Show #4904 2005-12-29 (taped 2005-10-18) Regular

Tom Kavanaugh game 1.

Contestants

Keara Depenbrock — a political consultant from Brooklyn, New York

Tom Kavanaugh — a writer from St. Louis, Missouri

Rex Babiera — a learning consultant from Chicago, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $32,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Rex $-600 $-600 $1,400 $1,300
3rd place: $1,000
$1,400
5 R, 4 W
Tom $3,000 $5,000 $24,200 $28,000
New champion: $28,000
$23,000
30 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Keara $1,600 $5,400 $9,800 $16,799
2nd place: $2,000
$7,800
14 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PREMIERE BETTER HOMES & GARDENS BON APPETIT PLAY "BOY" MAGAZINES
$200 [1]
1 of the 2 landlocked countries of South America, its judicial capital is Sucre
Bolivia
Rex Tom Keara
$200 [7]
This Beatles film premiered in London on July 6, 1964
A Hard Day's Night
Tom Keara
$200 [24]
What's now its South Lawn was purchased in the 1790s from tobacco planter Davy Burns
the White House
Tom
$200 [21]
Often paired with a grilled cheese sandwich, it was the most popular of Campbell's original 21 soups in 1897
tomato
Tom
$200 [2]
An accomplished young man, like Batman's Robin
a boy wonder
Tom
$200 [16]
The women's version of this magazine also has a swimsuit edition
Sports Illustrated
Rex
$400 [12]
This nation is composed of 4 provinces: Sind, Baluchistan, the NW Frontier province & Punjab
Pakistan
Rex Tom Keara
$400 [8]
When this 1995 film premiered in Scotland, director Mel Gibson wore a kilt & danced the Highland Fling
Braveheart
Tom
$400 [27]
This U.S. city is home to the Flemish Renaissance revival mansion of beer baron Capt. Frederick Pabst
Milwaukee
Tom
$400 [22]
This "dirty" Cajun grain specialty is so-named because chopped poultry livers & gizzards are added for flavor
dirty rice
Tom
$400 [3]
To refuse to buy a company's products as a means of coercion
boycott
Keara
$400 [17]
In the 1980s a well-publicized ban on Playboy occurred when this convenience store chain removed it
7-Eleven
Keara
$600 [13]
This Northeast Asian country came into being in 1948 & 2 years later the U.S. helped fight for its survival
South Korea
Tom
$600 [9]
On Dec. 14, 1961 this Spencer Tracy courtroom drama had its world premiere in Berlin
Judgement at Nuremberg
$600 [28]
"Fair Lane" was the magnificent Dearborn estate of this tycoon & his family until the 1950s
(Henry) Ford
Keara
$600 [23]
From the French for "jump", it means to cook food quickly & lightly in a little butter or oil
sauté
Rex
$600 [4]
Still being published today, this adventure magazine for Boy Scouts debuted in 1911
Boys' Life
Tom
$600 [18]
Founded in 1846, this magazine with an urban/rural title covers tastes in fashion, travel & antiques
Town & Country
Keara
$800 [14]
This Western Hemisphere nation of about 31 million has 10 provinces
Canada
Keara
$800 [10]
When this 1974 comedy premiered at a California drive-in, all the guests had to ride in on horseback
Blazing Saddles
Tom
$1,000 [30]
The former home of Speaker of the House James G. Blaine is now this state's governor's mansion
Maine
Keara
$800 [25]
Don't be insulted when you're served this type of Jamaican grilled meat, a blend of chiles and other spices
jerk
Tom
$800 [5]
Botanical bramble pictured here
boysenberry
Tom
$800 [19]
Eric Johnson's '57 Fender Strat made the cover of the September 2005 issue of this magazine
Guitar Player
Rex Keara
$1,000 [15]
This West African country is semi-arid except for areas near its namesake river in the southwest
Niger
Tom
$1,000 [11]
Later to win multiple Oscars, this film premiered in November 1982 in New Delhi
Gandhi
Tom
DD $2,000 [29]
In 1947 he retired to a Beverly Hills mansion with longtime mistress Marion Davies
(William) Randolph Hearst
Keara
$1,000 [26]
When making your special fruitcake for the holidays, be sure to add the Muscat or Thompson variety of these
raisins
Keara
$1,000 [6]
A class of the old Russian nobility ranking below the princes
the boyars
$1,000 [20]
Ray Bradbury & Ogden Nash were among the non-food writers featured in this magazine founded in 1941
Gourmet
Keara

Double Jeopardy! Round

MATH & SCIENCE TV DRAMA MAMAS ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NOT A BRITISH PRIME MINISTER BEFORE & AFTER
$400 [1]
His experiments in the mid-1660s showed that the colors produced by a prism were due to different refraction rates
Newton
Tom
$400 [26]
In Season 1 of this series, Tony's mom Livia put a hit out on him; nice, huh?
The Sopranos
Tom
$400 [21]
Stevenson had a dream about this character being pressed in a cabinet, drinking a drug & becoming another person
Dr. Jekyll
Rex Keara
$400 [2]
This small 4-stringed instrument comes from the machete, a guitar immigrants brought to Hawaii
the ukulele
Rex
$400 [16]
Churchill, Chandler, Chamberlain
Chandler
Tom
$400 [8]
"Boss" Tweed's politically corrupt society that had a No. 1 hit with "Kiss on my List"
Tammany Hall & Oates
Rex
$800 [3]
Often occurring in oily rags or hay, it's the self-burning of materials due to chemical changes
spontaneous combustion
Tom
$800 [27]
This actress balances the duties of mom, wife & U.S. president on "Commander in Chief"
Geena Davis
Keara
$800 [22]
Stevenson wrote that one of these should "always say what's true and speak when he is spoken to"
a child
Keara
$800 [4]
Before taking up the trumpet, Louis Armstrong specialized in this trumpet relative
the cornet
Tom
$800 [17]
Heath, Buckingham, Eden
Buckingham
Tom
$800 [10]
Choreographer of "Appalachian Spring" who teamed up with Crosby & Stills
Martha Graham Nash
Tom
$1,200 [9]
The photosphere, the visible surface of this, is actually the innermost layer of its atmosphere
the Sun
Tom
$1,600 [24]
Stevenson gave an address to the chiefs on the opening of the Road of Gratitude in what's now this island country
Samoa
Tom
$1,200 [5]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a stringed musical instrument with a triangular body in Russia.) In a Russian marketplace, you can get a good deal on this item that's mentioned in "Back In The U.S.S.R."
a balalaika
Tom
$1,200 [18]
Balmoral, Bentinck, Baldwin
Balmoral
Keara
$1,200 [11]
"Bronco Buster" sculptor who was a TV detective played by Pierce Brosnan
Frederic Remington Steele
Tom
$1,600 [13]
(Jon of the Clue Crew shows a % sign on a video monitor as it changes to have one more 0 in the denominator.) You know percent, but how about this similar term that indicates parts in 1,000
per mil
Tom
DD $2,000 [23]
When Stevenson wrote this tale in 1881, it was called "The Sea-Cook"
Treasure Island
Keara
$2,000 [7]
This type of accordion has hexagonal or octagonal ends & button keys
a concertina
Tom
$1,600 [19]
Peel, Palmerston, Pecket
Pecket
Tom
$1,600 [12]
Noted designer of bridal elegance who hit the pop charts with "Everybody Have Fun Tonight"
Vera Wang Chung
Rex
$2,000 [14]
The name of this force that can compel an object to move in a circular path is from the Latin for "seek the center"
centripetal force
Tom
$2,000 [25]
Stevenson's mother's maiden name, Balfour, was also the last name of the young hero of this novel
Kidnapped
Tom
DD $2,800 [6]
This instrument of tuned wooden bars is a Central American xylophone that originated in Africa
a marimba
Tom
$2,000 [20]
MacMillan, Mac Do Mac Do Mac Do Mac Do Mac Do Mac Do Mac DoMacDonaldnryryryryryryryMcHenry
McHenry
Tom
$2,000 [15]
Wild-haired boxing promoter who's the world's largest venomous snake
Don King Cobra
Tom

Final Jeopardy!

SOVIET HISTORY

He died in Moscow September 11, 1971 following nearly 7 years of house arrest

Nikita Khrushchev

Rex "Who is Sakharov?" — wagered $100
Keara "Who is Krushchev?" — wagered $6,999
Tom "Who is Kruschev?" — wagered $3,800

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