Show #4991 2006-05-01 Regular

Contestants

Barbara Tarlau — a homemaker from Northridge, California

Nathan Thornton — a copywriter from Columbus, Ohio

Fred Schultz — a database programmer from Albuquerque, New Mexico (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,399)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Fred $3,800 $5,800 $23,400 $23,400
2-day champion: $37,799
$20,800
24 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Nathan $200 $1,600 $8,000 $5,000
2nd place: $2,000
$6,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Barbara $4,000 $7,000 $10,600 $600
3rd place: $1,000
$10,600
15 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

ON, WISCONSIN! TV PERFORMERS BY ROLE ACADEMIA NUTS WHO WAS THE PRESIDENT WHEN... THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE BUSINESS BUSINESS B MINUS
$200 [20]
The first circus staged by these siblings was held in Baraboo, Wisconsin in 1884
the Ringling Bros.
Nathan
$200 [6]
Erica Kane Martin Brent Cudahy Chandler Roy Roy Montgomery Montgomery Chandler Marick Marick Montgomery
Susan Lucci
Barbara
$200 [16]
This physicist worked at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study from 1933 until his death in 1955
Einstein
Fred
$200 [1]
...Hawaii became a state
Eisenhower
Fred
$200 [23]
On its first night of continuous operation in 1973, this co. delivered 186 packages to 25 cities overnight using 14 jets
FedEx
Nathan
$200 [11]
Take the letter B off an organ of thought & you get this type of weather
rain
Barbara
$400 [21]
got this official Wisconsin state domesticated animal?
a dairy cow
Fred
$400 [7]
The ever-dangerous to himself & his immediate surroundings Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor
Tim Allen
Nathan
$400 [17]
In 1989 this first U.S. woman in space became a professor of physics at UCSD & director of the Ca. Space Institute
Sally Ride
Barbara
$600 [3]
...the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner" were written
Madison
Fred
$400 [24]
The first Blockbuster Video store opened during this decade in Dallas, Texas
the '80s
Barbara
$400 [12]
Knock a B off a biblical tower & get the name of this biblical murder victim
Abel
Nathan
$600 [28]
The Door Peninsula, Wisconsin's "thumb", juts into this lake
Lake Michigan
Barbara
$600 [8]
First Lady Abigail Bartlet
Stockard Channing
Fred
$600 [18]
In 1991 this Democratic ex-presidential candidate became a professor of political science at Northeastern
(Michael) Dukakis
Nathan Barbara
$800 [4]
...the U.S. last won Winter Olympic men's ice hockey gold
Jimmy Carter
Barbara
$600 [25]
Founded in Seattle's Pike Place Market, this company perks up about 33 million customers a week
Starbucks
Fred
$600 [13]
Sink the B off a group of ocean vessels & get this horse food
oats
Fred Nathan
$800 [29]
Proceeds from this woman's calendars went to the University of Wisconsin Medical Center to fight cancer
(Cindy) Crawford
Nathan
$800 [9]
The better, stronger, faster Col. Steve Austin
Lee Majors
Barbara
$800 [19]
In 1928, while a professor at the University of Rome, he published a textbook on atomic physics
Enrico Fermi
Nathan
DD $1,000 [2]
...the last U.S. citizens were airlifted out of Saigon as it fell
(Gerald) Ford
Fred
$800 [26]
Though Phil Knight didn't love the Swoosh logo, he hoped it would grow on him after paying $35 for it for this company
Nike
Fred
$800 [14]
Wash away the B from a type of small river & get this name for a chess piece
rook
Fred
$1,000 [30]
This Wisconsin senator was censured by the Senate in 1954 & died in office disgraced
(Joe) McCarthy
Fred
$1,000 [10]
Sydney Bristow, alias Julia Thorne
Jennifer Garner
Fred
$1,000 [22]
Czech, mate! She was a Georgetown professor of intl. affairs before becoming U.S. ambassador to the U.N. in 1993
Madeleine Albright
Fred Nathan
$1,000 [5]
...the Alamo was besieged by Mexican forces
Andrew Jackson
Fred Barbara
$1,000 [27]
In 1963 the Tandy Corporation bought this company; in 1977 it marketed the TRS-80 personal computer
RadioShack
Nathan Barbara
$1,000 [15]
Snip the B from Mr. Ives & you'll get this Internet destination
URL
Barbara

Double Jeopardy! Round

EARLY AMERICA CHAMPS OF THE SQUARE CIRCLE HIPPO-POURRI YOU'RE PLAYING GAMES WITH ME, ALEX CALENDAR LIT MINING "ORE"
$400 [6]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reads from Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth, NH.) In 1766, citizens of Portsmouth demonstrated in these streets against this much-despised British act that even taxed playing cards
the Stamp Act
Barbara
$400 [25]
In March of 1966 in his native Toronto George Chuvalo lost a 15-round decision to this heavyweight boxing champ
Muhammad Ali
Fred
$400 [21]
On August 12, 1861 this showman exhibited what may have been the first hippo in the U.S. at his American museum
P.T. Barnum
Nathan
$400 [16]
Whist, bridge & Euchre are in the family of card games in which you win by capturing rounds called these
tricks
Fred Nathan
$400 [1]
Jack Ryan believes a Soviet naval commander is about to defect in this 1984 novel
The Hunt for Red October
Nathan
$400 [11]
Lincolnesque term for 80
fourscore
Nathan
$800 [7]
In 1638 early Strawberry Banke settlers drew up a covenant & declared allegiance to this Stuart monarch
Charles I
Fred
$800 [26]
In real life it was the nickname of welterweight champ Benny Paret; in the movies, of the "Galahad" played by Elvis
"Kid"
Barbara
$800 [22]
From the Greek for "thick-skinned", this term can refer to hippos as well as elephants
pachyderm
Nathan
$800 [17]
Your gingerbread man playing piece might get stuck in the Molasses Swamp when you play this board game
Candy Land
Fred
$1,200 [3]
His "Light in August" tells the story of Joe Christmas, who deals with his demons in Mississippi
Faulkner
Nathan
$800 [12]
Meaning material or tangible, this adjective is from the Latin for "bodily"
corporeal
Fred
$1,200 [8]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reads from Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth, NH.) The shipping of goods such as flour & wine, vital to cities like Portsmouth, depended on the skill of the men with this job of making barrels
a cooper
Fred Nathan
$1,200 [27]
Born Walker Smith, Jr., this "honey" of a fighter won the middleweight title 5 times in the 1950s
Sugar Ray Robinson
Nathan Barbara
$1,200 [23]
A bronze hippo is the unofficial mascot of George Washington Univ., as legend says hippos once swam in this river
the Potomac
Barbara
$1,200 [18]
The south of the border version of this American game show is called "100 Mexicanos Dijeron"--"100 Mexicans Said"
Family Feud
Nathan
$1,600 [4]
George Eliot penned this tale about the arrival of Dr. Lydgate in the title town
Middlemarch
Fred
$1,200 [13]
At the time of the 2000 census, this Eastern city was the 17th most populous in the U.S.
Baltimore
Fred
$1,600 [9]
Some Strawberry Bankers did this, named for the personal ownership of vessels preying on enemy ships
privateers
Fred
$1,600 [28]
This Italian-Amer. heavyweight champ's nickname "Brockton Blockbuster" came from his Mass. hometown
Rocky Marciano
$1,600 [24]
A group of hippos is sometimes called this, perhaps because their stomachs look like they're swollen from gas
a bloat
Nathan
$1,600 [19]
This Milton Bradley board game is a quick-draw version of charades
Pictionary
Nathan
DD $2,000 [2]
The title of this anti-war memoir refers to author Ron Kovic's birthday
Born on the Fourth of July
Nathan
$1,600 [14]
Applied to first-degree murder, it's a 2-word term for a predetermination to commit an unlawful act
malice aforethought
Fred
$2,000 [10]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth, NH.) This tavern, opened in Portsmouth in 1766, was named for this British prime minister, a defender of the colonists in Parliament
Pitt (the Elder)
Fred
$2,000 [30]
This "Golden Boy" has an interest in architecture & told Interview magazine, "I really have a passion for designing"
Oscar De La Hoya
$2,000 [29]
He followed "Prufrock and Other Observations" with a collection of poems containing "The Hippopotamus"
(T.S.) Eliot
Nathan
$2,000 [20]
If you fail to peg the correct value of a hand in this game, your opponent calls out, "Muggins!"
cribbage
$2,000 [5]
This author can make the category twice with "The Adventures of Augie March" & "The Dean's December"
Saul Bellow
Fred
DD $4,000 [15]
At 288 square miles, Sao Miguel is the largest of this group of Atlantic islands
the Azores
Fred

Final Jeopardy!

THEATRE 2005

The conduct of a priest arouses suspicion in this play that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Doubt (by John Patrick Shanley)

Nathan "What is The one G" — wagered $3,000
Barbara "What is ?" — wagered $10,000
Fred "What is The Story of Kelsey and A.J. ?" — wagered $0

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