Show #5107 2006-11-21 (taped 2006-10-08) Celebrity

2006 CelebrityJeopardy!game 10.From Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

Contestants

Hill Harper — an actor fromCSI: NY

Hon. Margaret Spellings — a U.S. Secretary of Education from Washington, D.C.

Michael McKean — an actor, writer, and director fromThis is Spinal Tap,A Mighty Wind, andThe Pajama Game

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Michael $5,800 $13,600 $30,400 $38,800
Winner: $50,000 to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the International Myeloma Foundation
$28,600
33 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Margaret $-400 $2,000 $9,600 $11,100
2nd place: $25,000 to ProLiteracy Worldwide
$8,400
10 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Hill $600 $800 $6,800 $6,800
3rd place: $25,000 to MANifest Your Destiny Foundation
$6,800
10 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE LATE 20th CENTURY THAT '70s SHOW STONEHENGE GENEROUS FOOD PORTIONS WHAT ARE YOU DOING LATER? KING OF THE "HILL"
$200 [6]
Third in line to the British throne, he came into the world September 15, 1984
Prince Henry (or Harry)
Michael Hill
$200 [1]
The Korean War lasted 3 years, but this TV show set in the Korean War lasted 11
M*A*S*H
Michael
$200 [11]
The ancient monument known as Stonehenge is found in this country
England
Michael
$200 [13]
You gotta break some eggs to make this item; in 1994, 160,000 were used to make a 1,383-square-foot one
an omelette
Hill
$200 [18]
We might recite these jokes whose second line is always "Who's there?"
knock-knock
Michael
$200 [22]
This type of screw head has two partial slots crossed at right angles
a Phillips-head
Michael
$400 [7]
The 1987 book "And the Band Played On" alerted many Americans to this disease
AIDS
Michael
$400 [2]
Chuck Barris created & hosted this show, a sort of talent-free show
The Gong Show
Hill
$400 [12]
The "henge" part of the word Stonehenge is a term meaning an ancient monument arranged in this shape
a circle
Michael Margaret
$400 [14]
At Marshall Field's in 2002, life was like a 3,226-pound box of this
chocolates
Michael
$400 [23]
"Here lies Lester Moore / Four slugs from a .44 / No Les, no more" is a marker at this cemetery in Tombstone, Az.
Boot Hill
Michael
$600 [8]
On April 29, 1994 this man was elected president of South Africa in that country's first interracial national election
Nelson Mandela
Michael
$600 [3]
The Fonz told people to "Sit on it!" on this show that debuted in 1974
Happy Days
Michael
$600 [19]
One legend says that this magician who helped King Arthur used his powers to build Stonehenge
Merlin
Michael
$600 [15]
Run as fast as you can, you can't catch this treat; one made in 2003 was 13' 11" in height
a gingerbread man
Michael
$600 [24]
On January 10, 1982 the temperature in Chicago was -26 degrees F.; this made it feel like -81 degrees F.
wind chill
Margaret
$800 [9]
The U.S. launched Operation Desert Shield soon after Iraq's August 2, 1990 invasion of this country
Kuwait
Michael
$800 [4]
Tom Selleck appeared as rival detective Lance White on this show that starred James Garner
The Rockford Files
Michael
$800 [20]
Today some archaeologists believe that Stonehenge was used to track & observe these 2 heavenly bodies
the sun & the Moon
Michael
$800 [16]
Yes, we have one bunch of these, 473 individual ones in a bunch grown in Spain in 2001
a banana
Margaret
$800 [25]
Informally, if something is worth virtually nothing at all, it "doesn't amount to" this 3-word food term
a hill of beans
Michael
$1,000 [10]
In 1999, this 6-year-old Cuban refugee was the subject of a custody battle
Elian Gonzalez
Michael
$1,000 [5]
The theme song to this sitcom said, "Well we're moving on up, to the east side"
The Jeffersons
Michael
$1,000 [21]
During the summer solstice, modern-day people who act like these Celtic priests hold cermonies at Stonehenge
the Druids
Michael
$1,000 [17]
In 1993 chefs from Glasgow's Hilton & others used 80 ox stomachs to make the largest this on record--668 lbs.! Och aye!
haggis
Margaret
DD $2,800 [26]
A great Greek warrior, or a tendon attached to the heel
Achilles
Michael

Double Jeopardy! Round

GET AN EDUCATION! LANGUAGE SKILLS MOVIE QUOTES HARPS & HARPERS STOCK SYMBOLS PHYSICS, BRAIN SURGERY & ROCKET SCIENCE
$400 [1]
In geography, you should know that this South American river has the world's largest drainage system
the Amazon
Margaret
$400 [9]
In Italian, to wish someone "buona fortuna" is to wish them this
good luck
Michael
$400 [4]
"Maximus Decimus Meridius... father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengeance"
Gladiator
Michael
$400 [16]
A member of this comedy team, Harpo was a virtuoso on the harp & played it in some of their movies
the Marx Brothers
Hill
$400 [21]
Call this company, VZ, if you want to hear me now
Verizon
Hill
$400 [26]
Einstein published the special theory of this in 1905; the general theory of it was announced in 1915
relativity
Hill
$800 [2]
Learn the basics of chemistry, like this chemical formula for water
H 2 O
Hill
$800 [10]
It's the rhyming way you'd say "please" to your Spanish-speaking friend
por favor
Margaret
$800 [5]
"Now... bring me that horizon. 'And really bad eggs.' Drink up me hearties yo ho"
Pirates of the Caribbean
$800 [17]
Of 7, 47 or 147, the number of strings on a modern pedal harp
47
Michael Margaret
$800 [22]
Some people said presidential hopeful John Kerry was in bed with this company, HNZ
Heinz
Hill
$800 [27]
Rockets produce 7 million pounds of thrust during takeoff of this vehicle, the space transportation system
the Shuttle
Michael
$1,200 [3]
Civics class taught you the Declaration of Independence lists these 3 "unalienable rights"
life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness
Michael
$1,600 [14]
Seen here is this word that you should have down cold before visiting Russia, where you'll be downing it cold
vodka
Margaret
$1,200 [6]
"I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue"
Casablanca
Margaret Hill
$1,200 [18]
The harp is a national symbol of this European country & also the name of a popular beer from that country
Ireland
Michael
$1,200 [23]
This company, XOM, is mobile because they're full of gas
Exxon Mobil
Margaret
$1,200 [28]
This branch of physics focuses on radioactivity; this type of family has a mother, father & children
nuclear
Michael
$1,600 [12]
Get some Latin under your belt, like amo, amas & this third-person singular form of "to love"
amat
Michael
DD $2,000 [11]
As a sign of respect, this word used as a suffix after a Japanese name should never be used after your own
san
Margaret
$1,600 [7]
"I tell you things, you tell me things, not about this case, though, about yourself. Quid pro quo... yes or no, Clarice?"
The Silence of the Lambs
Michael
$1,600 [19]
If you have a drafty house, you can play the Aeolian harp; its strings are sounded not by hands but this
air (or wind)
Michael
DD $2,000 [24]
This company, TWX, likes initials such as AOL, HBO & TBS
Time Warner
Margaret
$1,600 [29]
As you know, Dr., the frontal this in the brain is key to emotion & reason; stay away from the one on the ear this time
lobe
Michael
$2,000 [13]
God willing, you'll learn enough about religion to know this word defined as belief in a single god
monotheism
Michael
$2,000 [15]
"Magandang umaga", Tagalog for "good morning", would come in handiest in this world capital
Manila
Michael
$2,000 [8]
"I know that you & Frank were planning to disconnect me, & that's something I cannot allow to happen"
2001: A Space Odyssey
Michael
$2,000 [20]
In the Bible, this ancient Hebrew king & psalmist played a harp called a kinnor
King David
$2,000 [25]
This food company, MCD, gobbled up Boston Market & Chipotle Mexican Grill
McDonald's
Hill

Final Jeopardy!

FROM BOOK TO FILM

Among the many movies that have premiered here at Radio City Music Hall was this 1962 film based on a novel by Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

Hill "What Is To Kill A Mockingbird" — wagered $0
Margaret "What Is To Kill A Mockingbird?" — wagered $1,500
Michael "What is To Kill A Mockingbird?" — wagered $8,400

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