Show #4948 2006-03-01 Regular

Contestants

Amit Bose — an attorney from Tucker, Georgia

Melanie Perreault — a college history professor from Salisbury, Maryland

Jimmy Orsag — a journalist from Rochester, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,602)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Jimmy	$1,400	$2,800	$8,400	$5,198 2nd place: $2,000	$8,400 12 R, 2 W
Melanie	$3,200	$5,800	$11,600	$399 3rd place: $1,000	$12,600 19 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Amit	$800	$2,000	$11,200	$5,600 New champion: $5,600	$11,800 17 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE 16th CENTURY	EIGHTH NOTES	DOUBLE G WHIZ	CALIFORNIA DREAMIN'	IT'S A MYSTERY!	HUGH DONE IT
$200 [22] Martin Luther translated the Bible into this language German Melanie	$200 [17] In the eighth inning of a 1927 game against Washington, he blasted his then record 60th home run of the season Babe Ruth Amit	$200 [12] Dis music of da Caribbean blends da blues, calypso & rock, mon reggae Amit	$200 [7] The 150th anniversary of this 1849 California event was honored on a 1999 U.S. stamp the Gold Rush Melanie	$400 [25] This detecting couple whom Dashiell Hammett introduced in "The Thin Man" had a dog named Asta Nick & Nora Charles Jimmy	$200 [1] Marilyn Monroe graced his first centerfold back in 1953 Hugh Hefner Amit
$400 [23] She became queen of Scots in 1542 when she was less than a week old Mary (Stuart) Melanie	$400 [18] If you don't know it's the eighth planet from the Sun, you're all wet Neptune Melanie	$400 [13] Legally, this type of assault involves serious bodily injury aggravated Melanie	$400 [8] Home to Theo Kearney, the Raisin King of California, this city grew up around a train station Fresno Amit	DD $600 [6] The title of this 1939 mystery by Raymond Chandler is a slang term for death The Big Sleep Amit	$400 [2] This actor has played the befuddled Bertie Wooster & the curmudgeonly Dr. House Hugh Laurie Melanie
$600 [24] In 1570 this first Russian czar killed thousands in Novgorod; he thought they were conspiring against him Ivan the Terrible Jimmy	$600 [19] The eighth plague of Egypt in Exodus, they plague some areas of the Earth every 17 years locusts Melanie	$600 [14] Apologies to those dining at home now: it's a soft-bodied, legless larva of certain flies a maggot Jimmy	$600 [9] This "royal road" linked missions in California from Sonoma down to San Diego El Camino Real	$600 [26] The V.I. in this hard-boiled detective's name stands for Victoria Iphigenia V.I. Warshawski Jimmy	$600 [3] He's starred in "Mickey Blue Eyes" as well as "Lair of the White Worm" Hugh Grant Melanie Amit
$800 [29] In 1559, during Pope Paul IV's reign, the church first published this banned-reading list the Index of Forbidden Books	$800 [20] In Hinduism, Krishna is considered the eighth earthly incarnation of this preserver god Vishnu Amit	$800 [15] Slang for "hyped", it also means beaten with a whip as punishment flogged Jimmy	$800 [10] Spanish for "the bull", it's the site of a former Marine Corps air station near Santa Ana, California El Toro Melanie	$800 [27] Some editions of this Dickens novel begin, "An ancient English cathedral town..."; others say "tower"--it's a "Mystery"! The Mystery of Edwin Drood Jimmy Amit	$800 [4] In September 2005 this Aussie won an Emmy for hosting the Tony Awards Hugh Jackman Melanie Amit
$1,000 [30] In the 1569 Union of Lublin, Zygmunt II united Lithuania & this country Poland	$1,000 [21] Born in 1961, this famous woman was the daughter of the Eighth Earl Spencer Princess Diana Melanie	$1,000 [16] To overwhelm or bewilder, especially while playing a certain Parker Brothers word game boggle Jimmy Amit	$1,000 [11] Nicknamed "Duke", in 1982 he became the first Armenian-American elected governor of a state George Deukmejian Amit	$1,000 [28] "The Mystery of" her is Poe's sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" Marie Roget	$1,000 [5] At one time a game-show host, he's known better as a host of "20/20" Hugh Downs Amit

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE KENNEDY YEARS	SPORTS FRANCHISES ON FILM	PHILOSOPHY	RUNNING IN CIRCLES	THE BODY HUMAN	THE "I"s HAVE IT
$400 [24] In October 1962 JFK wasphotographedin the Oval Office with Soviet leader who were unaware he already knew about this crisis the Cuban Missile Crisis Melanie	$400 [1] 1942:At first base, Gary Cooper the New York Yankees Amit	$400 [12] The first Greek philosophers are known as pre-this, for the man known for his method Socratic Amit	$400 [20] A country in Africa, or the little circle punched out of a punch card Chad	$400 [11] You'll find the incus, the malleus & the tympanic membrane in this body part the ear Jimmy	$400 [6] This empire spoke a language called Quechua & stretched for more than 2,500 miles the Incas Melanie
$800 [25] Kennedy included Republicans in his Cabinet: Secy. of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon & Robert McNamara, Secretary of this Defense Melanie	$800 [2] 1971:No. 40Billy Dee Williams the Chicago Bears Jimmy	$800 [13] From the Greek for "pleasure", it's the doctrine that pleasure is the highest good hedonism Jimmy	DD $500 [21] It's defined as 66 degrees 30 minutes north latitude & all points on it lie 1,624 miles from the North Geographic Pole the Arctic Circle Melanie	DD $500 [17] Each day this dark purple, ductless 6-letter organ destroys about 200 billion red blood cells on purpose the spleen Melanie	$800 [7] This 14-letter word for a society's intellectual elite comes from the Russian the intelligentsia Jimmy
$1,200 [26] (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from the JFK Library & Museum in Boston, MA.) One exhibit at the Kennedy Library recreates the Justice Department office of this man, John F. Kennedy's most trusted advisor Robert Kennedy Melanie	$1,200 [3] 1978:At QB, Warren Beatty the Los Angeles Rams Amit	$1,200 [14] Kant published a "Critique of Pure" this in 1781 & Feyerabend published a "Farewell to" it in 1987 Reason Amit	$1,200 [22] This 2-letter word is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter pi Amit	$800 [16] If this conical tube connecting mouth & esophagus is damaged, you can't make vowel sounds the pharynx Jimmy	$1,200 [8] On Dec. 28, 1846 it joined the U.S. as the 29th state Iowa Melanie Amit
$1,600 [27] A 1961 Gallup poll named JFK the most admired man; on the female list, Jackie placed second, trailing this woman Eleanor Roosevelt Jimmy	$1,600 [4] 1988:John Cusack&1989:Ray Liotta the Chicago White Sox Amit	$1,600 [15] In "Essay Concerning Human Understanding", he argued that we're born with a blank slate, with no innate ideas John Locke Melanie	$1,600 [23] Virgil & Dante find Ulysses among the evil counselors in the 8th circle of Hell in this first part of "The Divine Comedy" The Inferno Amit	$1,600 [18] It's the pear-shaped, bile-holding sac near the right lobe of the liver the gallbladder Amit	$1,600 [9] Ships known as these were used in the Crimean War a few years before the U.S. outfitted the Monitor as one an ironclad Melanie
$2,000 [30] (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads next to a rocking chair in the JFK Library & Museum in Boston, MA.) Because of his bad back, President Kennedy often sat in one of his famous rocking chairs, even when meeting with this futureprime ministerin 1962 Indira Gandhi Amit	$2,000 [5] 1996:No. 85Cuba Gooding Jr. the Arizona Cardinals Jimmy	$2,000 [28] In this work, Nietzsche introduced the concepts of the Ubermensch, or superman, & the will to power Thus Spake Zarathustra	$2,000 [29] There are 2 shapes in this name, formed as a NYC repertory company in 1951 Circle in the Square	$2,000 [19] This "master" gland is joined to the hypothalamus the pituitary	$2,000 [10] This forest of the Congo is renowned as the home of the pygmies the Ituri Forest

Final Jeopardy!

WORD ORIGINS

This word regarding infidelity came from a certain bird leaving its eggs in other nests to be raised

cuckold

Jimmy "What is philandering?" — wagered $3,202

Amit "What is nighting" — wagered $5,600

Melanie "What is Adultery?" — wagered $11,201

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