"Canterbury Tales" Jeopardy!
a/k/a "The Cook, the Reeve, his Wife of Bath, and her Lawyer"
Presented by Kray (with research assistance from Saxifrage)

As always, last names are sufficient identification; other alternate
acceptable answers are explicitly noted.

JEOPARDY ROUND

The categories are:
   The Miller: famous people named Miller
   The Second Nun: famous "seconds"
   The Clerk: clerks
   The Franklin: Benjamin Franklin
   The Lawyer: questions about vermin (with apologies to Munro, or any
     other lawyers present)
   The Wife of "Bath": all answers contain "bath"
There is one Daily Double in this round.

Miller
  In June, it was announced that comedian Dennis Miller would be joining the
  staff of this prime-time sports program.
  ** What is Monday Night Football?

  Arthur Miller play which is secretly about the McCarthy-era witch hunts,
  and ostensibly about the witch hunts of Salem.
  ** What is The Crucible?

  (DBL) Glenn Miller's favorite quotation was reportedly this jazzman's
  song lyric: "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing!"
  ** Who is Duke Ellington?

  Henry Miller is the "Henry" in this author's memoir "Henry and June".
  ** Who is Anais Nin?

  William Miller's prediction that the world would end in 1843 didn't hold
  up, but his revival of the belief that the earthly return of Christ was
  imminent did lead to the formation of this American denomination.
  ** Who are the Seventh-Day Adventists? (accept "Adventists")

Second Nun
  American city nicknamed "The Second City".
  ** What is Chicago?

  In the original game of Monopoly, amount a player receives for winning
  second prize in a beauty contest.
  ** What is 10 dollars?

  Admiral Karl Doenitz was the second and final leader of this regime,
  which perhaps is misplaced in this category.
  ** What is the Third Reich?

  Despite winning a clear majority of the popular vote, this man finished
  second in the disputed Presidential election of 1876.
  ** Who is Samuel Tilden?

  "Second Childhood" is the final section of this British film, a comic
  interpretation of the Seven Ages of Man.
  ** What is Monty Python's Meaning of Life?

Clerk
  The clerks in the movie "Clerks" work at this type of establishment.
  ** What is a convenience store?

  Albert Einstein once worked as a clerk in one of these government agencies.
  ** What is a patent office?

  This man was working as a clerk for a teller of the Exchequer in 1660
  when he began keeping a diary.
  ** Who is Samuel Pepys?

  This nihilistic clerk is the title character of a novella by Herman Melville.
  ** Who is Bartleby the Scrivener?

  Clerk was the original surname of this Scottish scientist, but he is more
  commonly known by the surname his father adopted after receiving a large
  inheritance.
  ** Who is James Clerk Maxwell?

Franklin
  Franklin first published under this pseudonym in 1732, when his
  first Almanack appeared.
  ** What is Poor Richard?

  Among Franklin's inventions was this type of corrective lens.
  ** What is the bifocal lens?

  Franklin advocated this bird as the national bird instead of the bald eagle.
  ** What is the turkey?

  Franklin organized Philadelphia's first of these public safety organizations,
  whose operations forced the city to modernize its water supply.
  ** What is a fire company? (accept "fire department", "fire brigade")

  At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Franklin lobbied
  unsuccessfully for a legislature of this type.
  ** What is a unicameral (one chamber) legislature?

Laywer
  Sleeping sickness in humans is transmitted by this fly, found primarily
  in sub-Saharan Africa and crossword puzzles.
  ** What is the tsetse?

  Author Vladimir Nabokov was an avid collector of these insects; at one point
  he was a curator at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology in charge of
  Lepidoptera.
  ** What are butterflies?

  Potent potable mixed from vodka, creme de menthe and creme de cacao.
  ** What is a grasshopper?

  Some insects can switch between ordinary sexual reproduction and this
  asexual process, in which only females are produced.
  ** What is parthenogenesis?

  It is believed that the lengths, in years, of the life cycles of various
  species of locust have this mathematical property because it prevents
  predators with shorter life cycles from consistently catching the locusts.
  ** What is (the property of) being prime?
  
Wife of Bath
  A steel container used in deep-sea diving.
  ** What is a bathysphere?

  According to the Bible, this wife of Uriah the Hittite later became
  the mother of King Solomon.
  ** Who is Bathsheba?

  Literary term indicating the sudden appearance of the commonplace
  in otherwise elevated style.
  ** What is bathos?

  E.L. Doctorow novel that became a 1991 movie.
  ** What is Billy Bathgate?

  The palindromic album "Live Evil" was released by this band in 1982.
  ** Who is Black Sabbath?

DOUBLE JEOPARDY ROUND

The categories are:
  The Host: game show hosts
  The Cook: given ingredients and an overview of the recipe, name the dish.
            Don't forget that the host (me) is a vegetarian!
  The Physician: historical physicians
  The Pardoner: executive pardons
  The Knight: people recently knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
  The Manciple: obscure Middle English words and their meanings
There are two Daily Doubles in this round.

Host
  The only game show host to ever have his name attached to a math
  problem is surely this host of "Let's Make a Deal".
  ** Who is Monty Hall?

  This game show host used to be a speechwriter for Richard Nixon,
  which might explain why contestants don't win against him too often.
  ** Who is Ben Stein?

  He played a game show host opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in the film
  "The Running Man".
  ** Who is Richard Dawson?

  (DBL) This man has hosted the same game show for a record 28 years.
  ** Who is Bob Barker?

  This veteran host was, with Susan Stafford, one of the original
  hosts of "Wheel of Fortune".
  ** Who is Chuck Woolery?

Cook
  Tomato, chili powder, olive oil, lemon juice, cilantro, salt,
  pepper, avocado--mash and serve.
  ** What is guacamole?

  Garlic, parmesan cheese, olive oil, pine nuts, basil--mix in blender.
  ** What is pesto?

  Bulghur wheat, olive oil, lemon juice, green onion, celery, mint,
  tomatoes, cucumbers, salt, pepper, and lots of parsley--toss and serve.
  ** What is tabouli?

  Cucumbers, tomatoes, onion, green pepper, garlic, bread, water,
  vinegar, salt, olive oil, tomato paste--puree and serve as a cold soup.
  ** What is gazpacho?

  Olive oil, onions, garlic, black olives, tomatoes, green peppers,
  zucchini, eggplant--chop, mix and serve. Spelling the name is not required.
  ** What is ratatouille?

Physician
  This late physician's books include "Decent and Indecent: Our
  Personal and Political Behavior", "Raising Children in a Difficult
  Time" and the classic "Baby and Child Care."
  ** Who is Benjamin Spock?

  In 1967, South African physician Christiaan Barnard became the first
  person to carry out this procedure.
  ** What is a heart transplant? (prompt on "transplant")

  This German physician popularized the procedure of "animal magnetism",
  or hypnotism; from his name derives a verb meaning "to hypnotize".
  ** Who is Franz Anton Mesmer?

  This doctor became notorious for setting the broken leg of John Wilkes
  Booth after he shot Abraham Lincoln; this circumstance helped popularized
  the saying "one's name is ***".
  ** Who is Samuel Mudd?

  The U.S. Army Medical Center in Washington, DC is named for this physician,
  in honor of his work showing that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes.
  ** Who is Walter Reed?

Pardoner
  Each year, one of these animals is issued a presidential pardon.
  ** What is a turkey?

  In a controversial move, President Clinton pardoned 11 members of
  the FALN, which advocates independence for this U.S. territory.
  ** What is Puerto Rico?

  Mehmet Ali Agca was pardoned in June for the attempted assassination of
  this spiritual leader in 1981.
  ** Who is Pope John Paul II?

  (DBL) Article 2, Section 2 of the US Constitution states that the President
  "shall have the power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against
  the United States, except in cases of" this type of prosecution.
  ** What is impeachment? 

  Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon on this date in 1974, 30 days after
  Nixon resigned from the presidency.
  ** When is September 8?

Knight 
  Dame Julie was knighted in December 1999 for services to acting and
  entertainment, namely her work on stage and screen including
  "Victor/Victoria" and "The Sound of Music".
  ** Who is Julie Andrews?

  Sir Reginald, who's not actually Sir Reginald because he legally changed
  his name from Reginald Kenneth Dwight in 1972, was knighted in February
  1998 for services to popular music and AIDS charities.
  ** Who is Elton John?

  Dame Christina was knighted in June 2000 for services to journalism
  overseas, specifically on the magazines "The New Yorker" and
  "Vanity Fair".
  ** Who is Tina Brown?

  Sir Andrew was knighted in December 1999 for services to mathematics,
  specifically for his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in 1995.
  ** Who is Andrew Wiles?

  Sir Nigel was knighted in June 1999 for services to chess.
  ** Who is Nigel Short?

Manciple (be sure to spell each Middle English word)
  A "flitch" was a side of meat originally awarded as a prize for
  marital fidelity; its use gave rise to this idiom for earning money.
  ** What is "bringing home the bacon"?

  "flitterwochen", or "fleeting weeks", was the Chaucerian term for this
  happy time period.
  ** What is a honeymoon?

  The term "goliard", or "glutton", was applied to the Bavarian monks
  responsible for this collection of raunchy Latin and Old German poems.
  ** What is the Carmina Burana?

  Yes, the word "pismire" comes from where you think it does--its first
  part refers to a certain bodily function, while its second part comes
  from the Greek for this animal, which is what a pismire is.
  ** What is an ant?

  The term "fotadl", or "foot disease", refers specifically to this
  metabolic disease which plagued Benjamin Franklin late in his life.
  ** What is gout?

FINAL JEOPARDY

Retraction: a famous retraction in print
  The reason why the Washington Post retracted its article "Jimmy's World"
  of September 28, 1980, chronicling the life of an eight-year-old heroin
  addict, and why its author returned the Pulitzer Prize awarded for the piece.
  ** What is that the article was fabricated (false)?