Show #5096 2006-11-06 (taped 2006-09-19) Regular

Jeff Spoeri game 1.

Contestants

Jeff Spoeri — a university administrator from Boynton Beach, Florida

Shane McCune — an editor and journalist from Pender Harbour, British Columbia, Canada

Dave Meddish — an alternative print coordinator from Moscow, Idaho (whose 2-day cash winnings total $36,201)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Dave	$2,400	$4,200	$4,200	$3,599 2nd place: $2,000	$6,400 18 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Shane	$400	$800	$2,400	$0 3rd place: $1,000	$2,400 10 R, 7 W
Jeff	$1,800	$4,400	$10,400	$8,401 New champion: $8,401	$14,000 22 R (including 1 DD), 7 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES	THESNLALUMNUS WHO...	THE LENGTHS YOU'LL GO	EDISON'S PATENTS	THE U.S. SENATE: AFTER HOURS	P TIMES 3
$200 [6] La Boca, an area of this Argentine capital, is often called "Little Genoa" because of its large Italian community Buenos Aires Dave	$200 [1] Played Bluto in "Animal House" John Belushi Jeff	$200 [19] Proverbially, "A miss is as good as" this, but I still don't want to run one a mile Dave	$200 [26] (Jon of the Clue Crew indicates a drawing on the monitor.) In Edison's light bulb patent, m represents the tube leading to a pump that creates one of these in the glass bulb a vacuum Dave	$200 [11] In 2005, Judd Gregg, a millionaire Senator from this "Granite State", won $853,492 in the Powerball lottery New Hampshire Dave	$200 [13] As a noun, it's a condiment; as a verb, it means to hit with rapidly repeated short jabs pepper Dave
$600 [8] This section of Rio is known as the birthplace of the bossa nova; there was a "Girl From" there in song Ipanema Dave	$400 [2] Played "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo" Rob Schneider Dave	$400 [20] If you're lucky, you'll get one of these "in the door"; if not, you might have one "in the grave" a foot Jeff	$400 [27] Encouraged by Firestone, Edison patented a way to get this material out of herbs & shrubs, but it wasn't practical rubber Jeff	$400 [12] He'sseenhereriding some gnarley waves John Kerry Shane	$400 [17] Something that restores one's depressed spirits; Bounty paper towels are the "quicker" one picker-upper Dave
$800 [9] Punta Arenas, the southernmost large city in the world, lies at the tip of Chile on this strait the Strait of Magellan Dave	$600 [3] Played anchorman Bill McNeal on TV's "News Radio" (Phil) Hartman Dave	$600 [23] Going "all 9" of these means in all ways, in every respect 9 yards Shane	$600 [28] (Sarah of the Clue Crew indicates another drawing on the monitor.) Edison writes: "A is a cylinder, having a helical indenting groove" in the 1877 patent application for this device a phonograph Jeff	$600 [14] Seen here at the 11th Annual Kenai River Classic, Lisa Murkowski of this state shows off her 63-pound king salmon catch Alaska Dave	$600 [18] It's a roundish or oblate variety of apple pippin
$1,000 [10] Cali, this country's 2nd-most populous city, is a center of paper production & the sugarcane industry Colombia Jeff	$800 [4] Did a regular stint as a commentator for "Monday Night Football" Dennis Miller Jeff	$800 [24] The arrangement of words in feet in each of a poem's lines; the "Iliad"'s is dactylic meter Shane Jeff	$800 [29] In the 1870s Edison battled Western Union over the patent on the quadruplex type of this device the telegraph Shane	$800 [15] This Arizonan penned the bestseller "Faith of My Fathers" (John) McCain Jeff	$800 [21] A fun kind of this is a children's book with 3-D cutout artwork; a not-so-fun kind happens while Internet surfing a pop-up Shane
DD $2,200 [7] In this city's Plaza de Armas, you're walking in the footsteps of Francisco Pizarro Lima, Peru Dave	$1,000 [5] Starred as the "Beverly Hills Ninja" (Chris) Farley Dave Jeff	$1,000 [25] Go deep & comprehend or understand this 6-letter term fathom Jeff	$1,000 [30] (Jimmy describes a third drawing on the monitor.) The film goes over pulley 41, under spring 42, through the slit, and over pulley 38 in this forerunner of the projector a kinetoscope Shane	$1,000 [16] This Utah man & Senate Judiciary Committee member wrote songs for a 2003 "Christmas Eve" CD Orrin Hatch Jeff	$1,000 [22] Nonsense! Bosh! Balderdash! Bunk! Falderol! & this word! I kind of went Mr. Burns on you there, didn't I? poppycock Dave

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE "GENERAL"	THE DIRTY DOZEN	MISTER ROBERTs	TORAH! TORAH! TORAH!	ACROPOLIS NOW	WAR MOVIES
$400 [2] A family doctor who treats common medical problems a general practitioner Jeff	$400 [16] Yich-h-h! It's the yucky name for 12 dozen a gross Dave	$400 [7] The husband of a famed love sonneteer, he wrote, "Escape me? Never--Beloved! While I am I, and you are you" Robert Browning Shane Jeff	$400 [21] Joseph's brothers stripped this off him & threw him into a pit his coat of many colors Jeff	$400 [26] The main temple on the Acropolis was built in the 5th century B.C. to honor this goddess Athena Shane	$400 [1] Ken Burns & Ted Turner both had cameos in this epic TV movie bearing the name of a July 1863 battle Gettysburg Dave
$800 [3] This food industry giant produces products like Cheerios & Hamburger Helper General Mills Shane Jeff	$800 [17] Bruce Willis must avoid plague-filled air in this time-travel thriller that gets its name from an animal rights group Twelve Monkeys Dave	$800 [8] He's the Secretary of Labor under Bill Clintonseenhere Robert Reich Dave	$800 [22] Not just the seventh day but the seventh year can be this restful interlude, per Leviticus 25 the Sabbath Jeff	$800 [28] Forces of this Italian city-state destroyed many of the structures on the Acropolis during a 1687 artillery barrage Venice Dave Shane Jeff	$800 [12] This Stanley Kubrick film follows a group of Marines from basic training to bloody battles in Vietnam Full Metal Jacket Jeff
$1,200 [4] The U.S. government's Comptroller General is head of the GAO, which until 2004 stood for this General Accounting Office Jeff	$1,200 [18] Founded by a relative of a flying ace, this company became famous for its 12-string guitars Rickenbacker Jeff	$1,200 [9] "Remembrances" & "Postcards" are works by this choreographer who founded his own ballet company Joffrey Shane	$1,200 [23] The Torah-reading pointer is called ayad, Hebrew for this, also what Moses stretched forth in Exodus 10:22 a hand Shane Jeff	$1,200 [29] This empire seized the Acropolis in 1458 & raised a minaret on the site the Ottoman Empire Jeff	$1,200 [13] "Leave no man behind" was the tagline for this 2001 film about army choppers shot down in Somalia Black Hawk Down Jeff
$1,600 [5] With products like the Virginia class nuclear sub, this company is one of the USA's biggest defense contractors General Dynamics Dave Jeff	$2,000 [20] Nennius famously lists Badon, Agned, Guinnion & Dubglas among this legendary king's 12 messy battles Arthur Shane	$1,600 [10] He edited "Citizen Kane" & directed "The Sound of Music" Robert Wise Dave Shane	$1,600 [24] In the original Hebrew, this biblical question that Cain asks is "Hashomer akhi anokhi?" "Am I my brother's keeper?" Shane	$1,600 [27] The Acropolis complex built by the ancient architects Ictinus & Callicrates was in this simple classical order Doric Dave Shane	$1,600 [14] The U.S. Civil War's first all-black military unit fights prejudice as well as the Confederates in this 1989 film Glory Jeff
$2,000 [6] Abbreviated GATT, it's governed world commerce since 1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Shane Jeff	DD $3,000 [19] Chapter 12 was introduced in 1986 to the code for this & deals with the reorganization of family farms bankruptcy Jeff	$2,000 [11] In 2005, at age 86, he was elected to his ninth term as Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau	$2,000 [25] Aaron is described as a priest, or in Hebrew, this common Jewish surname Cohen	DD $5,000 [30] Many of the friezes & panels that adorned the Parthenon were sold to the British Museum by this man Lord Elgin Jeff	$2,000 [15] The brutal 10-day battle for heavily defended Hill 937 unfolds in this 1987 film Hamburger Hill Jeff

Final Jeopardy!

AUTHORS

John Dryden in 1683 was the first to use the term "biography"--appropriately, while writing about this Greek

Plutarch

Shane "Who was Homer?" — wagered $2,400

Dave "Who was Herodotus?" — wagered $601

Jeff "Who was Socrates" — wagered $1,999

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