Show #4861 2005-10-31 (taped 2005-08-16) Regular

Maria Wenglinsky game 1.

Contestants

Steve Ostini — a radio broadcast producer from Santa Clarita, California

Maria Wenglinsky — a teacher originally from Salt Lake City, Utah

Joey Bland — an actor and improviser from Chicago, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $48,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joey $3,200 $5,900 $14,100 $0
2nd place: $2,000
$14,200
24 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Maria $4,400 $5,400 $18,000 $6,000
New champion: $6,000
$13,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Steve $200 $200 $-200 $-200
3rd place: $1,000
$-200
5 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

ON THE MAP SPORTS LEGENDS FIBERS VICTORIAN VERSE THERE'S A FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING "CHIN" UP
$200 [1]
Hope there's enough gravy for this bicontinental nation
Turkey
Joey
$200 [24]
"The Great One", this record-setting center became coach of the NHL's Phoenix Coyotes in 2005
(Wayne) Gretzky
Joey
$200 [18]
Mesothelioma is a rare cancer strongly linked to long-term exposure to this fibrous mineral
asbestos
Maria
$200 [6]
"Beware" this, "my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird..."
the Jabberwock
Joey Maria
$200 [16]
In 1931 Pangborn & Herndon landed a Bellanca CH-200 at Wenatchee, Wash., ending the first nonstop flight across this
the Pacific
Joey
$200 [11]
This soft, furry rodent seenherehas become an increasingly popular house pet
chinchilla
Steve
$400 [2]
Before the euro, this country used the escudo
Portugal
Joey
$400 [23]
This "large" pool hustler wanted his epitaph to be "Beat everybody living on Earth. Now, St. Peter, rack 'em up"
Minnesota Fats
Joey
$400 [19]
The name of this elastic synthetic fiber is an anagram of "expands"
spandex
Steve
$400 [7]
The last verse of the first version of this Tennyson poem begins, "When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made!"
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
Joey
$400 [17]
Airsick but intact, in 1797 Andre-Jacques Garnerin became the first aeronaut to make one of these descents
a parachute jump
Maria
$400 [13]
It's the cherry of choice for garnishing a cocktail
a maraschino
Joey
$600 [3]
It can get cold in this country, around 40 degrees in July in Puerto Montt
Chile
Joey
$600 [20]
The USA's top amateur athlete in 1930, this golfer retired & helped design the Augusta National Golf Course
Bobby Jones
Maria Steve
$600 [28]
DuPont coined this term but chose not to trademark it so it could enter the lexicon as a synonym for "stockings"
nylon
Joey
$600 [8]
In his "Departmental Ditties", Kipling wrote, "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is" this
a smoke
Maria
$800 [26]
Probably the first emergency use of this device was on January 15, 1878 to alert doctors to a train wreck
the telephone
Steve
$600 [12]
Add a "y" to a common drapery fabric & you'll get this word meaning cheap or gaudy
chintzy
Joey
$800 [4]
Don't get angry identifying this nation
Madagascar
Joey
$800 [21]
This catcher retired at the end of '63, managed the Yankees to a pennant in '64 & played 4 games for the Mets in '65
Yogi Berra
Steve
$800 [29]
The soft white fibers attached to the seeds of plants belonging to the genus Gossypium, of the mallow family
cotton
Joey
$800 [9]
"I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call" this
the sky
Maria
$1,000 [27]
In 1824 this first foreigner to address a joint session of Congress congratulated the U.S. on its growth
the Marquis de Lafayette
Joey
$800 [14]
Seen here is a display of these dolls made by the Navajo
kachinas
Maria
$1,000 [5]
Put on your outerwear when visiting this country
Outer Mongolia
Joey Maria
$1,000 [22]
1974's top money-winning horse was named for this U.S.-born woman who won 157 tennis singles titles
Chris Evert
Steve
$1,000 [30]
Before becoming a successful poet, Robert Burns worked in the linen industry as a dresser of this plant fiber
flax
Maria
$1,000 [10]
"When I was one and twenty I heard a wise man say, 'Give crowns and pounds and guineas but not'" this "'away'"
your heart
Maria
DD $1,500 [25]
This overture, first heard on August 3, 1829 in Paris, debuted as a radio show's theme in 1933
the William Tell Overture
Joey
$1,000 [15]
In 1982 he choreographed his final ballet, a new version of Stravinsky's "Variations for Orchestra"
(George) Balanchine
Joey

Double Jeopardy! Round

AN OVID READER VAMPIRE SLAYERS FRUITS & VEGETABLES "M"USIC NEW WORLD EXPLORERS FUN WITH WORDS
$400 [7]
"Now there are cornfields where" this ancient city, temporary home to Helen, "once was"
Troy
Joey
$400 [6]
"The Watcher's Guide" & "The Sunnydale High Yearbook" are offical book companions to this TV show
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Maria
$400 [17]
Beefsteak is an often misshapen but delicious type of this
a tomato
Maria
$400 [1]
It can be a synonm for "bar", or a stately English dance of old
a measure
Joey
$400 [16]
In 1579 he anchored the Golden Hind for repairs on the West Coast of N. America--no one knows where
(Sir) Francis Drake
Maria
$400 [26]
In the 1939 film of "The Wizard of Oz" the medal presented to the Cowardly Lion has this single word on it
courage
Joey
$800 [8]
"Tempus edax rerum"--this "is the devourer of all things"
time
Joey
$800 [12]
In 2004 he was back as the title vampire slayer in "Blade: Trinity"
Wesley Snipes
Joey
$800 [18]
This variety of lime grown only in Southern Florida is best known as an ingredient in a certain pie
a key lime
Joey
$800 [2]
Many opera overtures are these, sequences of tunes from the opera to follow
medleys
Joey Maria
$800 [19]
After discovering the MIssissippi River on May 8, 1541, he took several weeks to build barges to cross it
De Soto
Maria
$1,200 [29]
This 2-word term for a rundown area of town originally referred to a logging road paved with logs
skid row
Maria
$1,200 [9]
"Every lover is a warrior, and" this Roman god "has his camps"
Cupid
Maria
$1,200 [13]
Peter Cushing, Anthony Hopkins & Laurence Olivier have played this nemesis of Dracula
Van Helsing
Joey
$1,200 [23]
The California French variety of this dried fruit can be juiced, stewed or eaten out of hand
a prune
Maria
DD $1,000 [3]
Renowned Australian-born diva seenherearound 1900
Dame Nellie Melba
Joey
$1,600 [21]
On Feb. 20, 1521 he set sail from Puerto Rico with 200 men; days later, he landed near Charlotte Harbor, Florida
Ponce de Leon
Maria
$1,600 [28]
It's the 1-word title of the classic game show that debuted in 1961 in which you gave 1-word clues one at a time
Password
Steve
$1,600 [10]
Ovid says he was "scarecely able to find his way back to the entrance, so confusing was the maze" he constructed
Daedalus
Joey
$1,600 [14]
Title time during which George Clooney & Quentin Tarantino ran into some vampires in Mexico
From Dusk till Dawn
Joey
$1,600 [24]
Cauliflower & kohlrabi probably developed from a wild European coastal type of this vegetable
cabbage
Maria
$1,600 [4]
In 1723 Bach wrote a setting for this part of vespers, from the Latin for "to extol"
Magnificat
Maria
$2,000 [22]
He discovered San Diego Bay & Catalina Island in 1542 & is said to be buried there
Juan Cabrillo
Maria Steve
$2,000 [27]
In 2003 President Bush said, "Saddam Hussein is not" this, an adjective meaning "engaging" or "full of charm"
disarming
$2,000 [11]
Ovid relates how this hero "sailed homewards in triumph and, with his wife Medea, came... to Iolcos' harbor"
Jason
Joey
$2,000 [15]
In this 1985 classic, Roddy McDowall hunts down vampire Chris Sarandon
Fright Night
$2,000 [25]
There are 2 species of this fruit native to the U.S.: Vitis labrusca & Vitis rotundifolia
the grape
Maria
$2,000 [5]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew holds up an instrument having a keyboard.) The harmonica company, Hohner, trademarked the name for this instrument that plays single notes or chords
the melodica
DD $6,200 [20]
In April 1524 he sighted the Hudson River; his bridge hadn't been built yet
Verrazzano
Maria

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY REPUBLICANS

Never president, he was the youngest man ever to receive the Republican presidential nomination

(Thomas) Dewey

Joey "Who is Goldwater?" — wagered $14,100
Maria "Who was [something scribbled out] Wilke?" — wagered $12,000

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