Show #4845 2005-10-07 (taped 2005-07-27) Regular

Jason Richards game 5.

Contestants

Melissa Prepster — a teacher from Kyle, Texas

Ted Barnett — a physician from Elm Grove, Wisconsin

Jason Richards — a pharmacy technician from Old Town, Maine (whose 4-day cash winnings total $99,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jason $-200 $2,400 $18,000 $15,000
2nd place: $2,000
$18,000
19 R, 1 W
Ted $1,000 $1,400 $7,400 $7,400
3rd place: $1,000
$7,400
10 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Melissa $3,000 $5,900 $9,700 $19,395
New champion: $19,395
$9,600
20 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

17th CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY SONG VERBS GEO-PARTY BESTSELLERS KICKIN' BRASS 3-LETTER WORDS
$200 [1]
Her death in 1603 ended her 45-year reign, & a total of 118 years for the Tudors
Elizabeth I
Jason
$200 [4]
Featuring Eric Clapton:"While My Guitar Gently ___"
Weeps
Ted
$200 [20]
The Festival of Setsubun in this country features mame-maki, tossing dried beans to drive out devils & bring good luck
Japan
Jason
$200 [9]
His "Dolores Claiborne" & "Gerald's Game" were 2 of the top-selling novels of 1992
Stephen King
Melissa
$200 [26]
Let's "get down to" these, meaning most fundamental considerations
brass tacks
Melissa
$200 [5]
It comes between ready & fire!
aim
Jason
$400 [2]
Because plague closed this university, Newton went home to Woolsthorpe, where he saw that apple fall
Cambridge
Ted
$400 [10]
From "Purple Rain":"I ___ 4 U"
Would Die
Melissa
$400 [21]
This spring holiday in Mexico celebrates a Mexican army's victory over French troops in 1862
Cinco de Mayo
Ted
$400 [16]
In 1997 this memoir by Frank McCourt burnt up the nonfiction charts
Angela's Ashes
Melissa
$400 [27]
It's the instrument with a "national" name heard here
a French horn
Melissa
$400 [6]
An old saying or proverb, or a tool you'd find in the garage
a saw
Ted
$600 [3]
The mutineers who left this navigator on James Bay in 1611 were jailed when they got back to England
(Henry) Hudson
Jason Melissa
$600 [11]
CSN&Y:"___ Your Children"
Teach
Melissa
$600 [22]
Frisian, the language most like English, is from a northern province of this Low Country
Holland (The Netherlands)
Melissa
$600 [17]
His "Never-Say-Diet Book" was a bestseller in 1981; his "Never-Say-Diet Cookbook" followed in 1982
Richard Simmons
$600 [28]
In 1975 Turkish prime minister Suleyman Demirel had his nose broken by an attacker wielding this weapon
brass knuckles
Jason
$600 [7]
It's the vestment in the picture seen here
an alb
$800 [14]
As Charles I couldn't attend this in Paris in May 1625, the Duke of Buckingham was his proxy
his wedding
Melissa
$800 [12]
Covered in 2004:"___ A Little Bit"
Give
$800 [23]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a brewery in Copenhagen, Denmark.) Carlsberg lager, claimed as probably the best in the world, is often this type, named for a Czech city
a pilsner
Jason
$1,000 [19]
The title of this Rosamunde Pilcher bestseller referes to a painting of the heroine as a child on this beach
The Shell Seekers
$800 [29]
Grab this merry-go-round term for wealth or success as a goal or prize
the brass ring
Melissa
$800 [8]
Often preceding "about", it means to wander restlessly or idly in search of pleasure
gad
$1,000 [15]
Charlie Brown could have joined this group of Oliver Cromwell's that beat the Cavaliers in battle in July 2, 1644
the Roundheads
Melissa
$1,000 [13]
A Supremes classic:"You ___ Love"
Can't Hurry
Melissa
$1,000 [24]
Rondonia, Matto Grosso & Rio Grande do Sul are regions of this South American country
Brazil
Jason
DD $1,500 [18]
Jon Krakauer ascended to No. 1 with this "personal account of the Mt. Everest disaster"
Into Thin Air
Melissa
$1,000 [30]
Robert Burns: "His locked, letter'd, braw brass-collar, show'd him the gentleman an'" this
scholar
$1,000 [25]
To stitchers, it's a bit of leftover thread; to others, a scrap of food left at a meal
ort
Melissa

Double Jeopardy! Round

GREEK GODS FILMS OF THE '40s AROUND THE U.S.A. HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW? I WAS HIS VEEP THE "DI" IS CAST
$400 [7]
Dione, who was either a nymph or a Titan, gave birth to this Greek goddess of love & beauty
Aphrodite
Jason
$400 [12]
In 1947's "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer", Cary Grant was the bachelor, this former child star the bobby-soxer
Shirley Temple
Ted
$400 [1]
(I'm John DeStefano, mayor of New Haven.) New Haven is known as "The Smart City", partly because it's home to this institution founded in 1701
Yale
Jason
$400 [26]
It's a fertilized ripened ovule; a stone fruit has only one
a pit (or a seed)
Melissa
$400 [6]
John Adams
George Washington
Melissa
$400 [18]
On "ER" you're in trouble when your pupils are fixed & this, meaning expanded
dilated
Jason
$800 [8]
This Greek god loved a boy named Ampelos, who was turned into a grapevine when he died
Dionysus
Jason Ted
$800 [13]
In this film a young Natalie Wood exclaims, "You're just a nice old man with whiskers, like my mother said!"
Miracle on 34th Street
Ted Melissa
$800 [2]
The Presbytere in New Orleans boasts a life-size painting of this tragic Longfellow heroine & her lover, Gabriel
Evangeline
Jason
$800 [27]
Rah, rah, sis boom bah! It's the term for the globular flowers of a chrysanthemum
a pom-pom
Melissa
$800 [14]
Henry Wallace
FDR
Ted
$800 [19]
Expelled from the legal profession, not the pub
disbarred
Melissa
DD $1,000 [10]
An English word for mass terror comes from the name of this goaty Greek god
Pan
Melissa
$1,200 [16]
This Best Picture Oscar winner of 1945 was filmed in part in the alcoholic ward of NYC's Bellevue Hospital
The Lost Weekend
Jason
$1,200 [3]
Wow! The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument covers some 1.7 million acres in this state
Utah
Ted
$1,200 [28]
To tell these from other succulents, look for the areoles, small cushionlike structures the spines grow from
a cactus
Jason
$1,200 [15]
Martin Van Buren
Andrew Jackson
Jason
$1,200 [20]
From the Latin for "to squander", it means fallen into disrepair by neglect
dilapidated
$1,200 [9]
Like the Olympic Games, the ancient Nemean Games were dedicated to this mighty god
Zeus
Melissa
$1,600 [17]
Judy Garland sang "The Trolley Song" & "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" in this hit musical
Meet Me In St. Louis
Melissa
$1,600 [4]
In 1989 Julian Bond dedicated a civil rights memorial designed by Maya Lin in this Southern state capital
Montgomery
Ted Melissa
$1,600 [29]
Artificially adjusting this to make a plant flower faster is called forcing
sunlight
Jason
$1,600 [24]
Alben Barkley
Truman
Ted
$1,600 [21]
Low-droning Australian Aborigine musical instrument made from a long wooden tube
a didgeridoo
Jason
$2,000 [11]
Near the temples of Apollo at Delos is a temple dedicated to this goddess of the hunt, Apollo's sister
Artemis
Jason Melissa
$2,000 [23]
Although this singer wanted to portray himself in a 1946 film biography, he was too old & Larry Parks was cast
Al Jolson
DD $2,000 [5]
Wilcox House, where Teddy Roosevelt took his presidential oath of office in 1901, is in this city
Buffalo, New York
Ted
$2,000 [30]
At England's historic Burnby Hall Gardens in York, you can see 80 different varieties of these aquatic flowers
a water lily
Melissa
$2,000 [25]
Nelson Rockefeller
Gerald Ford
Jason
$2,000 [22]
A cedilla, circumflex or macron are these "marks"
a diacritic
Jason

Final Jeopardy!

THE KING JAMES BIBLE

A Gospel & a book of the Old Testament each start with these same 3 words

In the beginning

Ted "What is In The Beginning?" — wagered $0
Melissa "What In the beginning" — wagered $9,695
Jason "What is Song of Songs?" — wagered $3,000

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