Show #5195 2007-03-23 (taped 2006-12-13) Regular

Doug Hicton game 1.

Contestants

Leigh King — an elementary school librarian from Worcester, Massachusetts

Doug Hicton — a composer originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Alison Fowler — an administrator from Portland, Oregon (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Alison $800 $2,000 $13,600 $1
2nd place: $2,000
$13,600
14 R, 1 W
Doug $6,600 $11,800 $26,000 $24,799
New champion: $24,799
$19,200
31 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W
Leigh $1,800 $1,800 $5,400 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$5,400
7 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

HAIL TO THE CHIEF THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR PEOPLE YOU CAN EAT AFRICAN CITIES HORSING AROUND DUMB DOWN THE SIMILE
$200 [21]
The rustic James A. Garfield was born in one of these rustic structures
a log cabin
Doug
$200 [14]
In addition to the "Godfather" movies, he directed Michael Jackson's "Captain EO"
(Francis Ford) Coppola
Alison
$200 [1]
Californians James Logan & Rudolf Boysen both lent their names to varieties of these they developed
berries
Leigh
$200 [7]
In ancient times Giza, a suburb of this city, served as a large cemetery, or necropolis
Cairo
Doug
$200 [26]
Eerie type of horseman who pursues Ichabod Crane
a headless horseman
Alison
$200 [9]
Robust as a violin
fit as a fiddle
Doug
$400 [22]
He didn't campaign & denied he wanted the office, but he was elected anyway in 1789
(George) Washington
Doug
$400 [15]
This director is seenherein 1998 at yet another awards ceremony
James Cameron
Leigh
$400 [2]
As the 4th Earl of this, John Montagu could have made a lot of bread off the culinary item named for him
Sandwich
Doug
$400 [6]
This Sudanese capital was destroyed by the Mahdists in 1885; Lord Kitchener began to rebuild it in 1898
Khartoum
Doug
$400 [27]
This Oglala Sioux chief attacked Custer at Little Big Horn
Crazy Horse
Doug
$400 [10]
Weightless as a plume
light as a feather
Doug
$600 [23]
In 1815 he had Congress authorize fighting with Algiers
(James) Madison
Doug
$600 [16]
He not only directed the movie "Bobby", he also wrote the screenplay & appears in it
Emilio Estevez
Alison
$600 [3]
Robert Cobb, the owner of the Brown Derby restaurant, famously created one of these
a salad
Leigh
$600 [8]
Crosby, Stills & Nash could tell you that the 220-foot-high Kutubiyyah Mosque towers over this Moroccan city
Marrakesh
Leigh
$600 [28]
In Act One of Berlioz' opera "Les Troyens", this object is dragged inside a city's walls
the Trojan Horse
Doug
$600 [11]
Adorable as a blouse fastener
cute as a button
Doug
$800 [24]
LBJ once said, "I am a free man, an American, a U.S. Senator, and" one of these, "in that order"
a Democrat
Alison
$800 [17]
"The Thing" is... as well as directing "Halloween" & "The Fog", he also composed their scores
(John) Carpenter
Doug
$800 [4]
This turn-of-the-century opera diva has had a peach & ice cream dessert & a type of toast named for her
Nellie Melba
Doug
$1,000 [19]
While in this capital, tourists should see the well-preserved Roman aqueduct between Carthage & Zaghouan
Tunis
Alison
$800 [29]
In this type of racing, either a trotter or a pacer pulls a sulky
harness racing
Alison
$800 [12]
As horizontal & thin as a crepe
flat as a pancake
Doug
$1,000 [25]
His memoirs of his "Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion" were published in 1866
James Buchanan
Doug
$1,000 [20]
"La Voce della Luna" was the last movie by this great Italian director
(Federico) Fellini
Doug
$1,000 [5]
These nuts native to Australia were named after a Scottish-born Australian chemist
Macadamia nuts
Doug
DD $3,000 [18]
The name of this South African city honors someone's first name; there's dispute over which of 3 Dutchmen it was
Johannesburg
Doug
$1,000 [30]
At the 2000 Olympics, the German team won the gold in this equestrian event; the U.S. team came in third
dressage
$1,000 [13]
Abstemious as an adjudicator
sober as a judge
Doug

Double Jeopardy! Round

HAIL TO THE CHEF GEOGRAPHICAL BANDS MEDICAL DEVICES ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB WOMEN WRITERS "D" FACTO
$400 [4]
The "essence of" this chef from Fall River, Massachusetts is that he likes to "kick it up a notch"
Emeril Lagasse
Doug
$400 [6]
"A Horse With No Name"
America
Doug
$400 [18]
Asthma medicine can be delivered by inhaler or by nebulizer, which turns it into this form
a mist (or a spray; a gas accepted)
Alison
$400 [13]
He had Hamlin for his veep
Abraham Lincoln
Doug
$400 [1]
She dedicated "Jane Eyre" to William Makepeace Thackeray
Charlotte Brontë
Doug
$400 [26]
It's the cone-shaped hat that a lazy or slow pupil once wore as punishment
a dunce cap
Doug
$1,200 [23]
This Irma Rombauer cookbook has a 75th anniversary edition, revised by Irma's daughter Marion
The Joy of Cooking
Alison
$800 [7]
(With Gloria Estefan)"Rhythm Is Gonna Get You"
The Miami Sound Machine
Alison
$800 [19]
Endotracheal & nasogastric types of these are inserted to help patients breathe
tubes
Doug
$800 [14]
He is the prolific writer & scientist seen here
Isaac Asimov
Leigh
$800 [2]
"Memnoch The Devil" is the fifth book in this author's "Vampire Chronicles"
Anne Rice
Doug
$800 [27]
2-word term for the group of cells for prisoners awaiting execution
death row
Leigh
$1,600 [24]
You can cook like this man who wrote "The Joy of Wokking"
(Martin) Yan
Doug
$1,200 [8]
(With Sergio Mendes)"Mas Que Nada","One Note Samba"
Brasil '66
Alison
$1,200 [20]
In 1901 this wounded pres. was treated by a gynecological surgeon who used a sewing needle to close him up
William McKinley
Doug
$1,200 [15]
Born in Ukraine in 1920, this American violin virtuoso led a '60s fight to save Carnegie Hall from demolition
Isaac Stern
Doug
$1,600 [11]
In "Emma" she wrote, "Half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other"
Jane Austen
Alison
$1,200 [28]
An announcement, like the one in 1917 wih Balfour's name on it
a declaration
Alison
$2,000 [25]
This host of the Food Network's "Everyday Italian" was born in Rome & is the granddaughter of film producer Dino
Giada De Laurentiis
Doug
$1,600 [9]
"No More Words","The Metro"
Berlin
$1,600 [21]
If you go on injured reserve with an ankle sprain, you may need this brand of bandage marketed by BD since 1913
Ace
Alison
$1,600 [16]
He resigned from the Supreme Court in 1969 amid criticism of his financial dealings
Abe Fortas
$2,000 [12]
2 of her dramas are "Watch on the Rhine" & "The Children's Hour"
Lillian Hellman
Leigh
$1,600 [29]
A spirit or soul that's been freed from its human host is said to be this
disembodied
Alison
DD $2,600 [5]
In 1984 he published his "Louisiana Kitchen Cookbook"
Paul Prudhomme
Doug
$2,000 [10]
"Heat Of The Moment"
Asia
$2,000 [22]
Rather than for injection, this syringe is for this process of washing wounds, from the Latin for "to water"
an irrigation syringe
Doug
$2,000 [17]
Born in Denmark, this photographer spurred social reform with his pictures & words on NYC tenements in the 1890s
Jacob Riis
Alison
DD $4,000 [3]
She wrote for the Nebraska State Journal & the Pittsburgh Leader before penning "My Antonia"
Willa Cather
Doug
$2,000 [30]
"Romeo and Juliet" begins, "Two households, both alike in" this
dignity

Final Jeopardy!

BESTSELLING AUTHORS

He had the year's bestselling novel a record 7 years in a row with 7 different titles, ending in 2000

John Grisham

Leigh "Who is Stephen King?" — wagered $5,400
Alison "Who is Stephen King?" — wagered $13,599
Doug "Who is Stephen King?" — wagered $1,201

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