Show #4156 2002-09-30 (taped 2002-06-18) Regular

Contestants

Duke Conde — an actor from West Orange, New Jersey

Melissa Mayo — a geographic information systems specialist from Tyler, Texas

Tim Mhyre — a neuroscientist from Webster, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,999)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tim $-400 $2,400 $7,200 $7,200
2nd place: $2,000
$7,200
18 R, 5 W
Melissa $4,600 $8,800 $17,200 $17,200
New champion: $17,200
$14,200
22 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W
Duke $0 $1,000 $0 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$1,800
5 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

"O" WHEREFORE ART THOU? HIDDEN ROCK OF AGES I INVENTED THAT THREE WORD PUZZLES
$200 [1]
In Tombstone, Arizona, you can visit the site of this famous gunfight & see a live reenactment
O.K. Corral
Tim
$200 [11]
From the French for "to disguise", soldiers wear this to conceal themselves from the enemy
camouflage
Tim
$200 [6]
The Stray Cats sang she was "Sexy &" this age, the same age when we "saw her standing there"
17
Tim
$200 [21]
I thought my cotton rum would reap millions, until this guy's cotton gin came out in 1793
Eli Whitney
Duke
$200 [16]
Larry, Moe & Curly
The Three Stooges
Tim
$200 [26]
One of these is one indeed:----------------------------------NEFRIENDED
a friend in need
Tim
$400 [2]
It's the island where you'll find Iolani Palace, once home to Hawaii's monarchs
Oahu
Tim
$400 [12]
If your junior spy kit has run out of this, lemon juice can be substituted
invisible ink
Melissa
$400 [7]
Parrotheads know he followed up his song "A Pirate Looks at Forty" with his book "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Jimmy Buffett
Melissa
$400 [22]
Time ran out on my stock tocker after this prolific inventor cornered the market with his stock ticker in 1870
Thomas Edison
Tim
$400 [17]
Their motto was "All for one, one for all"
The Three Musketeers
Melissa
$400 [27]
It's how one treats a loved one's mistakes:----------------------------------GIVE GIVE GIVE GIVEGET GET GET GET
forgive and forget
Melissa
$600 [3]
It's the city where you'll find Britain's oldest university
Oxford
Melissa
$600 [13]
Hidden features on DVDs are known as these "holiday" items
Easter eggs
Tim Melissa
$600 [8]
Ringo Starr's girl was this title age, beautiful & his, while Chuck Berry's was sweet & little
16
Melissa
$600 [23]
In 1908, with his counter, he stole my idea for the clucker, a device that clucked when it detected radiation
Hans Geiger
Tim
$600 [18]
They're the group heard here
Three Dog Night
Melissa
$600 [28]
What singer Tiny Tim wanted to do:---------------------------------TULT I P T O EPS
"Tiptoe Through the Tulips"
Tim
DD $1,000 [4]
Between April & June of 1945, one of WWII's bloodiest campaigns was fought on this Pacific island
Okinawa
Melissa
$800 [14]
In 1962 a Louisiana company got a patent for a device that added these to motion pictures in theaters
subliminal advertisements
Tim Melissa
$800 [9]
In their 1997 hit "Fly", this "sweet" band sang "25 years old, my mother God rest her soul"
Sugar Ray
$800 [24]
My breeze tunnel didn't operate like the wind tunnel invented in the early 1900s by this French tower designer
Gustave Eiffel
Tim
$800 [19]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew deals the cards) Let's see if I can con 'ya into finding the lady in this street game I've got going here
Three-card Monte
Duke
$800 [29]
What most of us want to say to a boisterous & loud movie patron:---------------------------------T SU IH TS
sit down and shut up
Melissa
$1,000 [5]
It's where Joan of Arc had her first victory over the English during the Hundred Years War
Orleans
Melissa
$1,000 [15]
Latin for "things to be done", you have to watch out for a person's hidden one
agenda
Melissa
$1,000 [10]
Harry Chapin's "son turned 10 just the other day" in this song, No. 1 back in 1974
"Cat's in the Cradle"
Melissa
$1,000 [25]
In the '70s, my video game "Tong", in which you pick up olives & drop them into drinks, was eclipsed by his "Pong"
Nolan Bushnell
$1,000 [20]
It's been called "Chekhov's richest and greatest play"
The Three Sisters
Melissa
$1,000 [30]
Two-fold complaint of many in the labor force:---------------------------------PAIDI AMWORKED
overworked & underpaid
Melissa

Double Jeopardy! Round

OPERA CAR MEN GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST THE "RING" CYCLE WILLIAM, TELL LA TRIVIA-TA
$400 [1]
The world's 5 largest opera houses are in the U.S., with this one in NYC the largest at a capacity of 4,065
Metropolitan Opera House
Tim Duke
$400 [11]
Automaker David Buick was born in Scotland in 1854 & died in this U.S. city in 1929
Detroit
Duke
$400 [15]
On Jan. 5, 1925 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming made history when she was inaugurated as this
(first woman) governor
Tim
$400 [6]
This book is Volume 1 in the Tolkien trilogy "The Lord of the Rings"
"The Fellowship of the Ring"
Tim
$400 [20]
William Wordsworth told us this form of literature "is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge"
poetry
Melissa
$400 [29]
Phil Silvers co-wrote the 1944 song about this girl "with the laughing face"
Nancy (about Frank Sinatra's daughter)
$800 [2]
Act II, Scene 2 of this opera begins with the song "Gloria All' Egitto e Ad Iside", or "Glory to Egypt and to Isis"
Aida
Melissa
$800 [12]
Charles Kettering invented an electric ignition & this device, which ended the need for hand-cranking
starter
Tim Melissa
$800 [16]
Montana journalist Dorothy M. Johnson wrote the later-filmed story "The Man Who Shot" him
Liberty Valance
Tim
$800 [7]
Brotherly circus showmen
Ringling Brothers
Tim
$800 [21]
William Somerset Maugham observed, "People ask you for criticism, but they only want" this
praise
Tim
$800 [28]
On May 5, 1904 he pitched the first perfect game in American League history; give that man an award!
Cy Young
Tim
$1,600 [4]
A highlight of Enrico Caruso's career was his rendition of the aria "Vesti la Giubba" in this Leoncavallo opera
Pagliacci
Duke
$1,600 [14]
Fast Italian cars are named for Enzo Ferrari, Alfieri Maserati & Ferruccio this
Lamborghini
Melissa
$1,200 [17]
In 1985 Oklahoma-born Wilma Mankiller became the first woman chief of this Indian nation
Cherokee
Melissa
$1,200 [8]
The male of this bird species is seen here
ring-necked pheasant
Melissa
$1,200 [22]
Receiving the Nobel Prize in 1950, this Southern author said, "I decline to accept the end of man"
William Faulkner
Tim
$1,200 [27]
Added to the National Film Registry list in 2000 was a 1957 short that featured snacks singing this song
"Let's All Go To The Lobby To Get Ourselves A Treat"
Tim Melissa
$2,000 [5]
In "La boheme", the sickly Mimi dies in the arms of her lover, this poet
Rodolfo
DD $1,800 [13]
A NYC skyscraper project begun by a Coney Island developer was bought by this car man in 1927
Walter Chrysler
Duke
$1,600 [18]
Much is unknown about this Sundance Kid companion, including whether her name was Etta or Ethel
Etta Place
Melissa
$1,600 [9]
This humorist's "You Know Me Al" is written as a series of letters from a bush league ballplayer
Ring Lardner
Duke
$1,600 [23]
William Allen White is quoted as saying this 25th president's face was an "unchipped mask of a kindly, dull gentleman"
William McKinley
$1,600 [26]
In the 2000 Rose Parade this Chicago company's float featured 10 pairs of twins
Wrigley
Melissa
DD $4,000 [3]
This Mozart opera about an insatiable lover is also known as "The Reprobate Punished"
Don Giovanni
Melissa
$2,000 [19]
Geographic nickname of Mary Guinan, who greeted her nightclub customers with "Hello, Suckers!"
Texas Guinan
$2,000 [10]
Found in the constellation Lyra, it's the heavenly body seen here
Ring Nebula
$2,000 [24]
"He who meanly admires mean things is a snob", wrote this "Vanity Fair" author
William Makepeace Thackeray
Tim
$2,000 [25]
The eagle that represented the 1984 Summer Olympic Games was named this
Sam
Melissa

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD FLAGS

This Mediterranean country is the world's only nation whose flag bears a geographic outline of itself

Cyprus

Tim "What is Greece?" — wagered $0
Melissa "What is Malta?" — wagered $0

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