Show #4825 2005-07-22 (taped 2005-03-09) Regular

David Madden game 14.Last game of Season 21.

Contestants

Maya Kobersy — an attorney originally from Sterling Heights, Michigan

Dan Tick — a technical support manager from Escondido, California

David Madden — a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey (whose 13-day cash winnings total $305,101)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
David $4,200 $5,200 $21,200 $28,200
14-day champion: $333,301
$22,800
26 R (including 3 DDs), 0 W
Dan $0 $3,000 $5,400 $400
2nd place: $2,000
$5,400
8 R, 1 W
Maya $3,400 $6,000 $14,000 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$14,000
21 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

PHYSICS CLASSIC AMERICAN SONGS CLUB HOPPIN' HERO SANDWICH FOOD & DRINK BRANDS CROSSWORD CLUES "R"
$200 [19]
In 1938 Otto Hahn & Fritz Strassman discovered nuclear fission by splitting atoms of this element
uranium
David Maya
$200 [18]
Thissong could be John Henry's reply to the question "Where ya been?"
"I've Been Workin' On The Railroad"
Maya
$200 [26]
Are you ready to rumba? Head for the rumba room at this California theme park's Citywalk
Universal Studios
Dan
$200 [14]
This hero of WWII was the "Lion of Luzon", but on Bataan he was known as "Dugout Doug"
MacArthur
David
$200 [21]
In 1999 this General Mills cereal came out with Millenios, featuring 2s as well as the usual Os
Cheerios
David
$200 [2]
Sidewinder or diamondback(11)
rattlesnake
Maya
DD $200 [9]
Term first used by James Watt for a unit equivalent to 550 foot-pounds of work per second
horsepower
David
$400 [10]
Thissong is popular during a certain NFL team's introductions
"When The Saints Go Marching In"
Dan Maya
$400 [27]
Tongues are wagging that Tongue & Groove on Peachtree Rd. is one of this city's top nightspots
Atlanta
Maya
$400 [15]
For his leadership that resulted in final victory, General Ulysses S. Grant was known as "The Hero of" this location
Appomattox
David
$400 [23]
In the '70s they called a "blended flavored (cherry & other flavorings) carbonated beverage" Mr. this
Mr. Pibb
Maya
$400 [3]
Cosmetic that makes you blush(5)
rouge
Dan
$400 [20]
Sublimation is the process by which a solid changes into a gas without going through this stage
liquid
Maya
$600 [11]
Numerical phrase for the time when you normally hearthe following
the seventh-inning stretch
Maya
$600 [28]
For years you could find Pete Fountain playing the clarinet at his own club on Poydras St. in this Southern city
New Orleans
Maya
$600 [8]
The parents of this mythological hero were told he'd live to a ripe old age as long as he never looked at himself
Narcissus
David
$600 [16]
Calistoga mineral water is from this California valley that's famous for its vineyards
Napa
David
$600 [4]
"Buyer's" guilt(7)
remorse
Maya
$800 [24]
This branch of physics deals with heat & includes cryogenics, which deals with extremely low temperatures
thermodynamics
Maya
$800 [12]
Jimmy Cagney could tell you the name of this up-tempo foot stomper
"Yankee Doodle Dandy"
Maya
$800 [29]
Perhaps because of its wall of fire, Rumjungle in this "Bay" hotel has been called "the hottest club in Vegas"
Mandalay Bay
Dan
$800 [1]
This title swashbuckling hero rescues aristocrats during the French Revolution in an Orczy work
the Scarlet Pimpernel
Maya
$800 [22]
This marshmallow brand is named for the manufacturing process that infuses air into the marshmallows
Jet-Puffed
$800 [5]
Like a lizard(9)
reptilian
David
$1,000 [25]
Theodore Maiman used this gem in producing the world's first laser in 1960
a ruby
Dan Maya
$1,000 [13]
Sir Edmund Hillary might enjoy this spiritually inspired favorite
"Go Tell It On The Mountain"
Maya
$1,000 [30]
"Praise the Lord and pass the biscuits" at a Sunday gospel brunch at one of these clubs nicknamed HOB
the House of Blues
Dan
$1,000 [7]
A 15th century poem by a guy known as Blind Harry is the main source for the life of this Scottish hero
William Wallace
David Maya
$1,000 [17]
Mr. T was featured in Busta Rhymes' 2002 video "Pass" this Napoleonic cognac
courvoisier
Maya
$1,000 [6]
Garibaldi's gang(9)
redshirts
David

Double Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY AMERICANA CELEBRITY LIVES LAKES & RIVERS LESSER-KNOWN NAMES LITERARY BUNNIES "FAN" CLUB
$400 [1]
The first Dairy Queen opened in Illinois, & the first McDonald's opened in this state
California
David
$400 [29]
"Dark Lover" by Emily Leider is the first fully documented biography of this early Hollywood heartthrob
Valentino
David
$400 [11]
In Hinduism, a shortcut to paradise is to die in this 1,560-mile river
the Ganges
David
$400 [30]
Tenor Heinrich Vogl created the roles of Loge in "Das Rheingold" & Siegmund in "Die Walkure" by this composer
Wagner
David
$400 [6]
In Chapter 1 of this book, Mole says, "Onion-sauce! Onion-sauce!" to a group of rabbits who have no satisfactory reply
The Wind in the Willows
David
$400 [27]
Try to remember this musical that features the song "Try To Remember"
The Fantasticks
Dan
$800 [12]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Chicago's Adler Planetarium.) In celebration of his 500th birthday, a statue of this Polish astronomer was dedicated outside the Adler Planetarium in 1973
Copernicus
Dan
$800 [18]
In a 2003 bestseller, A. Scott Berg "Remembered" this legendary actress who passed away at age 96
Katharine Hepburn
David
$800 [5]
In chapter 3 of the Biblical book named for him, Joshua leads the Israelites across this river
the Jordan
Maya
$800 [26]
In 1902 Clifford Berryman drew a famous editorial cartoon of this man refusing to shoot a bear cub
Teddy Roosevelt
Maya
$800 [28]
The power-mad Gen. Woundwort makes life miserable for the other bunnies in this 1972 novel by Richard Adams
Watership Down
Maya
$800 [25]
Gosh darn it, it's cursing & swearing
profanity
David
$1,200 [13]
These caramel candies debuted in 1935, long before Ann Miller's Broadway musical of the same name
Sugar Babies
$1,200 [17]
(Hi, I'm Bob Woodward.) In my book "Wired", I wrote about "the short life & fast times" of this comedian
John Belushi
Dan
$1,200 [4]
It's estimated that more than 20% of the world's unfrozen fresh water is in this Siberian lake
Lake Baikal
David
$1,200 [21]
War correspondent Martha Gellhorn was married to this author from 1940 to 1945
Hemingway
David
$1,200 [24]
Mammy-Bammy Big-Money is the witch rabbit who lives in a swamp in this man's Uncle Remus stories
(Joel Chandler) Harris
David
$1,200 [8]
This American grape that makes a fine wine has been traced back to an Italian variety known as primitivo
zinfandel
David
DD $1,200 [7]
Art Linkletter was on the $100,000 bill in the 1960 edition of Milton Bradley's Game of this
Life
David
$1,600 [16]
"Natasha" tells of her tumultuous life, her many loves and her mysterious death in 1981
Natalie Wood
Maya
$1,600 [2]
The Tipitapa River connects Lake Nicaragua with this other large lake to the north
Lake Managua
David
$1,600 [22]
Self-destructive poet Delmore Schwartz inspired this author's novel "Humboldt's Gift"
(Saul) Bellow
Maya
$1,600 [20]
In Beatrix Potter's "Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies", Flopsy marries this bunny
Benjamin
Maya
DD $1,200 [10]
Boston merchant & "hall" monitor
(Peter) Faneuil
David
$2,000 [14]
What a turn-on! "Energy Turns On the World" was the theme of the 1982 World's Fair in this Tennessee city
Knoxville
Maya
$2,000 [15]
"Mercy, Mercy Me", a biography of this singer, was published in 2004 to coincide with the 20th anniv. of his death
Marvin Gaye
Maya
$2,000 [3]
Perhaps Enya could tell you that part of this 1,600-mile-long river flows along the Venezuela-Colombia border
the Orinoco
David
$2,000 [23]
In 1929 Hugo Eckener commanded this famous airship with a 2-word name on a flight around the world
the Graf Zeppelin
$2,000 [19]
Howard R. Garis wrote a book about this avuncular rabbit "and the Runaway Cheese"
Uncle Wiggily
$1,600 [9]
To remove the canine teeth
defang
David

Final Jeopardy!

LEADING MEN OF THE MOVIES

This actor who turned down the role of Dirty Harry played 142 leading roles, a Guinness record

John Wayne

Dan "Who is Kirk Douglas?" — wagered $5,000
Maya "Who is Jack Nicholson?" — wagered $14,000
David "Who is John Wayne?" — wagered $7,000

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