Show #4786 2005-05-30 (taped 2004-11-16) Regular

Contestants

Matt Whitney — a high school English teacher from Santa Barbara, California

Lisa Voss — a library assistant from Lincoln, Nebraska

Charlie Kahn — a middle school math teacher from Versailles, Kentucky (whose 1-day cash winnings total $25,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Charlie $1,800 $4,800 $6,800 $12,800
2nd place: $2,000
$8,800
14 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Lisa $1,800 $3,200 $9,200 $14,000
New champion: $14,000
$8,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Matt $3,800 $5,000 $6,200 $7,700
3rd place: $1,000
$8,400
16 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

MEN OF SCIENCE SPORTS 2004 FILL IN THE TITLE ENDS IN "EE" DONALD TRUMP YOU'RE FIRED!
$200 [15]
In 1933 he joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.; he became a U.S. citizen in 1940
Albert Einstein
Charlie
$200 [20]
These big cats gave the Patriots all they could handle in Super Bowl XXXVIII
the (Carolina) Panthers
Matt
$200 [6]
Alice Walker:"The Color ___"
Purple
Charlie
$200 [1]
In Mississippi there's a town called Coldwater as well as a "Hot" this beverage
Coffee
Lisa
$200 [11]
A noted germophobe, Trump said, "I think" this form of greeting "is barbaric... you catch the flu"
handshaking
Matt
$200 [26]
An ad agency fired this eventual "Happiest Place on Earth" creator, citing a "singular lack of drawing ability"
Walt Disney
Charlie
$400 [16]
In 1589 he became a professor of mathematics at the U. of Pisa; in 1592 he moved on the U. of Padua
Galileo
Lisa
$400 [21]
All "Hale" this 58-year-old who won his fourth Senior PGA championship by a str--a shot
Hale Irwin
Lisa
$400 [7]
John Steinbeck:"The ___ Pony"
Red
Lisa
$400 [2]
A piece to cover your pate
toupée
Matt
$400 [12]
Trump owned the N.J. Generals, a team that featured Doug Flutie & Herschel Walker, in this league
the USFL
Charlie Lisa Matt
$400 [27]
Bob Lemon, Gene Michael & Lou Piniella were each fired twice by him; we won't get into the Billy Martin saga
George Steinbrenner
Matt
$600 [17]
The director of St. Petersburg's Institute of Experimental Medicine until his 1936 death; his name ring a bell?
(Ivan) Pavlov
Lisa
$600 [23]
He was the winning pitcher in the clinching game of all 3 series in the Red Sox' magical run
Derek Lowe
Matt
$600 [8]
James Ellroy:"The ___ Dahlia"
Black
Matt
$600 [3]
It's the celebration of a special anniversary, perhaps the "diamond" one
jubilee
Matt
$600 [13]
This Trump family minister & author of "The Power of Positive Thinking" performed the Donald's marriage to Ivana
Norman Vincent Peale
Matt
$600 [28]
Old soldiers never die, they get canned, like this general famously was on April 11, 1951
Douglas MacArthur
Matt
$800 [18]
This French physicist wasn't the pits with his 1851 "pendulum" that demonstrated the Earth's rotation
Foucault
Matt
$800 [24]
Women from this country won tennis' Wimbledon & French & U.S. Opens
Russia
Charlie
$800 [9]
Scott O'Dell:"Island of the ___ Dolphins"
Blue
Charlie
$800 [4]
Native American Indians inhabited this Georgia swamp as early as 2500 B.C.
the Okefenokee
Lisa
$800 [14]
Heavily in debt in '91, Trump spotted a beggar & said to this woman, wife No. 2, "He's worth $900 million more than I am"
Marla Maples
Lisa
$1,000 [30]
In 1781 Hieronymus Colloredo, Archbishop of Austria, fired this musician with a literal boot in the rump
Mozart
Charlie
$1,000 [19]
This British biologist & model maker who partnered with James Watson passed away on July 29, 2004
(Francis) Crick
Matt
$1,000 [25]
This team's Chauncey Billups was MVP of the NBA Finals
the Detroit Pistons
Charlie
$1,000 [10]
Charlotte Perkins Gilman:"The ____ Wall-Paper"
Yellow
Matt
$1,000 [5]
In his 12-volume "A Study of History", he traced the rise & fall of 26 civilizations
(Arnold) Toynbee
Charlie
$1,000 [22]
The Donald graduated first in his class from this school of finance at U.Penn. in 1968
Wharton
Matt
DD $2,200 [29]
In 1978 Handy Dan Hardware axed Arthur Blank--but he did okay, co-founding this chain in Atlanta
Home Depot
Matt

Double Jeopardy! Round

BALLET KEN YOU DIG IT? PEOPLE IN HISTORY THE SUSHI BAR WHERE AM I? BEFORE & AFTER
$400 [1]
In the 1940s & 1950s Galina Ulanova was the chief ballerina for this company formed almost 200 years earlier
the Bolshoi
Charlie
$400 [21]
That PBS Civil War documentary guy
Ken Burns
Lisa
$400 [6]
Britain's Edmund Burke called for peace with the colonies the day before this man demanded liberty or death
Patrick Henry
Charlie Matt
$400 [9]
The "spider" in a spider roll is a soft-shell one of these
a crab
Lisa
$400 [26]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a block of cheese.) I'm in this Midwest state famous for making cheddar, which actually originated in a village in England
Wisconsin
Charlie
$400 [16]
Goneril's dad who's a schmancy private plane
King Learjet
Lisa
$800 [2]
Appropriate 1-word title of the Balanchine Ballet in 3 parts: "Emeralds", "Rubies" & "Diamonds"
Jewels
Lisa
$800 [22]
That Disney stalwart who also played the commander of "F Troop"
Ken Berry
$800 [7]
After Isabella died, he married teenaged Germaine de Foix in 1505
Ferdinand
Matt
$800 [10]
Tony Shalhoub might enjoy ankimo, the liver of this fish
the monkfish
Lisa
$800 [27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew leans over a pool filled with denizens of the not-so-deep.) I'm at the 190,000 gallon manatee exhibit at the zoo of this city, now Ohio's most populous
Columbus
Charlie Matt
$800 [17]
Crude incendiary grenade with a Russian name that's an explosive social gathering
Molotov Cocktail Party
Lisa
$1,200 [3]
This choreographer's first ballet "Fancy Free", combined ballet & jazz dancing
Jerome Robbins
Charlie Matt
$1,200 [23]
That guy who broke Muhammad Ali's jaw in a 1973 bout
Ken Norton (Sr.)
Matt
$1,200 [8]
This Asian said his "greatest joy" was "to conquer his enemies... and to clasp their wives and daughters"
Genghis Khan
Lisa
$1,200 [11]
On the heels of the California roll came this city roll with salmon & the cream cheese of the same name
Philadelphia
Lisa
$1,200 [28]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands on a hill overlooking a steaming watercourse.) In 1872 Congress established this area of over 2 million acres after seeingphotostakenby William Jackson
Yellowstone National Park
Charlie Lisa
$1,600 [19]
The Brooklyn Dodgers'' "Little Colonel" who is "Legally Blonde"
Pee Wee Reese Witherspoon
$1,600 [4]
In 1912 this Russian not only choreographed "The Afternoon of a Faun", he danced the part of the faun as well
Nijinsky
Lisa
$1,600 [24]
That merry prankster author who took us all inside the cuckoo's nest
Ken Kesey
Matt
$1,600 [14]
Crawford Long, the first doctor to use ether as an anesthetic, was a college roommate of this Confederate VP
Alexander Stephens
$1,600 [12]
It's the 4-letter term for the thin sheets of dried seaweed in which sushi is wrapped
nori
Lisa
DD $2,000 [18]
Daddy Warbucks' charge who photographs celebrities for Vanity Fair & Rolling Stone
(Little) Orphan Annie Leibovitz
Lisa
$2,000 [5]
Literally French for "beating", this movement of the leg may be grand, petit or frappe
a battement
Lisa
$2,000 [25]
That "Gothic" guy who made films about Liszt, Mahler & Elgar
Ken Russell
Lisa
DD $2,000 [15]
On signing a 1921 treaty with England, this Irish leader said, "I signed my death warrant"--he was right
Michael Collins
Charlie
$2,000 [13]
Often served along with sushi, gari is pickled this; shoga is the plain root
ginger
Charlie Lisa
$2,000 [20]
Peter Rabbit's mischievous cousin who enters Mr. McGregor's garden & uses it as a beginner's ski run
Benjamin Bunny Slope (Benjamin Bunny Hill accepted)
Lisa

Final Jeopardy!

LEGAL TERMS

In 1999 Britain replaced Latin legal terms with English ones; "witness summons" replaced this word

subpoena

Matt "What is subpoena?" — wagered $1,500
Charlie "What is subpoena?" — wagered $6,000
Lisa "What subpoena?" — wagered $4,800

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