Show #6422 2012-07-17 (taped 2012-03-13) Regular

Contestants

Kimberley Stephenson — a college librarian from Pasadena, California

Dan Burke — a high school theology teacher from Chicago, Illinois

Blythe Rodgers — an attorney from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,999)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Blythe $3,200 $3,800 $14,800 $20,000
2nd place: $2,000
$13,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Dan $1,400 $2,200 $13,400 $26,798
New champion: $26,798
$16,600
19 R, 6 W (including 2 DDs)
Kimberley $2,200 $4,200 $8,200 $16,400
3rd place: $1,000
$8,200
11 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS THINK FAST! HISTOR"E" SMART WORDS ROUGH REVIEWS ONRotten Tomatoes A DOLLAR IS WORTH ABOUT...
$200 [1]
Atomic number 17, it's poisonous, smells bad & causes irritation to the nose, lungs & throat; put some in my pool, please!
chlorine
Blythe
$200 [21]
In empty space it travels about 186,282 miles per second
light
Dan
$200 [6]
In the 1870s this family including brother Virgil settled in Tombstone, Arizona
Earp
Blythe
$200 [11]
If you're "cut to" this 5-letter word, you're injured deeply
the quick
Blythe
$200 [16]
Re: "The Whole Ten Yards", with this "Die Hard" star: "Don't even think about making the whole eleven yards"
Bruce Willis
Blythe
$200 [26]
50 rupees in this country of 1.2 billion
India
Kimberley
$400 [2]
Put it on a sign that when air is liquefied at -320 degrees, this element is left behind as a gas
neon
Kimberley
$400 [22]
In 1964 Japan went "ballistic" with the launching of this high-speed train that travels up to 185 miles per hour
the shinkansen (or bullet train)
Blythe Dan
$400 [7]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a map of Europe in World War II.) In June, 1941, Hitlerattackedthe USSR, opening up this theater of war, where Germany suffered 90% of its WWII combat deaths
the Eastern front
Dan
$400 [12]
Peachy this! It's also a wailing lament for the dead
keen
Kimberley
$400 [17]
On this Sharon Stone erotic thriller "2": "Even the ice pick looks like it really doesn't want to be there"
Basic Instinct 2
Blythe
$400 [27]
13 of these in Mexico
pesos
Dan
$600 [3]
If he were an ancient Roman, this giant might say, "Fe fi fo ferrum"
the Iron Giant
Blythe
$600 [23]
The world's fastest animal is this species of falcon whose diving speed can reach over 200 miles per hour
peregrine falcon
Blythe
$600 [8]
Drop "J." from a 2011 DiCaprio film title & you have a biopic of this powerful English king who died in 975
Edgar
Kimberley
$600 [13]
"A word to the" this (& hopefully that's you right now): it means informed or in the know
wise
Dan
$600 [18]
"Swept Away" led to, "If there is one thing worse than a Guy Ritchie movie, it's a Guy Ritchie movie with" this singer "in it"
Madonna
Blythe
$600 [28]
.75 of this monetary unit used by 17 countries
the Euro
Blythe
$800 [4]
Marlin & tilefish may contain high levels of this element, atomic number 80
mercury
Kimberley
$800 [24]
In 2012 she went downhill fast enough to win her fourth overall World Cup title, the most of any American skier
(Lindsey) Vonn
Dan
$800 [9]
He got Karl Marx to learn economics
Engels
Dan
$800 [14]
Brilliant, like the "lights" in a "big city" title
bright
Dan
$800 [19]
Oh Dane Cook", "Good Luck" him "has all the engaging magnetism of an unflushed toilet"
Chuck
Dan
$800 [29]
1,200 dinars in this country; the U.S. officially ended some other business there in December 2011
Iraq
Kimberley
$1,000 [5]
Glenn Seaborg & colleagues discovered this nuclear weapon ingredient on Feb. 23, 1941
plutonium
Blythe
$1,000 [25]
As a test pilot, this future astronaut set a speed record in 1957, flying from Los Angeles to NYC in 3 hours 23 min.
(John) Glenn
Dan Kimberley
DD $1,200 [10]
In the 980s he managed to make Greenland sound pleasant enough to get fellow Icelanders to join him there
Erik the Red
Dan
$1,000 [15]
Mike Rogers is the chairman of the House's Permanent Select Committee on this
intelligence
Blythe
$1,000 [20]
This knighted co-star of "Hugo" is in "Bloodrayne", "a movie that begs you not to watch it"
(Ben) Kingsley
Dan
$1,000 [30]
8 quetzales in this country bordered by Belize
Guatemala
Blythe Dan

Double Jeopardy! Round

COUNTRY MUSIC DUET PARTNERS AT THE "CORE" CONSTITUTION SIGNERS BY STATE HOMOPHONES ARTHUR CANTERBURY TALESTELLERS
$400 [17]
"Islands In The Stream":Kenny Rogers & her
Dolly Parton
Blythe
$400 [1]
80, to Lincoln in a big 1863 speech
fourscore
Dan
$400 [20]
George Washington
Virginia
Dan
$400 [12]
The person who receives property from a will, or the stuff you breathe
an heir/air
Kimberley
$400 [7]
British commander & statesman Arthur Wellesley was better known by this hereditary title
the Duke of Wellington
Blythe
$400 [6]
Prior to telling his tale, the Man of Law mentions this author by name & some of his works
Chaucer
$800 [18]
"It's Your Love":Tim McGraw & her
Faith Hill
Blythe
$800 [2]
This tuna type can tip the scales at 90 pounds
albacore
Blythe
$800 [21]
Benjamin Franklin
Pennsylvania
Blythe
$800 [13]
The Roman goddess of love, or pertaining to certain blood vessels
Venus/venous
Kimberley
$800 [8]
A theatre at the University of Michigan is named for this alumnus & Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
Arthur Miller
Blythe
$800 [30]
The prioress, a nun, carries with her a gold brooch inscribed with a Latin phrase meaning this "conquers all"
love
$1,200 [19]
"Draggin' The River" & "Red River Blue":Blake Shelton & her
Miranda Lambert
$1,200 [3]
This 10-letter verb can mean to give emphasis, or to provide the accompanying music for a film
underscore
Dan
$1,200 [22]
James McHenry
Maryland
Blythe
$1,200 [14]
Intuitive understanding, or to prompt into action, as a crowd to riot
insight/incite
Dan
$1,200 [9]
He began collaborating with William Gilbert in 1871
(Arthur) Sullivan
Kimberley
$1,200 [25]
The Miller was the pilgrim who led the others out of town by playing this droning instrument
a bagpipe
Dan
$1,600 [29]
"Crying":k.d. lang & him
Roy Orbison
Blythe
$1,600 [4]
Violinist Hilary Hahn has commissioned 27 new pieces just to play as these audience-pleasers
encores
Kimberley
$2,000 [24]
Charles Pinckney
South Carolina
$1,600 [15]
Fully matured, or a deep sound of one in pain
grown/groan
Dan
$1,600 [10]
In 1893 he killed off his most famous character only to bring him back in a 1903 story
(Arthur Conan) Doyle
Dan
DD $2,000 [26]
The teller of the first tale, he's participated in several battles of the great crusades
the knight
Dan
$2,000 [28]
"Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys":Waylon Jennings & him
Willie Nelson
Dan
$2,000 [5]
Begun nearly 100 years ago, it's Columbia University's set of courses to provide a general education
a core curriculum
Dan
DD $3,000 [23]
William Paterson
New Jersey
Blythe
$2,000 [16]
A gradation of a color, or to strike with an ax
hue/hew
Dan
$2,000 [11]
A decade after his JFK book "A Thousand Days", this historian wrote "Robert Kennedy and his times"
(Arthur) Schlesinger(, Jr.)
Dan
$2,000 [27]
The oft-married wife of Bath is a seamstress who's made 3 pilgrimages to this holy city
Jerusalem
Blythe

Final Jeopardy!

FIRST NAMES

A wife of King David & 2 of our early first ladies shared this name derived from Hebrew for "my father's joy"

Abigail

Kimberley "What is Abigail?" — wagered $8,200
Dan "What is Abigail?" — wagered $13,398
Blythe "What is Abigail?" — wagered $5,200

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