Show #4675 2004-12-24 (taped 2004-09-14) Regular

Aaron Thompson game 2.

Contestants

Catherine Ewen — a recent law school graduate from Berkeley, California

Paul Boyer — a bartender originally from Schenectady, New York

Aaron Thompson — an executive assistant from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,000)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Aaron	$1,000	$2,000	$24,100	$25,100 2-day champion: $45,100	$23,200 29 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Paul	$-200	$3,800	$7,400	$14,400 2nd place: $2,000	$7,400 10 R, 1 W
Catherine	$2,400	$5,000	$11,400	$1 3rd place: $1,000	$10,200 14 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK	THE PREAMBLE	A NOUN IS A PERSON, PLACE OR THING	THE FOUR-LEGGED ZOO	THREE IS A MAGIC NUMBER	UNPACK YOUR ADJECTIVES
$200 [25] A Multiplication Rock song about this number used Noah's Ark to illustrate its point 2 Aaron	$200 [10] Feel free to cue the "Schoolhouse Rock" tune: "We the people, in order to form" these next 4 preamble words a more perfect union Catherine	$200 [1] Thing:Tin-y silverware a fork Catherine	$200 [20] In Merrimack, New Hampshire, you can tour the Anheuser-Busch brewery & visit its stables of these horses Clydesdales Aaron	$200 [3] "When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lighting, or in rain?" is the first line of this play Macbeth Aaron	$200 [14] Carly Simon knows "your'e so" this, you probably think this clue is about you vain Aaron
$400 [26] "Hey! That smarts! Ouch! That hurts! You! That's no fair givin' a guy a short down there!" can be heard in this grammar song "Interjections!" Aaron Paul	$400 [11] It's the first thing the preamble wishes to "establish"; truth & the American way would have to come later justice Aaron	$400 [2] Person:The controversial Supreme Court nominee seen here (Robert) Bork Paul	$400 [21] Seen here, the fennec is the smallest one of these animals, & it has the longest ears relative to body size a fox Catherine	$400 [4] This pro sport has a 3-point play & a 3-second rule basketball Aaron	$400 [15] It borders the fairway on a golf course; as an adjective it can also mean coarse rough Aaron
$600 [27] Zachary Sanders sang, "To run, to go, to get, to give--this" part of speech "you're what's happenin'" a verb Paul	$600 [12] The preamble sets forth to "insure domestic" this tranquility Catherine	$600 [7] Place:The Irish county where you'll find Kinsale Harbor Cork Catherine	$800 [23] A dzo is the hybrid offspring of a cow & this Tibetan beast of burden a yak Aaron	$600 [5] This American sitcom was based on the British sitcom "A Man About the House" Three's Company Aaron Paul Catherine	$600 [16] Corpulent, or the last name of the creator of the corpulent Nero Wolfe stout
$800 [28] "Well now I'm stuck in committee and I'll sit here and wait" to hear this how-a-law-gets-passed song "I'm Just A Bill"	$800 [13] Boldly packing a lot into one very long sentence, the preamble wishes to "secure the blessings of" this liberty Catherine	$800 [8] Thing:Tolkien's evil version of a goblin an orc Aaron	$1,000 [24] Found in the Galapagos Islands, the marine species of this is the only lizard that uses the sea as a habitat the iguana Paul	$800 [6] The 3 common speeds of phonograph records for sale in 1949 78, 45 & 33 1/3 Aaron	$800 [17] An angle greater than 90 degrees but less than 180, it's "not sharp" obtuse Aaron Catherine
$1,000 [29] On a tribute CD, Better Than Ezra covered this favorite that said "and, but and or, they'll get you pretty far" "Conjunction Junction" Paul	$1,000 [30] Meaning "to enact by law", this word precedes "and establish this Constitution for the United States of America" ordain	$1,000 [9] Place:The Pennsylvania city where the Articles of Confederation were adopted York Catherine	DD $1,400 [22] One of these long-lived animals that died in 1966 was reportedly given to the King of Tonga by Captain Cook a tortoise Catherine	$1,000 [19] A proton contains 3 of these subatomic particles, 2 "up" & 1 "down" quarks Aaron	$1,000 [18] In titles of famous novels, it precedes "and the Dead" & "Lunch" naked Paul

Double Jeopardy! Round

NEW NAME	TEAMS THAT DON'T END IN S	SHORT STORY WRITERS	HOT DRINKS	YOU'RE IN FOR A BATTLE	JEOPORTMANTEAU!
$400 [6] Persia Iran Paul	$400 [1] Kenesaw Mountain Landis banned for life 8 players of this baseball team for helping fix the 1919 World Series the Chicago White Sox Catherine	$400 [16] While in Paris in the 1820s, this "Rip Van Winkle" author co-wrote plays with John Howard Payne Washington Irving Aaron	$400 [21] "House rules" for this fermented fruity potable include using it in hot buttered rum cider	$400 [11] The 1453 battle of this capital signaled the end of the Byzantine Empire Constantinople Aaron	$400 [26] Pachyderm plus ghost elephantom Aaron Paul
$800 [7] Siam Thailand Paul	$800 [2] In 1979 New Orleans lost its NBA franchise to Utah, which strangely enough chose to keep this nickname Jazz Aaron	$800 [17] He set 2 of his stories, "The Balloon Hoax" & "The Gold-Bug", on Sullivan's Island, S.C., where he'd served in the army Edgar Allan Poe Aaron	$800 [22] Americans at a military base in Limerick help popularize this "national" drink that can be made with Jameson Irish coffee Catherine	$800 [12] In this 1940 battle, a much smaller air force held off 2,500 German planes for many months the Battle of Britain Aaron	$800 [27] Brett Favre or John Elway plus knapsack quarterbackpack Aaron
$1,200 [8] Ceylon Sri Lanka Aaron	$1,200 [3] "Rudy" & "Knute Rockne, All American" are both films that focus on the football team nicknamed this the Fighting Irish Aaron	$1,200 [18] Is 1906 collection "The Four Million" contained some of his best-known stories, including "The Gift of the Magi" O. Henry Catherine	$1,200 [23] This "hot" drink was derived from the sap of a Palmyra palm; today it's often made with bourbon & cloves a hot toddy Aaron	$1,200 [13] More than 100 Japanese ships were defeated by a U.S. force half that size in this decisive battle of June 1942 the Battle of Midway Aaron	$1,200 [28] Pansy or daffodil plus lycanthrope flowerewolf
$1,600 [9] Cathay China Aaron	$2,000 [5] Alabama has the Crimson Tide & Tulane has this colorful nickname the Green Wave Aaron	DD $2,000 [19] A 1900 collection of his short stories was titled "The Son of the Wolf" Jack London Catherine	$1,600 [24] This warm frothy beverage made with rum & brandy shares its name with a Hanna-Barbera animated pair a Tom and Jerry Aaron	$1,600 [14] The valley of this French river was the scene of a 1916 battle that had over 1 million casualties the Somme Aaron	$1,600 [29] Sam Malone plus preparing meat by pounding & flavoring bartenderizer Aaron
$2,000 [10] Abyssinia Ethiopia Aaron	DD $2,500 [4] This Colorado team used to be known as the Quebec Nordiques the Colorado Avalanche Aaron	$2,000 [20] The "Old Manse" in Concord where he & his wife Sophia lived from 1842 to 1845 was rented from Ralph Waldo Emerson Nathaniel Hawthorne Aaron	$2,000 [25] The angel in "It's a Wonderful Life" asks for this type of wine, "heavy on the cinammon & light on the cloves" mulled wine Aaron	$2,000 [15] At this 1415 battle, a force of about 6,000 English, mostly archers, defeated 25,000 French troops Agincourt Paul	$2,000 [30] Tear-shedding reptile plus something you can be "perched on the horns of" crocodilemma Catherine

Final Jeopardy!

PSYCHOLOGY

In 1973 4 bank employees held hostage in this city ended up feeling grateful to their captors

Stockholm

Paul "What is Stockholm?" — wagered $7,000

Catherine "What is Helsinki?" — wagered $11,399

Aaron "What is Stockholm [letters written very jittery]" — wagered $1,000

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