Show #4533 2004-04-28 (taped 2004-02-04) Regular

Contestants

Teresa McGervey — a technical information specialist from Alexandria, Virginia

Dave Stern — an accountant from Columbus, Ohio

Frank Dempsey — a government attorney from Bagdad, Kentucky (whose 1-day cash winnings total $29,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Frank $2,200 $7,600 $12,400 $300
2nd place: $2,000
$12,400
17 R, 2 W
Dave $2,900 $5,300 $21,800 $18,800
New champion: $18,800
$24,000
32 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Teresa $1,200 $1,200 $100 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$5,600
6 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

EARTH SCIENCE TV GUIDE SAYS JUMP MORE THINGS THAT HAPPENED FOOD IN SPANISH STUPID ANSWERS
DD $100 [10]
Seismographers use the difference in speed between P waves & S waves to locate this point
the epicenter
Dave
$200 [2]
"With Bartlet back in the Oval Office attention is turned to the choice for a new vice president"
The West Wing
Frank
$200 [21]
Jump this & it means you disappeared before your trial & you will lose the bond you posted
bail
Dave
$200 [1]
The Festival of Federation, celebrated July 14, 1790 honoring an event the year before, is now this holiday
Bastille Day
Dave
$200 [26]
A fruit or a color:naranja
orange
Dave
$200 [12]
Arthur Wynne created this; the first puzzle appeared Dec. 21, 1913 with the name "Word-Cross"
the crossword puzzle
Teresa
$200 [7]
In a mining lode, the gangue is the junk & this is the mineral with the good stuff in it
ore
Frank
$400 [3]
"Celebrity delights Niles, who's basking in the limelight over Maris's murder case"
Frasier
Dave
$400 [22]
On u-payless.com a liter of these from south-of-the-border will set you back $84
Mexican jumping beans
Dave
$400 [17]
The League of Schmalkalden was formed in 1531 to defend this German's reformist church
(Martin) Luther
Frank
$400 [27]
Got it?:leche
milk
Dave
$400 [13]
The word origami, the Japanese art of folding paper, comes from words meaning this
paper folding
Frank
$400 [8]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Venice.) Venice is sinking because Italy is actually part of this continent's plate & it's sliding under Europe's plate
Africa
Frank Dave
$600 [4]
"Furio begins work as Tony's newest enforcer"
The Sopranos
Dave
$600 [23]
The Travel Channel Online has a fantasy flight of their 1903 flyer jumping 8 SUVs
the Wright Brothers
Dave
$600 [18]
When Dante died in 1321, he was in his 20th year of exile from this Italian city
Florence
Frank
$600 [28]
It's good in a quesadilla:queso
cheese
Frank
$600 [14]
Althing, the name of Iceland's parliament, means this
parliament
Dave
$600 [9]
It's not just oil--Saudi Arabia has reserves of over 200 trillion cubic feet of this
natural gas
Dave
$800 [5]
"Grissom and Catherine investigate the murder of a despised comic who died onstage"
CSI
$800 [24]
In the Bohr model of the atom, energy is released when one of these jumps to a specified orbit about the nucleus
an electron
Dave
$800 [19]
In 1620 the Speedwell was found unseaworthy so its passengers were crowded aboard this ship
the Mayflower
Dave
$800 [29]
A lunch meat:jamon
ham
Frank
$800 [15]
Paris Hilton & Tiger Woods were 2 of the people on the cover of this magazine's Dec. 15, 2003 issue
People
Frank
$1,000 [11]
Some ocean sediment is radiolarian ooze, made of these parts of tiny protozoans
skeletons (or shells)
Teresa
$1,000 [6]
"The future Daily Planet editor-in-chief Perry White... suspects Clark has super abilities"
Smallville
Frank Dave
$1,000 [25]
You have to be nuts to try a quadruple one of these jumps, named for figure skater Alois
Lutz
Frank Dave
$1,000 [20]
To guard his tomb emperor Qin Shi Huang Di made an army out of this material
terracotta
Frank
$1,000 [30]
A basic pair:pan y mantequilla
bread & butter
Frank
$1,000 [16]
The first line of this novel by Virginia Woolf is "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself"
Mrs. Dalloway
Dave

Double Jeopardy! Round

MILITARY MEN ELTON JOHN SONGS POETIC JUSTICE FURNITURE "W"RITERS ACRONYMBLE
DD $100 [4]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Martha's Vineyard, MA.) The When and If was built for this general to sail, when & if he came back from Europe, but he died in a 1945 accident
George Patton
Dave
$400 [6]
"Goodbye Norma Jean though I never knew you at all"
"Candle In The Wind"
Dave
$400 [21]
When judge asks jury if it's made a choice, this person stands up to give it a voice
the foreman
Teresa
$400 [26]
This cushioned footstool gets its name from the fact that it was originally imported from the Turks
ottoman
Teresa
$400 [11]
In 1892 rehearsals of his play "Salome" were halted by the censor
Oscar Wilde
Dave
$400 [16]
An economic indicator:GNP
gross national product
Dave
$400 [1]
On Dec. 17, 1941 Admiral Husband Kimmel was relieved of his command at this base (he should've seen that coming)
Pearl Harbor
Dave
$800 [7]
It's the classic heard here
"Bennie And The Jets"
Dave
$800 [22]
In jail in New Jersey, we hope you find peace; this board denies half of the cons their release
the parole board
Dave
$800 [30]
T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings bid farewell to antique furniture in his 1944 bestseller "Goodbye, Mr." this
Chippendale
Frank
$800 [12]
This poet led a Bohemian life in the 1850s, but spent much of the Civil War caring for wounded soldiers
Walt Whitman
Frank
$800 [17]
To a foreign student:ESL
English as a second language
Frank
$800 [2]
This 4-letter word continues Confederate General Nathan Forrest's maxim, "Get here first with the..."
most
Dave
$1,200 [8]
"I remember when rock was young, me and Suzie had so much fun"
"Crocodile Rock"
Frank
$1,200 [23]
When you've been declared to be guilty as sin, this trial phase decides just how long you'll be in
the penalty phase
Dave
$1,200 [29]
Sam Maloof is best known for this piece of furniture which rests the back with its ergonomic spindles
rocking chair
$1,200 [13]
He was given the name Elwyn Brooks, but was known professionally by his initials & to his friends as Andy
E.B. White
Frank
$1,200 [18]
To a computer user:DOS
disk operating system
Dave
$1,200 [3]
Madame Chiang Kai-shek hired Claire Chennault to direct China's air force against Japan & he formed this famous group
the Flying Tigers
Dave
$1,600 [9]
"It's getting late, have you seen my mates, Ma tell me when the boys get here"
"Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)"
Dave
$1,600 [24]
It's not a baked treat made with sugar or honey, it's a civil wrong that is remedied with money
tort
Dave
$1,600 [28]
A dressing table for men created in the late 1700s was named for this British dandy
Beau Brummell
Frank
$1,600 [14]
This Holocaust survivor's semi-autobiographical first book was published in Yiddish in 1956
Elie Wiesel
Dave
$1,600 [19]
A United Nations agency:WHO
World Health Organization
Teresa
$2,000 [5]
Born near Warsaw in 1747, this count was mortally wounded during the 1779 siege of Savannah
Casimir Pulaski
Dave
$2,000 [10]
"I can't light no more of your darkness, all my pictures seem to fade to black & white"
"Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me"
Dave
$2,000 [25]
The cops might bury you in a deep pit, but they have to produce you if they're shown this "great writ"
habeas corpus
Teresa
DD $5,500 [27]
This Scottish-born American cabinetmaker originally spelled his last name like the musical instrument
Duncan Phyfe
Teresa
$2,000 [15]
Seen here, this native son of Mississippi died in Paris in 1960
Richard Wright
Dave
$2,000 [20]
It's based in Virginia:DOD
Department of Defense
Dave

Final Jeopardy!

'80s FILMS

The first film rated PG-13, its colorful title was used as the code name for a 2003 capture mission in Iraq

Red Dawn

Teresa "What is Hunt for Red October" — wagered $100
Frank "What is The Color Purple?" — wagered $12,100
Dave "What is" — wagered $3,000

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