Show #4693 2005-01-19 (taped 2004-11-09) Regular

Contestants

Steve Kaplan — a law student from San Diego, California

Ali Moss — a college student from Great Neck, New York

Bud Humphrey — an editor from Park Ridge, Illinois (whose 3-day cash winnings total $56,599)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Bud	$-200	$6,400	$9,200	$18,399 2nd place: $2,000	$9,200 15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Ali	$1,800	$2,200	$15,500	$10,199 3rd place: $1,000	$14,200 15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Steve	$2,000	$2,400	$10,800	$18,400 New champion: $18,400	$12,800 19 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. CITIES	MOVIE DIRECTORS	BUILDING FEATURES	CHERCHEZ LA FEMME	CHARACTERS' FAREWELLS	ODD, OLD & OBSCURE VOCABULARY
$200 [2] In 1921 this New Jersey city crowned its first Miss America Atlantic City Ali	$200 [1] He was nominated for a 1994 Oscar for directing "Pulp Fiction" (Quentin) Tarantino Steve	$200 [12] A roofed porch or balcony may be called a gallery, a lanai, or especially in the south, this a veranda Bud Steve	$200 [24] Gene Tunney, Gene Tierney, Gene Rayburn Gene Tierney Bud	$200 [17] "Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale..." Ahab Steve	$200 [7] Manus usually refers to this part of the body; in fact, some people live "from manus to mouth" hand Bud
$400 [3] This Georgia city that's popular with golfers was named for the mother of George III Augusta Bud Ali	$400 [11] Producers told him he could direct "Taxi Driver" only if he got Robert De Niro to play the lead (Martin) Scorsese Steve	$400 [13] (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the outside of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.) The National Cathedral has 110 of these figures, whose function is to carry rain away from the walls & foundation a gargoyle Bud	$400 [25] Ashley Montagu, Ashleigh Banfield, Ashley Wilkes Ashleigh Banfield Ali Steve	$400 [18] "Take thou Excalibur, my good sword, and go with it to yonder waterside..." King Arthur Steve	$400 [8] Hibernal means pertaining to this season winter Ali
$600 [4] Had this Michigan city kept its earlier name, there might have been a song "I've Got A Gal In Bronson" Kalamazoo	$600 [14] This director cast his son Kyle in a bit role as a bass player in a blues band in "The Bridges of Madison County" (Clint) Eastwood Steve	$600 [15] A fleche is a slender one of these rising above a church a spire Steve	$600 [26] Kim Philby, Kim Stanley, Kim Jong Il Kim Stanley Bud Steve	$600 [19] "Dave, stop... stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going..." HAL Steve	$600 [9] Related to the word "glacier", verglas is a thin coating of this on a rock ice Ali
$800 [5] A bay & a river bear the name of this city, Alabama's second largest Mobile Steve	$800 [22] This quirky Californian directed "Batman" & "Batman Returns" (Tim) Burton Steve	$800 [16] All right. See the dome, players? Now see the little "domey" thing on top of the dome? That's called this, from the Latin for tub a cupola	$800 [27] Barry Sullivan, Barrie Chase, Barry Humphries Barrie Chase Bud	$800 [20] "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done..." Sydney Carton	$800 [10] Manducate, like this word that begins with the same 2 letters, means to chew masticate Steve
$1,000 [6] An A to Z list of Ohio cities might run from Aberdeen to this birthplace of a famous western author Zanesville Bud Ali Steve	$1,000 [23] In 1977 he directed his first film, "Grand Theft Auto", from a script he co-wrote with his father Rance Ron Howard Bud	DD $1,000 [30] Of rooms usually found in real estate listings, the one on which a dormer window etymologically belongs the bedroom Bud	$1,000 [28] P.D. James, P.G. Wodehouse, P.J. O'Rourke P.D. James Bud	$1,000 [21] "Precious, precious, precious! My precious! O my precious!" Gollum Bud	$1,000 [29] Lacteous describes something that's the color of this substance milk Bud

Double Jeopardy! Round

WON	DOSE	TREES	"FORE"	'56	7 DEADLY SINS
$400 [4] 2 of the closest presidential races involved this man; in 1796 he lost to John Adams & in 1800 he beat Aaron Burr Jefferson Bud	$400 [16] Linus Pauling pushed large doses of this vitamin in hopes that it would prevent cancer C Steve	$400 [6] This "sad" tree's shade reportedly comforted Napoleon in exile on St. Helena; later, he was buried under one a weeping willow Ali	$400 [1] This legal process involves a mortgagor losing rights to the mortgaged property foreclosure Steve	$400 [11] Israel's conflict with Egypt near the end of 1956 led to the Israeli seizure of this peninsula the Sinai Ali	$400 [7] The name of this covetous "green" feeling can also mean the person about whom you're feeling it envy Ali
$800 [22] COTY, once a prestigious fashion award, stood for this when the Mini Cooper won it in 2003 Car of the Year Steve	$800 [17] In 1965 Vincent Dole & Marie Nyswander developed a way of treating heroin addicts using high doses of this methadone Bud	$800 [12] This Shel Silverstein story is about an apple tree & its friend who grows from child to adult The Giving Tree Bud	$800 [2] He won the best actor award at the 1988 Cannes film festival for his portrayal of Charlie Parker Forest Whitaker	$800 [27] Queen Elizabeth & the Duke of Edinburgh made an official visit to Lagos in this, Britain's largest African colony Nigeria Steve	$800 [8] Gary Cooper was this "of the Yankees" when playing Lou Gehrig in a 1942 weeper Pride Steve
$1,200 [25] In Serbia's first post-Communist direct elections held in 1990, this man won "reelection" by a large majority Slobodan Milosevic Bud	$1,200 [18] L-dopa, which becomes this neurotransmitter in the brain, is used to treat Parkinson's dopamine Ali	$1,200 [14] This 5-letter tree of the pine family mentioned often in a famous Monty Python sketch is used to make telephone poles the larch	$1,200 [3] This Hitchcock film stars Joel McCrea as an American reporter who uncovers a spy ring in London prior to WWII Foreign Correspondent	$2,000 [28] Founded as Queen's College in 1766, it didn't officially become the State University of New Jersey until 1956 Rutgers Ali	$1,200 [9] Sadly, drunkenness is sometimes included with this deadly sin... hic gluttony Ali
$1,600 [23] Fittingly, the HMS Victory was the British flagship at this famous 1805 battle Trafalgar Steve	$1,600 [19] The hydrogen kind of this chemical is found in apple seeds & a dose of a few milligrams can be fatal cyanide Steve	$1,600 [15] While the white variety of this "berry" tree feeds silkworms, other types yield edible fruit the mulberry Ali	$1,600 [5] You laugh & dance now, but I have this, a feeling inside that something terrible is about to happen foreboding Ali	DD $2,500 [29] En route to New York, this ship collided with the Stockholm in dense fog in the North Atlantic on July 25 the Andrea Doria Ali	$1,600 [10] Deadly sin mentioned in the title of Irving Stone's Van Gogh book lust
$2,000 [24] In 1984 this ice dancing pair won Olympic gold with all 9 judges giving them perfect scores for artistry Torvill & Dean Steve	DD $2,000 [20] 1 gray is equal to the dose absorbed when one kilogram of matter absorbs one joule of ionizing this radiation Steve	$2,000 [26] This type of pine named for its use in construction makes up most of the trees in Yellowstone National Park lodgepole Bud	$2,000 [21] This word can apply to a debate team or a lab that uses science to establish facts or evidence in the law forensic Ali	—	$2,000 [13] It's an arboreal mammal of the Americas, & some have 3 toes sloth Steve

Final Jeopardy!

CLASSIC AMERICAN SONGS

The introductory verse to this 1908 song begins, "Katie Casey was baseball mad"

"Take Me Out To The Ball Game"

Bud "What is Take Me Out to the Ballgame?" — wagered $9,199

Steve "What is Take me out to the ballgame" — wagered $7,600

Ali "What is Casey at the Bat" — wagered $5,301

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