Show #4991 - Monday, May 1, 2006

Contestants

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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)

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Jeopardy! Round

ON, WISCONSIN!
TV PERFORMERS BY ROLE
(Alex: We'll give you the roles.)
ACADEMIA NUTS
WHO WAS THE PRESIDENT WHEN...
(Alex: ...whatever happened happened.)
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
    $200 6
Erica Kane Martin Brent Cudahy Chandler Roy Roy Montgomery Montgomery Chandler Marick Marick Montgomery
    $200 16
This physicist worked at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study from 1933 until his death in 1955
    $200 1
...Hawaii became a state
    $200 23
On its first night of continuous operation in 1973, this co. delivered 186 packages to 25 cities overnight using 14 jets
    $200 11
Take the letter B off an organ of thought & you get this type of weather
    $400 21
got this official Wisconsin state domesticated animal?
    $400 7
The ever-dangerous to himself & his immediate surroundings Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor
    $400 17
In 1989 this first U.S. woman in space became a professor of physics at UCSD & director of the Ca. Space Institute
    DD: $1,000 2
...the last U.S. citizens were airlifted out of Saigon as it fell
    $400 24
The first Blockbuster Video store opened during this decade in Dallas, Texas
    $400 12
Knock a B off a biblical tower & get the name of this biblical murder victim
    $600 28
The door peninsula, Wisconsin's "thumb", juts into this lake
    $600 8
First Lady Abigail Bartlet
    $600 18
In 1991 this Democratic ex-presidential candidate became a professor of political science at Northeastern
    $600 3
...the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner" were written
    $600 25
Founded in Seattle's Pike Place Market, this company perks up about 33 million customers a week
    $600 13
Sink the B off a group of ocean vessels & get this horse food
    $800 29
Proceeds from this woman's calendars went to the University of Wisconsin Medical Center to fight cancer
    $800 9
The better, stronger, faster Col. Steve Austin
    $800 19
In 1928, while a professor at the University of Rome, he published a textbook on atomic physics
    $800 4
...the U.S. last won Winter Olympic men's ice hockey gold
    $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
    $800 14
Wash away the B from a type of small river & get this name for a chess piece
    $1000 30
This Wisconsin senator was censured by the Senate in 1954 & died in office disgraced
    $1000 10
Sydney Bristow, alias Julia Thorne
    $1000 22
Czech, mate! She was a Georgetown professor of intl. state affairs before becoming U.S. ambassador to the U.N. in 1993
    $1000 5
...the Alamo was beseiged by Mexican forces
    $1000 27
In 1963 the Tandy corporation bought this company; in 1977 it marketed the TRS-80 personal computer
    $1000 15
Snip the B from Mr. Ives & you'll get this internet destination

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Fred Nathan Barbara
$3,800 $200 $4,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Fred Nathan Barbara
$5,800 $1,600 $7,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

EARLY AMERICA
(Alex: All the clues will be from Strawberry Banke, which is the oldest settlement of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.)
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 Strawberry Banke in Portsmouth, NH.) In 1766, citizens of Portsmouth demonstrated against this much-despised British act that even taxed playing cards
    $400 25
In March of 1966 in his native Toronto George Chuvalo lost a 15-round decision to this heavyweight boxing champ
    $400 21
On August 12, 1861 this showman exhibited what may have been the first hippo in the U.S. at his American museum
    $400 16
Whist, bridge & euchre are in the family of card games in which you win by capturing rounds called these
    $400 1
Jack Ryan believes a Soviet naval commander is about to defect in this 1984 novel
    $400 11
Linconesque term for 80
    $800 7
In 1638 early Strawberry Banke settlers drew up a covenant & declared allegiance to this Stuart monarch
    $800 26
In real life it was the nickname of welterweight champ Benny Paret; in the movies, of the "Galahad" played by Elvis
    $800 22
From the Greek for "thick-skinned", this term can refer to hippos as well as elephants
    $800 17
Your gingerbread man playing piece might get stuck in the Molasses Swamp when you play this board game
    DD: $2,000 2
The title of this anti-war memoir refers to author Ron Kovic's birthday
    $800 12
Meaning material or tangible, this adjective is from the Latin for "bodily"
    $1200 8
(Jon of the Clue Crew reads from Strawberry Banke in Portsmouth, NH.) The shipping of goods such as flour and wine, vital to cities like Portsmouth, depended on the skill of the men with this job of making barrels
    $1200 27
Born Walker Smith, Jr., this "honey" of a fighter won the middleweight title 5 times in the 1950s
    $1200 23
A bronze hippo is the unofficial mascot of George Washington Univ., as legend says hippos once swam in this river
    $1200 18
The south of the border version of this American game show is called "100 Mexicanos Dijeron"--"100 Mexicans Said"
    $1200 3
His "Light in August" tells the story of Jow Christmas, who deals with his demons in Mississippi
    $1200 13
At the time of the 2000 cenus, this Eastern city was the 17th most populous in the U.S.
    $1600 9
Some Strawberry Bankers did this, named for the personal ownership of vessels preying on enemy ships
    $1600 28
This Italian-Amer. heavyweight champ's nickname "Brockton Blockbuster" came from his Mass. hometown
    $1600 24
A group of hippos is sometimes called this, perhaps because their stomachs look like they're swollen from gas
    $1600 19
This Milton Bradley board game is a quick-draw version of charades
    $1600 4
George Eliot penned this tale about the arrival of Dr. Lydgate in the title town
    $1600 14
Applied to first-degree murder, it's a 2-word term for a predetermination to commit an unlawful act
    $2000 10
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from Strawberry Banke in Portsmouth, NH.) This tavern, opened in Portsmouth in 1776, was named for this British prime minister, a defender of the colonists in Parliament
    $2000 30
This "Golden Boy" has an interest in architecture & told Interview magazine, "I really have a passion for designing"
    $2000 29
He followed "Prufrock and Other Observations" with a collection of poems containing "The Hippopotamus"
    $2000 20
If you fail to peg the correct value of a hand in this game, your opponent calls out, "Muggins!"
    $2000 5
This author can make the category twice with "The Adventures of Augie March" & "The Dean's December"
    DD: $4,000 15
At 288 square miles, Sao Miguel is the largest of this group of Atlantic islands

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Fred Nathan Barbara
$23,400 $8,000 $10,600
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

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

Final scores:

Fred Nathan Barbara
$23,400 $5,000 $600
2-day champion: $37,799 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Fred Nathan Barbara
$20,800 $6,800 $10,600
24 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W		 15 R,
0 W

Combined Coryat: $38,200

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