Show #4857 2005-10-25 (taped 2005-08-03) Regular

(Kelly: We're here in wonderfulCopenhagencelebrating 200 years of Hans Christian Andersen. Join us, next onJeopardy!)

Contestants

Diane Mettam — a pastor from Independence, California

Chris Jones — a loan consultant from Chalfont, Pennsylvania

John Kelly — an attorney from Atlanta, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
John $2,400 $6,000 $12,300 $1,799
3rd place: $1,000
$12,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Chris $600 $2,200 $7,000 $4,400
2nd place: $2,000
$9,800
15 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Diane $4,000 $8,200 $11,400 $19,400
New champion: $19,400
$11,400
17 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN ABBA-SOLUTELY FABULOUS FIRST NAME'S THE SAME THE BRADY BRUNCH SPEECH! SPEECH! OH, BE "SILENT"!
$200 [12]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from the statue of The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen, Denmark.) In the original story, the prince never knew how much the Little Mermaid loved him because the Sea Witch had taken this away
her voice
Diane
$200 [16]
Made up of Frida Lyngstad, Agnetha Faltskog, Bjorn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson, ABBA hails from this country
Sweden
Diane
$200 [3]
Blackmun, Houdini, Cohn
Harry
John
$200 [11]
"Oh, my nose!", Marcia exclaimed, after bumping into the oven door & causing this light, fluffy egg dish to fall flat
a soufflé
John Chris Diane
$200 [22]
In a 1991 speech this ex-president endorsed the Brady gun-control bill
Reagan
Chris
$200 [1]
In German it begins, "Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht!"
"Silent Night"
Diane
$400 [13]
H.C. Andersen is often compared to this title character of his, who felt unloved until he made a big discovery
the Ugly Duckling
Diane
$400 [25]
"See that girl, watch that scene, dig in" this ABBA title teen
the Dancing Queen
John
$400 [4]
Reynolds, Allen, Harry
Debbie
Chris
$400 [15]
A hungry Peter keeps mentioning these & applesauce, sweetheart(like in one famous episode)
pork chops
$400 [23]
He gave the plea for mercy speech at Leopold & Loeb's trial on August 22, 1924
Clarence Darrow
John
$400 [2]
Sale in which bids are submitted in sealed envelopes
a silent auction
Chris
$600 [14]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reads from Nyhavn, Denmark.) Hans Christian Andersen lived at several addresses here in Nyhavn, a nautical neighborhood whose name means "new" this
harbor
John
$600 [26]
It was the end for Napoleon but this song was the beginning for ABBA, marking its first foray into the Top 40
"Waterloo"
Diane
$600 [5]
Bergen, Degas, Winter
Edgar
Diane
$600 [19]
Jan impressed the family by making the blueberry-filled type of these Jewish pancakes
blintzes
Diane
$800 [29]
In a 1922 speech he declared, "Nonviolence is the first article of my faith"
(Mahatma) Gandhi
Chris
$600 [7]
Richard Nixon identified this large group that chooses not to express its views publicly
the silent majority
Diane
$800 [17]
Andersen's early fairy tales include this one that inspired the musical "Once Upon a Mattress"
"The Princess and the Pea"
Diane
$800 [27]
In the spring of 1999 this show featuring the songs of ABBA premiered in London
Mamma Mia!
Chris
$800 [6]
Halley, Muskie, Burke
Edmund
John
$800 [20]
When no one was looking, Cindy & Bobby tried to sneak a sip of this orange juice & champagne cocktail
a mimosa
Chris
$1,000 [30]
In 1848, in this New York town, Elizabeth Cady Stanton said, "The right is ours. Have it, we must. Use it, we will"
Seneca Falls
John
$800 [8]
Ironically, Marcel Marceau has the only line of dialogue in this film
Silent Movie
Diane
$1,000 [18]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Tivoli, Copenhagen, Denmark.) Avisitto Tivoli in its very first season in 1843 inspired Andersen to write this, which he called his "Chinese fairy tale"
"The Nightingale"
Chris Diane
$1,000 [28]
ABBA hit the Top 40 for the third time in 1975 with this 3-letter palindrome
"SOS"
John
$1,000 [10]
Klesko, Longwell, Gosling
Ryan
John
$1,000 [21]
Alice chopped up lots of vegetables for this Italian omelet that resembles a large pancake
a frittata
Diane
DD $2,800 [24]
On July 4, 1939 he gave a famous farewell speech in the Bronx
Lou Gehrig
John
$1,000 [9]
It's a small container with a hinged lid used to collect crumbs or ashes from the dinner table
a silent butler
Diane

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CAPITALS MOVIES TO THE MAX ALMOST ASSASSINATED AMERICAN WOMEN FURRED, FEATHERED, FINNED THE "O.C."
$400 [3]
By population, it's the largest capital in the Western Hemisphere
Mexico City
Chris
$400 [2]
Max Detweiler is the impresario character who enters a family in music festival in this beloved 1965 film
The Sound of Music
John
$400 [22]
February 13, 1933 after making a speech in Miami
FDR
John
$400 [13]
"Brooklyn Bridge" was one of the last of her NYC paintings before she moved permanently to New Mexico
(Georgia) O'Keeffe
John
$400 [17]
The brown type of this pouched bird plunges from the air to fish; the white one scoops up fish as it swims
a pelican
John
$400 [7]
These crispy snacks were created for a certain mollusk soup
oyster crackers
Chris
$800 [9]
This capital is located on Luzon Island
Manila
Chris
$800 [1]
Laurence Olivier starred as Maxim de Winter in this film, but no one played the title role
Rebecca
Diane
$800 [23]
May 12, 1982 on a visit to the famous shrine in Fatima, Portugal
Pope John Paul II
Chris
$800 [27]
6 years after Chuck Yeager, Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to do this
break the sound barrier
Diane
$800 [18]
The mulgara of Queensland is among the carnivorous members of this order
marsupial
$800 [8]
This type of fabric often used for shirts is named for a city northwest of London
Oxford cloth
John
$1,200 [14]
The famous Gold Museum in this Colombian capital houses a large collection of pre-Columbian gold objects
Bogota
Chris
$1,200 [4]
This former TV Hillbilly directed the 1976 film "Ode to Billie Joe"
Max Baer (Jr.)
Chris
$1,200 [24]
September 5, 1975 while greeting a crowd in Sacramento, California
Ford
Chris
$1,200 [30]
(Hi, I'm Bob Woodward,) One of the most influential women of the 20th century, she was publisher of the Washington Post from 1969 to 1979 & CEO until 1991
(Katharine) Graham
John
$1,200 [19]
The dogfish is a small type of this fish, & one dogfish is also called the "Greenland" one
a shark
$1,200 [10]
Me, him & her are examples of this form of a pronoun
objective case
Chris
$1,600 [15]
The world's largest govt. building after the Pentagon is this city's Parliament Palace, built by Ceausescu
Bucharest
John
$1,600 [5]
He directed a 1984 documentary about Marlene Dietrich, his co-star in "Judgment at Nuremberg"
Maximilian Schell
Chris
$2,000 [26]
October 14, 1912 on his way to a campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Theodore Roosevelt
John
$1,600 [29]
Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, won for this category in 1950
Poetry
John
$2,000 [21]
The dorsal spines give this fishseenhereits name
a stickleback
$1,600 [11]
He was Jackie Kennedy's official White House designer
Oleg Cassini
Diane
$2,000 [16]
It may ring a bell that this capital of Belize also starts with "Bel"
Belmopan
John
$2,000 [6]
In 1935 this great German stage director brought "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to the screen
Max Reinhardt
DD $2,800 [25]
August 22, 1962 when his limousine was attacked near Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Chris
$2,000 [28]
Elected in 1993, she's the first woman to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate
Kay Bailey Hutchison
John Chris
DD $2,500 [20]
It can be a 1/6-inch printer's unit, or (spelled differently) a 7- or 8-inch furred creature
a pica
John
$2,000 [12]
This Latin abbreviation is used in footnotes
op. cit.

Final Jeopardy!

YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS

This organization pledges it will strive for "clearer thinking... greater loyalty... larger service, and... better living" in that order

4H

Chris "What is the Boy Scouts?" — wagered $2,600
Diane "What is the 4H?" — wagered $8,000
John "What is the Girl Scouts" — wagered $10,501

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