Show #4393 2003-10-15 (taped 2003-08-04) Regular

Sean Ryan game 6.First 6-day champion.

Contestants

Chris Fite — an elementary school teacher from San Diego, California

Dana Maher — a pianist from Tulsa, Oklahoma

Sean Ryan — a taxi driver, bartender, and student from State College, Pennsylvania (whose 5-day cash winnings total $105,798)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sean $2,800 $9,200 $14,600 $17,999
6-day champion: $123,797
$15,600
25 R (including 2 DDs), 6 W
Dana $1,200 $1,800 $4,800 $9,600
3rd place: $1,000
$9,800
13 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Chris $2,000 $3,600 $11,200 $12,799
2nd place: $2,000
$11,200
11 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY FAMILY GROUPS 100 TOUGH JOBS SCIENCE BRIEFS BEASTLY RHYME TIME
$200 [26]
On February 15, 1898 the U.S. battleship Maine blew up in this Cuban capital's harbor
Havana
Dana
$200 [1]
This duo had hits in the '60s with "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" & "Unchained Melody"
The Righteous Brothers
Dana
$200 [3]
The 2003 TV special "100 Years of Hope and Humor" celebrated this entertainer's first 100 years
Bob Hope
Sean
$200 [11]
To write the book "Newjack", Ted Conover spent a year in this job at Sing Sing
corrections officer
Sean
$200 [16]
The primary colors are red, yellow & this
blue
Sean
$200 [21]
A chunky flying mammal
fat bat
Sean
$400 [27]
This "King of the Wild Frontier" once claimed to have killed 105 bears during a few months in 1825
Davy Crockett
Dana
$400 [2]
Siblings Debra, Joni, Kim & Kathy make up this group that sang the aptly titled "We Are Family"
Sister Sledge
Chris
$400 [7]
In Europe, 1 euro is made up of 100 of these; feels like home
cents
Dana
$400 [12]
People who don't want their day in court can have problems with these people, AKA bail enforcement agents
bounty hunters
Sean
$400 [17]
Traveling 1 astronomical unit from the Sun, you should just reach this planet
Earth
Sean
$400 [22]
A life preserver for a nanny or a billy
goat float
Sean
$600 [28]
The "War on" this, approved by Congress in August of 1964, included VISTA, Volunteers in Service to America
poverty
Sean
$600 [4]
This group made its Top 40 debut with "California Dreamin'"
The Mamas and The Papas
Sean
$600 [8]
Of 93 years, 116 years or 131 years, the actual length of the Hundred Years War
116
Sean Chris
$600 [13]
A 2002 study found this job, perhaps on the Dogger Bank, is Britain's riskiest profession
fisherman
Sean Dana
$600 [18]
It's the international name for the Centigrade scale
Celsius
Sean
$600 [23]
Carriage for a cucaracha
roach coach
Chris
$800 [29]
What's known as the second of these programs began with FDR's January 4, 1935 message to Congress
the New Deal
Sean
$800 [5]
In the mid-'60s Frank Zappa's record label made him lengthen the name of his band to this (perhaps out of necessity)
Mothers of Invention
Sean
$800 [9]
On March 2, 1962 this NBA superstar scored 100 points in one game
Wilt Chamberlain
Sean
$800 [14]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew in front of an oil rig in Oklahoma City) From his coarse appearance, it's a term for a person who works on an oil rig, other than a driller
roughneck
Dana
$800 [19]
In 1909 Soren Sorensen came up with this scale to measure acidity
pH scale
Sean
$800 [24]
River horses' trademark cigarette lighters
hippos' Zippos
Sean
$1,000 [30]
John Smith was among the early members on the Council of Seven that governed this Virginia colony
Jamestown
Chris
$1,000 [6]
Kid Rock's DJ, he went solo with the song heard here
Uncle Kracker
Sean
$1,000 [10]
This state gave us senators 99 & 100
Hawaii
Sean Chris
$1,000 [15]
2 assistants left Jayde Hanson, this type of circus performer, who admits, "My concentration wavers"
knife thrower
Sean
DD $1,000 [20]
This element's name is from the Latin for "charcoal"
carbon
Sean
$1,000 [25]
A sudden quick thrust to grab a porous marine invertebrate
sponge lunge
Sean

Double Jeopardy! Round

BOOKS & AUTHORS AWARDS WHERE YA FROM, SENATOR? UTAH ME TARZAN THE "L" YOU ARE!
$400 [4]
This book by Virginia Woolf inspired Michael Cunningham's novel "The Hours"
Mrs. Dalloway
Dana
$400 [9]
In 1975 Jack Nicholson & Gena Rowlands won Golden Globes & amateur boxer Aaron Pryor won these
the Golden Gloves
Sean
$400 [18]
Feinstein & Boxer
California
Dana
$400 [26]
In August in Salt Lake City there's a festival for this Mideastern dance (& you thought Utahans were a staid bunch...)
belly dancing
$400 [16]
At an April 2003 auction, a loincloth worn by this screen Tarzan didn't meet its reserve, so it wasn't sold
Johnny Weissmuller
Dana
$400 [1]
It's equal to 1.057 quarts
liter
Dana
$800 [5]
The first line of this Philip Roth novella is "The first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses"
Goodbye, Columbus
$800 [10]
Britain's 200-year-old Rumford Medal is given for discoveries about heat or this form of energy
light
Sean
$800 [19]
Kyl & McCain
Arizona
Chris
$800 [27]
Directional corner of Utah that's home to 1/4 of the Four Corners Monument
southeast
Dana
$800 [17]
MGM rejected this Olympic swimmer for the role in 1931; in 1933 he played it for another film company
Buster Crabbe
Chris
$800 [2]
(Hi, I'm Hal Sparks) In the Women's National Basketball Association, the Sparks play their home games in this city
Los Angeles
Sean
$1,200 [6]
In 2003 Spenser & Hawk returned in a novel called "Back Story" by this author
Robert B. Parker
Sean
DD $1,000 [13]
Thomas Mann won the prize named for this German author in 1949, his bicentennial
Goethe
Sean
$1,200 [20]
Edwards & Dole
North Carolina
Sean
$1,600 [30]
To demonstrate the acoustics in this Salt Lake City building, tour guides will drop a pin
the Mormon Tabernacle
Dana
$1,200 [23]
In a 1981 film Miles O'Keeffe was Tarzan to this lady's Jane
Bo Derek
Chris
$1,200 [3]
This family of archaeologists has made many important fossil discoveries in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge
the Leakeys
Chris
$1,600 [7]
This 2002 novel by Yann Martel tells the story of 16-year-old Pi Patel, who survives a shipwreck
Life of Pi
$1,200 [11]
The award seen here, named for a man killed on the job, is given for this type of work
journalism
$1,600 [21]
Cornyn & Hutchinson
Texas
Sean Chris
$2,000 [29]
In the 1870s silver brought folks in droves to this city; now it's the silver screen that's the draw each January
Park City
Dana
$1,600 [24]
We guess that starring as Tarzan in 1984's "Greystoke" made him a Highlander ape man
Christopher Lambert
Dana
$1,600 [14]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew at the Kentucky Derby Museum in Louisville) The Kentucky Derby is run on a track made of this, a mixture of sand, silt & clay
loam
Sean
$2,000 [8]
His "Myth of Sisyphus" outlined his theory of the absurd
Albert Camus
Chris
$1,600 [12]
In 2003 engineering's prestigious Draper Prize went to the co-inventors of this 24-satellite system
GPS (Global Positioning System)
Sean
$2,000 [22]
Hagel & Nelson
Nebraska
DD $5,000 [28]
This Mormon left his name on the Utah canyon seen here, which he described as "a hell of a place to lose a cow"
Ebenezer Bryce
Dana
$2,000 [25]
This TV "Pretender" was the voice of "Disney's Tarzan" on TV
Michael T. Weiss
$2,000 [15]
Woe is me! This book follows Jeremiah in the Bible
Lamentations
Dana

Final Jeopardy!

OPERA SETTINGS

Verdi's Nabucco, who's also known by a longer form of his name, is the king of this ancient place

Babylon

Dana "What is Babylon" — wagered $4,800
Chris "What is Babylon" — wagered $1,599
Sean "What isBablBabylon" — wagered $3,399

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