Show #4952 2006-03-07 Regular

Contestants

Michael Smith — an actor originally from Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Alicia Aho — a bookseller from Seattle, Washington

Bruce Brown — a substitute teacher originally from Cincinnati, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,906)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bruce $8,789 $10,989 $17,789 $789
3rd place: $1,000
$15,200
22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Alicia $-200 $2,200 $17,000 $28,000
New champion: $28,000
$11,800
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Michael $-400 $600 $3,000 $2,000
2nd place: $2,000
$3,000
7 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

BANGLADESH SLOWLY EXPENSIVE HOLLYWOOD DIVORCES AIRPORT I.D. CODES RANKS & TITLES MUSEUMS WHAT THE "MEL"
$200 [22]
The flag of Bangladesh, like the flag of Japan, features a big one of these
a red circle (a sun accepted)
Michael
$200 [17]
He split amicably with wife Amy Irving in 1989, but it cost him $100 million
Steven Spielberg
Michael
$200 [9]
Reserved for Navy airfields, "N" can't begin an identifier for a commercial airport, so this N.J. airport is EWR
Newark
Bruce
$200 [6]
From 1867 to 1914 this African country was ruled by a Turkish viceroy called a khedive
Egypt
Bruce
$200 [1]
Out here we're proud of this, LACMA for short--it's not the Met, but it has a Rembrandt, okay?
the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Bruce
$200 [27]
He penned the immortal introduction "Call me Ishmael"
Herman Melville
Bruce
$400 [23]
The Sundarbans, a swampy area on the Ganges, is one of the last remaining preserves for this big cat
a tiger
Bruce
$400 [18]
This ex-husband of comedienne Roseanne Barr had the last laugh after walking away with $50 million
Tom Arnold
Alicia
$400 [10]
You can understand why some residents of this Iowa city want to change their airport's designation, SUX
Sioux City
Alicia
$400 [7]
Francisco Franco & Chiang Kai-shek used this title as supreme commander of their countries' armies
generalissimo
Bruce
$400 [2]
There's a 1941 Crosley at this state's National Automobile Museum, built on Bill Harrah's collection
Nevada
Alicia Michael
$400 [15]
Around since 1978, this "relaxed" soft drink has a rhyming name
Mello Yello
Alicia
$600 [24]
45 seats in Bangladesh's parliament are reserved for these; so, we guess, they're always down
women
$600 [19]
Ex-wife Casey might have said "Cheers" to this TV star after he paid a divorce tab of $30 million
Ted Danson
Michael
$600 [11]
The Dade-Collier Training & Transition Airport, with the code TNT, is dynamite for this Southern city
Miami
Bruce
$600 [8]
Latin for "to earn by service", this honorary title often follows the name of a retired college professor
emeritus
Bruce
$600 [3]
This city's Accademia features work by native sons Giorgione & Canaletto
Venice
Bruce Alicia
$600 [28]
2-word cooking term for a society made up of many different cultures
a melting pot
$800 [26]
Held August 1, 1971 at Madison Square Garden, the Concert for Bangladesh was organized by this Brit
George Harrison
Bruce
$800 [20]
The cost for turning off this singer's "Heartlight" when he divorced his wife in 1996 was $150 million
Neil Diamond
$800 [12]
Indianola, Miss. has an airport designated IDL; until 1963, IDL stood for the NYC airport then called this
Idlewild
Bruce
$1,000 [16]
A princess who's the daughter of a Portuguese or Spanish monarch is given this title
an infanta
Alicia
$800 [4]
The Berlin building seenhereis the archive of this influential school of design
Bauhaus
Bruce
$800 [29]
Animal pigment in the skin, hair, eyes or fur
melanin
Bruce
$1,000 [25]
Hey, a chief crop is this fiber used to make burlap; the BJMC is the corporation that runs the mills
jute
$1,000 [21]
In 1994 it was "Dances with Alimony Payments" for this actor when he coughed up $80 million to Cindy
Kevin Costner
Alicia
$1,000 [14]
Reserved for commercial radio stations, K & W can't begin IDs, so "EYW" serves this southernmost city in the cont. U.S.
Key West
Bruce
DD $3,389 [13]
Dr. Primrose was one of these priests in Wakefield in an Oliver Goldsmith novel
a vicar
Bruce
$1,000 [5]
This NYC museum opened a museum in Las Vegas in partnership with Russia's Hermitage
the Guggenheim

Double Jeopardy! Round

CHIEF JUSTICES OF THE U.S. MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS BRIT LIT SCIENCE "T"ALK THEY DID GOOD -OON
$400 [21]
The longest-serving Chief (1801-1835), he & Thomas Jefferson both descended from Va. planter William Randolph
(John) Marshall
Bruce
$400 [7]
It's the type of bird beingcomplained about"It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late--"
a parrot
Michael
$400 [2]
The full title of a Henry Fielding novel is "The History of" him, "a Foundling"
Tom Jones
Alicia
$400 [1]
Hydras paralyze their prey with poison from stingers on these body parts
tentacles
Alicia
$400 [24]
Terry Fox lost a leg to this disease & tried to run across Canada to raise money to fight it
cancer
Bruce
$400 [16]
The name of this type of storm means "great wind"
a typhoon
Michael
$800 [19]
No. 17, as a lawyer he argued 39 cases before the high court, more than the rest of the sitting justices combined
Chief Justice Roberts
Bruce
$800 [8]
It's the profession he'ssinging about"I cut down trees /I skip and jump /I like to press wild flowers /I put on women's clothing /And hang around in bars..."
lumberjack
Alicia
$800 [3]
Dona Inez is the mother of this Byron title character
Don Juan
$1,200 [13]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from a science lab.) There are two basic types of flow--laminar, which is smooth & regular, &this more common one with swirls & eddies
turbulent
Michael
$800 [28]
He's the missionary seenherethe year he went to minister to the lepers of Molokai
Father Damien
Bruce
$800 [17]
This 1947 musical is set in the highlands of Scotland
Brigadoon
Bruce
$1,200 [20]
Hard to miss this 300-lb. Chief, known for walking the 3 mi. between his home & the court most mornings & nights
Taft
Bruce
$1,200 [9]
It's the packaged meat product that comes with thefollowing"...or lobster thermidor aux crevettes with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pâté, brandy, and a fried egg on top and--"
Spam
Michael
$1,200 [4]
"Jacob's Room" & "A Room of One's Own" are by this member of the Bloomsbury Group
Virginia Woolf
Alicia
$1,600 [14]
The name of this element is from the Swedish for "heavy" & "stone"
tungsten
Michael
$1,600 [18]
He left the NFL's Arizona Cardinals to join the Army Rangers & was killed in Afghanistan in 2004
Pat Tillman
$1,200 [27]
This gold coin of Spain was once worth 8 escudos
a doubloon
Alicia
$1,600 [22]
We commission you to name this chief who penned the opinion of the ruling outlawing public school segregation
Earl Warren
$1,600 [10]
It's the tribunal making an appearance here"Our chief weapon is surprise--surprise and fear, fear and surprise. Our two weapons are fear and surprise--"
the Spanish Inquisition
Alicia
$1,600 [5]
At the end of this novel, the contents of the note that George secretly gave Becky Sharp are finally revealed
Vanity Fair
Alicia
$2,000 [15]
It's what the "t" stands for in tRNA
transfer
$1,600 [25]
This Saskatchewan city was named for a local red berry
Saskatoon
Alicia
$2,000 [23]
In 1857 he held that Congress did not have power to abolish slavery in the territories
Taney
Bruce
$2,000 [11]
It's the game show beingplayed"This is for 15 pounds, and it's to stop us revealing the name of your lover in Bolton."
Blackmail
$2,000 [6]
He served up "Cakes and Ale", a 1930 satire of English literary life
Somerset Maugham
DD $6,000 [12]
It's the second of the 3 main sections of an arthropod's body
the thorax
Alicia
$2,000 [26]
It's the French dialect spoken in the southern part of Belgium
Walloon
Bruce

Final Jeopardy!

GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES

From the 1795 poem "Erin": "Nor one feeling of vengeance presume to defile/ The cause, or the men, of" this place

the Emerald Isle

Michael "What is Ireland?" — wagered $1,000
Alicia "What is the Emerald Isle?" — wagered $11,000
Bruce "What is Ireland" — wagered $17,000

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