Show #6009 2010-10-28 (taped 2010-08-23) Regular

Contestants

George Villarreal — a college swim coach and aquatics consultant from Lexington, Kentucky

Barbara Brown — a retired housewife from Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Jesse Cuevas — a corporate lawyer originally from Leawood, Kansas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $51,600)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Jesse	$1,600	$7,400	$14,200	$14,381 3-day champion: $65,981	$13,000 19 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Barbara	$2,600	$4,200	$7,000	$10,000 2nd place: $2,000	$9,000 12 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
George	$3,800	$5,000	$14,300	$2,000 3rd place: $1,000	$13,400 17 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

WHEN YOU WISH UPON A CZAR	PROPER NAMES	STATE MASHUPS BY CITIES	TOM JONES	IT'S NOT UNUSUAL	SHE'S A LADY
$200 [2] Talk about a bad heir day! Living up to his name in 1581, he murdered his only viable heir (& his namesake, to boot!) Ivan the Terrible George	$200 [8] Win an Academy Award & you'll go home with this golden guy an Oscar Jesse	$200 [26] Des Moines plus Walla Walla IoWashington Jesse	$200 [6] Tom was born the son of a coal miner in Pontypridd in this U.K. country Wales Barbara	$200 [15] There are 86,400 of these in every day a second George	$200 [21] The 12th century chronicler Florence of Worcester mentions this lady, but not her ride Lady Godiva Barbara
$400 [1] In 1745 the man who'd become Peter III wed this 16-year-old German princess; she ruled after his deposing & dispatching Catherine the Great George	$400 [11] The name of this towerlike framework over an oil well comes from that of a 17th century hangman a derrick Jesse	$600 [27] Omaha plus Dodge City NebrasKansas Jesse	$400 [7] Pirate radio airplay broke "It's Not Unusual", Tom's first hit, after this U.K. radio behemoth refused to play it the BBC George	$400 [16] There are about 10,000 species of these, including carpenter, driver & leafcutter ants George	$400 [22] Britannica calls Lady Augusta Ada, daughter of this rakish 19th c. poet, "the world's first computer programmer" Lord Byron Jesse Barbara
$600 [3] He succeeded his dad, Alexander III, & ruled from 1894 to 1917 Nicholas II George	$600 [13] "Rags To Riches" crooner Bennett could tell you it means "stylish" tony George	$800 [28] Las Cruces plus Telluride New MexiColorado Jesse	$600 [9] That must be one swingin' pad for "Amore": In the mid-'70s, Tom bought a Bel-Air mansion from this suave rat packer Dean Martin Barbara	$600 [17] Belonging to nearly 2.4 million people as of the 2000 census, it's the USA's most common surname Smith Jesse	$600 [23] "Our Lady of" this Mexico City neighborhood is said to have appeared to a believer in 1531 Guadalupe George
$800 [4] Coming to power in 1855, Alexander II realized this war wasn't going well & made peace in 1856 the Crimean war George	$800 [14] Derived from Scottish Gaelic, it's a narrow, secluded valley, as Ms. Close might tell you a glen Barbara	—	$800 [10] In 2009 Tom raised the first pint at the Guinness 250th anniversary celebrations in this city Dublin George	$800 [19] From 1938 to 2003, Volkswagen hatched more than 20 million cars of this model the Beetle (or the bug) Jesse	$800 [24] Abbey Theatre director Lady Augusta Gregory was the patron of this poet she met in 1896 Yeats
$1,000 [5] First name of the man who was Godunov to be czar for 7 years after the extinction of the Rurik dynasty Boris Barbara	DD $2,200 [18] You might remember that this herb with needle-shaped leaves is a traditional seasoning for lamb rosemary Jesse	—	$1,000 [12] To benefit Afghan refugees, Tom duetted on "Delilah" in Modena, Italy with this one of the three tenors Pavarotti Jesse	$1,000 [20] Take a deep breath & tell us the name of this most abundant element in the earth's crust oxygen Jesse	$1,000 [25] U.S.-born Jennie Jerome married a lord in 1874; that same year, she gave birth to this future prime minister Winston Churchill Barbara

Double Jeopardy! Round

PLANTS	3-LETTER MOVIE TITLES	UNFINISHED NOVELS	A COLORFUL CATEGORY	U.S. ISLANDS	LONG WORDS
$400 [4] The red "flowers" of this Christmas plant aren't flowers at all, but special leaves called bracts poinsettia George	$400 [10] Tom Hanks grows up a little too fast Big Jesse	$400 [16] His "Poodle Springs", featuring Philip Marlowe, was completed by Robert B. Parker & published in 1989 Raymond Chandler Jesse	$400 [1] Idiomatically, this streak refers to the trait of cowardice a yellow streak Jesse George	$400 [15] The last remaining habitat of the alala, a type of crow, is the McCandless Ranch on this big island Hawaii Jesse Barbara	$400 [22] Legally speaking, the crime of manslaughter is this type, done without prior planning unpremeditated Barbara
$800 [5] (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Ecuador.) This typical 1940s house of a campesino, or field worker, is made from this giant grass associated with Asia but an important building material of Ecuador bamboo Jesse	$800 [6] Santa & Will Ferrell do a little North Pole dancing Elf Jesse	$800 [23] 11 chapters of an unfinished novel are contained in his "The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time" (Douglas) Adams Jesse	$800 [2] This color "noise" is a combination of all the different frequencies of sound; some people use it to help them sleep white noise Jesse	$800 [14] The Isles Dernieres off this state's coast were once a single island & the erosion is continuing Louisiana	$800 [27] This -ism, the impulse to do good deeds for others, can also mean the view that Jesus was just a man & not divine humanitarianism Barbara
$1,200 [3] From the Latin for "juice", this term refers to plants that store water in their thick leaves & stems succulent Jesse Barbara	$1,200 [7] Kevin Costner chases assassination conspirators JFK Jesse	$1,600 [24] When he died in Samoa in 1894, he left behind what many consider his masterpiece, "Weir of Hermiston" Robert Louis Stevenson Barbara	$1,200 [19] Early on, the Nazis employed the braunhemden, meaning this, to enforce their will the brown shirts George	$1,200 [11] (CNN senior U.N. Correspondent Richard Roth gives the clue.) Today a sanctuary for migrating birds, the island you see just offshore from the U.N. bears the name of this Burmese U.N. Secretary-General U Thant George	—
$1,600 [17] This colorful climbing shrub of South America was named for a French explorer of the South Pacific bougainvillea George	$1,600 [8] Will Smith hooks & jabs Ali Jesse	DD $2,000 [25] Reminiscent of another of his novels, his "The Original of Laura" features a lecher named Hubert H. Hubert Nabokov Barbara	$1,600 [20] Heaven for sailors is fiddler's this fiddler's green	$2,000 [13] In 1843 John C. Fremont & Kit Carson visited what's now Fremont Island in this large body of water the Great Salt Lake	—
$2,000 [18] Sabal serrulata, this palmetto, is considered anabolic & is a useful "tool" for those needing to gain weight the saw palmetto	$2,000 [9] Dennis Quaid is running out of time trying to figure out who poisoned him D.O.A. Barbara	$2,000 [26] The hero of his unfinished novel "The Castle" is known only as K. Kafka Jesse	$2,000 [21] In Muslim countries the Red Cross goes by this name the Red Crescent George	DD $2,500 [12] This 12-mile by 5-mile South Carolina resort island has 24 golf courses Hilton Head Island George	—

Final Jeopardy!

WORD ORIGINS

This 4-letter term for a religious group that holds distinctive beliefs comes from the Latin for "follow"

a sect

Barbara "What is a sect?" — wagered $3,000

Jesse "What is sect?" — wagered $181

George "What is a cult?" — wagered $12,300

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