Show #5024 2006-06-15 Regular

Craig Westphal game 5.

Contestants

Maggie Parcells — a student from Encinitas, California

Doug O'Brien — a public health official from Chicago, Illinois

Craig Westphal — a paramedic from Tucson, Arizona (whose 4-day cash winnings total $94,202)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Craig $2,400 $5,800 $17,400 $20,399
5-day champion: $114,601
$17,400
23 R, 1 W
Doug $1,600 $4,000 $17,700 $500
2nd place: $2,000
$13,800
19 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Maggie $1,000 $1,200 $7,200 $400
3rd place: $1,000
$7,200
10 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

SPACE INVADERS NFL BLITZ PAC-MAN DEFENDER DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION "Q"-BERT
$200 [11]
The third country ever to launch a planetary mission, this nation launched the Nozomi probe to Mars in 1998
Japan
Doug
$200 [1]
In 2005 this team played home games in 3 different states
the Saints
Craig
$200 [26]
In Buckley v. Valeo, the Supreme Court said PAC "soft money" was protected as free speech via this amendment
the 1st Amendment
Craig
$200 [6]
In a Homer work, Sarpedon is a mighty defender of this city
Troy
Maggie
$200 [16]
In the Korean hangmu, 2 dancers represent these long-legged birds attracted to lotus flowers
cranes
Maggie
$200 [21]
This savory egg dish originated in what is now Northeast France, but as a "real man", I was unaware of that
quiche
Maggie
$400 [12]
(Leroy Chiao reads the clue from aboard the International Space Station.) Every 6 months the space station gets a new one of this Russian spacecraft that's basically a lifeboat
Soyuz
Craig
$400 [2]
We guarantee you'll knowhis jerseywas retired in 1985
Joe Namath
Craig
$400 [27]
Many politicos were saying they didn't know Jack when this lobbyist pled guilty to 3 felonies in January 2006
Jack Abramoff
Doug
$400 [7]
Loyalist troops under General Jose Miaja held this capital in 1936-37; it fell in 1939
Madrid
Maggie
$400 [17]
One tradition says that this dance was first done when La'a played his big drum
the hula
Craig
$400 [22]
A plectrum of a harpsichord, or a porcupine part
a quill
Craig
$600 [13]
In 1995 the Galileo spacecraft reached this large planet & launched a probe into it
Jupiter
Craig
$600 [3]
Now an analyst for Fox, this '90s Cowboys QB won 3 Super Bowls & was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2006
Troy Aikman
Doug
$600 [28]
Rep. Delahunt said a 2005 bill making it harder to qualify for this "was written for and by the credit card industry"
bankruptcy
Craig
$600 [8]
Fort Donelson defender Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner made this famous type of surrender to U.S. Grant in 1862
an unconditional surrender
$600 [18]
The name of this stately dance popular in the 17th & 18th centuries is from the French for "small"
the minuet
Doug
$600 [23]
"3 plus 1 on a stage / A clue is revealed / A light will shine / & a question given" is a "Nostradamian" this verse
a quatrain
Doug
$800 [14]
After nearly 10 years of continuous occupation by astronauts, it was de-orbited in 2001
the Mir space station
Maggie
$800 [4]
(I'm Jerome Bettis.) This player on the visiting team calls heads or tails in the pregame coin toss
the captain
Craig
$800 [29]
The Reform Party, created by this man in 1995, aimed to hamstring PACs by instituting campaign finance reform
Ross Perot
Doug
$800 [9]
British Gen. White successfully defended Ladysmith, besieged in 1899-1900 in what's now this country
South Africa
Doug
$800 [19]
The name of this lively double-named dance might come from the French for "duck"
the can-can
Craig
$800 [24]
An officer charged with providing clothing, fuel & transportation for troops
a quartermaster
Maggie
$1,000 [15]
Abbreviated EVAs, these are central to the International Space Station's construction & maintenance
extravehicular activities
$1,000 [5]
In 2006 Doug Flutie converted an extra point using this method, last successful in the NFL in 1941
a drop kick
Doug
$1,000 [30]
Joan Blades & Wes Boyd started this liberal PAC due to disgust with Clinton's impeachment
MoveOn.org
Doug
DD $1,000 [10]
The strategies of Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding helped win this crucial mid-1940 "Battle"
the Battle of Britain
Doug
$1,000 [20]
The czardas is a national dance of this Central European country
Hungary
Doug Maggie
$1,000 [25]
Now meaning "to suppress", originally it meant "to kill"; you may do it to a riot
quell
Craig

Double Jeopardy! Round

CITY OF THE DAY: DETROIT POP CULTURE STATES' FORMER GOVERNORS ECONOMICS MOST EVIL BRITONS "MEN" AT LAST
$400 [22]
Because of its proximity to Canada, Detroit was a major stop on this antislavery network
the Underground Railroad
Craig
$400 [7]
The Mamas & The Papas hit the pop charts for the first time with this "stately" classic
"California Dreamin'"
Craig
$400 [6]
John Hancock &Samuel Adams
Massachusetts
Craig
$400 [15]
This Georgian succeeded Alan Greenspan as Chairman of the Fed
Ben Bernanke
Doug
$400 [1]
Representing the 19th c. is this mysterious killer of the Victorian era
Jack the Ripper
Maggie
$400 [20]
Good or bad, it's a sign of things to come
an omen
Doug
$800 [23]
In Grosse Point Shores, you can tour the antique-filledhomeof this man, the only son of an auto pioneer
Edsel Ford
Doug
$800 [8]
Patty Duke plays a pill-popping movie star in this trashy 1967 film based on a Jacqueline Susann novel
The Valley of the Dolls
Craig
$800 [10]
Winthrop Rockefeller &Jim Guy Tucker
Arkansas
Doug
$800 [16]
This alliterative new style of economics was promoted by Arthur Laffer & the Reagan administration
supply side
Craig
$800 [2]
Renegade Anglican priest Titus Oates leads the 17th c. baddies by inciting a reign of terror against this religious group
Catholics
Doug
$800 [25]
"Breadbasket" is a slang term for this part of the body
the abdomen
Craig
$1,200 [24]
In 1701 Antoine de la Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac, founded what would become Detroit on a channel linking these two lakes
Lake Huron & Lake Erie
Doug
$1,200 [9]
Gary Cooper won an Oscar for playing this title WWI hero who originally was a conscientious objector
Sergeant York
Doug
$1,200 [11]
George Ariyoshi &Ben Cayetano
Hawaii
Doug
$1,200 [17]
This American man put his "Beautiful Mind" to work on game theory & shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics
John Nash
Craig
$1,200 [3]
The historians say the most evil 20th c. Briton was Oswald Mosely, 1930s party leader of the British Union of these
Fascists
Doug Maggie
$1,200 [26]
From the Latin for "rule", my daily one includes getting up early, exercising & watching what I eat
a regimen
Craig
$1,600 [29]
In 1999, at the final sendoff for this structure, a sign in the upper deck read, "Today, there is crying..."
Tiger Stadium
Craig
$1,600 [13]
On "The Brady Bunch", Carol becomes the stepmom of these 3 boys following her marriage to Mike
Greg, Peter & Bobby
Craig Maggie
$1,600 [12]
Charles Thone &Bob Kerrey
Nebraska
Craig Doug
$1,600 [18]
Economist Friedrich von Hayek opposed gov't intervention, preferring this French-named method
laissez-faire
Maggie
$2,000 [5]
The scheming Thomas Arundel represents the 15th c. for helping Henry IV overthrow this rightful king
Richard II
$1,600 [27]
It's bounded by the Red Sea, Saudi Arabia, Oman & the Gulf of Aden
Yemen
Maggie
$2,000 [30]
The name of this groupof towers that dominates the skyline was also the name of a 1970s effort to renew Detroit
the Renaissance Center
Doug
$2,000 [14]
Professor William Marston created a lie detector & this comic-book heroine who used a similar device
Wonder Woman
Craig
DD $6,000 [21]
John Marmaduke &John Ashcroft
Missouri
Doug
$2,000 [19]
(Jon of the Clue Crew shows a graph of "annual widget production" vs. "unit cost in $" on the monitor.) When greater production capacity brings cost per unit down, a business is using economies of this
scale
Craig
DD $2,500 [4]
For the 11th c. it's Eadric Streona, the chief counselor who betrayed this "Unready" monarch to the Danes
Ethelred (the Unready)
Doug
$2,000 [28]
Consisting of a filament & an anther, it's the male pollen-producing part of a flower
a stamen
Maggie

Final Jeopardy!

THE OSCARS

2 of the 3 Westerns to win the Oscar for Best Picture

(2 of) Cimarron , Unforgiven , & Dances with Wolves

Maggie "What are Unforgiven & How the West Was Won" — wagered $6,800
Craig "What are Cimarron and Unforgiven?" — wagered $2,999
Doug "What is Unforgiven 8 High Noon" — wagered $17,200

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