Show #4995 2006-05-05 Regular

Contestants

Karmie Johnson — a registered nurse from Birmingham, Alabama

Dan McLeod — a student from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Bob Collins — a restaurant manager from Melbourne, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bob $2,200 $10,600 $13,400 $26,800
2nd place: $2,000
$11,600
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Dan $2,600 $1,400 $15,800 $26,801
New champion: $26,801
$17,400
21 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Karmie $-400 $-400 $8,400 $9,600
3rd place: $1,000
$8,400
7 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

IT HAPPENED IN MAY BASEBALL NICKNAMES BY THE NUMBERS BRITISH SPELLING BEE SOUTH DAKOTA A VISIT TO INTEL CORP.
$200 [1]
1707:The Act of Union joins these 2 countries into the United Kingdom of Great Britain
Scotland & England
Dan
$200 [14]
"Shoeless Joe"
Joe Jackson
Bob Dan
$200 [6]
This country, the world's second-leading producer of cars in 2000 with over 10 mil., made only 32,000 of them in 1950
Japan
Bob
$200 [11]
A book-like listing of a business' goods for sale; Sears & Roebuck used to put out a famous one
C-A-T-A-L-O-G-U-E
Bob Dan Karmie
$200 [19]
South Dakotans celebrate this October holiday as Native American Day
Columbus Day
Bob
$200 [24]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, CA.) As a semiconductor that can either conduct or resist electricity, this element has become the raw material of computer chips
silicon
Dan
$400 [2]
1931:This 102-story building is officially dedicated in New York City
the Empire State Building
Dan
$400 [15]
"The Iron Horse"
Lou Gehrig
Bob
$400 [7]
Of the 101 medals the U. S. won at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, 44 were of this kind
gold
Dan
$400 [12]
Use this farm implement that breaks up soil to plant your leeks
P-L-O-U-G-H
$600 [21]
From 1963 to 1981 this Democrat & presidential candidate served South Dakota in the U.S. Senate
McGovern
Bob
$400 [26]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, CA.) The equivalent of wires in a chip's circuitry have been shrunk to 1/1,000th the width of a hair, & are measured in this unit, a millionth of a meter
microns
Dan
$600 [3]
1869:Ooh la la! These risque follies open on the wicked continent
the Folies Bergères
Bob Dan
$600 [16]
"Stan the Man"
Stan Musial
Bob
$600 [8]
Of 4, 7 or 12, the number of nations in the world with a name ending in "stan"
7
Dan Karmie
$600 [13]
Go to the famous Globe one to see a play by Shakespeare
T-H-E-A-T-R-E
Bob
$800 [22]
The Big Sioux River, which does the falling at Sioux Falls, empties into this river near Sioux City
the Missouri
Bob
$600 [27]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, CA.) Invented in 1947, this device that replaced the vacuum tube can now be a mere 150 atoms thick on a computer chip
a transistor
Bob
$800 [4]
1961:Total length in time of Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 flight; he was famous much longer
15 minutes
Bob
$800 [17]
A '70s Red Sox catcher:"Pudge"
(Carlton) Fisk
Bob
$800 [9]
The Apollo lunar mission with this number was aborted en route to the Moon in 1970 due to an in-flight explosion
13
Bob
$800 [25]
At the pub, it's beer from a keg, not a bottle
D-R-A-U-G-H-T
Bob
$1,000 [23]
The remains of a 3-toed horse & saber-toothed tigers have been found in the fossil beds of this national park
Badlands National Park
$800 [28]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, CA.) To check for defects or design issues on a chip, Intel uses this type of microscope that beams subatomic particles at its subject
an electron microscope
Bob
$1,000 [5]
1776:Adam Weishaupt forms this "enlightened" Bavarian secret society
the Illuminati
Dan
$1,000 [18]
A '90s Rangers, now Tigers, catcher:"Pudge"
Ivan Rodriguez
Bob
$1,000 [10]
In this job James K. Hahn made $181,317.79 more a year than his predecessor, Richard Riordan, who took $1
mayor of Los Angeles
Dan
$1,000 [30]
Good Britons recycle this metal in their soft-drink cans
A-L-U-M-I-N-I-U-M
Dan
DD $2,200 [20]
Wild Bill Hickok & Calamity Jane are buried in this city's Mount Moriah Cemetery
Deadwood
Bob
$1,000 [29]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, CA.) This Intel cofounder's law predicted that chips would double computing power every 1 or 2 years; Intel made that a reality with million-fold jumps in performance
Gordon Moore

Double Jeopardy! Round

CAT O' NEIN! TALES HIT ME "OUCH"!
$400 [6]
Now endangered, these fast felines were once common in India where a Mogal emperor kept a thousand of them as hunting cats
cheetah
Dan
$400 [11]
She "lit a lantern... her cow kicked it over, then winked... & said, 'There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight'"
(Mrs.) O'Leary
Dan
$400 [26]
General Von Choltitz, military commander of this European capital, wouldn't follow Hitler's orders to burn it
Paris
Dan
$400 [16]
Pilgrims in this 14th century work are heading to the shrine of St. Thomas a Becket
Canterbury Tales
Bob
$400 [21]
The first song listed in the "Billboard Book of No. 1 Hits" is this "rockin'" Bill Haley song from July 1955
"Rock Around The Clock"
Bob
$400 [1]
Opossum pocket
a pouch
Bob
$800 [7]
Proverbially, to stir up trouble is to put "the cat in among" these urban birds
the pigeons
Karmie
$800 [12]
Hero of a Robert Burns poem, or a Scottish woolen cap
Tam O'Shanter
Dan
$800 [27]
The despotic Walter Ulbricht blocked de-Stalinization as leader of this country
East Germany
Dan
$800 [17]
A Winston Groom sequel sees this title man involved in the Iran-Contra affair & the fall of the Berlin Wall
Forrest Gump
Karmie
$800 [22]
In July 1965 the No. 1 hit in the U.S. was this Rolling Stones classic
"Satisfaction"
Bob
$800 [2]
There's a finishing one and a Midas one
a touch
Bob
$1,200 [8]
Slender Asian variety of feline seen here
a Siamese cat
Dan
$1,200 [13]
A misleading illusion; specifically, a bright light over marshy ground
a will o' (the) wisp
Dan
$1,200 [28]
In 1806, when a patron suggested he tickle the ivories for visiting French officers, he stormed out
Beethoven
$1,200 [18]
Her novel "The Kitchen God's Wife" recounts a mother's struggles to survive in China
Amy Tan
Dan
$1,200 [23]
In July of 1975, the musical act seenheretopped the U.S. charts
The Captain & Tennille
Dan
$1,200 [3]
A certificate exchangeable for cash or merchandise
a voucher
Karmie
$1,600 [9]
America's only natural breed of domestic feline is the large "coon cat" from this New England state
Maine
Dan
$2,000 [15]
This flower, seen here, gets its name due to its afternoon bloom
four o'clocks
$2,000 [30]
In 1891, a year after losing power, this statesman was elected to the Reichstag but refused to serve
Otto Von Bismarck
Dan
$1,600 [19]
The title character of this Sir Walter Scott novel appears for a joust as a disinherited knight
Ivanhoe
Dan
$1,600 [24]
In a No. 1 hit from July 1985, he was "findin' it hard to believe we're in heaven"
Bryan Adams
Karmie
$1,600 [4]
Boastful buffoon stock character from commedia dell'arte; will you do the fandango?
Scaramouch
Dan
$2,000 [10]
The tiger is Panthera tigris; the lion is Panthera this
leo
DD $4,000 [14]
Britannica says that in his time, after Shaw & Shakespeare, this dramatist was the most translated & produced
(Eugene) O'Neill
Dan
DD $4,000 [29]
In the 1980s, as Vatican Doctrinal Enforcer, the German born with this surname said no to "liberation theology"
Ratzinger
Dan
$2,000 [20]
In this Hesse work, Harry Haller meets a Doppelganger of himself named Hermine
Steppenwolf
Karmie
$2,000 [25]
"Waterfalls" by this female hip-hop trio had the fans flooding into stores in July 1995
TLC
Karmie
$2,000 [5]
In Ancient Egyptian inscription, this oval figure held the names of royal personages
cartouche
Karmie

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. PRESIDENTS

Had he lived in ancient Greece, this president would have been called Odysseus

Ulysses S. Grant

Karmie "Who is Grant?" — wagered $1,200
Bob "Who is Ulysses S. Grant?" — wagered $13,400
Dan "Who is Grant?" — wagered $11,001

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