Show #5975 2010-07-30 (taped 2010-03-16) Regular

Last game of Season 26.

Contestants

James Richardson — a history student from Belton, Texas

J.D. Lowry — a copyright attorney from Las Vegas, Nevada

Meg Miller — a high school Latin teacher from Milton, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Meg $3,000 $5,000 $8,200 $16,399
2-day champion: $29,299
$10,600
17 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
J.D. $2,600 $5,200 $15,200 $3,150
3rd place: $1,000
$15,200
22 R, 3 W
James $600 $2,200 $13,600 $7,200
2nd place: $2,000
$11,800
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

HERE COMES THE SUN KING IT'S GOOD TO BE HIM STATE MOTTOES SHOW ME THE MONKEY SAY CHEESE SPAT THA PROPERLY SPELLD WURD
$200 [21]
On Sept. 1, 1715 Louis XIV died in this city, site of a fabulous palace he built
Versailles
J.D.
$200 [16]
2 Oscar nominations, 2 "Sexiest Man Alive" crowns & we won't get into the whole Jennifer/Angelina thing...
Brad Pitt
Meg
$200 [6]
Arizona's motto, ditat deus, means he "enriches"
God
Meg
$200 [5]
Eagles & leopards are known to huntDeBrazza's monkeysbut intrusion by these primates is their biggest threat
humans
J.D.
$200 [1]
In Greece a favorite pizza from Domino's is topped with pepperoni, onions, Greek olives & this 4-letter cheese
feta
Meg
$200 [9]
Foriegn freinds fullfil fantasies
fantasies
Meg
$400 [25]
A lavaliere, an ornamental one of these hanging from a necklace, bears the name of a duchess who bore Louis 4 kids
a pendant
J.D.
$400 [17]
Multi-platinum-selling singer with "Justified"; has spent quality time with Cameron Diaz
Justin Timberlake
J.D.
$400 [7]
Aha! I have found it--this Greek word, California's motto
Eureka
Meg
$400 [14]
Old-worldmonkeys, like our friend the patas, don't have prehensile these, many new-world monkeys do
tails
Meg
$400 [2]
Sakura cheese from Hokkaido is a soft cheese flavored with leaves from this fruit tree
cherry
James
$400 [10]
Persistant primatives possess potatos
possess
James
$600 [11]
As a 10-year-old, Louis' rule was strengthened in 1648 with the end of this numeric religious war
the Thirty Years' War
J.D. James
$600 [22]
Nice H.S. grad present! Nike signed him to a $90 million contract before he'd even played 1 game as a Cleveland Cavalier
LeBron James
James
$600 [8]
For Oklahoma, not amor but labor omnia vincit; "work" does this to "all things"
conquers all
J.D.
$600 [15]
The Hanuman languris named for a monkey god of this religion
Hinduism
J.D.
$600 [3]
Cojack is a blend of Jack cheese & this one
Colby
Meg
$600 [18]
Dependent defendents dissapoint debters
dependent
Meg
$800 [29]
This "Candide" writer portrayed the grandeur of the Sun King in his "Age Of Louis XIV"
Voltaire
Meg
$800 [26]
Fans shrieking & swooning when you sing your hits like "You Raise Me Up"--no joshing, it's good to be this 29-year-old
Josh Groban
J.D.
$1,000 [27]
Alaska has this 4-word motto
"North to the Future"
$800 [30]
Saki monkeys are diurnal, which means this is when they like to get things done
during the daytime
J.D.
$800 [4]
The "Cheese Primer" calls these 2 classics from the Netherlands "two of the most unexciting cheeses imaginable"
Edam & Gouda
J.D. James
$800 [19]
Eficiency experts exagerate excelence
experts
Meg
$1,000 [12]
This French phrase attributed to Louis XIV translates to "I am the state"
L'etat c'est moi
Meg
$1,000 [28]
QBed his team to 3 Super Bowl wins in 4 years; probably never has to buy a meal in Boston again
Tom Brady
James
DD $2,400 [24]
Pennsylvania's motto is "Virtue, liberty, and" this, also the name of a hall there
Independence
Meg
$1,000 [23]
It's the 5-letter name of the monkey seen here; what a tool!
a drill
Meg
$1,000 [13]
Fonduta is the Italian version of fondue, made with this type of cheese that also begins with "fon"
fontina
J.D.
$1,000 [20]
Sacrilegious sheperds seperate suspisciously
sacrilegious
Meg

Double Jeopardy! Round

"NIGHT" & "DAY" YOU ARE THE JUAN UNREAL ESTATE SAY WHAT, BOB? BIRTHQUAKES THE CLEVELAND CLINIC
$400 [1]
It's supervision for preschoolers while parents work
daycare
Meg
$400 [6]
John Barrymore played this Spanish lover in a 1926 film & averaged about a kiss a minute
Don Juan
James
$400 [14]
According to C.S. Lewis, it was bordered on the east by the Eastern Ocean & on the north by the River Shribble
Narnia
J.D.
$400 [5]
In Bob Dylan's "It's Alright, Ma", "The child's balloon eclipses both the Sun and" this; that's one big balloon, Bob!
the Moon
J.D.
$400 [3]
An 8.6 quake in Tibet heralded the Aug. 15, 1950 arrival of this only daughter of Elizabeth II
Princess Anne
J.D.
$400 [4]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Cleveland Clinic.) Accessing these images on a computer so they're instant & expandable is a big innovation for the Cleveland Clinic; in 1929, when they were nitrocellulose, films stored here combusted, killing 123 people
X rays
J.D.
$800 [2]
A cocktail just before bedtime
a nightcap
J.D.
$800 [7]
This town's swallows return each spring following a 12,000-mile round trip to Argentina
San Juan Capistrano
Meg
$800 [17]
John Updike set his 1984 novel about 3 divorced witches in this fictional Rhode Island city
Eastwick
James
$800 [10]
In "Ballad Of A Thin Man", a one-eyed midget screams, "You're" one of these, "Give me some milk or else go home"
a cow
James
$800 [16]
A 7.3 quake rattled Iran Aug. 31, 1968 the day this "tornado" of a pitcher touched down in Osaka, Japan
Hideo Nomo
J.D.
$800 [15]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Cleveland Clinic.) In 2008, on the victim of a shotgun blast, clinic doctors performed the USA's first of these operations; dental, psychological & bioethical teams, as well as plastic surgeons, were involved
a face transplant
Meg
$1,200 [8]
Groovy term for the dazzling yellow hosiery seen here
DayGlo
J.D.
$1,200 [9]
Named for a 16th century sailor, the Juan de Fuca Strait separates these 2 countries
the United States & Canada
J.D.
$1,200 [21]
It's the drowsy valley along the Hudson River where you'll find Katrina van Tassel
Sleepy Hollow
Meg J.D.
$1,200 [11]
A railroad man "smoked my eyelids / and punched my" this--sure you haven't got that backwards, Bob?
a cigarette
J.D. James
$1,200 [24]
"Hard Times", indeed! A giant quake struck New Madrid, Mo. on Feb. 7, 1812, the day this author struck England
Charles Dickens
J.D.
$1,600 [19]
Old World member of the thrush family, celebrated for its vocal powers
the nightingale
James
$1,600 [18]
Around 1542 explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovered this island off L.A. & it's believed he's buried there too
Catalina (Island)
J.D.
$1,600 [23]
This name of the imaginary island in Sir Thomas More's classic work is from the Greek for "no where"
Utopia
James
$1,600 [12]
"You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat / Who carried on his shoulder" one of these cats--why?
a Siamese cat
James
$2,000 [25]
A big quake shook Turkey Aug. 17, 1949, the day this Minnesota pol was born; Al Franken shook him out of the Senate
Norm Coleman
J.D.
$2,000 [22]
Hyphenated film term for shooting footage in the morning or afternoon but making it look like it's dark
day-for-night
J.D.
$2,000 [20]
From 1980 to 2001 Juan Antonio Samaranch was the head of this international sports organization
the IOC
James
$2,000 [26]
In "The Prisoner of Zenda", the king of this fictional Central European kingdom is held captive in Zenda Castle
Ruritania
DD $3,800 [13]
In Dylan's "Desolation Row", for some reason Ezra Pound & this friend & protege "are fighting in the captain's tower"
(T.S.) Eliot
James

Final Jeopardy!

THE 9 MUSES

In a Balanchine ballet, Apollo, god of music, has a favorite muse, this one

Terpsichore

Meg "Who is Terpsichore?" — wagered $8,199
James "Who is Musicos?" — wagered $6,400
J.D. "Who is Polyhymnia?" — wagered $12,050

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