Show #4815 2005-07-08 (taped 2004-12-14) Regular

David Madden game 4.

Contestants

Matt Barakat — a reporter from Falls Church, Virginia

Kate Morrical — a structural engineer from Silver Spring, Maryland

David Madden — a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey (whose 3-day cash winnings total $69,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
David $5,000 $9,600 $21,700 $25,000
4-day champion: $94,400
$22,000
26 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Kate $1,400 $2,000 $1,200 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$1,200
7 R, 2 W
Matt $200 $2,200 $5,400 $2,800
2nd place: $2,000
$5,400
15 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

DEATH OF A PRESIDENT BONDS THE FIRST WORD HENRY THE EIGHTH I NEED A NEW "QUEEN"
$200 [4]
He died on Independence Day in 1826 at his beloved Monticello
Thomas Jefferson
David
$200 [24]
Despite their name, these partly tax-exempt bonds aren't just issued by cities & towns but by hospitals & colleges too
municipal bonds
Matt
$200 [7]
In our Constitution's preamble
We
David
$200 [17]
In 1957 he produced & starred in the landmark drama "12 Angry Men"
Henry Fonda
David
$200 [30]
In music, it's also called a quaver
an eighth note
Matt
$200 [23]
Head to this franchise for a Brownie Earthquake
Dairy Queen
Kate
$400 [11]
He died on Independence Day in 1826 in Quincy, Massachusetts
John Adams
Kate
$400 [25]
In 1998 Californians OK'd a $9.2-billion bond measure to help these; seemed like a lot to borrow back then
schools
Matt
$400 [12]
In Melville's "Moby Dick"
Call
Matt
$400 [18]
Flowery poems by Henry Gibson were often featured on this wacky 1960s sketch-comedy show
Laugh-In
Matt
$400 [29]
In 1948 Citation became the eighth to win this, & the last for 25 years
the Triple Crown
Kate
$400 [22]
This fictional detective solved his first mystery in 1929
Ellery Queen
David
$600 [3]
Pneumonia claimed this president's life on April 4, 1841
William Henry Harrison
Matt
$600 [26]
This term refers to bonds issued in U.S. dollars from foreign issuers, not to bonds issued by George Steinbrenner
Yankee bonds
Matt
$600 [13]
In Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"
Marley
Matt
$600 [19]
King Henry VIII had Anne Boleyn's head chopped off so he could take up with this lady-in-waiting, his next wife
Jane Seymour
David Matt
$600 [10]
This eighth book of the Old Testament is named for a Moabite woman
Ruth
Matt
$600 [21]
"O Canada" is Canada's national anthem; this song is its royal anthem
"God Save The Queen"
David
$800 [1]
His March 8, 1930 death occured a month after he resigned as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court due to heart trouble
(William) Taft
David
$800 [27]
The Treasury's post-9/11 "Patriot Bond" is considered this type, last seen in the U.S. in the 1940s
war bonds
Matt
$800 [14]
In Bulwer-Lytton's novel "Paul Clifford"
It
David
DD $800 [16]
Nominated for 18 Oscars, one of his first jobs was composing music for an Abbott & Costello movie
Mancini
David
$800 [8]
Louis IX of France died during the eighth of these campaigns
crusades
David
$800 [5]
At the time of its construction, this span over the East River was the longest cantilever bridge in the U.S.
the Queensboro Bridge
David Matt
$1,000 [2]
He died in his sleep on February 3, 1924, 6 months after Warren Harding
(Woodrow) Wilson
David
$1,000 [28]
In 1909 he started publishing letter ratings of the bonds of America's railroads
(John) Moody
David
$1,000 [15]
In Shakespeare's 18th sonnet
Shall
David
$1,000 [20]
Henry Pu Yi's last years as the ruler of China were the basis of this 1987 film
The Last Emperor
David
$1,000 [9]
The Constitution's Eighth Amendment prohibits excessive bail & fines & these 2 kinds of punishment
cruel & unusual
David
$1,000 [6]
It was Anne Rice's second followup to "Interview with the Vampire"
Queen of the Damned
Kate

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY VENICE MOVIE TITLE PAIRS CAPITAL IDEAS MAKING THE CUT SCIENCE GUYS "V" IS FOR...
$400 [28]
This libidinous lord's Venetian exploits included an 1818 swim from the Lido "right to the end of the Grand Canal"
Lord Byron
David
$400 [17]
1989:Tom Hanks &a slobbering junkyard dog
Turner and Hooch
Matt
$400 [15]
Lucio Costa designed this South American city for 500,000 people; today the population is over 2 million
Brasilia
David
DD $100 [27]
This cut's name derives from a N.Y. liquor establishment & contains the tenderloin & the top loin muscle
porterhouse
David
$400 [1]
This Pole died in 1543, days after receiving the first copy of his book "On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies"
Copernicus
David Kate
$400 [4]
...this, a boat, bowl or blood-carrier
vessel
Kate
$800 [16]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a Venetian canal.) Much of this Shakespeare play is set here in the title city, including the trial where Shylock demands a pound of flesh
The Merchant of Venice
Matt
$800 [18]
1973:James Coburn &Kris Kristofferson
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
$800 [10]
The U.K. helped fund the design of this capital after Belize City was destroyed by a hurricane
Belmopan
David
$400 [30]
This steak is named for the letter-shaped hard substance separating the tenderloin from the top loin
T-bone
Kate
$800 [23]
Although known as the founder of microbiology, this French chemist's first discoveries were in crystallography
Pasteur
David
$800 [5]
...this style of house, a specialty of artist Debbie Patrick
Victorian
Kate
$1,200 [13]
This "Andrea del Sarto" poet spent his final days at Ca' Rezzonico, the palatial home of his son Pen, & died there in 1889
Robert Browning
David
$1,200 [19]
1989:Sylvester Stallone &Kurt Russell
Tango and Cash
$1,200 [9]
Punjab's capital Chandigarh was designed by this largely self-taught Swiss architect
Le Corbusier
Matt
$800 [29]
This rib roast is typically only rated as a "choice" cut, but its name signifies the highest-quality meat
prime rib
David
$1,200 [24]
While serving as secretary of the Geological Society of London, 1839-41, he wrote the "Journal of Researches"
Darwin
David
$1,200 [6]
...this material, what old phonograph records are made of
vinyl
Matt
$1,600 [11]
"Yes, this was Venice... half fairy-tale, half snare", wrote this author in "Death in Venice"
Thomas Mann
David
$1,600 [20]
1952:Katharine Hepburn &Spencer Tracy
Pat and Mike
$1,600 [3]
This architect served at Valley Forge before his appointment by Washington to design the new capital
L'Enfant
Matt
$1,600 [22]
This geometric-sounding section of the hind leg extends from the rump to the ankle
the round
Matt
DD $1,400 [14]
In 1938 Mussolini let him travel to Sweden to receive his Nobel Prize for Physics; he then defected to the U.S.
(Enrico) Fermi
David
$1,600 [7]
...this uplifting Italian import heard here
"Volare"
Matt
$2,000 [12]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Caffe Florian in Venice, Italy.) I'm at Caffe Florian, a favorite spot of this U.S.-born author, who wrote about it in "The Wings of the Dove" & "The Aspern Papers"
Henry James
$2,000 [21]
1974:Clint Eastwood &Jeff Bridges
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
$2,000 [2]
This planned "City of Peace" includes the National Mosque as well as the Atomic Research Institute
Islamabad
David
$2,000 [26]
French for "between the ribs", this tender cut comes from the meat between the 9th & 11th ribs
entrecôte
Kate Matt
$2,000 [25]
In the 1820s this British scientist discovered the laws of electrical induction forming the basis for the magneto & dynamo
Michael Faraday
$2,000 [8]
...this official who rules over a province or colony in the name of a king
viceroy
David

Final Jeopardy!

OLYMPIC ATHLETES

In 1960 European journalists gave her the nickname "La Gazzella"

Wilma Rudolph

Kate "Who is ?" — wagered $1,200
Matt "Who is ?" — wagered $2,600
David "Who is Wilma Rudolph?" — wagered $3,300

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