Show #5978 2010-09-15 (taped 2010-07-27) Regular

Roger Craig game 3.

Contestants

Katie Ganfield — a mom from St. Cloud, Minnesota

Kevin Knudson — a mathematics college professor from Gainesville, Florida

Roger Craig — a graduate student of computer science from Newark, Delaware (whose 2-day cash winnings total $114,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Roger $6,400 $9,400 $13,800 $24,401
3-day champion: $138,401
$22,600
31 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Kevin $2,200 $5,000 $12,200 $200
3rd place: $1,000
$12,200
14 R, 3 W
Katie $0 $2,000 $6,400 $6,400
2nd place: $2,000
$8,400
9 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

ATOLLS CABLE GUYS ANNUALLY OBSERVED CHESS PIECES 1970 BACKWORDS
$200 [24]
Perhaps the only world capital we've never before asked about is Funafuti, an atoll in this ocean: it's Tuvalu's capital
the Pacific Ocean
Roger
$200 [14]
Kevin Dillon as Johnny "Drama", Vincent Chase's older brother
Entourage
Roger
$200 [26]
April 29 is Emperor's Day in this Asian country
Japan
Roger
$200 [2]
The chess piece that there are the most of
the pawns
Roger
$200 [18]
In May a rally at this Ohio university turned tragic when 4 students were slain by National Guardsmen
Kent State
Roger
$200 [1]
If that Chihuahua yaps any more, I swear I'm going to do this to it
spay
Roger
$400 [25]
In its local version the name of this festive island is spelled K-I-R-I-T-I-M-A-T-I
Christmas Island
Kevin Katie
$400 [15]
Jonathan Rhys Meyers as King Henry VIII
The Tudors
Katie
$400 [30]
In England the anniversary of this queen's birthday is observed on a Saturday following May 24
Victoria
Kevin
$400 [3]
The 2 chess pieces of which each side has only one
the king & queen
Roger
$400 [19]
Garry Trudeau's "Bull Tales" was renamed this & began appearing in some 2 dozen newspapers
Doonesbury
Kevin
$400 [10]
God didn't like the joke about the dyslexic agnostic, you know, where the guy wonders if there really is a this
a dog
Roger
$800 [8]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the screen.) In the 1930s, transoceanic air routes starting from Midway Island used tiny Wake Atoll as a perfect fuel base to complete the 2,800-mile trip to this U.S. island territory
Guam
Roger
$600 [16]
Mark Feuerstein as Hank Lawson, a doctor who makes mansion calls in the Hamptons
Royal Pains
$600 [29]
A Hallmark card for these professionals' day, near Mother's Day, refers to their "patient, giving ways"
nurses
Roger
$600 [4]
The piece that shares its name with a job in the Catholic church
the bishop
Kevin
$600 [20]
Legislation signed on April 1 (no joke) banned ads for these on TV
cigarettes
Kevin
$600 [11]
I believe these were the cause of the missing produce on the White Star Line's flagship
rats
Roger
$1,000 [9]
Bring me the head of this atoll largest in the Chagos Archipelago, where the U.S. has a naval facility
Diego Garcia
$800 [17]
Bryan Cranston as chemistry teacher-turned-drug kingpin Walter White
Breaking Bad
Roger
$800 [28]
Celebrated in Asia in the fall, Diwali is an annual festival of lights of this religion
Hinduism
Roger
$800 [5]
The one that shares its name with a crow relative
a rook
Kevin
$800 [21]
American subcompacts hit the road for the first time, including this Ford model
a Pinto
Kevin
$800 [12]
I felt it was excessive when the waiter was rotated on one of these after complaining about his tips
a spit
Kevin
DD $1,800 [7]
From April to August 1958 the U.S. conducted 22 of these on Enewetak Atoll to get them in before a ban took effect
nuclear tests
Roger
$1,000 [23]
Alexander Skarsgard as Eric Northman, an old & powerful Nordic vampire
True Blood
Katie
$1,000 [27]
This August 15 feast day commemorates the Virgin Mary's ascension to Heaven
the Assumption
Katie
$1,000 [6]
The only piece in the back row that can start a game
a knight
Roger
$1,000 [22]
In November a memorial service was held at Notre Dame for this former French president who died at 79
(Charles) de Gaulle
Kevin
$1,000 [13]
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was the favorite poem of the Middle East leader with this title
Emir
Roger

Double Jeopardy! Round

ART SCHOOL SINGERS ON SCREEN AMPHIBIANS IT'S NOT EASY BEING TWEEN LOVABLE QUOTES "L" 8-LETTER WORDS
$400 [1]
The School of Fontainebleau is named for one of these built by Francis I in the 1530s
a palace
Roger Katie
$400 [18]
This pop diva was downright dowdy in her role as a welfare caseworker in "Precious"
Mariah Carey
Kevin Katie
$400 [5]
A South American toad displays its orange feet to predators to let them know it's this
poisonous
Roger
$400 [10]
Tweens can spend hours on this 140-character max website created by a 10-person startup called Obvious
Twitter
Roger
$400 [15]
Around 1387, this poet wisely noted, "in love, ther is but litel reste"
Chaucer
Roger Kevin
$400 [28]
It's said there are 3 things that matter in real estate: this. this, this
location
Roger
$800 [22]
"First Steps" is by Jozef Israels of this country's traditionalist Hague School
the Netherlands
Katie
$800 [19]
He was clean-shaven & minus the cowboy hat as Sandra Bullock's husband in "The Blind Side"
(Tim) McGraw
Roger
$800 [6]
In salamanders named for a lack of these internal organs, a tiny pulmonary artery runs in the body wall
lungs
Roger
$800 [11]
From the Latin for "adulthood", this process generally starts for girls between 10 & 12 & boys, 12 to 14
puberty
Roger
$800 [16]
"Love is strong as death: jealousy is cruel as the grave" is from this biblical "song" book
the Song of Solomon
Kevin
$800 [29]
There once was a clue in our place/ about this type of poem, not mace/ short & quick/ a niffy old trick/ but then we ran out of
a limerick
Kevin
$1,600 [3]
While part of the Avignon School, Simone Martini met this poet & painted a portrait of his beloved Laura
Petrarch
Roger
$1,200 [23]
As Saraghina in "Nine", this pop star belts out "Be Italian"
Fergie
Katie
$1,200 [7]
A South African frog favors the arum type rather than the water type of this plant
a lily
Roger
$1,200 [12]
Tweens watching this young man's video "Baby" on YouTube helped it to a record 260 million views as of summer 2010
Justin Bieber
Kevin
$1,200 [17]
In "A Woman of No Importance", he wrote, "One should always be in love, that is why one should never marry"
Oscar Wilde
Katie
$1,200 [30]
One honored for achieving distinction in a certain field; poet is one type
laureate
Katie
$2,000 [2]
The school named for this big city began in the 1940s & mutated into Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, etc.
New York City
Roger
$1,600 [20]
Check out this singer back in 1985 in his role as Dr. Frankenstein in "The Bride"
Sting
Roger
$1,600 [8]
Many caecilians have these in their skin, like snakes, which they resemble, but unlike most other amphibians
scales
Roger
$1,600 [13]
Alliterative 2-word term for the actions of a tween's social group to make him or her conform
peer pressure
Kevin
DD $2,000 [24]
A little late, this Shakespearean character describes himself as "one that loved not wisely, but too well"
Othello
Katie
$1,600 [26]
The this & Lymphoma Society is a charity fighting blood cancers
Leukemia
Kevin
DD $10,000 [4]
The Stroganov School in Russia specialized in these exquisite artworks for private devotions
icons
Roger
$2,000 [21]
As June Boatwright in "The Secret Life of Bees", she didn't play the piano but rather the cello, which she learned for the role
Alicia Keys
Katie
$2,000 [9]
4-letter word for a salamander that leans toward the land side of amphibianness
a newt
Kevin
$2,000 [14]
Hmm, your tween is reading works in this movement, like Camus' "Caligula"? That's both impressive & disturbing
existentialism
Roger
$2,000 [25]
Thomas Fuller observed that "love and pride stock" this British mental hospital
Bedlam (or Bethlehem Royal)
Roger
$2,000 [27]
To contest in court or to carry on a lawsuit
litigate
Roger

Final Jeopardy!

MONARCHS

From 1513 to 1972, only men named Christian & Frederick alternated as rulers of this nation

Denmark

Katie "What is Sweden?" — wagered $0
Kevin "What is Austria" — wagered $12,000
Roger "What is Denmark?" — wagered $10,601

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