Show #4883 2005-11-30 (taped 2005-09-13) Regular

Vik Vaz game 3.

Contestants

Liz Lackey — a student from Wayne, New Jersey

Josh Danson — a marketing communications consultant from San Francisco, California

Vik Vaz — a medical student from Austin, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $51,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Vik $2,600 $6,600 $15,400 $20,801
3-day champion: $72,002
$14,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Josh $1,600 $3,800 $10,400 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$11,400
18 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Liz $1,400 $2,000 $10,400 $5,399
2nd place: $2,000
$9,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

CUBAN HISTORY WOMEN IN SONG -OLOGY WHIZ MATTERS OF THE ART SECRETS OF THE CIA ENDS IN "G"
$200 [1]
On July 26, 1953 this future president & 150 followers attacked one of Cuba's major military bases
Castro
Liz
$200 [2]
From 1965:"Sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble"
Michelle
Liz
$200 [30]
Sedimentology is a branch of this -ology
geology
Josh
$200 [28]
He created the 1931 oil-on-canvas piece seen here
(Salvador) Dalí
Liz
$200 [25]
The one-day "Teenagers in the Kitchen" course focuses on this food & the dough for it
pizza
Vik
$200 [7]
A small snail-like mollusk that has no shell, or a metal disk often used illegally in vending machines
a slug
Josh
$400 [8]
Cuba first came under Spanish control in this century
the 16th century
Josh
$400 [3]
Neil Diamond:"Hands, touchin' hands, reachin' out, touchin' me, touchin' you..."
Sweet Caroline
Liz
$400 [29]
At Cornell, "Intuitive Judgment" & "Comparative Cognition" are courses in this department
psychology
Josh
$400 [27]
Items recently uncovered at her home & museum include dresses from Oaxaca & earrings probably from Picasso
Frida Kahlo
Vik
$400 [18]
No soup for you at the CIA unless you learn how to make this, the liquid upon which soup is built
broth
Liz
$400 [12]
The Gate of Heavenly Peace lies at the southern edge of this capital's Imperial City
Beijing
Josh
$600 [9]
The Cuban mission known as Lookout Farm, or Finca Vigia, was home to this author from 1939 to 1960
Hemingway
Vik
$600 [4]
Barry Manilow:"Well, you kissed me and stopped me from shaking and I need you today, oh" her
Mandy
Liz
$600 [20]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows off her handwriting at the blackboard.) Tall letters, like the "L"shere, are a sign of pride according to this -ology, a term coined in 1875
graphology
$600 [22]
He's the French artist whose work is seen here, if you get our Pointillism
(Georges) Seurat
Vik
$600 [13]
CIA grads include Rocco DiSpirito, star of this NBC reality show
The Restaurant
Vik Josh
$600 [15]
An ear then ware drink cup, or your face
a mug
$800 [10]
In 1875 this Tammany Hall boss escaped from jail in New York City & fled to Cuba
(Boss) Tweed
Vik
$800 [5]
Tom Jones:"Why, why, why" her
Delilah
Liz
$800 [21]
Amgen & Novozymes are usually called this type of company
biotech(nology)
Josh
$800 [23]
His 1812 painting of a notable historical figure isseen here
(Jacques-Louis) David
Vik
$800 [14]
The course called Cookies, these small pies & Mignardises sounds more fun than Algebra 101
tarts
Vik Liz
$800 [16]
From the Welsh for "rock", it's the broken projecting part of a rock
a crag
Josh
$1,000 [11]
The unsuccessful attack on Cuba known as the Bay of Pigs invasion began on April 17th of this year
1961
Vik
$1,000 [6]
Elvis Costello:"You can call me anything you like but my name is" this
Veronica
DD $2,000 [26]
Thaumatology, the study of these events, might be part of deciding who gets canonized
miracles
Vik
$1,000 [24]
This group of British painters exhibited anonymously, signing their paintings PRB
the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Josh
$1,000 [17]
In the library, even the mysteries are culinary, like one that's not called "The Main Course" but "The Main" this
Corpse
Vik Josh
$1,000 [19]
It's the abbreviated form of the Russian for "Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps"
gulag
Vik

Double Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN CITIES WHAT A (TV) CHARACTER! GOVERNMENT & POLITICS MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS STAR LIGHT, STAR BRIGHT "CAN" OPENER
$400 [8]
From 1865 to 1870 this "flowery" city served as the capital of Italy
Florence
Josh
$400 [7]
This FBI agent played by Gillian Anderson on "The X-Files" was named after a Dodgers announcer
(Dana) Scully
Vik
$400 [3]
As a result of the 2000 Census, 4 states gained 2 House seats; New York & this "Keystone State" lost 2
Pennsylvania
Liz
$400 [1]
Haydn's "Hunt" (No. 73) is this type of orchestral piece
a symphony
Liz
$400 [26]
We're bullish on Aldebaran, a .86 apparent magnitude star in this constellation
Taurus
Josh
$400 [21]
The archbishop of this district is the primate of all England
Canterbury
Josh
$800 [9]
The best-known landmark in this German city known for its perfume is its cathedral with 2 towers rising over 500 feet
Cologne
Vik
$800 [14]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.)ThisTV astronaut worked at NASA's Kennedy Space Center & lived in Cocoa Beach, where he dreamed of Jeannie
Captain Nelson
$800 [13]
Only James G. Blaine & this great N.H. orator served 2 non-consecutive terms as Sec'y of State
(Daniel) Webster
Liz
$800 [2]
Mozart's "Hunt", heard here, is this type of chamber piece
a (string) quartet
Vik Josh Liz
$800 [27]
Castor has an apparent magnitude of 1.6; this star, also in Gemini, is brighter at 1.2
Pollux
Vik
$800 [22]
China has a "grand" one, & so does Venice
a canal
Josh
$1,200 [10]
This capital's Tower of Belem was built in the early 1500s to honor explorer Vasco da Gama
Lisbon
Vik
$1,200 [15]
On "Newhart", these 3 brothers owned the local cafe
Larry, Darryl & Darryl
Josh Liz
$1,200 [16]
In 1988 this Conn. attorney general upset incumbent Lowell Weicker for the U.S. Senate; he's been re-elected twice
(Joe) Lieberman
Josh Liz
$1,600 [5]
Charles Ives' "Concord" is this type of work for piano
a sonata
Liz
DD $1,000 [29]
A spectral class G yellow star, it has an apparent magnitude of about -26
the Sun
Josh
$1,200 [23]
John Steinbeck described this district of Monterey as "a poem, a stink, a grating noise"
Cannery Row
Vik
$1,600 [11]
20 miles from the Italian border, this leading resort city on the French Riviera has a population of about 350,000
Nice
Vik
$1,600 [17]
Calling Bernard Fox, who played this nurse-chasing warlock on "Bewitched"
Dr. Bombay
$1,600 [19]
In 2005 this Floridian became the first Cuban-American U.S. senator
Mel Martinez
Josh
DD $2,000 [4]
Beethoven's "Solemnis" is this type of religious work
a mass
Liz
$1,200 [28]
John McEnroe might say, "You cannot be" this star in Canis Major with an apparent magnitude of -1.6
Sirius
Josh
$1,600 [24]
Spanning 1,800 feet, the Quebec Bridge is the world's longest bridge of this type
cantilever
Vik
$2,000 [12]
Known as the "Granite City", its name is Scots for "At the Mouth of the Dee", the river on which it lies
Aberdeen
$2,000 [18]
This news director of radio station WKRP in Cincinnati won the Silver Sow Award for Agricultural Reportage
Les Nessman
Josh
$2,000 [20]
Age 87 at his death in 1864, he was the oldest man ever to serve as Chief Justice of the U.S.
Roger Brooke Taney
Vik
$2,000 [6]
He composed the cantata heard here
Johann Sebastian Bach
Liz
$2,000 [30]
This star of Orion is the 12th-brightest in the sky; do your best Geena Davis impression
Betelgeuse
$2,000 [25]
"Optimism" is the alternate title of this Voltaire work
Candide
Liz

Final Jeopardy!

IN THEENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA

The last full 2005 Micropedia article about a person is on the Russian-born man famed as an inventor of this in the 1920s

television

Josh "What is Zyclon B" — wagered $10,399
Liz "What is the...?" — wagered $5,001
Vik "What is the television? (article on Zworykin)" — wagered $5,401

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