Show #5001 - Monday, May 15, 2006

2006 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 1.

Contestants

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Bob Mesko, an arts administrator from Denver, Colorado

Aaron Thompson, a special assistant from Washington, D.C.

Vik Vaz, a medical student from Austin, Texas

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Jeopardy! Round

NONFICTION

AN ENGLISH-SPORTS DICTIONARY

OK COMPUTER

CHANGE THE WORLD

BODIES OF WATER

(Alex: And finally, a little bit of everything...)

A CATEGORY OF CATEGORIES

$200

"Night" is this Nobel Peace Prize winner's account of surviving Auschwitz as a teenager

$200

English: sweet glaze on a cake;
hockey: shooting the puck all the way down from your own end

$200

This "high-flying" computer program from Adobe converts other types of documents into a PDF file

$200

Seen here is a gold coin depicting this Macedonian ruler who died in 323 B.C.

$200

After Lake Superior, this African lake is the largest body of fresh water in the world

$200

RHYME TIME:
Roald Dahl candy man's toy trucks

$400

Columnist Anna Quindlen wrote "A Short Guide to" one of these

$400

English: a newspaper story you saved;
football: blocking below the waist from behind

$400

(Kelly of the Clue Crew accesses a video of Sarah of the Clue Crew scuba diving on the Jeopardy! web site from her laptop.) A synonym for "flowing", it's the type of video you can watch when you visit us at jeopardy.com

$400

For collectors & investors, this country mints a maple leaf coin in gold & silver

$400

The Persian Gulf is an arm of the Arabian Sea, which is part of this ocean

$400

BEFORE & AFTER:
Popular "holy" expression about work week's end joins Jason in a 1980 horror movie

$600

Hunter S. Thompson found fear and loathing "in Las Vegas" & "on" this "Trail" in the title of a 1973 book

$600

English: a father's coming-of-age talk with his son;
basketball: the opposite of zone

$600

This popular Internet service provider began as QCS, Quantum Computer Services

$600

The Susan Constant, Godspeed & Discovery are the ships depicted on this state's quarter

$600

In the 1770s James Cook explored this sea between Australia & New Zealand

$600

14-LETTER WORDS:
Secondary or incidental, it often precedes "evidence" in law

$800

Grammar is hot! This bestseller is Lynne Truss' "Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation"

$800

(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the slopes of Park City, Utah while a snowboarder does a stunt.)
English: the sudden seizing of something as in the power type;
snowboarding: a move where you hold your board

$800

From the Old English for "clasp" & "table", it's where anything you "cut" or "copy" is stored until you "paste"

$800

When this king married in 1938, Egypt issued a 100-piastre gold coin to commemorate the event

$800

This longest river in Ireland nearly divides the country in two

$800

CROSSWORD CLUES "A":
Athos' ami
(6)

$1000

Augusten Burroughs put the "fun" in dysfunctional with his memoir called "Running with" these

$1000

English: a small piece of candy;
golf: how you put a ball back in play after knocking your shot into a lake

$1000

It can be a hiding place for food or treasure, or a place for memory on a computer's motherboard

DD: $1,000

Here are the 2 new coins minted by this country in 2004

$1000

(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Tervasaari.) Tervasaari, just off Helsinki, sits in this arm of the Baltic Sea

$1000

"TOM" TERRIFIC:
12-letter adjective that means showing no evidence of disease

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

Vik	Aaron	Bob
$2,600	$2,400	$1,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Vik	Aaron	Bob
$2,800	$6,400	$6,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE ANIMAL KINGDOM

CAMEO CAMERA

HISTORIC AMOURS

GONE TOO SOON

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODIES

THE "GOOD", THE "BAD" & THE "UGLY"

$400

Steven Jay Gould said this animal's "thumb" is an enlarged wrist bone that lets it strip bamboo shoots

$400

He got himself into "Lifeboat" as the before & after in newspaper ads for Reduco the Obesity Slayer

$400

This Louis known as "the Well-Beloved" lived up to his name by romancing all 5 of the Nesle sisters

$400

Heard here, he was the youngest of the 3 singers who perished in a February 1959 plane crash

"Para bailar la bamba /
Para bailar la bamba..."

$400

Either of the 2 composers who in 1897 based an opera on Henri Murger's novel "Scenes de la vie de boheme"

$400

This story says "then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully"

$800

This serpent devourer was introduced into Jamaica to kill rats--didn't work; the rats simply climbed into trees

$800

In his last role filmed on U.S. soil, this man slit Jack Nicholson's nose in "Chinatown"

$800

Johann Struensee, physician to this country's King Christian VII, was executed for romancing the queen

DD: $3,000

Of this athlete, Pres. Clinton said, "We were dazzled by her speed, humbled by her talent & captivated by her style"

$800

With Brahms' help, this composer's "Moravian Duets" & "Slavonic Dances" brought attention to Czech music

$800

In 1933 FDR espoused this policy in which the U.S. "respects the rights of others"

$1200

This animal's 3-letter name is derived from an African word for "black", referring to the black wildebeest

$1200

You'll find Jim Lovell as the captain of the Iwo Jima in this 1995 flick

$1200

He may have sired several of Lady Castlemaine's children; no wonder he was "The Merry Monarch"

$1200

In 1995, 33-year-old Alison Hargreaves conquered Mount Everest, only to perish months later on this 2nd-highest mountain

$1200

Josef Suk arranged a meditation on an old carol about this Bohemian "King", the Czech patron saint

$1200

This national park is about 30 miles north of Wounded Knee

$1600

There are African, Japanese & fat species of this rodent that may hibernate half the year

$1600

Appropriately, she is the host at the past lives pavilion in Albert Brooks' 1991 film "Defending Your Life"

$1600

This Parisian actress born in 1844 counted Victor Hugo & the future Edward VII among her lovers

$1600

Michael Jackson's song "Gone Too Soon" was a tribute to this Indiana teen who died of AIDS in 1990

$1600

In this Smetana opera, Kecal the marriage broker tries to bribe Jenik to give up his true love

DD: $4,600

A mischievous sprite in English folklore also called Puck

$2000

Canada has made this arctic bovine a protected species

$2000

This comic's cameo in 1985's "Spies Like Us" involved him playing golf in a tent & was his last movie role

$2000

Robert Devereux, the Earl of this, succeeded his stepfather the Earl of Leicester as Elizabeth I's "favorite"

$2000

(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the JFK Library & Museum in Boston, MA.) The Oval Office was a place of sorrow when President Kennedy heard of the death of this Congolese leader in early 1961

$2000

Also a Yul Brynner film, this Janacek piece came from a Gogol tale of a Cossack who revolts against the Poles

$2000

This hyphenated Black Forest town has hot springs that the Romans built 2,000 years ago

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Vik	Aaron	Bob
$9,000	$17,000	$10,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

MYTHOLOGY

The name of this monster is from the Greek for "she-goat"

Final scores:

Vik	Aaron	Bob
$18,000	$13,999	$1,999
Finalist	2nd place: $10,000	3rd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Vik	Aaron	Bob
$13,600	$14,800	$10,000
18 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)	23 R (including 1 DD), 3 W	14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Show #5001 - Monday, May 15, 2006

Contestants

Jeopardy! Round

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

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Double Jeopardy! Round

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Final Jeopardy! Round

Final scores:

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Combined Coryat: $38,400

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Game tape date: 2006-04-11