Show #4821 2005-07-18 (taped 2005-03-09) Regular

David Madden game 10.

Contestants

Laurie Parker — a writer and editor from Franklin, Tennessee

Brian Pearson — a naval officer from Virginia Beach, Virginia

David Madden — a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey (whose 9-day cash winnings total $217,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
David $3,400 $6,000 $24,000 $22,000
10-day champion: $239,100
$22,600
24 R (including 3 DDs), 3 W
Brian $1,200 $2,600 $6,200 $1,700
2nd place: $2,000
$6,200
15 R, 4 W
Laurie $800 $4,000 $6,800 $100
3rd place: $1,000
$6,800
13 R, 6 W

Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS CELEBRITY CEREAL AMERICAN WORLD CAPTIALS LONG A-GO DON'T BUG ME COOL "AID"
$200 [9]
This 1968 candidate reportedly urged South Vietnam's President Thieu to scuttle possible peace talks
(Richard) Nixon
David
$200 [30]
A peanut butter & chocolate flavored cereal was named for this character from a Steven Spielberg movie
E.T. (The Extra-Terrestrial )
Laurie
$200 [13]
As Starbucks' home base, there's always something brewing in this city, the "Coffee Capital of the World"
Seattle
Brian
$200 [18]
France's first rail line was built to transport this fuel that was essential to the Industrial Revolution
coal
David
$200 [29]
An insect called the water boatman uses these appendages as oars to navigate its watery habitat
legs
David Brian
$200 [4]
To interweave 3 or more strands
braid
Laurie
$400 [10]
William Henry Harrison really had lived in one of these, his symbol in the 1840 campaign, but he added 12 rooms
a log cabin
David
$400 [14]
Jim Carrey, Val Kilmer & Tommy Lee Jones appeared on 1995 Corn Pops boxes to promote this "eternal" sequel
Batman Forever
David Brian Laurie
$400 [7]
It's both the "Entertainment Capital of the World" & the "Wedding Capital of the World"
Las Vegas
David
$400 [21]
During the Civil War he had headquarters in Cairo, Illinois & people from the area gave him a horse named Egypt
(Ulysses S.) Grant
David
$400 [28]
Of fly, mate or eat, the activity butterflies can't do if their body temperature is below 86 degrees
fly
Laurie
$400 [5]
A constant runner-up is said to be "always" one of these women
a bridesmaid
David
$600 [11]
In early October 1992 he was spending $2 million a day, most of it his own money
(Ross) Perot
David Brian
$600 [15]
You only need to add an "s" to the name of this 1977 film android to get his popular cereal
C-3PO
$600 [6]
This New Mexico city is the self-proclaimed "UFO Capital of the World"
Roswell
Brian
$600 [22]
This nickname for the Model T Ford came from a woman's name used as slang for a reliable servant
Tin Lizzie
David
$600 [25]
During the day this nocturnal bloodsucker hides under mattress buttons or in cracks in floors; sleep tight!
a bed bug
Laurie
$600 [3]
Australian port city at the mouth of the Torrens River
Adelaide
Brian
DD $1,000 [8]
Some historians call the election in which this man beat John Breckinridge the most important in U.S. history
(Abraham) Lincoln
David
$800 [16]
Add "os" to the last name of Jaleel White's role on "Family Matters" & you'll have this cereal he hawked
Urkel(-Os)
Laurie
$800 [1]
Holy guacamole! Fallbrook, California is known as this "Capital of the World"
avocado
David
$800 [23]
As a Shakespeare play begins, this title character has "Argosies with portly sail" carrying his goods
the Merchant of Venice
Brian Laurie
$800 [26]
The larvae of the Ichneumon wasp develop inside the body of these arachnids
spiders
David
$800 [19]
Purchased ahead of time, like some legal services
prepaid
David
$1,000 [12]
In the Gore Vidal novel set in this election year, the hero pins his hopes on Tilden
1876
$1,000 [17]
In Britain this titular TV time lord from Gallifrey adorned boxes of Sugar Smacks in the 1970s
Doctor Who
Laurie
$1,000 [2]
A leading market for racehorses, this Kentucky city is the "Horse Capital of the World"
Lexington
Laurie
$1,000 [24]
This ancient galley was named for its 3 tiers of rowers--170 in all
a trireme
Brian
$1,000 [27]
This bug derives its name from the fact that adults mate continuously for up to 3 days
a love bug
Laurie
$1,000 [20]
To have attacked from ambush in order to seize, rob, or slay
waylaid
Brian

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT EGYPT "T"s ME NOW THAT'S ITALIAN HIRSCHFELD BEFORE & AFTER LADY'S NIGHT
$400 [10]
A Jan. 2005 scan of this pharaoh's mummy showed he wasn't killed by a blow to the head; it did reveal a leg fracture, however
Tutankhamen
Brian
$400 [14]
Sun Devil Stadium is found in this city
Tempe
David Laurie
$400 [15]
Though the 79 A.D. eruption gets more press, in 1631 this volcano claimed at least 3,000 lives
Vesuvius
David Laurie
$400 [16]
Al Hischfeld depicted this noir classic in the drawing seen here
The Maltese Falcon
David Brian
$400 [29]
Sickly Dickens character who's devoted to Susan Sarandon
Tiny Tim Robbins
Brian
$800 [2]
On Oct. 27, 1996 this American designer unveiled a new line she simply called D
Donna Karan
Brian
$800 [24]
Hieratic is this script in cursive form
hieroglyphics
David
$800 [23]
After suffering genocidal attacks by the Hutus in 1994, this ethnic group took over the Rwandan government
the Tutsis
Laurie
$800 [21]
Check out Michelangelo's "Holy Family" at the Uffizi in this Tuscan city, the "Athens of the West"
Florence
David Laurie
$800 [17]
Thisfilm's subject matter was controversial in its day
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Laurie
$800 [28]
"Youthful" 1930s gangster who became a world leader in 1994
"Baby Face" Nelson Mandela
Brian
$1,200 [3]
In 2001, at the New York Public Library, Oprah & Jessye Norman helped pay tribute to this author on her 70th birthday
Toni Morrison
Brian
$1,200 [11]
The Egyptians called themselves Remetch, simply meaning this, like "Inuit"
people
Brian
$1,200 [1]
Sir Walter Raleigh was living in this prison when he wrote his "History of the World"
the Tower of London
Laurie
$1,200 [7]
At age 28 his third opera, "Nabucco", made him one of Italy's foremost composers
Verdi
Laurie
$1,200 [18]
The cast of this kooky 1991 film is seen here
The Addams Family
Brian
$1,200 [27]
1980s sportswear designer who began use as an immigration center near the Statue of Liberty in 1892
Perry Ellis Island
Brian
$1,600 [4]
Pitcher Dennis Martinez attended a 1991 White House dinner for this country's Pres. Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
Nicaragua
David Brian
$2,000 [6]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in the foreground of the Sphinx and Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt.) In a dream this falcon-headed son of Isistold Thutmose IV to clear the sand that buried the sphinx & he'd be king
Horus
David
$1,600 [12]
The opening in an early cannon or gun where the flame was applied
touch-hole
DD $1,400 [9]
The first poems definitely attributed to this epic poet are the Eclogues, composed between 42 & 37 B.C.
Virgil
David
$1,600 [19]
Hirschfeld purr-fectly captured a sensual scene from this film
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Laurie
$1,600 [26]
"Friends" actor who traveled in time to become an Erle Stanley Gardner character in 1933
Matthew Perry Mason
$2,000 [8]
At a 1984 dinner, this "doubting" woman became the 1st woman to win the National Press Club's Fourth Estate Award
Helen Thomas
David
DD $3,000 [5]
Paradise in the Egyptian afterlife was in this god's"field of reeds"
Osiris
David
$2,000 [13]
By 1300 these Slav-conquering knights were the most powerful force in Central & Eastern Europe
Teutonic Knights
David
$2,000 [22]
What a political comeback! In '94 he quit as P.M. amid charges of corruption but was re-elected in 2001
Berlusconi
David
$2,000 [20]
This1936 silent classic proves that Luddite disaffection can be played for laughs
Modern Times
David
$2,000 [25]
Civil war nurse who became a Coen brothers title character in 1991
Clara Barton Fink
Laurie

Final Jeopardy!

ARCHITECTS

He called himself "the man who introduced the glass box and then, 50 years later, broke it"

Philip Johnson

Brian "Who is Mies van der Rohe" — wagered $4,500
Laurie "Who is Adams?" — wagered $6,700
David "Who is Wright?" — wagered $2,000

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