Show #4817 2005-07-12 (taped 2004-12-15) Regular

David Madden game 6.

Contestants

Charles Martin — a lawyer from Washington, D.C.

Kem Herding — a homemaker and freelance editor from Highlands, North Carolina

David Madden — a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey (whose 5-day cash winnings total $126,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
David $5,800 $8,000 $28,000 $29,000
6-day champion: $155,500
$24,800
30 R (including 3 DDs), 0 W
Kem $400 $5,800 $13,000 $4,000
2nd place: $2,000
$13,000
18 R, 3 W
Charles $1,200 $3,200 $1,600 $3,100
3rd place: $1,000
$1,600
7 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

NATIONAL ANTHEMS HOP, SKIP OR JUMP ON THE OLD QUARTER I PROMISED YOU THE ROSE GARDEN THE TERRIBLE TWOS POTPOURRI
$200 [12]
"In Erin's cause, come woe or weal, 'mid cannons' roar and rifles peal, we'll chant a soldier's song"
Ireland
David
$200 [25]
The "ball" that starts a basketball game
jump
David
$200 [17]
At 8 letters, it's the longest word (hint: it's Latin)
pluribus
Charles
$200 [29]
This president's daughter Tricia was married in the White House Rose Garden
Richard Nixon
Kem
$200 [30]
Toddlers are big users of this 2-letter word; parents should save it for when Cindy reaches for the stove
NO!
Kem
$200 [2]
The pitcher looks in for this, he doesn't like what he sees... he's shaking it off...
the sign
Charles
$400 [7]
"When the Alps glow bright with splendour, pray to God, to him surrender"
Switzerland
David
$400 [28]
To not attend an event on purpose
skip
David
$400 [15]
The direction in which the figures are facing
left
Charles
$400 [26]
If the prospective "pardonee" one of these can't fulfill his duties at an annual Rose Garden event, an alternate is ready
a turkey
Charles
$400 [27]
2 is a common age to begin this process, though your child & the diaper companies may want you to wait
toilet training
David
$400 [3]
Thismartial art is said to have been inspired by the slow, sinuous movements of a snake
tai chi
David
$600 [4]
"Towards the East, an eye looks to Zion"
Israel
Kem
$600 [16]
To start your friend's dead car
jump
David
$600 [14]
The single word at the top of the "heads" side
Liberty
David
$600 [10]
Rose Garden trees include this tree--Mississippi's state tree, flower & by golly, its in the state nickname too
magnolia
David
$600 [22]
Parents should thank Dick Belanger, inventor of the no-spill valve for the cup generically called this
a sippy cup
Kem
$600 [5]
Thistype of dance shares its name with something you might serve with chips
salsa
David
$800 [1]
"Beneath our radiant Southern Cross, we'll toil with hearts & hands"
Australia
Kem
$800 [18]
Flowers from this vine are used to make beer
hops
Kem
DD $800 [11]
The sole verb
trust
David
$800 [8]
Many Supreme Court justices have been introduced in the Rose Garden, including her, Clinton's 1st pick
(Ruth) Ginsburg
David
$800 [23]
Darn it, Ben! Sit still in your Peg-Perego Atlantico Classico all-terrain one of these
a stroller
Kem
$800 [20]
They're the band that gave us the dance floor favorite heard here
The Village People
Kem
$1,000 [6]
"City of the apostles, mother & guide of the elect, light of the nations and hope of the world"
Vatican City
David Kem
$1,000 [19]
The captain of a curling team
the skip
Kem
$1,000 [13]
The leaves of this plant are depicted on the reverse of the quarter
(the) olive (tree)
David
$1,000 [9]
JFK's first guest in the Rose Garden was this foreign minister of the USSR who held his job from 1957 to 1985
(Andrei) Gromyko
Charles
$1,000 [24]
Daddy doesn't want to play at 6:30 A.M.--let's turn on the Disney Channel & watch Bear & Ojo on this series
Bear in the Big Blue House
Kem
$1,000 [21]
It's the pro football infraction indicated here
offsides
Charles

Double Jeopardy! Round

BOOKS & AUTHORS '80s MOVIE QUOTES WILDLIFE IT'S GREEK CUISINE TO ME I'M FEELING CONFLICTED CHOOSE A "CIDE"
$400 [29]
In 2004 she bounced back onto the bestseller list with "R is for Ricochet"
(Sue) Grafton
David
$400 [20]
1980:"I am serious, and don't call me Shirley"
Airplane!
David
$400 [26]
At birth, this mammal can be 6 feet tall, about one-third of its adult height
a giraffe
Kem
$400 [9]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a balcony in Greece.) No Greek salad is complete without this cheese whose name means "slice"
feta
Charles
$400 [25]
1147-1149:In the Holy Land, for the second time
the Crusades
David
$400 [28]
Final act of playwrights Seneca & von Kleist
suicide
David
DD $400 [13]
Willie Stark, a character in this Robert Penn Warren novel was modeled on Huey Long
All the King's Men
David
$800 [19]
1988:"Ten minutes to Wapner"
Rain Man
Kem
$800 [6]
Many of this type of reptile are slow, but the smooth softshell species can often outrun a human on level ground
a turtle
Kem
$800 [10]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a balcony in Greece.) I like this lamb dish, similar to shashlik, whose name comes from Greek for a "skewer"
souvlakia
David Kem
$800 [24]
1066:Southern England
the Norman Invasion, Battle of Hastings
David
$800 [27]
Specifically, the killing of one's mother
matricide
David
$800 [30]
"Ring in" if you know that this was Sylvia Plath's only novel
The Bell Jar
David
$1,200 [3]
1986:"This is my 9th sick day this semester. It's getting pretty tough coming up with new illnesses"
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
David
$1,200 [4]
This type of eel known for its camouflage has powerful jaws, sharp teeth &, generally, no pectoral fins
a moray
David
$1,200 [16]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a patio in Greece.) This anise-flavored Greek liqueur is clear, but when you mix water & ice, itturnsopaque & milky white
ouzo
Kem
$1,600 [21]
1455-1485:Between 2 different British royal houses
The Wars of the Roses
David
$1,200 [1]
For example, when Ravaillac killed France's Henry IV
regicide
David
$1,200 [12]
In "Bourne Legacy", Eric van Lustbader brings this late author's Jason Bourne out of retirement again
Robert Ludlum
$1,600 [7]
1988:"There's never been a ballplayer slept with me who didn't have the best year of his career"
Bull Durham
Kem
$1,600 [2]
The Kloss's & pileated species of this smallest ape have become endangered
the gibbon
Kem
$1,600 [17]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a kitchen in Greece.) To make baklava, you'll need some of these tissue-thin layers of pastry dough, whose name is from the Greek for "leaf"
phyllo
Kem
$2,000 [23]
1702-1713:Her war in North America
Queen Anne
$1,600 [14]
The killing of a god or goddess
deicide
David
$1,600 [11]
Books like "Lust for Life" earned him the nickname "King of the Biographical Novel"
Irving Stone
$2,000 [8]
1981:"Don't look at it. Shut your eyes, Marion, and don't look at it no matter what happens"
Raiders of the Lost Ark
$2,000 [5]
It's the males of this flightless, largest South American bird that incubate the eggs & raise the young
a rhea
David Kem Charles
$2,000 [18]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a beachside table in Greece.) I'm digging into this Greek dish, made with spinach, cheese & onions; it's almost as much fun to say as to eat
spanakopita
DD $6,000 [22]
431-404 B.C.:In ancient Greece
the Peloponnesian War
David
$2,000 [15]
The killing of cats
felicide
Kem

Final Jeopardy!

THE 50 STATES

Rejected earlier in its bid for statehood, it finally entered the Union in 1876

Colorado

Charles "What is Colorado?" — wagered $1,500
Kem "What is ?" — wagered $9,000
David "What is Colorado?" — wagered $1,000

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