Show #5048 2006-07-19 Regular

Contestants

Matt Mullins — a physicist from Albuquerque, New Mexico

Inie Park — a research associate from Los Angeles, California

Bruce Lin — a research scientist originally from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada (whose 3-day cash winnings total $54,599)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bruce $2,200 $5,000 $10,600 $10,399
2nd place: $2,000
$10,600
13 R, 0 W
Inie $1,200 $2,000 $5,400 $10,800
New champion: $10,800
$5,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Matt $2,400 $2,700 $4,600 $9,100
3rd place: $1,000
$8,600
15 R, 6 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

FLAGS OF THE WORLD THE JEP-TONES WORLD TOUR 2006 A GAME OF DARTS MIDDLE ENGLISH CLASS YOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR BUT FEAR ITSELF
$200 [16]
Most of this nationis a mountainous plateau
Switzerland
Inie
$200 [12]
More popular than Regis, the Jeps play their last stadium gig in San Francisco, like this band did on Aug. 29, 1966
The Beatles
Matt
$200 [7]
(Jon of the Clue Crew points to a dartboard.) Because it forms a web, the metal that divides up thedartboardis called this, like a certain creature
a spider
Bruce Matt
$200 [6]
From the Middle English for "quarrel", this word often follows "bench-clearing"
a brawl
Matt
$200 [14]
A killer stalks a Michigan resort in the thriller "Dead of" this season
winter
Inie
$200 [1]
Your only option may be to lie down if you have stasiphobia, a fear of standing, & thaasophobia, a fear of this
sitting
Inie
$400 [25]
Ja, they know how to ski real good in this country, whose flag is seen here
Norway
Bruce Inie Matt
$400 [13]
After a stint with the Maharishi, the group tries Kaballah with this singer whose hits include "Beautiful Stranger"
Madonna
Bruce
$400 [19]
These places most associated with darts include the Huntsman, where 13-time world champ Phil Taylor played in his 20s
a pub
Inie
$400 [8]
From the Middle English for "unconditioned", it precedes "zero" at about -459 F.
absolute
Bruce
$400 [21]
"The Pit and the Pendulum" helped secure his reputation as a master of lurid gothic suspense
Poe
Matt
$400 [2]
Cryophobics won't add this to their glasses of whiskey
ice
Bruce
$600 [26]
Itcovers more than 3.7 million square miles
China
Matt
$600 [15]
The Jeps cover this group's 1988 Top 10 hit "Welcome To The Jungle", until the inevitable cease-&-desist order
Guns N' Roses
Matt
$600 [20]
(Jon of the Clue Crew tosses a dart at the dartboard.) I'm playing a standard game of 501; with a remaining score of 12 & 1 dart left, I have to hit double this number to win
6
Bruce
$600 [9]
This word from the Middle English means "nothing" to me & is often found after "come to"
naught
$600 [22]
7-year-old Charlie McGee exhibits rather explosive psychic powers in this 1980 Stephen King book
Firestarter
$600 [3]
Fearing this, a linonophobe could never work a yo-yo
string
Inie
$800 [27]
Two continents are spanned by this nation
Turkey
Bruce
$800 [17]
No way! The Jeps' "Potpourri" video isn't the 2005 VMA Viewer's Choice; this band's "American Idiot" is
Green Day
Matt
$800 [29]
The verb is how the score is kept in many darts games; it can come before "up", as in "___ it up to experience"
chalk
Inie Matt
$800 [10]
From Middle English for "to chop", it means to bargain over a price
haggle
Bruce
$1,000 [24]
Shirley Jackson's "Haunting of" this title place has unnerved readers since 1959
Hill House
Bruce
$800 [4]
Scared of these, a chromophobe probably liked NBC better before the peacock
colors
Matt
$1,000 [28]
In 1903, this country, seen here, was moved from one continent to another
Panama
$1,000 [18]
Oops... the 'Tones hire Mensa's Angels as security at this speedway in California, site of a 1969 free concert by the Stones
Altamont
Matt
$1,000 [30]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew makes a dart shot & gets it in a red space.) Yes! I get this many points for thatone shot--take that, Jon!
60
Matt
$1,000 [11]
"Is this a" word from Middle English "which I see before me"?
a dagger
Inie
DD $1,500 [23]
In Dean Koontz books, this 240-year-old doctor is alive today & masquerading as biotech tycoon Victor Helios
Dr. Frankenstein
Matt
$1,000 [5]
A man suffering from gynophobia & gymnophobia would be doubly afraid of women who are this
naked
Inie

Double Jeopardy! Round

RENAISSANCE PAINTERS NICOLAS CAGE MOVIES WHAT A PIG! NAMES OF THE '70s "S"WEETS GEOGRAPHIC PHRASES
$400 [1]
A court painter for the Duke of Milan, he was also said to have entertained the Duke by playing the lyre
Leonardo da Vinci
$400 [4]
Suicidal alcoholic Ben Sanderson
Leaving Las Vegas
Inie
$400 [22]
British children first read about him in a book called "The Sheep-Pig"
Babe
Matt
$400 [17]
Big names in this type of book in the '70s include Tarnower & Pritikin
a diet book
Matt
$400 [6]
The name of this artificial sweetener discovered in 1879 comes from the Latin for "sugar"
saccharin
Matt
$400 [13]
A 49 B.C. crossing of this river gave rise to a cliche
the Rubicon
Inie
$800 [2]
Works by this Renaissance master with an "angelic" name include the "Transfiguration"
Raphael
Inie
$800 [5]
Plane passenger & prison parolee Cameron Poe
Con Air
Bruce
$800 [23]
One of the favorite pets of this "doctor" was a baby pig named Gub-Gub
Doctor Dolittle
Inie
$800 [18]
Jimmy Carter's Press Secretary, he was named for 2 fictional boys named Jody, in "The Yearling" & "The Red Pony"
Jody Powell
$800 [7]
The basis of Boston cream pie is actually this type of light cake
sponge cake
Inie Matt
$800 [20]
A "Philadelphia" one is said to be an expert, as was Andrew Hamilton, who came to New York to help John Peter Zenger
a lawyer
$1,200 [3]
Last name of Jan & Hubert, who appear to have collaborated on the "Ghent Altarpiece", a large 1432 painting
Van Eyck
Inie Matt
$1,200 [8]
Master car thief Randall "Memphis" Raines
Gone in 60 Seconds
Matt
$1,200 [24]
Introduced in 1937, she's Looney Tunes' longest-lived lady
Petunia Pig
Inie
$1,200 [19]
Until 1975 Jonas Savimbi fought Portuguese rule of this country; then he fought the new independent govt.
Angola
$1,200 [9]
Sorbet is the French word for this frozen, fruit-flavored mixture
sherbet
Bruce
$1,600 [27]
Named for its "kick", this alliterative vodka cocktail was created by Smirnoff in the 1940s
the Moscow mule
$1,600 [11]
The elder of these German painters did mostly altarpieces; "the Younger" painted mostly portraits
Hans Holbein
Bruce
$1,600 [15]
Secret Service agent Doug Chesnic, assigned to a former First Lady
Guarding Tess
$1,600 [25]
In 2006 this energetic pig seenheregot into the stamp act, along with other animals from children's lit
Olivia
Matt
$1,600 [29]
She's the North American political wife seenhereconsorting with royalty
Margaret Trudeau
$1,600 [10]
You can sprinkle this crumbly topping, from the German for "strew", on fruit pies
Streusel
Inie
$2,000 [28]
Also an Audrey Hepburn movie title, it means a public spectacle that involves shame or physical harm
a Roman holiday
Inie
$2,000 [14]
This Florentine's name was derived from the nickname of his older brother, "the Little Barrel"
Sandro Botticelli
$2,000 [16]
Decorated U.S. Marine Sergeant Joe Enders
Windtalkers
$2,000 [26]
In "Animal Farm" this boar who symbolized Stalin eventually became dictator of all the animals
Napoleon
Bruce Inie
DD $1,800 [30]
On Nov. 22, 1975 he stepped onto a balcony at the Royal Palace as a crowd roared, "Viva el rey!"
Juan Carlos
Inie
$2,000 [12]
These sweet German breads full of fruit & nuts are traditional at Christmas
Stollen
DD $2,500 [21]
It's the cape referred to in the name of the Cape buffalo
the Cape of Good Hope
Matt

Final Jeopardy!

PRESIDENTIAL QUOTATIONS

He announced to the American public, "The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed..."

Harry Truman

Matt "Who was Truman?" — wagered $4,500
Inie "Who is Truman?" — wagered $5,400
Bruce "Who isTrumanEisenhower" — wagered $201

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