Show #4899 2005-12-22 (taped 2005-10-17) Regular

Contestants

Lisa Loiselle — an investigator and lawyer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Josh Yost — a student from Manchester, Kentucky

Jeff Lawrence — a limousine driver from Las Vegas, Nevada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jeff $4,000 $3,800 $11,800 $14,800
2-day champion: $26,200
$13,200
17 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Josh $1,200 $2,600 $6,900 $6,500
3rd place: $1,000
$6,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Lisa $2,600 $5,600 $8,600 $13,000
2nd place: $2,000
$9,600
13 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

NATURAL BIOLOGY MOVIE NEWCOMERS DIVERSIONS PEAKS & VALLEYS AD HOCK NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS
$200 [7]
Arterioles are a link between arteries & these fine blood vessels
capillaries
Josh
$200 [1]
He made his starring debut in "Blind Date", foolishly letting Kim Basinger have a drink
Bruce Willis
Jeff
$200 [12]
The standard way to determine the first turn in darts is by whose throw is closest to this
the bull's-eye
Josh
$200 [6]
Mount Vignemale, the highest French peak in this range, lies on France's southwestern border
the Pyrenees
Josh
$200 [26]
"Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief" this Bayer product "is"
Alka-Seltzer
Jeff
$200 [17]
1946:This system of flag & arm position signals
S-E-M-A-P-H-O-R-E
Lisa
$400 [8]
It's often a warning when this tuft or plume on a cockatoo's head stands up
the crest
$400 [2]
"Pushover" features this woman seenherein her first lead"Afraid I don't read the paper. And I don't know anyone named Harry."
Kim Novak
$400 [13]
This game named for a ship used to clear explosives tempts many away from more important computer tasks
Minesweeper
Josh
$400 [22]
This continent has only one mountain exceeding 16,000 feet: Vinson Massif
Antarctica
Lisa
$400 [27]
quickerpickerupper.com is this product's website
Bounty
Josh
$400 [18]
1983:This festival commemorating the rescue of Persia's Jews
P-U-R-I-M
$600 [9]
From the Latin for "to carry", it's the time period between conception & birth
gestation
Lisa
$600 [3]
In 1912, when most everyone in movies was a newcomer, these sisters debuted in "An Unseen Enemy"
the Gish sisters (Dorothy & Lillian)
Jeff
$600 [14]
Chemin-de-fer is a variant of this basically mindless casino game
baccarat
Jeff Josh
$600 [23]
Named for the director who filmed there, John Ford's Point is in this Utah valley known for its red sandstone buttes
Monument Valley
Jeff
$600 [28]
"Tough on bad hair. Tough on the causes of bad hair" & "A little dab'll do ya"
Brylcreem
Jeff
$600 [19]
1976:This condition, characterized by frequent & uncontrollable episodes of deep sleep
N-A-R-C-O-L-E-P-S-Y
Lisa
$800 [10]
The chela on arthropods are these, & it may make them crabby if you mess with them
claws (or pincers)
Josh
$800 [4]
One of Tobey Maguire's first films, "This Boy's Life", starred this young actor as a character named Toby
Leonardo DiCaprio
Jeff
$800 [15]
In the game called this: "The Gathering", players vie with rival wizards by casting spells
Magic
Jeff
$1,000 [25]
Mount Ararat is Turkey's highest peak; the similar sounding mount Aragats is the highest pt. in this eastern neighbor
Armenia
$800 [29]
Beginning in 1982, this vacation chain claimed it was "The antidote for civilization"
Club Med
Lisa
$800 [20]
1985:This 6-letter French word meaning setting or environment
M-I-L-I-E-U
Jeff
$1,000 [11]
This material, such as your stapes, is formed by ossification
bones
Lisa
$1,000 [5]
Known for playing cop Roger Murtaugh, he debuted onscreen as a con in "Escape from Alcatraz"
Danny Glover
Jeff
$1,000 [16]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew displays a grid of numbers and empty squares on a monitor.) I both divert & torment myself doing these puzzles with a Japanese name that's become a worldwide fad
Sudoku
Lisa
DD $1,400 [24]
The Limbang Valley of Sarawak divides this sultanate in two
Brunei
Jeff
$1,000 [30]
"A Sloppy Joe is a sandwich, but" this "is a meal!"
Manwich
Josh
$1,000 [21]
1994:Pertaining to the period before the flood, it also means out of date
A-N-T-E-D-I-L-U-V-I-A-N
Jeff Lisa

Double Jeopardy! Round

BRITISH POETS & POETRY GEOGRAPHIC POP I CHALLENGE YOU TO A DUEL! EDUCATIONAL "BURG"s BELLY UP TO THE BAROQUE REGIONALISMS
$400 [6]
William Cowper called it "The very spice of life"
variety
Lisa
$400 [1]
Formed in Topeka, their biggest hits included "Dust In The Wind" & "Carry On Wayward Son"
Kansas
Josh
$400 [17]
In 1712 the Duke of Hamilton & Lord Mohun killed each other in a duel with swords in this London park
Hyde Park
Josh
$400 [7]
Rand Afrikaans University
Johannesburg
Josh
$400 [21]
This Baroque artist painted dozens of self-portraits & went "Baroque" with a 1656 bankruptcy
Rembrandt
$400 [12]
To mean a veranda, Gulf staters use this word for a place to view art
gallery
$800 [26]
In an elegy, Shelley said this poet's soul "Like a star, beacons from the abode where the eternal are"
Keats
Jeff
$800 [2]
"Old Days" & "Saturday In The Park" were just two of the many hits for this band
Chicago
Jeff
$800 [18]
In Dumas' "The Three Musketeers", this character commits himself to 3 consecutive duels with Athos, Porthos & Aramis
d'Artagnan
Josh
$800 [8]
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg
Josh
$800 [22]
A form of Baroque was applied in his 17th century design of London's St. Paul's Cathedral
Christopher Wren
Lisa
$800 [13]
Note to Hoosiers: instead of "pitch-in dinner", use this "fortunate" term if you want out of staters to understand
pot luck
Jeff
DD $1,000 [27]
About one of his most famous poems, he said, "I began it upon leaving Tintern, after crossing the Wye"
William Wordsworth
Lisa
$1,200 [3]
A sleek country-rock sound helped this "Tennessee River" band have a string of hits in the '80s & '90s
Alabama
$1,200 [19]
"The Conqueror of the Barbary Pirates", this naval hero was shot down by an embittered fellow officer in 1820
Stephen Decatur
DD $1,500 [9]
A branch campus of the University of Southern Florida
St. Petersburg
Josh
$1,200 [23]
This 17th century Antwerp painter's portrait of Charles I hunting is seen here
Anthony van Dyck
$1,200 [14]
Illinois kids may call this sidewalk game "sky blue", after the top part of the diagram
hopscotch
Lisa
$1,600 [28]
5-word Kipling phrase that precedes "is more deadly than the male"
"The female of the species"
Jeff
$1,600 [4]
David Johansen was the lead singer of this pre-punk band
The New York Dolls
Jeff
$1,600 [20]
This "Volpone" playwright narrowly escaped the death penalty after killing an actor in a duel in 1598
Ben Jonson
$1,600 [10]
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg
Lisa
$1,600 [24]
In the 1620s he painted 21 large pictures in the life of Marie de Medicis; why, they were positively him-esque
Rubens
Jeff Lisa
$1,600 [15]
To Bostonians it's not just a quinine-flavored mixer but a word for any soft drink
tonic
Jeff Lisa
$2,000 [29]
In 1677 this poet wrote "All for Love", a play adapted from Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra"
John Dryden
$2,000 [5]
"Fire" & "Love Rollercoaster" both took this funk band to number one
The Ohio Players
Jeff
$2,000 [30]
While he was PM of England, this "Younger" man dueled in 1798 with George Tierney, a political rival
(William) Pitt (the Younger)
Jeff
$2,000 [11]
South Carolina State University
Orangeburg
Josh
$2,000 [25]
Seen here, the "Supper at Emmaus" is a work by this painter who killed a man & fled Rome in 1606
Caravaggio
$2,000 [16]
It can mean "repairing"; when Southerners use it before "to", they mean "on the verge of"
fixin'
Josh

Final Jeopardy!

ANNUAL EVENTS

Henri Desgrange, founder of this event, created its maillot jaune, 1st worn by Eugene Christophe, riding from Grenoble

the Tour de France

Josh "What is Bastille Day" — wagered $400
Lisa "What is the Tour de France?" — wagered $4,400
Jeff "What is the Tour de France?" — wagered $3,000

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