Show #4466 2004-01-26 (taped 2003-11-20) Regular

Contestants

Todd Wilson — a marketing executive from Atlanta, Georgia

Neil Silverman — a doctor from Los Angeles, California

Margaret Meehan — a medical records supervisor from Brick, New Jersey (whose 2-day cash winnings total $52,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Margaret $1,200 $3,600 $4,800 $2,799
2nd place: $2,000
$4,000
7 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Neil $1,000 $2,400 $9,600 $50
3rd place: $1,000
$9,600
14 R, 3 W
Todd $4,000 $7,600 $13,000 $6,799
New champion: $6,799
$13,200
26 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

BESTSELLERS OLYMPIC GAMES WAITING LIST FROMMER'S TRAVEL USA FAMILIAR PHRASES MAY I BE FRANK WITH YOU? IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD
$200 [4]
Her memoir "Living History" sold about 200,000 copies on its first day of release in 2003
Hillary Clinton
Neil
$200 [26]
"Strike" while the iron is hot, IOC--this sport might be right up your "alley" as an Olympic sport
bowling
Todd
$200 [2]
When hiking the Grand Canyon, don't try to make it top to bottom & back in 1 day, & these animals have the right of way
mules
Todd
$200 [9]
"Don't" do this "to spite your face"
cut off your nose
Neil
$200 [16]
U.S. president known as "Handsome Frank"
Franklin Pierce
Todd
$200 [1]
It's the thin sheet of cartilage & bone separating the nostrils; a deviated one can cause problems breathing
septum
Todd
$400 [5]
This almost 900-page book sold about 5 million copies on its first day of sale, June 21, 2003
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Margaret
$400 [27]
The WBF isn't full of dummies, it wants this card game in the Olympics
bridge
Todd
$400 [3]
Each January this city hosts the North American International Auto Show
Detroit
Margaret Neil
$400 [10]
Make a big deal over something little & you "make a mountain out of" this
a molehill
Todd
$400 [17]
He was the model for Howard Roark, the architect in Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead"
Frank Lloyd Wright
Todd
$400 [14]
Bicuspids are also known as pre-these & are permanent grinding teeth
molars
Margaret
$600 [6]
Jack Ryan is a novice CIA analyst in this "colorful" 2002 bestseller by Tom Clancy
Red Rabbit
Todd
$600 [28]
If this competition doesn't waltz into the games, it can foxtrot or cha cha
ballroom dancing
Margaret
$600 [11]
At this ranch about 40 minutes out of Dallas you can eat at Miss Ellie's Deli
Southfork
Todd
$600 [23]
As it often turns out, "Truth is stranger than" this
fiction
Todd
$600 [18]
A West Point graduate, Apollo 8 took him around the moon
Frank Borman
Neil Todd
$600 [15]
It's the scientific name for the lower jaw
mandible
Todd
$800 [7]
"Gettysburg", cowritten by this former House speaker, imagines a Confederate victory at Gettysburg
Newt Gingrich
Todd
$800 [29]
The absence of this centuries-old martial art from the Olympics has left medal hopefuls "empty-hand"ed
karate
$800 [12]
Called "The Valley Isle", its best beaches include Kaanapali & Wailea
Maui
Todd
$800 [24]
In a bad mood today? I could tell by that "chip on your" this
shoulder
Todd
$800 [19]
He was the first man to be a member of both the Pro Football Hall of Fame & the Broadcasters Hall of Fame
Frank Gifford
Todd
$800 [21]
The name of this largest part of the brain is Latin for "brain"
the cerebrum
Todd
$1,000 [8]
Artistic clues help reveal the secret location of the Holy Grail in this thriller by Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code
Neil
DD $1,800 [30]
The first associations for this non-Olympic sport were set up in Scotland in the mid-18th century
golf
Margaret
$1,000 [13]
A plethora of hiking & riding trails are in this Virginia valley whose name means "daughter of the stars"
Shenandoah
Todd
$1,000 [25]
Give up during a fight & you may be forced to "say" or "cry" this relative
uncle
Todd
$1,000 [20]
He was Philly's police commissioner before being elected mayor in 1971
Frank Rizzo
Neil
$1,000 [22]
When your ears "pop", it's just air escaping from this tube that connects the middle ear & the throat
the eustachian tube
Neil Todd

Double Jeopardy! Round

OPERA TITLE CHARACTERS HODGEPOURRI PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAME SPELLING '60s MUSIC SCENE HI YA, IRIAN JAYA! ON "Q"
$400 [23]
If this heroine had married Prince Yamadori, there might not be that nasty suicide in Act III
Madame Butterfly
Todd
$400 [11]
This London wax museum advertises itself as the place that "has come alive" with interactive exhibits
Madame Tussauds
Todd
$400 [6]
Jimmy Carter
E-A-R-L
Todd
$400 [13]
Frank Sinatra ad-libbed "Scooby Dooby Doo" in this 1966 No. 1 hit
"Strangers In The Night"
Neil
$400 [21]
The Irian Jaya region has been the easternmost province of this nation since the 1960s
Indonesia
Todd
$400 [1]
Where you keep your arrows
quiver
Neil
$800 [27]
Some merry wives dress up like fairies in Verdi's 1893 opera named for this Shakespearean character
Falstaff
Todd
$800 [12]
Of locations in the titles of the Hope-Crosby "Road" movies, this African one is last alphabetically
Zanzibar
Margaret
$800 [7]
Lyndon Johnson
B-A-I-N-E-S
Todd
$800 [17]
Shortly after they premiered "Love Child" on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1968, the song shot to No. 1
The Supremes
Neil
$800 [22]
With its tropical jungles, Irian Jaya is home to nearly 3,000 species of this plant
orchids
Neil Todd
$800 [2]
A trivial objection
quibble
Neil
$1,200 [28]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Germany.) Paintings in the singers' hall at Neuschwanstein depict this knight who sought the Holy Grail & inspired an opera
Parsifal
$1,200 [14]
This weekday was named to honor the chief god in Norse mythology
Wednesday (for Woden)
Margaret
$1,200 [8]
Franklin Roosevelt
D-E-L-A-N-O
Neil Todd
$1,200 [18]
This Broadway tune was Louis Armstrong's only Top 40 hit in the 1960s
"Hello, Dolly!"
Neil
$1,200 [24]
The capital, Jayapura, surrendered to the military forces of this country in 1942
Japan
Neil Todd
$1,200 [3]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a geometric diagrams on the chalkboard.) Also the name of a device for measuring the angle of a star, it's the arc highlighted in blue
quadrant
Neil
DD $1,400 [29]
The title characters of this opera are a poor boy, King Kaspar, King Melchior & King Balthazar
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Todd
$1,600 [15]
Tegucigalpa is this Central American country's capital city
Honduras
Todd
$1,600 [9]
Richard Nixon
M-I-L-H-O-U-S
Neil
$1,600 [19]
This drummer-led British quintet starred in the movie "Having a Wild Weekend"
The Dave Clark Five
Margaret
$2,000 [26]
Irian Jaya's Arfak Mountains Reserve is an important rainforest enclave for these large butterflies with an avian name
the birdwing
$1,600 [4]
A senior barrister in an English high court is one of these counsels
Queen's counsel
$2,000 [30]
Marenka, whose parents betroth her to a man she has never met, is the title character of this Smetana opera
The Bartered Bride
$2,000 [16]
Dentist Alfred Southwick developed this device used in 1890 on a convict named William Kemmler
the electric chair
$2,000 [10]
Rutherford Hayes
B-I-R-C-H-A-R-D
$2,000 [20]
As the 1960s began, Marty Robbins was riding the top of the pop & country charts with this hit
"El Paso"
DD $2,800 [25]
In 1828 this nation claimed Irian Jaya as part of its East Indies territories
the Netherlands
Todd
$2,000 [5]
One of the 7 hills upon which ancient Rome was built
Quirinal

Final Jeopardy!

THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Tolkien helped the editors define "hobbit"; Murray Gell-Mann, the term "quark", & this man, "dymaxion"

Buckminster Fuller

Margaret "Who is Huxley?" — wagered $2,001
Neil "Who is Nietzche" — wagered $9,550
Todd "Who is Clarke" — wagered $6,201

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