Show #5147 2007-01-16 (taped 2006-11-14) Regular

Contestants

Greg Williams — a lecturer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Paula Ashley — a marketing communications firm owner from Toledo, Ohio

Brian Armbrust — a corporate trainer from San Francisco, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Brian $2,400 $7,400 $9,000 $1
2nd place: $2,000
$11,000
25 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Paula $1,000 $200 $200 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$200
8 R, 7 W
Greg $1,200 $3,300 $15,900 $13,400
New champion: $13,400
$17,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

RUSSIAN LEADERS CELEBRITY DOG BREEDS NOW THAT'S INVENTIVE! GIMME AN "F" YOU GOTTA HAVE ART MILES & MILES & MILES OF ART
$200 [18]
Not so great--in 1725, this czar died unable to name a successor; he wrote, "Give everything to..." & never finished
Peter the Great
Paula
$200 [8]
Snoopy
a Beagle
Brian
$200 [16]
Around 1862 this doctor invented a machine gun that could fire about 350 rounds per minute
(Dr. Richard) Gatling
Greg
$200 [3]
This round hat is named for a North African city of more than half a million people
a fez
Greg
$200 [1]
This artist wasn't so fine & Andy on June 3, 1968 when he was shot by Valerie Solanas, of his own entourage
Andy Warhol
Brian
$200 [13]
This legendary tennis player's memoir "Days of Grace" was published in 1993, after his death
Arthur Ashe
Brian
$400 [23]
He took over in 1985 at age 54, following a series of senior citizens
Gorbachev
Brian
$400 [9]
Beethoven
a Saint Bernard
Greg
$400 [17]
Developed by a German physicist, it measures radioactivity by "counting" ionizing particles like protons
a Geiger counter
Brian
$400 [4]
In this "buggy" football play, a backward lateral is followed by a pass
flea-flicker
$400 [2]
Matisse's final art pieces were made using paper & not brush or pen but these
scissors
Paula
$400 [14]
On Sept. 20, 1881 he took the oath of office in his NYC home at 2:15 A.M.
Chester Arthur
Paula
$600 [24]
Ivan the Terrible's mom introduced one of these showing a knight holding a spear called a kopye--hence "kopeck"
a coin
$600 [10]
Perdita & Pongo
Dalmatian
Paula
$600 [19]
Famous for his jet, he also invented the automobile radio for the company that became Motorola
(William) Lear
Greg
$600 [5]
This Italian bread is drizzled with olive oil before baking & is used for small sandwiches called panini
focaccia
Greg
DD $500 [21]
This 20th century artist called some of his paintings "hand-painted dream photographs"
(Salvador) Dalí
Greg
$600 [27]
His first Broadway play, "The Man Who Had All the Luck", had none, closing after 4 shows in 1944; it was far from his last play
Arthur Miller
Brian
$800 [25]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Moscow, Russia.) After Moscow's Alarm Tower summoned a dangerous mob in 1771, this woman had its bell removed
Catherine the Great
Brian
$800 [11]
Eddie on "Frasier"
a Jack Russell Terrier
Brian
$800 [22]
In 1866 a physician invented one of these that took a few minutes to take a reading instead of the normal 20
a thermometer
Brian Paula
$800 [6]
The fife is an example of a side-blown one of these musical instruments; the recorder is an end-blown one
a flute
Paula
$600 [15]
This Spanish "Still Life with Chair Caning" artist said, "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers"
Pablo Picasso
$800 [28]
He fronted the Boston Pops from 1930 on into the '70s
Arthur Fiedler
Paula
$1,000 [26]
Searching for a cure for this disease in their son Alexis led Nicholas & Alexandra to Rasputin
hemophilia
Brian
$1,000 [12]
Buddy of "Air Bud" fame
a Golden Retriever
$1,000 [30]
At the funeral of Sylvan Goldman, who invented this, there wasn't one wonky pallbearer who went in an odd direction
the shopping cart
Paula
$1,000 [7]
(Jon of the Clue Crew limbers up in the gym.) In 1998 the American College of Sports Medicine said a complete program must develop cardio & muscular fitness, & this, improved by stretching
flexibility
Brian
$800 [20]
This Mexican self-portrait painter underwent about 35 operations, including the amputation of a leg
Frida Kahlo
Greg
$1,000 [29]
Though not a grade grubber, Hester Prynne got an "A" for her affair with this novel character
Arthur Dimmesdale
Brian

Double Jeopardy! Round

BODIES OF WATER ENTERTAINING WOMEN SPEED HAMLET THAT'S SOME OF YOUR BUSINESS 1957 U.S. STATE NAMES
$400 [1]
In 1875, Sir Henry Morton Stanley circumnavigated this largest African lake
Lake Victoria
Brian
$400 [6]
This actress is on the "Chicago" soundtrack singing "And All That Jazz" & "I Can't Do It Alone"
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Brian
$400 [11]
The king's jester; alas, do you know him?
Yorick
Brian
$400 [25]
Where else would Ty Pennington go for appliances by Kenmore but this chain, founded in the late 1800s
Sears
Greg
$400 [16]
The October 4 launch of this made Americans doubt their country's technological superiority
Sputnik
Brian
$400 [17]
Lots of folks must wear glasses in this state; it's the only one with 4 "i"s
Mississippi
Brian Paula
$800 [2]
This arm of the Mediterranean separates Italy from Croatia & Albania
Adriatic Sea
Brian
$800 [7]
(Doug Savant reads the clue.) On "Desperate Housewives", I was reunited with this actress, the explosive Kimberly Shaw on "Melrose Place"
Marcia Cross
Brian
$800 [12]
In a sense, this queen drinks herself to death
Gertrude
Brian
$800 [26]
The logo for this shoe retailer founded in 1974 is seen here
Foot Locker
Greg
$800 [21]
In March Egypt reopened this waterway after a 4-month blockage
Suez Canal
Brian
$800 [18]
Its name includes the name of another state that was named for a ruler born in 1533
West Virginia
Brian
$1,200 [3]
The Gulf of Finland & the Gulf of Bothnia both extend from this sea
Baltic Sea
Brian Paula
$1,200 [8]
These athletic sisters had a reality show subtitled "For Real"
The Williams Sisters
Greg
DD $1,000 [15]
He's the Fresh Prince of Norway
Fortinbras
Greg
$1,200 [27]
After Prohibition, this Kentucky bourbon maker, at age 70, rebuilt his family's distillery, by hand, in 120 days
Jim Beam
Brian Greg
$1,200 [23]
In 1957 Melville Bell Grosvenor became Editor in Chief of this "national" mag., a position his father held for 51 years
National Geographic
Paula
$1,600 [20]
This state's name is a homophone for a word that means "principal"
Maine
Paula Greg
$1,600 [4]
This Arctic sea is named for the British naval officer who devised a wind scale
Beaufort Sea
Paula
$1,600 [9]
(I'm Miguel Ferrer.) My dad was Tony & Oscar winner Jose Ferrer, & my mom was this Grammy-nominated vocalist
Rosemary Clooney
Greg
$1,200 [13]
Exeunt these 2 "formerly fellow-students with Hamlet"; they are dead
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
Greg
$1,600 [28]
"Rain Man" didn't have a very high opinion of this retail chain that filed for bankruptcy in January 2002
Kmart
Brian
$1,600 [24]
Jack Kerouac published "On The Road", & Nevil Shute wrote "On The" this
Beach
Paula
DD $2,000 [19]
Land's sakes! The only 2 states with "land" in their names
Maryland & Rhode Island
Brian
$2,000 [5]
It sounds servile, but this 11,000-square-mile Canadian lake is actually named for a tribe of Native Americans
Great Slave Lake
Brian
$2,000 [10]
Artie Shaw was married 8 times; his wives included Lana Turner & this bombshell who starred in "Mogambo"
Ava Gardner
Brian Greg
$1,600 [14]
Polonius' kid, he gets the poisoned point
Laertes
Greg
$2,000 [29]
In 1971 this company brought out the 4004, the world's first commercial microprocessor
Intel
Brian
$2,000 [30]
On July 29, 1957 this "explosive" organization, the IAEA, was established
International Atomic Energy Agency
Brian Greg
$2,000 [22]
The names of this state & its state capital both end with the letters "na"
Montana
Paula

Final Jeopardy!

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT

It's the only Cabinet department whose official website does not use the ".gov" suffix

the Department of Defense

Paula "What is the dept. of Education?" — wagered $199
Brian "What is the Dept. of Education?" — wagered $8,999
Greg "What is State" — wagered $2,500

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