Show #4863 2005-11-02 (taped 2005-08-16) Regular

Maria Wenglinsky game 3.

Contestants

Leslie Burns-Dell'Acqua — a creative marketing consultant from San Diego, California

David Braxton — a television producer from Hyattsville, Maryland

Maria Wenglinsky — a teacher originally from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 2-day cash winnings total $52,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Maria $2,000 $4,800 $16,900 $29,100
3-day champion: $81,700
$15,800
20 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W
David $3,000 $5,000 $9,000 $18,000
3rd place: $1,000
$9,000
14 R, 0 W
Leslie $1,800 $4,000 $12,200 $24,400
2nd place: $2,000
$10,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES TV D.O.A. THE HOME SPA INSTANT MESSAGING SHORTHAND DIANA "ROSS"
$200 [1]
A Canton, Ohio library is an archive for the contributions of these women, such as Pat Nixon
First Ladies
Maria
$200 [4]
Assistant D.A. Sylvia Costas & Detectives Danny Sorenson & Bobby Simone all met tragic ends on this show
NYPD Blue
David
$200 [14]
Cleopatra is said to have used rejuvenating products from this saline body of water in which the Jordan ends
the Dead Sea
Maria
$200 [9]
TTFN:This way of saying I'll chat with you at a later time
ta ta for now
Leslie
$200 [21]
One of Princess Diana's first jobs was teaching this level at the Young England School in Pimlico
kindergarten
Maria Leslie
$200 [25]
In a Monty Python sketch, a man wanted to buy a Good Humor ice cream, but the salesman only sold this sea bird
an albatross
David
$600 [3]
Nicodemus in this "Jayhawk State" is the only remaining Western town founded by black Americans after Reconstruction
Kansas
David
$400 [5]
When Rory Cochrane left this CBS show, his character was killed off; did David Caruso give him career advice?
CSI: Miami
Maria David
$400 [17]
For disguise, try one in black silk; to refresh your skin, try one made from oatmeal or avocado
a mask
Maria
$400 [10]
RUMORF:"Are you" this "or" this
are you male or female
David
$400 [22]
This actress, whose father starred in "Grand Hotel", wrote about her alcoholism in "Too Much, Too Soon"
(Diana) Barrymore
Leslie
$400 [26]
A "stick"y game originated by North American Indians
lacrosse
David
$800 [15]
A historic site in South Dakota contains the launch control facility & a silo for 1 of these Cold War ICBMs
a minuteman missile
Maria
$600 [6]
On "M*A*S*H", this Lt. Col.'s "Plane was shot down over the sea of Japan. It spun in. There weren't no survivors"
(Henry) Blake
Leslie
$600 [18]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew sticks her hand in a tub of wax inside a home spa.) At home, you can treat your hands to a warm coating of this wax that's also the main ingredient in candles
paraffin
Leslie
$600 [11]
POS:This person "over my shoulder"
a parent
David
$600 [23]
She was the doyenne of Amer. high fashion as editor of Harper's Bazaar & Vogue for more than 30 years
Diana Vreeland
$600 [27]
This code name the Germans gave to their invasion of the Soviet Union also belonged to a 16th century pirate
Barbarossa
David
DD $1,000 [2]
The Greenville, Tennessee historic site honoring this president preserves his 2 homes, tailor shop & gravesite
Andrew Johnson
Maria
$800 [7]
Though previously killed & buried in a big funeral, this show's Bobby returned in 1986, clean as a whistle
Dallas
David
$800 [19]
"National" name for the procedure of giving yourself white-tipped fingernails
French (manicure)
David
$800 [12]
RTBS:"Reason to be" this
single
Maria
$800 [24]
Critic Lionel's wife, she achieved fame with her book "Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor"
(Diana) Trilling
Maria
$800 [28]
There's nothing disgusting about this branch of anatomy that deals with structures seen by the naked eye
gross anatomy
Maria
$1,000 [16]
This naturalist's historic site preserves the 14-room mansion in Martinez, Calif. where he founded the Sierra Club
(John) Muir
Maria
$1,000 [8]
Unfortunately, Nate wasn't just a co-owner of the Fisher & Diaz Funeral Home, he also was a client on this show
Six Feet Under
Leslie
$1,000 [20]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew wipes some oil on her hand in a home spa.) Oil from this shrub with a Spanish name makes a good moisturizer; it's similar to our natural skin oil
jojoba
Leslie
$1,000 [13]
SSEWBA:"Someday soon, everything will be" these
acronyms
$1,000 [30]
"Diana of the Crossways" & "The Egoist" show this Victorian novelist's views on women's rights
George Meredith
$1,000 [29]
This is the waste product removed from molten metal during smelting
dross
Maria

Double Jeopardy! Round

18th CENTURY BRITAIN SONGS FROM MUSICALS AND I QUOTE MOOSE-PODGE ZANY FOR ZAMBIA BEFORE & AFTER
$400 [5]
In 1776 this economist noted the value of the potato in "The Wealth of Nations"
(Adam) Smith
Maria
$400 [10]
"As Long As He Needs Me" & "You've Got To Pick A Pocket Or Two"
Oliver!
Maria
$400 [14]
A little girl in a Sandburg poem hopes, "Sometime they'll give" this & "nobody will come"
a war
David
$400 [20]
In 1888 Dr. John Henry Wilson founded the Loyal Order of Moose in his home in this largest Kentucky city
Louisville
Maria Leslie
$400 [26]
Levy Mwanawasa holds this governmental position as Zambia's chief of state
president
David
$400 [1]
"She Done Him Wrong" star who is an illness spread by mosquitos
Mae West Nile Virus
Leslie
$800 [6]
In 1766 Ben Franklin spoke before the British Parliament & managed to get this act repealed
the Stamp Act
Maria
$800 [11]
"Sadie, Sadie" & "I'm The Greatest Star"
Funny Girl
Leslie
$800 [16]
Baseball's Branch Rickey called it "the residue of design"; presumably he meant the "good" type
luck
$800 [21]
This dimwit from Frostbite Falls, Minnesota also goes by the moniker Mr. Know-it-All
Bullwinkle
Leslie
$800 [27]
Before independence, Zambia was known as the "Northern" part of this territory
Rhodesia
Maria
$800 [2]
"Nothing can stop" this title character of a Gene Chandler song from repainting your car
Duke of Earl Scheib
Leslie
$1,200 [7]
Born in 1778, hemust have picked up some dandy habits at Eaton, as he went on to be quite the fashion authority
Beau Brummell
Maria
$1,200 [12]
"Good Morning Starshine" & "Easy To Be Hard"
Hair
Leslie
$1,200 [17]
J.P. Morgan thought "a man always has two reasons for what he does--a good one" & this one
the real one
David
$1,200 [22]
In Archie comics Moose is the dimwitted football hero who attends this high school along with Archie
Riverdale High
$1,200 [28]
In 1855 this Scottish missionary visited the region
(Dr.) Livingstone
Leslie
$1,600 [4]
Charlemagne's dad who prepares meals at a lunch counter
Pepin the Short-Order Cook
Maria
$1,600 [8]
In 1720 bad investments in this "bubble" burst the British economy
the South Sea Bubble
Maria
$1,600 [13]
"Whatever Lola Wants" & "Shoeless Joe From Hannibal, MO"
Damn Yankees
Maria
$1,600 [18]
Caligula liked to quote Accius' "Oderint dum metuant", "Let them hate so long as they" do this
fear
Maria
$1,600 [23]
Nicknamed Moose, this Yankees first baseman of the 1950s appeared in 39 World Series games during his career
Bill Skowron
$1,600 [29]
Zambia takes its name from this river that forms part of its southern border
the Zambezi
Leslie
$2,000 [25]
Old West outlaw who takes a trip to the Big Apple in a fuzzy fruit in a Roald Dahl book
Jesse James and the Giant Peach
Maria
DD $2,500 [9]
Founded to keep an eye on rebellious Scots, the Royal Highland Regiment has this other colorful name
the Black Watch
Maria
$2,000 [15]
"Light My Candle" & "La Vie Boheme"
Rent
David
$2,000 [19]
"Music has charms to soothe a savage breast", but "no" this "so fierce but knows some touch of pity"
beast
$2,000 [24]
120-square-mile Moosehead Lake, Maine's largest, is the source for this river that's pretty familiar to George H.W. Bush
Kennebec
Maria Leslie
$2,000 [30]
The Zambian national museum in this capital contains sections on witchcraft & contemporary art
Lusaka
DD $3,000 [3]
Dutch-born king who ruled England jointly with Mary II & is a tasty New Zealand fish
William of Orange roughy
Leslie

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS EXPRESSIONS

This cliche about superfluousness is derived from criticism of a 2nd coronation in Shakespeare's "King John"

gilding the lily

David "What is gilding the lily?" — wagered $9,000
Leslie "What is Guilding the lily?" — wagered $12,200
Maria "What is to gild the Lily?" — wagered $12,200

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