Show #4260 2003-02-21 (taped 2002-10-30) Regular

Travis Troyer game 4.

Contestants

Frank Lynch — a corporate trainer from Carlsbad, California

Michael Vesely — a stay-at-home dad from Oak Park, Illinois

Travis Troyer — a software engineer from Hereford, Maryland (whose 3-day cash winnings total $36,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Travis $6,200 $9,800 $15,800 $26,300
4-day champion: $63,100
$16,000
25 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Michael $1,000 $1,400 $12,000 $7,000
2nd place: $2,000
$11,000
11 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Frank $600 $4,600 $13,200 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$14,200
17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN CITIES TV TRIVIA LET THERE BE LIFE WANNA SEE MY PAD? '60s MUSCLE CARS 3-LETTER WORDS
$200 [6]
An earthquake on April 18, 1906 in this city destroyed the Wells Fargo Bank, but the vaults remained intact
San Francisco
Frank
$200 [1]
"A horse is a horse, of course, of course, and no one can talk to a horse, of course", unless he is this famous equine
Mister Ed
Travis
$200 [26]
If you're going to have an organic garden, start one of these "heaps" before you start the garden
compost heap
Frank
$200 [21]
It's a swinging single guy's apartment
bachelor pad
Frank
$200 [12]
Ronny & the Daytonas wanted to "turn it on, wind it up" & "blow it out"
GTO
Travis
$200 [11]
Barnum & Bailey worked under a "big" one & we're not talkin' a spinning toy
top
Travis Frank
$400 [7]
The MGM Grand Hotel in this city claims to be the largest in the world with over 5,000 guest rooms
Las Vegas
Travis
$400 [2]
He was employed at Spacely Space Sprockets; we're not quite sure what he did
George Jetson
Travis
$400 [27]
As they have chlorophyll, algae produce food using this process
photosynthesis
Frank
$400 [22]
Some automakers recommend having these inspected every year
brake pads
Travis
$400 [17]
This Plymouth named for a sharp-toothed fish really had some bite
Barracuda
Michael
$400 [13]
The part of the tongue that holds the names you just can't think of at the moment
tip
Travis
$600 [8]
The final draft of the U.S. Constitution was composed in this city in September 1787
Philadelphia
Frank
$600 [3]
This sitcom title pair, then a yoga instructor & an assistant U.S. attorney, were married on their first date
Dharma & Greg
Travis
$600 [28]
Counting on all of its toes, an ostrich can only count up to this
4
Frank
$600 [23]
You can look it up under frog
lily pad
Frank
$600 [18]
This Chevy was still going strong into the '90s with a Z-28 model
Camaro
Travis
$600 [14]
It's a division of a Cub Scout pack
den
Travis
$800 [9]
The pirate Jean Lafitte was pardoned by President Madison for his help during the 1814 battle of this city
New Orleans
Travis
$800 [4]
On this series, Jerry Van Dyke's character Luther Van Dam wrote a successful book titled "Just Short of the Goal"
Coach
Travis
$800 [29]
The sea anemone's mouth is surrounded by these
tentacles
$800 [24]
Usually smaller than a legal or steno one, you might have an "itch" to jot down notes on it
scratch pad
Travis
$800 [19]
This Pontiac muscle car moves much faster than the Stravinsky ballet
Firebird
Travis
DD $600 [15]
To "spell" this synonym for jinx, you also use an "x" at the end
hex
Travis
$1,000 [10]
Often placed in the bear family, the first giant panda in the U.S. was appropriately exhibited in this Midwest city
Chicago
$1,000 [5]
Writer Darin Morgan won a 1996 Emmy for his "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" episode of this Fox sci-fi drama
The X-Files
Travis
$1,000 [30]
Each of these on the dragonfly is made up of 28,000 hexagonal-shaped ommatidia
eyes
Frank
$1,000 [25]
Found on some laptops, it's an alternative to a mouse
touchpad
Travis
$1,000 [20]
Later maker of the Pacer, this automaker's Javelin hit the mark
American Motors (AMC)
Frank
$1,000 [16]
Hamlet spotting the Bengay at the drug store would exclaim, "Ay, there's" this
the rub
Michael

Double Jeopardy! Round

FRENCH HISTORY BUILDINGS CINDERELLA STIRRING SONGS ART & ARTISTS ENDS IN "O"
$400 [7]
A 15th century revolt by the Duke of Orleans is known as "La Guerre Folle", or this type of "war"
mad (or silly) (Fool's War accepted)
Frank
$400 [11]
Built in 1876, Abbot Hall in Marblehead, Mass. is in this style of architecture named for a queen
Victorian
Michael
$400 [21]
In Rossini's 1817 Cinderella opera "La Cenerentola", they were given names: Tisbe & Clorinda
the evil stepsisters
Michael
$400 [10]
The familiar piece heardhereis the "National Emblem" one of these
march
Michael
$400 [3]
She began painting in 1938 at age 78; a year later her landscapes were exhibited at NYC's Museum of Modern Art
Grandma Moses
Travis
$400 [1]
In the song "Wind Beneath My Wings", Bette Midler asks, "Did you ever know that you're my" this
hero
Travis
$800 [8]
Reigning from 1715 to 1774, he was the successor & great-grandson of the "Sun King"
Louis XV
Frank
$800 [12]
It comes before "house" in the name of a small building where meat is cured for your dining pleasure
smoke
Michael
$800 [22]
The earliest known appearance of a Cinderella story was a 9th c. tale about a girl named Yeh-hsien in this country
China
Travis
$800 [16]
Heard here, it's often associated with protest
"Kumbaya"
Travis
$800 [23]
The overweight Marie de Medici hired this artist to do a cycle of paintings on her
Peter Paul Rubens
Travis Frank
$800 [2]
If you don't like licorice, you won't like this anise-flavored aperitif from Greece
ouzo
Frank
$1,200 [9]
French marshal Bazaine was court-martialed for surrendering 140,000 men to this German nation in 1870
Prussia
Travis
$1,200 [13]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports.) Siding in colonial homes was often this overlapping type, named for a sound
clapboard
Michael
$1,200 [25]
With a wave of her wand, the fairy godmother transformed this into a solid gold coach
pumpkin
Travis
$1,200 [17]
(Hi, I'm Harry Connick, Jr.) On my 1999 album "Come by Me", I play this beautiful Irish song that uses the melody from "Londonderry Air"
"Danny Boy"
Frank
DD $1,000 [30]
2 of this artist's most famous landscapes, "View of Delft" & "Street in Delft", are scenes from his hometown
Jan Vermeer
Frank
$1,200 [4]
Ko-Ko, Yum-Yum & Nanki-Poo are all characters in this operetta
The Mikado
Michael
$1,600 [15]
In 1933 when Cie. Internationale de Navigation merged with Air Orient & others, it took this name
Air France
Travis
$1,600 [14]
Gustave Eiffel of tower fame also designed a nice dome for this type of building used by astronomers
observatory
Travis Frank
$1,600 [27]
Lesley Collier played Cinderella in a 1981 TV ballet; this Lesley did it in a 1965 Rodgers & Hammerstein CBS special
Lesley Ann Warren
Frank
$1,600 [18]
Introduced at Madison in 1909, its second line is "Grand old Badger State"
"On, Wisconsin!"
Michael
$1,200 [24]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew in Amsterdam at Rembrandt's house.) Under a lean-to in this courtyard, Rembrandt painted 1642's "Sortie of a Company of Captain Banning Cocq", also known as this
The Night Watch
$2,000 [6]
It's another name for the pygmy chimpanzee
bonobo
Frank
$2,000 [20]
In 2002 many were shocked when this leader of the National Front made the presidential runoff
Jean-Marie Le Pen
Travis
$2,000 [28]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit.) The portable factory-assembled Dymaxion house was developed by this 20th century inventor
Buckminster Fuller
Frank
$2,000 [29]
This French writer who wrote the tale from oral traditions was a member of the French Academy
Charles Perrault
$2,000 [19]
In 2000 this country revived the melody of its old national anthem, heard here
Russia
Michael
$1,600 [26]
This Venetian put St. Peter, not Mary & Jesus, at the center of his "Madonna of the Pesaro Family"
Titian
DD $2,600 [5]
It was the maiden name of Franklin Roosevelt's mother
Delano
Michael

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN NOVELS

The narrator of this 1951 novel first appeared in the short stories "I'm Crazy" & "Slight Rebellion off Madison"

"Catcher in the Rye" (the narrator being Holden Caulfield)

Michael "What is year wit" — wagered $5,000
Frank "What is" — wagered $13,200
Travis "What is "Catcher in the Rye"?" — wagered $10,500

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