Show #4955 2006-03-10 Regular

Contestants

Chris Smith — an advertising creative director from Dallas, Texas

Brett Crawford — an attorney from Rockville, Maryland

Randy Logan — a high school English teacher from Mesquite, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $31,200)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Randy	$2,400	$2,800	$8,000	$0 3rd place: $1,000	$8,000 12 R, 2 W
Brett	$2,800	$6,800	$6,800	$13,400 2nd place: $2,000	$5,600 16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Chris	$1,200	$2,800	$15,900	$15,799 New champion: $15,799	$13,200 22 R (including 2 DDs), 8 W

Jeopardy! Round

FAR OUT	SUPER COOL	23 SKIDOO	GROOVY	GOLLY "G"!	LET'S SPLIT!
$200 [6] From Earth 4 galaxies are visible without a telescope: the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds, Andromeda & this the Milky Way Brett	$200 [11] The "Rachel cut" hairstyle was popularized by this sitcom Friends Chris	$200 [15] Early in the morning of August 3, 1923 he was sworn in as U.S. president (Calvin) Coolidge Randy Chris	$200 [21] In carpentry, this body part "& groove" form a joint between 2 boards tongue Chris	$200 [1] A home run with the bases loaded a grand slam Brett	$200 [26] In 2000 Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that this computer company should be split in two Microsoft Brett
$400 [7] The possible 10th planet of our solar system was nicknamed for this TV warrior princess; Gabrielle is its moon Xena Randy	$400 [12] Tourists flocked to California wineries after seeing this 2004 Paul Giamatti film but probably held off on the Merlot Sideways Randy	$400 [16] In 1923 this city replaced Constantinople as the capital of its country Ankara Brett	$400 [22] Seen here are grooves in this Buckeye State scoured into limestone 18,000 years ago by the Great Ice Sheet Ohio Randy	$400 [2] "Colorful" 9-letter word used derisively of an immigrant unfamiliar with American life a greenhorn Chris	$400 [27] Grammar alert: there's a split one of these in the phrase "He chose to wisely decline the invitation" an infinitive Chris
$600 [8] Appropriately, the star Acubens, "The Claw", is found in this constellation named for a crustacean the Crab Constellation (Cancer accepted) Randy Chris	$600 [13] In the '90s this somewhat hallucinatory TV title attorney brought back the micro-miniskirt Ally McBeal Brett	$600 [17] Alfred P. Sloan Jr. became the CEO of this giant auto company in 1923 & brought it back from the brink of collapse General Motors Brett	$600 [23] Much of the cortical surface of this is hidden in grooves called sulci the brain Chris	$600 [3] He's the first astronaut later elected U.S. senator John Glenn Chris	$600 [28] Otto Hahn & Fritz Strassman got together long enough to split this in 1938 the atom Chris
$800 [9] Fomalhaut, the brightest star in Piscis Austrinus, means "mouth of" this in Arabic a fish Chris	$800 [14] In 2005 the terpsichorean splendor of John O'Hurley repopularized a somewhat lost art on this TV show Dancing with the Stars Randy	$1,000 [19] In July the U.S. Open golf tournament was won by this amateur in a playoff Bobby Jones Chris	$800 [24] This Simon & Garfunkel tune is also known as "The 59th Street Bridge Song" "Feelin' Groovy" Chris	$800 [4] January is the first month of the year on this, first used in 1582 the Gregorian calendar Brett	$800 [29] Kenya, Tanzania & Uganda share ownership of this body of water Lake Victoria Brett
$1,000 [10] Named in the 17th c. by Dutchman Petrus Plancius, the constellation Monoceros represents this mythical animal a unicorn Brett Chris	$1,000 [20] Sales of Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses soared after Tom Cruise donned a pair in this 1983 film Risky Business Randy	DD $2,000 [18] Governor Al Smith of this state signed a repeal of the state's Prohibition Enforcement Act, angering the feds New York Brett	$1,000 [25] In this artistic process, printing is done by forcing ink into grooves made by acid copperplate etching Randy Chris	$1,000 [5] Psychologist Max Wertheimer co-founded this theory in which the sum is greater than its parts Gestalt Chris	$1,000 [30] Name given to the period between 1378 & 1417 when the Catholic Church had 2 or 3 popes serving simultaneously the Great Schism Chris

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITERATURE	ALL THAT JAZZ	-ISMS	QUOTABLE WOMEN	SOUTH CAROLINA	TOM SWIFTIES
$400 [1] Britannica states that the name "Agora" was first found in the work of this ancient Greek poet Homer Brett	$400 [6] "Miles Ahead" is a 1957 album by this jazz trumpeter Miles Davis Brett	$400 [12] Eponymous term meaning biased devotion to a group, it sometimes follows "male" when used by feminists chauvinism Chris	$400 [23] Freed from prison in 2005, she said, "The experience of the last five months... has been life altering and life affirming" Martha Stewart Brett	$400 [21] S.C. native Robert Mills designed the Washington Monument & some of the USC campus in this state capital Columbia Brett	$400 [11] "The herb you need to improve this recipe isn't parsley, rosemary or thyme", Tom remarked in this wise fashion sagely Brett
$800 [2] This 1953 book title tells us the temperature at which books burn Fahrenheit 451 Brett	$800 [7] (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Smithsonian Institution.) This Grammy is one of 13 awarded to this jazz singer called "The First Lady of Song" Ella Fitzgerald Chris	$800 [13] Part of many religions, it's the opposition to war & violence as means of settling disputes pacifism Chris	$800 [24] Dorothy Parker quipped that "Brevity is the soul of" this sexywear lingerie Chris	$800 [22] The Francis Marion National Forest contains plenty of these soggy areas found in Marion's nickname swamps Randy Chris	$800 [17] "I've struck unrefined oil!" Tom related in this coarse manner crudely Chris
$1,200 [3] In 1900 he wrote the line, "The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick" L. Frank Baum Randy	$1,200 [8] The album title "Satch Plays Fats" refers to these 2 musicians, one a trumpeter, the other a pianist Louis Armstrong & Fats Waller Chris	$1,600 [15] Latin for "other" gave us this word meaning unselfish concern for others altruism	$1,200 [25] She once remarked, "The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender" Sandra Day O'Connor Brett	$1,200 [28] 2 crops, indigo & this grain, made the colony wealthy in the 18th century rice Chris	$1,200 [18] "I only have clubs, diamonds and spades", Tom said in this cruel fashion heartlessly
$1,600 [4] This 1952 Pulitzer-winning book grew out of Herman Wouk's experiences on a WWII destroyer-minesweeper The Caine Mutiny Randy Brett Chris	DD $2,000 [9] This bop saxophonist's 1946 tune "Ornithology" became a jazz standard Charlie Parker Chris	$2,000 [16] (Kelly of the Clue Crew explains a symbol pictured on a screen.) A Roman symbol in which rods tied together meant unity led to the name of this ideology that glorifies the state fascism Chris	$1,600 [26] In 1926 she told Ernest Hemingway, "You are all a lost generation" Gertrude Stein Randy	—	$1,600 [19] It's the annoyingly cheerful way Tom said, "Golly! The coffee's bubbling through!" perkily Chris
$2,000 [5] Elizabeth Barrett Browning gave this volume of 44 sonnets to Robert in 1847, a year after they eloped Sonnets from the Portuguese Randy	$2,000 [10] This bandleader was the "King of Hi-De-Ho" Cab Calloway Randy	DD $3,500 [14] The practices of some extreme Protestants of the Reformation era; or any moral strictness puritanism Chris	$2,000 [27] "People said women couldn't swim the Channel... I proved they could"; & so she did, in 1926 Gertrude Ederle	—	$2,000 [20] When Tom yelled, "Neigh! Neigh! A thousand times neigh!" it was in this rough way, as if he had a sore throat hoarsely Chris

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC DOCUMENTS

Clause 39 of this reads "No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned... except by the legal judgment of his peers"

the Magna Carta

Brett "What is the Magna Charta?" — wagered $6,600

Randy "What is The Emancipation Proclaimation?" — wagered $8,000

Chris "What is the 14th Amendment" — wagered $101

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