Show #4820 2005-07-15 (taped 2004-12-15) Regular

David Madden game 9.

Contestants

Karen Arciero — a sales manager from Mounds View, Minnesota

Mark Murray — a screenwriter from Studio City, California

David Madden — a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey (whose 8-day cash winnings total $198,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
David $5,400 $6,800 $18,800 $18,600
9-day champion: $217,100
$16,200
21 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Mark $-200 $2,200 $8,700 $10,000
2nd place: $2,000
$8,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Karen $0 $2,000 $5,200 $1,699
3rd place: $1,000
$5,200
9 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

EXPLORERS AM I BLUE? IN THE BIBLE VEGGIES' SCIENTIFIC NAMES CASH CREDIT
$200 [5]
He stopped at Gomera in the Canaries for nearly a month, then headed for the New World on Sept. 6, 1492
Columbus
David
$200 [14]
Elijah Blue Allman is her son
Cher
David
$200 [11]
& in this corner, standing "six cubits and a span", from Gath & I Samuel 17, "The Philistine Fist" ...him!
Goliath
David
$200 [23]
Allium cepa, & stop that crying right now!
onion
Mark
$200 [13]
This Johnny Cash song begins, "Love is a burning thing"
"Ring Of Fire"
David
$200 [21]
Its classic ads instructed, "Don't leave home without it"
American Express
Karen
$400 [4]
His 1872 book was titled "How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa"
Stanley
David
$400 [20]
The U.S. Army's blue uniforms were first replaced with khaki & then this color, abbreviated O.D.
olive drab
Mark
$400 [17]
Before killing 1,000 Philistines with the jawbone of an ass, he set 300 foxes' tails afire; does PETA know about this?
Samson
Mark
$400 [24]
Solanum tuberosum, we dig 'em!
potato
Mark
DD $200 [12]
In a 1956 song Johnny had the "Blues" for this title place; he recorded a live album there in 1968
Folsom Prison
David
$400 [22]
"There are some things money can't buy. For everything else there's" this
MasterCard
David
$600 [3]
On May 11, 1848 Johannes Rebmann became the first European to see this snow-clad mountain on the Equator
Kilimanjaro
David
$600 [7]
It's the Illinois university whose sports teams are nicknamed the Blue Demons
DePaul
$600 [9]
This shepherd buys the farm in Genesis 4:8
Abel
David
$600 [25]
Lactuca sativa, it's also a slang term for paper money
lettuce
$400 [15]
She helped Johnny kick his drug habit & converted him to fundamentalist Christianity; they married in 1968
June Carter Cash
Mark
$600 [28]
"It pays to" use this credit card that has a Cashback Bonus award
Discover
Mark
$800 [1]
In 1919 this British officer lost the manuscript for his "Seven Pillars of Wisdom", so he rewrote it from memory
Lawrence
David
$800 [6]
Virginia's Blue Law of the 1620s said that if you missed church on Sunday the penalty was a pound of this
tobacco
Mark
$800 [18]
"Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?" he asks in chapter 7 of his book
Job
Mark
$800 [26]
Brassica oleracea italica, it was once "banished" from the White House kitchen
broccoli
Mark
$600 [10]
No flamboyant, rhinestone-studded outfits for Johnny Cash, whose usual stage wear earned him this nickname
"The Man in Black"
Mark
$800 [29]
This credit card says that "it's everywhere you want to be"
Visa
Karen
$1,000 [2]
On April 17, 1524 he became the first European to sight New York Harbor; 440 years later a bridge named for him opened there
Verrazano
David
$1,000 [8]
In part because of the popularity of sushi & sashimi, this variety of tuna can sell for $50 a pound
bluefin
David
$1,000 [19]
In I Kings 2, this man sat "upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly"
Solomon
David
$1,000 [27]
Raphanus sativa, its giant white variety is known as a daikon in Japan
radish
Mark
$1,000 [16]
Johnny wowed the MTV crowd with his stark cover of "Hurt", originally by this Trent Reznor band
Nine Inch Nails
Mark
$1,000 [30]
A forgotten wallet led to the creation of this charge card, whose logo is seen here
Diner's Club
Karen

Double Jeopardy! Round

SEINFELDBEFORE & AFTER COMPLETES THE PLAY TITLE GEOGRAPHIC DOGS QUOTES! DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER DOUBLE U
$400 [13]
This George Costanza portrayer ascended the throne of Macedonia
Jason Alexander the Great
Mark
$400 [1]
Leonard Gershe's "Butterflies Are..."
Free
Karen
$400 [27]
The Pomeranian is a small dog named for a European region now mostly in this country
Poland
David
$400 [12]
On June 12, 1987 Ronald Reagan told Mr. Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!"
the Berlin Wall
Mark
$1,200 [3]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Eisenhower Center in Abilene, KS.) In 1945 Eisenhower became the only American ever to be awarded this nation's Order of Victory
the Soviet Union
David
$800 [8]
The name of this ample dress is from a word that means "cut off"
a muumuu
Karen
$800 [14]
Set on controlling the vichyssoise supply, Greg Kinnear & John Henson are vying for the role of this fascist
Talk Soup Nazi
Mark Karen
$800 [2]
John Osborne's "Look Back in..."
Anger
David
$800 [26]
This small Mediterranean island lends its name to a cat breed as well as a dog breed
Malta
Karen
$800 [23]
"The time is out of joint, o cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!" says this Shakespearean title character
Hamlet
Mark
$1,600 [4]
In 1958 Ike ordered the Navy to resupply Quemoy & Matsu, islands that were under bombardment in this strait
the Strait of Formosa (or Taiwan Strait)
David Karen
$1,200 [7]
"Star Trek" shows always seemed to be worried about messing up the space-time one
continuum
Mark
$1,200 [15]
This former Wham! frontman continually barges into the apartment of the actor who plays Cosmo Kramer
George Michael Richards
Mark
$1,200 [9]
Neil Simon's "45 Seconds from..."
Broadway
Karen
$1,200 [18]
The pit bull terrier also bears the name of this British county
Staffordshire
Karen
$1,200 [20]
Accepting Walter Mondale's 1984 invitation, she said, "Vice President--it has such a nice ring to it!"
(Geraldine) Ferraro
Mark
$2,000 [5]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Eisenhower Center in Abilene, KS.) Ike's worst loss was his 3-year-old son, buried here. He was named this, his mother's maiden name, but called "Icky"
Doud
$1,600 [6]
A coalition of 2 persons holding the same office, as in ancient Rome
a duumvirate
$1,600 [16]
Avuncular Seinfeld relative who managed to get 2,014 MLB wins without giving up too much of his trademark lip
Uncle Leo (the Lip) Durocher
David
$1,600 [10]
Bernard Slade's "Same Time..."
Next Year
Karen
$1,600 [19]
Jim Kjelgaard's heartwarming novel "Big Red" is about a boy's love for one of these dogs
an Irish setter
David
$1,600 [21]
In a chapter called "The Pool of Tears", this title character exclaims, "Curiouser and curiouser!"
Alice
DD $4,000 [28]
The "Eisenhower Tree" at this "National" site in Georgia is named for the way it frustrated the president
Augusta National (Golf Club)
David
$2,000 [24]
The third word in the name of this female Burmese democracy activist takes a double U
Aung San Suu Kyi
David
$2,000 [17]
The Elaine actress was accused of treason against the French in this scandal
the Julia Louis-Dreyfus Affair
David Mark
$2,000 [11]
Robert Anderson's "You Know I Can't Hear You..."
When the Water's Running
Karen
$2,000 [25]
This favorite of the British royalty is seen here
the Welsh Corgi
DD $2,500 [22]
He penned the immortal 1902 line "The horror! The horror!"
Joseph Conrad
Mark

Final Jeopardy!

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

This 1952 classic contains the line "No one was with her when she died"

Charlotte's Web

Karen "What is The Secret Garden?" — wagered $3,501
Mark "What is Charlotte's Web?" — wagered $1,300
David "What is The Diary of Anne Frank?" — wagered $200

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