Show #5033 2006-06-28 Regular

Contestants

Sidney Tison — a veterinarian from Suwanee, Georgia

Cait Murphy — an editor originally from Cos Cob, Connecticut

Mark Edelson — a software developer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 2-day cash winnings total $24,199)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Mark	$3,400	$4,600	$8,200	$2,799 3rd place: $1,000	$8,200 14 R, 5 W
Cait	$400	$200	$4,400	$8,400 2nd place: $2,000	$5,800 13 R (including 1 DD), 7 W (including 1 DD)
Sidney	$-800	$-400	$6,800	$13,400 New champion: $13,400	$7,400 17 R, 8 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

ON ITS EASTERN BORDER	ROCK LEGENDS	FAMILIAR PHRASES	WHO WANTS TO BE A LEGIONNAIRE?	50-50	ASK THE AUDIENCE
$200 [1] Haiti the Dominican Republic Cait Sidney	$200 [16] This leader of The Miracles co-wrote "The Tears Of A Clown" with Henry Cosby & Stevie Wonder Smokey Robinson Mark	$200 [26] "Born with" one of these "in one's mouth" is a reference to a high-end christening gift a silver spoon Sidney	$200 [17] Technically, it's the only country in the world that you can't be from to enlist in the French Foreign Legion France Sidney	$200 [2] It's the only letter of the alphabet not used in the names of the 50 states Q Mark	$200 [11] Audiences were transfixed by an episode of her TV show in which she revealed she had lost 67 lbs. on a liquid diet Oprah Winfrey Sidney
$400 [3] Cambodia Vietnam Cait Sidney	$400 [22] His solo in Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven" has been called the greatest guitar solo ever Jimmy Page Mark Sidney	$400 [27] (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a one-room schoolhouse in Old World Wisconsin.) If you want to makea fresh start of things, you need this 2-word expression, like students not too long ago a clean slate Cait	$400 [18] Louis Philippe formed the Foreign Legion in 1831 in support of the conquest of this North African nation Algeria Sidney	$400 [7] In Genesis 6, it's described as being 50 cubits wide Noah's Ark Mark	$400 [12] Practice, practice, practice & you too can get to this 2,804-seat NYC venue at 57th & 7th Carnegie Hall Cait Sidney
$600 [4] Brunei Malaysia Cait	$600 [23] This "brotherly" blue-eyed soul act returned to the Top 10 in 1974 with "Rock And Roll Heaven" The Righteous Brothers Sidney	$600 [28] The expression "Banned in" this city came from that city's enthusiastic censorship of books in the 1920s Boston Cait	$600 [19] During this 1870s war, the Legion attempted to lift the siege of Paris by breaking through the German lines the Franco-Prussian War Mark	$600 [8] Up to 50 yards of cloth may be used in one of these headdresses worn by Sikhs & Muslim men a turban Sidney	$600 [13] On Easter Sunday 1939, she sang before an audience of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial Marian Anderson Cait Sidney
$800 [5] Lesotho South Africa Mark	$800 [24] He was as famous for his "duckwalk" as for the songs "Johnny B. Goode" & "Maybellene" Chuck Berry	$800 [29] The area to the side of a stage gives us this 2-word phrase for performing without preparation wing it Mark Sidney	DD $600 [21] While most Legion units are based in mainland France, 1 unit is based in Calvi on this Mediterranean Island Corsica Sidney	$800 [9] In exchange for more than 1,000 POWs, this country received about $50 million from the U.S. in December 1962 Cuba Mark Sidney	$800 [14] When this Stravinsky work premiered in Paris in 1913, the audience went nuts & began a riot The Rite of Spring Mark
$1,000 [6] Honduras Nicaragua Mark	$1,000 [25] This group made its Top 40 debut in 1968 with "Suzie Q" Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR)	$1,000 [30] Shakespeare's Cleopatra used this expression for her youth, "When I was green in judgment" salad days	$800 [20] Life in the Legion was portrayed most notably by this 1924 Percival Wren novel that's been made into a film many times Beau Geste Sidney	$1,000 [10] In some versions, this Hellenic hellhound has as many as 50 heads Cerberus Mark Cait Sidney	$1,000 [15] The Audience Research Institute was founded by this famous pollster in 1939 in Princeton, N.J. (George) Gallup Sidney

Double Jeopardy! Round

BRITISH POETS & POETRY	MOVIE CRITTERS	FLOWERS	PULLING RANK	FAMOUS AMERICANS' HOMES	GIVE ME AN "E"
$400 [6] Encyclopedia Britannica calls his "The Hunting of the Snark" "nonsense literature of the highest order" Lewis Carroll Mark Sidney	$400 [1] 1972:"Sounder" a dog Cait	$400 [21] Give your garden solar power with richly colored varieties of this, like the type called the giant single the sunflower Sidney	$400 [11] In Boy Scouting, rise 5 ranks from Tenderfoot & you're one of these an Eagle Scout Cait	$400 [26] This humorist's California ranch house has a stuffed calf given by his friends so he'd lasso it, not them Will Rogers Sidney	$400 [16] In college it's any optional course that a student chooses to take an elective Mark
$800 [7] Sir Calidore pursues the Blatant Beast in Book VI of this Spenser work The Faerie Queene Sidney	$800 [2] 1994:Timon a meerkat Sidney	$800 [22] The showytorch lilyseenhereis also called the red-hot this fireplace instrument the poker Sidney	$800 [12] In 1893 the U.S. got a new diplomatic rank:Thomas Bayard, our first official one of these, was off to Great Britain ambassador (to the Court of St. James) Cait	$800 [27] This frontiersman died in 1820 at his family's limestonemansionnear Defiance, Missouri Daniel Boone	$800 [17] Medically speaking it's the obstruction of a blood vessel by a moving blood clot or air bubble an embolism Cait
$1,200 [8] After he gave up writing novels, he published his "Wessex Poems" in 1898 Thomas Hardy Cait	$1,200 [3] 1983:"Phar Lap" a horse Cait	$1,200 [23] When made from the ilima flower, these garlands were traditionally associated with royalty (Hawaiian) leis	$1,200 [13] Pepsi's Harvey Russell was the first black exec to reach this high rank (though not highest) in a Fortune 500 co. vice president Mark Cait	$1,200 [28] Born a slave around 1818, he bought a home in Washington, D.C. in 1877 & expanded it to 21 rooms Frederick Douglass Cait	$1,200 [18] This word from Greek describes a person who has discriminating taste for fine foods & wine, like myself an epicurean Mark
$1,600 [9] She described her 1840s poem "A Vision of Poets" as "philosophical, allegorical, anything but popular" Elizabeth Barrett Browning Mark	$1,600 [4] 1997:Mr. Bigglesworth a cat Cait Sidney	$1,600 [24] Several species of goldenrod with white flowers are, reasonably enough, called by this other precious name silverrods Mark	DD $1,500 [14] It's the rank of the character singing here"I know the kings of England and I quote the fights historical /From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical" major general Cait	$1,600 [29] New England's Inn on Covered Bridge Greenwas once this artist's home, & it would fit into his work Norman Rockwell	$1,600 [19] This language was introduced in the 1887 book "Lingvo Internacia" Esperanto Mark
$2,000 [10] He wrote his poem "To the Cuckoo" in an orchard in Grasmere Wordsworth Cait	$2,000 [5] 2001:Hedwig & Errol owls Sidney	$2,000 [25] Seen here, this flower known by its genus name is popular as a climbing plant a Clematis	$2,000 [15] In Catholic ministry, priest is right below bishop & this rank is right below priest deacon	DD $2,100 [30] If he could have gone home again, it might have been to his mother's Asheville, N.C. boarding house, now a landmark Thomas Wolfe Cait	$2,000 [20] Oui! It's the 10-letter French word Americans sometimes use for a writing desk escritoire Mark

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD EVENTS

In 2003, 120 years after it made headlines, a book on this was subtitled "The Day the World Exploded"

the eruption of Krakatoa

Cait "What is Krakatoa?" — wagered $4,000

Sidney "What was Krakatoa?" — wagered $6,600

Mark "What is the Great Fire of Chicago" — wagered $5,401

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