Show #4912 2006-01-10 (taped 2005-10-26) Regular

Tom Kavanaugh game 9.Kevin Marshall game 1.

Contestants

Kevin Marshall — a student from Metairie, Louisiana

Constance Swinger — a supervising deputy probation officer from Los Angeles, California

Tom Kavanaugh — a writer from St. Louis, Missouri (whose 8-day cash winnings total $142,602)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tom $1,200 $3,800 $6,799 $13,597
2nd place: $2,000
$14,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 2 DDs)
Constance $1,400 $2,800 $2,800 $4,800
3rd place: $1,000
$2,800
6 R, 1 W
Kevin $-200 $6,000 $17,200 $14,400
New champion: $14,400
$17,200
24 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

18th CENTURY AMERICAN QUOTES "GOOD" & "BAD" SONGS NAME THAT MAJOR NEWSPAPER A STATE OF DELAWARE-NESS THE BIG ORANGE CATEGORY WORD ORIGINS
$200 [6]
To support virtue, morality & civil liberty, Ben Franklin called for this book & "a newspaper in every house"
the Bible
Tom
$200 [1]
Jim Croce had his first No. 1 hit with this song
"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
Tom
$200 [11]
Los Angeles, London, Seattle, St. Petersburg
Times
Kevin
$200 [14]
Delaware is the second-smallest state; only this state has a smaller area
Rhode Island
Kevin
$200 [26]
The first time this event was held at the Orange Bowl was on January 14, 1968
the Super Bowl
Kevin
$200 [21]
The name of these seeds probably goes all the way back to samassammu, Akkadian for "oil plant"
sesame seeds
Tom
$400 [7]
In 1781 this admiral urged, "In time of peace... prepare... for war"
John Paul Jones
Tom Kevin
$400 [2]
This Beatles song with a contradictory title hit No. 1 the last week of 1967
"Hello, Goodbye"
Tom
$400 [12]
Washington, Palm Beach, Jerusalem
Post
Constance
$400 [15]
Founded in 1683 by William Penn, this city was officially laid out in 1717 over an area of 125 acres
Dover
Tom
$400 [27]
Orange you glad to know that celery is part of this orange vegetable's family
a carrot
Kevin
$400 [22]
This fox-hunting cry may be an alteration of taiaut, a French cry used in deer hunting
tally-ho
Kevin
$600 [8]
In 1781 this future Secretary of the Treasury wrote, "A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing"
Alexander Hamilton
Tom
$600 [3]
Ennio Morricone wrote this instrumental, the main title theme for a 1966 film
"The Good, The Bad And The Ugly"
$600 [13]
Denver Rocky Mountain, San Antonio Express-, Dallas Morning
News
Tom
$600 [16]
Barratt's Chapel in Delaware is the USA's oldest surviving church of this denomination founded by Wesley
Methodism
Kevin
$600 [28]
Orange Savings & the Orange Mortgage are offered by the online bank called this "Direct"
ING
$600 [23]
A Middle English variant of "plait" became the name of these folds found on skirts
pleat
Constance
$1,000 [10]
Replacing Franklin as Minister to France, this future president said, "I succeed him; no one can replace him"
Thomas Jefferson
Constance
$800 [4]
1982 hit heard here"You don't drink, don't smoke /What do you do? /You don't drink, don't smoke /What do you do? /Subtle innuendos follow /There must be something inside"
"Goody Two Shoes"
$800 [19]
Chicago, Tampa, San Diego Union-
Tribune
Kevin
$800 [17]
An IRA named for this longtime Delaware senator was created in 1998
(William) Roth
Kevin
$800 [29]
The Black Maria was this inventor's West Orange, New Jersey movie studio
Edison
Kevin
$800 [24]
A Greek word for "sailor" gave us the name of this "chambered" sea creature
nautilus
Constance
DD $2,200 [9]
In "The American Crisis No. 2", he wrote, "A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men"
Thomas Paine
Tom
$1,000 [5]
This Chris Isaak tune was featured in the movie "Eyes Wide Shut"
"Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing"
Tom
$1,000 [20]
Miami, Boston, Sydney Morning
Herald
Tom
$1,000 [18]
In 1609 he became the first European to explore the Delaware area
Hudson
Kevin
$1,000 [30]
The orange pekoe grade of this has some of the smallest leaves
tea
Tom
$1,000 [25]
This term for a minor engagement in war traces its origins back to the old Italian word scaramuccia
a skirmish
Kevin

Double Jeopardy! Round

SOVIET MAN PIC-POURRI WOMEN POETS NASCAR FORMULA 1 "GRAND" PRIX
$400 [2]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Riga, Latvia.) Perhaps the U.S.S.R.'s greatest filmmaker, born in Riga in 1898, I'm in front of a building his father designed
Sergei Eisenstein
$400 [17]
Place name that's on the brand we'reshowing
York
Kevin
$400 [1]
Her early 1960s poem "Lady Lazarus" tells of her attempted suicide
Sylvia Plath
Tom
$400 [22]
It's what the "SC" stands for in NASCAR
stock car
Kevin
$400 [12]
It's the chemical formula for pure snow
H 2 O
Kevin
$400 [7]
It's the largest gorge on Earth
the Grand Canyon
Kevin
$800 [3]
Marshall Zhukov directed the defense of Moscow in 1941 & must have enjoyed capturing this city in April 1945
Berlin
Constance
$800 [18]
If you see these stones rolling around Colombia, pick them up; they're valuable
emeralds
Kevin
$800 [27]
Only 7 of her poems were published during her lifetime--5 in the Springfield Republican
Emily Dickinson
Kevin
$800 [23]
Held each February, this Florida contest is the premier race on the NASCAR circuit
the Daytona 500
Constance
$800 [13]
It's the common "table" substance whose formula is Na Cl
salt
Kevin
$800 [8]
In Yiddish bubbie is this relative
grandmother
Tom
$1,200 [4]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Red Square in Moscow, Russia while a memorable melody plays.)Thiscomposer of film & ballet scores was overshadowed when he died the same day as Stalin, March 5, 1953
Prokofiev
Tom Kevin
$1,200 [19]
Note there are no birds in thepictureof this famous bird illustrator
Audubon
Tom
$1,200 [29]
Having been replaced by her as leader of the Imagists, Ezra Pound began calling them "Amygists"
Amy Lowell
Tom
$1,200 [24]
This color flag is used to signal the beginning of a NASCAR race & any restarts
a green flag
Kevin
$1,200 [14]
The chemical formula for this sugar found in dairy products is C12H22O11
lactose
Kevin
$1,200 [9]
This 3-word nickname for the Republicans dates from the 1870s
Grand Old Party
Tom
$1,600 [5]
T.D. Lysenko, who thought acquired traits can be inherited, ran the USSR's Institute of this, the biology of heredity
genetics
Tom Constance
$1,600 [20]
In a popular kids' game, they're what's eaten by the hungry animal seen here
marbles
Tom
$2,000 [28]
In 1923 she won a Pulitzer Prize for a group of poems that included "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"
Edna St. Vincent Millay
$1,600 [25]
Some NASCAR races use this kind of "plate" designed to decrease horsepower & speed
a restrictor plate
Kevin
DD $1,400 [16]
The structure of me than e is seen here; this is its familiar chemical formula
CH 4
Tom
$1,600 [10]
The J.M.W. Turner work seenheredepicts this well-known location
the Grand Canal (in Venice)
Tom Kevin
$2,000 [6]
This secret policeman lost a struggle for power & was liquidated himself in 1953
Lavrentiy Beria
$2,000 [21]
Trig books use this Greek letter to denote angle
theta
Kevin
DD $5,201 [30]
In 1850 the Athenaeum suggested that she succeed Wordsworth as England's poet laureate
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Tom
$2,000 [26]
This current NFL coach & Super Bowl winner is also a successful NASCAR team owner
Joe Gibbs
Kevin
$1,600 [15]
The chemical formula of this compound with a 2-word name is CaCO3
calcium carbonate
Tom
$2,000 [11]
A champion chess player at the international level
grandmaster
Kevin

Final Jeopardy!

THE U.S. MILITARY

Established in 1903, the oldest U.S. military base in continuous use outside of the U.S. is in this country

Cuba

Constance "What is Cuba" — wagered $2,000
Tom "What is Cuba" — wagered $6,798
Kevin "What isGumGuantanimo Bay" — wagered $2,800

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