Show #4823 2005-07-20 (taped 2005-03-09) Regular

David Madden game 12.

Contestants

Ellyn Ritterskamp — a prepress technician and ethics instructor from Charlotte, North Carolina

Oscar Avila — a writer from Chicago, Illinois

David Madden — a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey (whose 11-day cash winnings total $269,101)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
David	$3,600	$6,000	$8,000	$11,000 12-day champion: $280,101	$8,000 18 R (including 1 DD), 7 W
Oscar	$600	$1,200	$2,400	$2,400 2nd place: $2,000	$5,600 10 R, 6 W (including 2 DDs)
Ellyn	$0	$3,800	$8,200	$399 3rd place: $1,000	$8,200 15 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

COLOMBIA	DISNEY SONG LYRICS	RESCUE ME!	HARRYs & GARYs	MAGICAL HISTORY TOUR	ANAGRAMS
$200 [5] El Espectador & El Tiempo, the 2 largest of Colombia's daily newspapers, are published in this city Bogotá Ellyn	$200 [6] "Some day we'll meeet again and Away to his castle we'll go To be happy forever I know" Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs David Oscar	$200 [15] The FBI's HRT, a "Rescue Team" for these, can be anywhere in 4 hours hostages Oscar	$200 [10] Getting the role of Colonel Potter on "MAS*H" was a bit of a demotion; he'd previosuly played a general on the show Harry Morgan David Ellyn	$200 [25] This legendary magician was imprisoned in a thorn bush by a "watery" woman using magic he had taught her Merlin David Ellyn	$200 [30] For heartburn these are a must Tums (for must) Ellyn
$400 [4] The Putomayo, a branch of this river, forms much of Colombia's border with Peru the Amazon Ellyn	$400 [7] "My reign will be a super-awesome thing Oh, I just can't wait to be king" The Lion King David	$400 [23] On Feb. 6, 1938 the lifesavers of Bondi Beach in this country rescued 300 people from freak waves Australia David	$400 [16] Gary "Big Hands" Johnson played defense for 10 seasons with this NFL team, the southernmost in California the San Diego Chargers David	$400 [26] He disappeared after just 3 weeks at Fordham; years later, he'd make the Statue of Liberty follow suit David Copperfield Ellyn	$400 [28] I'm sated after eating too many of these dates (for sated) David
$600 [3] Colombia's coat of arms was adopted in 1834 & features this vulture perched on top the Andean Condor David	$600 [11] "Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon, or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?" Pocahontas David	DD $600 [14] When sent down, the rescue capsule for the Quecreek miners in this state carried water, Skoal & Hershey bars Pennsylvania David	$600 [17] Bigfoot went domestic in this 1987 comedy with John Lithgow Harry and the Hendersons Oscar	$600 [27] This magician does the ultimate disappearing act & ends up on an enchanted island with Ariel & the brutish Caliban Prospero David	$600 [19] Please be quiet, everyone here is this asleep (for please)
$800 [2] Colombia's second-largest city, it's known for its textiles & as a center for the illegal drug trade Medellín David	$800 [12] "Les poissons, Les poissons How I love Les poissons Love to chop and To serve little fish" The Little Mermaid Ellyn	$800 [9] If you're rescued from a deep-sea dive, you may go into this type of chamber, from the same root as "barometer" hyperbaric David Oscar	$800 [18] Here's a Harry & a Gary: in 1995 this "Forrest Gump" actor played Harry Truman Gary Sinise David	$800 [8] Don't feel ripped off if you pay to see these 2 magicians at the Rio in Vegas & only one of them ever speaks Penn & Teller David	$800 [20] It was the nationality of Sir Anthony Van Dyck, himself Flemish (for himself) Oscar
$1,000 [1] In 1982 this Colombian who led Latin America's literary boom of the '60s won the Nobel Prize for Literature García Márquez David	$1,000 [22] "We are Siameeiz If you pleeiz, We are Siameeiz If you don't please" Lady and the Tramp Oscar	$1,000 [13] An old infantry weapon, or the type of "pole" used to tear down walls a pike	$1,000 [21] Harry Shearer has voiced at least 36 different characters, including Jebediah Springfield, on this show The Simpsons Ellyn	$1,000 [29] Martin Luther believed this German magician & astrologer, a Goethe subject, had devilish powers Faust Ellyn	$1,000 [24] "Nowhere can I find this utopian novel by Samuel Butler" Erewhon (for nowhere) Ellyn

Double Jeopardy! Round

WASHINGTON, D.C.	SOMEBODY WROTE THAT	BIBLICAL QUOTES	THE MATERIAL WORLD	BIOGRAPHIES	THE "BALL" GAME
$400 [24] (Kweisi Mfume reads the clue.) When I was a congressman, I often strolled through this 96-foot-wide domed hall, the Capitol's hub the Rotunda Oscar	$400 [27] Herman Mankiewicz shared a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for "Citizen Kane" with this man Orson Welles Oscar	$400 [14] The Lord told him to "Lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it" Moses David	$400 [28] An elastomer is defined as a synthetic polymer having the properties of this natural material rubber Ellyn	$400 [1] While out of office in the 1930s, he knocked out a million-word biography of his ancestor the Duke of Marlborough Churchill David	$400 [3] Soccer at Wembley Stadium football David
$800 [19] The USA's only Leonardo da Vinci painting resides at this museum at 4th & Constitution the National Gallery of Art David Oscar Ellyn	$800 [18] David S. Ward wrote "The Sting"; William Goldman penned this earlier Newman-Redford pairing Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Oscar	$800 [20] This New Testament beggar "died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom" Lazarus	DD $1,600 [25] Hautboy, an old word for oboe, comes from the French name Hautbois, which means "high" this wood Oscar	$800 [13] Ex-Boston Globe scribe Leigh Montville is the latest biographer of this baseball great Ted Williams Ellyn	$800 [6] Hemispherical hammer head a ball-peen Ellyn
$1,200 [10] (Hi, I'm Ari Fliescher.) In the White House large events like dances & weddings are held in this room, designed as a "public audience room" the East Room	$1,200 [15] Christopher McQuarrie introduced us to the mysterious Keyser Soze in this 1995 film The Usual Suspects Oscar	DD $1,600 [21] This half brother of Isaac born of Abraham & Hagar was called "a wild man, his hand will be against every man" Ishmael Oscar	$1,600 [23] 2-word term for an amorphous form of SiO2; as a drying agent, it comes in little packets that say "DO NOT EAT" silica gel Ellyn	$1,200 [4] A bio of him sums up, "It was by dying when he did", in 1863 that he achieved his military fame Stonewall Jackson David Oscar	$1,200 [5] Fancy fungus in fine form here a puffball Ellyn
$1,600 [9] A hotel near the White House is named for John Hay & this pal of his, a descendant of presidents Henry Adams David	$1,600 [16] A real "American Beauty", Alan Ball created this drop-dead gorgeous HBO series Six Feet Under	$1,600 [22] Revelation says Satan will "deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the Earth, Gog and" this Magog David	—	$1,600 [2] "Uncertainty: The Life and Science of" this man explores his work on Nazi weapons programs (Werner) Heisenberg David Ellyn	$1,600 [7] David Letterman's alma mater Ball State Oscar
$2,000 [11] (Hi, I'm Christie Whitman.) The EPA is based in this Ariel Rios Building, part of this "Triangle" bounded by 15th, Pennsylvania & Constitution Federal Triangle Oscar	$2,000 [17] It takes a village to know he followed up "Chinatown" with "Shampoo" the next year Robert Towne	$2,000 [26] These 4 words were the handwriting Belshazzar saw on the wall of his palace Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin Ellyn	—	$2,000 [12] A biography of this wife of James Joyce is subtitled "The Real Life of Molly Bloom" Nora Joyce	$2,000 [8] Ladies & gentlemen, it's a Spanish word for gentleman caballero David

Final Jeopardy!

CLASSICAL MUSIC

It's the roughly 70-minute work that includes the sung words "Alle menschen werden bruder"

Beethoven's 9th Symphony

Oscar "What is Die Fledermaus" — wagered $0

David "What is Beethoven's 9th Symphony" — wagered $3,000

Ellyn "What is Ode To Joy?" — wagered $7,801

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