Show #5580 2008-12-05 (taped 2008-10-14) Regular

Ben Bishop game 4.

Contestants

Greg Morrison — a Foreign Service officer originally from Silver Spring, Maryland

Lauren Robb — a student originally from Franklin, Wisconsin

Ben Bishop — a student originally from Seattle, Washington (whose 3-day cash winnings total $88,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ben $3,400 $6,800 $18,000 $26,000
4-day champion: $114,800
$26,000
32 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Lauren $-800 $-1,000 $4,200 $7,200
2nd place: $2,000
$4,000
10 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Greg $-600 $2,200 $200 $300
3rd place: $1,000
$200
7 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

STATE OF THE UNION CELEBRITY RHYME TIME NORM! iPOD, YOUTUBE OR WII ALL ASHORE FOR BIRD LORE THE ENGLISH TOP 100
$200 [13]
The Jack Daniel's distillery is in Lynchburg in this state
Tennessee
Ben
$200 [6]
Willis's Snapples and Cran-apples
Bruce's juices
Ben Lauren
$200 [18]
The dad of this First Gulf War general was a N.J. State Police bigwig & worked the Lindbergh kidnapping case
(Norman) Schwarzkopf
Lauren
$200 [23]
It was introduced as a way to "put 1,000 songs in your pocket"
iPod
Ben
$200 [11]
Lions don't like to attack ostriches because the big birds do this & can even kill the king of beasts this way
kick
Greg
$200 [1]
It's No. 1, & no, you don't get a hint
the
Ben
$400 [14]
When Jimi Hendrix played "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock, he was strumming in this state
New York
Ben
$400 [7]
Ashton's meat sellers
Kutcher's butchers
Ben
$400 [19]
A sample of this artist's work is seen here
(Norman) Rockwell
Lauren
$400 [24]
There are websites devoted to injuries suffered by its users, such as pulled muscles & bloodied hands
Wii
Ben
$400 [12]
This forward from French Lick, Indiana was NBA MVP 3 times in the 1980s
Larry Bird
Ben
$400 [2]
This No. 30 must be obeyed
she
Ben Lauren Greg
$600 [15]
The Trinity site in this state was the location of the USA's first atomic explosion
New Mexico
Greg
$600 [8]
Cattrall's rooms for hot, sweaty workouts
Kim's gyms
Ben
$600 [20]
In 1981 this "All in the Family" producer co-founded People for the American Way
Norman Lear
Greg
$600 [25]
This has been banned in Thailand, Turkey, Pakistan & Iran
YouTube
Greg
$800 [29]
It's the color in the name of New Hampshire's state bird, a finch, & a state flower, a lilac
purple
Ben Greg
$600 [3]
Self-congratulations, egotists! This word made it all the way to No. 10
I
Ben
$800 [16]
The Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport is in this state
Rhode Island
Ben
$800 [9]
Amanda's avenues
Peet's streets
Lauren
$800 [21]
Think positively! You'll know this man who wrote the newspaper column "Confident Living"
(Norman Vincent) Peale
Greg
$800 [26]
Its name was reportedly inspired by a line from "2001: A Space Odyssey"
iPod
Ben Lauren
DD $1,000 [28]
This bird term for pro-war politicians was popular in the period leading up to the War of 1812
hawks
Lauren
$800 [4]
No. 2, this verb form is a homophone of a letter of the alphabet
be
Ben
$1,000 [17]
"Where The Columbines Grow" is its official state song
Colorado
Ben
$1,000 [10]
Lauer's chiropterans
Matt's bats
Lauren
$1,000 [22]
1968 "The Armies of the Night" won him a Pulitzer & the National Book Award
Norman Mailer
Ben
$1,000 [27]
Britain's Prince William got one last Christmas & Queen Elizabeth promptly commandeered it
Wii
Lauren
$1,000 [30]
Like its relative the peacock, the Argus type of this bird has "eyes" in its elaborate tail feathers
the pheasant
$1,000 [5]
Title of the Beatles song that tells us "life is very short"--5 words: Nos. 27, 53, 87, 11, 43
"We Can Work It Out"
Greg

Double Jeopardy! Round

BRASS STRINGS WOOD & WIND "PER"CUSSION CONDUCTORS SYMPHONIES ON FILM
$400 [16]
In 1989 this son of Jamaican immigrants became Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
(Colin) Powell
Ben
$400 [21]
When this product was introduced in 1972, it was said to have a full "quarter mile" of fun shot out of a can
Silly String
Lauren
$400 [25]
This author wrote of Fangorn Forest, named for the oldest of the Ents-or was the Ent named for the forest?
Tolkien
Lauren
$400 [1]
A type of fish, or to sit on an elevated platform
perch
Lauren
$400 [6]
The Lone Ranger could tell you this precious metal is the best conductor of electricity among metals
silver
Ben
$400 [11]
The Philadelphia Orchestra played Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony" for this 1940 Disney film
Fantasia
Lauren
$800 [17]
If you don't know he was made commander of the 2nd Armored Tank Division in April 1941, I'll slap you silly
(George) Patton
Ben
$1,200 [23]
To make this candy, put a string in a glass of sugar & water that was boiled to a syrup & let stand for a week
rock candy
$800 [26]
In this Herman Wouk tale, Pug Henry is an advisor to FDR prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor
The Winds of War
Ben
$800 [2]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Gathering of Nations.) The Colorado nonprofit Hawkquest doesn't just protect hawks; they also help these falcons, whose name means "wandering"
peregrine
Ben
$800 [7]
(Jon of the Clue Crew lights up a bulb by touching wires to its terminals.) It's a series of electrical components that form a conducting path
a circuit
Greg
$800 [12]
This Russian director's Mexico footage was compiled as "Mexican Symphony" in 1941
(Sergey) Eisenstein
Ben Greg
$1,200 [18]
We shall return to this man who graduated from West Point in 1903 with the highest honors in his class
Doug MacArthur
Ben
$1,600 [24]
According to Bud Collins' "Encyclopedia of Modern Tennis", the best of this string material comes from cows
gut
Ben
$1,200 [27]
His play "Under Milk Wood", about the inhabitants of a Welsh seaside town, was published posthumously
Dylan Thomas
$1,200 [3]
Russian for "rebuilding", this term was first used by Gorbachev in the mid-1980s
perestroika
Ben
$1,200 [8]
Unlike most nonmetals, this element with the symbol B is a workable conductor
boron
Ben
$1,200 [13]
In 1998's "Serengeti Symphony", the title nature reserve in this country is shown with only music & natural sound
Tanzania
Ben
$1,600 [19]
A 10-man, 22-ton "infantry fighting vehicle" named for this general has a 2-man turret & a 25mm cannon
(Omar) Bradley
Ben
DD $2,000 [22]
In the 1630s it was a backup bow & arrow part; today it means backup on a sports team
second string
Lauren
$1,600 [28]
The line "O wild west wind, thou breath of autumn's being" starts an 1819 ode by this man
Percy Shelley
Ben
$1,600 [4]
This daughter of Zeus & Demeter made regular trips to Hades
Persephone
Ben
$1,600 [9]
It's the term for material that conducts at high temperatures & insulates at low temperatures
a semiconductor
$1,600 [14]
This 1922 film seenherewas subtitled "A Symphony of Horror"
Nosferatu
Lauren
DD $8,000 [20]
In 1864 Democrats nominated this Union general for president, though he repudiated their platform
George McClellan
Ben
$2,000 [30]
The hope behind String Theory is that it will result in this, sometimes shortened to "T.O.E."
the theory of everything
Ben
$2,000 [29]
This Frost poem ends with "And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep"
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Ben Greg
$2,000 [5]
11-letter word for the sac containing the heart
pericardium
Ben
$2,000 [10]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew powers a fan by putting one terminal into a beaker of saltwater.) Current that will power the fan is carried by ions rather than free electrons in the saltwater, which is one of these conducting liquids
an electrolyte
$2,000 [15]
The 1934 drama "The Unfinished Symphony" was director Anthony Asquith's tribute to this Austrian composer
Schubert
Ben

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS

On May 15, 1768 France bought this island from Genoa for 2 million livres

Corsica

Greg "What is Corsica?" — wagered $100
Lauren "What is Corsica" — wagered $3,000
Ben "What is Corsica?" — wagered $8,000

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