Show #4490 2004-02-27 (taped 2003-12-02) Regular

Contestants

Gay Hammond — a college instructor from Gainesville, Georgia

Jeff Trumbower — a college professor from Jericho, Vermont

Patrick Macaraeg — a software engineer from Largo, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $24,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Patrick $3,400 $10,000 $17,200 $20,401
2-day champion: $45,001
$17,200
26 R (including 3 DDs), 0 W
Jeff $4,000 $5,800 $10,200 $20,400
2nd place: $2,000
$10,200
18 R, 4 W
Gay $-800 $1,000 $1,400 $100
3rd place: $1,000
$1,400
7 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. BODIES OF WATER "M"USIC GARDENING FAREWELL TO THE CHIEF PAUL OF FAME DON'T LOSE YOUR TRAIN OF THOUGHT
$200 [13]
Green Bay in Wisconsin is the largest arm of this Great Lake
Lake Michigan
Patrick
$200 [3]
In 2003 she released her tenth studio album, "American Life"
Madonna
Patrick
$200 [26]
It's a small area of ground planted with flowers, but one may also hold oysters or sleepers
bed
Patrick
$200 [1]
December 14, 1799 at his home in Virginia
(George) Washington
Patrick
$200 [8]
In April 1990 he played live to a world record 184,000 people at Rio de Janeiro's Maracana Stadium
Paul McCartney
Jeff Gay
$200 [21]
Platfprm 9 3/4 at King's Cross Station in this city is the place where Harry Potter boards the train to Hogwarts
London
Jeff
$400 [14]
Now hear this--Washington state's Whidbey Island is one of many in this inlet
Puget Sound
Patrick
$400 [7]
(Hi, I'm Pam Tillis) Maybe it was this Tennessee city that was mentioned in the title of my 1992 hit; in fact I'm sure of it
Memphis
Patrick
$400 [27]
You propagate this pungent plant by dividing the compound bulbs into individual cloves
garlic
Jeff
$400 [2]
July 4, 1826
John Adams (or Thomas Jefferson)
Gay
$400 [9]
This over 140-year-old winery promised, "We Will Sell No Wine Before Its Time"
Paul Masson
Jeff
$400 [22]
The Grand Traverse Dinner Train specializes in tours of this duration, so let's invite Gilligan
3 hours
Patrick
$600 [15]
The south shore of this lake forms the northern boundary of New Orleans
Lake Pontchartrain
Jeff
$600 [18]
It's the last name of horn-playing brothers Branford & Wynton
Marsalis
Patrick
$600 [28]
A wise tip from the "Wise Garden Encyclopedia" is: never prune evergreens during this season
winter
Jeff
$600 [4]
December 26, 1972 in Kansas City, Missouri
(Harry) Truman
Patrick
$600 [10]
The 1966 Bardahl Eagle, seen here, was used in the auto racing movie "Winning", starring this man
Paul Newman
Patrick
$600 [23]
The Lookout Mountain Incline Railway, one of the world's steepest, starts in this "Choo Choo" city
Chattanooga
Jeff
$800 [16]
This river that flows into Boston Harbor is the longest river entirely within Massachusetts
the Charles
Patrick
$800 [19]
Go a little crazy with this band heard here
Madness
Patrick
$800 [29]
The Popilla japonica or Japanese this eats the roots of plants as a grub & the flowers as an adult
beetle
Gay
$800 [5]
August 2, 1923 in San Francisco, California
(Warren G.) Harding
Patrick
$800 [11]
This U.S. senator from Illinois had a penchant for bowties
Paul Simon
Jeff
$800 [24]
In 1912 Henry Flagler rode the first train that linked the U.S. mainland to this, the southernmost city in Florida
Key West
Patrick
DD $1,000 [17]
This 2- to 10-mile-wide bay separates Miami from Miami Beach
Biscayne Bay
Patrick
$1,000 [20]
This group that sang about the "Boy From New York City" is named for a John Dos Passos novel
the Manhattan Transfer
Patrick
$1,000 [30]
The maidenhair fern reproduces by these, not seeds
spores
Gay
$1,000 [6]
His ride ended on January 6, 1919 in Oyster Bay, New York
Teddy Roosevelt
Jeff
$1,000 [12]
A work by this influential Frenchman is seen here
Paul Cezanne
Jeff Gay
$1,000 [25]
After touring the Coors Brewing Company, you may want to visit the Colorado Railroad Museum in this city
Golden
Patrick

Double Jeopardy! Round

GEOLOGY THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS A MATTER OF TASTE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD LEADERS WHAT A TOOL IT'S A ZOO IN HERE!
$400 [26]
Around 132 A.D. Chinese scientist Chang Heng invented an early form of this earthquake detector
seismograph
Patrick
$400 [1]
June Lockhart debuted as a Cratchit child in this 1938 film, with her real parents playing Mr. & Mrs. Bob Cratchit
A Christmas Carol
Jeff
$400 [13]
The item seen here, or the taste it might have if made with lemons
tart
Gay
$400 [2]
In 1899 future South Africa P.M. Louis Botha & his forces took this future British P.M., then a journalist, as prisoner
Winston Churchill
Jeff
$400 [21]
Its splayed prongs at the end of a long handle make piling up leaves a snap
rake
Jeff
$400 [8]
Prior to meaning a football, it was slang for a saddle
pigskin
Patrick
$800 [27]
One of the world's busiest geyser areas lies in a lava field near this Icelandic capital
Reykjavik
Patrick
$800 [4]
This "American Beauty" star stole into films as the guy who robs Meryl Streep's therapy group in "Heartburn"
Kevin Spacey
Gay
$800 [14]
Cacao beans, the source of chocolate, aren't sweet--they contain this bitter, popular stimulant
caffeine
Patrick
$800 [3]
Ptolemy I's improvements to this city included a library, a museum & a lighthouse
Alexandria
Patrick
$800 [22]
It's the type of screwdriver with a cross-shaped tip
Phillips
Patrick
DD $800 [9]
Watt fixed this unit of measure to indicate the strength of his steam engine
horsepower
Patrick
$1,200 [28]
In the science of geology, petrographers are concerned with classifying these
rocks
Jeff
$1,200 [5]
Tommy Lee Jones, who played football at Harvard, debuted as a Harvard pal of Ryan O'Neal's in this film
Love Story
Patrick
$1,200 [18]
1 of the 3 zesty ingredients of the original Tabasco brand sauce
(1 of 3) aged red peppers, Avery Island salt or vinegar
Jeff
DD $1,200 [15]
That Great Wall thing didn't work; this warrior's forces crossed it & went on to sack Peking in 1215
Genghis Khan
Patrick
$1,200 [23]
Used for shaping wood surfaces, it has a steel edge that extends through its flat bottom
the plane
$1,200 [10]
It's a pit dug on a battlefield that's only big enough to hold a couple of soldiers
foxhole
Gay
$1,600 [29]
In 2003 it was located at 82 degrees north latitude, 112 degrees west longitude near Ellef Ringness Island
the Magnetic North Pole
$1,600 [6]
Ann Jillian played Bo Peep in her debut, this Disney movie musical based on a Victor Herbert operetta
Babes in Toyland
Gay
$1,600 [19]
Despite the name of this brand of spread, chef Anthony Bourdain says, "I can"
I Can't Believe It's Not Butter
Jeff Gay
$1,600 [16]
In 1928 the empress Zauditu crowned this man king of Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
Jeff
$1,600 [24]
From the Old English nafogar, it's a boring tool
auger
Jeff
$1,600 [11]
It's a bovine term for a sharp bend in a river
ox-bow
$2,000 [30]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew) The glaciers here in Alaska are remnants of the last Ice Age, which ended about 11,500 years ago during this epoch
the Pleistocene
Jeff
$2,000 [7]
Audiences have had "A Fine Romance" with this British dame since she debuted in "The Third Secret"
Judi Dench
$2,000 [20]
Wine-tasting term for the final impression left on the palate--it's supposed to be "long"
the finish
$2,000 [17]
This great ruler of the Persian Empire got the job in part by exposing an imposter claiming to be Smerdis
Darius
Jeff Gay
$2,000 [25]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Alaska) Use an axe to fell a tree, but to carve a totem pole, you need this tool that also starts with "A"
adze
Jeff
$2,000 [12]
To treat someone like a celebrity (it sounds like an Eagles hit)
lionize
Jeff

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN SLANG

This term for a small, out-of-the-way town is also the name of a long-gone Algonquian Indian tribe

Podunk

Gay "What is Boondock" — wagered $1,300
Jeff "What is Podun K" — wagered $10,200
Patrick "What is Podunk?" — wagered $3,201

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