Show #5488 - Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Dave Simpson game 3.

Contestants

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Jules Staniewicz, an investment manager from Boca Raton, Florida

Lucy Anne McKosky, a retired educator from Dayton, Ohio

Dave Simpson, a pastor from Belcamp, Maryland (whose 2-day cash winnings total $53,201)

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Jeopardy! Round

MAKES SENSE
TENNIS
EDIBLE COMMON BONDS
HOUSES OF THE HOLY
(Alex: You tell us in which city the house is situated.)
LEAD
ZEPPELIN
    $200 3
In 2008 a homeless advocacy group reported that one in 25 of this Southern city's 300,000 residents is homeless
    $200 1
This American woman was the first to win 20 Wimbledon titles
    $200 11
Irish,
Brunswick,
mulligan
    $200 14
Westminster Abbey
    $200 26
"To eat lead" in old gangster slang meant to be exposed to these coming your way
    $200 6
Zeppelins were named for Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin of this country
    $400 7
Given cause of death of Adam Sandler's dad in "The Waterboy"
    $400 2
This Bruin won the 1971 NCAA men's tennis title & later became professional tennis' all-time tournament winner
    $400 12
Crescent,
kaiser,
Parker House
    $400 15
The Mormon Tabernacle
    $400 27
This country is the world's main user of lead & the main recycler
    $400 20
The first military use of Zeppelins came during this war
    $600 8
Appropriately, Amy Freeze was this age when she became a meteorologist for WFLD in January 2007
    $600 4
Arthur Ashe called this 1960s Aussie tennis star's left arm "a two-by-four with freckles"
    $600 19
Brown,
beurre-blanc,
bordelaise
    $600 16
The Dome of the Rock
    $600 28
Lead ores such as galena are also the main mining sources of this precious metal often found with it
    $600 21
In 1924 this U.S. company acquired all the Zeppelin patents
    DD: $1,000 9
In Spanish, this bird is un pajaro carpintero
    $800 5
Born in Buenos Aires in 1970, she became a tennis pro at age 14
    $800 23
Blood,
bockwurst,
chorizo
    $800 17
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine
    $800 29
Whether in a hearing aid or a hot rod, most lead is used in these
    $800 22
This high-flying dirigible made the first airship flight around the world in 1929
    $1000 10
Isaac Asimov coined the word "millihelen" as the quantity of beauty it would take to do this
    $1000 13
This Californian gave birth in June 2007 & returned to the pro tour that fall
    $1000 25
Button,
enoki,
chanterelle
    $1000 18
Brunelleschi's Duomo of the 1420s & '30s
    $1000 30
The "lead" used in pencils is actually this form of carbon once thought to be a type of lead
    $1000 24
These 2 lighter-than air gases that lift the Zeppelin are carried in balloons called cells

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

Dave Lucy Anne Jules
$2,400 $400 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Dave Lucy Anne Jules
$7,400 $1,800 $4,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITERATURE
EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY
2007 NEWS
GONE VISION
WE HAVE MET THE ANIME
THEY ARE "US"
    $400 6
The full title of this Spanish novel includes "de la Mancha, El Ingenioso Hidalgo"
    $400 1
The Marne joins this river at Charenton-le-Pont, a suburb of Paris
    $400 10
In November, scientists said they'd found a way to reprogram skin cells to behave like these embryonic cells
    $400 16
In a 1978 hit, Foreigner had this malady, AKA diplopia
    $400 26
This anime show didn't start on TV; its characters were first part of Nintendo's "Pocket Monsters"
    $400 21
Protruding elephant tooth
    $800 7
Bernard Binlin Dadie's novel "Climbie" depicts this "Ivorian" country, his homeland, during colonial times
    $800 2
Nordkapp on this country's Mageroya Island is one of Europe's most northerly points
    $800 11
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Machu Picchu.) The Peruvian government has reached an agreement with this Ivy League university for the return of artifacts taken from Machu Picchu in the early 1900s
    $800 17
"The Vision of Adamnán" is one of the oldest prose works of this Atlantic island nation
    $800 27
This classic 5-letter anime film isn't named for director Kurosawa but rather a boy who destroys Tokyo
    $800 25
The 2 planets in our solar system that fit the category
    $1200 8
New Zealand-born Dame Ngaio Marsh became famous for her work in this field of fiction
    $1200 3
For its location on the peninsula, the Calabria region is often called this anatomical term "of Italy"
    $1200 13
Edited by his son Christopher, "The Children of Hurin" is a tale of Middle-Earth's First Age by this man
    $1200 18
From the French for "clearsighted", this ability is also known as second sight
    $1200 28
In this anime TV series, Bumblebee turned into a VW Beetle; in the 2007 live-action movie, he got upgraded to a Camaro
    $1200 24
In court, an objection may be overruled or this
    $1600 9
His essay "Civil Disobedience" was delivered as a lecture & printed as "Resistance to Civil Government"
    $1600 4
In Spain this second-largest city is a major port on the Mediterranean Sea
    DD: $2,000 14
In Sept. 2007 Apple reduced the price of the 8GB this to $399, down from $599
    $1600 19
In an 1823 poem, "The children were nestled all snug in their beds while" these "danced in their heads"
    $1600 29
This "lunar" Naoko Takeuchi creation is an example of a "magical girl" given powers to save the world
    $1600 23
Frederick the Great was its king in the 1700s
    $2000 12
Some have described his "Eugene Onegin" as the first great Russian novel, although it was written in verse
    $2000 5
Germany's tallest peak, Zugspitze, lies in these Alps
    $2000 15
This American general assumed command of the multinational force in Iraq on Feb. 10, 2007
    DD: $2,000 20
Also the title of a 1985 movie, this Native American rite of passage or of spiritual renewal often includes fasting
    $2000 30
One of the highest-grossing films in Japanese history is the anime film about this title 14th c. princess
    $2000 22
Persian prophet of the 6th century B.C.

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Dave Lucy Anne Jules
$15,000 $11,800 $8,400

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Final Jeopardy! Round

THE ACADEMY AWARDS
In 1981 he received an honorary Oscar for his body of work; a year later, he won an acting Oscar for his final film

Final scores:

Dave Lucy Anne Jules
$23,601 $5,800 $16,800
3-day champion: $76,802 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Dave Lucy Anne Jules
$14,800 $13,400 $8,400
24 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 13 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $36,600

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