Show #4881 2005-11-28 (taped 2005-09-13) Regular

Bill MacDonald game 5.Vik Vaz game 1.

Contestants

Vik Vaz — a medical student from Austin, Texas

Beth Doner — a homemaker from Dearborn, Michigan

Bill MacDonald — an attorney from Bonita Springs, Florida (whose 4-day cash winnings total $75,399)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bill $2,100 $3,900 $11,100 $16,801
3rd place: $1,000
$10,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Beth $2,600 $6,800 $11,600 $22,800
2nd place: $2,000
$11,600
14 R, 2 W
Vik $2,000 $3,800 $14,200 $23,201
New champion: $23,201
$14,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

NAME THAT BEARD AWARDS & HONORS BAY "B" 1987 OBITS HOW'S THAT WORKING OUT FOR YOU? A PROVERBIAL MESS
$200 [8]
A formercongressman
Abraham Lincoln
Vik
$200 [13]
On June 3, 2001 "The Producers" won 12 of these awards, setting a new record
a Tony
Bill
$200 [16]
The Venetian Causeway, consisting of 11 islands & 12 bridges, spans this bay in South Florida
Biscayne Bay
Bill Beth Vik
$200 [21]
...and away he went June 24, 1987 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Jackie Gleason
Bill
$200 [3]
I'm fine without a spotter as I lie on this to do the "press" named for it--uh, help?
a bench
Bill
$200 [1]
Son father like like
Like father like son
Bill
$400 [10]
You could say this Egyptian leaderwas monumental
Ramses II
Beth Vik
$400 [14]
The Barrymore Awards are presented in this Pennsylvania city, birthplace of John, Ethel & Lionel Barrymore
Philadelphia
Bill
$400 [17]
The French call it Golfe de Gascogne; the Spanish, Golfo de Vizcaya
the Bay of Biscay
Vik
$400 [22]
In February, a heart attack following gallbladder surgery claimed the life of this pop artist
Andy Warhol
Beth
$400 [12]
In the Marines' men's fitness test, I can run & do crunches, but I wish they'd lower the bar for this exercise
chin-ups (or pull-ups)
Bill
$400 [2]
Words louder than actions speak
Actions speak louder than words
Beth
$600 [11]
From being in exile toworld leader, all in 1979
Ayatollah Khomeini
Vik
$800 [27]
His close pal (& "Reds" co-star) Jack Nicholson presented him with the Irving Thalberg Award in 2000
(Warren) Beatty
Bill
$600 [19]
A monument on the south shore of this Australian bay marks the spot where Capt. James Cook first landed in 1770
Botany Bay
Beth
$600 [23]
In September it was goodbye, we'll miss you & "All That Jazz" to this choreographer & film director
(Bob) Fosse
Bill
$600 [24]
Some say these were named for their original resemblance to certain objects with clappers removed
dumbbells
Bill Beth
$600 [4]
In worth the bird hand in is a bush the two
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
Vik
$800 [7]
Hehas his own "ism" and died in London in 1883
Karl Marx
Beth
DD $900 [15]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands behind a statuette, the inscription blurred, and in front of the presidential seal.) This is the Emmy Award that this famous woman won in 1962 for giving a memorable tour of her home
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Bill
$800 [18]
The U.S. Air Force's Thule Air Base in Greenland lies on the eastern shore of this bay
Baffin Bay
Beth
$800 [29]
This 2-term governor of Kansas & 1936 Republican candidate for president passed away at age 100
Alf Landon
Vik
$800 [25]
A collar called the Manta Ray makes this knee-bending weight exercise less of a pain in the neck
squats
Vik
$800 [5]
Bright on the always side look
Always look on the bright side
Bill
$1,000 [9]
A funny Irish dramatist seenherearound 1923
George Bernard Shaw
Bill Beth
$1,000 [28]
This winner of the National Book Award became a film starring Glenn as Shepard, Shepard as Yeager & Harris as Glenn
The Right Stuff
Beth Vik
$1,000 [20]
The Andaman & Nicobar Islands are 2 major island groups in this large bay
the Bay of Bengal
Vik
$1,000 [30]
Go tell it on the mountain that he passed away in St. Paul de Vence, France on December 1
(James) Baldwin
Beth
$1,000 [26]
I joined a club of this company, stock symbol BFT, so I know I'll work out often so as not to waste my dues
Bally (Total Fitness)
Bill
$1,000 [6]
Never better than late
Better late than never
Vik

Double Jeopardy! Round

SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY RENAISSANCE MEN TAKE A MICHIGANDER AT THIS SET UP THE "PIN"S DE CAMERON TECH. ABBREV.
$400 [1]
On August 5, 1498 he landed on Venezuela's Paria Peninsula, becoming the first European to reach South America
Columbus
Bill
$400 [11]
Machiavelli addressed "The Prince" to this man who he hoped would give him a position to support his family
Lorenzo de Medici
Beth Vik
$400 [3]
Last name of the "flaky" guy born on April 7, 1860 in Battle Creek
Kellogg
Bill
$400 [13]
The large claws of a lobster or crab
pincers
Vik
$1,200 [26]
He was in the "Thick" of things as Mike Seaver on "Growing Pains"
Kirk Cameron
Beth Vik
$1,200 [24]
This term for a type of connector is the I in the abbreviation GUI
interface
Bill
$800 [2]
During WWII this colonel amassed power in Argentina; in 1946 he was elected president
Juan Peron
Beth
$800 [12]
In the 15th century Guillaume Dufay wrote many of these musical pieces, French for "songs"
chansons
Bill
$800 [6]
He was born Feb. 4, 1902 in Detroit; 25 years later, he'd become a world-famous hero for 2 days of work
Lindbergh
Vik
$800 [17]
Betty Grable was known as the "Queen of" these because WWII soldiers so prized her photograph
Pinups
Bill
$1,600 [25]
The liner notes for Led Zeppelin's "The Song Remains the Same" were written by this film director
(Cameron) Crowe
Bill
$1,600 [23]
UST stands for these, which mainly hold petroleum products; a LUST is a leaking one
underground storage tank
$1,200 [4]
In 1998 this commander-in-chief of Chile's army & former president was appointed to the Chilean senate
Pinochet
Vik
$1,200 [14]
This Spanish painter's son appears in his 1586 masterpiece the "Burial of the Count of Orgaz"
El Greco
Vik
$1,600 [10]
Born in Grand Rapids in 1935, he perished with fellow astronauts Grissom & White in 1967
(Roger) Chaffee
Beth
$1,200 [18]
These beans were dried & used as a kind of Old West energy bar
pinto beans
Vik
$2,000 [21]
In 1981 it was raining "Cats" (but not dogs) for Andrew Lloyd Webber & this British theatrical producer
Cameron Mackintosh
$2,000 [22]
As well as The Learning Channel & tender loving care, TLC stands for this, the volume of gas a human can hold
total lung capacity
Bill
$1,600 [5]
Just before this country gained its independence in 1975, thousands of its people emigrated to Holland
Suriname
Beth
$1,600 [15]
One of the great works in the early career of this master of the High Renaissance is 1504's "Marriage of the Virgin"
Raphael
Vik
$2,000 [9]
Before "Stella Got Her Groove Back", this Port Huron-born author overcame battles wtih drugs & alcohol
Terry McMillan
$1,600 [19]
Lower global temperatures in the early '90s may be traced back to ash from this volcano
Mt. Pinatubo
Vik
DD $5,000 [7]
In 1995 Javier Perez de Cuellar ran for president of Peru but was defeated by this man
Alberto Fujimori
Vik
$2,000 [16]
Acclaimed the 1st great architect of the Italian Renaissance, he is credited with designing the Pitti Palace
Brunelleschi
DD $3,000 [8]
We don't know if this novelist was "So Big" at her Aug. 15, 1887 birth, but we do know it was in a zoo: Kalamazoo
Edna Ferber
Vik
$2,000 [20]
The chief lyric poet of Ancient Greece, he's famous for his triumphal odes
Pindar
Vik

Final Jeopardy!

HERALDIC SYMBOLS

Dating from the second half of the 15th century, the Tudor rose has petals of these 2 colors

red & white

Bill "What are red + white?" — wagered $5,701
Beth "What are Red & White?" — wagered $11,200
Vik "What are white $ red?" — wagered $9,001

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