Show #5057 2006-09-12 (taped 2006-08-02) Regular

Contestants

Nathalie Henderson — a housewife from Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Timothy Benston — a program director from Brooklyn, New York

Lauren Hirs — a market research analyst originally from Plano, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lauren $1,200 $6,000 $16,200 $1,599
2nd place: $2,000
$14,000
20 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Timothy $2,000 $4,400 $11,200 $100
3rd place: $1,000
$11,200
18 R, 3 W
Nathalie $1,000 $3,600 $15,400 $30,400
New champion: $30,400
$12,400
14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

LUNAR LOCALES SPORTS RECORDS MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, PLAYMATE OF THE MONTH SLOGANEERING THETIME100 TO CONCL"UDE"?
$200 [13]
The Mare Frigoris is the Sea of this
Cold
Timothy
$200 [1]
In a career that spanned from 1966 to 1993, Nolan Ryan pitched an incredible 7 of these, the last at 44 years of age
a no-hitter
Timothy
$200 [2]
Height: 5'11".Weight: None of your business, commoner!Hair: This color
red
Nathalie
$200 [4]
This brand is "Finger Lickin' Good"
KFC
Lauren
$200 [7]
Her "political future is both unpredictable and unlimited", Lindsey Graham wrote of this fellow senator
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Nathalie
$200 [14]
Bare, unclothed, starkers
nude
Timothy
$400 [27]
The Palus Somnii is the Marsh of Sleep & the Lacus Somnorium is the Lake of these
Dreams
Lauren
$400 [23]
He was more than great, scoring a phenomenal 215 points in one hockey season, 1985-86
Wayne Gretzky
Lauren
$400 [3]
Ambition: To replace this second cousin on her throne
Elizabeth I
Timothy
$400 [19]
Purchase from this gift company "when you care enough to send the very best"
Hallmark
Timothy
$400 [8]
"Hollywood's hardiest bachelor", this actor fights "poverty with the ONE Campaign and one.org"
George Clooney
Timothy
$400 [15]
Someone easily shocked by sex
a prude
Timothy
$600 [30]
Not on my list of vacation spots is the Lacus Mortis, the Lake of this
Death
Timothy
$600 [24]
During a 20-year career, this 49ers WR scored a record 208 TDs; his nearest rival has 175
(Jerry) Rice
Lauren
$800 [6]
Turn-ons: Poetry, needlework, this branch of Christianity
Catholicism
Nathalie
$600 [20]
This company builds the "ultimate driving machine"
BMW
Timothy
$600 [9]
Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that he was "the new face of America's highest court"
(John) Roberts
Timothy
$600 [16]
It can mean in a raw condition or vulgar
crude
Lauren
$800 [29]
The Sinus Iridum is the Bay of these, so start searching for those pots of gold
Rainbows
Nathalie
$800 [26]
This man passed Lou Gehrig's 2,130 consecutive MLB games played record in 1995 & added another 502 before he stopped
Cal Ripken (Jr.)
Timothy
DD $1,000 [5]
Birth date: Dec. 8, 1542Birthplace: Linlithgow Palace, built by this royal house
Stuart
Lauren
$800 [21]
"Share moments, share life" with this company's products
Kodak
Nathalie
$800 [10]
The title of Ralph Nader's article on this GOP man was "The Maverick Gunning for the Oval Office"
John McCain
Nathalie
$800 [17]
An introductory event or occurrence
a prelude
Lauren
$1,000 [28]
The Mare Australe is the Southern Sea & the Mare Orientale is this
the Eastern Sea
Timothy
$1,000 [25]
This heavyweight boxer of the 1950s went an incredible 49-0, including 43 wins by knockout
(Rocky) Marciano
Lauren
$1,000 [12]
Turn-offs: Rude subjects, labor pains, climbing this structure (one time only) Feb. 8, 1587
the scaffold
Timothy Nathalie
$1,000 [22]
At this department store chain, "It's all inside"
J.C. Penney
Lauren Timothy
$1,000 [11]
Oprah Winfrey wrote that this Holocaust survivor "taught us how to answer evil"
Elie Wiesel
Timothy
$1,000 [18]
To refer to something or someone indirectly
to allude
Nathalie

Double Jeopardy! Round

OEDIPUS WRECKS WRITERS ON FILM HISTORICAL PAINTINGS MARSUPIAL RHYME TIME AT THE MOZART HOUSE
$400 [7]
Oedipus matched wits with this creature who committed suicide after its riddle was answered
the Sphinx
Lauren
$400 [24]
Mysteriously sunk in 1545, the Mary Rose was the pride of this Tudor king's fleet & was raised in 1982 using airbags
Henry VIII
Timothy
$400 [1]
Philip Seymour Hoffman was him, writing "In Cold Blood"
Truman Capote
Timothy
$400 [16]
This 1789 event was captured in the paintingseen here
the storming of the Bastille
Lauren
$400 [4]
Urban animal park for big leaping marsupials
a kangaroo zoo
Nathalie
$400 [21]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in the open second-floor window of the Mozart House in Vienna, Austria.) It washerein this home that Mozart wrote this famous 1786 opera, so the building has long been known as"Figaro House"
The Marriage of Figaro
Lauren
$800 [10]
His father Laius was killed by this man
Oedipus
$800 [25]
In 1973 the wreck of this Civil War-era armored gunboat with a reptilian name was found off Cape Hatteras
the Monitor
Lauren
$800 [2]
Paul Bettany plays this author in the medieval-set "A Knight's Tale"
Chaucer
Lauren
$800 [17]
Living in Germany, Emanuel Leutze used this river as a model for his "Washington Crossing the Delaware"
the Rhine
Nathalie
$800 [8]
Flower for an American marsupial
a possum blossom
Lauren
$800 [22]
In 2006 a record number came to the Mozarthaus to celebrate this anniversary of Mozart's birth
250th
Timothy
$1,200 [11]
He was the king of this Greek city whom 7 famously went against
Thebes
Nathalie
$1,600 [27]
NASCAR drivers at this crash-prone 2.66-mile Alabama track are constantly worried about "the big one"
Talladega
Lauren
$1,600 [5]
Gwyneth Paltrow was this poet, struggling with depression & hubby Ted Hughes
Sylvia Plath
Lauren
$1,200 [18]
Seen here, Roy Grinnell's "The Final Moment" commemorates the 60th anniversary of the attack on this battleship
the Arizona
Lauren
$1,200 [9]
A non-sloping Tasmanian marsupial carnivore
a level devil
Nathalie
$1,200 [23]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew strolls through the Mozart House in Vienna, Austria.) In 1787 Mozart gave music lessons in this house to a teenager from Bonn, Germany, who would become world-famous as this composer
Beethoven
Timothy
$1,600 [12]
Young Oedipus was abandoned & then adopted by the king of this land to which St. Paul wrote 2 epistles
Corinth
Nathalie
$2,000 [26]
In 2000 the Russian nuclear sub Kursk sank in this icy arm of the Arctic that's named for a Dutch navigator
the Barents Sea
Lauren
$2,000 [6]
Bette Midler went beyond the "Valley of the Dolls" to play this novelist
Jacqueline Susann
Timothy
$1,600 [19]
This Quaker's "Treaty with the Indians" was the subject of a famous painting by Benjamin West
William Penn
Nathalie
$1,600 [14]
Machine that provides warnth for a "banded" marsupial insectivore
an anteater heater
Lauren
$1,600 [29]
Eerily, Mozart's home is just one block from this cathedral, from which his funeral procession departed in 1791
St. Stephen's Cathedral
$2,000 [13]
This daughter got busted for burying her brother Polynices
Antigone
Lauren
DD $3,000 [3]
1990's "Frankenstein Unbound" had Michael Hutchence as this poet
Percy Shelley
Lauren
DD $5,000 [20]
Lucas Cranach the Elder was a close friend of this clergyman, whom he painted in the 1533 portrait seen here
Martin Luther
Nathalie
$2,000 [15]
Battlefield action for a small burrowing marsupial
wombat combat
$2,000 [28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew indicates glass-enclosed ornaments & artifacts in the Mozart House in Vienna, Austria.) Here are some originalartifacts from this organizationof which Mozart was aproudmember; they were loanedto Mozart House by the Grand Lodge of Austria
the Masons
Timothy

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICANA

In June 2005, amid some controversy, a statue of Elizabeth Montgomery was unveiled in this city

Salem, Massachusetts

Timothy "What is Montgomery Ala?" — wagered $11,100
Nathalie "What is Salem, Mass.?" — wagered $15,000
Lauren "What is Boston?" — wagered $14,601

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