Show #5940 - Friday, June 11, 2010

Contestants

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Jennifer Roberson, a U.S. Fire Administration program manager from Ashburn, Virginia

Ken Eberle, a quality control technician from Aston, Pennsylvania

Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,801)

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Jeopardy! Round

COUSTEAU
(Alex: ...on the 100th anniversary of his birth date.)
FACTS & FIGURES
COOKING VERBS
LEAD OR NO LEAD
MILITARY FIRSTS
"LAST" CHANCE
    $200 24
One of Cousteau's dreams was to use this to help power a modern ship; he achieved it with the "Alcyone" & its turbo sail system
    $200 1
Fact:
She was born in Long Beach, California; we'll skip the obligatory number joke
    $200 6
To heat water to 212 degrees
    $200 19
In 1996 the Environmental Protection Agency completed its 25-year phase-out of lead in this
    $200 14
The first recorded battle on English soil occurred when his forces invaded in 55 B.C.
    $200 11
Hawkeye shows up in this 1826 novel
    $400 25
One program in the "Cousteau Odyssey" TV series was titled "Blind Prophets" of this island
    $400 2
Fact:
She had bit parts on "McHale's Navy" & "Bewitched" before her bust-out part in "1 Million Years B.C."
    $400 7
2-word term meaning to cook by submerging in hot fat
    $400 21
To protect children, in 1977 the government banned the use of lead in this substance on walls in the home
    $400 15
In May 1783 Elijah Churchill & William Brown became the first recipients of this medal established by George Washington
    $400 12
It's not the final Club Med, it's the ultimate option to solve a difficult problem
    $600 26
Cousteau was fascinated by future human life underwater, breathing through these organs
    $600 3
Fact:
As Halle Berry could tell you, this woman was the first African-American Best Actress Oscar nominee
    $600 8
From the French, it means to remove bones, especially the backbones, from fish
    $600 23
There's no lead in a typical No. 2 pencil, just this mineral also known as plumbago
    $600 16
On Oct. 16, 1946 Joachim von Ribbentrop became the first of 10 condemned men hanged in this city for war crimes
    $600 13
The last 3 words of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, they also appear in his epitaph
    $800 29
Cousteau co-designed this scuba device & said it changed his life
    $800 4
Fact:
She costarred with Tony Randall in "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?"
    $800 9
From the Greek for "to roast", it's to cook with dry oven heat
    $800 27
In 2004 this Santa Clara, Calif. chip giant began shipping 95% lead-free microprocessor packages
    DD: $2,800 17
The first battle casualties of this fabled military unit were in 1527 when 147 died defending Pope Clement VII
    $800 20
Bravo! It's a final performance or effort before retirement & also the title of a 1958 Spencer Tracy film
    $1000 30
Cousteau is seen here in a moment of happiness on Isla Isabela, a bird haven off this country's state of Nayarit
    $1000 5
Fact:
This Swiss-German bombshell was the first Bond girl
    $1000 10
To cook sugar until it forms a brown syrup
    $1000 28
The ancient Romans used a lead-based type of this tin alloy for tableware; not a good idea
    $1000 18
The first successful wartime attack by one of these occurred by the Hunley off Charleston in 1864
    $1000 22
It's Alaska's nickname

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Marty Ken Jennifer
$1,400 $2,200 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Marty Ken Jennifer
$4,000 $400 $4,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

ON THE MAP
LYRICAL POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS
(Alex: We want you to give the full name of the state whose abbreviation will fill in the blank in each clue.)
LET ME PAINT YOU A PICTURE
BRAND "O"
LITERARY BROTHERS
DROP A LETTER
    $400 11
Mount Everest lies on the border between Tibet & this landlocked nation
    $400 1
The Beatles:
"And Molly says this as she takes him by the hand:
Ob-____-Di"
    $400 26
The title of his Cubist masterpiece "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" refers to a notorious section of Barcelona
    $400 6
This brand of insect repellents includes Active & Deep Woods lines
    $400 21
Dmitry & Ivan are 2 of this novel's title quartet
    $400 16
...from a punctuation mark & you get this state of prolonged unconsciousness
    $800 12
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden & the Indian Ocean form the eastern coast of the region seen here, known by this 3-word term
    $800 2
The Rascals:
"I asked my family doctor just what I had. I said Doctor...
(Doctor)
Mr. ____"
    $800 27
In the 1730s Canaletto was busy painting scenic views of this city, his birthplace
    $800 7
Heinz owns this line of frozen potato products
    $800 22
"The Devil's Sooty Brother' is a lesser-known tale by these real-life German brothers
    $800 17
..from a word meaning "easily bent"; now you have this word meaning "legally responsible"
    $1200 13
This Canadian province is in the Gulf of St. Lawrence
    $1200 3
Roy Orbison:
"____ dreams I walk with you"
    $1200 28
He put the "class" in "neoclassical" with his portrait of Madame Recamier
    $1200 8
Defunct car brand whose emblem is shown here
    $1200 23
Walter J. Boyne fictionalizes the story of the Wright Brothers in "Dawn Over" this place
    DD: $2,000 18
...from a word referring to 2 lines of latitude & you get this word that refers to a subject for discussion
    $1600 14
In the Caribbean Sea, Cuba & Hispaniola are the only islands larger than this island nation
    $1600 4
Queen:
"All we hear is radio ____ ____"
    $1600 29
He said that unconsciously he was probably "painting the loneliness of a large city" in "Nighthawks"
    $1600 9
This blender came on the market in 1946
    $1600 24
This troubled teen had a brother named Allie who died; "You'd have liked him"
    $1600 19
...from a word meaning "oddly amusing" & you get this sandwich encloser
    DD: $2,000 15
The name of this South American capital is believed to come from Magellan's exclamation:
"I see a hill!"
    $2000 5
Bob Dylan:
"So don't fear if you hear a foreign sound to your ear it's alright, ____, I'm only sighing"
    $2000 30
About 36 of his paintings survive, including "The Guitar Player", seen here
    $2000 10
"Capture it all" is the slogan of this camera brand
    $2000 25
In this E.L. Doctorow novel set around 1900, the radical sibling is known only as Younger Brother
    $2000 20
...from a word meaning "gloomy" & you get this largest member of the deer family

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Marty Ken Jennifer
$15,200 $10,000 $10,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

FLAGS & BANNERS
This 15th century person said, "I had a banner of which the field was sprinkled with lilies"; written on top: "Jhesus Maria"

Final scores:

Marty Ken Jennifer
$20,001 $0 $11,400
2-day champion: $38,802 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Marty Ken Jennifer
$14,400 $12,800 $10,000
18 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $37,200

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Game tape date: 2010-02-16
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