Show #4842 2005-10-04 (taped 2005-07-27) Regular

Jason Richards game 2.

Contestants

Thaddeus Grimes-Gruczka — a medical communications consultant from New York, New York

Susan Daniels — a software engineer from Bristol, Rhode Island

Jason Richards — a pharmacy technician from Old Town, Maine (whose 1-day cash winnings total $32,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jason $4,400 $8,000 $19,600 $23,600
2-day champion: $55,700
$17,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Susan $1,000 $400 $2,800 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$3,800
8 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Thaddeus $2,400 $2,200 $4,400 $8,600
2nd place: $2,000
$7,400
18 R, 7 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

TOP O' THE CHARTS ALSO A VEGAS CASINO YOUNG ABE LINCOLN COMPANIES A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS THE ONIONHEADLINES FROM THE YEAR 2056
$200 [14]
In 1978 their duet "You're The One That I Want" replaced another duet by Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams at No. 1
Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta
Thaddeus
$200 [1]
A popular brand of orange juice
Tropicana
Thaddeus
$200 [22]
Abe gained the respect of local ruffians when he held his own against one of the Clary's Grove boys in this sport
wrestling
Thaddeus
$200 [9]
This warehouse club has over 43 million members, some of them Gold Star, lugging home the big jars of mayo
Costco
Thaddeus
$200 [2]
We don't see what was so good about this 2-word term for the worldwide 1930s economic disaster
the Great Depression
Thaddeus
$600 [28]
"Refugees Row" this entire island "to Miami"
Cuba
Thaddeus
$400 [16]
Her "Control" album produced 5 Top 5 singles, each in a different spot; "When I Think Of You" hit No. 1
Janet Jackson
Thaddeus
$400 [5]
A 3.5-million-square-mile land area between the Atlantic Ocean & the Red Sea
the Sahara
$400 [18]
Among the books read by Lincoln as a youngster were "Robinson Crusoe", "Aesop's Fables", & Mason Weems' "Life of" this man
Washington
$400 [10]
This co. agreed in 1993 to lease the New Amsterdam Theatre, & the old Times Square of degradation & filth was history
Disney
Susan
$400 [3]
Both pleasant & painful, as in a memory
bittersweet
Thaddeus
$800 [27]
Boston rejoices as this team "Lose(s) In 50th Straight Pennant Race; Fans Blame 'Curse of Jeter'"
the Yankees
Jason Thaddeus
$600 [15]
In 1977 this "sleepy" song became Fleetwood Mac's only No. 1 hit
"Dreams"
Susan
$600 [6]
A weapon removed from a stone
Excalibur
Thaddeus
$600 [19]
On October 5, 1818 this mother of Lincoln & 2 of her relatives died of milk sickness
Nancy Hanks
Susan
$600 [11]
This chain with a month as its name has acquired stores like Kaufmann's in Pittsburgh & Robinson's in L.A.
May Company (May's Department Store accepted)
Thaddeus
$600 [24]
Alliterative two-word term for action by one's own forces causing casualties to one's own troops
friendly fire
Thaddeus
$1,000 [26]
This country "Bombed Back into the Renaissance"
Italy
Jason
$800 [17]
Madonna's "This Used To Be My Playground" was sung over the closing credits of this 1992 film
A League of Their Own
Thaddeus
$800 [7]
Stevenson's rousing tale from 1881
Treasure Island
Jason
$800 [20]
While serving in the Illinois legislature, Abe switched to this party of his political idol Henry Clay
the Whigs
Jason
$800 [13]
Orange & Rockland Utilities is a subsidiary of this company named for an inventor
Consolidated Edison (ConEd)
Jason
$800 [4]
2-word term for something supposedly confidential but actually known quite generally
an open secret
Jason
$1,000 [21]
In 1991 this heartthrob took Percy Sledge's "When A Man Loves A Woman" back to the top spot
Michael Bolton
Susan
$1,000 [8]
A market town of Upper Egypt built on the ruins of Thebes
Luxor
Jason
DD $1,000 [23]
During his 80 days of military service in 1832, Abe attempted without success to track down this Sauk & Fox Indian chief
Black Hawk
Susan
$1,000 [12]
In 1959 Richard De Vos & Jay Van Andel founded this company that now has 3 million independent distributors
Amway
Jason
$1,000 [25]
This computer language gets oxymoronic when it follows "Advanced"
BASIC
Jason

Double Jeopardy! Round

HITCHCOCK CHAD IS RAD IT'S A "SIN" TAKE-OFFS LANDINGS ANIMAL TRACKS
$400 [8]
Jessica Tandy finds a farmer dead, his eyes gouged out, in this 1963 thriller
The Birds
Susan
$400 [22]
Chad's colonial overlord until independence in 1960
France
Thaddeus
$400 [1]
It can mean to burn slightly, or to burn the ends of hair or cloth
singe
Thaddeus
$400 [12]
This late author's representatives sued over "The Cat Not in the Hat", a rhyming account of the O.J. Simpson trial
Dr. Seuss
Jason
$400 [27]
As its name suggests, the tipp toe approach procedure at SFO is meant to minimize this
noise
Thaddeus
$800 [21]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows some animal tracks displayed on a monitor.) Though its tail sometimes drags over its trail, this animal, Castor canadensis, can be identified by itswebbed hind foot
the beaver
Jason
$800 [9]
Hitchcock made this film in 1934 & then remade it in 1956 with Doris Day & Jimmy Stewart
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Susan Thaddeus
$800 [20]
In the 11th century the kings of Chad converted to this faith
Islam
Thaddeus
$800 [7]
For more than 200 years, the annual Baltic Herring Market & Fair has been a big to-do in this world capital
Helsinki
Susan Thaddeus
$800 [13]
"Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry" is a satirical type of this guide
a travel guide
Jason
$800 [26]
Runways are numbered by compass degrees without the last digit, so this is the highest number used
36
Jason Susan
$1,600 [28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew displays some animal tracks on a monitor.) The overlapping track of this animal, also known as the bay lynx, is similar to that of the Siamese but bigger & deeper
a bobcat
$1,200 [10]
Cary Grant admires Grace Kelly's big diamonds in this 1955 caper
To Catch a Thief
Susan
$1,200 [17]
Refugees from the neighboring Darfur region of this country have fled into eastern Chad
the Sudan
Thaddeus
$1,200 [2]
Carson Sink & the Great Salt Lake lie in the drainage area known as the Great this
Basin
Thaddeus
$1,200 [14]
"The Ninety-Nine Guardsmen", one of Bret Harte's "condensed novels", parodies this French tale
The Three Musketeers
Jason
$1,200 [25]
You land, not anchor, at this Phoenix airport, named by a board member from Scenic Airways
Sky Harbor Airport
Thaddeus
$2,000 [23]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows some animal tracks on a monitor.) Deer usually leave a simple, 2-toed track, but if they run in snow, you can see the imprint of these vestigial claws
the dewclaws
Susan
$1,600 [6]
Cary Grant & Ingrid Bergman fall in love & ferret out Nazis in Brazil in this classic
Notorious
Jason
$1,600 [18]
It's the country directly north of Chad
Libya
$1,600 [3]
Of Welsh extraction, Frank Lloyd Wright named his homes & fellowship after this early Welsh poet
Taliesin
Thaddeus
$2,000 [16]
"Go for Barocco" is a take-off of Balanchine by this hairy, all-male ballet troupe
the Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Thaddeus
$1,600 [24]
A beach on this half-Dutch island offersclose-up viewsof planes landing at Princess Juliana Airport
St. Maarten
Susan
$2,000 [11]
John Dall & Farley Granger strangle a college friend just for thrills in this, Hitch's first color film
Rope
Jason
$2,000 [19]
The capital & largest city
N'Djamena
Susan
DD $3,000 [4]
As well as discovering a famous gap in Saturn's rings, he also discovered 4 of Saturn's moons
(Giovanni) Cassini
Thaddeus
DD $4,000 [15]
Rafreaky the baboon & a 30-year-old Annie have appeared in this NYC theater spoof that debuted in 1982
Forbidden Broadway
Jason
$2,000 [5]
The ILS, short for this, was first installed at Indianapolis in 1940
the Instrument Landing System

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY NOVELS

Ironically, this 1953 science fiction book began appearing in a censored version in 1967

Fahrenheit 451

Susan "WhatFahrenheit 451?Stranger in a Strange Land?" — wagered $2,800
Thaddeus "What is Fahrenheit 451?" — wagered $4,200
Jason "What is Fahrenheit 451?" — wagered $4,000

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