Show #5265 2007-06-29 (taped 2007-03-07) Regular

Cathy Lanctot game 4.

Contestants

Roy Arias — a building inspector from Rancho Cucamonga, California

Colleen Shaddox — a writer from Hamden, Connecticut

Cathy Lanctot — a law professor from Wilmington, Delaware (whose 3-day cash winnings total $79,702)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Cathy $5,000 $9,800 $19,400 $11,599
4-day champion: $91,301
$19,200
23 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Colleen $2,000 $4,200 $4,800 $4,800
3rd place: $1,000
$9,800
13 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Roy $1,800 $4,000 $13,600 $9,601
2nd place: $2,000
$16,800
18 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

I'M INTO WORLD "P"s THE FEMALE EQUIVALENT MASTERPIECE THEATRE COOKIN' UP CATFISH TALL STRUCTURES "TU" MUCH
$200 [11]
Excavations of this ancient city began in 1748; it was buried under 20 feet of volcanic debris
Pompeii
Colleen
$200 [6]
The University of Massachusetts Minutemen
the Minutewomen
$200 [1]
In 1915 Jacinto Benavente wrote a play called "The Smile Of" her, originally a Renaissance art masterpiece
Mona Lisa
Cathy
$200 [24]
(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) Taylor Grocery here in Mississippi fries catfish in oil made from this legume, widely grown in the South; it can be heated to high temperatures without smoking
peanut
Colleen
$200 [18]
When completed in 1965, the 648-foot Daley Center was this city's tallest building; more than 20 are now higher
Chicago
Cathy
$200 [16]
This disease was once known as consumption
tuberculosis
Cathy
$400 [12]
Districts in this country include Braga, Viana do Castelo & Lisboa
Portugal
Roy
$400 [7]
The Oklahoma State University Cowboys
the Cowgirls
Colleen
$400 [2]
Simonetta Vespucci, the model for his "Birth of Venus", is a character in "Michelangelo's Models"
Botticelli
Colleen
$400 [25]
Ryan Newman won a NASCAR catfish cookoff with a recipe named for this alcoholic batter
beer (batter)
Cathy
$400 [21]
The world's tallest skyscraper (not tower) is this country's Taipei 101, which stands 1,670 feet high
Taiwan
Cathy
$400 [17]
Canneries of this are the largest private-sector employers in American Samoa
tuna
Roy
$600 [13]
It's bounded by Bolivia, Brazil & Argentina
Paraguay
Cathy
$600 [8]
The St. Peter's College Peacocks
the Peahens
Roy
$600 [3]
Images of this artist's work appear in the play written by & starring Leonard Nimoy as Theo
Van Gogh
Cathy
$600 [28]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue as she makes catfish at the Taylor Grocery in Mississippi.) One key ingredient in a good catfish fry coating is this sauce, developed in India but named for the English city where it was first bottled
Worcestershire
Colleen
$600 [23]
2 of the 10 tallest buildings in New York City are named for this real estate tycoon
(Donald) Trump
Colleen
$600 [19]
Leviticus 5:7 suggests these as an offering; they also make a good second-day-of-Christmas gift
turtle doves
Cathy
$800 [14]
We are marching to the former capital of Transvaal, this city north of Johannesburg
Pretoria
Cathy
$800 [9]
The Northland College Lumber Jacks
the LumberJills
Roy
$800 [4]
"Belle Epoque" features this artist painting Parisian nightlife, can-cans & women drunk on absinthe
Toulouse-Lautrec
Cathy
$800 [29]
Farm-raised catfish get fed at the surface, so they aren't these, also a term for human scavengers or opportunists
bottom feeders
Colleen
$800 [26]
This San Francisco building's largest floor is the fifth, at 21,025 square feet; its smallest is the 48th, at 2,025 sq. feet
The Transamerica building
Cathy
$800 [20]
The word "tulip" goes back to a word for this headwear seen on Muslims
a turban
Roy
$1,000 [15]
In 1975 Murdoch University opened in this state capital of Western Australia
Perth
Cathy
$1,000 [10]
The Central Missouri State Mules
the Jennies
Cathy
$1,000 [5]
The play "Sunday in the Park with George" sprang from this Frenchman's masterpiece
(Georges) Seurat
Colleen
$1,000 [30]
(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Taylor Grocery in Mississippi.) Get your catfish fried, or try this other method that cooks the fish on a skillet & was popularized by Paul Prudhomme
blackened
Cathy
DD $1,200 [27]
The service elevators in this St. Louis edifice rise at an angle of 78 degrees
the Gateway Arch
Cathy
$1,000 [22]
(Mark Hamill reads the clue.) The scenes filmed on Luke's home planet, Tatooine, were actually filmed in this African "T" country
Tunisia
Roy

Double Jeopardy! Round

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE JOHN LEGEND MAROON 5 "U"2 NERVE-ANA GRAMMY WINNERS
$400 [1]
In a 1978 attack on the new Narita Airport serving this capital, protesters broke into & trashed its control tower
Tokyo
Roy
$400 [11]
A college in Cambridge, Mass. was named for this man after he left it half his fortune & a 400-book library
(John) Harvard
Colleen
$400 [16]
Castle Rock in this novel is the fort where Jack bases his tribe; the conch is later shattered there
Lord of the Flies
Colleen
$400 [21]
Thermos bottles use this for insulation between their inner & outer walls
a vacuum
Colleen Roy
$400 [26]
Also called the second cranial nerves, you need them to read this clue
the optic nerves
Roy
$400 [6]
The acoustic album called "MTV" this "in New York" earned a Grammy for Nirvana
Unplugged
Cathy
$800 [2]
Attacks in 2003 claimed by the Earth Liberation Front on L.A. area auto dealers destroyed 20 of these vehicles
Hummers
Roy
$800 [12]
He developed the first successful steel plow, & his company found tractors to be a fertile market
John Deere
Roy
$1,200 [18]
The Duke of Milan is marooned in this play that was inspired by the 1609 wreck of an English ship off Bermuda
The Tempest
Cathy
$800 [22]
A synonym for "homicidal"
murderous
Cathy
$800 [27]
The tingling sensation that arises when the ulnar nerve is struck gives a point on the arm this name
the funny bone
Cathy
$800 [7]
Best New Artist winners include John Legend, Maroon 5 & this jazzy singer of "Don't Know Why"
Norah Jones
Roy
$1,200 [3]
18 years of deadly rage & action towards universities & airlines earned Ted Kaczynski this moniker
the Unabomber
Roy
$1,600 [14]
The American Library Association awards a medal named for this children's book publisher
(John) Newbery
Cathy Roy
$1,600 [19]
This title inhabitant of Asteroid B-612 happens upon a pilot stranded in the desert
The Little Prince
Cathy
$1,200 [23]
It's the practice of lending money at a high interest rate
usury
Colleen
$1,200 [28]
This basic unit of life is often tiny, but the nerve type in a giraffe can be 9 feet long
cell
$1,200 [8]
In 2006 U2 won Album of the Year for "How to Dismantle" one of these
an Atomic Bomb
Cathy
$1,600 [4]
In a 1980 antiwar protest, these priest brothers, Daniel & Philip, attacked missile warheads at a G.E. plant
Berrigan
Roy
$2,000 [15]
This 3-named American artist was known for portraits of socially prominent people, like the women seen here
John Singer Sargent
Roy
$2,000 [20]
Karana survives an earthquake, a tidal wave & 18 years alone on an island in this children's story
Island of the Blue Dolphins
$1,600 [24]
Type of structure named for a 353 B.C. monument built by Queen Artemisia to honor her dead husband
a mausoleum
Roy
$1,600 [29]
The first cranial nerve, also called this sensory nerve, ends in the nasal cavity
the olfactory nerve
Roy
$1,600 [9]
Grammy voters were fixated with this one-named Colombian hottie who won for "Fijacion Oral Vol. 1"
Shakira
Roy
$2,000 [5]
The name of these English 19th century destroyers of textile equipment can now mean any anti-technologists
Luddites
Cathy
DD $3,200 [13]
As the U.S. Constitution was vague, this V.P. decided to name himself President instead of calling for an election
John Tyler
Roy
DD $5,000 [17]
At the end of a 1719 novel, this title character sells his Brazilian plantation, marries & visits his old island
Robinson Crusoe
Colleen
$2,000 [25]
A small, cone-shaped structure at the back of the soft palate
a uvula
Roy
$2,000 [30]
Sometimes confused with rheumatism, this pain is named for the longest nerve in the body
sciatica
Colleen
$2,000 [10]
Rage Against the Machine won for a song called this kind of "Radio" (the soldier, not the animal)
Guerrilla
Colleen

Final Jeopardy!

THE CARIBBEAN

Columbus sighted this volcanic island in 1493 & gave it a name meaning "saw-toothed mountain"

Montserrat

Colleen "What is Haiti?" — wagered $0
Roy "What is Cuba?" — wagered $3,999
Cathy "What is Hispaniola?" — wagered $7,801

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