Show #5997 2010-10-12 (taped 2010-08-09) Regular

Contestants

Tim Campos — an architect from New Orleans, Louisiana

Suzanne Rorick — a stay-at-home mom from Stevenson Ranch, California

Carol Denny — a writer for a non-profit environmental foundation from Arnold, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,199)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Carol $-200 $200 $-1,000 $-1,000
3rd place: $1,000
$-1,000
4 R, 3 W
Suzanne $3,200 $7,800 $20,400 $12,900
New champion: $12,900
$21,400
28 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Tim $1,800 $4,600 $13,800 $0
2nd place: $2,000
$14,800
18 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

GOODBYE, COLUMBUS ALIASES "DOLLAR"S & "CENT"S VWLLSS NTNS HOME SWEET HOME ALSO A BODY PART
$200 [11]
Ya, mon! On June 29, 1504 Columbus was rescued from this island where he'd been shipwrecked for a year
Jamaica
Suzanne
$200 [6]
Bruce Banner, who learned it's not easy being green
The Hulk
Suzanne
$200 [26]
In a song from "Annie", "The sun'll come out tomorrow, bet" this "that tomorrow there'll be sun"
your bottom dollar
Suzanne
$200 [16]
An archipelago:FJ
Fiji
Suzanne
$200 [21]
It's located at 3734 Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis
Graceland
Suzanne
$200 [1]
It's the hole in a needle
eye
Suzanne
$400 [12]
Columbus said goodbye for good in this year, 14 years after he set out on his most famous voyage
1506
Carol Suzanne
$400 [7]
Diedrich Knickerbocker, a "sleepy" novelist
Washington Irving
Tim
$400 [27]
Clint Eastwood starred in this 1964 Spaghetti Western & its sequel, "For a Few Dollars More"
A Fistful of Dollars
Tim
$400 [17]
In the North Atlantic:CLND
Iceland
Suzanne
$400 [22]
The house where she wrote "Silent Spring" is a National Historic Monument in Silver Spring, Maryland
Rachel Carson
Carol
$400 [2]
Verb meaning to be in charge of a committee or organization
head
Carol
$600 [13]
On Christmas Day 1492, Columbus waved a sad bye-bye to this ship after it ran aground
the Santa Maria
Suzanne
$600 [8]
"Lady Day", a nickname originated by sax man Lester Young
Billie Holiday
Tim
$600 [28]
Situated next to
adjacent
Tim
$600 [18]
Off the coast of Africa:CP VRD
Cape Verde
Tim
$600 [23]
Seen here is a partial view of her childhood home in Alabama in the 1950s; notice the water pump
Helen Keller
Tim
$600 [3]
When you pick up a tab, you do this to "the bill"
foot
Suzanne
$800 [14]
Sometime before 1477, Columbus bade farewell to this Italian city of his birth
Genoa
Tim
DD $1,000 [9]
Harry Longabaugh, whose nickname came from the Wyoming town in which he was imprisoned
The Sundance Kid
Tim
$800 [29]
This policy aims to encourage the investment of capital in foreign countries
dollar diplomacy
Suzanne
$800 [19]
In Africa:THP
Ethiopia
Suzanne
$800 [24]
Spanish for "Sea to Lake" this Palm Beach estate was home to Donald Trump & earlier, Marjorie Merriweather Post
Mar-a-Lago
Tim
$800 [4]
Slang for a bar or nightclub; in "Casablanca", Humphrey Bogart refers to a "gin" one
joint
Carol
$1,000 [15]
On April 16, 1503, on his last voyage, Columbus left Rio Belen in what's now this narrow country
Panama
Tim
$1,000 [10]
Sir Percy Blakeney, a "colorful" fop with a sword
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Carol
$1,000 [30]
The star system closest to our sun is the Alpha system in this constellation in the southern hemisphere
Centauri
Tim
$1,000 [20]
In South America:CDR
Ecuador
Suzanne
$1,000 [25]
In 1839, this president bought Lindenwald, the estate he would retire to, in Kinderhook
Van Buren
Suzanne
$1,000 [5]
Part of the face that also means to have a friendly chat
jaw (or chin)
Suzanne

Double Jeopardy! Round

FLAGS & ANTHEMS BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES DIVAS SPANISH TO ENGLISH PRINCESS DIARIES
$400 [2]
A 1999 law officially adopted this country's rising sun flag & its anthem, whose title means "his majesty's reign"
Japan
Suzanne
$400 [7]
Simba climbs to the top of the Empire State Building with Fay Wray in his arms
The Lion King Kong
Carol Suzanne
$400 [1]
Italian soprano Renata Tebaldi was chosen by Toscanini to sing at the reopening of this Milan opera house in 1946
La Scala
Tim
$400 [18]
A culinary profession: panadero
baker (breadmaker acceptable)
Suzanne
$400 [9]
In his novels, Luthien Tinuviel was daughter of Thingol Greycloak, greatest of the Grey-elven kings
Tolkien
Suzanne
$400 [17]
On July 25, 1945 this president wrote, "We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world"
Harry Truman
Tim
$800 [3]
The blue field of Somalia's flag was influenced by the flag of this organization
the United Nations
Suzanne
$800 [8]
A mouse-like boy runs afoul of a carnivorous plant
Stuart Little Shop of Horrors
$800 [23]
As a 13-year-old, she moved to Greece with her mother & the family name was changed back to Kalogeropoulos
Maria Callas
Suzanne
$800 [19]
A proverb: "no hay tiempo como el presente"
"there is no time like the present"
Tim
$800 [10]
She was adopted, but still managed to become an Imperial senator, representing Alderaan
(Princess) Leia
Tim
$800 [26]
In her journals Anne Morrow called him "a knight in shining armor, with myself as his devoted page"
Lindbergh
Suzanne
$1,200 [4]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in front of a map of the Middle East.) Perhaps to distinguish it from neighboring Bahrain's flag, this country chose mauve for its dual-tone flag
Qatar
Suzanne
$1,200 [11]
A schoolteacher travels to Siam & finds herself the only living person left in New York City
The King and I Am Legend
Suzanne Tim
$1,200 [24]
Bet this Australian was "toasty" with the fur she often wore around her neck to keep her throat warm
(Nellie) Melba
Suzanne
$1,200 [20]
It's found in a toolbox: martillo
a hammer
Tim
$1,200 [14]
The warring countries of Guilder & Florin propel the action in this William Goldman tale
The Princess Bride
Tim
$1,200 [27]
In 1662 his diary contained the first known British reference to Punchinello, later shortened to Punch
(Samuel) Pepys
Suzanne
$1,600 [5]
In 1922, after 91 years as an instrumental, this S. Amer. country's anthem got words calling it "a brave colossus"
Brazil
$1,600 [12]
Fanny Brice takes over for Diana Ross in a biopic
Funny Lady Sings the Blues
DD $2,000 [25]
The Met's Rudolph Bing refused to hire this diva known as "Bubbles" because she hadn't been trained in Europe
Beverly Sills
Suzanne
$1,600 [21]
A delicious fruit:manzana
an apple
Carol Tim
$1,600 [15]
The 1884 satiric opera "Princess Ida" by this pair was inspired by a poem
Gilbert & Sullivan
Suzanne
$2,000 [6]
Bosnia's constitutional court banned the anthem of this other former Yugoslav republic
Serbia
Tim
$2,000 [13]
Julia Roberts escapes from getting married to an evil doll boy
Runaway Bride of Chucky
Suzanne
$2,000 [22]
In computer lingo: the 4-letter equivalent of correo basura
spam
Tim
DD $3,000 [16]
This "flowery" J.M. Barrie princess was called "the most beautiful of the dusky Dianas"
Tiger Lily
Suzanne

Final Jeopardy!

SHAKESPEARE

These 2 "King Lear" characters, 1 male, 1 female, both represent truthfulness; one disappears when the other returns

Cordelia and the Fool

Tim "Who are Laertes and P" — wagered $13,800
Suzanne "Who is Cordelia & Edger" — wagered $7,500

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