Show #5454 2008-05-01 (taped 2008-02-13) Regular

Tom Morris game 3.

Contestants

Melanie Harrington — a business analyst from Vancouver, Washington

Paul Thomas — a theater technician from Hollywood, Florida

Tom Morris — a retailer and student from Irvine, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $50,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tom $4,800 $9,600 $16,000 $31,999
2nd place: $2,000
$16,000
25 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Paul $3,000 $8,200 $24,600 $32,001
New champion: $32,001
$20,800
22 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Melanie $1,200 $200 $7,000 $14,000
3rd place: $1,000
$7,000
11 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY INVENTORS TOM TIME A WORLD OF BEER ALL ABOUT PRESIDENTS CHICAGO FUN & SUNDRY FACTS CROSSWORD CLUES "C"
$200 [16]
In 1880 he invented the photophone, which transmitted speech via light waves
Bell
Tom
$200 [1]
Cuba Gooding's Oscar acceptance speech included this man! "I love you, brother!"
Tom Cruise
Paul
$200 [2]
Beck's
Germany
Tom
$200 [21]
The shop at Monticello sells coffee mugs adorned with his quotation "I cannot live without books"
Jefferson
Tom
$200 [26]
This TV drama is set at Chicago's Cook County General Hospital
ER
Tom
$200 [11]
Have a bawl(3)
cry
Tom
$400 [17]
In 1854 he demonstrated his elevator safety device by ascending in an elevator & having the rope cut
(Elisha) Otis
Tom Paul
$400 [7]
He & his band were runnin' down a dream as the halftime entertainment at the Super Bowl in 2008
Tom Petty
Paul
$400 [3]
Asahi
Japan
Tom
$400 [22]
Zachary Taylor disapproved of his daughter Sarah's 1835 marriage to this future Confederate president
Jefferson Davis
Tom
$400 [27]
Born in 1861, this Chicago businessman was known as "Monarch of Mastication"
(William) Wrigley
Paul
$400 [12]
Number cruncher(10)
calculator
Melanie
$800 [19]
He conceived the idea of his revolver pistol by observing a ship's capstan on a voyage to India in 1830
Colt
Paul
$600 [8]
In addition to techno-thrillers, he's also written such nonfiction works as "Submarine" & "Fighter Wing"
Tom Clancy
Tom
$600 [4]
Foster's
Australia
Paul
$600 [23]
He wrote more than 1,300 letters to Bess; their 9-year courtship was called his longest campaign
Truman
Tom
$600 [28]
This amusement park ride premiered at Chicago's Columbian Exposition in 1893
the Ferris wheel
Paul
$600 [13]
"Googly" sport(7)
cricket
Tom
$1,000 [20]
In 1837 he developed the steel plow & tested it on Lewis Crandall's farm near Grand Detour, Illinois
(John) Deere
Paul
$800 [9]
In 2003 this Pennsylvanian became a presidential cabinet member
Tom Ridge
Paul
$800 [5]
Harp
Ireland
Tom
$800 [24]
His parents gave him a sailboat for his 15th birthday; he loved sailing it from the family compound on Cape Cod
Kennedy
Tom
$800 [29]
In 1979 this Chicago Bear linebacking great was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Butkus
Tom
$800 [14]
Kit's partner(8)
caboodle
Melanie
DD $2,000 [18]
In 1863 this Swede developed a detonator for nitroglycerin that used shock rather than heat
(Alfred) Nobel
Paul
$1,000 [10]
"Ambushing the audience is what theater is all about", asserted this author of "The Real Thing"
Tom Stoppard
Paul
$1,000 [6]
Labatt
Canada
Tom
$1,000 [25]
After serving as U.S. president, Millard Fillmore became president of the historical society in this upstate N.Y. city
Buffalo
Tom Melanie
$1,000 [30]
Jesse James had a vendetta out for this Chicago detective whose men had killed his 8-year-old half-brother
(Allan) Pinkerton
Tom
$1,000 [15]
To burst into flame(7)
combust
Tom

Double Jeopardy! Round

WALKING WITH DINOSAURS TV & FILM FOOD SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS MAJOR QUOTATIONS 10-LETTER WORDS
$400 [1]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew walks with a robotic Stegosaurus.) You might encounter a real Stegosaurus if you can go back to the late part of this geological period, a good one for dinosaurs
Jurassic
Melanie
$400 [11]
On this TV show, Dan Aykroyd pitched a timesaving cooking device known as a Bass-O-Matic
Saturday Night Live
Paul
$400 [16]
Hamlet tells her, "Get thee to a nunnery"
Ophelia
Tom
$400 [17]
In 1933 this major became the aide to Gen. MacArthur; later, he would become Supreme Allied Commander
Eisenhower
Tom
$400 [26]
James Thurber observed, "It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all" of these
the answers
Tom
$400 [6]
A decorative item on a ship's prow, or a leader with a title but no power
figurehead
Melanie
$800 [2]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew is stalked by a giant robotT. rex.) Until the recent discovery of the Gigantotasaurus fossil, 3 tons bigger, T. rex was thought to be the largest dinosaur of this dietary class... aaaagh!
carnivore
Melanie
$800 [12]
It's the nickname for "Seinfeld" character Yev Kasem, a role based on a real NYC cook
the "Soup Nazi"
Melanie
$800 [19]
When he first contemplates the murder of Duncan, he says its "horrid image doth unfix my hair"
Macbeth
Paul
$800 [18]
In the 1860s Major John Wesley Powell led a pioneering Grand Canyon expedition on this river
the Colorado
Paul
$800 [27]
On signing the 1979 peace treaty with Israel, this Egyptian said, "Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights"
Anwar Sadat
Melanie
$800 [7]
This big adjective comes from Rabelais' giant king
gargantuan
Paul
$1,200 [3]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands next to a robot Stegosaurus.) The Stegosaurus'plates could have been used in mating, may have been for defensive purposes, or may have served as living solar panels & helped the dinosaur regulate this
body heat (or body temperature)
Paul
$1,200 [13]
This Muppet celebrity once opined, "Never eat more than you can lift"
Miss Piggy
Melanie
$1,200 [20]
This villain tells Roderigo, "Now, sir, be judge yourself whether I in any just term am affined to love the Moor"
Iago
Paul
$1,200 [23]
In 1655 this lord protector of England appointed major generals to combat royalist uprisings
Oliver Cromwell
Melanie
$1,200 [28]
Jacqueline Roque said of him, "If my husband ever met a woman... who looked like one of his paintings, he would faint"
Picasso
Tom
$1,200 [8]
In a children's song, this bird "sits in the old gum tree"
kookaburra
Tom Melanie
$2,000 [5]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) If a bite that could puncture a car roof wasn't enough, T. rex's teeth have recesses where these live; if the bite didn't kill you, the infection would
bacteria
Tom
$1,600 [14]
This 2004 film about Miles & Jack boosted sales of pinot noir wine
Sideways
Paul
$1,600 [21]
Julius Caesar observes that this man "has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much: such men are dangerous"
Cassius
Paul
$1,600 [24]
Benedict Arnold is in the basement of St. Mary's Battersea; this major & contact of his lies in Westminster Abbey
Major John André
$1,600 [29]
In 1939 Churchill said the action of Russia "is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside" this
an enigma
Tom
$1,600 [9]
Slow down, as in a car
decelerate
Tom
DD $4,000 [4]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) Named for its cattle-like horns, this 9-tonner whose name means "bull lizard" had the largest head of any known land animal
Torosaurus ( Torosaur accepted)
Paul
$2,000 [15]
The title character chugs raw eggs & punches slabs of beef in this 1976 Oscar winner
Rocky
Paul
$2,000 [22]
The first name spoken in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is that of this Amazon queen
Hippolyta
Paul
$2,000 [25]
It's the Gilbert & Sullivan comic opera where an old major general sings his "modern" song
The Pirates of Penzance
Melanie
$2,000 [30]
Paine's seasonal phrase that precedes "and the sunshine patriot will... shrink from the service of their country"
The summer soldier
Tom Melanie
DD $2,000 [10]
From the Latin for "sugar", this adjective means sugary or exaggeratedly sentimental
saccharine
Tom

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC NAMES

Born at Chateau Chavaniac in 1757, he was later hailed as "the hero of two worlds"

the Marquis de Lafayette

Melanie "Who was Lafayette?" — wagered $7,000
Tom "Who is Lafayette?" — wagered $15,999
Paul "Whois Lafayette" — wagered $7,401

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