Show #4929 2006-02-02 (taped 2005-12-14) Regular

(Jimmy: No other form of transportation has carried 98% of American intercity passengers. The golden age ofrailroading, next onJeopardy!)

Contestants

Tawney Pearson — a teacher originally from Peoria, Illinois

Joanna Stromberg — an attorney from Bethesda, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,200)

Eleanor Ainslie — a medical student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (whose 2-day cash winnings total $24,500)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Eleanor	$400	$2,800	$9,500	$16,900 3-day champion: $41,400	$11,400 14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Joanna	$2,200	$4,200	$1,000	$2,000 3rd place: $1,000	$3,000 13 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Tawney	$800	$3,000	$6,200	$2,400 2nd place: $2,000	$6,200 10 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE FICTION	IF THEY MARRIED...	THE NATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM	FIRST LADIES	I AM A CAMERA	"F" STOP
$200 [1] In Jules Verne's "The Mysterious Island", this reclusive captain dies & is buried at sea in his submarine Captain Nemo Joanna	$200 [7] Comedienne O'Donnell weds 76ers head coach Maurice & is all aglow with this name Rosie Cheeks Eleanor	$200 [25] (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in front of a train at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, WI.) In the 1950s, GM based the styling of the futuristic Aerotrain on a concept car, this division's1951 LeSabre Buick Joanna	$200 [16] When she married the future president in 1759, she was said to be the richest marriageable woman in Virginia Martha Washington Eleanor	$200 [11] In 1947 this company introduced an instant camera that could deliver a finished print in 60 seconds Polaroid Joanna	$200 [2] He was only 23 in 1729 when he began publishing the Pennsylvania Gazette Benjamin Franklin Eleanor
$400 [21] This 1898 novel is divided into 2 parts: "The Coming of the Martians" & "The Earth Under the Martians" War of the Worlds Eleanor	$400 [8] Actress Tuesday says bravo to this hyphenated name after marrying journalist & author Dominick Tuesday Weld-Dunne Joanna	$400 [26] The Chicago & North Western's hospital car, Joseph Lister, was designed to take patients to this Minn. hospital the Mayo Clinic Tawney	$400 [17] Her father was John V. Bouvier III, a New York stockbroker Jackie Kennedy Joanna	$400 [12] This "colorful" camera introduced in 1900 cost a mere dollar the Brownie Joanna	$400 [3] An amusement park ride consisting of an upright disk with passenger gondolas suspended from the rim a Ferris wheel Joanna
$800 [23] In 1997 he ended his "Odyssey" series with "3001: The Final Odyssey" Arthur Clarke Joanna	$600 [9] Actress Julie, nurse Dixie McCall on "Emergency!", falls for Lloyd's son Jeff & hyphenates her name to... Julie London-Bridges	$600 [27] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue standing on a train platform at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, WI.) The largest steam locomotive ever was the 132-foot, 6,200-horsepower "Big Boy" operated by this company formed to extend the railways to the West Coast Union Pacific Joanna	$600 [18] What a shopper! In the 1860s she reportedly bought 300 pairs of gloves during one 4-month period Mary Todd Lincoln Eleanor	$600 [13] Patented around 1938, Vladimir Zworykin's iconoscope was the first practical one of these TV camera	$600 [4] A nozzled weapon that projects ignited incendiary fuel a flamethrower Joanna
$1,000 [24] He won 6 Hugo Awards for his fiction, including "Starship Troopers" & "Stranger in a Strange Land" Robert Heinlein	$800 [10] Mary, co-host of "E.T.", weds Watergate "Deep Throat" W. Mark & hyphenates to get this sincere name Mary Hart-Felt	$800 [28] From the Ahnapee & Western, the museum has this type of car whose name once referred to the galley of a ship a caboose	$800 [19] An institute for caregiving is named for her at Georgia Southwestern State, her alma mater Rosalynn Carter Tawney	$800 [14] In 1895 these French brothers invented the cinematographe, which combined a movie camera & a projector the Lumière Brothers Joanna	$800 [5] A ZZ Top album, a movie ticketing service or a dance of Spain Fandango Tawney
DD $1,200 [22] Credited with formulating the "Three Laws of Robotics", he said the idea came from his editor John Campbell Isaac Asimov Eleanor	—	$1,000 [29] (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the National Railroad Museum, Green Bay, WI.) Originally built for a Japanese railroad, this class of locomotive with a 2-8-2 wheel arrangement was named for a Japanese term for emperor a Mikado	$1,000 [20] She attended Barstow, a finishing school for girls, in Kansas City near her hometown of Independence Mrs. Truman Tawney	$1,000 [15] This German company introduced the first precision miniature 35 mm camera in 1924 Leica	$1,000 [6] The 2 types of wrestling in the Olympics are Greco-Roman & this freestyle

Double Jeopardy! Round

BRITISH POSSESSIONS	2-SPORT TERMS	NAPOLEONIC TIMES	NEWSPAPERS	ANATOMY	"CK", THE CATEGORY
$400 [6] Discovered by John Davis in 1592, these islands were first settled by Argentinians in the 1820s the Falkland Islands Eleanor	$400 [8] One successful roll for Pete Weber or pitch for Eric Gagne a strike Tawney	$400 [23] She met Napoleon in 1795 when she was trying to get back her late husband's sword Josephine Tawney	$400 [16] Its front page features "Snapshots", which depict trends in graphs & cartoons USA Today Tawney	$400 [1] It's the part of the body where you'll find the sternocleidomastoid muscle the neck Eleanor	$400 [11] Describes on e born an' reared within th' sound o' London's Bow Bells, it does cockney Tawney
$800 [7] This colony off the coast of Cape Hatteras was a part of the charter of the Virginia Company in the early 1600s Bermuda Joanna Tawney	$800 [9] In 2 different sports, it can weigh 1 1/8 ounces of lead, or 16 pounds of iron or brass a shot Joanna	$800 [24] Wellington enlisted the aid of these fighters in Spain whose name means "little war", not "great ape" guerrilla Tawney	$800 [17] In June 2002 this city's Times-Picayune began a 5-part series on the destruction a hurricane could bring New Orleans Eleanor	$800 [2] Periosteum, a membrane that covers the surface of this, is from the Greek for "around" this bone Eleanor	$800 [12] The pecan is a type of this tree whose wood is used in tool handles hickory Joanna
$1,200 [26] In 1999 a cannon from the HMS Bounty was raised from the wreck site at this isolated island Pitcairn Island	$1,600 [21] A running back runs through it in the defense; a driving basketballer "takes the ball to" it the hole Joanna	$1,200 [25] On Sept. 14, 1812 French troops occupied this city & found it almost deserted Moscow	$1,600 [19] Pacific Newspaper Group, a Can West company, publishes both The Province & The Sun in this Canadian city Vancouver Joanna Tawney	$1,200 [3] A microliter of blood contains from 150,000 to 400,000 of these blood-clotting bodies platelets Eleanor	$1,200 [13] From an Old English word for "fair-haired", this male given name might be called elementary Sherlock Joanna
—	DD $2,000 [10] One player on a hockey team is paid to do this, a violation in basketball goal tend Joanna	—	$2,000 [20] You could call C.P. Scott, who edited Manchester's leading newspaper for 57 years, this kind of "angel" Guardian	$1,600 [4] It sounds funny, but the aqueous humor lubricates important parts of this organ the eye Eleanor	$1,600 [14] "The Pioneers" & "The Prairie" are 2 of the 5 historical novels in this series The Leatherstocking Tales
—	$2,000 [22] A golfer hits this chip shot to reach the green; a tennis player hits it to get to the net approach shots	—	DD $2,500 [18] "The newspaper of Silicon Valley", this San Jose paper got its name from another element mined in the area the San Jose Mercury News Eleanor	$2,000 [5] It's the overall name for 3 pairs of glands: parotid, submandibular & sublingual the salivary glands Eleanor	$2,000 [15] It's the 7-letter name of the American bird seen here the grackle Eleanor

Final Jeopardy!

CHARACTERS IN 18th CENTURY PLAYS

This Englishwoman's name comes from the French for "badly suited to the purpose"

Mrs. Malaprop

Joanna "Who is Malaprop?" — wagered $1,000

Tawney "Who was Maladroite?" — wagered $3,800

Eleanor "Who is Mrs. [something scribbled out] Malaprop?" — wagered $7,400

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