Show #4909 2006-01-05 (taped 2005-10-25) Regular

Tom Kavanaugh game 6.

Contestants

Stephanie Lutz — a translation coordinator from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Craig Smith — a musician from Maylene, Alabama

Tom Kavanaugh — a writer from St. Louis, Missouri (whose 5-day cash winnings total $94,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tom $4,000 $6,600 $18,600 $20,000
6-day champion: $114,201
$17,000
25 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W
Craig $1,200 $4,100 $8,100 $13,100
2nd place: $2,000
$7,200
10 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Stephanie $1,800 $2,800 $4,800 $1,499
3rd place: $1,000
$4,800
11 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE BODY HUMAN BOTTOMS UP! NATIONAL PARKS PEOPLE POWER REVOLUTIONS STAR WARS MAY THE "FOR"s BE WITH YOU
$200 [6]
Many creams on the market claim to lessen these lumpy fat deposits, especially in the thighs
cellulite
Tom
$200 [16]
This vodka brand popular in Helsinki came to the U.S. in 1971
Finlandia
Tom Craig Stephanie
$200 [21]
This state's Isle Royale is on an island in Lake Superior
Michigan
Stephanie
$200 [26]
It was so long Suharto and howdy Habibie following widespread unrest in this country in 1998
Indonesia
Tom
$200 [1]
On the cover of a February 2005 People Magazine, it was "Simon vs." her, "it's getting nasty!"
Paula Abdul
Stephanie
$200 [7]
Because it's durable & heat-resistant, it's long been a favorite material for kitchen counter tops
Formica
Stephanie
$400 [12]
In childbirth a hormone called prolactin stimulates milk production by these glands
the mammary
Stephanie
$400 [17]
Triple Sec & this potent potable go into a classic margarita
tequila
Craig
$400 [22]
This cactus that may grow 50 feet high & live hundreds of years has its own park in Arizona
a saguaro
Craig
$400 [27]
You should know Yushchenko took the presidency from Yanukovych following mass protests in this nation in 2004
Ukraine
Stephanie
$400 [2]
About her falling out with her "Simple Life" co-star, all she would say is that "Nicole knows what she did"
Paris Hilton
Craig
$400 [8]
In movie titles it precedes "Amber", "Darling" & "Young"
Forever
Tom
$600 [13]
The heart has 4 chambers: 2 atria & 2 of these lower chambers
ventricles
Tom
$600 [18]
A 1979 song wondered if you like this tropical drink & getting caught in the rain
piña colada
Tom
$800 [24]
The Blue Ridge Parkway connects Shenandoah National Park in Virginia with this North Carolina-Tennessee park
Great Smoky Mountains (National Park)
$600 [28]
People power pushed out pro-Syrian PM Karami following the murder of ex-PM Hariri in this country
Lebanon
Stephanie
$600 [3]
In 2004 Elton John caused a stir, accusing this single-named singer of lipsyncing during "live" concerts
Madonna
Tom
$600 [9]
Formerly, Taiwan's name
Formosa
Tom
$800 [14]
When you eat, the hard one of these helps crush food & the soft one closes off the nasal opening during swallowing
the palate
Tom
$800 [19]
This "water of life", served icy cold, traditionally accompanies the Swedish smorgasbord
aquavit
Craig
$1,000 [25]
"The Big Room" is part of this N.M. cave system made a national park in 1930, 11 years before Mammoth Cave
Carlsbad Caverns
Tom
$800 [29]
One of the 2 presidents pushed out of power by people power protests in the Philippines in 1986 & 2001
Marcos (or Estrada)
$800 [4]
A famous Hollywood feud was between Bette Davis and this "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane" co-star
Joan Crawford
Craig
$800 [10]
It's a musical direction to play loudly & forcefully, or one's strong point
forte
Tom
$1,000 [15]
Produced mainly at night & causing drowsiness, it was the first hormone to be isolated from the pineal gland
melatonin
Tom
$1,000 [20]
In the movie "Sideways", wine snob Miles threatens to walk out on his date if he has to drink this red wine
Merlot
Tom
DD $1,500 [23]
At over 1.3 million acres, it's the largest subtropical preserve in North America
the Everglades
Craig
$1,000 [30]
This country said so long, Shevardnadze after replacing him with Saakashvili after disputed elections
Georgia
$1,000 [5]
Jon Stewart traded some heated words wtih this bow-tied TV host when he appeared on "Crossfire" in 2004
(Tucker) Carlson
Stephanie
$1,000 [11]
It was Mayor LaGuardia who nicknamed the lions outside the New York Public Library Patience & this
Fortitude
Tom

Double Jeopardy! Round

HAIL TO THE CHIEF LITERARY ROCK & ROLL LOUIS, LOUIS THE AIR UP THERE SCIENCE NEWS ADJECTIVAL ENDINGS
$400 [16]
In January 1952 this future president proposed to Nancy Davis at Chasen's Restaurant
Reagan
Stephanie
$400 [11]
Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" inspired this singer's "The Ghost Of Tom Joad"
Bruce Springsteen
$400 [6]
He was blinded at the age of 3 as the result of an accident with his father's tools
Louis Braille
Tom
$400 [20]
In 2004 more than 60 million travelers passed through this U.S. facility abbreviated LAX
Los Angeles International Airport
Tom
$400 [26]
Rocks on 4 continents were formed by the flow of this from an eruption that tore apart Pangaea
lava
Tom
$400 [1]
Elephant or Benedict
-ine
Stephanie
$800 [17]
This president once served as a mining engineer in Coolgardie, Australia
Herbert Hoover
$800 [12]
This colorful song by Jefferson Airplane retells in part the story of Alice in Wonderland
"White Rabbit"
Tom
$800 [7]
Kenya-born man seen here
Louis Leakey
Tom
$800 [22]
The Caterpillar Club is for aviators whose lives have been saved by using these devices
parachutes
Craig
$800 [27]
Science magazine says these rodents' boom-&-bust population cycles are due to predators, not mass suicide
lemmings
Tom
$800 [2]
Fiend or hell
-ish
Craig
$1,200 [18]
In 1900 he ran on the campaign slogan "Four years more of the full dinner pail"
McKinley
$1,200 [13]
He's the actor & director heardheresinging a song inspired by "The Hobbit""In the middle of the earth, in the land of the shire /Lives a brave little hobbit whom we all admire /With his long wooden pipe, his fuzzy, woolly toes /He lives in a hobbit-hole and everybody knows him..."
Leonard Nimoy
Stephanie
$1,600 [9]
This singer heardherehas been called the direct link between R&B & Rock & Roll"You only live but once /And when you're dead, you're done /So let the good times roll"
Louis Jordan
Craig
$1,200 [23]
Yeager & Rutan's round-the-world flight in 1986 was the first to accomplish the feat without doing this
refueling
Tom Craig
$1,200 [28]
These DNA-bearing structures have caps called telomeres; learn to lengthen those & we'll all live forever
chromosomes
Tom Stephanie
$1,200 [3]
Cat, child, life
-like
Stephanie
$1,600 [19]
During this Whig's brief administration, the Interior Department was created in 1849
Zachary Taylor
Tom
$1,600 [14]
The chilling "Killing An Arab" by The Cure was inspired by this Albert Camus work
The Stranger
Tom
$2,000 [10]
We just love this author of "How the West Was Won"
Louis L'Amour
Tom
$1,600 [24]
When he & Per Lindstrand flew their balloon from Asia to Canada in 1991, he wasn't a virgin pilot
Richard Branson
$1,600 [29]
In 2000 Rezulin followed Trovan & Druact as drugs withdrawn from sale for damaging this organ
the liver
Tom
$1,600 [4]
Human or lymph
-oid
$2,000 [21]
In 1832 Daniel Webster said his veto of the Bank Bill "manifestly seeks to influence the poor against the rich"
Andrew Jackson
Tom
DD $2,600 [15]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem about this title man inspired the song "Xanadu" by Rush
Kubla Khan
Tom
DD $2,200 [8]
In 1916 Woodrow Wilson appointed this "People's Attorney" to the Supreme Court
(Louis) Brandeis
Tom
$2,000 [25]
Prime Minister for 5 years in the 1980s, he was a pilot for Indian Airlines before being drafted into politics by his mother
Rajiv Gandhi
Tom
$2,000 [30]
Using a single atom to represent one "qubit" is part of the new world called this type of computing
quantum
$2,000 [5]
Juno
-esque
Craig

Final Jeopardy!

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the Reverend Billy Graham

Stephanie "Who is Pope John Paul II?" — wagered $3,301
Craig "Who is Billy Graham?" — wagered $5,000
Tom "Who is Billy Graham" — wagered $1,400

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