Show #4510 2004-03-26 (taped 2004-01-20) Regular

Contestants

Don Wynne — a lawyer from Stamford, Connecticut

Valerie Takacs — an accounting assistant from Hudson, Ohio

Mike Smith — a litigation technology specialist from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mike $2,400 $3,400 $5,000 $6,800
3rd place: $1,000
$7,000
14 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Valerie $2,000 $3,000 $12,400 $18,400
New champion: $18,400
$13,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Don $2,000 $4,200 $9,000 $18,000
2nd place: $2,000
$9,000
15 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY PEOPLE A QUESTION ABOUT TELEVISION TUNE IN TUNISIA SPOT THE POOCH FACTS IN THE WORLD ALMANAC "Z" END
$200 [1]
On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, Padraic Pearse & his men seized this city's general post office
Dublin
Mike
$200 [10]
This question is the first line of the theme song from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
Who can turn the world on with her smile?
Don
$200 [20]
Tunisia's official language is Arabic, with this European tongue used widely as a second national language
French
Mike
$200 [17]
The margay, the mastiff, the moa
mastiff
Valerie Don
$200 [15]
Most Americans get most of their cheese from these, makers of which bought $2.5 billion of cheese in 2002
pizzas
Don
$200 [6]
An instructional book is "Juggling for the Complete" one of these, a word from Yiddish meaning "clumsy person"
Klutz
Mike
$400 [2]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Munich, Germany.) His first speech to a mass meeting was in a 1919 German Workers Party rally at the Hofbrauhaus
Hitler
Mike
$400 [11]
After this hero left the scene, someone inevitably asked, "Who was that masked man?"
The Lone Ranger
Valerie
$400 [21]
Also found on the flags of Pakistan & Turkey, they're the 2 symbols found on the Tunisian flag
the crescent & the star
Mike
$400 [18]
The Savannah, the serval, the shar-pei
the shar-pei
Don
$400 [27]
The Marine Corps emblem is an American eagle, a globe & one of these marine items
an anchor
Mike
$400 [7]
This online travel service can ticket you on 455 airlines & put you in 500,000 lodging properties
Orbitz
Don
$600 [3]
This lover of Lillian Hellman is credited with creating the hard-boiled type of detective fiction
Dashiell Hammett
Don
$600 [12]
This 5-word question became a catchphrase for Gary Coleman on "Different Strokes"
What'chu talkin' 'bout, Willis?
Mike
$600 [22]
Tunisia's Cape Bon is only about 90 miles from the southwest coast of this Italian island
Sicily
Mike
$600 [19]
The burmilla, the balbinus, the bichon frise
the bichon frise
Mike
$600 [28]
In an almost 5-hour flight in 1962, John Glenn orbited the Earth a total of this many times
3
$600 [8]
Artificial or synthetic
ersatz
$800 [4]
Born in 1895, this movie choreographer would drill through floors to film his arrays of girls
Busby Berkeley
Valerie
$800 [13]
Watching "Twin Peaks", the lynch mob wondered, "Who killed" this teenager
Laura Palmer
Valerie
$1,000 [24]
This "Red-Bearded" pirate used Tunisia as a base when fighting off 16th C. Christian attempts to control the area
Barbarossa
Don
$800 [25]
The cymric, the cockapoo, the caballado
the cockapoo
Valerie
$800 [29]
Prior to Sacagawea, she was the last woman on the $1 coin in general circulation
Susan B. Anthony
Mike
$800 [9]
The characters from this comic strip seenhereare often found at Bryson Elementary
Frazz
$1,000 [5]
This Frenchman turned down the Nobel Literature Prize in 1964 because it might compromise his freedom
(Jean-Paul) Sartre
Don
$1,000 [14]
This popular game show featured the question "Will our mystery guest enter and sign in, please?"
What's My Line?
Mike
DD $2,000 [23]
The ancient ruins of this city destroyed in 146 B.C. are just outside the capital city of Tunis
Carthage
Mike
$1,000 [26]
The kelpie, the krait, the kabaddi
the kelpie
$1,000 [16]
It's a printed cotton fabric, often used for drapes
chintz
Don

Double Jeopardy! Round

ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING '70s MOVIE THEMES THE WRITER WRITES A LETTER FOOD & DRINK BRANDS NAMES IN NATURE BEGINS & ENDS WITH "N"
$400 [24]
Henry Bacon designed this Washington, D.C. landmark: a white marble Doric temple above a pool
the Lincoln Memorial
Valerie
$400 [11]
Start spreadin' the news--Liza Minnelli introduced this title track, the theme to a 1977 film
"New York, New York"
Don
$400 [16]
In a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, he wrote, "We are going in to Pamplona tomorrow. Been trout fishing"
Ernest Hemingway
Mike
$400 [1]
Its jingle says, "Thank Goodness for" this chef
Chef Boyardee
Valerie
$400 [21]
The canvasback, a large variety of this bird, is named for the male's grayish-white back & sides
duck
Valerie
$400 [6]
A resident of Naples
Neapolitan
Mike
$800 [27]
Augustus boasted that he found Rome a city of these & left it a city of marble
bricks
Don
$800 [12]
"Evergreen" is the love theme from this 1976 movie
A Star Is Born
Valerie Don
$800 [17]
This author of "Les Miserables" wrote to his future wife that "It seems to me that what I feel is not of Earth"
Victor Hugo
Mike Valerie
$800 [2]
This hot state inspired the name of John Ferolito & Don Vultaggio's beverage company that's known for its iced tea
Arizona
Valerie
$800 [22]
The devilfish, seen here, is also known by this 2-word non-devilish name
manta ray
Don
$800 [7]
A small measurement of liquid, or a slang term for your head
noggin
Don
$1,200 [28]
Tudor, ogee & horseshoe are different types of these; a state with many of them would be a keystone state
arches
$1,200 [13]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Philadelphia.) This song, "Rocky"'s theme, was playing as Rocky ran up the stairs of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
"Gonna Fly Now"
Don
$1,200 [18]
His 1879 letter to a confused reader explains, "Old Man Karamazov was killed by the servant Smerdyakov"
Dostoevsky
Don
$1,200 [3]
This brand, made from 100% Colombian coffee, bills itself as "The Essence of Coffee"
Yuban
Don
$1,200 [23]
Aku is another name for this fast-moving tuna which seems to "skip" over the water
skipjack
Don
$1,200 [8]
Nicotinic acid
niacin
Don
$1,600 [14]
Andy Williams had a 1972 hit with "Speak Softly Love", the theme from this epic film
The Godfather
Valerie
$1,600 [19]
4 years before writing "Little Dorrit", he wrote his wife that their daughter "Little Dora... is suddenly stricken ill"
Charles Dickens
Mike
DD $1,800 [4]
It's said that Leonardo da Vinci visited this Italian mineral water's spring to treat his ailments
San Pellegrino
Valerie
DD $2,000 [25]
It's said the Mormons named this desert plant, seen here, for its resemblance to a Biblical prophet with arms lifted
the Joshua tree
Valerie
$1,600 [9]
A wrestling hold applied to the head, neck & one or both arms
a nelson
Don
$2,000 [15]
The instrumental "Tubular Bells" was the theme to this 1973 scarefest
The Exorcist
Valerie
$2,000 [20]
He responded to an admirer that "Nothing was omitted in 'Marie Roget' but what I omitted myself"
(Edgar Allan) Poe
Valerie
$2,000 [5]
The name of this brand of hard candies was meant to suggest a friendly Western company
Jolly Rancher
$2,000 [26]
This common greenhouse pest is named for the white, flourlike substance that covers its body
mealybug
$2,000 [10]
From the Greek for "kidney", it's 1 of many filtering units in the kidney that remove waste matter from the blood
nephron

Final Jeopardy!

MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY

A circumorbital hematoma is more commonly known as this

a black eye

Mike "What is a black eye?" — wagered $1,800
Don "What is a black eye" — wagered $9,000
Valerie "What is a black eye?" — wagered $6,000

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