Show #5679 2009-04-23 (taped 2009-02-17) Regular

Liz Murphy game 1.

Contestants

Daniel Wilkinson — a graduate student originally from Woodbury, Georgia

Liz Murphy — a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania

Melanie Baker-Streevy — a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan (whose 1-day cash winnings total $26,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Melanie $2,000 $4,200 $3,800 $6,600
3rd place: $1,000
$3,800
10 R, 3 W
Liz $2,000 $2,800 $12,800 $24,401
New champion: $24,401
$13,800
19 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Daniel $400 $3,000 $12,200 $16,000
2nd place: $2,000
$13,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

ARCHAEOLOGY BIG FAN THAT'S NOT WHERE YOU THINK IT IS THE NEW YORK TIMESBUSINESS THE MOST WANTED LIST ANAGRAMS OF COMPASS DIRECTIONS
$200 [1]
In 1974 farmers digging for water found an army of clay warriors "protecting" an emperor's tomb in this country
China
Daniel
$200 [21]
Idolizers of this singer:claymates
Clay Aiken
Liz
$200 [4]
Hollywood in this state isn't too far from Biscayne Bay
Florida
Liz
$200 [26]
The N.Y. Times questioned where the $123 billion the Federal Reserve loaned to this insurer actually went
A.I.G.
Liz Daniel
$200 [11]
The FBI began publishing an official "Ten Most Wanted" list in 1950, while this man was director
J. Edgar Hoover
Daniel
$200 [16]
Oolong & Assam
teas
Melanie
$400 [2]
This Andean civilization used knotted cords called quipus to store information
the Incas
Daniel
$400 [22]
Fans of this radio host:Dittoheads
Rush Limbaugh
Melanie
$400 [5]
This state's Phoenix welcomes y'all! Perhaps you'll also visit its Oak Ridge or Thibodaux
Louisiana
Daniel
$400 [27]
This 185-nation agency agreed to lend $100 billion to healthy countries that are having trouble borrowing money
IMF (the International Monetary Fund)
Liz
$400 [12]
When arrested in 1967, James Ringrose gave FBI agents one of these Monopoly cards; it didn't work
"get out of jail free"
Liz
$400 [17]
To worry, perhaps over goulash
stew
Daniel
$600 [3]
In 1932 Danish archaeologists uncovered the remains of a church near Erik the Red's farm on this island
Greenland
Liz
$600 [23]
Nothing against Trekkies but Leonard Nimoy says true believers prefer this term
Trekkers
Daniel
$600 [8]
O Pioneers! To get from Lexington to Columbus in this state, take Highway 30, through Kearney
Nebraska
Liz
$600 [28]
The Times said that with stocks, the price-to-this ratio should average about 16; it was at 27 as of 2007
earnings
Liz
$600 [13]
Don Bussmeyer made the list in 1967 but didn't last long; he was caught shirtless, with this tattooed on his chest
his name
Melanie
$600 [18]
A yell, or a brand of stain remover
shout
Melanie
$800 [6]
Excavations of this neighbor of Pompeii show it to have been a secluded retreat of the leisure class
Herculaneum
$800 [24]
Cheeseheads eat up this NFL team (love the hats)
the Green Bay Packers
Liz
$800 [9]
Paris is in the northeast corner of this state, near Detroit, Omaha & Pittsburg
Texas
Melanie Liz Daniel
DD $1,000 [29]
This N.Y. attorney general, son of a former governor, warned against bonuses for bankers who took federal funds
Andrew Cuomo
Liz
$800 [14]
Of the nearly 500 people on this list since its inception, only 8 have been these; the first made it in 1968
women
Melanie
$800 [19]
On a plant it's also known as a prickle
thorn
Daniel
$1,000 [7]
In 1922 the remains of this 2-lettered Sumerian city & its cemetery were unearthed
Ur
Liz
$1,000 [25]
Change one letter in Barry Manilow's last name to get this term for one of his fans
a fanilow
Daniel
$1,000 [10]
Home to an intl. airport & a motor speedway, Ontario in this state was named by Canadian settlers around 1882
California
Melanie
$1,000 [15]
The original "Slick Willie", this bank robber made the list in its second week; he got caught within 2 years
Willie Sutton
$1,000 [20]
To fill an appetite
sate
Melanie

Double Jeopardy! Round

JAMES JOYCE DUBLINERS A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN ULYSSES FINNEGAN'S "WAKE"
$400 [6]
Joyce's masterpiece "Ulysses" was modeled on this ancient work
The Odyssey
Liz
$400 [1]
U2 vocalist known for good works
Bono
Daniel
$400 [16]
He created theself-portrait seen herein 1986
(Andy) Warhol
Liz
$400 [21]
…as a pre-teen this "Le Nozze di Figaro" composer wrote a one-act German singspiel
Mozart
Daniel
$400 [26]
This goddess of wisdom appears to Ulysses' son Telemachus & tells him to find out what happened to Dad
Athena
Daniel
$400 [11]
When Finnegan has to get up early at a Radisson, he appreciates one of these, even if it's automated
a wake-up call
Daniel
$800 [7]
Bloomsday, a celebration of Joyce & his works, is celebrated each year on the 16th of this month
June
Melanie
$800 [2]
Boomtown Rats vocalist known for good works
Bob Geldof
$800 [17]
If you can't remember the name of this painter, just put your lips together and blow
Whistler
Daniel
$800 [22]
…he was tutored by Aristotle & then beat Darius III at Issus
Alexander the Great
Liz
DD $1,200 [27]
Ulysses is trying to return from Troy to this place, but not for his Cornell class reunion
Ithaca
Daniel
$800 [12]
Finn was BMOC at the ACC school that's located in Winston-Salem
Wake Forest
Daniel
$1,200 [8]
Joyce died in 1941 after an operation for a perforated duodenal one of these
an ulcer
Liz
$1,200 [3]
Plays the therapist on "In Treatment"
Gabriel Byrne
Liz
$1,200 [18]
This early Renaissance greatdidn't go to the School of Athens, he studied in Italy
Raphael
Melanie
$1,200 [23]
…in the 1300s B.C. he made Thebes Egypt's capital & changed his name to honor Amon
Tutankhamon
Daniel
$1,200 [28]
After two decades waiting for ol' Uly to haul his tush back home, she decides to marry the winner of an archery contest
Penelope
Melanie
$1,200 [13]
Finn's karaoke choice: this Everly Brothers song that says, "We fell asleep, our goose is cooked"
"Wake Up Little Susie"
Daniel
$1,600 [9]
Joyce & his family spent World War I in this Swiss city
Zurich
Liz Daniel
$1,600 [4]
Shaven-headed woman who sang "Mandinka"
Sinead O'Connor
Daniel
$1,600 [19]
In 1872, this Frenchmanbecame a dad, later the father of modern art
Paul Cezanne
Melanie Liz Daniel
DD $1,200 [24]
…He covered the Boer War for the Morning Post, got captured, escaped & became a national hero
Winston Churchill
Daniel
$1,600 [29]
This enchantress changes Ulysses' men into pigs but on the plus side, does warn the man about the sirens
Circe
Liz
$1,600 [14]
After Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces hit this U.S. territory where Finn was vacationing in '41
Wake Island
Liz
$2,000 [10]
In 1931 Joyce married this woman, his longtime companion
Nora
$2,000 [5]
Joycean actress & our favorite Fionnula
Fionnula Flanagan
$2,000 [20]
Seen hereis a self-portrait of this impressionist, better known for portraits of women
Renoir
Melanie Liz
$2,000 [25]
…he ran his brother's senatorial campaign, then investigated Hoffa & the Teamsters
Bobby Kennedy
Liz
$2,000 [30]
Ulysses has to deal with these 2 sea monsters, who are rock & whirlpool-related
Scylla and Charybdis
Liz
$2,000 [15]
Jonathan Edwards spurred Finn to prayer in this "super" revival of evangelical religion in the 1700s
the Great Awakening
Daniel

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY SCIENCE

The 1970s saw the coining of the term "runner's high" & the discovery of these opiate proteins that produce it

endorphins

Melanie "What are endorphins?" — wagered $2,800
Daniel "What are endorphins?" — wagered $3,800
Liz "What are endorphins?" — wagered $11,601

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