Show #4897 2005-12-20 (taped 2005-10-17) Regular

Contestants

Debbie Chuba — a high school guidance counselor from Johnstown, Pennsylvania

Rob Klepadlo — a chemist originally from Weirton, West Virginia

Laura McElfresh — a librarian from Atlanta, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Laura $2,400 $4,700 $15,000 $24,801
2-day champion: $53,202
$15,200
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Rob $1,800 $2,000 $2,400 $4,795
3rd place: $1,000
$2,400
10 R, 3 W
Debbie $1,600 $4,800 $12,400 $17,400
2nd place: $2,000
$12,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

VICE PRESIDENTS BOBSLEDDING JEOPARDY!ACCEPTABLE RESPONSES GEORGIA ON MY MIND CELL "BY"
$200 [14]
He was the second person to resign from America's second-highest office
Spiro Agnew
Rob
$200 [13]
KBC America Inc., also a supplier to motorcyclists, is the U.S. Bobsled & Skeleton Federation's supplier of these
helmets
Rob
$200 [8]
While we eternally accept Holland, this is the more accurate name for the country
the Netherlands
Laura
$200 [1]
His library is located at 441 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta, Georgia
Jimmy Carter
Debbie
$200 [20]
You can shoot videos & play music with a Walkman phone from Ericsson in partnership with this company
Sony
Rob Debbie
$200 [2]
It's related to the kangaroo but usually is smaller & has a colorful coat
a wallaby
Laura
$400 [15]
John Quincy Adams had John C. Calhoun; James Buchanan had this John C.
John C. Breckinridge
$400 [25]
In 1952 limits were imposed on this, changing the standard physique of bobsled competitors
weight
Laura
$400 [9]
We've never even heard anyone say the name Goyathlay, but we'd accept it for this Apache leader
Geronimo
Rob
$400 [7]
Yale & the University of Georgia both use this nickname for their sports teams
the Bulldogs
Debbie
$400 [21]
Nextel's merger with this company should give the competition a run for their money
Sprint
Rob
$400 [3]
It's the type of raceseen here
a soap box derby
Rob
$600 [16]
Alben Barkley's 10-year-old grandson came up with this slang "title" for the vice president
veep
Debbie
DD $500 [26]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Park City, UT.) Of the 16 bobsled tracks in the world, 2 are in the U.S.--one here at Park City, & the other in this upstate New York town
Lake Placid
Laura
$600 [10]
He went by a shorter name, but William Claude Dukenfield is an acceptable answer when referring to this actor
W.C. Fields
Laura
$600 [17]
Georgia's official one is the brown thrasher
the state bird
Laura
$600 [22]
Started by SBC & Bellsouth, it's now a "one of a kind" company with its purchase of AT&T Wireless
Cingular
Debbie
$600 [4]
Acronym referring to opposition by people to a civic project like a jail or garage dump in their neighborhood
NIMBY-ism
Rob
$800 [29]
The cartoon seenherelampooned this vice president
(Elbridge) Gerry
Laura Rob
$800 [27]
A 1994 U.S. Olympic 4-man team was disqualified because these, which glide along the icy surface, were too warm
runners
Rob
$800 [11]
You don't have to be high society to know that Society of Friends is an acceptable alternative name for this group
the Quakers
Laura
$800 [18]
The name of this Georgia swamp is a Native American word for "trembling earth"
the Okefenokee
$800 [23]
This cellphone maker has jumped back to the No. 2 spot worldwide by a Razr's edge
Motorola
Debbie
$800 [5]
In 1965 he set up a company to remove hissing from recordings (& leave it to audiences)
Dolby
Laura
$1,000 [30]
Vice president from 1933 to 1941, he's best remembered for his acerbic quips about the job's worthlessness
John Nance Garner
$1,000 [28]
A 2-man bobsled team consists of a pilot & this job, also found on railroads
a brakeman
Debbie
$1,000 [12]
When asking for the name of this mid-20th century British author, we will of course accept his real name, Eric Blair
George Orwell
Debbie
$1,000 [19]
Stolen during the 1862 Andrews railroad raid, this locomotive is on display in Kennesaw, Georgia
the General
$1,000 [24]
This company beat out Qwest to buy MCI & become a telecom colossus
Verizon
$1,000 [6]
The minotaur's home
the labyrinth
Laura

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE PAPAL CHASE '70s POP CULTURE NATIONAL ANTHEMS GROUP THERAPY BOOK TITLES OVERLAPS
$400 [1]
The first pope of the 20th century (& lucky No. XIII), his name means lion in Latin
Leo
Rob
$400 [20]
In 1972 he spread a 200,000 square-foot curtain across a mountain valley in Colorado
Christo
DD $100 [26]
"Salut, o terre d'esperance" begins "L'Abidjanaise", the anthem of this nation
Ivory Coast
Laura
$400 [17]
This group officially ended its practice of polygamous marriage in 1890
the Mormons
Rob
$400 [7]
T.S. Eliot's poetical classic:"Old Possum's Book of Practical" these
Cats
Debbie
$400 [12]
Postal delivery guy whose sidekick is Sancho Panza
the mailman of La Mancha
Laura
$800 [2]
Ordained a priest in 1904, his papacy would begin a scant 54 years later
John XXIII
Laura Debbie
$800 [21]
One day he woke up to find his 1973 book "Awakenings" on the bestseller list
Oliver Sacks
$400 [6]
The national anthem of Cyprus is the same as this country's
Greece
Debbie
$800 [22]
This Dr. Seuss group that learns prejudice can be costly is divided into star-belly & plain-belly types
the Sneetches
Laura
$800 [8]
Thomas Harris introduces Hannibal Lecter:"Red" this
Dragon
Laura
$800 [13]
Beloved Schulz cartoon boy who's a port city on the Rio Grande opposite Matamoros
Charlie Brownsville
Laura
DD $1,600 [3]
In 858 vestments were hung with great care, in hopes that the first pope of this name soon would be there
Nicholas
Debbie
$1,200 [27]
You could say this French Olympian went downhill as a ski instructor turned thief in the 1972 film "Snow Job"
Jean-Claude Killy
Debbie
$800 [18]
With words by future president Daniel B. Warner, this West African country's anthem was adopted in 1847
Liberia
Rob
$1,200 [23]
A basic tactical Air Force unit, it's made up of 2 or more flights
a squadron
Rob
$1,200 [9]
Jerzy Kosinski novel set during the Holocaust:"The Painted" this
Bird
$1,200 [14]
Carbonated soft drink that was a VH1 show using thought balloons to comment on the action in the video
soda Pop-Up Video
Laura
$1,600 [4]
This pope (the IV), elected in 1154, is the only English pope to date
Adrian
$1,600 [28]
She was 13 when she became Broadway's original "Annie" in 1977
Andrea McArdle
Debbie
$1,200 [19]
If you watch a lot of medal ceremonies for Olympic swimmers, you'veheard the anthemof this country
Australia
$1,600 [24]
When the Goths split up around 370, the Visigoths got the area west of the Dniester River & this group, the other side
the Ostrogoths
Laura
$1,600 [10]
Part one of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy:"All the Pretty" these
Horses
Debbie
$1,600 [15]
Reddish-brown poisonous U.S. snake that leads the RNs at a hospital
copperhead nurse
Laura
$2,000 [5]
It's no "Prophecy", it's history; not including an antipope, the first of 5 popes named this began his reign in 422
Celestine
Laura
$2,000 [29]
Barbra Streisand's fans know this is her middle name, because it's in the title of a 1971 album
Joan
$2,000 [30]
"Allahu" is the first word of Libya's anthem & this, meaning "great", is the second
akbar
$2,000 [25]
Along with 10 other former Soviet republics, Turkmenistan joined this regional group on Dec. 21, 1991
the Commonwealth of Independent States
$2,000 [11]
A tale by Madeleine L'Engle about a marine biology student:"The Arm of" this sea creature
the Starfish
Laura
$2,000 [16]
The balderdash capital of the U.S.
Hogwashington, D.C.

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN

This man who died in 1984 remarked, "We're not in the hamburger business, we're in show business"

Ray Kroc

Rob "Who is Ray Kroch?" — wagered $2,395
Debbie "Who is Ray Kroc?" — wagered $5,000
Laura "Who was Kroc?" — wagered $9,801

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