Show #5158 2007-01-31 (taped 2006-11-28) Regular

Contestants

Katie McArthur — a hazardous waste compliance inspector from Yakima, Washington

Nate Metcalf — an actor and playwright from Cokato, Minnesota

Cindi Winstead — a homemaker and student from Villa Rica, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,999)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Cindi $-200 $-200 $1,400 $2,800
3rd place: $1,000
$1,000
6 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Nate $4,200 $7,000 $22,438 $22,438
New champion: $22,438
$19,800
28 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Katie $1,600 $3,200 $6,700 $10,500
2nd place: $2,000
$9,200
11 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

CRITICISM WITH STYLE ERIC IS SO TALENTED DRAFT PICKS INVENTIVE MINDS A KIND OF "USH" ALL OVER THE WORLD
$200 [16]
This 19th c. humorist:"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it"
Mark Twain
Nate
$200 [11]
This guitarist won a Grammy for his 1994 blues album "From the Cradle"
Eric Clapton
Nate
$200 [26]
Its name tells you that it's "Genuine Draft beer"
Miller
Nate
$200 [1]
Frank Seiberling named his tire & rubber company after this inventor
(Charles) Goodyear
Cindi Nate
$200 [6]
Even or level with something, such as the margin of a page
flush
Katie
$200 [20]
The royal house of Braganza supplied kings & emperors to Portugal & this other country 100 times its size
Brazil
Katie
$400 [17]
This comic "brother":"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it"
Groucho Marx
Cindi
$400 [12]
He was "Will" to Debra Messing's "Grace"
Eric McCormack
Nate
$400 [27]
2 brothers launched this lager in 1887; it's Australian for beer, mate
Foster's
Cindi
$400 [2]
Walter Alcock perforated this bathroom product in the 1870s
toilet paper
Nate
$400 [7]
Descriptive 6-letter term for a free-flowing oil well that doesn't have to be pumped
gusher
Nate
$400 [21]
Home to a famous zoo, the Schonbrunn Palace in this city is also home to an annual Mozart festival
Vienna
Nate
$600 [18]
This scandalous Irish wit:"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends"
Oscar Wilde
Cindi
$600 [13]
He sang lead vocals on the No. 1 hit "The House of the Rising Sun"
Eric Burdon
$800 [29]
This pale ale that's brewed in the Northern California city of Chico is named for a nearby mountain range
Sierra Nevada
Cindi
$600 [3]
A lot of rain fell on Robert Kearns' parade after he invented the intermittent type of these for cars
windshield wipers
Katie
$600 [8]
An atomizer that uses compressed air to spray paint on a surface
an airbrush
Nate
$600 [22]
Located on the Jhelum River, Srinagar is the summer capital of this disputed region of northwest India
Kashmir
Cindi Katie
$800 [19]
This Algonquin lady: "If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to"
(Dorothy) Parker
Katie
$800 [14]
Though his name sounds like he doesn't work much, this man has been in more than 50 films & TV shows
Eric Idle
Nate
DD $1,000 [28]
The founder of this stout wasbrilliant, getting a 9,000-year lease to a brewery at St. James' Gate in Dublin
Guinness
Cindi
$800 [4]
The differential analyzer Vannevar Bush invented at MIT is a forerunner of the modern one of these
computer
$800 [9]
After 9 years as Soviet premier, he was deposed for failing to establish missiles in Cuba
Khrushchev
Katie
$800 [23]
The southern part of Thailand occupies the northern part of this peninsula named for another country
the Malay Peninsula
$1,000 [25]
This 1920s lawyer:"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure"
Clarence Darrow
Nate
$1,000 [15]
"All By Myself" was featured on this man's self-titled album
Eric Carmen
Nate
$1,000 [30]
A Belgian brewery created this beer for Christmas 1926 but started it year-round when it proved popular
Stella Artois
Cindi
$1,000 [5]
H.A. Largelamb was an anagrammatic pen name used by this inventor for his articles in National Geographic
Alexander Graham Bell
$1,000 [10]
"Midnight's Children" & "The Moor's Last Sigh" are 2 of this author's works that did not result in a fatwa
Salman Rushdie
Nate
$1,000 [24]
With about 500,000 souls, this city is the most populous in Slovakia
Bratislava
Nate

Double Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS A NICOLE KIDMAN FILM FESTIVAL PRESIDENTIAL HITCHING POSTS A STUDY IN SOUND MINNESOTANS 2 FOR T
$400 [23]
Sir Edwin Landseer was lionized for the lions he created for Nelson's Column in this square
Trafalgar
Nate
$400 [21]
Nicole sings & dances at a famous Paris nightspot
Moulin Rouge!
Nate
$400 [16]
George & Martha Washington, on Jan. 6, 1759
Virginia
Nate
$400 [11]
Stereo recordings have the vocals on one of these & instruments on the other, so you can "surf" between them
channels
Nate
$400 [2]
In May 2005 the city of Hibbing honored him with a street sign named in his honor--how does it feel...
Bob Dylan
Nate
$400 [1]
A famous one of these embroidered wall hangings bears the name of the French town of Bayeux
a tapestry
Nate
$800 [30]
Canaletto used a camera obscura to help him get those sweeping views of this, his hometown
Venice
Cindi
$800 [22]
Nicole waits for her Confederate soldier boy to return from the war
Cold Mountain
Cindi
$800 [17]
Harry & Bess Truman, on June 28, 1919
Missouri
Nate
$800 [12]
We're attuned to midrange sounds; bass sounds or those with this other clef name sound softer than they really are
treble
Nate
$800 [3]
Reportedly the richest man in the world when he died in 1976, he was born in Minneapolis in 1892
Jean Paul Getty
$800 [7]
One form of this event sticks to dry land & features only the 200-meter dash, high jump & shot put
the triathlon
Katie
$1,200 [29]
Thisbeautifulpaintingby Gustav Klimt has the same name as a famous sculpture by Rodin
The Kiss
Katie
$1,200 [24]
Nicole moves to an exclusive Connecticut town where the women are rather robotic
The Stepford Wives
Katie
$1,200 [18]
Calvin & Grace Coolidge, on Oct. 4, 1905
Vermont
Katie
$1,200 [13]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew tests out her pipes.) The difference between the softest andloudestsounds is called "dynamic" this; in speech, it can be about 40 decibels
range
Nate
$1,200 [4]
He's the familiar National Public Radio personality heard here"That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above-average..."
Garrison Keillor
Nate
$1,600 [9]
This philosophy emphasizing the intuitive & spiritual above the empirical is associated with Emerson
transcendentalism
Cindi
$1,600 [28]
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne is famed for his busts of Montesquieu, Mme. de Pompadour & this "Candide" author
Voltaire
Nate
$1,600 [25]
TV weatherperson Nicole recruits 3 teenagers to kill her husband
To Die For
Nate
$2,000 [20]
Martin & Hannah Van Buren, on Feb. 21, 1807
New York
$1,600 [14]
Vibrations at certain frequencies are called harmonics or these "tones"
overtones
$1,600 [5]
Every July on Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, a pageant is presented honoring this children's author
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nate
$2,000 [10]
Silent, saying nothing; this adjective can often be found before "approval"
tacit
Nate
$2,000 [27]
The Rokeby Venusis the only surviving example of a female nude by this 17th century Spanish portrait artist
Velázquez
Katie
$2,000 [26]
Nicole leaves Ireland & seeks a new life in 1890s America
Far and Away
Katie
DD $4,238 [19]
William H. & Helen Taft, on June 19, 1886
Ohio
Nate
$2,000 [15]
(Jon of the Clue Crew blows across the top of an empty glass beverage bottle.) The air inside the bottle vibrates like a spring in the Helmholtz's type of this; it's the intensification of sound by vibration
resonance
Nate
$2,000 [6]
Oh, this man from Maine, Minnesota, with the middle initial "O", was the longest-serving Supreme Court justice
William O. Douglas
DD $2,500 [8]
Any Boy Scout could tell you it's a 10-letter word for "novice"
tenderfoot
Katie

Final Jeopardy!

BRITISH ROYAL NAMES

Thomas Malory's posthumous 1485 bestseller inspired this first name of a prince born in 1486

Arthur

Cindi "What is Arthur?" — wagered $1,400
Katie "What is Arthur?" — wagered $3,800
Nate "What is Henry?" — wagered $0

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