Show #4392 2003-10-14 (taped 2003-08-04) Regular

Sean Ryan game 5.

Contestants

Bridget Kirk — a homemaker from Wilmington, Delaware

David Kammerer — a college professor from Honolulu, Hawaii

Sean Ryan — a taxi driver, bartender, and student from State College, Pennsylvania (whose 4-day cash winnings total $73,598)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sean $0 $3,400 $17,200 $32,200
5-day champion: $105,798
$17,000
26 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
David $2,200 $3,000 $15,600 $12,401
2nd place: $2,000
$15,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Bridget $-1,000 $3,000 $6,200 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$6,200
9 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

"R"T MISHEARD LYRICS FOREIGN FOOD LITERARY PLACES HOAXES BODY LANGUAGE
$200 [15]
Born in Limoges in 1841, as a child this Impressionist worked in a porcelain factory painting china
Renoir
Sean
$200 [1]
Don McLean:"Drove a machete into the levy but the levy won't die"
"American Pie"
Sean
$200 [17]
Don't wonder, naan, roti & puri are types of this in India
bread
Sean
$200 [26]
Mordor, Gondor & Hobbiton are located in this place
Middle Earth
Sean
$200 [6]
In 1730 Ben Franklin printed a made-up account of the trial of these, including testing whether they floated
witches
Sean
$200 [11]
To have this "to the wind" is to wait until others have decided before committing oneself
your finger
David
$400 [18]
He was the youngest of the 3 creators of the high Renaissance
Raphael
Sean
$400 [2]
Mary MacGregor:"Born Between Two Cupboards"
"Torn Between Two Lovers"
David
$400 [22]
Meal at which you'd normally serve muesli
breakfast
Bridget
$400 [27]
At the end of this novel, Yorkshire folks swear that the ghosts of Heathcliff & Cathy walk the moors
Wuthering Heights
Bridget
$400 [7]
On April 1, 1957 this very English network reported deadpan on Swiss farmers' bumper crop of spaghetti
the BBC
Sean
$400 [12]
When Daily Variety reports that a studio's prexy has ankled, it means its president did this
left the job
$600 [19]
Fragonard, painter of "The Swing", is considered one of the greatest artists of this ornate style
Rococo
Sean
$600 [3]
Steppenwolf:"Head out on the highway, looking for my dentures"
"Born to Be Wild"
David
$600 [23]
If you make it right, your salsa verde should be this color
green
Bridget
$600 [28]
Celesteville is the capital of this elephant king's realm in classic children's stories
Babar
Bridget
$600 [8]
In 1991 2 Englishmen said they'd spent 13 years sneaking around fields creating these
crop circles
David
$600 [13]
Someone who keeps saying the wrong thing has this, a play on the name of a cattle disease
foot-and-mouth
Sean David
$800 [20]
His house in the Jodenbreestraat in Amsterdam is now a museum
Rembrandt
Sean
$800 [4]
Sly & the Family Stone:"It's A Family Of Bears"
"It's A Family Affair"
David
$800 [24]
A meat-filled tortilla in a chili sauce, its name is from the Spanish for "to season with chili"
enchilada
$800 [29]
After "Heart of Darkness", he wrote "Nostromo" about the imaginary country of Costaguana
Joseph Conrad
David
$800 [9]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew at the Buckhorn Museum in San Antonio, Texas) One of P.T. Barnum's classic hoaxes was the Fiji this, actually a monkey's head on a fish's body
mermaid
Sean
DD $1,000 [14]
What you may get from having that extra helping of pie, or what you do when you complain about it
bellyache
David
$1,000 [21]
An adjective meaning "voluptuous" comes from the name of this old master
Rubens
Bridget
$1,000 [5]
The Everly Brothers:"Only trouble is, Cheese Whiz"
"All I Have to Do is Dream"
Sean David Bridget
$1,000 [25]
This style of topping may sound good, but its name is from the French for "with the burnt scrapings"
au gratin
$1,000 [30]
Paul Theroux' novel about an American family settling in Central America is called this "Coast"
The Mosquito Coast
Sean
$1,000 [10]
The Bible's "There were" these "in the Earth" inspired George Hull to create the phony prehistoric "Cardiff" one
giants
David
$1,000 [16]
When it comes before "the burden" or "the blame", it's a synonym for "assume"
shoulder
Bridget

Double Jeopardy! Round

1970s TV THE WALTONS KUNG FU THREE'S COMPANY GOOD "TIME"s WELCOME BACK, QATAR
$400 [1]
These title characters worked on an assembly line in the bottle-cap division of the Shotz Brewery
Laverne & Shirley
Sean
$400 [6]
George Walton, a Declaration of Independence signer for this state, was wounded fighting for Savannah
Georgia
Sean
$400 [11]
The 5 main animal styles of kung fu are the tiger, leopard, snake, dragon & this long-legged bird
crane
Sean
$400 [16]
As of 2002, 1 of the 3 presidents who lived to the age of 90
(1 of 3) John Adams, Ronald Reagan or Herbert Hoover
$400 [26]
A container of articles representing the present buried for a future generation to find
time capsule
Bridget
$400 [21]
It's Qatar's official language
Arabic
Sean
$800 [2]
LeVar Burton played this slave, later called Toby, in the miniseries "Roots"
Kunta Kinte
David
$800 [7]
Sir William Walton's "Orb and Sceptre", a march for this event, premiered in Westminster Abbey June 2, 1953
Queen Elizabeth II's coronation
Sean
$800 [12]
Of Wing Chun, Hoi Sin or Hung Gar, the one that's not a popular style of kung fu
Hoi Sin
Sean
DD $1,000 [17]
This word for fun little facts comes from the Latin for "The place where 3 roads meet"
trivia
Sean
$800 [27]
Broadway crosses 7th Avenue there
Times Square
Sean
$800 [22]
It's the body of water into which the Qatar Peninsula juts
the Persian Gulf
Sean
$1,200 [3]
On a '70s TV show, a mild-mannered teacher could transform herself into this Egyptian goddess to thwart crime
Isis
Bridget
$1,200 [8]
Seen here, he became one of the USA's wealthiest men
Sam Walton
Sean
$1,200 [13]
One of the later styles of kung fu to develop bears the name of this "worshipful" insect
praying mantis
David
$1,200 [18]
The principal action of this 1844 novel involves the return of 12 diamond pendants to the queen of France
The Three Musketeers
Sean
$1,200 [28]
Released in 1936, it was the last film to feature Chaplin's "Little Tramp" character
Modern Times
David
$1,200 [23]
The ruler of Qatar is known by this 4-letter title
emir
David
$1,600 [4]
John Houseman reprised his role as Prof. Charles Kingsfield on this TV series based on a 1973 film
The Paper Chase
David
$1,600 [9]
All that fishing must have done this author some good; he was 90 when he died in 1683
Izaak Walton
$1,600 [14]
Those kicks were fast as lightnin' when Carl Douglas had a number one hit with this song in 1974
"Kung Fu Fighting"
David
$1,600 [19]
The name of this Japanese company that produces Eclipses translates into English as "Three Diamonds"
Mitsubishi
Sean
$1,600 [29]
This Charles Dickens work is about the tough living & working conditions brought about by industrialization
Hard Times
Bridget
$2,000 [25]
With a population near 350,000, this capital city of Qatar is also the most populous
Doha
$2,000 [5]
Created by Sid & Marty Krofft, this live-action show, whose characters are seen here, was set in Tranquility Forest
The Bugaloos
Sean
$2,000 [10]
In 1932 physicist Ernest Walton co-developed one of these that sped up protons to smash lithium nuclei
particle accelerator
Sean
$2,000 [15]
On Aug. 14, 1900 U.S. & British troops helped capture Beijing, thus halting this uprising by kung fu practitioners
the Boxer Rebellion
Sean
$2,000 [20]
This 3-cornered hat was introduced to men's fashion around 1690
tricorn
Sean
$2,000 [30]
It's what indicates the meter on a piece of sheet music
time signature
David
DD $3,000 [24]
This satellite TV news service based in Qatar has become one of the most important Middle East broadcasters
Al Jazeera
David

Final Jeopardy!

ANCIENT TEXTS

Archaeologist Richard Lepsius gave this name to a collection of spells, hymns & prayers to deities like Ra

The Book of the Dead

Bridget "What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?" — wagered $6,199
David "What is the Apocrypha" — wagered $3,199
Sean "WHAT is The Book of the Dead?" — wagered $15,000

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