Show #4946 2006-02-27 Regular

(Jon: So you bought theLouisiana Territory, but what exactly's out there? We'll find out with Lewis & Clark, coming up onJeopardy!)

Contestants

Tim Logue — a bartender from San Francisco, California

Jessica Epstein — an assistant dean originally from Mercer Island, Washington

Bonnie Clair — an attorney from St. Louis, Missouri (whose 2-day cash winnings total $27,551)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bonnie $2,400 $4,600 $14,200 $399
3rd place: $1,000
$14,200
14 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Jessica $3,600 $6,800 $14,000 $25,401
New champion: $25,401
$13,600
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Tim $1,200 $800 $14,400 $399
2nd place: $2,000
$9,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 6 W

Jeopardy! Round

EARTH HEIR FIRE! WAITER! ANGELS "DEM"-ONS
$200 [26]
As well as trash & absorbent pet material, it can also mean the organic surface layer of the forest floor
litter
Jessica
$200 [11]
Since 1301 this title has belonged to the heir apparent to the British throne
the Prince of Wales
Bonnie
$200 [21]
Though the 1871 Chicago fire began in this family's barn, their house suffered only minor damages
the O'Learys
Jessica
$200 [1]
To get us started, a serving of this dish named for an oilman: oysters topped with spinach & then baked
Oysters Rockefeller
Tim
$200 [16]
Arte Moreno bought the baseball team in 2003 & renamed it the Los Angeles Angels of this place
Anaheim
Tim
$200 [6]
A formal reduction in rank, status or position
demotion
Jessica
$400 [27]
Formed at the Earth's surface, basalt is the extrusive type of this "Big 3" type of rock
igneous
Jessica
$400 [12]
Heirs want to stay on the good side of this, the person mainly charged with carrying out a will's provisions
the executor
Bonnie
$400 [22]
The first successful print of this future partner of James Ives was of a fire in Manhattan
(Nathaniel) Currier
Bonnie
$400 [2]
Waiter, we'd like 2 services of this chilled cream-potato-leek soup
vichyssoise
Tim
$400 [17]
The address of Angel Stadium is on a street named for this singing cowboy
Gene Autry
Jessica Tim
$400 [7]
The DM in Korea's DMZ
demilitarized
Jessica
$600 [28]
Heat rising from within the Earth is mostly from this type of decay of elements like uranium & thorium
radioactive decay
$600 [13]
Peter Faneuil, who gave this city its hall, inherited his uncle's fortune after another nephew was cut off for marrying
Boston
Jessica
$600 [23]
Maria Theresa ordered this Italian opera house built after a fire destroyed the Royal Ducal Theatre in 1776
La Scala
Jessica
$600 [3]
To heat up my chilly bones, bring out a large bottle of this warmed & fermented rice drink from Japan
sake
Tim
$600 [18]
"Vlad's Pad" at Angel Stadium is named for this right fielder & 2004 league MVP
Vladimir Guerrero
Jessica
$600 [8]
Cognitive deterioration, sometimes "senile"
dementia
Jessica
$800 [29]
Immense boulders in random & odd places were some of the first evidence that these "Ages" happened
Ice Ages
Bonnie
$800 [14]
Charlene, sole heir of the late Alfred of this Dutch brewing giant, is worth $4.9 billion
Heineken
Jessica
$800 [24]
The Bank of America is around today because A.P. Giannini saved its currency from this city's 1906 fire
San Francisco
Tim
$800 [4]
I'm in the mood for a little Italian: how 'bout an order of anitra all'aranci, this fowl cooked in orange sauce
duck
Tim
$800 [19]
Sportswriters refer to the Angels as these appropriate circular items, like the one in the team's logo
the Halos
Jessica
$800 [9]
To object or voice opposition
demur
Bonnie Tim
$1,000 [30]
1 of the 3 Cs in the geological-period mnemonic "camels often sit down carefully--perhaps their joints creak..."
Cretaceous (or Cambrian or Carboniferous)
Bonnie
$1,000 [15]
If Richie Rich's father dies, his legacy is managed by one of these, from the Latin for "guard"
a custodian
$1,000 [25]
After a 1624 fire Christian IV replanned this Northern European city & renamed it Christiania
Oslo
Tim
$1,000 [5]
For dessert, bring me some of this apple-filled rolled pastry whose name is from the German for "whirlpool"
strudel
Jessica
$1,000 [20]
This Angel manager spent 13 years catching for the Dodgers
Mike Scioscia
DD $1,000 [10]
The young women "d'Avignon" in the title of a painting by Picasso
Demoiselles
Bonnie

Double Jeopardy! Round

LEWIS & CLARK THAT'S MY BUSINESS U.S. CABINET DEPARTMENTS IN OTHER WORDS BESTSELLERS THE "L" WORLD A VIOLENT CATEGORY
$400 [23]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Columbia Gorge Discovery Center in Oregon.) Here in Columbia Gorge, Clarksketched this bird, & Lewis wrote, "I believe this to be the largest bird in North America"
a California condor
Tim
$400 [17]
Meg Whitman heads up this Internet company where you can bid on items & sell them, too
eBay
Tim
$400 [16]
Instruction
Education
Bonnie
$400 [2]
This author's "The Secret Man" detailed the history of his interactions with Deep Throat
Bob Woodward
Jessica
$400 [5]
Like Rome, this capital of Portugal is built on 7 hills
Lisbon
Jessica
$400 [1]
In hockey this shot is always taken with a full swinging stroke
slap
Bonnie Jessica
$800 [24]
Named for a structural section, it's the type of boat the boys set off in; it ran aground on day 2
a keelboat
$800 [18]
Henry's great-grandson William runs this car company which was started in 1903
the Ford Motor Company
Jessica
$800 [19]
Giving birth
Labor
Jessica
$800 [3]
This writer got her bestselling groove back with "The Interruption of Everything"
(Terry) McMillan
Jessica
$800 [6]
This beautiful lake in Banff National Park is named for a British princess
Louise
Tim
$800 [8]
It means "to strike with a whip" & also follows "whip" in a word for an injury
lash
Jessica
$1,600 [26]
One tough part of thejourneyup the Missouri was portaging this featureof the river in June & July 1805
the Great Falls (on the Missouri)
Tim
$1,200 [28]
(One of television's most recognizable commercial spokespersons delivers the clue.) Oh, no--I lost another one to this mortgage company
Ditech
Bonnie
$1,200 [20]
A person's condition or disposition
State
Jessica
$1,200 [4]
As of Dec. 4, 2005 this pregnancy prep book had spent 247 weeks on the N.Y. Times Bestseller List
What To Expect When You're Expecting
Jessica
$1,200 [7]
This highest capital in the Andes was founded on the site of an earlier settlement in 1548
La Paz
Tim
$1,200 [11]
As a noun it includes the cerebrum; as a verb it means "to smash on the head"
brain
Tim
$2,000 [27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands next to a covered pile of crates in the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, Oregon.) A 5,000-sq.-ft. exhibit at the Columbia Gorge Museum shows the 30 tons of cargo Lewis & Clark took when setting out from this city in 1804
St. Louis
Bonnie
$1,600 [29]
With a "familial" English name, this Japanese maker of office equipment started out selling sewing machines
Brother
Tim
DD $2,000 [21]
mc2
Energy
Jessica
$1,600 [14]
This author's Dr. Kay Scarpetta returned to the scene of the crime with "Trace"
Patricia Cornwell
Bonnie Tim
$1,600 [9]
In 1994 this Norwegian town played host to the Winter Olympics
Lillehammer
Jessica
$1,600 [12]
To hit with a fist, or to herd cattle like a cowboy
punch
Tim
DD $6,000 [25]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, Oregon.) The explorers got invaluable directions from the Indian tribe Lewis called"Pierced Nose"& we know as this
the Nez Perce Indians
Tim
$2,000 [30]
A brother of one of the rappers in Run-DMC, this entrepreneur runs Phat Farm
Russell Simmons
Bonnie
$2,000 [22]
Ex-soldiers' financial arrangements
Veterans' Affairs
Tim
$2,000 [15]
This NPR guy make list with "Me Talk Pretty One Day"
David Sedaris
Tim
$2,000 [10]
Fodor's Travel Guide to France calls this town "the porcelain collector's mecca"
Limoges
Tim
$2,000 [13]
A suit of cards represented by a trefoil
club
Bonnie

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN WOMEN

She gave herself the third-person name "Phantom", the "no-person" she was from 19 months until she was almost 7

Helen Keller

Jessica "What was Helen Keller?" — wagered $11,401
Bonnie "Who was Oprah Winfrey" — wagered $13,801
Tim "Who is Emily Dickinson" — wagered $14,001

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