Show #4860 2005-10-28 (taped 2005-08-03) Regular

Contestants

Laura Henne — an environmental specialist from Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Alaric Smith — a songwriter, vocalist, and graduate student from Sacramento, California

Joey Bland — an actor and improviser from Chicago, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $27,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joey $2,600 $4,200 $17,200 $21,200
2-day champion: $48,200
$15,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Alaric $4,200 $6,000 $6,400 $12,401
2nd place: $2,000
$6,400
16 R, 6 W
Laura $600 $0 $6,200 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$6,600
9 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE LAB WE'VE GOT YOUR BACK BUILDING TYPES STUCK IN THE MIDDLE AGES WITH YOU MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPERS "B" PREPARED
$200 [28]
In 1985 a British Antarctic science expedition first detected one of these that forms annually in the ozone layer
a hole
Laura
$200 [1]
___ & The E Street Band
Bruce Springsteen
Joey
$200 [21]
The London structure where the little princes were kept in 1483 is called the "Bloody" this
Tower
Alaric
$200 [12]
Berlin's first Reichstag was a governmental body formed by princes & nobles of this medieval empire
the Holy Roman Empire
Joey
$200 [29]
This magazine's "Marginal Thinking Department" features "drawn out dramas" by Sergio Aragones
Mad magazine
Alaric Laura
$200 [14]
Drink up! This nation leads the world in coffee growing
Brazil
Laura
$400 [27]
A fluorescent lamp contains argon & a small amount of this liquid metal's vapor
mercury
Laura
$400 [2]
___ & Dawn
Tony Orlando
Alaric
$400 [22]
Dictionaries define a cottage as a small house with just 1 of these
a story
Alaric
$400 [13]
Around 1268 Roger Bacon observed that these new optical devices could be used to improve eyesight
lenses
Alaric Laura
$600 [25]
Adolph Ochs, who bought into The New York Times in 1896, "train"ed at this Tennessee city's Times
Chattanooga
Alaric
$400 [15]
Sodium penthothal is in this class of drugs that have sedative & hypnotic properties
barbiturates
Alaric
$600 [6]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew juices a lemon in the chemistry lab.) This acid--C6H8O7--is found in the juice I'mextracting
citric acid
Alaric
$600 [3]
___ & The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty
Alaric
$600 [9]
A building dedicated to one country at a World's Fair, like the 1939 or 1967 one
a pavilion
Joey
$600 [17]
A poet, mathematician & astronomer, he moved people with the quatrains in his 12th century "Rubaiyat"
Omar Khayyam
Joey
$800 [24]
In 1989 & 1999, it got the National Magazine Award's "Seal of Approval" for personal service
Good Housekeeping
$600 [16]
(Hi, I'm Wolf Blitzer.) During the 2000 election I interviewed Bush, Gore, Nader & this Reform Party nominee
Pat Buchanan
Alaric
$800 [7]
In 1969 Marcian Hoff Jr. condensed all of a computer's arithmetic functions to this one tiny chip
a microprocessor chip
$800 [4]
___ & The Silver Bullet Band
Bob Seger
Joey
$800 [10]
The structure seenhereat Churchill Downs is known as this, like certain Buddhist edifices
a pagoda
Joey
$800 [18]
Chinese explorer Cheng Ho died in Calicut, India some 65 years before this Portuguese man reached it in 1498
Vasco da Gama
Alaric
$1,000 [26]
In 1756, the New Hampshire Gazette, the state's first newspaper, began publishing in this "port" city
Portsmouth
Alaric
$800 [19]
In The Princeton Review's 2004 colleges survey, this university of 30,000 was ranked lowest in alcohol consumption
Brigham Young University
Alaric
$1,000 [8]
William Gilbert coined the word electricity, which comes from the Latin word for this fossil resin
amber
Alaric
$1,000 [5]
___ & The Tijuana Brass
Herb Alpert
Alaric
$1,000 [11]
As well as the art of public speaking, this word can mean a place for prayer, like Montreal's St. Joseph'sone
an oratory
$1,000 [23]
Now called ergotism, this "fiery" medieval disease took its name from the order of monks who treated it
St. Anthony's Fire
Alaric
DD $1,400 [30]
Guideposts magazine was founded in 1945 by this "positive" minister & his wife Ruth
Norman Vincent Peale
Laura
$1,000 [20]
This African country's capital is Gaborone
Botswana
Joey

Double Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY LITERATURE MOVIE TAGLINES WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARIES HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES PAIR CAPITA 6-LETTER WORDS
$400 [6]
This 1949 novel features a society dominated by such slogans as "War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength"
1984
Joey
$400 [11]
1995:"Houston, we have a problem"
Apollo 13
Joey
$400 [16]
Serving under President Clinton, she was the first female press secretary
Dee Dee Myers
$400 [22]
National Aviation Day is on the August 19 birthday of this pioneer who made the first powered flight in Dec. 1903
Orville Wright
Alaric
$400 [17]
A pair of cocky, cartoon magpies, one had a New York accent & one had a British accent
Heckle & Jeckle
Alaric
$400 [1]
Your Uncle Marty can't believe you bought that sweater this way when he owns 3 garment factories
retail
Laura
$800 [7]
When this title slat bridge with vine handrails broke, 5 victims were hurled to their death
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Joey
$800 [12]
2003:"The guy next door just became the man upstairs"
Bruce Almighty
Joey
$1,200 [29]
Pierre Salinger became the interim California senator 4 years after being made press secretary by this president
JFK
$800 [23]
England honors this bird, not the clock, in April; its arrival announces the return of spring
a cuckoo
Joey Alaric
$800 [20]
About a century ago, London's South Kensington Museum got renamed for this pair
Victoria & Albert
Alaric
$800 [2]
The earlier-in-the-sentence counterpart of latter
former
Alaric
$1,600 [9]
This 1946 Nikos Kazantzakis novel was narrated by a Crete mine owner who's drawn out of his shell by an elderly employee
Zorba the Greek
Joey
$1,200 [13]
2001:"Ten years ago he could get to you from behind the glass. On Feb. 9th he's out"
Hannibal
$1,600 [26]
Marlin Fitzwater was first appointed by this president
Ronald Reagan
$1,200 [24]
Shavu'ot, or Feast of Weeks, is a Jewish holiday celebrated 7 weeks after this festival
Passover
$1,200 [18]
Known for their 1972 match, these Russian & American chess players had a rematch 20 years later
Fischer & Spassky
Alaric
$1,200 [3]
"Admire" has the same Latin root as this, a household item commonly used for admiration
mirror
Laura
$2,000 [10]
This most popular of Zane Grey's books featured a gunslinger named Lassiter & Jane Withersteen, a Mormon heiress
Riders of the Purple Sage
$1,600 [14]
2001:"One ring to rule them all"
The Fellowship of the Ring
Joey
$2,000 [27]
This president appointed Ronald Ziegler, who was just 29
Nixon
Joey
$1,600 [25]
On the first Monday in March, Illinois honors this Polish hero of the American Revolution
Pulaski
Joey
$1,600 [19]
In a tragic Babylonian love story recounted by Ovid, Pyramus is paired with this fair maiden
Thisbe
Laura
$1,600 [4]
It's an alternate name for a high school yearbook
an annual
Joey
DD $3,000 [8]
While traveling from Oklahoma to California during the Depression, she says, "All we got is the family unbroke"
Ma Joad
Joey
$2,000 [15]
A 2001 sequel:"He will rise again"
The Mummy Returns
$2,000 [28]
The weather on July 15, this saint's day, is said to fortell the weather for the next 40 days
St. Swithun
DD $3,000 [21]
"Hurrah! Hurrah! For Cleve & Steve" was an 1890s song for this pair campaigning for prez & veep
Grover Cleveland & (Adlai) Stevenson
Laura
$2,000 [5]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates the proper way to hang Old Glory.) When hanging a flag in a window, this rectangular corner section should be to the left of the viewer
the canton

Final Jeopardy!

CAPITAL CITIES

Home to the oldest cathedral & the oldest university in the Americas, this capital was founded in 1496

Santo Domingo

Laura "What isBostonMexico" — wagered $6,200
Alaric "What is Santo Domingo?" — wagered $6,001
Joey "What is Santo Domingo?" — wagered $4,000

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