Show #5003 2006-05-17 (taped 2006-04-11) Tournament of Champions

2006 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 3.

Contestants

Maria Wenglinsky — a teacher from Brooklyn, New York

Jason Richards — a pharmacy technician from Old Town, Maine

Michael Falk — a meteorologist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Michael	$3,800	$6,800	$13,800	$22,001 Finalist	$14,000 18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Jason	$2,200	$5,200	$10,000	$6,000 3rd place: $10,000	$10,400 14 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Maria	$1,600	$3,800	$11,000	$22,000 2nd place: $10,000	$10,600 20 R (including 1 DD), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

21st CENTURY HISTORY	HORSE RACING	ART & ARTISTS	AMERICANA	INSIDE THE BRAIN	TECHWORD MASH-UP
$200 [7] This 100-passenger plane's final commercial flight took place on Oct. 24, 2003 the Concorde Maria	$200 [21] This racetrack is home to the Kentucky Derby Churchill Downs Michael	$200 [3] In 1899 he painted "Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms" Gauguin Michael	$200 [16] In Oklahoma, the scissor-tailed flycatcher is the official state one of these the state bird Maria	$200 [26] The CDC reports that there are about 300,000 of these mild brain injuries each year as a result of sports concussions Maria	$200 [1] Mash-up "binary" & "digit" to make this single unit of information a bit Michael
$400 [8] He retired in 2006, 6 years after the N.Y. Post killed rumors of his demise with the headline "Fed Head Is Not Dead" Alan Greenspan Jason	$400 [22] The bettor selects the first 3 finishers in the correct sequence in this type of bet also called a triple a trifecta Maria	$400 [12] A famous c. 1595 landscape by El Greco shows a "View of" this Spanish city Toledo Jason	$400 [17] Since 1962 it's been a tradition to dye the Chicago River this color for a special day in March green Maria	$400 [27] Of the average adult human, camel or killer whale, the one with the largest brain killer whale Michael Maria	$400 [2] Plug in an Apple product & download an audio file for "broadcast" to make this word podcast Maria
$600 [9] The first Republican senator from North Carolina in the 20th century, he left the chamber in 2003 Jesse Helms Jason	$600 [23] The name of this champion of the 1930s is a synonym for Hard Tack, his sire's name Seabiscuit Maria	$600 [13] A restaurant on New York's Greenwich Avenue inspired this 1942 Edward Hopper painting the Nighthawks Michael	$600 [18] Last name of the first family of feuding seenherein the 1890s Hatfield Michael	$600 [28] This outer layer of your brain takes its name from the Latin for "bark", as on a tree cortex Michael	$600 [4] It was named because it's a resistor that can "amplify electrical signals... transferred through it" transistor
$800 [10] In July 2001 a court in Chile ruled that this former president was too ill to stand trial Pinochet Jason	DD $600 [25] In 1711 Queen Anne saw the potential for this racecourse; its royal enclosure still has a formal dress code Ascot Jason	$800 [14] Unveiled in 1967, his sculpture seenherewas a gift to the people of Chicago Pablo Picasso	$800 [19] The National Prisoner of War Museum is adjacent to the site of this notorious Civil War prison Andersonville Jason	$800 [29] This disorder caused by excess signaling in the brain was called morbus herculeus, as it was thought Hercules had it epilepsy Jason	$800 [5] The product "McAfee Anti-" this 7-letter mashed-up word keeps prying eyes out of your computer spyware Michael
$1,000 [11] Way back in 2005, & 10 years after an assassination attempt, he was reelected president of Egypt (Hosni) Mubarak Maria	$800 [24] In 1977 this horse "killed" the competition by winning 6 straight races, including the Triple Crown Seattle Slew Jason	$1,000 [15] He called his abstract style in paintings like "Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue" Neoplasticism (Piet) Mondrian Michael	$1,000 [20] The bizcochito is this state's official cookie, so you can use it at Christmas as a "Santa Fee" New Mexico Michael	$1,000 [30] (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads the clue after hitting Jon on the knee with a small mallet.) The knee jerk reflex involves just one of these connection sites between neurons; most, like the blink reflex, use more than one synapses Michael	$1,000 [6] ZQ47J9R is this type of password, from the 2 types of symbols it contains alphanumeric Michael

Double Jeopardy! Round

SIR WALTER SCOTT'S PERSONALITY PARADE	MEMORABLE MOVIES	DEAD GUYS WITH 3 NAMES	BY THE NUMBERS	THE EARLY EARTH	ENDS IN "TH"
$400 [6] Sir Walter Scott "read again, & for the third time at least," her "very finely written novel of 'Pride and Prejudice'" Jane Austen Maria	$400 [11] In this film, Moe Green tells Michael Corleone to butt out of Las Vegas--big mistake The Godfather Jason Maria	$400 [1] The first president of North Vietnam Ho Chi Minh Jason	$400 [16] Lasting from the 1337 Gascony Invasion to Castillon in 1453, it gets its name by rounding down the Hundred Years' War Michael	$400 [21] Stanley Millershowed possible origins of life by electrifying a gas-&-water mix to get these acids found in proteins amino acids Maria	$400 [26] A moor, or the first name of actor Ledger Heath Jason
$800 [7] This poet said "Waverley" was a great novel; Scott said his "Childe Harold" was an extraordinarily powerful poem Byron Michael	$800 [12] For this 1980 film Wally Schneiderman applied John Hurt's elaborate make-up The Elephant Man Jason	$800 [2] He composed "Semper Fidelis" John Philip Sousa Maria	$800 [17] Standard editions of Shakespeare contain these numbered 1-154 sonnets Michael	$800 [22] 240 million years ago, the 2 main areas on the globe were Pangaea & Panthalassa, which was this the sea (or the ocean) Jason	$800 [27] The name of this sweet or dry wine flavored with aromatic herbs comes from the High German for "wormwood" vermouth Michael
DD $1,000 [8] It was no "Modest Proposal" when Sir Walter Scott edited a 19-volume edition of this "Tale of a Tub" satirist (Jonathan) Swift Michael	$1,200 [13] Oscar-nominated Amy Adams was a pregnant charmer in this 2005 film Junebug	$1,200 [3] The son of this "Old Ironsides" author was on the Supreme Court Oliver Wendell Holmes Maria	$1,200 [18] In a song from "The Music Man", the trombones & these total 186 the cornets Michael	$1,200 [23] In 1755 Kant proposed that the Earth formed from this "solar" gas & dust cloud; today's scientists tend to agree a solar nebula Maria	$1,200 [28] This Minnesota city is the western terminus of the St. Lawrence Seaway Duluth Maria
$1,600 [9] In 1799, Scott translated into English this German poet's "Goetz von Berlichingen" Goethe Maria	$1,600 [14] The title female is seenherein this 1948 film"Gamble? She's done it for a living.""I'll bet you a dollar I've been to the place where you were born.""Chifu.""It's on the China coast. Chifu! It's the second wickedest city in the world!""What's the first?" The Lady from Shanghai Maria	DD $2,000 [4] He lost to McKinley twice & Taft once, & for helping Wilson get elected was made Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan Maria	$1,600 [19] This costumer garnered 35 Oscar nominations Edith Head Maria	$1,600 [24] Lasting from about 2,011,000 to 11,000 B.C., this epoch featured glaciation cycles & a farewell to the mammoth the Pleistocene Maria	$1,600 [29] It's the verb in the title of a classic 20th century play about the murderous Hickey Cometh Maria
$2,000 [10] Scott studied law at the University of Edinburgh under a nephew of this Scottish philosopher (David) Hume Jason	$2,000 [15] "What's the rumpus?" the gangsters ask in this Coen Brothers picture Miller's Crossing Maria	$2,000 [5] This founder of The Liberator was president of the American Anti-Slavery Society from 1843 to 1865 William Lloyd Garrison Maria	$2,000 [20] Sub-zero temperature where the Fahrenheit & Celsius scales show the same reading for a set temperature -40 Michael	$2,000 [25] This formation in the Rockies' Burgess Pass yielded weird 500 million-year-old fossils like Hallucigenia the Burgess Shale	$2,000 [30] This fish was thought to be extinct millions of years ago until one was found off South Africa in 1938 coelacanth Maria

Final Jeopardy!

BRITISH MONARCHS

The last British monarch who was not the child of a monarch

Queen Victoria

Jason "Who is George I?" — wagered $4,000

Maria "Who was Victoria?" — wagered $11,000

Michael "Who was Victoria?" — wagered $8,201

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