Show #5000 2006-05-12 (taped 2006-04-10) Tournament of Champions

2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

Nico Martinez — a college junior from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Bill MacDonald — an attorney from Bonita Springs, Florida

Tom Kavanaugh — a kickball team captain from St. Louis, Missouri

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Tom	$1,400	$1,800	$6,000	$10,000 2nd place: $5,000	$8,200 12 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Bill	$3,600	$3,800	$15,400	$18,733 Automatic semifinalist	$19,000 23 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Nico	$2,800	$4,200	$0	$0 3rd place: $5,000	$3,000 12 R, 7 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE NEW YORK TIMESBOOK REVIEW	ROAD TRIP USA	HISTORICAL TEXT MESSAGING	YOU SMELL DELICIOUS!	THE WGA's TOP 101 SCREENPLAYS	NOT ANOTHER BUGHUNT
$200 [21] At age 82 in 2005 this "Cat's Cradle" author had his first nonfiction bestseller, "A Man Without a Country" Kurt Vonnegut Tom	$200 [27] On the road you're never far from one of this hotel's more than 840 locations that will "leave the light on for you" Motel 6 Tom	$200 [30] 1989:stk @ embassy.u.s. blsting vh @ me.:(ttyl (Manuel) Noriega Bill	$200 [8] You smell like this fluffy carnival treat in that Pink Sugar cologne cotton candy Bill	$200 [1] In the No. 1 spot is this 1942 movie's script Casablanca Nico	$200 [5] In the late 18th c. the Creek Indians asked Spain for help against encroaching frontier settlers roach (in enc roach ing) Bill
$400 [23] Julie Powell's "Julie & Julia", a blog-turned-book about mastering this chef's recipes, "has too much blog in its DNA" Julia Child Bill	$400 [28] An overnight mule ride to the bottom of this landmark may include a stayover at the Phantom Ranch the Grand Canyon Bill	$400 [29] 1670s:dsgnd st. bride's chrch.englnd 4evr! Christopher Wren Bill	$400 [9] Yum! The Demeter fragrance named for this "heavenly" cake smells a lot better than their "Earthworm" cologne angel cake Nico	$400 [2] 1 of the 2 scripts that got Billy Wilder into the Top 10 Some Like It Hot (or Sunset Boulevard ) Tom	$400 [6] Students starting a new college term itemize what their prospective costs might be termite (in term ite mize) (mite accepted) Tom
$600 [24] "The Year of Magical Thinking", her memoir of life after the death of husband John Gregory Dunne, "is not a downer" Joan Didion Bill	$600 [12] Head to this town in the Ozarks & enjoy a show at Andy Willliams' Moon River Theatre or at Yakov Smirnoff's Branson Tom	$800 [14] 1981:am canada's pm. dont no zonker r b.d. u kp txtng me abt. pls stp Pierre Trudeau Bill	$600 [13] Ahh! I think of this "strained pineapple" cocktail when I sniff your Urban Decay body balm named for it a piña colada Nico	$600 [3] The highest-ranked comedy was this 1977 film co-written by Marshall Brickman Annie Hall Nico	$600 [15] If you are the interviewee, vile language is probably discouraged weevil (in intervie wee vil e) Bill
$800 [25] This late, great actor "had a heap of fun cranking out" "Fan-Tan" "while throwing back a few hundred martinis" Marlon Brando Nico	$800 [10] Seen here, this famous ranch in Texas runs the gamut from a 1949 Club Coupe to a 1963 sedan Cadillac Ranch	$1,000 [20] 1890:wilhelm ii mkng me quit chnclr gig. off 2 est8s @ friedrichsruh, wch is impsbl 2 abbrv & b undrstd (Otto von) Bismarck Nico	$800 [19] Oh, baby! You're wearing this man's Baby Doll perfume; it has a hint of rhubarb, but I don't know "Y" Yves Saint Laurent Nico	$800 [4] James Agee & John Huston wrote the script for this 1951 film with a continent in its title The African Queen Bill	$800 [17] The graph identified our declining sales sectors aphid (in gr aph id entified) Bill
$1,000 [26] His "A Man in Full" "contains passages as powerful and as beautiful as anything written... by any American novelist" Tom Wolfe Nico	$1,000 [11] For family fun head to the scenic dells of this state; it's the "Waterpark Capital of the World" Wisconsin Nico	DD $3,600 [16] 323 B.C.:chrgd w/impiety. nt ltng thm sin 2x vs. phlsphy. off 2 chalcis. lyceum ltr Aristotle Bill	$1,000 [22] Your Burberry Weekend perfume weakens me, with its scent of this fruit named for a Moroccan seaport a tangerine Nico	$1,000 [7] Graham Greene made the list at No. 33 with this ordinal Cold War thriller The Third Man Bill	$1,000 [18] Dear Wiglaf rushed to help the dying Beowulf slay the monster earwig (in D ear Wig laf) Bill

Double Jeopardy! Round

CHINESE CULTURE	ROD SERLING'STWILIGHT ZONE	20th CENTURY FOREIGNERS	BREAD	LITERARY LINEUPS	PRIME (MINISTER) RHYME
$400 [13] (Kelly of the Clue Crew points out some Chinese calligraphy at the Chinese Culture Center in San Francisco, CA.) The character "xi" represents happiness; this is the celebration that is most associated with the "double xi" a wedding Tom	$400 [6] Later Denny Crane, he starred in the episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (William) Shatner Bill	$400 [19] Born in Israel in 1915, he was Minister of Defense during the Six-Day War Moshe Dayan Bill Nico	$400 [26] Wedges of this 4-letter Middle Eastern pocket bread can be used as a dipper for hummus pita Tom	$400 [18] Cicero, Cassius, Cinna &another Cinna (a bad poet) Julius Caesar	$400 [1] British prime minister Tony's natural talents Blair's flairs (Blair flair accepted) Nico
$800 [14] These, kuaizi in Chinese, should never be stuck upright into your rice bowl chopsticks Tom	$800 [7] In one episode, aliens called Kanamits turn out to be connoisseurs of this delicacy man Bill	$800 [20] On Dec. 3, 1967 Louis Washkansky received one of these organs in a transplant, a worldwide first a heart Bill Nico	$800 [27] The name of this long, cylindrical loaf of French bread comes from a word for "stick" baguette Bill	$800 [21] Heathcliff, Edgar Linton, Nelly Dean Wuthering Heights Bill	$800 [2] The first Israeli prime minister's Roman commanders Ben-Gurion's Centurions Nico
$1,200 [15] (A man goes through the motions while Jon of the Clue Crew reads the clue from the Chinese Culture Center in San Francisco, CA.) Tai chi is a soft-flowing Chinese martial art rooted primarily in this philosophy of Lao Tse Taoism Tom	$1,200 [8] In an ironic twist to the "Time Enough at Last" episode, Burgess Meredith breaks these following a nuclear war his eyeglasses Bill	$1,200 [23] Born Garry Weinstein in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1963, he "checks" in under this name Kasparov Nico	$1,200 [28] An episode of "Seinfeld" concerned a marbled loaf of this type of bread rye Tom	$1,200 [22] Vladimir, Pozzo, Lucky Waiting for Godot Tom	$1,200 [3] The current Aussie prime minister's lily-livered fraidy cats Howard's cowards Nico
$1,600 [16] 3-letter English term for the ethnic group that makes up more than 90% of China's population Han	$1,600 [9] Later to win an Oscar as Bela Lugosi, he played a man trying to defect to the West in 1964's "The Jeopardy Room" (Martin) Landau Bill	$2,000 [25] This Frenchman was known for his Art Nouveau jewelry designs featuring nude women with butterfly wings René Lalique	$1,600 [29] Seen here is the classic form of this bread served on the Sabbath & some Jewish holidays challah Tom	$2,000 [11] Barkis, Peggotty, Steerforth David Copperfield	$1,600 [4] Disraeli's bogs Ben's fens Tom Bill Nico
$2,000 [17] (Kelly of the Clue Crew, at the Chinese Culture Center in San Francisco, CA, shows us more calligraphy.) North, South, East & West are the four of these, one of the major types of tiles in Mahjong winds	$2,000 [10] In "The After Hours" episode, Anne Francis gets locked in a department store & discovers she is one of these a mannequin Tom	DD $3,000 [24] He fled Iraq in 1959 after his attempt to assassinate Iraqi prime minister Abdul Kassim failed Saddam Hussein Nico	$2,000 [30] The German name for this bread tells you that it's twice baked Zwieback Bill	DD $2,200 [12] Carlo Marx, Remi Boncoeur, Dean Moriarty On the Road Tom	$2,000 [5] The current Canadian prime minister's complainers Harper's carpers Bill Nico

Final Jeopardy!

ISLANDS

Davis Strait, named for a Northwest Passage seeker, separates these 2 islands that total over 1 million square miles

Greenland & Baffin Island

Tom "What are Greenland + Baffin" — wagered $4,000

Bill "What are Greenland and Baffin Island?" — wagered $3,333

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