Show #4985 2006-04-21 Regular

Doug Dorst game 2.

Contestants

Jimmie Bise Jr. — a police dispatcher and music student from Waldorf, Maryland

Sally Vaughn — a consultant from Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Doug Dorst — a writer and professor from Austin, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $30,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Doug $400 $1,200 $10,600 $21,200
2-day champion: $51,201
$8,800
12 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Sally $1,800 $1,800 $5,800 $100
3rd place: $1,000
$5,800
13 R, 5 W
Jimmie $6,800 $5,200 $15,000 $8,799
2nd place: $2,000
$17,600
22 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT TIMES SPORTS EVOLUTION A BUG'S LIFE ASTRONOMY ADD A LETTER RICHARD THE SECOND...
$200 [6]
The ancient Ban Chiang poetry of Thailand resembles that of this country's neolithic Yang-Shao period
China
Sally
$200 [1]
In the 1750s the original golf course here had 11 holes & you played each of them twice
St. Andrews
Sally
$200 [16]
Known as Wandermeisen in German, these conspicuously mobile ants move about in long, orderly columns
army ants
Doug
$200 [11]
Add this letter to Earth & you get a scarcity
D ( d earth)
Sally
$200 [21]
One man who had this name discovered Lake Tanganyika; the other played Becket & Trotsky on film
Richard Burton
Sally
$200 [26]
...son born to Barbara Bush
Jeb (Bush)
Sally
$400 [7]
Ancient Greeks believed that wine was a gift from this god, the Greek equivalent of Bacchus
Dionysus
Doug Sally
$400 [2]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Utah Olympic Park, with Cheryl and Jimmy pushing her in a bobsled.) Begun in the 1800s, the first bobsleds didn't have these--a garden rake was used instead
brakes
Jimmie
$400 [17]
The chigoe is a sand-dwelling variety of this insect
a flea
Doug
$400 [12]
Add this letter to Mars & you get a fen
H (mars h )
Jimmie
$400 [22]
In 1886 Richard Sears began selling pocket watches & in 1887 hired this man as his watch repairman
Roebuck
Doug
$400 [27]
...franchise to win the Super Bowl
New York Jets
Doug Sally Jimmie
$600 [8]
Because of his work there, you could call the astronomer Hipparchus "the colossus of" this island
Rhodes
Jimmie
$800 [4]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew slides a curling stone across the ice in the Utah Olympic Oval.) Curling came to North America with Scottish soldiers who melted down these iron projectiles; today's stone is 40 pounds of polished granite
cannonballs
Sally
$600 [18]
The field & house types of this insect are sold as laboratory subjects, frog food & bait
crickets
Doug Jimmie
$600 [13]
Add this letter to Saturn's moon Titan & you get a Renaissance guy who liked to paint Venus
I (Tit i an)
Jimmie
$600 [23]
Either of the 2 parents of Richard the Lion-Hearted
(1 of) Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine
$600 [28]
...U.S. manned space program
the Gemini program
Sally
$800 [9]
Horrified by the carnage of war, Asoka, a 3rd century B.C. ruler in India, embraced this peaceful religion
Buddhism
Sally
DD $1,000 [3]
By the time the British discovered this sport in India around 1860, it used a ball, no longer a goat's or enemy's head
polo
Jimmie
$800 [19]
This garden pest controller is the state insect of Delaware & Massachusetts
ladybug
Jimmie
$800 [14]
Add this letter to Jupiter's moon Io & you get an acronym that's a ground-floor stock offer for regular guys
P (I P O)
Jimmie
$800 [24]
He shot the famous photo of Nastassja Kinski & the serpent
Richard Avedon
Doug
$800 [29]
...to become Secretary of Homeland Security
Michael Chertoff
Sally
$1,000 [10]
Hetepheres was the mother of this Great Pyramid king; when her tomb was found, Mummy's mummy was missing
Cheops
Jimmie
$1,000 [5]
The 18th century Broughton rules were intended to lessen the brutality of this sport
boxing
Jimmie
$1,000 [20]
Used by scientists to clean flesh off bones being prepared for research, dermestids are a type of this insect
a beetle
Sally Jimmie
$1,000 [15]
Add this letter to star & get something harsh or grim
K (star k )
Jimmie
$1,000 [25]
He was actually in prison when he wrote, "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage"
Richard Lovelace
$1,000 [30]
...Sherlock Holmes novel published
The Sign of Four

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S. PRESIDENTS "DON'T" YOU KNOW THIS SONG? TITLES FROM SHAKESPEARE FOR THE FASHIONISTA FRANCE 4-LETTER FRIENDS
$400 [11]
His second inaugural address began, "At this last presidential inauguration of the twentieth century..."
Bill Clinton
Doug
$400 [1]
Buenos Aires held back a sniffle when this Madonna hit went to No. 8 in 1997
"Don't Cry For Me Argentina"
Sally
$400 [24]
Beware Thornton Wilder's "The Ides of March" & this play where you'll find the phrase
Julius Caesar
Jimmie
$400 [21]
Style.com stated that your spring 2006 wardrobe must include a baby-doll dress in the style of this decade
the '60s
Sally
$400 [16]
Liberation & Le Petit Journal are leading ones of these in France
newspapers
Jimmie
$400 [6]
You were a fool to move that bishop! This 4-letter term in 3 moves
mate
Jimmie
$800 [12]
Subpoenaed for documents in Burr's treason trial, he cited executive privilege; didn't work
Thomas Jefferson
Doug
$800 [2]
It was Elvis' third No. 1 hit of 1956
"Don't Be Cruel"
Jimmie
$800 [25]
Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" as well as Steinbeck's "The Moon Is Down" come from this play
Macbeth
Doug
$800 [22]
Of Elie Saab, Elie Saturn or Elie Subaru, the one who designed the gown Halle Berry wore when she won her Oscar
Elie Saab
$800 [17]
With its team led by Zinedine Zidane, France won this prestigious contest in July 1998
the World Cup
Jimmie
$800 [7]
In "Jaws", it's what Roy Scheider threw overboard to lure the shark
chum
Doug
$1,600 [14]
In November 1910 he was elected governor of New Jersey
Wilson
Sally
$1,200 [3]
No doubt you know this "Tragic Kingdom" tune was No. 1 for 16 weeks on the airplay chart in 1996 & '97
"Don't Speak"
Jimmie
$1,200 [26]
Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" comes from a speech of Miranda's in this play
The Tempest
Jimmie
$1,200 [23]
The sex-symbol look of films like "La Dolce Vita" has long inspired Domenico Dolce & this partner
Gabbana
Jimmie
$1,600 [19]
Just south of Champagne is this other potent potable-named region, a former duchy
Burgundy
Sally
$1,200 [8]
The first name of actress Sheedy, pronounced differently
ally
Jimmie
$2,000 [15]
On June 28, 1919 he married Elizabeth Wallace
Harry Truman
$1,600 [4]
Elton John saw the light of the Top 5 with this song twice, in 1974 & 1992
"Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me"
Jimmie
$1,600 [27]
This long-running Agatha Christie drama references the play-within-a-play in "Hamlet"
The Mousetrap ( A Mousetrap accepted)
Doug
$1,600 [29]
Launched by her brother in the '90s, a fragrance called Blonde was inspired by this Italian designer's long blonde hair
Donatella Versace
Doug
$2,000 [20]
"Jet" over to this largest Paris place, site of the guillotine during the French Revolution
the Place de la Concorde
Sally
$1,600 [9]
A nobleman, or to look intently
peer
Jimmie
DD $3,000 [13]
His will gave a total of $110,000 to grandchildren Alexander & Melanie Eisenhower & Christopher Cox
(Richard) Nixon
Doug
$2,000 [5]
If you've given up, stop! & tell us this Tom Petty song that won the Best Special Effects MTV Music Video Award in '85
"Don't Come Around Here No More"
Doug
$2,000 [28]
Peter Straub & Danielle Steel both came "Full Circle", spoken by Edmund in this Shakespearean tragedy
King Lear
$2,000 [30]
Flowing fabric defines this fashion house founded by Tanya Sarne; its name is a synonym for "phantom"
Ghost
DD $3,000 [18]
In 1992, 200 years after it was written, 40% of the French found it excessively bloody & 25% wanted it changed
the French National Anthem ("La Marseillaise")
Jimmie
$2,000 [10]
The sport of rowing
crew
Sally Jimmie

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS OBJECTS

Shah Jahan, Ranjit Singh & Queen Victoria all possessed a famous one whose name means "mountain of light"

a diamond

Sally "What is a sapphire?" — wagered $5,700
Doug "What is a diamond" — wagered $10,600
Jimmie "What is Taj Ma" — wagered $6,201

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