Show #4684 2005-01-06 (taped 2004-11-03) Regular

Kerry Breitenbach game 5.

Contestants

Nick Hoffmann — a graduate student from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Alli Hammond — a college instructor from Cincinnati, Ohio

Kerry Breitenbach — a marketing analyst from South Euclid, Ohio (whose 4-day cash winnings total $81,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kerry $5,200 $8,400 $16,400 $8,700
5-day champion: $90,400
$15,200
20 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Alli $600 $1,200 $10,000 $100
3rd place: $1,000
$10,000
9 R, 2 W
Nick $600 $4,800 $12,000 $3,900
2nd place: $2,000
$11,600
21 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE CIVIL WAR '90s MUSIC NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES NOW THAT'S INVENTIVE! TRUCKIN' EDIBLE RHYME TIME
$200 [8]
Until the first battle of this in July 1861, the North estimated that the war would last about 90 days
(the first Battle of) Bull Run
Nick
$200 [6]
This rapper had the aptly titled hit "Big Poppa"
Biggie Smalls (The Notorious B.I.G.)
Alli
$200 [14]
A site near Walla Walla commemorates the role of Marcus & Narcissa Whitman in establishing part of this trail
the Oregon Trail
Alli Nick
$200 [7]
In 1889 this Elizabethport, New Jersey company electrified the sewing machine
Singer
Nick
$200 [18]
There's no getting around this company's Dakota & Ram pickups
Dodge
Nick
$200 [1]
Thin soup made from a butterfly relative
moth broth
Kerry
$400 [9]
The fatefully named Stapleton Crutchfield lost one of these limbs at Chancellorsville
a leg
Kerry
$400 [22]
"Don't go chasing" these, TLC asked, "please stick to the rivers and lakes that you're used to"
waterfalls
Nick
$400 [15]
The armory in this Mass. town was America's small arms manufacturer for nearly 200 years
Springfield
Nick
$400 [10]
For astronomy, not hunting, William Gascoigne created the telescopic site with these strands
crosshairs
$400 [20]
You could drive this automaker's Silverado through an avalanche
Chevrolet
Nick
$400 [2]
The indistinct grumble of a yellow bread spread
butter mutter
Kerry Nick
$600 [16]
As chief of aeronautics, U.S. Army, Thaddeus Lowe organized a corps of 5 of these
balloons
Nick
$600 [28]
In 1995 this brother & sister hit No. 5 with the song "Scream"
Michael & Janet Jackson
Kerry
$600 [23]
The ruins of Puukohola Heiau, a temple built by this king, lie on the Northwestern shore of Hawaii
King Kamehameha
Nick
$800 [12]
This 18th century seed drill inventor shares his name with the band that gave us "Aqualung"
Jethro Tull
Kerry
$600 [21]
This company gives its trucks an "F":150, 250 & 350
Ford
Alli
$600 [3]
A Toll House treat that's just been recruited
a rookie cookie
Kerry
$800 [17]
McClellan, Burnside, Hooker & Meade successively headed this army
the Army of the Potomac
Kerry
$800 [29]
A successful songwriter & producer, she had "criminal" success with her debut album "Supa Dupa Fly"
Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott
$800 [24]
The Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site consists of the Monroe Elementary School in this city
Topeka, Kansas
Nick
DD $1,000 [11]
In the '40s AT&T used a radio with no conventional vacuum tubes to demonstrate this device invented in its lab
a transistor
Kerry
$800 [26]
When you hit the tundra, take this truck maker's Tacoma
Toyota
Kerry Nick
$800 [4]
A citrus fruit that emulates Marcel Marceau
a lime mime
Kerry
$1,000 [19]
Troops under the command of this bottom-of-his-class grad from West Point made a disastrous charge at Gettysburg
Pickett
Nick
$1,000 [30]
It's no mystery--this Canadian woman made her Top 40 debut in 1997 with "Building A Mystery"
Sarah McLachlan
Kerry
$1,000 [25]
This war relocation center in California is 1 of 10 camps where Japanese-Americans were interned during WWII
Manzanar
$1,000 [13]
In the late 19th century, Ellen Eglui invented this washing machine attachment that saved a lot of drying time
a wringer
Alli
$1,000 [27]
Take this company's Titan to a new frontier
Nissan
Nick
$1,000 [5]
A Scottish cap made from Hormel's "spiced ham"
a Spam tam
Kerry

Double Jeopardy! Round

FOREWORDS CROSSWORDS JEOPARDY!KEYWORDS HOUSEHOLD WORDS EDWARDS "F" WORDS
$400 [7]
Penguin Classics' introduction to this novel says, "Emily... developed a passionate love of the rough Moorland scenery"
Wuthering Heights
$400 [6]
"Oliver on 'Still the Beaver'" & "Sherman Hemsley series" have been clues in this publication's weekly puzzle
TV Guide
Kerry
$400 [24]
This city was home to our favorite "German-American physicist" for the last 20 years of his life
Princeton
Kerry
$400 [9]
To mix drinks in the comfort of your living room, it's handy to have this counter with a sink and running water
a wet bar
Alli
$400 [18]
Edward James Olmos was Lt. Castillo, the laconic boss of Crockett & Tubbs, on this Florida cop show
Miami Vice
Kerry
$400 [1]
It rises 12,837 feet above central Honshu Island
Mount Fuji
Alli
$1,200 [11]
"According to" this author, "The Delawares themselves acknowledge the royalty of the Mohicans"
James Fenimore Cooper
Nick
$800 [17]
You'll find the crossword in the "Life" section of this, "The Nation's Newspaper"
USA Today
Nick
$800 [25]
The daughter of a "Spanish Cubist", she designs jewelry & fashion accessories
Paloma Picasso
Alli
$800 [10]
This bed that folds into a closet when not in use is named for its inventor
a Murphy bed
Nick
$800 [19]
This actor skyrocketed to fame playing an altar boy accused of killing a priest in "Primal Fear"
Edward Norton
Nick
$800 [2]
In the novel's original full title, Tom Jones is described as this, meaning an abandoned infant
foundling
Kerry
DD $1,600 [8]
Kurt Vonnegut's opening remarks on this author say, "His schoolbooks were steamboats and mining camps"
Mark Twain
Kerry
$1,200 [21]
2004 puzzle themes in this daily paper included "Financial Trouble" & "Buy, Buy, Baby"
The Wall Street Journal
Kerry
$1,200 [26]
The "Magyar capital" is divided by this major river
the Danube
Kerry
$1,200 [14]
7-letter term for the short drapery hung across the top of a window, often used to hide structural fixtures
a valance
Nick
$1,200 [20]
He'slent a patrician air to dozens of movies and TV shows
Edward Herrman
$1,200 [3]
In 1992 this person was elected to replace California's interim senator John Seymour
Dianne Feinstein
Nick
$1,600 [12]
Its foreword says the "singularly lackluster" Marius is "supposedly a portrait of the youthful Victor Hugo himself
Les Miserables
Nick
$1,600 [22]
Will Shortz, this newspaper's crossword editor, presents puzzles on NPR's "Weekend Edition"
The New York Times
Alli
$1,600 [27]
Girlfriend of the "Polish-French composer", she penned the novel "La Mare au Diable"
George Sand
Alli
DD $2,000 [15]
The name of this large wardrobe with doors & shelves partly comes from the Latin for weapons
an armoire
Nick
$1,600 [4]
He served as a midshipman in the U.S. Navy at age 9; that "Damn the torpedoes" quote came 55 years later
Farragut
Nick
$2,000 [13]
"Tess's tragedy is deeper and more far-reaching than" this author's "bare philosophizing about it"
(Thomas) Hardy
Alli
$2,000 [23]
A decade after crosswords were invented, this company with an alliterative name published the 1st book of them
Simon & Schuster
$2,000 [28]
The partner in crime of "Jeopardy!"'s No. 1 "American traitor", this Brit was hanged in 1780
Major John André
Nick
$2,000 [16]
It can be an overcoat or a large overstuffed sofa with upholstered arms
a chesterfield
Kerry Nick
$2,000 [5]
The name of this small flute comes from the Latin for "peep"
fife
Alli

Final Jeopardy!

EUROPE

After being subdued by the Franks in the 700s, this people formed a kingdom at Pamplona in the 800s

the Basques

Alli "Who are the Huegonots?" — wagered $9,900
Nick "Who were the Gauls?" — wagered $8,100
Kerry "Who are the Gauls?" — wagered $7,700

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