Show #4880 2005-11-25 (taped 2005-08-17) Regular

Bill MacDonald game 4.

Contestants

Pat Godwin — a reference assistant from Clemson, South Carolina

Robert J. Lee — an attorney from Seattle, Washington

Bill MacDonald — an attorney from Bonita Springs, Florida (whose 3-day cash winnings total $53,798)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bill $3,800 $6,400 $15,000 $21,601
4-day champion: $75,399
$20,600
27 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Robert $3,200 $2,400 $10,800 $2
3rd place: $1,000
$10,800
13 R, 3 W
Pat $2,200 $2,800 $8,000 $200
2nd place: $2,000
$8,000
9 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC AMERICANS SAY "BON" THE NEWSPAPER STEPHEN KING BOOKS LET'S GO GOLFING FOUR!
$200 [16]
He was an artist & a canal engineer before building his first steamboat
(Robert) Fulton
Robert
$200 [6]
Hello, it means hello or good day
bonjour
Pat
$200 [26]
The credit line is a photographer's equivalent of this for reporters
a byline
Bill
$200 [1]
Jack Torrance becomes the winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in this book
The Shining
Bill
$200 [11]
Scoring in golf is done by counting these units that could also be applied by a painter
strokes
Robert
$200 [17]
In the English alphabet, it's the fourth consonant
F
Bill
$400 [22]
A clerk in the U.S. patent office, this "angel" went on to become the superintendent of nurses of the Army of the James
Clara Barton
Pat
$400 [7]
Hope you're hungry for this 2-word term traditionally said at the start of a meal
bon appetit
Bill
$400 [27]
One-syllable term for the continuation (please turn to C17) of a story from one page to another
a jump
$400 [2]
1974 tale subtitled "A Novel of a Girl with a Frightening Power"
Carrie
Robert
$400 [12]
A hole-in-one in golf is also known by this 1-word term
an ace
Robert
$400 [18]
In four-color process printing, the 4 colors used are cyan, magenta, yellow & this "basic" one
black
Bill
$600 [23]
From 1829 to 1832 this transcendental essayist was a minister at the Second Church of Boston
(Ralph Waldo) Emerson
Bill
$600 [8]
Literally, it means "good journey"
bon voyage
Bill
$600 [28]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew opens a copy of The New York Times.) I always find something I agree with & something that gets me mad on this page, named for its physical position in the newspaper
the op-ed page
$600 [3]
Novel that says, "That's one hell of a big dog, son. Are you sure he's safe?"
Cujo
Bill
$600 [13]
Hootie Johnson chairs this "Master"ful golf club, still all-male as of 2005
Augusta National
Robert
$600 [19]
The only athlete to win 4 straight Olympic gold medals in the long jump
(Carl) Lewis
Bill
$800 [24]
During the War of 1812, Put-in-Bay was the scene of his victory over the British at the Battle of Lake Erie
Oliver Hazard Perry
Pat
$800 [9]
One who lives luxuriously & enjoys good food & drink
a bon vivant
Robert
$800 [29]
This is reporting on sudden, unexpected events; there was a Pulitzer category for it in the '90s
spot news reporting
DD $1,000 [4]
Chapter 1 of this novel says, "This here is the best car I ever owned"
Christine
Bill
$800 [14]
Things Tiger Woods doesn't often miss are greens & this, the group of golfers who qualify for the next round
the cut
Robert
$800 [20]
Isaiah said that the Lord shall gather the dispersed "from" these "of the Earth"
the four corners
Bill
$1,000 [25]
In 1759 he served in the House of Burgesses; in 1776 he framed the Declaration of Rights of Virginia
(George) Mason
Bill
$1,000 [10]
8-letter synonym for frank & simple good-heartedness or geniality
bonhomie
Pat
$1,000 [30]
A certain mineral, or the type size used for sports stats & stock tables
agate
$1,000 [5]
A vampire takes over the title hamlet in this, King's second novel
Salem's Lot
Bill
$1,000 [15]
At age 10 in 2000, she became the youngest player ever to qualify for a USGA amateur tournament
(Michelle) Wie
Pat
$1,000 [21]
The 4 U.S. states that begin with the letter "A"
Alaska, Alabama, Arizona, & Arkansas
Robert Pat

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY QUOTATIONS SPICE GIRLS (AND BOYS) DOWN TO EARTH WORLD LEADER DRIVER'S LICENSES? IT'S IN THE CARDS THE "L" IT IS!
$400 [26]
This title character says, "My mother was an ape, and of course she couldn't tell me much about it"
Tarzan
Bill
$400 [1]
It's the first name of "Troy" co-star Burrows, so her parents were probably "mad about" a yellowish spice
Saffron
Bill
$400 [15]
When it's closest to the Earth, this planet with a 687-day year is about 33 million miles away
Mars
Bill
$400 [5]
Hewas the driving force in his country's reforms
Gorbachev
Bill
$400 [13]
In 1909 Elwood Baker invented this game as a variation on what was often called "rum"
gin
Bill
$400 [2]
Between 1867 & 1871 about 1 1/2 million of these cattle made a one-way trip up the Chisholm Trail
longhorns
Bill
$800 [27]
This 17th century work says, "What we see there are not giants but windmills"
Don Quixote
Bill
$800 [9]
It was a "snap" for this "Swing Time" star to earn a 1992 Kennedy Center honor
Ginger Rogers
Bill
$800 [16]
Eratosthenes calculated this c. 230 B.C. using the difference between the sun's angles at 2 places during June
the Earth's circumference
Robert
$800 [6]
Hedrove out the Colonialists
Ho Chi Minh
Bill
$1,200 [20]
Transporting name of the world's bestselling playing card brand for over a century
Bicycle
Pat
$800 [3]
Marine rank just above private first class
lance corporal
Robert
$1,200 [28]
In this Hemingway story, Santiago promises to show a marlin "what a man can do and what a man endures"
The Old Man and the Sea
Pat
$1,200 [23]
The "Today" Show got a little spicier when she became its news anchor in 1997
Ann Curry
Robert
$1,200 [17]
The Lambert one of these formations in the Antarctic is over 250 miles long
a glacier
Bill
$1,200 [7]
Hehad plenty of drive to get ahead in the army
Franco
Pat
$1,600 [21]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew tips her hand.) The two tens of clubs in my hand doesn't mean I'm cheating, but playing this trick-taking game that uses a special deck
pinochle
Robert
$1,200 [4]
Thisactress flowered on the 19th century stage & as the mistress of King Edward VII
Lillie Langtry
Bill
$1,600 [29]
In Dickens, these famous words precede "It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness"
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
Bill
$1,600 [24]
Barbara Bain's "bark" may have been worse than her bite as this spicy character on "Mission: Impossible"
Cinnamon (Carter)
Pat
$2,000 [19]
A clue for alien astronomers looking for life on Earth is the large amount of this gas, CH4, in the atmosphere
methane
Bill
$1,600 [8]
Hedrove his people to distraction
Idi Amin
Robert
$2,000 [22]
The name of this card may have evolved from a variant version of the card game name Euchre
a joker
Robert
$1,600 [11]
Walt Whitman's famous elegy talks about these that "in the dooryard bloom'd"
lilacs
Robert
$2,000 [30]
This Poe plague "had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal"
the Red Death
Bill
$2,000 [25]
Movie producer Neufeld, or a spice with a weapon name
Mace
Robert
DD $9,000 [18]
"Cast" in the role of the fourth most abundant element in the Earth's crust, its atomic number is 26
iron
Bill
$2,000 [10]
Hedrove his party off a cliff in 1997
(John) Major
Bill
DD $4,000 [14]
In draw poker, it's the hand whose value is between a nonstraight flush & 4 of a kind
a full house
Bill
$2,000 [12]
A 1905 earthquake in this Punjab capital killed more than 10,000
Lahore
Bill

Final Jeopardy!

COMPANY ORIGINS

This company's namesake founder, the son of German immigrants, sold pickles to Pittsburgh grocers

Heinz

Pat "What is Vlasic?" — wagered $7,800
Robert "What is Vlasic?" — wagered $10,798
Bill "What is Heinz?" — wagered $6,601

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