Show #4988 2006-04-26 Regular

Contestants

Michael Lapthorn — an exhibition designer from New York, New York

Margaret Holz — a surveyor's assistant from Lindside, West Virginia

Gigi Gilman — a homemaker and attorney from Seattle, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Gigi $2,800 $4,600 $8,600 $6,100
3rd place: $1,000
$8,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Margaret $2,800 $2,800 $10,800 $17,801
2nd place: $2,000
$10,800
13 R, 1 W
Michael $1,000 $4,600 $32,400 $27,400
New champion: $27,400
$26,200
28 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. ISLANDS 2006 COMMEMORATIVE STAMPS 3-LETTER BODY PARTS A "D" IN HISTORY NAME THAT TUNE NUMBER THAT CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
$200 [26]
This New York island is divided into 4 counties: Kings, Queens, Nassau & Suffolk
Long Island
Michael
$200 [21]
In the American Motorcycles series, here's this type of bike named for the removal of some parts
a chopper
Michael
$200 [16]
To chew without teeth
gum
Margaret
$200 [4]
To keep Delaware's capital away from the invading British, it was moved to this city in 1777
Dover
Gigi
$200 [2]
Flash back a few decades with this anthem
"I Will Survive"
Margaret
$200 [1]
The one that ends the Bill of Rights
the 10th
Margaret
$400 [27]
Vineyard Sound separates her Vineyard from Cape Cod 4 miles away
Martha's Vineyard
Gigi
$400 [22]
Wonders of America: Land of Superlatives includes these oldest mountains that run from Canada to Alabama
the Appalachians
Michael
$400 [17]
"Synch" it to music to pretend to sing
lip
Gigi
$400 [11]
James Oglethorpe founded Georgia in 1733 as a haven for people in trouble for this back in Britain
debt
Michael
$400 [3]
Do U remember "U Can't Touch This", "I Would Die 4 U" & this Grammy-winning Kelly Clarkson song
"Since U Been Gone"
$600 [9]
The one that ends with the word "infringed"
the 2nd
$600 [28]
Cape Kumukahi is the easternmost point on this "Big Island"
Hawaii
Michael
$600 [23]
4 stamps feature aspects of Ben Franklin; herehe is in this job
Postmaster General
Michael
$600 [18]
To prepare a weapon so that it's ready for use
arm
Michael
$600 [12]
In 1868 & again in 1880, he was succeeded as British Prime Minister by William Gladstone
Disraeli
Margaret
$600 [5]
City that's the title of the following
San Francisco
Michael
$800 [10]
It's also called the Susan B. Anthony Amendment
the 19th
Margaret
$800 [29]
Some islands in this Utah lake are waterfowl breeding grounds; Antelope Island is used for grazing cattle
the Great Salt Lake
Margaret
$800 [24]
The longest arm of the law, he's part of a series on DC comics superheroes
Plastic Man
Michael
$800 [19]
To do this to "the line" is to do what's expected
toe
Michael
$800 [13]
In 1952 the U.N. started a commission on this to make the world a less lethal place
disarmament
Gigi
$800 [6]
"Chicago is one town that won't let you down, it's..." this
"My Kind Of Town"
Gigi
DD $1,000 [8]
1 of the 2 with a due-process clause
the 5th (or the 14th)
Gigi
$1,000 [30]
At 9,373 feet, Shishaldin Volcano on Unimak is the highest mountain in this archipelago
the Aleutian Islands
Michael
$1,000 [25]
Canada Post is a joint issuer of thestampcommemorating the 400th anniversary of this Frenchman's voyage
Samuel de Champlain
Margaret
$1,000 [20]
A section of a journey separated from the other sections by a period of rest
leg
Gigi
$1,000 [15]
In the 16th century these assemblies of German potentates took place at Speyer, Augsburg & (yummy!) Worms
a diet
Margaret
$1,000 [7]
Thistune was on the soundtrack of the Spike Lee film of the same name
"Jungle Fever"
$1,000 [14]
The "cruel and unusual punishments" one
the 8th

Double Jeopardy! Round

BIBLICAL CITIES "H.D." TV SCIENCE CLASS FOOD IN FRENCH AMAZING STORIES CURRENT SENATOR RHYME TIME
$400 [11]
This city in Lower Galilee was the hometown of Mary & Joseph
Nazareth
Gigi
$400 [26]
Aaaaaaaaay!!!! It was the family favorite featuring the Fonz
Happy Days
Gigi
$400 [6]
The difference between the freezing & boiling points of water is 100 on the Kelvin scale & this scale
Celsius
Margaret
$400 [1]
Pain is the French word for this food staple
bread
Michael
$400 [21]
"The Exiles" & "The Long Rain" are 2 of 18 stories in this Ray Bradbury collection featuring a tattooed dude
The Illustrated Man
Michael
$400 [12]
Kennedy's cots
Ted's beds
Michael
$800 [13]
Lot fled to Zoar as destruction rained upon Admah, Zeboiim & these 2 cities in the Vale of Siddim
Sodom & Gomorrah
Gigi
$800 [27]
Now Democratic National Committee chairman, this former pres. candidate appears regularly on "Meet the Press"
Howard Dean
Gigi
$800 [7]
Geneticists know that human beings typically have 23 pairs of these; fruit flies have only 4 pairs
chromosomes
Michael
$800 [2]
In French, this citrus fruit is un pamplemousse
a grapefruit
Michael
$1,200 [23]
"Under the Moons of" this planet, featuring adventurer John Carter, was Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1st published story
Mars
Gigi Margaret Michael
$800 [14]
Biden's pedal digits
Joe's toes
Margaret
$1,200 [18]
Samson was imprisoned & died in this Philistine city; today a "Strip" is named for it
Gaza
Michael
$1,200 [28]
Say, kids, he was the freckle-faced puppet persona of 1950s TV
Howdy Doody
Michael
$1,200 [8]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew drops a raisin into a glass and watches it bob back up.) A raisin in soda sinks because it's denser, & itrisesbecause CO2pockets make it more this, from the Spanish for "float"
buoyant
Michael
$1,200 [3]
Champignon is the French word for an edible one of these
a mushroom
Michael
$1,600 [24]
"The Chronic Argonauts" was a precursor to this 1895 H.G. Wells novel
The Time Machine
Margaret
$1,200 [15]
Elizabeth's fishing rods
Dole's poles
Gigi
$1,600 [19]
On the road to this city, Paul was struck blind for 3 days; he later preached there
Damascus
Michael
$1,600 [29]
On the Disney Channel, she turned heads as the multi-talented & often animated Lizzie McGuire
Hilary Duff
Michael
$1,600 [9]
A litmus test can help you set things on this scale devised by S.P.L. Sorensen
a pH scale
Michael
$1,600 [4]
Cotelette d'agneau means cutlets or chops of this meat
lamb
Michael
$2,000 [25]
In his short story "The Sentinel", a mysterious pyramid is found on the Moon, left there by some passing alien civilization
Arthur C. Clarke
Michael
$1,600 [16]
Lautenberg's practical jokes
Frank's pranks
Gigi
DD $2,000 [20]
"And the Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have given unto thine hand" this city, "and the king thereof"
Jericho
Michael
$2,000 [30]
Seen here, he was Jack Paar's sidekick on "The Jack Paar Show"
Hugh Downs
Michael
$2,000 [10]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of the brain on a monitor.) Descartes called this gland "the seat of the rational soul", & it's named for its pinecone-shaped appearance
the pineal gland
Margaret
$2,000 [5]
Un oeuf is an egg; this is an eggplant
une aubergine
Margaret
DD $7,000 [22]
In this 1864 Jules Verne novel, explorers descend into an Icelandic volcano & later surface on Stromboli Island
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Michael
$2,000 [17]
Nebraskan Chuck's donut-shaped breakfast rolls
Hagel's bagels
Michael

Final Jeopardy!

LITERARY OBJECTS

In literature from the 1200s to today, it has been depicted as a type of dish, a talismanic stone & a woman

the Holy Grail

Gigi "What is ?" — wagered $2,500
Margaret "What is the Holy Grail" — wagered $7,001
Michael "What is ?" — wagered $5,000

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