutmeg Isle", led to Bishop's death
Grenada
Van
$2,000 [13]
"My Hypocritical Oath"
Scrubs
John
$2,000 [30]
Absolute zero (in Celsius)
-273
John
DD $3,000 [21]
...pioneered the use of carbolic acid to disinfect wounds & surgical instruments
(Joseph) Lister
Van
$2,000 [28]
Seen here is an illustration he did for his "Songs of Innocence"
(William) Blake
Leslie
$2,000 [18]
Phillip Cagan defined this scary situation as consumer price increases of more than 50% a month
hyperinflation
John

Final Jeopardy!

NO. 1 POP HITS

A 1987 remake of this 1959 hit was the first song with all Spanish lyrics to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100

"La Bamba"

Leslie "What is La Bamba?" — wagered $4,000
Van "What is Tequilla?" — wagered $12,000
John "What is La Bamba" — wagered $8,201

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